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 en-
titled to four Delegates; and every county having a popu-
lation 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 up-
wards, shall be entitled to six Delegates and no more; and
each of the six Legislative Districts of the city of Balti-
more shall be entitled to the number of Delegates to which
the largest county shall or may be entitled under the afore-
going apportionment, and the General Assembly shall have
the power to provide by law, from time to time, for al-
tering and changing the boundaries of the existing Legisla-
tive Districts of the city of Baltimore, so as to make them
as near as may be of equal population; but said district
shall always consist of contiguous territory. In case the
General Assembly, at the regular session of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-two, fails to fix the boundaries of the six
legislative districts of the city of Baltimore, the Board of
Supervisors of Elections of said city shall fix the boun-
daries of the six legislative districts, subject to the limita-
tions contained herein, and shall give adequate notice of
the same; and the boundaries so fixed shall remain until
altered or changed by the General Assembly. 1.

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 Gov-
ernor, then being, to arrange the representation in said
House of Delegates in accordance with the apportionment
herein provided 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 enumeration of population thereafter made it shall
be the duty of the Governor, for the time being, to make
similar adjustment of representation, and to declare the
same by Proclamation, as aforesaid..

SEC. 6. The members of the House of Delegates shall be
elected by the qualified voters of the counties, and the Leg-
islative Districts of Baltimore city, respectively, to serve
for two years from the day of their election. 1.

1 Thus amended by Act of 1922, Chapter 20, ratified by the people at Novem-
ber election, 1922,.