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ARTICLE XIII.

NEW COUNTIES.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly may provid.e, by Law,
for organizing new Counties, locating and removing county
seats, and changing county lines; but no new county shall be
organized without the consent of the majority of the legal
voters residing within the limits proposed to be formed
into said new counties; and whenever a new county
shall be proposed to be formed out of portions of two
or more counties, the consent of a majority of the legal
voters of such part of each of said counties, respectively,
shall be required; nor 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 hundred square miles, nor less
than ten thousand white inhabitants; nor shall any change be
made in the limits of any county, whereby the population of
said county would be reduced to less than ten thousand white
inhabitants, or its territory reduced to less than four hundred
square miles.

SEC. 2. At the election to be held for the adoption or
rejection of this Constitution, in each election district, in
those parts of Worcester and Somerset Counties, com-
prised within 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 Nanticoke River, thence with the channel
of said river to Tangier Sound, or the intersection of Nan-
ticoke and Wicomico Rivers, thence up the channel of the
Wicomico River to the mouth of Wicomico Creek, thence
with the channel of said creek and Passerdyke Creek to
Dashield'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 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 cer-
tify 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