CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	and, if it shall appear that the majority
	of the votes cast on any such measure were
	cast in favor thereof, the Governor shall
	by his proclamation declare the same hav-
	ing 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 of the City of
	Baltimore.
	Sec. 6. No law or Constitutional Amend-	See Sections 2.10-2.14, beginning at p. 111.
	ment, licensing, regulating, prohibiting, 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	be referred or repealed under any Act of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.
	ARTICLE XVII.
	QUADRENNIAL ELECTIONS.
	Section 1. All State officers elected by	Section 2.08. General Elections.
	qualified voters (except judges of the	A general election shall be held in every
	Circuit Courts, judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, judges of the	even-numbered year on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. State officers
	Court of Appeals and judges of any inter-	shall be elected at the general election in
	mediate courts of appeal), and all county officers elected by qualified voters, shall hold office for terms of four years, and until their successors shall qualify.	1970 and every fourth year thereafter, except that judges may be elected in any even-num- bered year. County officers shall be elected at the same time as state officers unless other-
	Sec. 2. Elections by qualified voters	wise prescribed by the General Assembly by
	for State and county officers shall be held	law or by the instrument of government of a
	on the Tuesday next after the first Monday	county. If members of any public body serve
	of November, in the year nineteen hundred	overlapping terms, an election may be held
	and twenty-six, and on the same day in	every two years for those members then to
	every fourth year thereafter.	be elected.
	Sec. 3. All State and county officers
	elected by the qualified voters shall hold
	office for terms of four years.
	Sec. 4. AH officers to be appointed by	See Section 4.30, Terms of Office, p. 17.
	the Governor shall hold office for the terms
	fixed by law. All officers appointed by
	County Commissioners shall hold office for
	terms of four years, unless otherwise duly
	changed by law.
	Sec. 5. Vacant.
	Sec. 6. Vacant.
	Sec. 7. Vacant.

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