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Maryland Manual, 1927
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434 MARYLAND MANUAL


enacted as an emergency law. No law making any appro
priation or maintaining the State Government, or for main
taining or aiding any public institution, not exceeding the
next previous appropriation for the same purpose, shall be
subject to rejection or repeal under this section. The in
crease in any such appropriation for maintaining or aiding
any public institution shall only take effect as in the case
of other laws, and such increase or any part thereof speci
fled in the petition, may be referred to a vote of the people
upon petition

SEC. 3. (a) The referendum petition against an Act or
part of an Act passed by the General Assembly, shall be
sufficient if signed by ten thousand qualified voters of the
State of Maryland, of whom not more than half shall be resi
dents of Baltimore City, or of any one county; provided
that any Public Local Law for any one county or the City
of. Baltimore shall be referred by the Secretary of State
only to the people of said county or City of Baltimore, upon
a referendum petition of ten per cent of the qualified voters
of said county or City of Baltimore as the case may be, cal
culated upon the whole number of votes cast therein re
spectively for Governor at the last preceding Gubernatorial
election.

(b) If more than one-half, but less than the full number
of signatures required to complete any referendum petition
against any law passed by the General Assembly, be filed
with Secretary of State before the first day of June, the
time for the law to take effect, and for filing the remainder
of signatures to complete the petition shall be extended to
the thirtieth day of the same month, with like effect.

SEC. 4. A petition may consist of several papers, but each
paper shall contain the full text of the Act or part of Act
petitioned upon; and there shall be attached to each such
paper an affidavit of the person procuring the signatures
thereon that of the said person’s own personal knowledge
every signature thereon is genuine and bona fide, and that
the signers are registered voters of the State of Maryland,
and of the City of Baltimore, or county, as the case may be,
as set opposite their names and no other verification shall
be required.

SEC. 5. (a) The General Assembly shall provide for fur
nishing the voters of the State the text of all measures to be
voted upon by the people; provided, that until otherwise
provided by law the same shall be published in the manner
prescribed by Article XIV of the Constitution for the pub
lication of proposed Constitutional Amendments.


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