SEC. 8.1 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.

SEC. 9. No person shall2 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.

SEC. 12. No Collector, Receiver or Holder of public
money shall be eligible as Senator or Delegate, or to any
office of profit, or trust, under this State, until he shall have
accounted for, and paid into the Treasury all sums on the
books thereof charged to and due by him.

1 Modified by Article XVII, Sections 1 and 2.
2 The word "be" evidently omitted.