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said county, and if said law is submitted to the voters of the City of
Baltimore, by the mayor and city council of Baltimore.

23-11.

Report of results to clerk of court; clerk to certify results to
[Secretary of State] State Administrative Board of Election Laws
and Comptroller.—

(a)    It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners,
the county council, the mayor or other executive head of every
municipal corporation and the executive head of any other political
subdivision in this State, in which jurisdiction there is held a refer-
endum vote on any law, ordinance or resolution, to report the results
of such referendum as promptly as possible to the clerk of the court
in the county or counties in which said political subdivision lies or,
in Baltimore City, to the clerk of the Superior Court of the city;
and as promptly as possible thereafter said clerk of court shall
certify the results of any such referendum to the [Secretary of
State] State Administrative Board of Election Laws and to the State
Comptroller. Each of such latter officials is directed to collect and
keep careful records of such certifications.

(b)    It shall be the duty of the [Secretary of State] State
Administrative Board of Election Laws to collect from the boards
and/or other officials having the same including the several clerks of
court and to keep in his office a record of all referendum votes taken
by the voters of the State or any county therein, or the City of Balti-
more, or by an incorporated city or town of the State on any proposed
incorporation of a town, upon any law passed at any session of the
General Assembly of the State, whether regular or extraordinary,
and whether the referendum vote is taken as a result of a petition
under Article XVI of the Constitution or as required by the act
itself.

(c)    In addition thereto, the [Secretary of State] State Adminis-
trative Board of Election Laws within ten days from the receipt of
the official returns from any such referendum vote concerning a law
enacted by the General Assembly, shall prepare under his hand and
seal, two certificates setting forth the particular law upon which such
referendum vote was taken, and the result of said vote; one of said
certificates he shall forthwith deliver to the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals who shall, upon receipt of the same, attach it to the original
copy of said law and file in his office; the remaining certificate shall
be retained by the [Secretary of State] State Administrative Board
of Election Laws until the adjournment of the next succeeding ses-
sion of the General Assembly, whether regular or extraordinary,
and shall thereupon be delivered by him to the person selected by the
Governor to compile and index the laws passed at such session of the
General Assembly.

25-2.

The text of this article, with said forms and instructions so
prepared, and with other provisions of the Constitution and laws
touching the same matters, and with a proper index thereto, shall
be published by the [Secretary of State] State Administrative
Board of Election Laws and shall be distributed by [him] it to
the boards in quantities sufficient to supply all the judges and other
officers requiring the same. The expense of printing and of necessary