CONSTITUTION. 81
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 pre-
scribed 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
ascertaining 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 Constitution,
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 Convention.
ATTEST:
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Secretary.
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