60 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND [Art. 3]

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
National Census of 1900, or after the enumeration of the population of this
State, under the authority thereof, there shall be an apportionment 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 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 delegates; and every county having a popula-
tion of fifty-five thousand souls and upwards, shall be entitled to six dele-
gates and no more; and each of the six 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 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. In case the General Assembly, at the regular session of nineteen
hundred and twenty-two, fails to fix the boundaries of the six legislative
districts of the City of Baltimore, the Board of Supervisors of Elections
of said city shall fix the boundaries of the six legislative districts, subject
to the limitations contained herein, and shall give adequate notice of the
same; and the boundaries so fixed shall remain until altered or changed
by the General Assembly. ¹

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 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 adjustment of repre-
sentation, 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 art. 6, sec. 1—see notes thereto. Thomas v.
Owens, 4 Md. 219.

Term now 4 years. See Art. 17, Md. Constitution.

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

¹ Thus amended by act of 1922, ch. 20, ratified November, 1922.