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elected. 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 pro-
mote 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 here-
by authorized, subject to such regulations and
conditions as the General 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 ow-
ing by the State, equal in amount to the price
obtained for the State's said interest.
ARTICLE XIII.
NEW COUNTIES.
SECTION 1. "^ The General Assembly may
provide, by Law, for organizing new Counties, lo-
cating and removing county seats, and changing
county lines; but no new county shall be orga-
nized 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 Baltimore
City be changed without the consent of a majori-
ty 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
"' Thus amended by Chapter 362, Acts of 1890, ratihed No-
vember 3,1891
"' Thus amended by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified No-
vember 7,1978

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than four hundred square miles, nor less than ten
thousand 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 inhabitants, or its territory
reduced to less than four hundred square miles.
No county lines heretofore validly established
shall be changed except in accordance with this
section.
SEC. 2.1" The General Assembly shall pass
all such Laws as may be necessary more fully to
carry into effect the provisions of this Article.
ARTICLE XIV.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
SECTION 1.™ The General Assembly may
propose amendments to this Constitution; provid-
ed 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
the two Houses, by yeas and nays, to be entered
on the Journals with the proposed amendment.
The requirement in this section that an amend-
ment proposed by the General Assembly shall be
embraced in a separate bill shall not be construed
or applied to prevent the General Assembly from
(1) proposing in one bill a series of amendments
to the Constitution of Maryland for the general
purpose of removing or correcting constitutional
provisions which are obsolete, inaccurate, invalid,
unconstitutional, or duplicative; or (2) embodying
in a single Constitutional amendment one or
more Articles of the Constitution so long as that
Constitutional amendment embraces only a single
subject. The bill or bills proposing amendment or
amendments shall be publicized, either by pub-
lishing, by order of the Governor, in at least two
newspapers, in each County, where so many may
be published, and where not more than one may
be published, then in that newspaper, and in
three newspapers published in the City of
Baltimore, once a week for four weeks, or as oth-
erwise ordered by the Governor in a manner pro-
vided by law, immediately preceding the next en-
suing general election, at which the proposed
amendment or amendments shall be submitted, in
a form to be prescribed by the General Assembly,
to the qualified voters of the State for adoption
or rejection. The votes cast for and against said
proposed amendment or amendments, severally,
'"" Originally Article XIII, sec 6, this section was renumbered
with the repeal of sections 2 through 5 by Chapter 681, Acts of
1977, ratified November 7, 1978
'™ Thus amended by Chapter (>79, Acts of 1977, and Chapter
975, Acts ot 1978, ratified November 7, 197»,