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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 otherwise expressly provided herein, commence
from the time of their election; and all such other 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 the Commissioner of the Land Office shall commence from the
time of their appointment.

SEC. 10. Any officer elected or appointed in pursuance of the
provisions of this Constitution, may qualify, either according to
the existing provisions 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 for 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.

VOTE ON THE CONSTITUTION.

For the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the people of this
State in regard to the adoption or rejection of this Constitution,
the Governor shall issue his Proclamation within five days after
the adjournment of this Convention, directed to the Sheriffs of
the city of Baltimore and of the several counties of this State,
commanding them to give notice, in the manner now prescribed
by Law in reference to the election of members of the Home of
Delegates, that an election for the adoption or rejection of this
Constitution will be held in the city of Baltimore and in the sev-
eral 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 Constitution, " or "Against the Con-
stitution, " as the voter may elect; and the provisions of the Laws
of this State, relating to the holding of general elections for mem-
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