ART. III.] CONSTITUTION. 31
population of twenty-eight thousand and less than forty thou-
sand souls, shall he entitled to four Delegates; and 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 Delegates and no
more; and each of the Legislative Districts 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 |
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aforegoing apportionment, and the General Assembly shall
have the power to provide by law, from time to time, for al-
tering and changing the boundaries of the existing Legisla-
tive Districts of the city of Baltimore, so as to make them as
near as may be of equal population; but said district shall al-
ways consist of contiguous territory.]* |
Legislative
districts in
Baltimore
may be
changed |
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 Governor,
then being, to arrange the representation in said House of
Delegates in accordance with the apportionment herein pro- |
Governor to
arrange
representa-
tion |
vided 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 Na-
tional Census taken thereafter, or after any State enumera-.
tion 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 he
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. |
Term |
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. |
Time of elec-
tion |
SEC. 8. Immediately after the Senate shall have convened
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 a
November election, 1901 |
Classification
of Senators |
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