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ART. 12. ] STATE OF MARYLAND. 75
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voter may vote either " For the Constitution " or " Against
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the Constitution. "
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SEC. 12. Any qualified voter of this Estate who shall be
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Votes at Hospitals.
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absent from the city or county of his residence on the day
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for taking the vote on the adoption or rejection of this
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Constitution by reason of his being in the military service
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of the United States, but shall be at some hospital or
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military post, or on duty within this State, and not with
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his company, may vote at the nearest polls to such place
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on satisfying the Judges that he is a legal and qualified
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voter of this State.
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SEC. 13. The Judges may swear any one offering to
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Judges may swear
voters
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vote as to his being a legal voter of this State. The
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Judges shall take down on a poll-book or list the names of
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Mode of voting
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all the voters as their votes are taken, and the tickets shall
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be placed in a box as taken; after the polls are closed, the
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tickets shall be counted and strung on a thread, and the
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Judges shall make out a certificate which they shall sign,
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Returns and Cer-
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addressed to the Governor at Annapolis, in which they
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tificates.
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shall state they have taken the oath hereby prescribed,
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and shall certify the number of votes taken and the number
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of votes for the Constitution, and against the Constitution;
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the said certificates shall be accompanied with the names
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of the voters, and shall be plainly expressed, but no par-
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ticular words shall be required.
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SEC. 14. The Judges shall, as soon as possible, transmit
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Governor to judge
of vote on Consti-
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said returns, with the tickets so strung, to the Governor,
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tution, to wait fif-
teen days.
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who shall receive the return of the soldiers' vote, and shall
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cast up the same and judge of the genuineness and correct-
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ness of the returns, and may recount the threaded tickets
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so as to satisfy himself, and the Governor shall count said
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vote with the aggregate vote of the State on the adoption
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or rejection of this Constutution, and shall wait for fifteen
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days after the day on which the State vote is taken, so as
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to allow the returns of the soldiers' vote to be made before
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the result of the whole vote is announced. The Governor
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Governor to re-
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ceive returns as
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shall receive the returns of the soldiers' vote on said
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other elections
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election for State officers, Presidential Electors and Mem
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bers of Congress, and shall count the same with the
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aggregate home vote, on State officers, and the aggregate
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home vote in each district respectively for Members of
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Congress.
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