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780 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 16 according to the existing provisions of law, in relation to officers under the present Constitution, or before the Gov- ernor of the State, or before any Clerk of any Court of Record in any part of the State; but in case an officer shall qualify out of the County in which he resides, an official copy of his oath shall be filed and recorded in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of the County in which he may reside, or in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court of the City of Bal- timore, if he shall reside therein. All words or phrases, used in creating public offices and positions under the Constitu- tion and laws of this State, which denote the masculine gender shall be construed to include the feminine gender, unless the contrary intention is specifically expressed. i SEC. II. No person who is a member of an organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of Maryland through force or violence shall be eligible to hold any office, be it elective or appointive, or any other position of profit or trust in the Government of or in the administration of the business of this State or of any county, municipality or other political subdivision of this State. 2 ARTICLE XVI THE REFERENDUM. SECTION 1. (a) The people reserve to themselves pow- er known as The Referendum, by petition to have sub- mitted to the registered voters of the State, to approve or reject at the polls, any Act, or part of any Act of the Gen- eral Assembly, if approved by the Governor, or, if passed by the General Assembly over the veto of the Governor; (b) The provisions of this Article shall be self-execut- ing; provided that additional legislation in furtherance thereof and not in conflict therewith may be enacted. SEC. 2. No law enacted by the General Assembly shall take effect until the first day of June next after the session at which it may be passed, unless it contain a Section de- claring such law an emergency law and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health or safety, and passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly; provided, however, that said period 1 Added by Chapter 721, Acts of 1947, ratified November 2, 1948. 2 Added by Chapter 673, Acts of 1914, ratified November 2, 1916. |
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