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	ner and to the same intent as the seller would have
	been had be been found guilty of a violation of the
	same.
	SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That in order to ascer-
	tain the will of the people of Charles county in re-
	gard to the sale of intoxicating liquors therein, the
	legal qualified voters of said county are hereby
	authorized to cast a separate ballot at the general
	election in November, eighteen hundred and eighty,
	of which due notice shall be given, as the case of
	other ballots and tickets so voted shall be, on a sepa-
	rate piece of paper, with the word "license" on the
	outside, and "for license" or "against license" on	Cast separate
	the inside, and shall be received by the judges of	ballot
	election and deposited by them in a box provided
	for the purpose, and the said tickets shall be counted
	and returned as other ballots are counted and re-
	turned, and the result shall be certified to by said
	judges in the same way and manner as other ballots
	then cast shall be, and it shall be the duty of the
	clerk of the Circuit Court for said county to proclaim
	the result by publication in the newspapers pub- lished in said county within ten days after the returns
	shall be received by him.
	SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That if at said election
	there be more votes cast in the said county " against
	license" than there are "for license," then the pro-
	visions of this act shall be and continue in force in
	said county, and not otherwise ; and in such case no
	license shall issue for the sale of any intoxicating	How effective
	liquors as defined and prohibited in the first and
	second sections of this act, within the limits of said
	county, on and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, nor shall any intoxicating
	liqiiors be sold therein except as provided for in sec-
	tion seven of this act ; but if there are more votes
	cast at said election "for license" than there are
	votes cast " against license " in said county, then
	licenses shall be issued to sell intoxicating liquors
	therein as now or shall hereafter be allowed by law;
	and all licenses that shall have been granted for the
	sale of such intoxicating liquors in said county, in
	case there are more votes cast at said election in said
	county " against license" than there are " for license,"