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interests of the State in the said Public Works; they
shall perform such other duties as may be hereafter pre-
scribed by Law, and a majority of them shall be compe-
tent to act. The Governor, Comptroller and Treasurer
shall receive no additional salary for services rendered
by them as members of the Board of Public Works.

SEC. 3.¹⁸¹ The Board of Public Works is hereby au-
thorized, subject to such regulations and conditions as
the General Assembly may from time to time prescribe,
to sell the State's interest in all works of Internal Im-
provement, whether as a stockholder or a creditor, and
also the State's interest in any banking corporation, re-
ceiving 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 I.¹⁸² The General Assembly may provide,
by Law, for organizing new Counties, locating and re-
moving 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 lim-
its 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 in-
habitants, or its territory reduced to less than four hun-
dred square miles. No county lines heretofore validly
established shall be changed except in accordance with
this section.

SEC. 2.¹⁸³ The General Assembly shall pass all such
Laws as may be necessary more fully to carry into ef-
fect the provisions of this Article.

ARTICLE XIV.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

SECTION I.¹⁸⁴ The General Assembly may propose
amendments to this Constitution; provided that each
amendment shall be embraced in a separate bill, em-
bodying the Article or Section, as the same will stand

Article XII

when amended and passed by three-fifths of all the
members elected to each of the two Houses, by yeas
and nays, to be entered on the Journals with the pro-
posed amendment. The requirement in this section that
an amendment proposed by the General Assembly shall
be embraced in a separate bill shall not be construed or
applied to prevent the General Assembly from (1) pro-
posing in one bill a series of amendments to the Consti-
tution of Maryland for the general purpose of removing
or correcting constitutional provisions which are obso-
lete, inaccurate, invalid, unconstitutional, or duplicative;
or (2) embodying in a single Constitutional amendment
one or more Articles of the Constitution so long as that
Constitutional amendment embraces only a single sub-
ject. The bill or bills proposing amendment or amend-
ments shall be publicized, either by publishing, by order
of the Governor, in at least two newspapers, in each
County, where so many may be published, and where
not more than one may be published, then in that news-
paper, and in three newspapers published in the City of
Baltimore, once a week for four weeks, or as otherwise
ordered by the Governor in a manner provided by law,
immediately preceding the next ensuing general election,
at which the proposed amendment or amendments shall
be submitted, in a form to be prescribed by the General
Assembly, to the qualified voters of the State for adop-
tion or rejection. The votes cast for and against said
proposed amendment or amendments, severally, shall
be returned to the Governor, in the manner prescribed
in other cases, and if it shall appear to the Governor
that a majority of the votes cast at said election on said
amendment or amendments, severally, were cast in fa-
vor thereof, the Governor shall, by his proclamation,
declare the said amendment or amendments having re-
ceived said majority of votes, to have been adopted by
the people of Maryland as part of the Constitution
thereof, and thenceforth said amendment or amend-
ments shall be part of the said Constitution. If the Gen-
eral Assembly determines that a proposed Constitution-
al amendment affects only one county or the City of
Baltimore, the proposed amendment shall be part of the
Constitution if it receives a majority of the votes cast in
the State and in the affected county or City of
Baltimore, as the case may be. When two or more
amendments shall be submitted to the voters of this
State at the same election, they shall be so submitted as
that each amendment shall be voted on separately.

SEC. 1A.¹⁸⁵ A proposed Constitutional amendment
which, by provisions that are of limited duration, pro-
vides for a period of transition, or a unique schedule
under which the terms of the amendment are to become
effective, shall set forth those provisions in the amend-
ment as a section or sections of a separate article, to be
known as "provisions of limited duration", and state
the date upon which or the circumstances under which
those provisions shall expire. If the Constitutional
amendment is adopted, those provisions of limited du-
ration shall have the same force and effect as any other
part of the Constitution, except that they shall remain a
part of the Constitution only so long as their terms re-
quire. Each new section of the article known as "provi-