SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       901

missioners, or the county council as the case may be, on or before
the fourth Monday in the month of July in the year in which there
is to be a general election at which any such question is to be voted
upon. The filing of any such question with the officer or officers
specified in said Article XIA shall be construed also to be a filing
with the board for the purposes of this article.

(c) The Secretary of State shall certify to the boards a list of
the proposed constitutional amendments to be voted upon at any
State-wide election and a separate list, if any, of any other State-
wide referenda to be submitted to the voters. Said amendments and
said referenda shall be listed in the following numerical order:
(1) By years of sessions of the General Assembly at which enacted,
and (2) for each such session, by chapter numbers of the Session
Laws of that session.

23-2. Charter board.

No petition for the election of a charter board, under the pro-
visions of Article XIA of the Constitution of Maryland, title "Local
Legislation," shall be accepted or filed by any board, unless all of
the signatures attached to any such petition shall have been written
thereon by the signers within six months of the date when such pe-
tition is presented to the board. In signing any such petition in
accordance with the manner prescribed in Sec. 7 of said Article
XIA of the Constitution, every signer thereto shall place to the right
of his or her name as and when signed, the date of such signature
in his or her own handwriting. No action thereon shall be taken by
any board unless all petitions are filed within six months of the
date of the first affidavit.

23-3. Petition—Requirements with respect to signatures.

In every petition (including an associated or related set of peti-
tions) under the provisions of Article XVI of the State Constitution,
there shall be appended to the signature of each signer his residence,
the precinct and ward or precinct and election district wherein he
is registered as a voter, and immediately below the signature of
any such signer, there shall be either printed or typed, the name of
such signer.

23-4. Same—Misrepresentation or false statements concerning
contents, etc., to signer.

It is unlawful for a person, as principal or agent, in circulating
or in having charge or control of the circulation of or in obtaining
signatures for any petition (including an associated or related set
of petitions) under the provisions of Article 16 of the Constitution,
to misrepresent or to make any false statements concerning the
contents, purport, or effect of the petition, to any person who signs,
wishes to sign, is requested to sign, makes inquiry concerning the
petition, or to whom the petition is presented for signature.

23-5. Same—Other unlawful acts.

(a) As to any petition (including an associated or related set
of petitions) under the provisions of Article 16 of the Constitution
of Maryland, it is unlawful for any person: