COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	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 ter-
	ritory reduced to less than four hundred
	square miles.
	Sec. 2. At the election to be held for
	the adoption, or rejection of this Constitu-
	tion, in each Election District, in those
	parts of Worcester and Somerset Counties,
	comprised within the following limits, viz:
	Beginning at the point, where Mason and
	Dixon's line crosses the channel of Poco-
	moke River, thence following said line to
	the channel of the Nanticoke 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 channel of
	said creek and Passerdyke Creek to Da-
	shield'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 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
	know the same; and if a majority of the
	legal votes, cast within that part of Worces-
	ter 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 be-
	come 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.

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