lxxvi CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 13.

the channel of said river to the beginning, the Judges of election,
in each of said Districts, 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, cost 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 thenceforth have and enjoy all such rights and
privileges as are held and enjoyed by the Inhabitants of the other
Counties of this State.

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 buildings, and other public property of every descrip-
tion, 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 ascertained
And apportioned by the Circuit Court for Somerset County, as to
the debts and obligations of said County, and by the Circuit
Court for Worcester County, on 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 Wicomico, the Surveyor of
Worcester County shall run and locate the line from Meadow
Bridge to the Pocomoke River, previous to the adoption, or