124 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. III

office, together with all clerical duty belonging to the Execu-
tive Department.

Lankford v. Commrs Somerset Co , 73 Md. 105.

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.
Bradshaw v. Lankford, 73 Md. 428

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
legislative districts, as near as may be, of equal population and
of contiguous 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 legislative districts of Balti-
more 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 Arundel
County, three Delegates; Baltimore County, six Delegates ;
each of the three Legislative Districts of the City of Baltimore,
six Delegates; Calvert County, two Delegates; Caroline County,
two Delegates; Carroll County, four Delegates; Cecil County,
four Delegates; Charles County, two Delegates; Dorchester
County, three Delegates; Frederick County, six Delegates; Har-
ford County, four Delegates; Howard County, two Delegates ;

* Thus amended by Act of 1900, Chapter 469, ratified by the people at November elec-
ion, 1901