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Delegates; Caroline County, two Delegates; Carroll County,
four Delegates; Cecil County, four Delegates; Charles Coun-
ty, two Delegates; Dorchester County, three Delegates; Fred-
erick County, six Delegates; Harford County, four Delegates;
Howard County, two Delegates; Kent County, two Delegates;
Montgomery County, three Delegates; Prince George's Coun-
ty, three Delegates; Queen Anne's County, two Delegates;
St. Mary's County, two Delegates; Somerset County, three
Delegates; Talbot County, two Delegates; Washington Coun-
ty, five Delegates, and Worcester County, three Delegates
SEC. 4. As soon as may be, after the taking and publishing
of the next rational Census of 1900, or after the enumeration
of the population of this State, under the authority thereof,
there shall be an apportionment of representation in the
House of Delegates, to be made on the following basis, to wit:
Each of the several counties of the State, having a population
of eighteen thousand souls or less, shall be entitled to two
Delegates; and every county having a population of over
eighteen thousand and less than twenty-eight thousand souls,
shall be entitled to three Delegates; and 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 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 six 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
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 maybe of equal population; but said district shall
always consist of contiguous territory. In case the General
Assembly, at the regular session of nineteen hundred and
twenty-two, fails to fix the boundaries of the six legislative
districts of the city of Baltimore, the Board of Supervisors
of Elections of said city shall fix the boundaries of the six
t Under the State Census of 1920 the allotment of representation of the
several counties In the House of Delegates Is as follows; Allegany County,
six; Anne Arundel County, five; Baltimore County, six; Calvert County,
two; Caroline County, three; Carroll County, four: Cecil County, three:
Charles County, two; Dorchester County, three; Frederick County, five; Gar-
rett County, three; Harford County, tour; Howard County, two; Kent
County, two; Montgomery County, four Prince George's County, five:
Queen Anne's County, two; Somerset County, three;; St. Mary's County, two;
Talbot County, three: Washington County, six; Wicomico County, tour;
Worcester County, three; and Baltimore City, twenty-four Delegates.
Total, 106.
Thus amended by Act of 1900, Chapter 432, ratified by the people at
November election, 1901.
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