[Art. 2, Sec. 2] MARYLAND MANUAL 305

election, and continue for four years, and until his suc-
cessor shall have qualified; and a person who has served
two consecutive popular elective terms of office as Gov-
ernor shall be ineligible to succeed himself as Governor for
the term immediately following the second of said two
consecutive popular elective terms.

SEC. 2. An election for Governor, under this Constitu-
tion, shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Mon-
day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
seven, and on the same day and month in every fourth
year thereafter, at the places of voting for Delegates to the
General Assembly;¹ and every person qualified to vote for
Delegates, shall be qualified and entitled to vote for Gover-
nor ; the election to be held in the same manner as the elec-
tion of Delegates, and the returns thereof, under seal, to be
addressed to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and
enclosed and transmitted to the Secretary of State, and de-
livered to said Speaker, at the commencement of the ses-
sion of the General Assembly, next ensuing said election.

SEC. 3. The Speaker of the House of Delegates shall
then open the said Returns, in the presence of both Houses;

and the person having the highest number of votes, and
being constitutionally eligible, shall be the Governor, and
shall qualify, in the manner herein prescribed, on the sec-
ond Wednesday of January next ensuing his election, or as
soon thereafter as may be practicable.

SEC. 4. If two or more persons shall have the highest
and an equal number of votes for Governor, one of them
shall be chosen Governor by the Senate and House of Dele-
gates ; and all questions in relation to the eligibility of Gov-
ernor, and to the Returns of said election, and to the num-
ber and legality of votes therein given, shall be determined
by the House of Delegates; and if the person, or persons,
having the highest number of votes, be ineligible, the Gov-
ernor shall be chosen by the Senate and House of Dele-
gates. Every election of Governor by the General Assem-
ply shall be determined by a joint majority of the Senate
and House of Delegates; and the vote shall be taken viva
voce. But if two or more persons shall have the highest
and an equal number of votes, then, a second vote shall be
taken, which shall be confined to the persons having an
equal number; and if the vote should again be equal, then
the election of Governor shall be determined by lot between
those, who shall have the highest and an equal number on
the first vote.

'This section modified by Article XVII, Sections 2 and 3.