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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
Volume 375, Page 166   View pdf image (33K)
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166 • CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND.

Sec. 4. All officers to be appointed by the Governor under existing
provisions of law in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four for terms
of office heretofore fixed by law at two years, shall hold office for terms
of three years; all officers so appointed for terms of office heretofore fixed
by law at four years, shall hold office for terms of three years; all officers
so appointed for terms of office heretofore fixed by law at six years, shall
hold office for terms of five years, and thereafter appointments by the
Governor shall be for the terms heretofore fixed by law, unless otherwise
duly changed by law. All officers appointed by County Commissioners
after the election to be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday
of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, for terms of office of
two, four or six years, shall hold office for terms of three years; and there-
after appointment by the County Commissioners shall be for terms of four
years, unless otherwise duly changed by law.

Sec. 5. The terms of all State and county officers heretofore elected by
qualified voters, and whose successors would not be elected until the Tues-
day next after the first Monday of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-
five, shall be increased by one year, and their successors shall be elected for
the regular term at the election to be held on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-six. The terms
of all State and county officers heretofore elected by qualified voters, and
whose successors would not be elected until the Tuesday next after the first
Monday of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, shall remain
unchanged; their successors shall be elected for a term of three years at
the elections to be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of
November, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, but shall not take office
until the expiration of the full term for which their predecessors have been
elected; and their successors shall be elected for the regular term at the
election to be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November,
nineteen hundred and thirty. Nothing herein shall affect the terms of any
judge of the Circuit Court of the several circuits, the member of the Court
of Appeals from Baltimore City, or any member of the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City; if the term of any such judge shall expire in a year in
which no election for members of the General Assembly is held, the Gov-
ernor shall appoint a person duly qualified to fill said office, who shall hold
the same until the next general election for members of the General Assem-
bly, when a successor shall be elected for the term elsewhere provided. The
terms of all State and county officers heretofore appointed for terms which
will not expire until during the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five,
nineteen hundred and twenty-six, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven or
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight shall be reduced by one year, and their
successors shall be appointed for the terms now provided by law in the
years nineteen hundred and twenty-four, nineteen hundred and twenty-five,
nineteen 'hundred and twenty-six or nineteen hundred and twenty-seven,
respectively. In the event that the term of any officer appointed by the
Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate shall expire in the year
nineteen hundred and twenty-five or twenty-six, the Governor shall have
power to appoint a successor, who shall serve for the full term subject to

 

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