1688                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 787

CHAPTER 787
(Senate Bill 442)

AN ACT to propose amendments to Article II of the Constitution of
Maryland, title "Executive Department," by repealing and re-en-
acting, with amendments, Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 thereof, and by
repealing Section 6 thereof, and inserting new Sections 1A and 6,
, 6, AND 7A, amending the Constitutional provisions by CHANG-
ING THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR GOVERNOR AND BY creat-
ing the office of Lieutenant Governor; providing for his initial ap-
pointment, qualifications and election; providing for gubernatorial
succession, and the manner of impeachment of the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor and relating generally to the office of Lieu-
tenant Governor in Maryland; and providing for the submission
of these amendments to the qualified voters of the State of Mary-
land for adoption or rejection.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
(three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses
concurring), That amendments be proposed to Article II of the Con-
stitution of Maryland, title "Executive Department," by repealing
and re-enacting, with amendments, Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7, and by
repealing Section 6 thereof and inserting new Sections 1A and 6,
, 6, AND 7A, all to read as follows :

1A.

There shall be a Lieutenant Governor, who shall have only the
duties delegated to him by the Governor and shall have such com-
pensation as the General Assembly shall provide by law. No person
who is ineligible under this Constitution to be elected Governor shall
be eligible to hold the office of Lieutenant Governor.

2.

An election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, under this
Constitution, shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Mon-
day of November, in the year nineteen hundred and seventy IF
THIS AMENDMENT IS ADOPTED IN THE YEAR NINETEEN
HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE; OR, FOR GOVERNOR IN THE
YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY AND JOINTLY
FOR GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN NINE-
TEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR IF THIS AMEND-
MENT IS ADOPTED IN THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED
AND SEVENTY [[fifty-eight], and on the same day and month in
every fourth year thereafter, at the places of voting for Delegates
to the General Assembly; and every person qualified to vote for Dele-
gates, shall be qualified and entitled to vote for Governor and Lieu-
tenant Governor; the election to be held in the same manner as the
election of Delegates, and the returns thereof, under seal, to be
addressed to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and enclosed
and transmitted to the Secretary of State, and delivered to said
Speaker, at the commencement of the session of the General Assem-
bly, next ensuing said election. In the election, and under any method
provided by law for political parties to nominate candidates, includ-
ing primary elections, each ca