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376 MARYLAND MANUAL. ment, and receive for his services an annual salary of four thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 22. The Secretary of State shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall continue in office, unless sooner removed by the Governor, till the end of the official term of the Governor from whom he received his appointment, and receive an an nual salary of two thousand dollars, and shall reside at the seat of government; and the office of Private Secretary shall thenceforth cease. SEC. 23. The Secretary of State shall carefully keep and preserve a record of all official acts and proceedings, which may at all times be inspected by a committee of either branch of the Legislature; and he shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law, or as may properly be long to his office, together with all clerical duty belonging to the Executive Department. ARTICLE III. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. SECTION 1. The Legislature shall consist of two distinct branches—a Senate and a House of Delegates—and shall be styled the General Assembly of Maryland. SEC. 2. The city of Baltimore shall be divided into six legislative districts, as near as may be, of equal population and of contiguous territory, and each of said legislative dis tricts of Baltimore city, as they may from time to time be laid out, in accordance with the provisions hereof, and each county in the State shall be entitled to one Senator, who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the said legislative districts of Baltimore city and of the counties of the State, respectively, and shall serve for four years from the date of his election, subject to the classification of Senators here after provided for.* SEC. 3. Until the taking and publishing of the next Na tional Census, or until the enumeration of the population of this State, under the authority thereof, the several counties and the city of Baltimore, shall have a representation in the House of Delegates, as follows: Allegany County, five Dele gates; Anne Arundel County, three Delegates; Baltimore County, six Delegates; each of the four Legislative Districts of the city of Baltimore, six Delegates; Calvert County, two Delegates; Caroline County, two Delegates; Carroll County, four Delegates; Cecil County, four Delegates; Charles Coun Thus amended by Act of 1922, Chapter 7, ratified by the people at November election. 1922. |
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