lxxxli CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 15.

bers of the House of Delegates, shall, in all respects, apply to
and regulate the holding of the said election. It shall be the duty
of the Judges of Election in said city and in the several counties
of the State to receive, accurately count and duly return the
number of ballots so cast for or against the adoption of this Con-
stitution, as well as any blank ballots, which may be cast, to the
several Clerks of the Circuit Courts of this State, and to the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, in the manner now pre-
scribed by Law, in reference to the election of members of the
House of Delegates, and duplicates thereof directly to the Gov-
ernor; and the several Clerks aforesaid shall return to the Gov-
ernor, within ten days after said election, the number of ballots
cast for or against the Constitution, and the number of blank
ballots; and the Governor, upon receiving the returns from the
Judges of Election or the Clerks as aforesaid, and ascertaining the
aggregate vote throughout the State, shall, by his Proclamation,
make known the same; and if a majority of the votes cast shall
be for the adoption of this Constitution, it shall go into effect on
Saturday, the fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-
seven.

Done in Convention, the seventeenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
mid of the Independence of the United States the ninety-second.

RICHD. B. CARMICHAEL,

President of the Convention.
ATTEST :

MILTON Y. KIDD,

Secretary.