Wednesday in January, April, July and October, in each year, and
oftener, if necessary; at which sessions they shall hear and
determine such matters as affect the Public Works of the State,
and as the General Assembly may confer upon them the power to
decide.

SEC. 2."⁷ They shall exercise a diligent and faithful supervision
of all Public Works in which the State may be 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 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 Slate; they shall report to the General Assembly at cadi
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. 3.¹⁹⁸ The Board of Public Works is hereby 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 regis-
tered debt now owing by the State, equal in amount to the price
obtained for the State's said interest.

ARTICLE XIII.
NEW COUNTIES.

SECTION I."⁹ 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
Baltimore 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 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 estab-
lished shall be changed except in accordance with this section.

SEC. 2.²⁰⁰ The General Assembly shall pass all such Laws as

'"Amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified Nov. 6, 1956.
'"Amended by Chapter 362, Acts of 1890, ratified Nov. 3, 1891.
'" Amended by Chapter 618, Acts of 1947, ratified Nov. 2, 1948;
Chapter 550, Acts of 1976, ratified Nov. 2, 1976; Chapter 681, Acts
of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
²⁰⁰ Originally Article XIII, sec. 6, this section was renumbered with

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may be necessary more fully to carry into effect the provisions of
this Article.

ARTICLE XIV.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

SEC. I.²⁰' The General Assembly may propose amendments to
this Constitution; provided that each amendment shall be em-
braced 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 amendment 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 Constitu
tion so long as that Constitutional amendment embraces only a
single subject. The bill or bills proposing amendment or amend-
ments shall be publicized, either by publishing, 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 otherwise ordered by the Governor in a manner provided by
law, immediately preceding the next ensuing general election, at
which the proposed amendment or amendments shall be submit-
ted, 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, shall be returned to the Governor, in the manner
prescribed in other cases, and if it shall appear to the Governor
that a majority of the votes cast at said election on said
amendment or amendments, severally, were cast in favor thereof,
the Governor shall, by his proclamation, declare the said
amendment or amendments having received said majority of
votes, to have been adopted by the people of Maryland as part of
the Constitution thereof, and thenceforth said amendment or
amendments shall be part of the said Constitution, If the General
Assembly determines that a proposed Constitutional amendment
affects only one county or the City of Baltimore, the proposed
amendment shall be part of the Constitution if it receives a
majority of the votes cast in the State and in the affected county
or City of Baltimore, as the case may be. When two or more
amendments shall be submitted to the voters of this State at the
same election, they shall be so submitted as that each amendment
shall be voted on separately,

SEC. 1A.²⁰² A proposed Constitutional amendment which, by
provisions that are of limited duration, provides for a period of
transition, or a unique schedule under which the terms of the
amendment are to become effective, shall set forth those provi-
sions in the amendment as a section or sections of a separate
article, to be known as "provisions of limited duration", and state
the date upon which or the circumstances under which those
provisions shall expire. If the Constitutional amendment is
adopted, those provisions of limited duration shall have the same
force and effect as any other part of the Constitution, except that
they shall remain a part of the Constitution only so long as their
terms require. Each new section of the article known as
"provisions of limited duration" shall refer to the title and section

the repeal of sections 2 through 5 by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977,
ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
²⁰¹ Amended by Chapter 476, Acts of 1943, ratified Nov. 7, 1944;
Chapter 367, Acts of 1972, ratified Nov. 7, 1972; Chapter 679, Acts
of 1977, and Chapter 975, Acts of 1978, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
²⁰² Added by Chapter 680, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.