ART. III.] CONSTITUTION.
every county having a population of twenty-eight thousand
and less than forty thousand souls, shall be entitled to four
Delegates; and every county having a population of forty
thousand and less than fifty-five thousand souls, shall be en-
titled to five Delegates; and every county having a population
of fifty-five thousand souls and upwards, shall be entitled to
six Delegates and no more; and each of the Legislative Dis-
tricts of the city of Baltimore shall be entitled to the num-
ber of Delegates to which the largest county shall or may
be entitled under the aforegoing apportionment, and the |
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General Assembly shall have the power to provide by law,
from time to time, for altering and changing the boundaries
of the existing Legislative Districts of the city of Baltimore,
so as to make them as near as may be of equal population;
but said district shall always consist of contiguous terri-
tory.]*
SEC. 5. Immediately after the taking and publishing of |
Legislative
districts in
Baltimore
may be
changed. |
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 |
Governor to
arrange
representa-
tion. |
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. |
Proclamation. |
SEC. 6. The members of the House of Delegates shall be
elected by the qualified voters of the counties, and the Legis- |
Election of
Delegates. |
lative 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 |
Term. |
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.
SEC. 8. Immediately after the Senate shall have convened, |
Time of elec
tion. |
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
Thus amended by Act of 1900, Chapter 432, ratified by the people at
November election, 1901. |
Classification
of Senators. |
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