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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 certify 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
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 lines, shall be in favor of a new County, then said
parts of Worcester and Somerset Counties shall become
and constitute a new County, to called Wicomico
County; and Salisbury shall be the County seat. And
the inhabitants thereof shall thenceforth have and enjoy
all such rights and privileges as are held and enjoyed
by the inhabitants of the other Counties of this State. |
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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 of
Somerset County, as to the debts and obligations of
said County, and by the Circuit Court of Worcester
County as to the debts and obligations 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
separated; 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 proposed 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
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 |
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