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Legislative Districts of Baltimore city, respectively, to
serve for two years from the day of their election.
SEC. 7. The first election for Senators and Delegates
shall take place on the Tuesday next, after the first Mon-
day 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.
SEC. 8. 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 hun-
dred and sixty-nine, 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 Senators be hereafter increased, such clas-
sification 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 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,
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 represent, if such county, or Legislative Dis-
trict 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 at-
tained the age of twenty-five years, nor as a Delegate,
unless he shall have attained the age of twenty-one years,
at the tinue of his election.
SEC. 10. No member of Congress, or person holding
any civil, or military office under the United States, shall
be eligible 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 mili-
tary, under the Government of the United States, his ac-
ceptance thereof, shall vacate his seat.
SEC. 11. No Minister or Preacher of the Gospel, or of
any religious creed or denomination, and no person hold-
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