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referred or repealed under any Act of the provisions of this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,
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

(1) Added by Chapter 227, Acts of 1922, ratified November 7, 1922.