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obligations of the said Counties, according to the last assessment in said
Counties, to be ascertained and apportioned by the Circuit Court of
Somerset County, as to the debts and obligations of said County, and
by the Circuit Court of Worcester County as to the debts and obliga-
tions of Worcester County, on the petition of the County Commis-
sioners of the said Counties, respectively; and the property in each
part of the said Counties included in said new County shall be bound
only for the share of the debts and obligations of the County from which
it shall be separated; and the inhabitants of said new County shall
also pay the County taxes levied upon them at the time of the creation
of such new County, as if such new County had not been created; and
on the application of twelve citizens of the proposed County of Wicom-
ico, the Surveyor of Worcester County shall run and locate the line
from Meadow Bridge to the Potomac River, previous to the adoption
or rejection of this Constitution, and at the expense of said petitioners.

Sec. 4. At the first general election held under this Constitution
the qualified voters of said new County shall be entitled to elect a
Senator and two Delegates to the General Assembly, and all such County
or other officers as this Constitution may authorize, or require to be
elected by other Counties of the State; a notice of such election shall be
given by the sheriffs of Worcester and Somerset Counties in the manner
now prescribed by Law; and in case said new County shall be estab-
lished, as aforesaid, then the Counties of Somerset and Worcester shall
be entitled to elect but two Delegates each to the General Assembly.

Sec. 5. The County of Wicomico, if formed according to the pro-
visions of this Constitution, shall be embraced in the First Judicial
Circuit, and the times for holding the Courts therein shall be fixed and
determined by the General Assembly.

Sec. 6. 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; 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 Bill or Bills pro-
posing amendment or amendments shall be published 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, one of which shall be in the German language, once a week
for at least three months preceding the next ensuing general election,
at which the proposed amendment or amendments shall be submitted,