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of representation in the House of Delegates, to be made on the follow-
ing basis, to wit: Each of the several Counties of the State having a
population of eighteen thousand souls, or less, shall be entitled to two-
Delegates, and every County having a population of over eighteen
thousand, and less than twenty-eight thousand souls, shall be entitled to
three Delegates; and every County having 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 be 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 entitled, 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.

[Sec. 4. As soon as may be, after the taking and publishing of the'
National Census of 1900, or after the enumeration of the population
of this State, under the authority thereof, there shall be an apportion-
ment of representation in the House of Delegates, to be made on the
following basis, to wit: Each of the several counties of the State, having
a population of eighteen thousand souls or less, shall be entitled to two
delegates; and every county having a population of over eighteen thou-
sand and less than twenty-eight thousand souls, shall be entitled to three
delegates; and every county having a population of twenty-eight thou-
sand 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 be entitled to five delegates;
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 Legislative Districts of the City of Baltimore shall be entitled to
the number of delegates to which the largest county shall or may be
entitled under the aforegoing apportionment, and the General Assem-
bly shall have the power to provide by law, from time to time, for
altering and changing the boundaries of the existing legislative districts
of the City of Baltimore, so as to make them as near as may be of
equal population; but said district shall always consist of contiguous
territory. ]*+

*Thus amended by Act of 1900, Chapter 432. ratified by the people at November
election, 1901.

+The Act of 1910, Ch. 318 (page 449), proposed an amendment to section 4 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.