LAWS OF MARYLAND 1967

MARYLAND, Sct.:

At a Session of the General Assembly of Maryland, begun and held
in the City of Annapolis on the Eighteenth Day of January
1967, and Ending on the Twenty-eighth Day of March,
1967, Spiro T. Agnew, being Governor of the State, the
following Laws were enacted, to wit;

CHAPTER 1
(House Bill 384)

AN ACT to authorize AND DIRECT the Attorney General of Mary-
land on behalf of the General Assembly and the Secretary of State
of Maryland to institute a declaratory judgment proceeding under
Article 31A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition)
to determine certain constitutional questions affecting the consti-
tutional convention and the eligibility of persons to be delegates to
such constitutional convention AND RELATING GENERALLY
TO THE DETAILS OF SAID DECLARATORY JUDGMENT
PROCEEDING AND TO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COURT
OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND, THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF ELECTIONS FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, THE
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, AND OF THE MARYLAND
STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, INC. IN CONNECTION THERE-
WITH.

Whereas, by Chapter 501 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1966, it was provided that a special election be held on the second
Tuesday after the first Monday in September, 1966, to take the
sense of the voters of this State on the call of a convention not
earlier than September 1, 1967, nor later than September 1, 1968,
to frame a new constitution for Maryland; and

Whereas, that special election was held on September 13, 1966, and
a majority of those voting at the special election voted in favor
of the call of a constitutional convention; and

Whereas, Chapter 500 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
1966 was passed as an emergency measure and provided that, in
the event there was a favorable vote on the referendum to hold a
constitutional convention, a constitutional convention should be as-
sembled and should convene at twelve o'clock noon on Tuesday,
September 12, 1967, at such place and should continue in session
for such length of time as might thereafter be prescribed by law,

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.