ART. 70.] OFFICIAL OATHS—FORM OF TEST BOOK. 1029

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 68, sec. 5. 1854, ch. 18, sec. 6.

5. All officers of municipal corporations, except the mayor or
chief magistrate, shall take such oath as may be prescribed by law
or ordinance, before the mayor or chief magistrate of the
corporation.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1852, ch 172, sec. 1. 1854, ch. 18, sec. 5.

6. All other officers elected or appointed to any office of trust
or profit under the constitution and laws of this State, including
the mayors or other chief magistrates of municipal corporations,
shall take and subscribe the said oath, in the city of Baltimore
before the clerk of the superior court, and in the several counties
before the clerk of the circuit court, or before one of the sworn
deputies of such clerks.

Hardesty v. Taft, 23 Md. 512

Ibid. sec. 7. 1852, ch. 172, sec. 2.

7. The said clerks shall each procure and keep in his office a
well-bound book, to be called the test book, in which shall be
printed or conspicuously written the oaths aforesaid, and every
person taking or subscribing the same shall annex to his signature
the title of the office to which he shall have been elected or ap-
pointed, and the date of his signature.

Hardesty v. Taft, 23 Md. 512.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1854, ch. 18, sec. 1.

8. It shall only be necessary for an officer who is required to
take and subscribe the oath prescribed by the sixth section of the
first article of the constitution, to declare orally at the time, his
belief in the Christian religion, or if he profess to be a jew, of his
belief in a future state of rewards and punishments; and it
shall be presumed that an officer who has taken and subscribed
the oath made at the same time such declaration of belief.

Ibid, sec 9. 1854, ch. 18, sec. 3.

9. The oath to be administered to a person who has an ap-
pointment which requires him to take an oath, but who is not
embraced in the provisions of the aforesaid section of the con-
stitution, shall be that he will faithfully discharge his duty, unless
a different form of oath is prescribed by law or ordinance.