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 Gov-
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
interest in, the county buildings and other public property
of every description belonging to said counties of Somerset
and Worcester, respectively, and shall be liable for their
proportionate shares of the then existing debts and obliga-
tions of the said counties according to the last assessment in
said counties, to be ascertained and apportioned by the Cir-
cuit Court of Somerset county, as to the debts and obliga-
tions of said county, and by the Circuit Court of Worcester
county as to the debts and obligations of Worcester county,
on the petition of the County Commissioners of the said
counties, respectively; and the property in each part of
the said counties included in said new county shall be bound
only for the share of the debts and obligations of the county
from which it shall be separated; and the inhabitants of
said new county shall also pay the county taxes levied upon
them at the time of the creation of such new county, as if
such new county had not been created; and on the applica-