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776 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 14
obligations of said County, and by the Circuit Court of
Worcester County, as to the debts and obligations of Wor-
cester County, on the petition of the County Commissioners
of the said Counties, respectively; and the property in each
part of the said Counties, included in said new County, shall
be bound only for the share of the debts and obligations
of the county from which it shall be separated; and the In-
habitants of said new County shall also pay the County
taxes levied upon them at the time of the creation of such
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 Coun-
ty 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.
1 SEC. 1. The General Assembly may propose amend-
ments to this Constitution; provided that each amendment
shall be embraced in a separate bill, embodying the Article
or Section, as the same will stand when amended and
passed by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of
1 Thus amended by Chapter 367, Acts of 1972, ratified November 7, 1972.

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