ART. 70] HOW TAKEN—TEST BOOK. 1563

the circuit court of Baltimore city, the circuit court No. 2 of
Baltimore city, the Baltimore city court and the criminal court
of Baltimore, shall severally take and subscribe the oath pre-
scribed by the constitution before the judges of their respective
courts.

1888, art. 70, sec. 5. 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.
Creager v. Hooper, 83 Md. 501.

1894, ch. 110, sec. 5A.

6. District school trustees shall take and subscribe the oath
or affirmation of office prescribed by the constitution before
the county school commissioner and examiner or a justice of
the peace in their respective counties.

1888, art. 70, sec 6. 1860, art. 68, sec. 6. 1852, ch. 172, sec. 1. 1854,
ch. 18, sec. 5.

7. 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 befor'e 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 1860, art. 68, sec. 7! 1852, ch. 172, sec. 2.

8. 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 appointed and the date of his signature.
Hardesty v. Taft. 23 Md. 612.

Ibid sec 8. 1860, art. 68, sec. 8. 1854, ch. 18, sec. 1.

9. 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 punish-
ments; and it shall be presumed that an officer who has taken