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[Art. 3, Sec. 8] MARYLAND MANUAL 581 the month of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and in every fourth year thereafter. "SEC. 8. Vacant. SEC. 9. No person shall 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. II. 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. " SEC. 13. In case of death, disqualification, resignation, refusal to act, expulsion, or removal from the county or city for which he shall have been elected, of any person who shall have been chosen as a Delegate or Senator, or in case of a tie between two or more such qualified persons, the Governor shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy from a person whose name shall be submitted to him in writing by the State Central Committee of the political i Repealed by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, adopted by the voters November 6, 1956, 2 The word "be" evidently omitted. ' Thus amended by Chapter 584, Acts of 1935. ratified November 3, 1936. |
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