ART. XV] CONSTITUTION. 85
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
Governor 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 |
Qualification
of officers. |
official copy of his oath shall be filed and recorded in the
Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of 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 Proclama-
tion within five days after the adjournment of this con-
vention, 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 Constitution will be held in the City of
Baltimore, and in the several Counties of this State, on
Wednesday, the eighteenth 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 elec-
tion the vote shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot
there shall be written or printed the words, "For the
Constitution," or "Against the Constitution," as the
voter may elect; and the provisions of the Laws of this
State relating to the holding of general 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, accur-
ately 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 tie 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 elec-
tion of members of the House of Delegates, and dupli-
cates 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 |
Oath to be re-
corded.
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