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SEC. 2. At the election to be held for the adoption or re- |
Wicomico
county.
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jection of this Constitution, in each election district, in those
parts of Worcester and Somerset counties, comprised 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 Nanti-
coke 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 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 man-
ner 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, con-
tained 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 be called Wicomico county,
and Salisbury shall be the county seat. And the inhabi-
tants 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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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 pro-
portionate 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 coun- |
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