of members to be chosen annually on the first
Wednesday of the month of October, by the
voters of the several counties of the State and
of the city of Baltimore, according to the num-
ber of the population of each of said counties
and of the said city of Baltimore, and in conformity
with the following rule: That is to say, each
of said counties and the city aforesaid, shall elect
one Delegate for every four thousand souls it
may contain up to twenty thousand, and for any
excess in the number of population in any of said
counties, or in the city of Baltimore, above
twenty thousand, and of not less than eight thousand,
there shall be allowed to each county or
city having such excess, one additional delegate;
and for any excess of population in any of the
counties or city aforesaid, above twenty eight
thousand) and of not less than sixteen thousand,
one other additional delegate shall be allowed to
each of the counties or to the city having such
excess; and so on, duplicating the number of
souls required to be in excess above last the
number upon which an additional delegate was
allowed, for the allowance of each further addi-
tional delegate, to which by inch duplicating ra-
tio, any of the counties or the city of Baltimore,
may be entitled for the whole number of its pop-
ulation, and for any fractional number of inhabitants
in any county or in the city of Baltimore,
less than sufficient to entitle the county or city,
to an additional delegate, according to the
aforegoing rule, and greater than one-half the
highest number upon which, according to said
rule, delegates or an additional delegate is al-
lowed to said county or city, one additional dele-

gate shall be allowed to the county or city having
such fraction. .
Sec. 3. The Senate shall consist of twenty-two
senators, to be elected every fourth year, at the
time, places aid in the manner prescribed for the
election of members of the House of Delegates;
one senator to be chosen by the voters of each
county in the State, and two by the voters of the
city of Baltimore; but for this purpose the said
city of Baltimore, shall be divided or laid off as
nearly as may be, into two equal senatorial dis-
tricts, each of which districts shall separately
elect one senator; and the said city of Baltimore
shall also be laid off into nine equal electoral dis-
tricts, for the purpose of electing members of the
House of Delegates, and each of said electoral
districts shall separately elect one delegate—and
it shall be competent lor the legislature at their
first session after the authoritative promulgation
of each decenial census of the people of the
United States, or whenever the said city shall,
by the further increase other population, become
entitled according to the basis of representation
now fixed, to one or more additional delegates,
to provide for re-arranging said electoral dis-
tricts or creating others, for the purpose of such
election; but it shall not be competent for the
legislature to alter or disturb the arrangement of
said districts for any other purpose, nor upon any
other occasion, nor to make the number of said
districts less than the number of delegates to be
elected from said city; and the legislature shall
have power at the same decenial periods to alter,
for the purpose of equalizing, the senatorial dis-
tricts of said city, but at no other time.

Showing the Population of Maryland,
the City of Baltimore will

and the
be entitled,

number of
according

Delegates to
to the

which each
principles of

County in
this Report:

the State and

COUNTIES, &c.

White
Population.

Free
Colored.

Total
Free.

Slaves.

Grand
Total

Number of
Delegates.

Baltimore City ......
Baltimore County .....
Carroll .........
Caroline ........
Calvert ......
Cecil .........
Charles .........
Dorchester .......
Frederick ........
Harford ........
Kent .........
St. Mary's .......
Talbot .........
Washington .......
Total .....

21,643
16,542
141,440
34,354
18,676
6,096
3,630
15,482
5,665
10,788
33,300
14,414
5,615
9,435
8,902
7,040
6,226
13,417
7,085
26,888
12,401
419,039

412
4,602
24,668
3,474
963
2,788
1,530
2,612
913
3,803
3,771
3,778
3,144
1,311
1,138
3,174
1,630
3,455
2,592
1,852
3,012
73,822

22,055
21,144
166,018
37,838
19,639
8,884
5,160
18,094
6,578
14,591
37,071
17,192
8,759
10,746
10,040
10,214
7,856
16,872
9,677
28,740
15,413
492,661

734
11,249
2,946
3,771
976
808
4,486
843
9,5-4
4,281
3,913
2,168
2,627
5,114
11,510
4,270
5,842
5,588
4,134
2,090
3,434
90,355

22,779
32,249
169,054
41,599
20,615
9,692
9,646
18,937
16,162
18,873
40,938
19,358
11,386
15,860
21,550
14,484
13,698
22,460
13,811
30,830
18,847
563,016

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