THAT the legislature consist of two distinct
branches, a Senate, and House of Delegates,
which shall be styled The General
Assembly of Maryland.

    II.  That the house of delegates shall be chosen in
the following manner:  All free men, with the exception
in the seventh section herein after expressed, above
twenty-one years of age, having a freehold of
fifty acres of land in the county in which they offer
to vote, and actually and bonâ fide residing therein;
and all free men having property in this state above the
value of thirty pounds current money, and having actually
and bonâ fide resided in the county in which
they offer to vote one whole year next preceding the
election, shall have a right of suffrage in the election
of delegates for such county; and all free men so qualified,
shall, on the first Monday of October, seventeen
hundred and ninety-four, and on the same
day in every second year thereafter, assemble in the
counties in which they are respectively qualified to vote,
at the court-house in the said counties, or at such
other place as the legislature shall direct, and when
assembled, they shall proceed to elect, viva voce, four
delegates for their respective counties, of the most