76               The Maryland Constitution of 1864.            [422

of course the Democratic) to secure the election of repre-
sentatives from those districts in which it might be strong,
whereas it would perhaps be defeated entirely if the vote
of the whole county or city were thrown together. They
urged as their main argument in favor of this method that
every voter throughout the state would thus cast his ballot
for one delegate, while under the other plan the citizen in
the smaller counties might vote for only one or two dele-
gates, and the citizen in Baltimore City or a larger county
for eight or ten, or perhaps more. This second plan was
lost,¹⁵⁹ and the minority now turned their attention to les-
sening the representation of Baltimore City, and increas-
ing that of the smaller counties as much as possible.

As finally adopted,¹⁶⁰ the representation was according
to the following plan:¹⁶¹ Baltimore was divided into three
legislative districts, and each one of these districts,¹⁶² as
well as each county of the state, was to be represented by
one Senator, elected by the people for the term of four
years, subject to a classification by which the election of
one-half of the entire number should occur every two
years. The apportionment of the Delegates was as fol-
lows: for every five thousand persons or fractional part
over one-half, one Delegate to be chosen until the number
for each county and legislative district of Baltimore City
should reach five, above that number one delegate for
every twenty thousand persons or larger fractional part
thereof, and after this, one for every eighty thousand per-
sons or larger fractional part. Until the next census was
taken the representation was to be as specifically provided
in the Constitution, which gave Baltimore City altogether
eighteen delegates,¹⁶³ and sixty-two delegates to the coun-
ties. A sharp struggle occurred on the representation of

¹⁵⁹ Proc., 352, 360-1.                             ¹⁶⁰ Proc., 352, 362, 639-42.

¹⁶¹ Art. iii, secs. 2-4, 7.

¹⁶² Baltimore had hitherto only one senator and ten delegates.
The committee report had provided twenty-one delegates for the
city (Proc., 120-1).                             ¹⁶³ See note, preceding page.