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MARYLAND MANUAL 735
purposes by the forty-fifth day after the opening of the
regular session of the General Assembly in the third year
following the 1970 census and in the second year following
every census thereafter, the plan presented to the General
Assembly by the Governor shall become law. Upon petition
of any registered voter, the Court of Appeals shall have
original jurisdiction to review the legislative districting of
the State and may grant appropriate relief, if it finds that
the districting of the State is not consistent with require-
ment of either the Constitution of the United States of
America or the Constitution of Maryland. Upon the adop-
tion by the qualified voters of the State in 1972 of the above
amendments to this section, any legislative districting and
apportionment plan submitted by the Governor or adopted
by the General Assembly pursuant to the provisions of this
section as they existed immediately prior to the adoption in
1972 of the said amendments, shall be void and of no effect.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing
sections hereby proposed as amendments to the Constitu-
tion of Maryland, at the next general election to be held in
this State in November 1972, shall be submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their adoption or re-
jection in pursuance of directions contained in Article 14 of
the Constitution of this State; and at this general election,
the vote on this proposed amendment to the Constitu-
tion shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
be printed the words "For the Constitutional Amendments"
and "Against the Constitutional Amendments" as now pro-
vided by law, and, immediately after the election, all re-
turns shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and
against the proposed amendment, as directed by Article 14
of the Constitution, and further proceedings had in accord-
ance with Article 14.
Approved May 6,1971.
CHAPTER 357
(House Bill 524)
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Article 7 of the
Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of Maryland,
deleting archaic language describing those citizens en-
titled to vote, and providing for the submission of this
amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Mary-
land for their adoption or rejection.

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