take office until the expiration of the full term for which
their predecessors have been elected; 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 No-
vember, nineteen hundred and thirty. Nothing herein
shall affect the terms of any judge of the Circuit Court of
the several circuits, the member of the Court of Appeals
from Baltimore City, or any member of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City; if the term of any such judge shall ex-
pire in a year in which no election for members of the
General Assembly is held, the Governor shall appoint a
person duly qualified to fill said office, who shall hold the
same until the next general election for members of the
General Assembly, when a successor shall be elected for
the term elsewhere provided. The terms of all State and
county officers heretofore appointed for terms which will
not expire until during the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-five, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, nineteen
hundred and twenty-seven or nineteen hundred and twen-
ty-eight shall be reduced by one year, and their successors
shall be appointed for the terms now provided by law in
the years nineteen hundred and twenty-four, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-five, nineteen hundred and twenty-six or
nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, respectively. In the
event that the term of any officer appointed by the Gover-
nor with the advice and consent of the Senate shall expire
in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five or twenty-
six, the Governor shall have power to appoint a successor,
who shall serve for the full term subject to confirmation
by the Senate at the regular session to be held under this
Article in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.

SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall meet on the first
Wednesday of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-four,
for a regular session, and shall not meet again for a regu-
lar session until the first Wednesday of January, nineteen
hundred and twenty-seven, and the General Assembly shall
meet on the same day in every second year thereafter and
at no other time, unless convened by proclamation of the
Governor.(1)

SEC. 7. The term of the Treasurer elected by the Gen-
eral Assembly at the regular session of nineteen hundred
and twenty-four shall be three years. Thereafter the term
shall be the same as elsewhere provided.

(1) Section 6 made inoperative by the ratification of Chapter 497, Acts of 1947,
on November 2, 1948. See Article III, Section 14.