176 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. XIII

parts of Worcester and Somerset Counties shall become and
constitute a new County, to be called Wicomico County; and
Salisbury shall be the County seat. And the inhabitants
thereof shall thenceforth have and enjoy all such rights and
privileges as are held and enjoyed by the inhabitants of the
other Counties of this State.

Sec. 3. When said new County shall have been so created,
the inhabitants thereof shall cease to have any claim to, or
interest in, the county buildings and other public property of
every description belonging to said Counties of Somerset and
Worcester, respectively, and shall be liable for their propor-
tionate shares of the then existing debts and obligations of the
said Counties, according to the last assessment in said Counties,
to be ascertained and apportioned by the Circuit Court of Som-
erset County, as to the debts and obligations of said County,
and by the Circuit Court of Worcester County as to the debts
and obligations of Worcester County, on the petition of the
County Commissioners of the said Counties, respectively; and
the property in each part of the said Counties included in said
new County shall be bound only for the share of the debts and
obligations of the County from which it shall be separated;
and the inhabitants of said new County shall also pay the
County taxes levied upon them at the time of the creation of
such new County, as if such new County had not been created;
and on the application of twelve citizens of the proposed
County of Wicomico, the Surveyor of Worcester County shall
run and locate the line from Meadow Bridge to the Potomac
River, previous to the adoption or rejection of this Constitu-
tion, and at the expense of said petitioners.

Sec. 4. At the first general election held under this Constitu-
tion the qualified voters of said new County shall be entitled to
elect a Senator and two Delegates to the General Assembly, and
all such County or other officers as this Constitution may
authorize, or require to be elected by other Counties of the
State; a notice of such election shall be given by the sheriffs
of Worcester and Somerset Counties in the manner now pre-
scribed by Law; and in case said new County shall be estab-
lished, as aforesaid, then the Counties of Somerset and Worces-
ter shall be entitled to elect but two Delegates each to the
General Assembly.

Sec. 5. The County of Wicomico, if formed according to the
provisions of this Constitution, shall be embraced in the First