450 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 17, Sec. 1]
ARTICLE XVII.1
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 coun-
ty officers shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday of November, in the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-six, and on the same day in every fourth year there-
after.
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 Mon-
day 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 Gov-
ernor, 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 of 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;
Registers 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 No-
vember, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-three,
for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at six years, shall
hold office for terms of three years; and all such State and
county officers elected by qualified voters thereafter shall
hold office for terms of four years.
SEC. 4. All officers to be appointed by the Governor un-
der existing provisions of law in the year nineteen hundred
and twenty-four for terms of office heretofore fixed by law
at two years, shall hold office for terms of three years; all
officers so appointed for terms of office heretofore fixed by
law at four years, shall hold office for terms of three years;
all officers so appointed for terms of office heretofore fixed
by law at six years, shall hold office for terms of five years.
and thereafter appointments by the Governor shall be for
1 Added by Chapter 227, Acts of 1922, ratified November 7, 1922.
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