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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
duplicates thereof, directly to the Governor; -and the several
Clerks aforesaid shall return to the Governor, within ten
days after said election, the number of ballots cast for or
against the Constitution, and the number of blank ballots;
and the Governor, upon receiving the returns from the
Judges of Election or the Clerks as aforesaid, and ascer-
taining the aggregate vote throughout the State, shall, by
his proclamation, make known the same; and if a majority
of the votes cast shall be for the adoption of this Consti-
tution, it shall go into effect on Saturday, the fifth day of
October, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

Done in Convention, the seventeenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and of
the Independence of the United States the ninety-second.

RICHARD B. CARMICHAEL,

President of the Convent-ion.
ATTEST:

MILTON Y. KIDD,

Secretary.