seats and changing county lines; but no new county shall be
organized without the consent of the majority of the legal
voters residing within the limits proposed to he formed into
said new county; and whenever a new county shall he pro-
posed to he 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 he 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,
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, he 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, IS Md., 54.
School Commrs, of Wicomico Co. vs. School Commrs. of Worcester
Co., 35 Md., 200. Daily vs. Morgan, 69 Md., 460.

SEC. 2. At the election to be held for the adoption or re-
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 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 Wicom-
ico creek; thence with the channel of said creek and Passer-
dyke 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 elec-
tion, who has resided for six months preceding said election
within said limits, for or against a new county; and the re-
turn judges of said election districts shall certify the result of
such voting, in the manner now prescribed by law, to the Gov-
ernor, who shall by proclamation make known the same, and
if a majority of the legal votes cast within that part of Wor-
cester 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 be-