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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
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164 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND.

previous appropriation for the same purpose, shall be subject to rejection
or repeal under this Section. The increase in any such appropriation for
maintaining or aiding any public institution shall only take effect as in the
case of other laws, and such increase or any part thereof specified in the
petition, may be referred to a vote of the people upon petition.

Sec. 3 (a). The referendum petition against an Act or part of an Act
passed by the General Assembly, shall be sufficient if signed by ten thou-
sand qualified voters of the State of Maryland, of whom not more than
half shall be residents of Baltimore City, or of any one County; provided
that any Public Local Law for any one County or the City of Baltimore,
shall be referred by the Secretary of State only to the people of said County
or City of Baltimore, upon a referendum petition of ten per cent, of the
qualified voters of said County or City of Baltimore as the case, may be,
calculated upon the whole number of votes cast therein respectively for
Governor at the last preceding Gubernatorial election.

(b). If more than one-half, but less than the full number of signatures
required to complete any referendum petition against any law passed by
the General Assembly, be filed with the Secretary of State before the first
day of June, the time for the law to take effect, and for filing the remainder
of signatures to complete the petition shall be extended to the thirtieth day
of the same month, with like effect.

Sec. 4. A petition may consist of several papers, but each paper shall
contain the full text of the Act or part of Act petitioned upon; and there
shall be attached to each such paper an affidavit of the person procuring
the signatures thereon that of the said person's own personal knowledge
every signature thereon is genuine and bona fide, and that the signers are
registered voters of the State of Maryland, and of the City of Baltimore,
or County, as the case may be, as. set opposite their names, and no other
verification shall be required.

Sec. 5 (a). The General Assembly shall provide for furnishing the
voters of the State the text, of all measures to be voted upon by the people;
provided, that until otherwise provided by law the same shall be published
in the manner prescribed by Article XIV of the Constitution for the publi-
cation of proposed Constitutional Amendments.

(b). All laws referred under the provisions of this Article shall be sub-
mitted separately on the ballots to the voters of the people, but if contain-
ing more than two hundred words, the full text shall not be printed on the
official ballots, but the Secretary of State shall prepare and submit a ballot
title of each such measure in such form as to present the purpose of said
measure concisely and intelligently. The ballot title may be distinct from
the legislative title, but in any case the legislative title shall be sufficient.
Upon each of the ballots, following the ballot title or text, as the case may
be, of each such measure, there shall be printed the words " For the referred
law " and " Against the referred law, " as. the case may be. The votes cast
for and against any such referred law shall be returned to the Governor in
the manner prescribed with respect to proposed amendments to the Consti-
tution under Article XIV of this Constitution, and the Governor shall
proclaim the result of the election, and, if it shall appear that the major-

 

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