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day in every second year for ever thereafter, at such
place in the said town as the judges shall appoint,
elect, viva voce, by a majority of votes, two delegates,
qualified as aforesaid; but if the said inhabitants of the
town shall so decrease, as that the number of persons
having right of suffrage therein shall have been, for
the space of seven years successively, less than one half
of the number of voters in some one county in this
state, such town thenceforward shall cease to send two
delegates or representatives to the house of delegates,
until the said town shall have one half of the number
of voters in some one county in this state.
VI. That the commissioners of the said town, or
any three or more of them, for the time being, shall
be judges of the said election, and may adjourn as aforesaid,
and shall make return thereof as aforesaid;
but the inhabitants of the said town shall not be entitled
to vote for, or be elected delegates for, Baltimore
county, neither shall the inhabitants of Baltimore
county, out of the limits of Baltimore-town,
be entitled to vote for, or be elected delegates for, the
said town.
VII. That no negro or mulatto, whether born free
or manumitted, or made free under any past, present,
or future law of this state, and no issue of any such
negro or mulatto, shall be entitled to the privilege of
voting at any election, or of being elected to the legislature
or the council, or as an elector of the senate,
or of being appointed to any office whatsoever.
VIII. That on refusal, death, disqualification, resignation,
or removal out of this state, of any delegate,
a warrant of election shall issue by the speaker, for
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