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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 belonged prior to said
change; and no New County shall contain less than four hun-
dred square miles, nor less than ten thousand white Inhabi-
tants; nor shall any change be made in the limits' of any
County, whereby the population of said County would be re-
duced to less than ten thousand white Inhabitants, or its ter-
ritory reduced to less than four hundred square miles.
Sec. 2. At the election to be held for the adoption, or re-
jection of this Constitution, in each Election District in those
parts of Worcester and Somerset Counties, comprised with-
in 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 Nanti-
coke River, thence with the channel 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, thence with the channel of and creek and
Passerdyke Creek to Dashiels'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 road
dividing the Counties of Somerset and Worcester, near the
southwest 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, the Judges of election in each of
said Districts shall receive the ballots of each elector, voting
at said election, 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 Governor, 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 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 Coun-
ties 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 pro-
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