1562 OFFICIAL OATHS. [ART. 70

3. Members of general assembly. 4. Clerks of courts. 5. Corporation officers except chief magistrate. 6. Distnct school trustees shall take oath. 7. Other officers. 8. Test book. 9. Declaration of religious belief.

10. Form of oath. 11. Refusal of neglect to take oath. 12. Clerk's report to secretary of state; clerk's fee. 13. Oath to be taken by deputies and under-clerks of clerks of courts, registers of wills; com- missioner of land office, and sheriffs.

When and How to be Taken.

1888, art. 70, sec. 1. 1860, art. 68, sec. 1. 1856, ch. 183

1. The governor shall take and subscribe the oath pre-
scribed by the constitution on the second Wednesday of
January next ensuing his election or as soon thereafter as may
be practicable between the hours of twelve and two o'clock
P. M. in the senate chamber before the chief judge of the
court of appeals, or in case of his sickness, absence, or inability
from any other cause to attend, before one of the associate
judges of said court; and the said oath shall be recorded in
the test book of the court of appeals.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1860, art. 68, sec. 2. 1852, ch. 172, sec. 3. 1854, ch. 18, sec. 4.
1856, ch. 132, sec. 1.

2. The secretary of State, the judges of the court of appeals
and their clerk, the State reporter, the State librarian, the adju-
tant general, the treasurer, comptroller, and the commissioner
of the land office shall take and subscribe the said oath before
the governor and the same shall be preserved in a book to be
kept by the secretary of State.

Laurenson v. State, 7 H. & J. 339. Harwood v. Marshall, 9 Md. 83 Ibid.,
10 Md. 451.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1860, art. 68, sec. 3. 1852, ch. 172, sec. 7.

3. The oath required to be token and subscribed by the
members of the general assembly shall be administered by a
member of the senate to the president, who shall administer
the same to the other members of that body and to its officers,
and the same shall be subscribed accordingly and be adminis-
tered by one of the members of the house of delegates to the
speaker and by him to the other members of that body and to
its officers, and the same shall be subscribed accordingly.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1860, art. 68 sec. 4. 1854, ch. 18, sec 7.

4. The clerks of the circuit courts for the counties, the
superior court of Baltimore city, the court of common pleas.