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Maryland Manual, 1927
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426 MARYLAND MANUAL


directors of the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
shall so regulate the tolls of said company from time to
time as to produce the largest amount of revenue, and to
avoid the injurious effect to said company of rival compe
tition by other internal improvement companies. They shall
require the directors of all said public works to guard the
public interest and prevent the establishment of tolls which
shall discriminate against the interest of the citizens or
products of this State and from time to time, and as often
as there shall be any change in the rates of toll on any of
the said works, to furnish the said Board of Public Works a
schedule of such modified rates of. toll, and so adjust them
as to promote the agricultural interests of the State; they
shall report to the General Assembly at each regular session,
and recommend such legislation as they may deem necessary
and requisite to promote or protect the interests of the State
in the said public works; they shall perform such other
duties as may be hereafter prescribed by law, and a majority
of them shall be competent to act. The Governor, Comp
troller and Treasurer shall receive no additional salary for
services rendered by them as members of the Board of Pub
lic Works. The provisions of the Act of the General As
sembly of Maryland of the year 1867, Chapter 359, are here
by declared null and void.
Sac. 3. The Board of Public Works is hereby authorized,
subject to such regulations and conditions as the General
Assembly may from time to time prescribe, to sell the State’s
interest 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 registered debt now owing by the State, equal in amount
to the price obtained for the State’s said interest.*



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 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

* Thus amended by Act of 1890, Chapter 363, and ratified by the people
November 3, 1891.


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