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of Delegates; and the sevpral clerks aforesaid shall return
to the Governor, within ten days after said election, the
number of ballots cast for or against the Constitution, and
the number of blank ballots; and the Governor upon receiv-
ing such returns, and ascertaining the aggregate vote
throughout the State, shall by his Proclamation make known
the same, and if a majority of the votes cast shall he for the
adoption of this Constitution, it shall go into effect on the
day of , 1867.
Resolution providing for the Publication of the Constitution
in the newspapers of the State. Reported by the Commit-
tee to whom was referred all such parts of the Constitution
as had not been referred to any other Committee.
Resolved, That a Committee of three members of the Con-
vention, be appointed by the President, whose duty it shall
be to have the Constitution as it shall be adopted by the
Convention, printed in such newspapers published in Balti-
more City, and in each of the several counties of the State,
and for such length of time, prior to the day
of 1867, as the said Committee
shall think expedient; and the Committee on Accounts,
shall out of the fund appropriated for the expenses of this
Convention, pay such bills as shall be incurred by the Com-
mittee appointed under this Resolution, when properly certi-
fied by said last mentioned Committee.
ARTICLE —.
NEW COUNTIES.
The General Assembly may provide by Law for organizing
new Counties, locating and removing County Seats, and
changing County lines, but no new County shall be organ-
ized without the consent of the majority of the legal voters
residing within the limits proposed to be formed into said
new County; nor shall the lines of any County be changed
without the consent of a majority of the legal voters residing
within the district which under said proposed change would
form a part of a County different from that to which it be-
longed prior to said change; and no new County shall con-
tain less than 400 square miles, nor less than 10,000 white
inhabitants; nor shall any change be made in the limits of
any County whereby the population of said County would be
reduced to less than 10,000 white inhabitants, or its territory
reduced to less than 400 square miles.
Which was read the first time.
On motion of Mr. Giddings,
The Convention then resumed the consideration of the
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