Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1901-10-18

AN ACT to amend section four, of Article Q
of the Constitution Of this State.

bcrs of the two Houses cOncurrlng.l mat the
following section be and the same is hereby
proposed rs an amendment to the Constitution
Of this State, and if adopted by the legal ard
qualified voters thereof as herein provided,
said section shall supersede and stand in the
place and instead OF section four of Article 3,
of said Constitution. Q
SECTION 4. As soon as may be after the tax
ing and publishing of the Nauopal Census Of
1900, or after the enumeration OF the popula-
ton of this state, under the authority thereof.
there shall be an appOrtOninenJo OF representa-
ton in the House OF DelegateSs 70 PC made on
the following basis, to wit: Each of the sew
eral counties of the State, having q population
of eighteen thousand souls or less, shall be en-
titled to two delegates; and every county hav-
ing q 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-eirht
thousand and less than forty thousand souls,
shall be entitled TO four delegates; and every
county having population OF forty thousand
and less than fifty-five thousand souls, shall be
entitled to five delegates; and every county
having a population OF fity-nVe0thousand
souls and upwards, shall be entitled 10 six dele
gates and no more; and each OF the four leFis-
latiye 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 aforegoing superintendent, and the
General Assembly shall have the power to pro
vide hy,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 90 me- 7 as may be OF equal
population; but sad district shau anyways con
sist OF contiguous territory
SSEC. .. And be il further enacted By the dt-
thOritB aforesaid, That the said foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed e. an yt 70 ne
members of the General Assembly OF this
State to be held on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in the month OF November, nine
teen hundred and one, be submitted to the
legal and qualified voters tnereot, 1or, tneir
adoption or rejection, in pursuance OF the dl-
rections contained in Article Il, OF the Consti-
frttfp Of and at the sad election
the vote on said proposed amendment TO the
Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed the
words fsFor the Constitutional Amendment"
or"Against the Constitutional Amendment"
as the voter shall elect, and Immediately after
the said election due returns shail be made TO
the Governor of the vote for aud against said
proposed amendment, as directed by the said
Article Il, of the Constitution.
Approved April 7, 1907
- CHAPTER 489.
AN ACT to amend section two of Article Of
the Constitution of the State.
sEcr1oy1. Be il enacted by the General As
semblv Of HGrpland (three-iltths OF all the
members of the two Houses concurring) That
the following section be ana tne same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution
of this State, and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereon, y heGell PROVIDED,
said section shall supersede ana stand IN the
place and stead of section two of Article Of
said Constitution
.. The City of Baltimore shall be divided into
four Legislative districts as near as may be Of
equal population and of contiguous territory,
and each of said legislative districts of Balti-
more City, as they may from time TO time be
laid out, in accordance with the provisions
hereof and each county IN the state, snail be
entitled TO one Senator, who shall be elected
by the qualified voters OF the said legislative
districts of Baltimore City, ana OF the counties
of the State, respectively ana snail serve for
four years from the date OF his election, sub
ject to the classification Of Senators hereafter
provided for. 8
. SFC Q And be Il further enacted by the author
tn aforesaid, That the said foregoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment TO the Con
stitution shall at the next election Tor members
held on the Tuesday next after the hrst Mon
day in the month of November, nineteen nun
dred and one, be submitted to the legal ana
qualified voters thereof ior their ADOPTION or
rejection, in pursuance Of the directions con-
tanned in Article IA of the constitution OF TINS
State; and at the said election the vote on said
proposed amendment to the Constitution shall
be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
be written or printed the words, FOR the Con-
stitutional Amendment, or "A gainst the Con-
stitutional Amendment, as the voter shat
elect and Immediately after said election due
returns shall be made TO the uoVernor OF IN
vote rand against said proposed amendment
as directed by the said Fourteenth Article o.
the Constitution.
Approved April Z, 1900.
Now, THEREFORE,, I, JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor of the state of Maryland, in pursu-
anoo of the provisions Of section one of Article
fourteen of tho Constitution Of the State, do
hereby order and direct that Il copy of said bills
proposing said Constitutional Amendments be
published in at least two newspapers in each
county where so many may be published, and
where not more than one may be published
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