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Sec. 2. The members of the House of Delegates shall be
elected by the qualified voters of the Counties and City of
Baltimore respectively, to serve for two years from the day of
their election.
Sec. 3. The first election for Senators and Delegates, shall
take place on the first Wednesday of November, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four; and the elections for Delegates, and
as nearly as practicable, for one half of the Senators, shall
be held on the same day in every second year thereafter; and
the election for Representatives from this State in the Con-
gress of the United States, shall take place on the same
day.
Sec. 4. Immediately after the Senate shall have convened,
after the first election under this Constitution, the Senators
shall be divided by lot, into two classes, as nearly equal in
number as may be, —the Senators of the first class shall go
out of office at the expiration of two years, and Senators
shall be elected on the first Wednesday of November, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-six, for the term of four years to sup-
ply their places; so that, after the first election, one-half of
the Senators may be chosen every second year. In case the
number of Senators be hereafter increased, such classification
of the additional Senators shall be made as to preserve, as
nearly as may be, an equal number in each class.
Sec. 5. The General Assembly shall meet on the first Wed-
nesday of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and on
the same day in every second year thereafter, and at no other
time, unless convened by the Proclamation of the Gov-
ernor.
Sec. 6. The General Assembly may continue their first
session, after the adoption of this Constitution, as long as in
the opinion of the two Houses the public interests may re-
quire it, but all subsequent regular sessions of the General
Assembly shall be closed on the last Thursday of March
next ensuing the time of their commencement, unless the
same shall be closed at an earlier day by the agreement of
the two Houses. And when the General Assembly shall be
convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session shall
not continue longer than thirty days.
Sec. 1. No person shall be eligible as a Senator or Dele-
gate who, at the time of his election, is not a citizen of the
United States, and who has not resided at least three years
next preceding the day of his election in this State, and the
last year thereof in the County or City which he may be
chosen to represent, if such County or City shall have been
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