every County having a population of forty thousand, and
less than fifty-five thousand souls, shall be entitled to five
Delegates; and every County having a population of fifty-five
thousand souls, and upwards, shall be entitled to six Dele-
gates, and no mere; and each of the three Legislative Dis-
tricts of the City of Baltimore shall be entitled to the number
of Delegates to which the largest County shall or may be
entitled under the aforegoing apportionment. And the
General Assembly shall have power to provide by law,
from time to time, for altering and changing the boundaries
of the three existing Legislative Districts of the City of
Baltimore, so as to make them. as near as may be, of equal
population, but said Districts shall always consist of contig-
uous territory.

SEC. 5. Immediately after the taking and publishing of
the next National Census, or after any State enumeration
of population, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Gov-
ernor, then being, to arrange the representation in said
House of Delegates in accordance with the apportionment
herein provided for; and to declare, by Proclamation, the
number of Delegates to which each County and the City
of Baltimore may be entitled under such apportionment;
and after every National Census taken thereafter, or after
any State enumeration of population thereafter made, it
shall be the duty of the Governor, for the time being, to
make similar adjustment of representation, and to declare
the same by Proclamation, as aforesaid.

SEC 6. The members of the House of Delegates shall be
elected by the qualified voters of the Counties, and the
Legislative Districts of Baltimore City, respectively, to serve
for two years from the day of their election.

SEC. 7. The first election for Senators and Delegates shall
take place on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in
the month of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven;
and the election for Delegates and, as nearly as practicable,
for onc-half of the Senators, shall be held on the same day,
in every second year thereafter.

SEC. 8. Immediately after the Senate shall have convened,
after the first election, under this Constitution, the Sena-
tors shall be divided by lot into two classes as nearly equal
in number as may be. Senators of the first class shall go
out of office at the expiration of two years, and Senators