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referred or repealed under any Act of the provisions of this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

(2) SEC. 3. All State and county officers elected by the
qualified voters shall hold office for terms of four years.

(2)SEC. 4. All officers to be appointed by the Governor
shall hold office for the terms fixed by law. All officers ap-
pointed by County Commissioners shall hold office for terms
of four years, unless otherwise duly changed by law.

SEC. 5. Vacant.(3)
SEC. 6. Vacant (3)
SEC. 7. Vacant.(3)

SEC. 8. The terms of the members of the Board of Su-
pervisors of elections of Baltimore City and of the several
counties shall commence on the first Monday of June next
ensuing their appointment.

SEC. 9. Vacant.(3)
SEC. 1O. Vacant.(3)

SEC. 11. The purpose of this Article is to reduce the
number of elections, by providing that all State and county
elections shall be held only in every- fourth year, and at the

1 Added by Chapter 227, Acts of 1922, ratified. November 7, 1922.
2 This amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.
3 Repealed, by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.