ART. XIIl] CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE XIII.

NEW COUNTIES.

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Section 1. The General Assembly may provide, by
Law, for organizing new Counties, locating and removing
county seats, and changing county lines; but no new

County seats.

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 county; and when-
ever 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

Consent of vo-
ters.

than four hundred square miles, nor less than ten thous-
and 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.

State v. Manly, 7 Md. 135. Eichelberger v. Hardesty, 15 Md.
54. School Commrs, of Wicomico Co. v. School Commrs, of
Worcester Co., 35 Md. 200. Daly v. Morgan, 69 Md. 460.

Area and pop-
ulation.

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
Nanticoke 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

Wicomico
county.