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Art. 17] MARYLAND MANUAL 668 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prohibiting, or submitting to local option, the manufacture or sale of malt or spirituous liquors, shall be referred or repealed under any Act of the provisions of this Article. 1 ARTICLE XVII QUADRENNIAL ELECTIONS. 2 SECTION 1. All State officers elected by qualified voters (except judges of the Circuit Courts, judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, judges of the Court of Appeals and judges of any intermediate Courts of Appeal), 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. 1 Added by Chapter 227, Acts of 1922, ratified November 7, 1922. » This amended by Chapter 10, Acts of 1968, ratified November 8, 1966. |
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