polls, any Act, or part of any Act of the General Assembly,
if approved by the Governor, or, if passed by the General
Assembly over the veto of the Governor.

(b) The provisions of this Article shall be self-execut-
ing; provided that additional legislation in furtherance
thereof and not in conflict therewith may be enacted.

SEC. 2. No law enacted by the General Assembly shall
take effect until the first day of June next after the session
at which it may be passed, unless it contain a section de-
claring such law an emergency law and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health or safety, and
passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly; provided, however, that said period of
suspension may be extended as provided in Section 3 (b)
hereof. If before said first day of June there shall have been
filed with the Secretary of the State a petition to refer to a
vote of the people any law or part of a law capable of refer-
endum, as in this Article provided, the same shall be re-
ferred by the Secretary of State to such vote, and shall not
become a law or take effect until thirty days after its ap-
proval by a majority of the electors voting thereon at the
next ensuing election held throughout the State for Mem-
bers of the House of Representatives of the United States.
An emergency law shall remain in force notwithstanding
such petition, but shall stand repealed thirty days after hav-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