ART. XIII.] CONSTITUTION. 75
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 provided further, that
no sale or contract of sale of the State's interest in the Chesa-
peake 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 As-
sembly may from time to time prescribe, to sell the State's in-
terest 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 reg-
istered debt now owing by the State, equal in amount to the
price obtained for the State's said interest.]*
ARTICLE XIII.
NEW COUNTIES. |
Powers. |
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 shall be |
County 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 ma-
jority of the legal voters residing within the district, which, |
Consent of
voters. |
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 than four hundred
square miles, nor less than ten thousand 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 re-
duced to less than four hundred square miles.
State vs. Manly, 7 Md., 135. Eichelberger vs. Hardesty, 13 Md., 04.
School Commrs, of Wicomico Co. vs. School Commrs, of Worcester
Co., 35 Md., 200. Daily vs. Morgan, 69 Md., 460.
*Thus amended by Act 1890, Chapter 362, and ratified by the people Novem-
ber 3, 1891. |
Area and pop-
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