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receiving 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 Railroad be reserved and excepted from sale; and pro-
vided 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 Tidewater
Canal Companies shall go into effect until the same shall be
ratified by the ensuing General Assembly.
[SEC. 3. The Board of Public Works is hereby authorized, |
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subject to such regulations and conditions as the General
Assembly may from time to time prescribe, to sell the State's
interest in all works of internal improvement, whether as a
stockholder or a creditor, and also the State's interest in
any banking corporation, receiving 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.]*
ARTICLE XII.
NEW COUNTIES.
SECTION 1. The General Assembly may provide, by law, |
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for organizing new counties, locating and removing county
seats and changing county lines; but not new county shall be |
Comity seats. |
organized without the consent of the majority of the legal
voters residing within the limits proposed to be formed into
said new county; and whenever a new county shall be pro-
posed to be formed out of portions of two or more counties,
the consent of 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 |
Consent of
voters. |
change; and no new county shall contain less than four
hundred square miles, nor less than ten thousand white in-
habitants ; nor shall any change be made in the limits of any
county, whereby the population of said county would be re-
duced 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.
*Thus amended by Act 1890, Chapter 362, and ratified by the people
November 3, 1891. |
Area and pop-
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