for which they are appointed or elected. And the President
and Directors of the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com-
pany shall so regulate the tolls of said Company, from time
to time, as to produce the largest amount of revenue,
and to avoid the injurious effect to said Company of rival
competition by other Internal Improvement Companies.
They shall require the Directors of all said Public Works
to guard the public interest, and prevent the establishment
of tolls which shall discriminate against the interest of
the citizens or products of this State, and from time to
time, and as often as there shall be any change in the rates
of toll on any of the said Works, to furnish the said Board
of Public Works a schedule of such modified rates of toll,
and so adjust them as to promote the agricultural interests
of the State; they shall report to the General Assembly at
each regular session, and recommend such legislation as
they may deem necessary and requisite to promote or pro-
tect 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 compe-
tent to act. The Governor, Comptroller and Treasurer
shall receive no additional salary for services rendered by
them as members of the Board of Public Works. The pro-
visions of the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland
of the year 1867, Chapter 359, are hereby declared null and
void.

SEC. 3. The Board of Public Works is hereby author-
ized, subject to such regulations and conditions as the Gen-
eral 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 and
interest.(1)

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

(1) hus amended by Chapter 362, Acts of 1890, ratified November 3, 1891.