422 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 17, Sec. 4]
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
the terms heretofore fixed by law, unless otherwise duly
changed by law. All officers appointed by County Commis-
sioners after the election to be held on the Tuesday next
after the first Monday of November, nineteen hundred and
twenty-three, for terms of office of two, four or six years,
shall hold office for terms of three years; and thereafter
appointment by the County Commissioners shall be for
terms of four years, unless otherwise duly changed by law.
SEC. 5. The terms of all State and county officers here-
tofore elected by qualified voters, and whose successors
would not be elected until the Tuesday next after the first
Monday of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-five,
shall be increased by one year, and their successors shall be
elected for the regular term at the election to be held on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-six. The terms of all State and
county officers heretofore elected by qualified voters, and
whose successors would not be elected until the Tuesday
next after the first Monday of November, nineteen hundred
and twenty-seven, shall remain unchanged; their successors
shall be elected for a term of three years at the elections
to be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of
November, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, but shall not
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