PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. 257

The following proposed amendments to the Constitution of
Maryland are authorized by the Laws of 1900 to be sub-
mitted to the will of the people at the next General Klec-
tion, and if adopted become sections of the Constitution:

Chapter 185, 1900—Amendment to Article Five.

Section 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties and receive
such fees and commissions or salary, not exceeding three thousand
dollars, as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law; and if any
State's Attorney shall receive any other fee or reward than such as is
or may be allowed by law, he shall, on conviction thereof, be removed
from office; provided, that the State's Attorney for Baltimore City shall
receive an annual salary of forty-five hundred dollars, and shall have
power to appoint one deputy, at an annual salary not exceeding three
thousand dollars, and such other assistants, at such annual salaries, not
exceeding fifteen hundred dollars each, as the Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City may authorize and approve; all of said salaries to be paid
out of the fees of the said State's Attorney's office, as has heretofore
been practiced.

Chapter 432, 1900—Amendment to Article 3, in lieu of section 4.

Section 4. As soon as may be, after the taking and publishing of the
National Census of 1900, or after the enumeration of the population of
this State, under the authority thereof, there shall be an apportionment
of representation in the House of Delegates, to be made on the follow-
ing 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 a population of over eighteen
thousand and less than twenty-eight thousand souls, shall be entitled
to three delegates; and every county having a 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, shall be entitled to five dele-
gates; and every county having a population of fifty-five thousand
souls and upwards, shall be entitled to six delegates and no more; and
each of the 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 aforegoing apportionment, and 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 tp make them as
near as may be of equal population; but said district shall always con-
sist of contiguous territory.

Chapter 469, 1900—Amendment to Article 3, in lieu of section 2.

Section 2. The City of Baltimore shall be divided into four legisla-
tive districts, as near as may be, of equal population and of contiguous
territory, and each of said legislative districts of Baltimore City, as
they may from time to time be laid out, in accordance with the pro-
visions hereof, and each county in the State shall be entitled to one
Senator, who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the said
legislative districts of Baltimore City, and of the counties of the State,
respectively, and shall serve for four years from the date of his elec-
tion, subject to the classification of Senators hereafter provided for.