to every forty-one thousand inhabitants. Result
as follows:
Allegany county - - 4 members.
Anne Arundel county - -3 "
Howard county ---2 "
Baltimore city - - -10 "
Baltimore county - - 7 "
Carroll county - -3 "
Caroline county ---2 "
Calvert county ---2 "
Cecil county - - - 3 "
Charles county ---2 "
Dorchester county - - 3 "
Frederick county - - 7 "
Harford county ---3 "
Kent county ---2 "
Montgomery county - - 2 "
Prince George's county - - 3 "
Queen Anne's county - - 2 "
St. Mary's county --2 "
Somerset county ---3 "
Talbot county ---2 "
Washington county --5 "
Worcester county - - -3 "
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Provided, nevertheless, that each county and
city shall be divided into separate election dis-
tricts of compact, contiguous territory, in the
manner hereafter to be provided in this Constitu-
tion; the qualified voters in each of which dis-
tricts shall at the time and in the manner in
which delegates are chose, 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
than six months residence in the district of his
then residence, he shall not thereby lose his right
to vote in the district in which he may have re-
sided for the six months next preceding his re-
moval.
After a few words by Mr. JOHNSON,
Mr. JENIFER. I concur most cordially with
most of the remarks of the gentleman from Fre-
derick; and to enable me to say a few words up-
on it, I will do what I never did before-offer
an amendment for that purpose. It is the
amendment I submitted on a former occasion, as
follows: |
"The House of Delegates shall be composed
of eighty-two members, as follows :
Allegany county - - 4 members.
Anne Arundel county - -3 "
Baltimore county - - 6 "
Carroll county - -3 "
Caroline county ---3 "
Calvert county ---3 "
Cecil county - - - 3 "
Charles county ---3 "
Dorchester county - - 3 "
Harford county ---3 "
Kent county ---3 "
Prince George's county - - 3 "
Montgomery county - - 3 "
Queen Anne's county - - 3 "
St. Mary's county --3 "
Somerset county ---3 "
Talbot county ---3 "
Washington county --5 "
Frederick county - - 6 "
Worcester county - - -3 "
Howard county ---3 "
Baltimore city - - -10 "
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Mr. J. said, that he offered this proposition,
not because it was entirely approved, either by
himself or his constituents, but because it came
as near as any proposition he could devise, to
the result most satisfactory to them, and most to
beexpected. It proposed to place the smaller
counties upon an equal footing. Their interests
being almost identical, it was right they should
share the same fate, although some of those coun-
ties had a few more in population than others.
The principle of representation according to
numbers being abandoned, both as regards the
western and larger counties, and the city of Balti-
more—he deemed it right in a spirit of
compromise, that all portion should yield some-
thing which, he believed, might be done with-
out a sacrifice of any principle or prejudice to
any portion of the State.
Mr. SOLLERS moved to amend substitute by
striking out Charles county and Calvert county,
and inserting in lieu thereof, the following:
"Calvert shall be entitled to three Delegates
in the House of Delegates, and Charles county to
four delegates."
Mr. BROWN moved an amendment to the origi- |
