804 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 495

candidate or those candidates, as the case may be, residing
in said county in the order of the votes received shall be
declared elected whose election would provide the per-
mitted number of associate judges from said county and
the candidate or candidates, as the case may be, residing
in some other county, and not similarly disqualified, who
shall have the next highest number of votes in said elec-
tion shall be declared elected. If, by reason of such a
condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more
candidates a sufficient number of associate judges duly
qualified as to residence as above set out should not be
elected at any election in said seventh judicial circuit,
then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new
election for such unfilled office or offices.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the afore-
going section hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of this State shall be, at the next general elec-
tion to be held in this State in the year 1942, submitted to
the legal and qualified voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection in pursuance of directions contained in Article
14 of the Constitution of this State, and at the said general
election, the vote on the said proposed amendment shall be
by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be printed the
words "For the Constitutional Amendment" and "Against
the Constitutional Amendment" as now prescribed by law,
and immediately after said election, due returns shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for and against said
proposed amendment as directed by said Article 14 of the
Constitution.

Approved April 23, 1941.

CHAPTER 495.
(Senate Bill 238)

AN ACT to repeal and reenact with amendments Section
231 of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title
"Income Tax", providing that the word "State" shall
include any territory, the District of Columbia or any
foreign country.

(Vetoed. )