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REPORT OF THE MINORITY OF THE SELECT COM-
MITTEE UPON THE SUBJECT OF A NEW COUNTY
TO BE FORMED OUT OF PORTIONS OF SOMERSET
AND WORCESTER COUNTIES.
ARTICLE—
SECTION 1. The General Assembly may provide for the
formation of new counties, locating and removing county
seats, and changing county lines, but no new county shall
be formed without the consent of a majority of the legal
voters residing within the limits of any proposed new
county; and whenever a new county is proposed to be
formed out; of portions of two or more counties, the consent
of a majority of the legal voters residing within the limits
of such part of each county as is proposed to be included in
such new county shall be necessary to include such part;
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 number of square
miles and of white inhabitants; nor shall the lines of any
county be changed without the consent of a majority of the
legal voters residing within the limits of the line, or lines,
proposed to be changed; and in any law proposing to form
a new county, or to change any county line, provision shall
be made for the ascertainment of the sense of the legal
voters as aforesaid.
ISAAC D. JONES,
GEO. M. GILL,
HENRY W. ARCHER,
L. P. FRANKLIN,
JAS. L. HORSEY.
Which was read a first time and ordered to be printed.
On motion of Mr. Gill,
The Convention took up the unfinished business of yester-
day,
Being the following order submitted by Mr. Gill :
Ordered, That hereafter it shall not be competent to go
into the Committee of the Whole, except upon a vote of the
majority of the members present; and that the rules of the
Convention be so changed as to correspond with this order ;
Which was then read a second time and adopted.
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