40 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. III

Sec. 5. Immediately after the taking and publishing of the next
National Census, or after any State enumeration 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 number of Delegates to which each County and the City of Balti-
more 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 adjustment of representation, and to declare
the same by Proclamation, as aforesaid.

Sec. 6. The members of the House of Delegates shall be elected by
the qualified voters of the Counties, and the Legislative Districts of
Baltimore City, respectively, to serve for two years from the day of
their election.

This section referred to in construing article 6, (section 1—see notes
thereto. Thomas v. Owens, 4 Md. 219.

Sec. 7. The first election for Senators and Delegates shall take place
on Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and the election for Delegates, and
as nearly as practicable, for one-half of the Senators shall be held on
the same day in every second year thereafter.

Sec. 8. Immediately after the Senate shall have convened, after the
first election, under this Constitution, the Senators shall be divided by
lot into two classes, as nearly equal in number as may be. Senators of
the first class shall go out of office at the expiration of two year's, and
Senators shall be elected on the Tuesday next after the first Monday
in the month of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, for the
term of four years, to supply their places; so that, after the first election,
one-half of the Senators may be chosen every second year. In case the
number of Senators be hereafter increased, such classification of the
additional Senators shall be made as to preserve, as nearly as may be,
an equal number in each class.

This section referred to in construing article 3. section 19—see notes
thereto. Covington v. Buffett, 90 Md. 577.

Sec. 9. No person shall be eligible as a Senator or Delegate 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
represent, 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.