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 fall 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.

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.

(b) All laws referred under the provisions of this Ar-
ticle shall be submitted separately on the ballots to the voters
of the people, but if containing more than two hundred
words, the full text shall not be printed on the official bal-
lots, but the Secretary of State shall prepare and submit a
ballot title of each such measure in such form as to present
the purpose of said measure concisely and intelligently. The
ballot title may be distinct from the legislative title, but in
any case the legislative title shall be sufficient. Upon each
of the ballots, following the ballot title or text, as the case
may be, of each such measure, there shall be printed the
words "For the Referred Law" and "Against the Referred
Law," as the case may be. The votes cast for and against
any such referred law shall be returned to the Governor in
the manner prescribed with respect to proposed amend-
ments to the Constitution under Article XIV of this Con-
stitution. and the Governor shall proclaim the result of the