150 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND [Arts. 15-16]

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.

Referendum election on ch. 485 of 1931 (Taxicabs) enjoined on ground that signa-
tures attached to petitions did not comply with constitutional requirements. Sun Cab
Co. v. Cloud, 162 Md. 419.

See notes to sec. 1.

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-
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