312 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 3, Sec. 91

tors may be chosen every second year. In case the number
of Senators be hereafter increased, such classification of the
additional Senators shall be made as to preserve, as nearly
as may be, an equal number in each class.

SEC. 9. No person shall¹ eligible as a Senator or Dele-
gate, who at the time of his election, is not a citizen of the
State of Maryland, and who has not resided therein, for at
least three years, next preceding the day of his election, and
the last year thereof, in the County, or in the Legislative
District of Baltimore city, which he may be chosen to rep-
resent, if such County, or Legislative District of said City
shall have been so long established; and if not, then in the
County or City, from which, in whole or in part, the same
may have been formed; nor shall any person be eligible as
a Senator, unless he shall have attained the age of twenty-
five years, nor as a Delegate, unless he shall have attained
the age of twenty-one years, at the time of his election.

SEC. 10. No member of Congress, or person holding any
civil, or military office under the United, States, shall be eli-
gible as a Senator, or Delegate; and if any person shall after
his election as Senator, or Delegate, be elected to Congress,
or be appointed to any office, civil or military, under the
Government of the United States, his acceptance thereof,
shall vacate his seat.

SEC. 11. No Minister or Preacher of the Gospel, or of
any religious creed, or denomination, and no person holding
any civil office of profit, or trust, under this State, except
Justices of the Peace, shall be eligible as Senator, or Dele-
gate.

SEC. 12. No Collector, Receiver or Holder of public
money shall be eligible as Senator or Delegate, or to any
office of profit, or trust, under this State, until he shall have
accounted for, and paid into the Treasury all sums on the
books thereof, charged to, and due by him.

SEC. 13. In case of death, disqualification, resignation,
refusal to act, expulsion, or removal from the county or
city for which he shall have been elected, of any person
who shall have been chosen as a Delegate or Senator, or in
case of a tie between two or more fluch qualified persons,
the Governor shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy
from a person whose name shall be submitted to him in
writing by the State Central Committee of the political
party with which the Delegate or Senator, so vacating, had

1 The word "be" evidently omitted.