Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-07-11
7humut Frederick County, Maryland Thursday July Il, 1901.

at said election the vote on said proposed
amendment shall be by ballot and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed the
words For the Constitutional Amendment
or Against the Constitutional Amendment
as the voter shall elect and Immediately after
said election one return shall he made to the
Governor of the vote ON said proposed amend
ment. as directed by the said Fourteenth
Article of tho Constitution.
Approved April 5. 1860
CHAPTER 1872
AN ACT to amend section four, of Article 3,
of the Constitution OF this State.
SECTION l. BE 1t enacted by the General
assembly Of Mvy'and, Uhrcc.tif,hs of ell the
members Of the two Houses concurringO
That the following section he and the same
il hereby proposed as m amendment to the
Constitution of this State, and if adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thcrcofas herein
provided, S id section shall supcrscde and
stand III the place and instead OF section four
of Article 3, of said Constitution.
SECTION 4. As soon as NAV be after the
taking and publishing of the National Census
of 1900, or after the enumeration of the pop.
ulntion of this State uudcr the authority
thereof, there shall be an apror,i"nment #
representation in the House of Delegates, To
b. 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 population of over eighteen
Thousand and less than twenty eight thousand
souls shall be entitled To three delegates; and
every county having 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, shtll be entitled to five delegates, AND
every county having population OF hity-
five thousand souls and upwards, shall be
entitled iO six delegates and no more; and
each OF the tcur legislative districts Of the
City of Baltimore Shall he entitled to the
number of delegates to which the largest
county shall or mny be entitled under the
atorcgoing appurtionmcnt, and the General
Assembly shall have the power to provide
10y law, from ,mc to time for altering and
changing the boundaries Of the existing leg
islativc districts Of the City of Baltimore, so
rs to make them rs near as may be of equal
population; but said district shall always
consist Of contiguous territory.
SrCTIoN . .AuA be 1t furtIer enacted IN the
anthority dforGSaN that the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment To
the Constitution, shall at the next election
for members OF the Genera Assembly of this
state 10 be held the TUESDAY next after the
first Monday in the month of November,
nineteen hundred aud one, be submitted to
the lcgal and qualified voters thereof, for
then adoption or rejection, in pursuance Of
the directions contained in Article a. of the
Constitution of tins State; and at the said
election the vote on sad proposed amend.
men, to the Constitution shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be written
or printed the words For the Constitutional
Amrndmort,' or" Against the Constitutional
Amendment rs the voter shaIl elect, and
Immediately after the said election due re-
turns shall hc made TO the Governor Of the
vote for an against sand proposed amend.
mcut as directed by said Article H. OF the
Constitution.