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MARYLAND MANUAL 427 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 in habitants; nor shall any change be made in the limits of any county, whereby the population of said county would be re duced to less than ten thousand white inhabitants, or its ter ritory reduced to less than four hundred square miles. 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 Poco moke 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 Wicom ico 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 Disha roon’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 Som erset 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 election, who has re sided 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 now prescribed by law, to the Govi 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 ma jority 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 become and constitute a new county, to be called Wicomico county, and Salisbury shall be the county seat. And the inhabitants thereof shall thenceforth have and enjoy all such rights and privileges as are held and en joyed by the inhabitants of the other counties of this State. SEC. 3. When said new county shall have been so created, the inhabitants thereof shall cease to have any claim to, or |
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