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418
John Parran, Perry, Peters, Pleasants, Rennolds, Rider,
Riggs, Ringgold, Ritchie, Rogers, Roman, Silver, Spates,
Starr, Syester, Tarr, of Caroline, Tarr, of Worcester.
Thomas, Toadvine, Vansant, Walsh, Watkins, of Caro-
line, Watkins, of Montgomery, Wethered, Whitman, Wilk-
inson—103.
The proceedings of yesterday were read and approved.
Mr. Mitchell submitted the following order :
Ordered, That Mr. Stoddert is absent from his seat in this
Convention on account of sickness ;
Which was adopted.
Mr. Hammond, Chairman of the Select Committee, on the
formation of a new County to be composed of parts of Somerset
and Worcester counties, submitted the following Report:
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE FORMATION
OF A NEW COUNTY TO BE COMPOSED OF PARTS
OF SOMERSET AND WORCESTER COUNTIES.
SECTION 1. At the election to be held for the adoption or
rejection of this Constitution, the Judges of Election shall
open a book in each Election District in those parts of Wor-
cester and Somerset Counties comprised within the following
limits, viz : beginning at the point where Mason and Dixon's
line crosses the channel of Pocomoke river, thence following
said line to the channel of the Nanticoke river, thence with
the middle of said river to Tangier sound, or the intersection
of Nanticoke and Wicomico rivers, thence up the channel of
the Wicomico river to the mouth of Wicomico creek, at
Dashield's or Disharoon's Mills, thence with the mill pond
of said mills and branch, following the middle prong of said
branch to meadow bridge on the load dividing the Counties
of Somerset and Worcester, near the south-west corner of the
farm of William P. Morrris, thence due east to the Pocomoke
river, thence with the channel of said river to the beginning,
and have secured in said books the vote of each Elector who
has resided for six months preceding said election within said
limits, for or against a new County; and the Return Judges
of said Election Districts shall certify the result of such
voting in the manner now prescribed by Law, to the Gov-
ernor, who shall, by proclamation, make known the same,
and if a majority of the legal votes cast within that part of
Worcester County contained within said lines, and also a
majority of the legal votes cast within that part of Somerset
County contained within said lines, shall be in favor of a new
County, then said parts of Worcester and Somerset Counties
shall become and constitute anew County to be called Wicom-
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