have the power to provide by law, from time to time, for al-
tering and changing the boundaries of the existing Legisla-
tive District 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 continguous territory.*

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-
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.

SEC. 6. The members of the House of Delegates shall be
elected by the qualified voters of the counties, and the Legis-
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
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,
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-
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

*Thus amended by Act of 1900, Chapter 432, ratified by the people at No-
vember election, 1901.