658

So the first branch of the amendment was adopted.

The question was then put on the second branch of said amend-
ment being in these words "as follows, the first and second wards
as now laid off shall constitute the district No. 1; the third and
fourth wards district No. 2; the fifth and sixth wards district No. 3;
the seventh and eigth 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.
8; the seventeenth and eighteenth wards No. 9; the nineteenth and
twentieth wards No. 10."

On motion of Mr. Spencer,
The yeas and nays were ordered and appeared as follows

AFFIRMATIVE—Messrs. Chapman, Pres't, Morgan,Dent, Hope
well, Ricaud, Lee, Chambers, of Kent, Mitchell, Donaldson,
Dorsey, Wells, Randall, Kent, Weems, Bond, Brent of Charles,
Merrick, Jenifer, John Dennis, James U. Dennis, Dashiell,
WiLliams, Hicks, Hodson, Goldsborough, Eccleston, Phelps,
Bowie, Tuck, Sprigg, McCubbin, Bowling, Dirikson, McMaster,
Hearn, Fooks, Jacobs, Fiery, John Newcomer, Davis, Kilgour,
Waters and Smith—43.
NEGATIVE -—-Messrs Howard, B uchanan, Bell, Welch, Chand-
ler. Ridgely, Lloyd, Dickinson, Sherwood of Talbot, Colston,
Chambers of Cecil, Mccullough, Miller, McLane, Spencer,
Grason, George, Wright, Thomas, Shriven, Johnson, Gaither,
Biser, Annan, Sappington, Stephenson, McHenry, Magraw,
Nelson, Carter, Thawley, Stewart of Caroline, Gwinn, Stewart,
of Balt, city, Brent of Baltimore city, Sherwood, of Balt. city,
Ware, Schley, Neill, Harbine, Michael Newcomer, Brewer,
Anderson, Weber, Hollyday, Fitzpatrick, Parke,Shower, Cockey
and Brown—50.

So the 2nd branch of said amendment was rejected.

The question then recurred on the 3rd branch of the amend
ment, being in these words: "and that each county in the State
be divided into as many convenient election districts of contiguous
tetritory, and as nearly equal in population as may be, as such
county may be entitled to members of the House of Delegates,
and each of said districts shall be entitled to elect one delegate,
provided that each county and city shall be divided into separate
election districts of compact contiguous territory, in the manner
hereafter to be provided in this constitution; the qualified voters
in each of which districts shall at the time and in the manner in
which delegates are chosen elect one delegate, who has for one
year next before his election been a resident of the district from
which he shall be elected; and the residence in a district requisite
to give a right of suffrage shall be six months next preceding the
election; but in case any voter otherwise qualified shall have less
titan six months residence in the district of his then residence, he