Art. 12.] State of Maryland. 75

voter may vote either "For the Constitution" or "Against
the Constitution."

Sec. 12. Any qualified voter of this State who shall be
absent from the city or county of his residence on the day
for taking the vote on the adoption or rejection of this
Constitution by reason of his being in the military service
of the United States, but shall be at some hospital or
military post, or on duty within this State, and not with
his company, may vote at the nearest polls to such place
on satisfying the Judges that he is a legal and qualified
voter of this State.

Votes at Hospitals.

Sec. 13. The Judges may swear any one offering to
vote as to his being a legal voter of this State. The

Judges may swear
voters.

Judges shall take down on a poll-book or list the names of
all the voters as their votes are taken, and the tickets shall
be placed in a box as taken; after the polls are closed, the
tickets shall be counted and strung on a thread, and the

Mode of voting.

Judges shall make out a certificate which they shall sign,
addressed to the Governor at Annapolis, in which they
shall state they have taken the oath hereby prescribed,
and shall certify the number of votes taken and the number
of votes for the Constitution, and against the Constitution ;
the said certificates shall be accompanied with the names
of the voters, and shall be plainly expressed, but no par-
ticular words shall be required.

Returns and Cer-
tificates.

Sec. 14. The Judges shall, as soon as possible, transmit
said returns, with the tickets so strung, to the Governor,
who shall receive the return of the soldiers' vote, and shall
cast up the same and judge of the genuineness and correct-
ness of the returns, and may recount the threaded tickets
so as to satisfy himself, and the Governor shall count said
vote with the aggregate vote of the State on the adoption
or rejection of this Constitution, and shall wait for fifteen
days after the day on which the State vote is taken, so as
to allow the returns of the soldiers' vote to be made before

Governor to judge
of vote on Consti-
tution, to wait fif-
teen days.

the result of the whole vote is announced. The Governor
shall receive the returns of the soldiers' vote on said
election for State officers, Presidential Electors and Mem-
bers of Congress, and shall count the same with the
aggregate home vote, on State officers, and the aggregate
home vote in each district respectively for Members of
Congress.

Governor to re-
ceive returns as
other elections.