viva voce (u), by a majority of voters, two persons for their respective counties,
qualified as aforesaid to be elected county delegates, to be electors of hte senate:
And the sheriff of each county, or in case of sickness his deputy, (summoning two
justices of the county, who are required to attend for the preservation of the peace,)
shall hold and be judge of the said election, and make return thereof as aforesaid
(v):  And all persons qualified as aforesaid to vote for delegates for the city
of Annapolis and Baltimore-Town, shall, on the same first Monday of September
1781, and on the same day in every fifth year for ever thereafter (w), elect, viva 
voce (x), by a majority of votes, one person for the said city and town
respectively; the said election to be held in the same manner as the election of
delegates for the said city and town; the right to elect the said elector with respect
to Baltimore town to continue as long as the right to elect delegates for
the said town.

    15.  That the said electors of the senate meet at the city of Annapolis, or
such other place as shall be appointed for convening the Legislature, on the
third Monday in September 1781, and on the same day in every fifth year for
ever thereafter; and they, or any twenty-four of them, so met, shall proceed to
elect by ballot, either out of their own body, or the people at large, fifteen
senators, (nine of whom to be residents on the western, and six to be residents
on the eastern shore,) men of the most wisdom, experience and virtue, above
twenty-five years of age, residents of the state above three whole years next
preceding the election, and having therein real and personal property above the
value of one thousand pounds current money (a).

    16.  That the senators shall be balloted for at one and the same time, and out
of the gentlemen, residents of the western shore, who shall be proposed as
senators, the nine who shall, on striking the ballots, appear to have the greatest
numbers in their favour, shall be accordingly declared and returned duly elected;
and out of the gentlemen, residents of the eastern shore, who shall be proposed
as senators, the six who shall, on striking the ballots appear to have the
greatest numbers in their favour, shall be accordingly declared and returned
duly elected; and if two or more on the same shore shall have an equal number
of ballots in their favour, by which the choice shall not be determined on the
first ballot, then the electors shall again ballot before their separate, in which
they shall be confined to the persons who on the first ballot shall have had an
equal number; and they who shall have the greatest number in their favour on
the second ballot, shall be accordingly declared and returned duly elected; and
on the second ballot still being in favour of two or more persons, then the election
shall be determined by lot, between those who have equal numbers, which
proceedings of the electors shall be certified under their hands, and returned to
the chancellor for the time being.

    17.  That the electors of senators shall judge of the qualifications and elections
of members of their body, and on a contested election, shall admit to a
seat, as an elector, such qualified person as shall appear to them to have the
greatest number of legal votes in his favour.

    (u)  See note (e) to the second section.
    (v)  See note (h) to the third section.
    (w)  See note (d) to the second section.
    (x)  See note (e) to the second section.
    (a)  Act of 1809, ch. 198, confirmed by 1810, ch. 18.