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SEC. 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. 1.
SEC. 8. Immediately after the Senate shall have con-
vened, 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 Sena-
tors may be chosen every second year. In case the number
of Senators be hereafter increased, such classification of the
additional Senators shall be made as to preserve, as nearly
as may be, an equal number in each class. 1.
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
District of Baltimore city, which he may be chosen to rep-
resent, if such county or Legislative District of said city
shall have been so long established; and if not, then in the
county or city, from which, in whole or in part, the same
may have been formed; nor shall any person be eligible as
a Senator unless he shall have attained the age of twenty-
five years, nor as a Delegate unless he shall have attained
the age of twenty-one years, at the time of his election..
SEC. 10. No member of Congress, or person holding any
civil or military office under the United States shall be eli-
gible as a Senator or Delegate; and if any person shall, after
his election as Senator or Delegate, be elected to Congress,
or be appointed to any office, civil or military, under the
Government of the United States, his acceptance thereof
shall vacate his seat..
SEC. 11. No Minister or Preacher of the Gospel, or of
any religious creed or denomination, and no person holding
any civil office of profit or trust under this State, except
Justices of the Peace, shall be eligible as Senator or Dele-
gate..
1 Modified, by Article XVII, Sections 1 and 2..
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