APPENDIX TO COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	Article XI-A.	Sec. 11. No person who is a member
	Sec. 7. The word "Petition" as used in this Article means one or more sheets written or printed, or partly written and partly printed; "Signature" means the sig- nature of a registered voter written by himself in his own handwriting (and not by his mark), together with the ward or district and precinct in which he is registered. The authenticity of such signatures and the fact	of an organization that advocates the over- throw of the Government of the United States or of the State of Maryland through force or violence shall be eligible to hold any office, be it elective or appointive, or any other position of profit or trust in the Government of or in the administration of the business of this State or of any county, municipality or other political subdivision of this State.
	that the persons so signing are registered
	voters shall be evidenced by the affidavit of
	one or more registered voters of the city or	Article XVI.
	county in which said voters so signing are	Sec. 1. (b) The provisions of this Article
	registered, and one affidavit may apply to or	shall be self-executing; provided that ad-
	cover any number of signatures to such	ditional legislation in furtherance thereof
	petition. The false signing of any name, or	and not in conflict therewith may be en-
	the signing of any fictitious name to said	acted.
	petition shall be forgery, and the making of any false affidavit in connection with said	Sec. 4. A petition may consist of several
	petition shall be perjury.	papers, but each paper shall contain the full text of the Act or part of Act peti-
		tioned upon; and their shall be attached to
	Article XI-F.	each such paper an affidavit of the person
	Sec. 10. All laws enacted by the General	procuring the signatures thereon that of the
	Assembly and in effect when this Article	said person's own personal knowledge every
	was added to the Constitution shall remain	signature thereon is genuine and bona fide,
	in effect until amended or repealed under	and that the signers are registered voters
	this Constitution. Every public local law	of the State of Maryland, and of the City
	enacted, amended, or repealed by a county	of Baltimore, or County, as the case may
	under the provisions of this Article pre-	be, as set opposite their names, and no
	vails over the previous public local law,	other verification shall be required.
	except to the extent it is subject to an applicable law enacted by the General As- sembly.	Sec. 8. The terms of the Members of the Board of Supervisors of elections of
		Baltimore City and of the several counties
		shall commence on the first Monday of
	Article XV.	June next ensuing their appointment.
	Sec. 10. Any officer elected or appointed
	in pursuance of the provisions of this Con-
	stitution, may qualify, either according to
	the existing provisions of Law, in relation
	to officers under the present Constitution,
	or before the Governor of the State, or
	before any Clerk of any Court of Record
	in any part of the State; but in case an
	officer shall qualify out of the County in
	which he resides, an official copy of his
	oath shall be filed and recorded in the
	Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of the
	County in which he may reside, or in the
	Clerk's office of the Superior Court of the
	City of Baltimore, if he shall reside therein.
	All words or phrases, used in creating
	public offices and positions under the Con-
	stitution and Laws of this State, which de-
	note the masculine gender shall be con-
	strued to include the feminine gender, un-
	less the contrary intention is specifically
	expressed.

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