ART. 13. ] NEW COUNTIES. 1XXT

ARTICLE XIII.

NEW COUNTIES.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly may provide, by Law, for
organizing new Counties, locating and removing county seats,
and changing county lines; but no new county shall be organized
without the consent 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 consent of a majority
of the legal voters of such part of each of said counties, respec-
tively, shall be required; nor shall the lines of any county be
changed without the consent of a majority of the legal voters,,
residing 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 Inhabitants, or its territory
reduced to less than four hundred square miles.

State v. Manly, 1 Md 139. Eichelberger v Hardesty, 15 Md 549. School
Comm'rs of Wicomico Co v. School Comm'rs of Worcester Co., 35 Md. 201.

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 follow-
ing 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 inter-
section of Nanticoke and Wicomico Rivers, thence up the chan-
nel of the Wicomico River to the mouth of Wicomico Creek,
thence with the channel of said creek and Passerdyke Creek to
Dashield'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 southwest corner of the farm of William
P. Morris, thence due east to the Pocomoke River, thence with