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he shall not thereby wholly lose his right to vote for a delegate,
at the then pending election, but shall be entitled to cast his vow
for a delegate in the district in which he may have resided for the
six months next preceeding his removal to the district of his exist
ing residence, and the Legislature may pass all laws necessary to
carry into effect this article of the Constitution,''

Mr. Phelps, offered as a substitute for the amendment offered by
Mr. Schley, as the 2nd section of the report, and the substitute
offered by Mr. Dorsey the following:

"Each county in this State and the city of Baltimore, shall be
entitled to one Senator; the House of Delegates shall consist of
sixty-one members, and shall be apportioned among the Counties
and the city of Baltimore, as at present, save and except that of
deducting one member from each county, and the city of Balti
more ;"
Which was read,

Mr. Dorsey, (with the unanimous consent of the Convention,)
gave notice of his intention at the proper time that he should offer
the following amendment, which he desired should be entered
upon the record:

Art. The House of Delegates shall until altered by the Legis
lature as hereinafter provided for, consist of sixty-two members to
be apportioned amongst the counties and city of Baltimore, as
follows:—One delegate to each county and the city of Baltimore,
as the representative of the territory or population thereof, without
respect to numbers, and one delegate for every thirteen thousand
inhabitants, and one for every county having a fraction thereof, ex
ceeding six thousand five hundred, until the entire population of
the county or city to the number of thiryt-nine thousand shall be
represented; and for every twenty-one thousand six hundred and
seventy inhabitants of any county or the city of Baltimore above
the said thirty-nine thousand, one additional delegate shall be
elected in such county or city, until the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-one, when every county or the city of Baltimore for
every fifty thousand inhabitants it may have, above one hundred
and sixty-nine thousand, shall be entitled to one additional dele
gate; and after the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, every
county or the city of Baltimore having a population over one h un-
dred and sixty-nine thousand shall have but one additional dele-
gate to its ten delegates for every one h undred thousand inhabi-
tants; and after every decenial census, the General Assembly of
Maryland shall adjust the representation in the House of Delegates
according to the principles contained in this article of the constitu-
tion And in order that each and every portion of the city of
Baltimore, and of the populous counties, may be fairly represent.
ed, and their various interests protected in the Legislature; for the
purpose of electing delegates therein, the city of Baltimore shall
be divided into ten districts, as follows: The first and second