shall be elected on the Tuesday next after the first Monday
in the month of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-
nine, for the term of four years, to supply their places: so
that, after the first election, one-half of the Senators may
be chosen every second year. In case the number of Sen-
ators be hereafter increased, such classification of the addi-
tional Senators shall be made as to preserve, as nearly as
may be, an equal number in each class.

SEC. 9. No person shall be eligible as a Senator or Dele-
gate who, at the time of his election, is not a citizen of the
State of Maryland, and who has not resided therein for at
least three years next preceding the day of his election, and
the last year thereof, in the County, or in the Legislative
District of Baltimore City, which he may be chosen to rep-
resent, if such County or Legislative District of said City
shall have been so long established; and if not, then in the
County or City, from which, in whole or in part, the same
may have been formed; nor shall any person be eligible as
a Senator unless he shall have attained the age of twenty-
five years, nor as a Delegate unless he shall have attained
the age of twenty-one years, at the time of his election.

SEC. 10. No member of Congress, or person holding any
civil or military office under the United States, shall be
eligible as a Senator or Delegate ; and if any person shall,
after ins election as Senator or Delegate, be elected to Con-
gress, or be appointed to any office, civil or military, under
the Government of the United States, his acceptance
thereof shall vacate his seat.

SEC. II. No Minister or Preacher of the Gospel or of
any religious creed or denomination, and no person holding
any civil office of profit or trust under this State, except
Justices of the Peace, shall be eligible as Senator or Dele-
gate.

SEC. 12. No Collector, Receiver or Ilolder of public
money shall be eligible as Senator or Delegate, or to any
office of profit or trust under this State, until he shall have
accounted for and paid into the Treasury all sums on the
books thereof charged to and due by him.

SEC. 13. In case of death, disqualification, resignation,
refusal to act, expulsion, or removal from the county or
city for which he shall have been elected, of any person
who shall have been chosen as a Delegate or Senator, or in