interested as Stockholder or Creditor, and shall appoint the
Directors in every Railroad and Canal Company, in which
the State has the legal power to appoint Directors, which
said Directors shall represent the State in all meetings of
the Stockholders of the respective Companies for which
they are appointed or elected. They shall require the Direc-
tors of all said Public Works to guard the public interest,
and prevent the establishment of tolls which shall discrim-
inate 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 protect 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 competent 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.

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 said
interest. (1)

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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
shall be proposed to be formed out of portions of two or
more counties, the consent of a majority of the legal voters
of such part of each of said counties, respectively, shall be

'Thus amended by Chapter 362, Acts of 1890, ratified November 3. 1891.