: XXX CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 3.

Cecil County, four Delegates; Charles County, two Delegates;
Dorchester County, three Delegates; Frederick County, six Del-
egates; 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; Saint 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 popu-
lation 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 Dele-
gates; and every County, having a population of twenty-eight
. thousand, and less than forty thousand souls, shall be entitled to
if our 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 three Legislative Dis-
tricts 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 alter-
ing 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 con-
sist of contiguous territory.

* This representation has been since changed, as follows, viz Allegany,
four Delegates, Anne Arundel, four Delegates; Cecil, three Delegates; Charles,

-three Delegates; Frederick, five Delegates, Garrett, two Delegates; Queen
Anne's, three Delegates, Talbot, three Delegates; Washington, four Delegates;

-Wicomico, three Delegates. The others are unchanged.