TABLE

Showing the population of Maryland, and the number of delegates to which each county and city in the State will be entitled, according to the principles of this report:

The President announced that the hour had arrived for taking up the order of day;

Mr. Merrick, moved to postpone the order of the day;
Determined in the affirmative.

Mr. Lloyd, from the committee on Representation, submitted the following rule of apportionment:

RULE OF APPORTIONMENT.

Section 1. The Senate shall be composed of twenty-one members, for the election whereof, each of the counties of the State and the city of Baltimore shall be one Senatorial District, and elect one Senator.

Sec. 2. The House of Delegates shall consist of eighty-one members; until the number of sixty six delegates be attained, every six thousand inhabitants in each of the counties, and the city of Baltimore, shall be entitled to one delegate; and thereafter,

twenty-five thousand inhabitants in each of the counties and city of Baltimore shall be entitled to one delegate.

Sec. 3rd. If in any of the said counties, according to the present population thereof, there shall be over the said ratio of six thousand, a fraction exceeding three thousand; in that case the said counties shall be entitled to a delegate for said fraction.

RESULT:

Section 1. The Senate shall consist of twenty-one members whereof the several counties of the State and the city of Baltimore shall elect one Senator.

Sec. 2. The House of Delegates shall consist of eighty-one members where of Allegany county shall elect four; Anne Arundel county shall elect five; Baltimore city shall elect twelve; Baltimore county shall elect seven; Carroll county shall elect three; Caroline county shall elect two; Calvert county shall elect two; Charles county shall elect three; Cecil county shall elect three; Dorchester county shall elect three; Frederick county shall elect seven; Harford county shall elect three; Kent county shall elect two; Montgomery county shall elect three; Prince George's county shall elect four; Queen Anne's county shall elect two; St. Mary's county shall elect two; Somerset county shall elect four; Talbot county shall elect two; Washington county shall elect five; Worcester county shall elect three members.

Which was read,

Mr. Chambers, Kent, from the minority of the committee on representation submitted the following

REPORT:

The undersigned, a minority of the committee on representa tion, beg leave to report the following as a proper basis, being the same which was arranged by compromise in 1836, and then made part of the Constitution, with the exception only that the plan now proposed is based upon the gross amount of population instead of federal numbers. That arrangement was designed to go into effect after the census of 1860. The undersigned recommend its adoption at this time as a fair adjustment of a subject. which this Convention has indicated as one pioper for compromise.

Every county shall be entitled to elect one Senator, and the city of Baltimore shall also be entitled to elect one Senator.

Every county having a population of less than fifteen thousand souls shall be entitled to three delegates; every county having a population of fifteen thousand souls, and less than twenty-five thousand, shall be entitled to four delegates; every county having a population of twenty-five thousand, and less than thirty-five thousand souls, shall be entitled to five delegates, and every coun

ty having a population of more than thirty-five thousand souls shall be entitled to six delegates; and the city of Baltimore shall be entitled to the same number of delegates as the county which shall be entitled to the largest representation.

The undersigned herewith submit a table showing the practical operation of the basis they recommend.

E. F. CHAMBERS,

JAMES KENT,

JOHN DENNIS.

Which was read.