Section 1. The Legislature shall con-
sist of two distinct Branches; a Senate,
and a House of Delegates, and shall be
styled the General Assembly of Mary-
land.
Sec. 2. Each County in the State,
and each of the three Legislative Dis-
tricts of Baltimore City, as they are now,
or may hereafter be defined, shall be
entitled to one Senator, who shall be
elected by the qualified voters of the
Counties, and of the Legislative Districts
of Baltimore City, respectively, and shall
serve for four years from the date of his
election, subject to the classification of
Senators, hereafter provided for.
Sec. 3. Until the taking and pub-
lishing of the next National Census, or
until the enumeration of the population
of this State, under the Authority there-
of, the several Counties, and the City of
Baltimore, shall have representation in
the House of Delegates, as follows:
Allegany County, five Delegates; Anne
Arundel County, three Delegates; Balti-
more County, six Delegates; each of the
three Legislative Districts of the City of
Baltimore, six Delegates; Calvert County,
two Delegates; Caroline County, two
Delegates; Carroll County, four Dele-
gates; Cecil County, four Delegates;
Charles County, two Delegates; Dor-
chester County, three Delegates; Fred-
erick County, six Delegates; Harford
County, four Delegates; Howard County,
two Delegates; Kent County, two Dele-
gates; Montgomery County, three Dele-
gates; Prince George's County, three
Delegates; Queen Anne's County, two
Delegates; Saint Mary's County, two
Delegates; Somerset County, three Dele-
gates; Talbot County, .two Delegates;
Washington County, five Delegates; and
Worcester County, three Delegates.
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Sec. 4. As soon as may be after the
taking and publishing of the next
National Census, or after the enumera-
tion 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 three Legislative Dis-
tricts 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 appor-
tionment. And the General Assembly
shall have power to provide by Law,
from time to time, for altering and
changing the boundaries of the three
existing Legislative Districts of the City
of Baltimore, so as to make them, as near
as may be, of equal population; but said
Districts shall always consist of contig-
uous territory.
Sec. 5. Immediately after the tak-
ing 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
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