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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prohibiting, or submitting to local option, the manufacture or sale of malt or spirituous liquors, shall be referred or repealed under any Act of the provisions of this Article. 'ARTICLE XVII QUADRENNIAL ELECTIONS. "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. 2 SEC. 3. All State and county officers elected by the qualified voters shall hold office for terms of four years. 3 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. 4 SEC. 5. Vacant. 1Added by Chapter 227, Acts of 1922, ratified November 7, 1922. 2 Thus amended by Chapter 10. Acts of 1966. ratified November 8. 1966 3 Thus amended by Chapter 99. Acts of 1956. ratified November 6, 1956. 4 Repealed by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956. |
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