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and locate the line from Meadow Bridge to the Pocomoke
River previous to the adoption or rejection of this Con-
stitution, and at the expense of said petitioners.
SEC. 4 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 afore-
said, then the counties of Somerset and Worcester shall
be entitled to elect but two Delegates each to the General
Assembly.
SEC. 5. The county of Wicomico, if formed according
to the provisions of this Constitution shall be embraced
in the First Judicial Circuit; and the times for holding
the courts therein shall be fixed and determined by the
General Assembly.
SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall pass all such laws
as may be necessary more fully to carry into effect the
provision of this Article.
ARTICLE XIV.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
SECTION 1. The General Assembly may propose amend-
ments to this Constitution; provided, that each amend-
ment shall be embraced in a separate bill, embodying the
Article or Section, as the same will stand when amended
and passed by three-fifths of all the members elected to
each of the two Houses, by yeas and nays, to be entered
on the journals with the proposed amendment. The bill,
or bills proposing amendment, or amendments, shall be
published, by order of the Governor, in at least two news-
papers in each county where so many may be published,
and where not more than one may be published, then in
that newspaper, and in three newspapers published in the
City of Baltimore, one of which shall be in the German
language, once a week, for at least three months pre-
ceding the next ensuing general election, at which the
said proposed amendment, or amendments shall be sub-
mitted, in a form to be prescribed by the General Assem-
bly, to tile qualified voters of the State for adoption or
rejection. The votes cast for and against said proposed
amendment, or amendments, severally, shall be returned
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