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658 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 16, Sec. 6]
dred words, the full text shall not be printed on the official
ballots, but the Secretary of State shall prepare and submit
a ballot title of each such measure in such form as to pre-
sent the purpose of said measure concisely and intelligently.
The ballot title may be distinct from the legislative title,
but in any case the legislative title shall be sufficient. Upon
each of the ballots, following the ballot title or text, as the
case may be, of each such measure, there shall be printed
the words "For the referred law" and "Against the re-
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referred or repealed under any Act of the provisions of this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.
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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.
'Added by Chapter 227, Acts of 1922, ratified November 7, 1922.

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