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SEC. 2. An election for Governor under this Constitu-
tion, shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday of November, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, and on the same day and month in every
fourth year thereafter, at the place of voting for dele-
gates to the General Assembly; and every person quali-
fied to vote for Delegates shall be qualified and entitled
to vote for Governor; the election to be held in the same
manner as the election of Delegates; and the returns
thereof, under seal, to be addressed to the Speaker of the
House of Delegates, and enclosed and transmitted to the
Secretary of State, and delivered to said Speaker fit the
commencement of the session of the General Assembly
next ensuing said election.
SEC. 3. The Speaker of the House of Delegates shall
then open the said returns in the presence of both Houses;
and the person having the highest number of votes, and
being constitutionally eligible, shall be the Governor, and
shall qualify, in the manner herein prescribed, on the
second Wednesday of January next ensuing his election,
or as soon thereafter as may be practicable.
SEC. 4. If two or more persons shall have the highest
and an equal number of votes for Governor, one of them
shall be chosen Governor by the Senate and House of
Delegates; and all questions in relation to the eligibility
of Governor, and to the returns of said election, and to the
number and legality of votes therein given, shall be de-
termined by the House of Delegates; and if the person,
or persons having the highest number of votes, be in-
eligible, the Governor shall be chosen by the Senate and
House of Delegates. Every election of Governor, by the
General Assembly, shall be determined by a joint major-
ity of the Senate and House of Delegates, and the vote
shall be taken viva voce; but if two or more persons shall
have the highest and an equal number of votes, then a
second vote shall be taken, which shall be confined to the
persons having an equal number; and if the vote should
again be equal, then the election of Governor shall be
determined by lot between those who shall have the high-
est and an equal number on the first vote.
SEC. 5. A person to be eligible to the office of Gov-
ernor, must have attained the age of thirty years, and
must have been for ten years a citizen of the State of
Maryland, and for five years next preceding his election,
a resident of the State, and at the time of his election a
qualified voter therein.
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