New counties:
Creation by
General
Assembly
subject to
referendum.
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ARTICLE XHI.
NEW COUNTIES.
Section 1. The General
Assembly may provide, by
Law, for organizing new
counties, locating and re-
moving county seats, and
changing county lines; but
no new county shall be or-
ganized 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 proposed to be formed
out of portions of two or
more counties, the consent
of a majority of the legal
voters of such part of each
of said counties, respectively,
shall be required; nor shall
the lines of any county nor
of . Baltimore City 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 or
of Baltimore City different
from that to which it be-
longed prior to said change;
and no new county shall
contain less than four hun-
dred square miles, nor less
than ten thousand white in-
habitants; nor shall any
change be made in the lim-
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ARTICLE XHI.
NEW COUNTIES.
Section 1. The General
Assembly may provide, by
Law, for organizing new
Counties, locating and re-
moving county seats, and
changing county lines; but
no new county shall be or-
ganized without 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 proposed to be formed
out of portions of two or
more counties, the consent
of a 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
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
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ARTICLE X.
COUNTIES AND
TOWNSHIPS.
Section 1. The General
Assembly may provide for
organizing new counties, lo-
cating and removing county
seats and changing county
lines, but no new county
shall be organized without
the consent of a majority of
the legal voters residing
within the limits about to
form said county, nor shall
the lines of any county be
changed without the con-
sent of a majority of the
legal voters residing within
the limits of the lines pro-
posed to be changed, nor
shall any new county con-
tain less than four hundred
square miles nor less than
ten thousand white inhabi-
tants nor shall any county
be reduced below that
amount of square miles, nor
below that number of white
inhabitants.
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