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MARYLAND MANUAL 686
cations and election; providing for gubernatorial succes-
sion, and the manner of impeachment of the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor and relating generally to the office
of Lieutenant Governor in Maryland; and providing for
the submission of these amendments to the qualified
voters of the State of Maryland for adoption or rejection.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, (three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Houses concurring). That amendments be pro-
posed to Article II of the Constitution of Maryland, title
"Executive Department," by repealing and re-enacting, with
amendments, Sections 2,3,4,5 and 7, and by repealing
Section 6 thereof and inserting new Sections 1A, 6, and 7A,
all to read as follows:
1A.
There shall be a Lieutenant Governor, who shall have only
the duties delegated to him by the Governor and shall have
such compensation as the General Assembly shall provide
by law. No person who is ineligible under this Constitution
to be elected Governor shall be eligible to hold the office of
Lieutenant Governor.
2.
An election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, under
this Constitution, shall be held on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday of November, in the year nineteen hundred
and seventy if this amendment is adopted in the year nine-
teen hundred and sixty-nine; or, for Governor in the year
nineteen hundred and seventy and jointly for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor in nineteen hundred and seventy-four
if this amendment is adopted in the year nineteen hundred
and seventy and on the same day and month in every fourth
year thereafter, at the places of voting for Delegates to the
General Assembly; and every person qualified to vote for
Delegates, shall be qualified and entitled to vote for Gov-
ernor and Lieutenant Governor; the election to be held in
the same manner as the election of Delegates, and the re-
turns thereof, under seal, to be addressed to the Speaker
of the House of Delegates, and enclosed and transmitted to
the Secretary of State, and delivered to said Speaker, at the
commencement of the session of the General Assembly, next
ensuing said election. Each candidate who shall seek a nomi-
nation for Governor, under any method provided by law
for such nomination, including primary elections, shall at

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