election, and, if it shall appear that the majority of the
votes cast on any such measure were cast in favor thereof,
the Governor shall, by his proclamation, declare the same
having received a majority of the votes to have been adopted
by the people of Maryland as a part of the laws of the State,
to take effect thirty days after such election, and in like
manner and with like effect the Governor shall proclaim the
result of the local election as to any Public Local Law which
shall have been submitted to the voters of any county or of
the City of Baltimore.

SEC. 6. No law or Constitutional Amendment, licensing,
regulating, prohibiting, or submitting to local option, the
manufacture or sale of malt or spirituous liquors, shall be
referred or repealed under any Act of the provisions of this
Article.

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 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

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