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any office held by any other person, and that he does not hold the
same office in trust or for the benefit of any other person."

53. That if any governor, chancellor, judge, register of wills,
attorney general, register of the land office, commissioner of the
loan office, register of the chancery court, or any clerk of the com-
mon law courts, treasurer, naval officer, sheriff, surveyor, or auditor
of public accounts, shall receive directly or indirectly, at any time
the profits or any part of the profits of any office, held by any other
person, during his acting in the office to which he is appointed, his
election, appointment and commission, on conviction in a court of
law, by the oath of two credible witnesses, shall be void, and he
shall suffer the punishment for wilful and corrupt perjury, or be
banished this state forever, or disqualified forever, from holding any
office or place of trust or profit, as the court may adjudge.

54. "That if any person shall give any bribe, present, or reward,
or any promise, or any security for the payment or delivery of any
money, or any other thing, to obtain or procure a vote, to be go-
vernor, senator, delegate to congress, or assembly, member of the
council, or judge, or to be appointed to any of the said offices, or
to any office of profit or trust, now created or hereafter to be cre-
ated in this state, the person giving and the person receiving the
same, on conviction in a court of law, shall be forever disqualified
to hold any office of trust or profit in this state.

55. " That every person appointed to any office of profit or trust
shall, before he enters on the execution thereof, take the following
oath, to wit, " I, A. B, do swear, That I do not hold myself bound
in allegiance to the king of Great Britain, and that I will be faith-
ful and bear true allegiance to the state of Maryland." And shall
also subscribe a declaration of his belief in the Christian religion.

56. " That there be a court of appeals, composed of persons of
integrity and sound judgment in the law, whose judgment shall be
final and conclusive in all cases of appeal, from the general court,
court of chancery, and court of admiralty : That one person of in-
tegrity and sound judgment in the law, be appointed chancellor:
That three persons of integrity and sound judgment in the law, be
appointed judges of the court now called the provincial court; and
that the same court be hereafter called and known by the name of
the general court; which court shall sit on the western and eastern
shores for transacting and determining the business of their respec-
tive shores, at such times and places as the future legislature of
this state shall direct and appoint.

57. " That the style of all laws run thus, "Be it enacted by the
general assembly of Maryland:" That all public commissions and