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718 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 17
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 Delegates 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 Con- stitution", 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 said election. It shall be the duty of the Judges of Election, in said City, and in the several Counties of the State, to receive, accurately count, and duly return the number of ballots, so cast for, or against the adoption of this Constitution, as well as any blank ballots, which may be cast, to the several Clerks of the Circuit Courts of this State, and to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, in the manner now prescribed by Law, in reference to the election of members of the House of Delegates, and duplicates thereof directly to the Governor; and the several Clerks, aforesaid shall return to the Governor, within ten days after said election, the number of ballots cast for or against the Constitution, and the number of blank ballots; and the Governor, upon receiving the returns, from the Judges of Election or the Clerks as aforesaid and ascertain- ing the aggregate vote throughout the State, shall, by his proclamation, make known the same; and if a majority of the votes cast shall be for the adoption of this Constitution, it shall go into effect on Saturday, the fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Done in Convention, the seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-second. RICHD. B. CARMICHAEL, President of the Convention ATTEST : MILTON Y. KIDD, Secretary |
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