SEC. 5. (a) The General Assembly shall provide for
furnishing the voters of the State the text of all measures
to be voted upon by the people; provided, that until other-
wise provided by law the same shall be published in the
manner prescribed by Article XIV of the Constitution for
the publication 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 hun-
dred words, the full text shall not be printed on the official
ballots, but the Secretary of State shall prepare and submit
a ballot title of each such measure in such form as to pre-
sent 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 Re-
ferred 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 pro-
posed amendments to the Constitution under Article XIV
of this Constitution, and the Governor shall proclaim the
result of the election, and, if it shall appear that the ma-
jority of the votes cast on any such measure were cast in
favor thereof, the Governor shall by his proclamation de-
clare 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 Gov-
ernor 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referred or repealed under any Act of the provisions of this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. 1
QUADRENNIAL ELECTIONS.

SECTION 1. All State officers elected by qualified voters
(except judges of the Circuit Courts of the several circuits,.

1 Added by Chapter 827, Acts of 1922, and adopted November, 1922..