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within that part of Worcester County contained within
said lines, and also a majority of the legal votes cast within
that part of Somerset County contained within said line,
shall be in favor of a new County, then said parts of Wor-
cester and Somerset Counties shall become and constitute
a new County, to be called Wicomico County; and Salis-
bury shall be the County seat. And the inhabitants thereof
shall thenceforth have and enjoy all such rights and privi-
leges as are held and enjoyed by the inhabitants of the other
Counties of this State.

SEC. 3. 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 of the then existing
debts and obligations of the said Counties, according to
the last assessment in said counties, to be ascertained and
apportioned by the Circuit Court for Somerset County, as
to the debts and obligations of said County, and by the
Circuit Court for Worcester County, on the debts and obli-
gations of Worcester County, on the petition of the County
Commissioners of the said Counties, respectively; and the
property in each part of the said Counties, included in said
new County, shall be bound only for the share of the debts
and obligations of the County from which it shall be sepa-
rated; and the inhabitants of said new county 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; and on the application of twelve citizens of the pro-
posed County of Wicomico, the surveyor of Worcester
County shall run and locate the line from Meadow Bridge to
the Pocomoke River, previous to the adoption or rejection of
this Constitution, and at the expense of said petitioners.

SEC. 4. At the first general election held under this Con-
stitution, 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 Con-
stitution 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 Som-
erset and Worcester shall be entitled to elect but two Dele-
gates 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