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ARTICLE X.

COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS.

Section 1. The General Assembly may provide for
organizing new counties, locating and removing county
seats and changing county lines, but no new county shall
be organized without the consent of a majority of the
legal voters residing within the limits about to form said
county, nor shall the lines of any county be changed with-
out the consent of a majority of the legal voters residing
within the limits of the lines proposed to be changed, nor

New Counties
may be organized
by the Legislature.

1 Md. 139.
15 Md. 539.

shall any new county contain less than four hundred square
miles nor less than ten thousand white inhabitants nor shall
any county be reduced below that amount of square miles,
nor below that number of white inhabitants.

Provisoes.

Sec. 2. The General Assembly shall provide by general
law for dividing the counties into townships or permanent
municipal corporations in place of the existing election
districts prescribing their limits and confiding to them all
powers necessary for the management of their public local
concerns; and whenever the organization of these town-
ship corporations shall be perfected, all officers provided
for in this Constitution, but whose official functions shall
have been superseded by such organizations shall be dis-
pensed with, and the affairs of such townships and of the
counties as affected by the action of such townships shall
be transacted in such manner as the General Assembly shall
direct.

Townships in
place of Election
Districts.

ARTICLE XI.

AMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Section 1. The General Assembly may propose any
amendment or amendments to this Constitution which shall
be agreed to by three-fifths of all the members elected to
both Houses. Such proposed amendment or amendments
with the yeas and nays thereon, shall be entered on the
Journal of each House; shall be printed with the laws
passed at the same session, and shall be published by order

Legislature may
propose amend-
ments�to be pub-
lished before next
election�to be
submitted to the
people.