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delegates and no more; and each of the six 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 afore-
going apportionment, and thej 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 terri-
tory. [In case the General Assembly, at the regular session of nine-
teen hundred and twenty-two, fails to fix the boundaries of the six
legislative districts of the City of Baltimore, the Board of Super-
visors of Elections of said city shall fix the boundaries of the six
legislative districts, subject to the limitations contained herein, and
shall give adequate notice of the same; and the boundaries so fixed
shall remain until altered or changed by the General Assembly.]

Sec. 5. [Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4 of this
Article, the] The membership of the House of Delegates shall con-
sist of one hundred and twenty-three (123) Delegates, apportioned
as follows: Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Kent, Queen Anne's,
and St. Mary's Counties, two Delegates each; Cecil, Garrett, Somerset,
Talbot, and Worcester Counties, three Delegates each; Carroll, Dor-
chester, Harford, and Wicomico Counties, four Delegates each; Alle-
gany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince
George's, and Washington Counties, and each of the six legislative
districts of Baltimore City, six Delegates each.

Sec. 6. The members of the House of Delegates shall be elected by
the qualified voters of the Counties, and the Legislative Districts of
Baltimore City, respectively, to serve for [two] four years, from the
day of their election.

Sec. 7. The [first] election for Senators and Delegates shall take
place on the 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 the Senators,
shall be held on the same day, in every second year thereafter.]
nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and in every fourth year thereafter.

Sec. 8. [Immediately after the Senate shall have convened, after
the first election, under this Constitution, the Senators shall be
divided by lot, into two classes, as nearly equal in number as may
be—Senators of the first class shall go out of office at the expiration
of two years, and Senators shall be elected on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday, in the month of November, eighteen hundred and
sixty-nine, for the term of four years, to supply their places; so that,
after the first election, one-half of the Senators may be chosen every
second year. In case the number of Senators be hereafter increased,
such classification of the additional Senators shall be made as to
preserve, as nearly as may be, an equal number in each class.] Vacant.

Sec. 58. The Legislature [at its first session after the ratification
of this Constitution,] shall provide by Law for State and municipal
taxation upon the revenues accruing from business done in the State
by all foreign corporations.