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ity of the votes cast on any such measure were cast in favor thereof, the
Governor shall by his proclamation declare 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 Governor 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 the City of Baltimore.

Sec. 6. No law or constitutional amendment, licensing, regulating, pro-
hibiting, 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or spirituous liquors shall be referred or repealed under any Act of the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.

The intention of this section was to deny a referendum vote upon any act deal-
ing with the subjects mentioned in this section. This section was not intended as
a limitation upon the general power of the general assembly. Act of 1914, ch. 492,
prohibiting the issuing of liquor licenses in Carroll county, upheld. Poisel v. Cash,
130 Md. 374.

See notes to sec. 1.

ARTICLE XVII. 1

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Sec. 1. All State officers elected by qualified voters (except judges of
the Circuit Courts of the several circuits, the member of the Court of
Appeals from Baltimore City, and members of the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City), 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 county 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 thereafter.

Sec. 3. Members of the House of Delegates and all other State and
county officers elected by the qualified voters at the election to be held on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, in the year nineteen
hundred and twenty-three for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at
two years, shall hold office for terms of three years; the Governor, Attorney
General, members of the State Senate and all other State and County
officers elected by the qualified voters at the election to be held on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, in the year nineteen
hundred and twenty-three, for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at
four years, shall hold office for terms of three years; Registers of Wills,
Clerks of Court and all other State and county officers elected by qualified
voters at the election to be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday
of November, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-three, for terms
of office heretofore fixed by law at six years, shall hold office for terms of
three years; and all such State and county officers elected by qualified
voters thereafter shall hold office for terms of four years.

1 This article was added to the Constitution by act of 1922. ch. 227, ratified November
1922.