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MINORITY REPORT.
The undersigned a minority of the Committee on the Basis
of Representation in the two Houses of the General Assembly
and a proper apportionment of representation in the same,
beg leave respectfully to report the following sections to be
inserted in Article 3, of the Constitution entitled, Legislative
Department:
Section I. Every county of the State and the City of Balti-
more, shall be entitled to elect one Senator, who shall be
elected by the qualified voters of the counties and the City of
Baltimore respectively, and who shall serve for four years
from the day of their election.
Sec. 2. The Legislature at its first session after the returns
of each National Census are published under the authority of
Congress, shall apportion the members of the House of Dele-
gates among the several counties of the State according to the
population of each, and shall always allow to the City of Bal-
timore four more delegates than are allowed to the most popu-
lous county; but no county shall be entitled to less than two
members, nor shall the whole number of delegates ever ex-
ceed————.
Sec. 3. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall be-
fore the next general election of Delegates after the adoption
of this Constitution, proceed to lay off and divide the said city
into twelve electoral districts of equal proportions as to popu-
lation and of contiguous territory as near as may be, and
shall after the returns of each National Census are hereafter
published under the authority of Congress, and after the ap-
portionment by the Legislature, lay off and divide the City of
Baltimore into as many electoral districts as the said city may
by said apportionment be entitled to delegates: and each
district shall be entitled to elect one delegate.
Sec. 4. The apportionment of the delegates among the sev-
eral counties and the several electoral districts of the City of
Baltimore, shall be as follows until after the returns of the
next National Census are published under the authority of
Congress, and the apportionment by the Legislature as afore-
said, viz: each district of the City of Baltimore shall be enti-
tled to one delegate for every seventeen thousand inhabitants,
or fractional part thereof over and above one-half, and the sev-
eral counties of the State shall be entitled to one delegate for
every seven thousand inhabitants, or fractional part thereof
over and above one-half, and upon this principle and giving
to each county not less than two delegates; Allegany county
shall be entitled to four delegates, Anne Arundel three, each
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