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450 MARYLAND MANUAL. boundaries so fixed shall remain until altered or changed by the General Assembly.* SEC. 5. Immediately after the taking 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 arrange the representation in said House of Delegates in accordance with the apportionment herein pro- vided for; and to declare, by Proclamation, the number of Delegates to which each county and the city of Baltimore may be entitled under such apportionment; and after every National Census taken thereafter, or after any State enu- meration of population thereafter made it shall be the duty of the Governor, for the time being, to make similar adjust- ment of representation, and to declare the same by Procla- mation, as aforesaid. Sac. 6. The members of the House of Delegates shall be elected by the qualified voters of the counties, and the Legis- lative Districts of Baltimore city, respectively, to serve for two years from the day of their election.1 Sac. 7. The first election for Senators and Delegates shall take place on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and the election for Delegates, and as nearly as practicable, for one-half of the Senators shall be held on the same day in every second year thereafter.2 SEC. 8. immediately after the Senate shall have convened, after the first election, under this Constitution, the Senators shall be divided by lot into two classes, as nearly equal in number as may be. Senators of the first class shall go out of office at the expiration of two years, and Senators shall be elected on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, for the term of four years, to supply their places, so that, after the first election, one-half of the Senators may be chosen every second year. In case the number of Senators be hereafter in- creased, such classification of the additional Senators shall be made as to preserve, as nearly as may be, an equal num- ber in each class.3 SEC. 9. No person shall be eligible as a Senator or Dele- gate who, at the time of his election, is not a citizen of the State of Maryland, and who has not resided therein for at least three years next preceding the day of his election, and the last year thereof, in the county, or in the Legislative Dis- trict of Baltimore city, which he may be chosen to represent. in such county or Legislative District of said city shall have been so_long established; and if not, then in the county or *Thus amended by Act of 1922, Chapter 29, ratified by the people at Novem- ber electIon, 1922. Amended by Article XVII, Sections 1 and 2. |
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