SEC. 10. Any officer elected or appointed in pursuance
of the provisions of this Constitution, may qualify, either
according to the existing provisions of Law, in relation to
officers under the present Constitution, or before the Gov-
ernor of the State, or before any Clerk of any Court of
Record, in any part of the State; but in case an officer
shall qualify out of the County in which be resides, an official
copy of his oath shall be filed and recorded in the Clerk's
office of the Circuit Court for the County in which he may
reside, or in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court of the
City of Baltimore, if he shall reside therein.

NOTE ON THE CONSTITUTION.

For the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the people
of this State in regard to the adoption or rejection of this
Constitution, the Governor shall issue his Proclamation
within five days after the adjournment of this convention,
directed to the Sheriff's of the City of Baltimore and of the
several Counties of this State, commanding them to give
notice, in the manner now prescribed by Law in reference
to the election of members of the House of Delegates,
that an election for the adoption or rejection of this Consti-
tution will be held in the City of Baltimore and in the
several Counties of this State, on Wednesday, the eigh-
teenth day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, at the usual places of holding elections for
members of the House of Delegates in said city and
counties. At the said election the vote shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be written or printed
the words "For the Constitution," or "Against the Con-
stitution," as the voter may elect; and the provisions
of the Laws of this State, relating to the holding of gen-
eral elections for members of the House of Delegates,
shall in all respects apply to and regulate the holding of
the said election. It shall be the duty of the Judges of
Election in said city and in the several counties of the
State to receive, accurately count and duly return the
number of ballots so cast for or against the adoption of this
Constitution, as well as any blank ballots which may be
cast to the several Clerks of the Circuit Courts of this
State, and to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City in the manner now prescribed by Law, in reference to
the election of members of the House of Delegates, and