126 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. III

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 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
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.]*

Sec. 5. Immediately after the taking and publishing of the
next National Census, or after any State enumeration of popu-
lation, 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 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 Legis-
lative Districts of Baltimore City, respectively, to serve for two
years from the day of their election.

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.

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