SEC. 2. Elections by qualified voters for State and county
officers shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Mon-
day of November, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-
six, and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter.

Sec. 3. Members of the House of Delegates and all other
State and county officers elected by the qualified voters at
the election to be held on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday of November, in the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-three for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at two
years, shall hold office for terms of three years; the Gover-
nor, Attorney General, members of the State Senate and all
other State and county officers elected by the qualified voters
at the election to be held on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in November, in the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-three, for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at
four years, shall hold office for terms of three years; Regis-
ters of Wills, Clerks of Court and all other State and county
officers elected by qualified voters at the election to be held
on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, in
the year nineteen hundred and twenty-three, for terms of
office heretofore fixed by law at six years, shall hold office
for terms of three years; and all such State and county
officers elected by qualified voters thereafter shall hold office
for terms of four years.

SEC. 4. All officers to be appointed by the Governor under
existing provisions of law in the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-four for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at
two years, shall hold office for terms of three years; all
officers so appointed for terms of office heretofore fixed by-
law at four years, shall hold office for terms of three years;
all officers so appointed for terms of office heretofore fixed
by law at six years, shall hold office for terms of five years,
and thereafter appointments by the Governor shall be for
the terms heretofore fixed by law, unless otherwise duly
changed by law. All officers appointed by County Commis-
sioners after the election to be held on the Tuesday next
after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and
twenty-three, for terms of office of two, four or six years,
shall hold office for terms of three years, and thereafter
appointment by the County Commissioners shall be for
terms of four years, unless otherwise duly changed by law.

SEC. 5. The terms of all State and county officers hereto-
fore elected by qualified voters, and whose successors would
not be elected until the Tuesday next after the first Monday
of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, shall be in-
creased by one year, and their successors shall be elected for