such petition, but shall stand repealed thirty days after hav-
ing been rejected by a majority of the qualified electors vot-
ing thereon; provided, however, that no measure creating
or abolishing any office, or changing the salary, term or
duty of any officer, or granting any franchise or special
privilege, or creating any vested right or interest, shall be
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-
fied 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 the 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.