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may be fair ly represented and its var ious interest protected in the
LegisIature, the whole State shall be divided into seperate single elec-
tion districts, the city of Baltimore shall henceforth be divided
into ten districts as follows, viz: The first and second wards as
now laid ff, shall constitute district No. 1; the third and fourth
wards, district No. 2; the fifth and sixth wards, district No. 3; the
seventh and eighth wards, district No. 4; the 9th and tenth wards,
district No. 5; the eleventh and twelfth wards, district No. 6; the thir-
teenth and fourteenth wards, district No. 7; the fifteenth and sixteenth
wards, district No. 8; the seventeenth and eighteenth wards, dis-
trict No. 9; and the nineteenth and twentieth wards district No.
10; and the several counties shall be divided by the Legislature at
its first session after the adoption of this constitution, into districts
of compact contiguous territory, equal in number to the number
of Delegates to which they may respectively hereby be entitled;
no one district to elect more than one delegate; and every district
in each county to be as nearly as practicable of equal population
with the other districts of that county. The qualified voters in each
of the said districts shall, at the time, and in the manner in which
Delegates are chosen, elect one Delegate, who has been for one
year next before his election, a resident of the ward or district
from which he shall be elected; and has, in all other respects the
requisite qualifications of a delegate——and the residence in the dis-
trict requisite to give a right of suffrage of voting for Delegates
shall be six months next preceeding the election; but in case any
voter otherwise qualified shall have resided less than six months in
the district of his then residence, 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 vote for a delegate in the district in
which he may have resided for the six months next preceeding his
removal to t he district of his exi sting residence, and the Legislature
may pass all laws necessary to carry into effect this article of the
co nsti ut ion.
Art. 2nd. Of the eighty three members constituting the House
of Delegates, Allegany county shall elect four, Anne Arundel
county four, Baltimore city ten, Balti more county six, Carroll
county four, Caroline county two Calvert county two, Cecil
county three, Charles county three, Dorchester county three,
Frederick county six, Harford county three, Howard county three,
Kent county two, Montgomery county three, Prince George's
county four, Queen Anne's county three, St. Mary's county
three, Somerset county four, Tal bot county three, Washington
county five, Worcester county three.
The Convention then adjourned until to-morrow morning 10

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
o'clock.