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erset and Worcester, near the south-west corner of the farm
of William P. Morris, thence due east to the Pocomoke
river, thence with the channel of said river to the beginning:
shall contain a population of ten thousand white inhabitants,
and the majority of the legal voters therein shall desire to
separate and form a new county, and make known their
desire by petition to the Legislature, the Legislature shall
direct at the next succeeding election, or at an election to
be specially ordered by the Legislature, that the Judges of
Election in the election districts inclosed within the aforesaid
limits, shall open a book at the usual place of holding elec-
tions in each of said districts, and have recorded therein the
vote of each legal voter for or against the new county. In
case the majority residing within the parts of Somerset and
Worcester counties, respectively, shall concur in favor of the
new county, then said parts of Somerset and Worcester coun-
ties, within the limits aforesaid, shall be declared an inde-
pendent county, by the name of Wicomico county, and the
inhabitants thereof shall have and enjoy all such rights and
privileges as are held and enjoyed by the inhabitants of the
other counties in this State. And the General Assembly
shall provide for the organization of said new county, and
for the equitable apportionment of the debts and obligations
of the counties of Somerset and Worcester between the said
counties and the new county, for the election of one Senator
and two Delegates to the General Assembly for said new county.
And after the organization of said new county Somerset county
shall be entitled to two Delegates, and Worcester county to
two Delegates, until a change of the representation as pro-
vided by this Constitution.
Pending the consideration of which,
Mr. Tarr, of Worcester, moved the previous question.
The question then being,
" Shall the previous question be now put?"
It was sustained.
The question then recurring upon the adoption of the
substitute,
Mr. Jones demanded the yeas and nays.
The demand being sustained,
The yeas and nays were called and appeared as follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Farnandis, Merrick,
Carmichael, Pr't. Gill, Murray,
Alvey, Hayden, Page,
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