SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That on the first Wednesday of April
next, at the same places where the polls are by
law held in the several counties and the city, of
Baltimore for the election of Delegates to the Gen-
eral Assembly, every person entitled to vote for
Delegates to the General Assembly, shall vote up-
on the question of a call of a Convention to frame
a new Constitution and form of Government, by
expressing in writing or in printed form, on the
same ballot he may cast for Delegates to said
Convention, the words "For a Convention," or
"Against a Convention," as the case may be, and
in case there should be any ballots cast without
the designation hereinbefore prescribed, the same
shall not be counted either for or against a Con-
vention, but a separate return shall be made of the
same by the judges of election as aforesaid, and
that at the same election the legal voters of this
State shall, by ballot, elect Delegates to the said
Convention, whose qualifications shall be the same
as those now required for a seat in the House of
Delegates, and each county and the city of Balti-
more shall be entitled to elect the same number
of Delegates to the said Convention as they now
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Required to
vote upon call
of Convention,
Election of De-
legates, &c.
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