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to exchange the State's interest as stockholder and creditor
in the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, for an equal
amount of the bonds or registered debt now owing by the
State ' and subject to such regulations and conditions as the
General Assembly may from time to time prescribe, to sell
the State's interest in the other works of Internal Improve-
ment whether as a stockholder or a creditor, also the State s
interest in any banking corporation, and receive, in payment,
the bonds and registered debt now owing by the State, equal
in amount to the price obtained for the State's said interest;
provided, that the interest of the State in the Washington
Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Raid Road, be reserved
and excepted from sale; and provided further, that no sale
or contract of sale of the State's interest in the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and
the Susquehanna and Tide Water Canal Companies, shall go
into effect, until the same shall be ratified by the ensuing
General Assembly.
Sec 53 The General Assembly, before authorizing the
sale of the State's interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
and before prescribing regulations and conditions for said
sale, shall pass all laws that may be necessary to authorize
the counties of Allegany, Washington, Frederick and Mont-
omery, or any one of them, to create a debt by the issue of
bonds or otherwise, so as to enable them, or any of them, to
to become the purchasers of said interest.
Sec 54 The General Assembly shall have power to regu-
late by law, not inconsistent with this Constitution, all
matters which relate to the Judges of Election, time, place
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