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ARTS. 10-11. ] STATE OF MARYLAND. 69
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ARTICLE X.
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COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS.
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SECTION 1. The General Assembly may provide for
organizing new counties, locating and removing county
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New Counties
may be organized
by the Legislature.
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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
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county, nor shall the lines of any county be changed with-
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out the consent of a majority of the legal voters residing
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within the limits of the lines proposed to be changed, nor
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shall any new county contain less than four hundred square
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Provisoes.
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miles nor less than ten thousand white inhabitants nor shall
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any county be reduced below that amount of square miles,
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nor below that number of white inhabitants.
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SEC 2. The General Assembly shall provide by general
law for dividing the counties into townships or permanent
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Townships in
place of Election
Districts
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municipal corporations in place of the existing election
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districts prescribing their limits and confiding to them all
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powers necessary for the management of their public local
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concerns; and whenever the organization of these town-
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ship corporations shall be perfected, all officers provided
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for in this Constitution, bat whose official functions shall
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have been superseded by such organizations shall be dis-
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pensed with, and the affairs of such townships and of the
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counties as affected by the action of such townships shall
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be transacted in such manner as the General Assembly shall
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direct.
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