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SEC. 3 (a). The referendum petition against an Act or
part of an Act passed by the General Assembly, shall be suffi-
cient if signed by ten thousand qualified voters of the State
of Maryland, of whom not more than half shall be residents
of Baltimore City, or of any one County; provided that any
Public Local Law for any one County or the City of Baltimore,
shall be referred by the Secretary of State only to the people
of said County or City of Baltimore, upon a referendum peti-
tion of ten per cent, of the qualified voters of said County or
City of Baltimore as the case may be, calculated upon the
whole number of votes cast therein respectively for Governor
.at the last preceding Gubernatorial election.
(b) If more than one-half, but less than the full number of
-signatures required to complete any referendum petition against
any law passed by the General Assembly, be filed with Secretary
of State before the first day of June, the time for the law to
take effect, and for filing the remamender of signatures to com-
plete the petition shall be extended to the thirtieth day of the
same month, with like effect.
SEC. 4. A petition may consist of several papers, but each
paper shall contain the full text of the Act or part of Act pe-
titioned upon; and there shall be attached to each such paper
an affidavit of the person procuring the signatures thereon that
of the said person's own personal knowledge every signature
thereon is genuine and bona fide, and that the signers are reg-
istered voters of the State of Maryland, and of the City of Bal-
timore, or County, as the case may be, as set opposite their
names, and no other verification shall be required.
SEC. 5 (a). The General Assembly shall provide for fur-
nishing the voters of the State the text of all measures to be
voted upon by the people; provided, that until otherwise pro-
vided by law the same shall be published in the manner pre-
scribed by Article XIV of the Constitution for the publication
of proposed Constitutional Amendments.
(b) All laws referred under the provisions of this Article
shall be submitted separately on the ballots to the voters of
the people, but if containing more than two hundred words,
the full text shall not be printed on the official ballots, but
the Secretary of State shall prepare and submit a ballot title
of each such measure in such form as to present the pur-
pose of said measure concisely and intelligently. The bal-
lot title may be distinct from the legislative title, but in any
case the legislative title shall be sufficient. Upon each of the
ballots, following the ballot title or text, as the case may be,
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