hundred and thirty seven, the city of
Annapolis shall be deemed and taken as
part of Anne Arundel County.
Sec. 12. The General Assembly shall
have power from time to time to regu-
late all matters relating to the judges,
time, place and manner of holding elec-
tions for Senators and delegates, and of
making returns thereof, and to divide
the several counties into election dis-
tricts, for the more convenient holding
of elections, not affecting their terms or
tenure of office.
Sec. 13. So much of the Constitution
and form of government, as relates to
the council, to the Governor, and to the
clerk of the Council, be abrogated, abol-
ished and annulled, and that the whole
Executive power of the Government of
this State, shall be vested exclusively in
the Governor; Subject nevertheless, to
the checks, limitations and provisions
hereinafter specified and mentioned.
Sec. 14. The Governor shall nomi-
nate, and by and with the advise and
consent of the Senate, shall appoint all
officers of the State whose offices are or
may be created by law, and whose ap-
pointment shall not be otherwise pro-
vided for by the Constitution and form
of government, or by any laws consistent
with the Constitution and form of Gov-
ernment Provided that this act shall not
be deemed or construed to impair in any
manner, the validity of the commissions
of such persons as shall be in office under
previous executive appointment when
this act shall go into operation, or to
alter, abridge, or change the tenure,
quality or duration of the same, or of
any of them.
Sec. 15. The Governor shall have
power to fill any vacancy that may occur
in any such offices during the recess of
the Senate, by granting Commissions
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which shall expire upon the appoint-
ment of the same person, or any other
person, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate to the same office, or
at the expiration of one calendar month,
ensuing the commencement of the next
regular session of the Senate whichever
shall first occur.
Sec. 16. The same person shall in no
case be nominated by the Governor a
second time during the same Session,
for the same office, in case he shall have
been rejected by the Senate, unless after
such rejection, the Senate shall inform
the Governor by message, of their will-
ingness to receive again the nomination
of such rejected person, for further con-
sideration, and in case any person nomi-
nated by the Governor for any office,
shall have been rejected by the Senate,
it shall not be lawful for the Governor
at any time afterwards, during the re-
cess of the Senate, in case of vacancy in
the same office to appoint such rejected
person to fill said vacancy.
Sec. 17. It shall be the duty of the
Governor within the period of one cal-
endar month next after this act shall go
into operation, and in the Same Session
in which the same shall be cbnfirmed,
if it be confirmed, and annually there-
after during the regular Session of the
Senate, and on such particular day, if
any, or within such particular period as
may be prescribed by law, to nominate
and by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, to appoint a Secretary of
State, who shall hold his office until a
successor shall be appointed, and who
shall discharge such duties, and receive
such compensation, as shall be prescribed
by law.
Sec. 18. In case a vacancy shall occur
in the office of Governor at any time
after this act shall go into operation the
General Assembly, if in Session, or, if in
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