scribed by existing laws for elections to be held in this State,

until said laws shall be changed.

SEC. 9. The term of office of all judges and other officers,
for whose election provision is made by this Constitution,
hall, except in cases otherwise expressly provided herein,
commence from the time of their election; and all such officers
shall qualify as soon after their election as practicable, and

shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices immed-
iately 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 ac-
cording 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 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 Con-
stitution, the Governor shall issue his proclamation within five
days after the adjournment 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 Constitution will be held in the city of
Baltimore and in the several counties of this State, on Wed-
nesday, the eighteenth day of September, in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, at the usual places of holding elec-
tions 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 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 coun-
ties of the State to receive, accurately count and duly return