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lic works be authorized to obtain from any officer or offi-
cers of the city of Baltimore such information as to the
affairs thereof as they may deem expedient.
On motion of Mr. Wethered, it was
Ordered, That the Sergeant-at-arms be requested to
provide seats for such officers of the French frigate Jean
Bart as may visit the Convention.
Mr. Dent, from the committee on the Legislative De-
partment, reported the following:
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. --------
Section 1. The Legislature shall consist of two dis-
tinct branches, a Senate and a House of Delegates, which
shall be styled the General Assembly of Maryland.
Sec. 2. The members of the House of Delegates shall
be elected by the qualified voters of the counties and the
legislative districts of Baltimore city respectively, to serve
for two years from the day of their election.
Sec. 3. The first election for Senators and Delegates
shall take place on the Tuesday next after the first Mon-
day in the month of November, 1867; 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 sec-
ond year thereafter.
Sec. 4. 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 numbers 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 first Tuesday next
after the first Monday in the month of November, 1869,
for the term of four years, to supply their places; so that
after the first election one-half of the Senators may be
chosen every second year. In case the number of Sena-
tors be hereafter increased, such classification of the addi-
tional Senators shall be made as to preserve, as nearly as
may be, an equal number in each class.
Sec. 5. No person shall be eligible as a Senator or
Delegate who, at the time of his election, is not a citizen
of the State of Maryland, and who has not resided therein
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