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Art. 2] MARYLAND MANUAL 629
shall have qualified; and a person who has served two con-
secutive popular elective terms of office as Governor shall be
ineligible to succeed himself as Governor for the term imme-
diately following the second of said two consecutive popular
elective terms.
' SEC. 1A. There shall be a Lieutenant Governor, who
shall have only the duties delegated to him by the Governor
and shall have such compensation as the General Assembly
shall provide by law. No person who is ineligible under this
Constitution to be elected Governor shall be eligible to hold
the office of Lieutenant Governor.
1 SEC. IB. Each candidate who shall seek a nomination
for Governor, under any method provided by law for such
nomination, including primary elections, shall at the time
of filing for said office designate a candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, and the names of the said candidate for Gov-
ernor and Lieutenant Governor shall be listed on the pri-
mary election ballot, or otherwise considered for nomina-
tion jointly with each other. No candidate for Governor
may designate a candidate for Lieutenant Governor to con-
test for the said offices jointly with him without the consent
of the said candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and no
candidate for Lieutenant Governor may designate a can-
didate for Governor, to contest jointly for said offices with
him without the consent of the said candidate for Governor,
said consent to be in writing on a form provided for such
purpose and filed at the time the said candidates shall file
their certificates of candidacy, or other documents by which
they seek nomination. In any election, including a primary
election, candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor
shall be listed jointly on the ballot, and a vote cast for the
candidate for Governor shall also be cast for Lieutenant
Governor jointly listed on the ballot with him, and the
election of Governor, or the nomination of a candidate for
Governor, also shall constitute the election for the same
term, or the nomination, of the Lieutenant Governor who
was listed on the ballot or was being considered jointly
with him.
' SEC. 2. An election for Governor and Lieutenant Gov-
ernor, under this Constitution, shall be held on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday of November, in the year
nineteen hundred and seventy-four, and on the same day
and month in every fourth year thereafter, at the places
'Added by Chapter 532, Acts of 1970, ratified November 3. 1970.
'Thus amended by Chapter 532, Acts of 1970, ratified November 3, 1970.

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