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684 MARYLAND MANUAL.

tion of twelve citizens of the proposed county of Wicomico,
the Surveyor of Worcester county shall run and locate the
line from Meadow Bridge to the Pocomoke river, previous to
the adoption or rejection of this Constitution, and at the
expense of said petitioners.

SEC. 4. At the first general election held under this Consti-
tution the qualified voters of said new county shall be en-
titled to elect a Senator and two Delegates to the General
Assembly, and all such county or other officers as this Con-
stitution may authorize, or require to be elected by other
counties of the State; a notice of such election shall be given
by the Sheriffs of Worcester and Somerset counties in the
manner now prescribed by law; and in case said new county
shall be established, as aforesaid, then the counties of Som-
erset and Worcester shall be entitled to elect but two Dele-
gates each to the General Assembly.

SEC. 5. The county of Wicomico, if formed according to
the provisions of this Constitution, shall be embraced in the
First Judicial Circuit, and the times for holding the courts
therein shall be fixed and determined by the General As-
sembly.

SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall pass all such laws as
may be necessary more fully to carry into effect the pro-
visions of this Article.

ARTICLE XIV.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly may propose amend-
ments to this Constitution; provided, that each amendment
shall be embraced in a separate bill, embodying the Article
or Section, as the same will stand when amended and passed
by three-flfths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses by yeas and nays, to be entered on the journals with
the proposed amendment. The bill or bills proposing amend-
ment or amendments shall be published by order of the
Governor, in at least two newspapers in each county, where
so many may be published, and where not more than one
may be published, then in that newspaper, and in three
newspapers published in the City of Baltimore, one of which
shall be in the German language, once a week for at least
three months preceding the next ensuing general election, at
which the proposed amendment or amendments shall be sub-
mitted, in a form to be prescribed by the General Assembly,
to the qualified voters of the State for adoption or rejection.
The votes cast for and against said proposed amendment or
amendments, severally, shall be returned to the Governor,

 

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