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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
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
Somerset and Worcester shall be entitled to elect but two
Delegates 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
Amendments to this Constitution; provided, that each
Amendment shall be embraced in a separate bill, embody-
ing the Article or Section, as the same will stand when
amended and passed by three-fifths 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 amendment or amendments shall be
published by order of the Governor, in at least two news-
papers, 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, once a week for four weeks immediately

1 Thus amended by Chapter 476, Acts of 1943, ratified November 7, 1944.