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Governor to
arrange rep-
resentation. |
Sec. 5. Immediately after the taking and publishing
of the next National Census, or after any State enumer-
ation of population, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of
the Governor, then being, to arrange the representation
in said House of Delegates in accordance with the ap- |
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Proclamation. |
portionment 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 pop-
ulation thereafter made, it shall be the duty of the Gov-
ernor, for the time being, to make similar adjustment of
representation, and to declare the same by Proclamation,
as aforesaid. |
Election of
Delegates.
Term. |
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. |
Time of elec-
tion. |
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 one-half of the Senators shall
be held on the same day in every second year thereafter. |
Classification
of Senators. |
Sec. 8. Immediately after the Senate shall have con-
vened, 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. 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 elec-
tion, one-half of the Senators may be choosen 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.
Covington v. Bufiet.t, 90 Md., 577. Weddle v. School Commrs.,
94 Md., 344- |
Qualifications
of Senators
and Dele-
gates. |
Sec. 9. No person shall be eligible as a Senator or
Delegate 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, |
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