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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
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 in-
creased, such classification of the additional Senators shall be
made as to preserve, as nearly as may be, an equal number in
each class.
Covington vs. Buffett, 90 Md., 577. Weddle vs. School Commrs., 94
Md., 344.
SEC. 9. No person shall be eligible as a Senator or Dele- |
Classification
of Senators. |
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 Dis-
trict of Baltimore city, which he may be chosen to represent,
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 |
Qualifications
of Senators
and Dele-
gates. |
as a Senator or Delegate; and if any person shall, after his
election as Senator or Delegate, be elected to Congress, or be
appointed to any office, civil or military, under the Govern-
ment of the United States, his acceptance thereof shall vacate
his seat. |
Ineligibles. |
SEC. 11. 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. |
Ineligibles. |
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