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Maryland Manual, 1971-72
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638 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 3
the districting and apportioning of the State is not con-
sistent with requirements of either the Constitution of the
United States of America or the Constitution of Maryland.
1 SEC. 6. A member of the General Assembly shall be
elected by the registered voters of the legislative district
from which he seeks election, to serve for a term of four
years beginning on the second Wednesday of January fol-
lowing his election.
" SEC. 7. The election for Senators and Delegates shall
lake place on the Tuesday next, after the first Monday in
the month of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight,
and in every fourth year thereafter.
3 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
"Thus Amended by Chapter 785, Acts of 1969, ratified November 3, 1970.
' Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.
»Repealed by Chapter 99. Acts of 1956, ratified November 6. 1956.
.The word "be" evidently omitted.

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