required; nor shall the lines of any county nor of Balti-
more City be changed without the consent of a majority of
the legal voters residing within the district, which under
said proposed change, would form a part of a county or
of Baltimore City different from that to which it belonged
prior to said change; and no new county shall contain less
than four hundred square miles, nor less than ten thousand
white inhabitants; nor shall any change be made in the
limits of any county, whereby the population of said county
would be reduced to less than ten thousand white inhab-
itants, or its territory reduced to less than four hundred
square miles'

SEC. 2. At the election to be held for the adoption, or
rejection of this Constitution, in each Election District, in
those parts of Worcester and Somerset Counties, comprised
within the following limits, viz.: Beginning at the point,
where Mason and Dixon's line crosses the channel of Poco-
moke River, thence following said line to the channel of the
Nanticoke River, thence with the channel of said river to
Tangier Sound, or the intersection of Nanticoke and Wicom-
ico Rivers, thence up the channel of the Wicomico River to
the mouth of Wicomico Creek, thence with the channel of
said creek and Passerdyke Creek to Dashield's, or Disha-
roon's Mills, thence with the mill pond of said mills and
Branch following the middle prong of said Branch, to
Meadow Bridge, on the road, dividing the Counties of Som-
erset and Worcester, near the southwest corner of the farm
of William P. Morris, thence due east to the Pocomoke Riv-
er, thence with the channel of said river to the beginning,
the Judges of election, in each of said Districts, shall re-
ceive 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 Election 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 Som-
erset 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 en-
joyed by the Inhabitants of the other Counties of this State.

'Thus amended by Chapter 618, Acts of 1947. ratified November 2 1948.