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on the same shore, shall
have an equal number of
ballots in their favour, by
which the choice shall not
be determined on the first
ballot, then the electors shall
again ballot before they
separate in which they
shall be confined to the per-
sons, who on the first bal-
lot shall have had an
equal number; and they who
shall have the greatest num-
ber in their favour on the
second ballot, shall be ac-
cordingly declared and re-
turned duly elected ; and if
the whole number should not
thus be made up, because of
an equal number on the
second ballot still being in
favour of two or more per-
sons, then the election shall
be determined by lot, be-
tween those who have equal
numbers; which proceedings
of the electors shall be cer-
tified under their hands and
returned to the chancellor
for the time being.
17. That the electors of
senators shall judge of the
qualifications and elections
of members of their body,
and on a contested election
shall admit to a seat, as an
elector, such qualified per-
son, as shall appear to them
to have the greatest number
of legal votes in his favour.
18. That the electors im-
mediately on their meeting,
and before they proceed to
the election of senators, take
such oath of support and
fidelity to this State, as this
convention or the legislature
shall direct, and also an
oath "to elect, without
favour, affection, partiality,
or prejudice, such persons
for senators as they, in their
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stitution and Form of Gov-
ernment made such by the
Acts of seventeen hundred
and ninety eight and seven-
teen hundred and ninety
nine, which directs, that
Frederick County shall be
divided and laid off into
seven separate Districts be
and the same is hereby re-
pealed.
Frederick County shall be
divided and laid off into
nine separate Districts.
Proposed by Act of 1806,
chapter 29. Ratified 1807.
Saint Mary's County shall
be divided into four separate
districts and that the addi-
tional District shall be laid
off adjoining and between
the first and third districts as
(they) are now numbered.
Proposed by Act of 1809,
chapter 38. Ratified 1810.
No person residing in the
City of Annapolis, shall have
a vote in the County of Anne
Arundel for Delegates for
the said County; and all and
every part of the Constitu-
tion, which enables persons
holding fifty acres of land
to vote in said county, shall
be and the same are hereby
repealed and abolished.
Proposed by Act of 1809,
chapter 198. Ratified 1810.
All such parts of the con-
stitution and form of govern-
ment as require a property
qualification in persons to be
appointed or holding offices
of profit or trust in this
State, and in persons elected
members of the legislature
or electors of the senate,
shall be and the same are
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