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
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 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. 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 repre-
sent, 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 his 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 Delegate.

SEC. 12. No Collector, Receiver or Holder 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.