86 MARYLAND MANUAL.

Works. The provisions of the Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland of the year 1867, chapter 359, are
hereby declared null and void.

SEC. 3. [2. ] The Board of Public Works is hereby
authorized, subject to such regulations and conditions as
the Genera) Assembly may from time to time prescribe, to
sell the State's interest in all works of internal improve-
ment, whether as a stockholder or a creditor, and also the
State's interest in any banking corporation, receiving in
payment the bonds and registered debt now owing by the
State, equal in amount to the price obtained for the State's
said interest. *

ARTICLE XIII.

NEW COUNTIES.

SECTION 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
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 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 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 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 territory reduced to
less than four hundred square miles.

SEC. 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, com-

*Thus amended by Act 1890, chapter 462, and ratified by the people
November S, 1891.