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Maryland Manual, 1885
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32 MARYLAND MANUAL.
consent of a majority of legal voters of such parts 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. All new counties must
contain at least four hundred square miles of area and
ten thousand white inhabitants. No change in county
lines c^n be made that will reduce its area below four
lrundred square miles and its white inhabitants below
ten thousand. Art. 13, Sec. I, Const.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY UNDER THE LAWS.
THE OATH OF OFFICE required for members of the
Legislature shall be administered in the Senate by a
Senator to the President and by him to the Senators;
in the House a member shall administer the oath to
the Speaker who shall administer the oath to the re-
maining members and to the officers of the House.
Art. 68, Sec. 3. P. G. L.
WHENEVER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHALL MEET, it
shall not be necessary for any officer of the pre-
ceding General Assembly to be present, except the
Chief Clerk, Reading Clerk and Door-keepers of the
House of Delegates and the Secretary and Door-keeper
of the Senate, and in case of the death or inability to
attend of either the Chief Clerk of the House of
. Delegates, or Secretary of the Senate, the Journal Clerk
shall act in his place, and in case of the death or
absence of the Door-keeper, his assistant shall act in
his stead and they shall be paid five days' per diem
and mileage, at the rate of ten cents per mile, for such
attendance, and the payment of any other officers of a
preceding General Assembly than those herein enum-
•erated is hereby forbidden. Acts 1884, Ch. 400, Sec. 1.
. "THE COMPENSATION of members of the Legislature is
-five dollars per day under the constitution. The mileage
allowed under Act of 1868, C7i. 78, (save in Garrett
county which was created since,) is as follows:

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