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CONSTITUTION OF 186?
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PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
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to icrvc for four years, from the day of
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beginning at noon on the second Wednesday
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their election.
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of December following his election and end-
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Sec. 7. The election for Senators and
Delegates shall take place on the Tuesday
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ing at noon on the second Wednesday of De-
cember in the fourth year thereafter.
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next, after the first Monday in the month
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of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-
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eight, and in every fourth year thereafter.
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Sfcc. 8. Vacant.
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Sec. 9. No person shall be eligible as a
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Section 3.09. Qualifications.
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Senator or Delegate, who at the time of his
election, is not a citizen of the State of
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A senator or a delegate shall be a qualified
voter of the State at the time of his election
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Maryland, and who has not resided therein,
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of appointment, shall have been a resident
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for at least three years, next preceding the
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of the State for at least two years immediate-
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day of hit election, and the last year
thereof, in the County, or in the Legislative
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ly preceding his election or appointment,
and shall have been a resident of his senate
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District of Baltimore City, which he may
be chosen to represent, if such County, or
Legislative District of said City, shall have
been so long established; and if not, then
in the County, or City, from which, in
whole, or in part, the same may have been
formed; nor shall any person be eligible
as a Senator, unless he shall have attained
the age of twenty-five years, nor as a
Delegate, unless he shall have attained the
age of twenty-one years, at the time of his
election.
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district for at least six months immediately
preceding his election or appointment. If any
redistricting plan has been adopted within
one year before a general election for mem-
bers of the General Assembly, a candidate
for the office of senator or delegate may also
seek election in any new senate district con-
taining fifty per cent or more of the
population of the senate district in which he
resided prior to redistricting. At the time of
his election or appointment a senator shall
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have attained the age of twenty-five years,
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Sec. 10. No member of Congress, or
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and a delegate shall have attained the age of
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person holding any civil, or military office
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twenty-one years.
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under the United States, shall be eligible
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as a Senator, or Delegate: and if any person
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shall after his election as Senator, or Dele-
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gate, be elected to Congress, or be ap-
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pointed to any office, civil, or military,
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under the Government of the United States,
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his acceptance thereof, shall vacate his seat.
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Sec. 11. No Minister or Preacher of the
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Gospel, or of any religious creed, or de-
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nomination, and no person holding any civil
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office of profit, or trust, under this State,
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except Justices of the Peace, shall be eligible
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as Senator, or Delegate.
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Sec. 12. No Collector, Receiver, or
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Holder of public money shall be eligible
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as Senator or Delegate, or to any office
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of profit, or trust, under this State, until
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he shall have accounted for, and paid into
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the Treasury all sums on the Books thereof,
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charged to, and due by him.
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Sec. 13. (a) In case of death, dis-
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Section3.il. Vacancies..
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qualification, resignation, refusal to act,
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A vacancy in the General Assembly shall
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expulsion, or removal from the county, or
city, for which he shall have been elected,
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be filled as prescribed by law. An appointee
to fill a vacancy, when succeeding a party
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