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Mr. Hebb from the Committee on the rights, duties, divi-
sions and sub-divisions of Counties, submitted the follow-
ing
REPORT:
The Committee on the rights, duties, divisions and sub-
divisions of Counties, respectfully submit the following Re-
port, to be embodied in a separate Article in the Constitu-
tion:
ARTICLE —.
COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS.
Sect. 1. The General Assembly shall provide for organiz-
ing new counties, locating and removing county seats, and
changing county lines, but no new county shall be organ-
ized without the consent of a majority of the legal voters
residing within the limits about to form said county, nor
shall any new county contain less than four hundred square
miles, nor less than ten thousand white inhabitants, nor shall
any county be reduced below that amount of square miles,
nor below that number of white inhabitants.
Sect. 2. The General Assembly may, provide by general
law for dividing the counties into towns or permanent muni-
cipal corporations in place of the existing election districts,
prescribing their limits, and confiding to them all powers
necessary for the management of their public local concerns,
and whenever the organization of these township corpora-
tions shall be perfected all officers provided for in this Con-
stitution, but whose official functions shall have been super-
seded by such organizations, shall be dispensed with, and the
affairs of such towns, and of the counties as affected by the
action of such town, shall be transacted in such manner as
the General Assembly shall direct.
HOPEWELL HEBB,
JNO. SWOPE,
JASPER ROBINETTE,
JAMES SYKES,
J. D. CARTER.
Which was read the first time.
On motion of Mr. Stockbridge,
The Report of the Committee on Future Amendments to
the Constitution,
Was taken up.
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