shall, except in cases otherwise expressly provided herein,
commence from the time of their election; and all such offi-
cers shall qualify as soon after their election as practicable,
and shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices
immediately 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 offi-
cers 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. All words or phrases, used in creating
public offices and positions under the Constitution and laws
of this State, which denote the masculine gender shall be
construed to include the feminine gender, unless the con-
trary intention is specifically expressed.*

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 elec-
tion 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 Wednesday, the eighteenth day of September,
in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, at the usual
places of holding elections for members of the House of Dele-
gates 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

* Thus amended by the Act of 1922, Chapter 276, and adopted by the people
November, 1022.