14                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                         [CH. 4

STITUTION WHICH THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
DETERMINES SHOULD BE PROVIDED BY STATUTE AND
MATTERS WHICH, UNDER THE PROPOSED CONSTITU-
TION, WOULD REQUIRE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION
AND WHICH, IN THE OPINION OF THE CONVENTION,
ARE OF SUCH URGENCY AND IMPORTANCE THAT EN-
ACTMENT THEREOF CANNOT BE DEFERRED UNTIL THE
NEXT SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. THIS schedule
shall be attached to and certified with the proposed constitution. If
the proposed constitution is adopted, the schedule shall be deemed to
have been adopted also and shall take effect as provided therein. The
schedule shall not be a part of the constitution, but shall have the
effect of a public general STATUTORY law and may thereafter be
amended or repealed by law. THE CONVENTION SHALL IN-
CLUDE IN THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION SUCH PRO-
VISIONS AS LEGALLY NECESSARY TO CONFIRM AND
VALIDATE THE ADOPTION AND FULL EFFECT OF THE
SCHEDULES OF IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION AND TO
PROVIDE FOR THEIR INCLUSION (AS NECESSARY OR
DESIRABLE) IN THE STATUTE BOOKS OF THIS STATE,
INCLUDING THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND.

17 18.

Such funds as may be approporiated APPROPRIATED by law to
pay the cost of the special elections provided for in this Act for the
election of delegates to the Convention and for the adoption or rejec-
tion of a constitution which may be proposed by the Convention shall
be allocated among the counties and the City of Baltimore in the ratio
that the total expenditures of the respective boards of supervisors of
elections of the counties and the City of Baltimore, with respect to the
general election of November, 1966, bears to the aggregate total expen-
ditures of the boards of supervisors of elections of all counties and of
the City of Baltimore with respect to the same general election. The
determination of the respective shares of each county and of the
City of Baltimore shall be made by the comptroller, and, on the basis
of such determination, the respective shares shall be disbursed to the
counties and to the City of Baltimore. Any expenditures of a county
or of the City of Baltimore for such special elections in excess of the
share of the state appropriation therefor allocated as herein pro-
vided shall be paid by such county or by the City of Baltimore.

18 19.

Except as otherwise provided in this Act, or as may be inconsistent
therewith, the laws of this State relating to elections for members of
the House of Delegates shall govern and apply to the election of the
delegates to the Convention and those relating to referendum elections
shall govern and apply to the special referendum election on the
adoption or rejection of the constitution proposed by the Convention.
All state and local officials shall do all those things which are ap-
propriate to the holding of each of the special elections provided for
in this Act and which are required under the general election laws.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby de-
clared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety, and having been passed