twenty-five thousand inhabitants in each of the counties and city
of Baltimore shall be entitled to one delegate.

Sec. 3d. If in any of the said counties, according to the present
population thereof, there shall be over the said ratio of six thou
sand, a fraction exceeding three thousand; in that case the said
counties shall be entitled to a delegate for said fraction.

RESULT:

Section 1. The Senate shall consist of twenty-one members
Whereof the several counties of the State and the city of Baltimore
shall elect one Senator.
Sec. 2. The House of Delegates shall consist of eighty one
members whereat Allegany county shall elect four, Anne Arundet
county shall elect five; Baltimore city shall elect twelve; Baltimore
county shall elect seven; Carroll county shall elect three; Caroline
county shall elect two; Calvert county shall elect two; Charles
county shall elect three; Cecil county shell elect three, Dorches
ter county shall elect three; Frederick county shall elect seven;
Harford county shall eiect three; Kent county shall elect two;
Montgomery county shall elect three; Prince George's county shall
elect four; Queen Anne's county shall elect two; St. Mary's
county shall elect two; Somerset county shall elect four; Talbot
county shall elect two; Washington county shall elect five; Wor
cester county shall elect three members.
Which was read.

Mr. Chambers, of Kent, from the minority of the committee oa
representation submitted the following:

REPORT:

The undersigned, a minority of the committee on representa
tion, beg leave to report the following as a proper basis, being the
same which was arranged by compromise in 1836, and then made
part of the Constitution, with the exception only that the plan
now proposed is based upon the gross amount of population in
stead of federal numbers. That arrangement was designed to go
into effect after the census of 1860. The undersigned recorn
mend its adoption at this time as a fair adjustment of a subject
which this Convention has indicated as one proper for compro
mise.

Every county shall be entitled to elect one Senator, and the
city of Baltimore shall also be entitled to elect one Senator.

Every county having a population of less than fifteen thousand
souls shall be entitled to three delegates; every county having a
population of fifteen thousand souls, and Less than twenty-five
thousand, shall be entitled to four delegates; every county having
a population of twenty-five thousand,and less than thirty-five
thousand souls, shall be entitled to five delegates; and every coun