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second year. In case the number of Senators be hereafter in-
creased, such classification of the additional Senators shall be
made as to preserve, aa nearly as may be, an equal number
in each class.
Sec. 9. No person shall be 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 Dis-
trict of Baltimore City, which he may be chosen to represent,
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 lic shall have attained the age of twen-
ty-one years, al the time of his election.
Sec. 10. No member of Congress, or person holding any
civil, or military office under the United States, shall ho eligi-
ble aq a Senator, or Delegate; and if any person shall after
his election as Senator, or Delegate., he elected to Congress,
or he 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 he eligible as Senator, or Delegate.
Sec. 12. No Collector, Receiver or Holder or public money
shall he eligible as Senator or Delegate, or to any office of
profit or trust, under this State until he shall have account-
ed 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, re-
fusal 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 such qualified persons, a warrant of
election shall be issued by the Speaker of the House of Dele-
gates, or President of the Senate, is the case may be for the
election of another person in his place, of which election not
less than ten days notice shall bo given, exclusive of the day
of the publication of the notice, and of the day of election,
and, if during the recess of the Legislature, and more than
ten days before its termination, such, death shall occur, or
such resignation, refusal to act, or disqualification, be com-
municated in writing to the Governor by the person so re-
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