ARTICLE XII.

SECTION 1. The Governor, the Comptroller of the
Treasury and the Treasurer, shall constitute the Board of
Public Works in this State. They shall keep a journal of their
proceedings, and shall hold regular sessions in the City of
Annapolis, on the first 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. 2.²⁰⁵ 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 agricul-
tural 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
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 Treas-
urer shall receive no additional salary for services rendered
by them as members of the Board of Public Works.

SEC. 3.²⁰⁶ The Board of Public Works is hereby author-
ized, 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 owing by the State, equal
in amount to the price obtained for the State's said interest.

ARTICLE XIII.

NEW COUNTIES.

SECTION 1.²⁰⁷ The General Assembly may provide,
by Law, for organizing new Counties, locating and remov-
ing 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 hun-
dred square miles. No county lines heretofore validly estab-
lished shall be changed except in accordance with this
section.

SEC. 2.²⁰⁸ 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.

SEC. 1.²⁰⁹ 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 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) propos-
ing in one bill a series of amendments to the Constitution
of Maryland for the general purpose of removing or correct-
ing 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 amend-
ment embraces only a single subject. The bill or bills pro-
posing amendment or amendments 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 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, 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 amend-
ments having received said majority of votes, to have been
adopted by the people of Maryland as part of the Constitu-
tion thereof, and thenceforth said amendment or amend-
ments 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,