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of this State, commanding them to give notice in the manner
now prescribed by Law in reference to the election of members
of the House of Delegates, that an election for the adoption or
rejection of this Constitution will be held in the City of Balti-
more, and in the several 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 Constitution, " as the voter may
elect; and the provisions of the Laws of this State relating to
the holding of general elections for members of the House of
Delegates, shall in all respects apply to and regulate the hold-
ing 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 Constitution, 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 prescribed
by Law, in reference to the election of members of the House
of Delegates, and duplicates thereof, directly to the Governor;
and the several clerks aforesaid shall return to the Governor,
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, and of
the Independence of the United States the ninety-second.

RICHARD B. CARMICHAEL,

President of the Convention.
MILTON Y. KIDD,

Secretary.