162 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND.

This section referred to in upholding the right of a court to hear and decide (with-
out a jury) a motion to quash an attachment. Howard v. Oppenheimer, 25 Md.
365; Union Trust Co. v. Knabe, 122 Md. 602.

This section referred to in dealing with art. 4, sec. 39—see notes thereto. City
Passenger Ry. Co. v. Nugent, 86 Md. 360.

This section (as it stood in the Constitution of 1851) referred to in construing
art. 4, secs. 10 and 19, of the Constitution of 1851—see notes to art. 4, secs. 28 and 42.
State v. Mace, 5 Md. 349.

See notes to art. 23 of the Declaration of Rights and to art. 72, sec. Ill, An. Code.

See arts. 5 and 20 of the Declaration of Rights, and art. 4, secs. 8 and 39, Md.
Constitution.

Sec. T. All general elections in this State shall be held on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday in the month of November, in the year in which
they shall occur; and the first election of all officers, who, under this Con-
stitution, are required to be elected by the people, shall, except in cases
herein specially provided for, be held on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday of November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
See notes to art. 15, sec. 3, and art. 4, secs. 5 and 25.

Sec. 8. The Sheriffs of the several Counties of this State, and of the
City of Baltimore, shall give notice of the several elections authorized by
this Constitution, in the manner prescribed by existing Laws for elections
to be held in this State, until said Laws shall be changed.

Sec. 9. The term of office of all Judges and other officers, for whose
election provision is made by this Constitution, shall, except in cases other-
wise expressly provided herein, commence from the time of their election;
and all such officers 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.

This section refered to in construing art. 4, sec. 11, and art. 5, sec. 2—see notes
thereto. Groome v. Gwinn, 43 Md. 633 (concurring opinion).
See notes to art. 7, sec. 3.

Sec. 10. Any officer elected or appointed in pursuance of the provisions
of this Constitution, may qualify, either according to the existing pro-
visions of law, in relation to officers 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 contrary intention is specifically expressed. 1

1 Thus amended by act of 1922, ch. 275, ratified November, 1922.