448 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

return shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment as directed by said Fourteenth Arti-
cle of the Constitution.

Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 303.

AN ACT to amend Section 2 of Article 3, title "Legislative
Department," of the Constitution of this State, and to pro-
vide for the submission of said amendment to the qualified
voters of this State for adoption or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land (three-fifths of all the members of each of the two houses
concurring), That the following section be and the same is
hereby proposed as an amendment to Section 2 of Article ,3,
title "Legislative Department," of the Constitution of this
State, and if adopted by the legal and qualified voters thereof,
as herein provided, said section shall supersede and stand in
the place and instead of Section 2 of Article 3 of the Consti-
tution of Maryland:

2. The City of Baltimore shall be divided into four legisla-
tive 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 of the
State shall be entitled to one Senator, who shall be elected by
the qualified electors of said legislative districts of Baltimore
City and of the counties of the State, respectively, and Balti-
more City shall be entitled to two additional Senators, who
shall be elected at large by the qualified voters of the said city,
and all of said Senators shall serve for four years from the
date of their election, subject to the classification of Senators,
as hereinafter provided for.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That the said foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall at the next election for
members of the General Assembly of this State, to be held on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of No-
vember, nineteen hundred and eleven (1911), be submitted to
the legal and qualified voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection, in pursuance of the directions contained in Article
14 of the Constitution of this State; and at the said election the
vote on said proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be
by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be written or
printed the words, "For the Constitutional Amendment" and