COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
		ecutive reorganization. Any board or commis-
		sion at the head of a principal department
		shall have a chief administrative officer.
	ARTICLE Hi.
	LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
	Section 1. The Legislature shall consist	See Section 3,01, Legislative Power, p. 2.
	of two distinct branches: a Senate, and a
	House of Delegates, and shall be styled
	the General Assembly of Maryland.
	Sec. 2. The City of Baltimore shall be	See Section 3.04, Legislative Districts, p. 10.
	divided into six legislative districts as near
	as may be of equal population and of
	contiguous territory, and each of said
	legislative districts of Baltimore City, as
	they may from time to time be laid out,
	in accordance with the provisions hereof,
	and each county in the State, shall be
	entitled to one Senator, who shall be elected
	by the qualified voters of the said legislative
	districts of Baltimore City and of the
	counties of the State, respectively, and
	shall serve for four years from the date of
	his election.
	Sec. 3. Vacant.
	Sec. 4. The General Assembly shall have
	the power to provide by Law, from time
	to time, for altering and changing the
	boundaries of the existing Legislative Dis-
	tricts 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.
	Sec. 5. The membership of the House	Section 3.03. Composition of the General
	of Delegates shall consist of one hundred	Assembly.
	and twenty-three (123) Delegates, appor-	The number of members of each house of
	tioned as follows: Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Kent, Queen Anne's, and St.	the General Assembly shall be prescribed by law, but the number of delegates shall not
	Mary's Counties, two Delegates each; Cecil,	exceed one hundred twenty and the number
	Garrett, Somerset, Talbot, and Worcester	of senators shall be one- third the number of
	Counties, three Delegates each; Carroll, Dorchester, Harford, and Wicomico Coun-	delegates. Only one delegate shall represent a delegate district and only one senator shall
	ties, four Delegates each; Allegany, Anne	represent a senate district. Each senate dis-
	Arundel, Baltimore, Frederick, Montgomery,	trict shall consist of three whole delegate dis-
	Prince George's, and Washington Counties,	tricts.
	and each of the six Legislative Districts of
	Baltimore City, six Delegates each.
	Sec. 6. The members of the House of	Section 3.10. Election and Term of Office.
	Delegates shall be elected by the qualified	A member of the General Assembly shall
	voters of the Counties, and the Legislative	be elected by the voters of the district in
	Districts of Baltimore City, respectively,	which he seeks election, to serve for a term

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