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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor 2775
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interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, for
any of said purposes, in any of the counties of this
State without the prior consent and approval by
resolution duly passed after a public hearing, by the
[Board of County Commissioners] GOVERNING BODY of the
county in which such land or property, or such right,
interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, is
situate; and provided, further, that Anne Arundel County
shall retain jurisdiction and power to tax any land so
acquired by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under
the provisions of this Act.
Article XIII - New Counties
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
[by] 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,
respectively, shall be required; nor shall the lines of
any county nor of Baltimore City 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 or of Baltimore City 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 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 inhabitants, or its territory reduced
to less than four hundred square miles. NO COUNTY LINES
HERETOFORE VALIDLY ESTABLISHED SHALL BE CHANGED EXCEPT IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION.
[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 following 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
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 Dashield's, or Disharoon's Mills,
thence with the millpond 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
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