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THE CONSTITUTION OF 1864
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and strung on a thread, and the Judges
shall make out a certificate which they
shall sign, addressed to the Governor at
Annapolis, in which they shall state they
have taken the oath hereby prescribed,
and shall certify the number of votes
taken and the number of votes for the
Constitution, and against the Constitu-
tion; the said certificates shall be ac-
companied with the names of the voters,
and shall be plainly expressed, but no
particular words shall be required.
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Sec. 14. The Judges shall, as soon as
possible, transmit said returns, with the
tickets so strung, to the Governor, who
shall receive the return of the soldiers'
vote, and shall cast up the same and
judge of the genuineness and correct-
ness of the returns, and may recount
the threaded tickets so as to satisfy him-
self, and the Governor shall count said
vote with the aggregate vote of the State
on the adoption or rejection of this
Constitution, and shall wait for fifteen
days after the day on which the State
vote is taken, so as to allow the returns
of the soldiers' vote to be made before
the result of the whole vote is
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announced. The Governor shall receive
the returns of the soldiers' vote on said
election for State officers, Presidential
Electors and Members of Congress, and
shall count the same with the aggregate
home vote, on State officers, and the
aggregate home vote in each district
respectively for Members of Congress.
Sec. 15. The Governor shall make
known to the officers of the State Regi-
ments the provisions of this Article of
the Schedule, and request them to
exercise the rights hereby conferred
upon them, and shall take all means
proper to secure the soldiers' vote; and
the General Assembly, at its first session
after the adoption of this Constitution
shall make proper appropriation to pay
any expense that may arise herein.
Sec. 16. If this Constitution shall be
adopted by the people, the provisions
contained herein for taking the soliders'
vote on the adoption of the Constitution
shall apply to all elections to be held
in this State until the General Assembly
shall provide some other mode of taking
the same.
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Done in Convention, the sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United
States the eighty-ninth.
HENRY H. GOLDSBOROUGH,
President of the Convention.
Attest: W. R. cole,
Secretary.
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