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ceeding six thousand five hundred, until the entire population of
the cow ty or city to the n umber of thirty—nine thousand shall be
represented; and for every twenty-one thousand six hundred and
seventy inhabitants 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 hun-
tired and sixty-nine thousand shall have but ore additional dele
gate to its ten delegates for every one hundred 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 oider 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
wards, as now laid off, 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 ninth and tenth
wards No. 5, the eleventh and twelfth wards No. 6, the thirteenth
and fourteenth wards No. 7, the fifteenth and sixteenth wards No.
S, the seventeenth and eighteenth wards No. 9, the nineteenth and
twentieth wards No. 10. And every county shall by the
General Assembly be divided into as many districts as the
county is entitled to delegates, and numbered accordingly and the
qualified voters in each of said districts, shall at the time and in
the manner, in which delegates are chosen, elect one dele
gate, who has been for one year, next before his election, a
resident of the ward from which he shall be elected, and has in all
other respects, the requisite qualifications of a delegate. And the
residence in the district, requisite to give a right of suffrage in vo
ting for delegates, shall be six months next preceeding the elec
lion. But in case any voter otherwise qualified, shall have resi
ded less than six months in the district of his then residence, he
shall not thereby wholly lose his right to vote at the then pending
election; but shalt be entitled to cast his vote for a delegate in the
district in which he may have resided fur the six months next pre
ceeding his removal to the district of his existing residence. And
the Legislature may pass all laws necessary to carry into ellect this
article of the constitution.

Art. 3. Of the sixty -two members constituting the House of
Delegates, Allegany county shall elect three, Anne Arundel coun
ty three, Baltimore city ten, Baltimor e county four, Carroll county
three, Caroline county two, Calvert county two, Cecil county
two, Charles county two, Dorchester county two, Frederick coun