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moke 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 Governor, who shall, by procla-
mation, 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 in 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 be-
come and constitute a new county to be called Wicomico
county.
Sec. 2. 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 proportionate shares, according to
the rates of the last assessment, of the then existing debts
and obligations of said counties, and shall also pay the
county taxes levied upon them at the time of the creation
of such new county, as if such new county had not been
created.
Sec. 3. At the first general election held under this
constitution, the qualified voters of said new county shall
be entitled to elect a Senator and two Delegates to the
General Assembly, and all such county or other officers
as this constitution may authorize or require to be elected
by other counties of the State; a notice of such election
shall be given by the sheriffs of Worcester and Somerset
counties in the manner now prescribed by law; and in
case said new county shall be established as aforesaid,
then the counties of Somerset and Worcester shall be en-
titled to elect but two delegates each to the General As-
sembly.
The unfinished business, being the first section of the
supplementary legislative report, was then taken up, as
follows:
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