CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION STUDY DOCUMENTS [SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS] COMPARISON
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Headnotes
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Present
Constitution
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Constitution of
1867
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Constitution of
1864
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Constitution of
1851
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Constitution of
1776
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Amendments to
1776 Constitution
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poll-book or list the names
of all the voters as their
votes are taken, and the
tickets shall be placed in a
box as taken; after the polls
are closed, the tickets shall
be counted 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 Constitution;
the said certificates shall be
accompanied with the names
of the voters, and shall be
plainly expressed, but no
particular words shall be re-
quired.
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 correctness of the re-
turns, and may recount the
threaded tickets so as to
satisfy himself, and the Gov-
ernor shall count said vote
with the aggregate vote of
the State on the adoption or
rejection of this Constitu-
tion, and shall wait for fif-
teen 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 an-
nounced. 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
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641
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