|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CONSTITUTION OF 1867
|
PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
|
|
|
|
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 description, 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 appor-
|
|
|
|
|
tioned by the Circuit Court of Somerset
|
|
|
|
|
County, as to the debts and obligations
|
|
|
|
|
of said county, and by the Circuit Court
|
|
|
|
|
of Worcester County, as to 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 obliga-
|
|
|
|
|
tions 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 applica-
|
|
|
|
|
tion 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 rejection
|
|
|
|
|
of this Constitution, and at the expense
|
|
|
|
|
of said petitioners.
|
|
|
|
|
Sec. 4. At the first general election,
|
|
|
|
|
held under this Constitution, the qualified
|
|
|
|
|
voters of said new county shall be entitled
|
|
|
|
|
to elect a Senator, and two Delegates to
|
|
|
|
|
the General Assembly, and all such county,
|
|
|
|
|
or other officers as this Constitution may
|
|
|
|
|
authorize, or require to be elected by other
|
|
|
|
|
counties of the State; a notice of such
|
|
|
|
|
election shall be given by the Sheriffs of
|
|
|
|
|
Worcester and Somerset Counties in the
|
|
|
|
|
manner now prescribed by Law; and in
|
|
|
|
|
case said new county shall be established,
|
|
|
|
|
as aforesaid, then the counties of Somerset
|
|
|
|
|
and Worcester shall be entitled to elect
|
|
|
|
|
but two Delegates each to the General
|
|
|
|
|
Assembly.
|
|
|
|
|
Sec. 5. The County of Wicomico, if
|
|
|
|
|
formed according to the provisions of this
|
|
|
|
|
Constitution, shall be embraced in the First
|
|
|
|
|
Judicial Circuit; and the times for holding
|
|
|
|
|
the Courts therein shall be fixed and deter-
|
|
|
|
|
mined by the General Assembly.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
