58 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. III

ARTICLE III.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

Section 1. The Legislature shall consist of two distinct branches—
a Senate and a House of Delegates—and shall be styled the General
Assembly of Maryland.

Sec. 2. Each County in the State, and each of the three Legislative
Districts of Baltimore City, as they are now, or may hereafter be
defined, shall be entitled to one Senator, who shall be elected by the
qualified voters of the Counties, and of the Legislative Districts of
Baltimore City, respectively, and shall serve for four years from the
date of his election, subject to the classification of Senators, hereafter
provided for.

[Sec. 2. The City of Baltimore shall be divided into four legis-
lative districts, as near as may be. of equal population and of contigu-
ous territory, and each of said legislative districts of Baltimore City,
as they may from time to time be laid out, in accordance with the
provisions hereof, and each county in the State shall be entitled to one
Senator, who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the said legis-
lative districts of Baltimore -City, and of the counties of the State,
respectively, and shall serve for four years from the date of his
election, subject to the classification of Senators hereafter provided
for.]*+

Sec. 3. Until the taking and publishing of the next National Census,
or until the enumeration of the population of this State, under the
authority thereof, the several counties and the City of Baltimore shall
have a representation in the House of Delegates, as follows: Allegany,
five Delegates; Anne Aruiidel County, three Delegates; Baltimore
County, six Delegates; each of the three Legislative Districts of the
City of Baltimore, six Delegates; Calvert County, two Delegates; Caro-
line County, two Delegates; Carroll County, four Delegates; Cecil
County, four Delegates; Charles County, two Delegates; Dorchester
County, three Delegates; Frederick County, six Delegates; Harford
County, four Delegates; Howard County, two Delegates; Kent County,
two Delegates; Montgomery County, three Delegates; Prince George's
County, three Delegates; Queen Anne's County, two Delegates; St.
Mary's County, two Delegates; Somerset County, three Delegates;
Talbot County, two Delegates; Washington County, five Delegates, and
Worcester County, three Delegates.

Sec. 4. As soon as may be after the taking and publishing of the
next National Census, or after the enumeration of the population of
this State, under the authority thereof, there shall be an apportionment

*Thus amended by Act of 1900, Chapter 469, ratified by the people at November
election, 1901.

+The Act of 1910, Ch. 303 (page 448), proposed an amendment to section 2 of
Article 3 of the Maryland Constitution. Said amendment is to be voted on by
the people for adoption or rejection on the Tuesday next after the first Monday
in November, 1911.