of Election, in each of said districts, shall receive the ballots
of each elector, voting at said election, who has resided for
six months preceding said election within said limits, for
or against a new county; and the return judges of said elec-
tion districts shall certify the result of such voting, in the
manner now prescribed by law, to the Governor, who shall
by proclamation make known the same, and if a majority
of the legal votes cast within that part of Worcester county,
contained within said lines, and also a majority 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 enjoyed by the inhabitants of the
other counties of this State..

SEC. 3. When said new county shall have been so cre-
ated, 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
obligations of the said counties according to the last assess-
ment in said counties, to be ascertained and apportioned by
the Circuit Court of Somerset county, as to the debts and
obligations of said county, and by the Circuit Court of
Worcester county as to the debts and obligations of Worces-
ter 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 in-
habitants 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 application 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 Poco-
moke 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 Con-
stitution the qualified voters of said new county shall be
entitled 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.