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327, the oath or affirmation required to be taken by the
members and officers of this Convention is as follows:
I, , do swear or affirm, as the case may be,
that I will, to the best of my skill and judgment, diligently
and faithfully, without partiality or prejudice, according to
the Constitution and laws of the State of Maryland, dis-
charge the duties of a member, or officer, of the Convention
to frame a new Constitution and Form of Government for
the State of Maryland, called in pursuance of the Act of the
General Assembly of the State of Maryland, passed in the
year 1867, chapter 327, and that, since the fourth day of
July, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, I have not
in any manner violated the provisions of the present, or the
late Constitution in relation to the bribery of voters, or pre-
venting legal votes, or procuring illegal votes to be given,
and I do further swear or affirm, that I will bear true alle-
giance to the State of Maryland, and support the Constitu-
tion and laws thereof, and that I will bear true allegiance to
the United States, and support, protect and defend the Con-
stitution, Laws and Government thereof as the supreme law
of the land, any law or ordinance of this or any State to the
contrary notwithstanding, and I do further swear, or affirm,,
that I will, to the best of my ability, protect and defend the
Union of the United States, and not allow the same to be
broken up and dissolved, or the Government thereof to be
destroyed under any circumstances, if in my power to pre-
vent it, and that I will, at all times, discountenance and
oppose all political combinations having for their object such-
dissolution or destruction.
The committee further report that said oath should be ad-
ministered to the President elect of the Convention by some
judge or justice of the peace of the State, and should
then in conformity with the third section of the sixty-
eighth article of the Code of Public General Laws be admin-
istered by said President to the other members of the Con-
vention, and to the officers thereof, and that said oath, after
having been administered as aforesaid, should be subscribed
by said President, members and officers of the Convention
respectively, in conformity with the provisions of said arti-
cle of the Code.
JOSEPH A. WICKES,
GEO. WM. BROWN,
ALBERT RITCHIE.
Which was read and adopted.
The oath of office was then duly administered to Hon.
Richard B. Carmichael, President elect of the Convention,
by Hon. Daniel R. Magruder, Judge of the 2nd Judicial
District.
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