ARTICLE XVII.*
QUADRENNIAL. ELECTIONS.

SECTION 1. All State officers elected by qualified voters
(except judges of the Circuit Courts of the several circuits,
the member of the Court of Appeals from Baltimore City,
and members of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City), and
all county officers elected by qualified voters, shall hold
office for terms of four years, and until their successors shall
qualify.

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 bold 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-

*Added by Chapter 227, Acts of 1922, and adopted November. 1922.