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504 MARYLAND MANUAL 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 275. and adopted by the people November. 1922. |
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