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Maryland Manual, 1967-68
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[Art. 13, Sec. 1] MARYLAND MANUAL 681
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.
ARTICLE XIII.
NEW COUNTIES.
1 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
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
"1 Thus Amended by Chapter 6118, Acts of 1847, ratified November 2, 1948.

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