CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION STUDY DOCUMENTS
the said Board is authorized subject to
such regulations and conditions as the
General Assembly may from time to time
prescribe, to sell the State's interest in
the other Works of Internal Improve-
ment, 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; provided, that the interest of
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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 con-
tract of sale of the State's interest in the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Chesa-
peake and Delaware Canal, and the
Susquehanna and Tide-water Canal
Companies shall go into effect until the
same shall be ratified by the ensuing
General Assembly.
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ARTICLE XIII.
NEW COUNTIES.
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 organized without
consent of the majority of the legal
voters residing within the limits pro-
posed 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, respec-
tively, 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, where-
by the population of said county would
be reduced to less than ten thousand
white Inhabitants, or its territory reduced
to less than four hundred square miles.
Sec. 2. At the election to be held for
the adoption, or rejection of this Consti-
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tution, in each Election District, in those
parts of Worcester and Somerset Coun-
ties, comprised within the following lim-
its, viz: Beginning at the point, where
Mason and Dixon's line crosses the chan-
nel 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 intersec-
tion 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 the 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 manner,
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