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CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

CONSTITUTION OF 1867

PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968

City of Baltimore, and in the several Coun-

adopted also and shall take effect as provided

ties of this State, on Wednesday, the Eight-

therein.

eenth day of September, in the year eight-


een 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 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 prescribed by


Law, in reference to the election of mem-


bers of the House of Delegates, and du-


plicates 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 this Procla-

Section 10.01. Effective Date oi' Constitu-

mation, make known the same; and if a

tion.

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.

This Constitution shall become effective,
and the Constitution of 1867 as amended
shall cease to be effective, on July 1, 1968,
except as otherwise specifically provided in


the Schedule of Transitional Provisions at-


tached to this Constitution.

Done in Convention, the seventeenth day

DONE in Convention at Annapolis, Mary-

of August, in the year of our Lord one

land, this tenth day of January in the year

thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven

Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-eight.

and of the Independence of the United


States the ninety-second.

H. VERNON ENEY


President

RICHARD B. CARMICHAEL,


President of the Convention.

Attest:
ROBERT J. MARTINEAU

Attest:

Secretary

MILTON Y. KIDD,


Secretary.


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