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14 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 5, ing a population of twenty-eight thousand and less than forty thousand souls shall be entitled to four Delegates, and every County having a population of forty thousand and less than fifty-five thousand souls shall he entitled to five Dele- gates, and every County having a population of fifty-five thousand souls and upwards shall be entitled to six Delegates, and no more ; and each of the three Legislative Districts of the City of Baltimore shall be entitled to the number of Delegates to which the largest County shall or may be en- titled under the aforegoing apportionment. And the General Assembly shall have power to provide by law, from time to time, for altering and changing the boundaries of the three existing Legislative Districts of the City of Baltimore, so as to make them as near as may be of equal population, but said Districts shall always consist of contiguous territory. "Section 5. That immediately after the taking and pub- lishing the next National Census, or after any State enumer- ation of population, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Governor 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 num- ber 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 ad- justments of representation, and to declare the same by pro- clamation as aforesaid." And whereas, by the last Census, made in the year 1870, under the authority of the laws of the United States, it ap- pears that the population of the several Counties* of thin State was as follows : Allegany county...............................38,536 Anne Arundel county........................24,457 Baltimore county..............................63,059 Culvert county................................. 9,865 Caroline county. ........ .....................12,101 Carroll county.............. ..................28,619 Cecil county....................................25,874 Charles county................................. 15,738 Dorchester county............................. 19,458 Frederick county..............................47,572 Harford county.................................22,605 Howard county.................................14,150 Kent county.....................................17,102 Montgomery county...........................20,563 Prince George's county......................21,138 |
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