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duplicating the number of souls required to be in excess above the
last number upon which an additional delegate was allowed, for the
allowance of each further additional Delegate, to which by such
duplicating ratio, any of the counties or the city of Baltimore,
may be entitled for the whole number of its population.

Art. 3rd. The Senate shall consist of twenty-Iwo Senators, to
be elected every fourth year, at the time, places and in the manner
prescribed for the election of members of the House of Delegates;
one Senator to be chosen by the voters of each county in the
State, and two by the voters of the city of Baltimore; but for this
purpose the said city of Baltimore shall be divided or laid off as
nearly as may be, into two equal senatorial districts, each of which
districts shall separately elect one Senator; and the said city of
Baltimore shall also be laid off into nine equal electoral districts,
for the purpose of electing members of the House of Delegates,
and each of said electoral districts shall separately elect one
Delegate—and it shall be competent for the Legislature at their
first session after the authoritative promulgation of each decenial
census of the people of the United States, or whenever the said
city shall by the further increase of her population become enti
tled according to the basis of representation now fixed, to one or
more additional Delegates, to provide for re-arranging or creating
other electoral districts for the purpose of such election; but it
shall not be competent for the Legislature to alter or disturb the
arrangement of said districts for any other purpose, nor upon any
other occasion, nor to make the number of said districts less thaft
the number of delegates to be elected from said city; but the
Legislature shall have power at the same decenial periods to alter
for the purpose of equalization, the senatorial districts, but at no
other time.

Memorandum for Illustration:
The ratio of representation here proposed, by allowing one
delegate for every 4,000 souls up to 20,000, and duplicating said
ratio of 4,000 for every additional delegate above 4, would, it is
believed, operate to the following effect—but this can only be cer
tainly ascertained by the returns of the census for 1850, to which
we have not yet acceIt would give to—
No. of Delegates.
Caroline County, 2
Cal vert " - 2
Kent " 2
Talbot " - 3
Queen Anne's" - 3
St. Mary's " - 3
Hanford 4
Charles " - — 4
Montgomery " - 4
Carroll " 5