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ARTICLE X.

COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly may provide for
organizing new counties, locating and removing county

New Counties
may be organized
by the Legislature.

seats and changing county lines, but no new county shall
be organized without the consent of a majority of the

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legal voters residing within the limits about to form said

county, nor shall the lines of any county be changed with-

out the consent of a majority of the legal voters residing

within the limits of the lines proposed to be changed, nor

shall any new county contain less than four hundred square

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miles nor less than ten thousand white inhabitants nor shall

any county be reduced below that amount of square miles,

nor below that number of white inhabitants.

SEC 2. The General Assembly shall provide by general
law for dividing the counties into townships or permanent

Townships in
place of Election
Districts

municipal corporations in place of the existing election

districts prescribing their limits and confiding to them all

powers necessary for the management of their public local

concerns; and whenever the organization of these town-

ship corporations shall be perfected, all officers provided

for in this Constitution, bat whose official functions shall

have been superseded by such organizations shall be dis-

pensed with, and the affairs of such townships and of the

counties as affected by the action of such townships shall

be transacted in such manner as the General Assembly shall

direct.

ARTICLE XI.

AMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly may propose any
amendment or amendments to this Constitution which shall
be agreed to by three-fifths of all the members elected to
both Houses. Such proposed amendment or amendments

Legislature may
propose amend-
ments ? to be pub-
lished before next
election ? to be
submitted to the
people.

with the yeas and nays thereon, shall be entered on the

Journal of each House; shall be printed with the laws

passed at the same session, and shall be published by order