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736 MARYLAND MANUAL
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 the following be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to Article 7
of the Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of Mary-
land, the same, if adopted by the legally qualified voters of
the State, as herein provided, to become a part of the Con-
stitution of Maryland.
Article 7.
That the right of the People to participate in the Legis-
lature is the beat security of liberty and the foundation of
all free Government; for this purpose, elections ought to
be free and frequent; and every citizen having the quali-
fications prescribed by the Constitution, ought to have the
right of suffrage.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing
Article hereby proposed as an amendment to the Declaration
of Rights of the Constitution of Maryland, at the next gen-
eral election to be held in this State in November 1972, shall
be submitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection in pursuance of directions con-
tained in Article 14 of the Constitution of this State; and
at this general election, the vote on this proposed amend-
ment to the Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be printed the words "For the Constitu-
tional Amendments" and "Against the Constitutional
Amendments" as now provided by law, and, immediately,
after the election, all returns 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 pro-
ceedings had in accordance with Article 14.
Approved May 6,1971.
CHAPTER 358
(House Bill 174)
AN ACT to propose a new Section 3A to Article XI-A of the
Constitution, title "Local Legislation," to follow imme-
diately after Section 3 thereof, to provide for the election
of a county council for Baltimore County by councilmanic
districts, or by the voters of the entire county, or by a
combination of these methods of election, and providing
for the submission of this amendment to the qualified

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