No law making any appropriation or maintaining the State
Government, or for maintaining or aiding any public institution,
not exceeding the next previous appropriation for the same pur-
pose, shall be subject to reejction or repeal under this section.
The increase 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 specified
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, calculated
upon the whole number of votes cast therein respectively 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 peti-
tioned 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 Article
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 ballots, but the