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 num-
ber 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 afore-
said, 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.

Dane 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 ofthe Convention.
ATTEST.

MILTON Y. KIDD,
Secretary.