held in each of the Several Counties of
this State, and in the City of Baltimore
respectively, for the purpose of choosing
a Senator of the State of Maryland, for
and from such County or said City, as
the case may be, whose term of office
shall commence on the day fixed by law
for the commencement of the regular
session of the General Assembly next
succeeding such election, and continue
for two, four or six years according to
the classification of a quorum of its
members; and at every such election for
Senators every person qualified to vote
at the place at which he shall offer to
vote for Delegates to the General Assem-
bly, shall be entitled to vote for one per-
son as Senator; and of the persons voted
for as Senator in each of the Several
Counties and in said City, respectively,
the person having the highest number
of legal votes, and possessing the quali-
fications hereinafter mentioned, shall be
declared and returned as duly elected
for said County or said City, as the case
may be; and in case two persons posses-
sing the required qualifications shall be
found on the final casting of the votes
given in any one of said Counties or said
City, to have an equal number of votes,
there shall be a new election ordered as
hereinafter mentioned; and immediately
after the Senate shall have convened in
pursuance of their election under this
act, the Senators shall be divided in
such manner as the Senate shall pre-
scribe into three classes; the Seats of the
Senators of the first class shall be vacated
at the expiration of the Second year; of
the Second class at the expiration of the
fourth year; and of the third class at the
expiration of the Sixth year, so that one
third thereof may be elected on the first
Wednesday of October in every Second
year; and elections shall be held in the
Several Counties and City from which
the retiring Senators came, to supply the
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vacancies as they may occur, in conse-
quence of this classification.
Sec. 4. Such election for Senators
shall be conducted, and the returns
thereof be made, with proper variations
in the certificate to suit the case, in like
manner as in cases of elections for
Delegates.
Sec. 5. The qualifications necessary
in a Senator, shall be the same as are
required in a Delegate to the General
Assembly, with the additional qualifica-
tion, that he shall be above the age of
twenty five years, and shall have re-
sided at least three years next preceed-
ing his election, in the County or City
in and for which he shall be chosen.
Sec. 6. In case any person who shall
have been chosen as a Senator, shall re-
fuse to act, remove from the County or
City, as the case may be, for which he
shall have been elected, die, resign or
be removed for cause, or in case of a tie
between two or more qualified persons
in any one of the counties or in the City
of Baltimore, a warrant of election shall
be issued by the President of the Senate
for the time being, for the election of a
Senator to supply the vacancy, of which
ten days notice at the least (excluding
the day of notice and the day of election)
shall be given.
Sec. 7. So much of the thirty seventh
article of the constitution as provides
that no senator or delegate to the Gen-
eral Assembly, if he shall qualify as such,
shall hold or execute any office of profit
during the time for which he shall be
elected, shall be and the same is hereby
repealed.
Sec. 8. No senator or delegate to the
General Assembly shall during the time
for which he was elected, be appointed
to any civil office under the Constitution,
or laws of the State, which shall have
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