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the aggregate vote through-
out the State, including the
soldiers' vote, hereinafter
provided for, shall, by his
proclamation make known
the same, and if a majority
of the votes cast shall be
for the adoption of this Con-
stitution, it shall go into ef-
fect on the first day of No-
vember, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four.
Sec. 10. And the Governor
shall exclude from count the
votes of any county or city
the Return Judges of which
shall fail to certify in the
returns, as provided by this
schedule, that all persons
who have voted have taken
the oath prescribed to be
taken, unless the Governor
shall be satisfied that such
oath was actually adminis-
tered, and that the failure
to make the certificate has
been from inadvertence or
mistake.
Soldiers' Vote.
Sec. 11. Any qualified
voter of this State who shall
be absent from the county
or city of his residence by
reason of being in the mili-
tary service of the United
States, so as not to be able
to vote at home, on the
adoption or rejection of this
Constitution, or for all State
officers elected on general
ticket, and for Presidential
Electors and for members of
Congress, at the election to
be held on the Tuesday next
after the first Monday in the
month of November, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-four,
shall be entitled to vote at
such elections as follows: A
poll shall be opened in each
Company of every Maryland
Regiment in the service of
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