PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION. 449

"Against the Constitutional Amendment," as the voter shall
elect, and immediately after said election due returns shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by -the said Article 14 of the Con-
stitution.

Approved April 7, 1910.

CHAPTER 318.

AN ACT to amend Section 4 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 4, Article 3,
title "Legislative Department," of the Constitution of this
State, and if adopted by the legal qualified voters thereof,
as herein provided, said section shall supersede and stand in
the place and instead of Section 4 of said Article 3 of the Con-
stitution of Maryland:

4. As soon as may be, after the taking and publishing of the
National Census of nineteen hundred and ten, or after the
enumeration of the population of this State, under the author-
ity 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 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 population of fifty-five thousand souls
and upward, shall be entitled to six Delegates, and no more;
and each of the four legislative districts of the City of Balti-
more shall be entitled to one Delegate for each one-sixth of the
population of the largest county in the State; provided, how-
ever, that the representation of Baltimore City in the House
of Delegates shall never exceed one-third of the membership of
the House of Delegates; and provided, also, that the representa-
tion of Baltimore City in the House of Delegates shall never