ART. 12. ] STATE OF MARYLAND. 75

voter may vote either " For the Constitution " or " Against

the Constitution. "

SEC. 12. Any qualified voter of this Estate who shall be

Votes at Hospitals.

absent from the city or county of his residence on the day

for taking the vote on the adoption or rejection of this

Constitution by reason of his being in the military service

of the United States, but shall be at some hospital or

military post, or on duty within this State, and not with

his company, may vote at the nearest polls to such place

on satisfying the Judges that he is a legal and qualified

voter of this State.

SEC. 13. The Judges may swear any one offering to

Judges may swear
voters

vote as to his being a legal voter of this State. The

Judges shall take down on a poll-book or list the names of

Mode of voting

all the voters as their votes are taken, and the tickets shall

be placed in a box as taken; after the polls are closed, the

tickets shall be counted and strung on a thread, and the

Judges shall make out a certificate which they shall sign,

Returns and Cer-

addressed to the Governor at Annapolis, in which they

tificates.

shall state they have taken the oath hereby prescribed,

and shall certify the number of votes taken and the number

of votes for the Constitution, and against the Constitution;

the said certificates shall be accompanied with the names

of the voters, and shall be plainly expressed, but no par-

ticular words shall be required.

SEC. 14. The Judges shall, as soon as possible, transmit

Governor to judge
of vote on Consti-

said returns, with the tickets so strung, to the Governor,

tution, to wait fif-
teen days.

who shall receive the return of the soldiers' vote, and shall

cast up the same and judge of the genuineness and correct-

ness of the returns, and may recount the threaded tickets

so as to satisfy himself, and the Governor shall count said

vote with the aggregate vote of the State on the adoption

or rejection of this Constutution, and shall wait for fifteen

days after the day on which the State vote is taken, so as

to allow the returns of the soldiers' vote to be made before

the result of the whole vote is announced. The Governor

Governor to re-

ceive returns as

shall receive the returns of the soldiers' vote on said

other elections

election for State officers, Presidential Electors and Mem

bers of Congress, and shall count the same with the

aggregate home vote, on State officers, and the aggregate

home vote in each district respectively for Members of

Congress.