156 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND.

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: Begin-
ning at the point where Mason and Dixon's line crosses the channel of
Pocomoke River, thence following said line to the channel of the Nanti-
coke 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 chan-
nel 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 Wil-
liam P. Morris, thence due to the Pocomoke River, thence with the channel
of said river to the beginning; the Judges of Election, in each of said dis-
tricts, shall receive the ballots of each elector, voting at said election, who
has 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 henceforth have and enjoy all such rights and privileges as
are held and enjoyed by the inhabitants of the other Counties of this State.

Wicomico county (formed by the union of parts of Worcester and Somerset
counties as authorized by this section) held not to be entitled to any portion of the
school fund belonging at the time of such union to Worcester county. School Com-
missioners v. School Commissioners, 35 Md. 206.

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 build-
ings and other public property of every description belonging to said
Counties of Somerset and Worcester, respectively, and shall be liable for
their proportionate shares of the then existing debts and obligations of the
said Counties, according to the last assessment in said Counties, to be ascer-
tained and apportioned by the Circuit Court of Somerset County, as to the
debts and obligations of said County, and by the Circuit Court of Wor-
cester County as to the debts and obligations of Worcester County, on the
petition of the County Commissioners 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