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On motion of Hall, it was
Ordered, That the committee on the judiciary be re-
quired to inquire into the propriety and expediency of
authorizing the General Assembly to provide by law for
the trial of petty offenses against the State by the several
justices of the peace, in their respective districts, and to
empower them to summon a jury to try such cases when-
ever required to do so by the parties accused.
Mr. Jones, from the select committee on the formation
of a new county, submitted the following report:
"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 pro-
posed new county; and whenever a new county is pro-
posed to be formed out of portions of two or more coun-
ties, the consent of a majority of the legal voters resid-
ing within the limits of such part of each county as is
proposed to be included in such new county shall be neces-
sary to include such part; nor shall any new county con-
tain 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 re-
siding 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. "
Mr. Gill called up the order submitted by him yester-
day, providing for a change of rules so as to make a ma-
jority vote necessary to go into committee of the whole.
Mr. Gill advocated the adoption of his order as being
necessary to save time.
Mr. Garey said that from the intelligence and reputa-
tion of this body, it occurred to him that it required but
little discussion to lead this Convention to a vote on any
proposition. The people were becoming very impatient to
investigate the fruit of their labors, and the demand from
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