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.

SEC. 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
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 from 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

Thus amended by Act of 1890, Chapter 363, and ratified by the people
November 8, 1891.