[Art. 3, Sec. 5] MARYLAND MANUAL 311

tering and changing the boundaries of the existing Legisla-
tive Districts of the City of Baltimore, so as to make them
as near as may be of equal population; but said district
shall always consist of contiguous territory. In case the
General Assembly, at the regular session of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-two, fails to fix the boundaries of the six
legislative districts of the City of Baltimore, the Board of
Supervisors of Elections of said city shall fix the boun-
daries of the six legislative districts, subject to the limita-
tions contained herein, and shall give adequate notice of
the same; and the boundaries so fixed shall remain until
altered or changed by the General Assembly.¹

SEC. 5. Immediately after the taking and publishing of
the next National Census, or after any State enumeration
of population, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Gov-
ernor, then being, to arrange the representation in said
House of Delegates, in accordance with the apportionment
herein provided for; and to declare, by Proclamation, the
number of Delegates, to which each county and the City of
Baltimore may be entitled, under such apportionment; and
after every National Census taken thereafter, or after any
State enumeration of population, thereafter made, it shall
be the duty of the Governor, for the time being, to make
similar adjustment of Representation, and to declare the
same by Proclamation, as aforesaid.

SEC. 6. The members of the House of Delegates shall be
elected by the qualified voters of the Counties, and the Leg-
islative Districts of Baltimore city, respectively, to serve
for two years, from the day of their election.¹

SEC. 7. The first election for Senators and Delegates
shall take place on the Tuesday next, after the first Monday
in the month of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-
seven; and the election for Delegates, and as nearly as
practicable, for one-half of the Senators, shall be held on
the same day, in every second year thereafter.²

SEC. 8.² Immediately after the Senate shall have con-
vened, after the first election, under this Constitution, the
Senators shall be divided by lot, into two classes, as nearly
equal in number as may be.Senators of the first class
shall go out of office at the expiration of two years, and
Senators shall be elected on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in the month of November, eighteen hundred and
sixty-nine, for the term of four years, to supply their
places; so that, after the first election, one-half of the Sena-

'Thug amended by Chapter 20, Acts of 1922, ratified November 7, 1922.
' Modified by Article XVII, Sections 1 and 2.