SEC. 9. The term of office of all Judges and other officers.
for whose election provision is made by this Constitution,
shall, except in cases otherwise expressly provided herein,
commence from the time of their election; and all such
other officers shall qualify as soon after their election as
practicable, and shall enter upon the duties of their respec-
tive offices immediately upon their qualification; and the
term of office of the State Librarian and of Commissioner
of the Land Office shall commence from the time of their
appointment.

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 he 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.

VOTE 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 adjournmenrt of this convention,
directed to the Sheriffs 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 Consti-
tution," 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