SEC. 3.²⁰⁷ The Board of Pubhc 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 Improve
ment, 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 pnce obtained for the State's
said interest

ARTICLE XIII.

N£W CO UNTIES

SECTION I.²⁰⁸ 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 when-
ever a new county shall be proposed to be formed out of
poruons 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. 2.²⁰⁹ 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. The General Assembly may propose
amendments 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 secnon 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 re
moving or correcting constitutional provisions which are
obsolete, inaccurate, invalid, unconstitutional, or duplica
tive, or (2) embodying in a single Constitutional amend
ment one or more Articles of the Constitution so long as

that Consututional 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 Balti
more, once a week tor 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 it it shall
appear to the Governor that a majority of the votes cast at
said election on said amendment or amendments, sever
ally, 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 Consti
tution thereof, and thenceforth said amendment or
amendments shall be part of the said Constitution If the
General Assembly determines that a proposed Constitu
tional amendment affects only one county or the City of
Baltimore, the proposed amendment shall be parr of the
Constituuon 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 amend
ment shall be voted on separately

SEC. 1A. 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 effec
tive, shall set forth those provisions 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 ha\ e 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 arucle known as "provisions of limited duration" shall
refer to the title and section of the other article of the
Constituuon of which it, temporarily, is a part

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the General Assem
biy to provide by Law for taking, at the general election
to be held in the year nineteen hundred and seventy, and
every twenty years thereafter, the sense of the People in
regard to calling a Convention for altering this Constitu
tion, and if a majority of voters at such election or
elections shall vote for a Convention, the General
Assembly, at its next session, shall provide by Law for the
assembling of such convention, and for the election of