96 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. XIII

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 con-
sent of a majority of the legal voters of such part of each of said coun-
ties, respectively, shall be required; nor shall the lines of any county
be changed without the consent of a majority of the legal voters resid-
ing within the district, which, under said proposed change, would form
a part of a county 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 white 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 white inhabi-
tants, or its territory reduced to less than four hundred square miles.

Sec. 2. At the election to be held for the adoption or rejection of
this Constitution, in each election district, in those parts of Worcester
and Somerset Counties, comprised within the following limits, viz:
Beginning at the point where Mason and Dixon's line crosses the
channel of Pocomoke River, thence following said line to the channel
of the Nanticoke River, thence with the channel of said river to Tangier
Sound, or the intersection of Nanticoke and Wicomico Rivers, thence
up the channel of the Wicomico River to the mouth of Wicomico Creek,
thence with the channel of said creek and Passerdyke Creek to Dashiell's
or Disharoon's Mills, thence with the mill pond of said mills and
branch following the middle prong of said branch, to Meadow Bridge,
on the road dividing the Counties of Somerset and Worcester, near the
southwestern corner of farm of William P. Morris, thence due to the
Pocomoke River, thence with the channel of said river to the begin-
ning; the Judges of Election, in each of said districts, shall receive
the ballots of each elector, voting at said election, -ho hag resided for
six months preceding said election within said limits, for or against
a new County; and the Return Judges of said election districts shall
certify the result of such voting, in the manner now prescribed by Law,
to the Governor, who shall by proclamation make known the same, and
if a majority of the legal votes cast within that part of Worcester
County, contained within said lines, and also a majority of the legal
votes cast within that part of Somerset County, contained within said
lines, shall be in favor of a new County, then said parts of Worcester
and Somerset Counties shall become and constitute a new County, to be-
called Wicomico County; and Salisbury shall be the County seat. And
the inhabitants thereof shall thenceforth have and enjoy all such rights
and privileges as are held and enjoyed by the inhabitants of the other
Counties of this State.

Sec. 3. When said new County shall have been so created, the
inhabitants thereof shall cease to have any claim to. or interest in, the-
county buildings and other public property of every description belong-
ing to said Counties of Somerset and Worcester, respectively, and shall
be liable for their proportionate shares of the then existing debts and