been created, thereof or the emoluments
thereof shall have been increased during
such time; and no senator or delegate,
during the time he shall continue to act
as such, shall be eligible to any civil
office whatever.
Sec. 9. The election for delegates to
the General Assembly for the December
session of the year of our Lord, eighteen
hundred and thirty eight, and at each
succeeding election for delegates, until
after the next census shall have been
taken and officially promulged, five dele-
gates shall be elected in and for Balti-
more City, and one delegate in and for
the City of Annapolis, until the promul-
ging of the census for the year eighteen
hundred and forty, when the City of
Annapolis shall be deemed and taken as
a part of Anne Arundel County, and
her right to a separate delegation shall
cease, five delegates in, and for Balti-
more County, five delegates in and for
Frederick County, and four delegates in
and for Anne Arundel County, and four
delegates in and for each of the Several
Counties respectively hereinafter men-
tioned, to wit, Dorchester, Somerset,
Worcester, Prince George's, Harford,
Montgomery, Carroll and Washington;
and three delegates in and for each of
the Several Counties respectively, here-
inafter next mentioned, to wit, Cecil,
Kent, Queen Anne's, Caroline, Talbot,
Saint Mary's, Charles, Calvert, and
Alleghany.
Sec. 10. From and after the period
when the next census shall have been
taken, and officially promulged, and
from and after the official promulgation
of every second census thereafter, the
representation in the House of Delegates
from the Several Counties, and from
the City of Baltimore shall be graduated
and established on the following basis,
that is to say every county which shall
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have by the said census, a population of
less than fifteen thousand souls federal
numbers, shall be entitled to elect three
delegates; every county having a popu-
lation by the said Census of fifteen
thousand souls, and less than twenty five
thousand souls federal numbers, shall be
entitled to elect four delegates and every
county having by the said census a popu-
lation of twenty five thousand, and less
than thirty five thousand souls federal
numbers, shall be entitled to elect five
delegates; and every county having a
population of upwards of thirty five
thousand souls, federal numbers, shall
be entitled to elect Six delegates; and
the City of Baltimore shall be entitled
to elect as many delegates as the county
which shall have the largest representa-
tion, on the basis aforesaid, may be en-
titled to elect: Provided and it is hereby
enacted, that if any of the Several
Counties, hereinbefore mentioned shall
not after the said census for the year
eighteen hundred and forty, shall have
been taken be entitled by the graduation
on the basis aforesaid to a representa-
tion in the House of Delegates equal to
that allowed to such county by the ninth
Section of this act, at the election of
delegates for the December Session of
the year eighteen hundred and thirty
eight, such county shall nevertheless
after said census for the year eighteen
hundred and forty or any future Census
and forever thereafter, be entitled to
elect the number of Delegates allowed
by the provisions of said Section for the
said session, but nothing in the proviso
contained, shall be construed to include
in the representation of Anne Arundel
County the delegate allowed to the city
of Annapolis in the said ninth Section
of this act.
Sec. 11. In all elections for Senators,
to be held after the election for Dele-
gates for the December Session eighteen
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