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Council of Baltimore in connection with any powe^s which
may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more pursuant to this Article, are all declared to be needed,
contracted for, expended or exercised for a public use.

(d) In the event of any conflict between the provisions
of this Article and those of Article XI, Section 7, of the
Constitution of Maryland, or any other provisions of the
Constitution, then the provisions of this Article shall
control.

2. The General Assembly of Maryland may grant to
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any and all
additional power and authority necessary or proper to
carry into full force and effect any and all of the specific
powe^s which the General Assembly of Maryland is au-
thorized to grant to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore pursuant to this Article, and to fully accomplish
any and all of the purposes and objects contemplated by
the provisions of this Article, provided such additional
power or authority is not inconsistent with the terms and
provisions of this Article or with any other provision or
provisions of the Constitution of Maryland, except as
provided in this Article. The General Assembly may place
such other and further restrictions or limitations on the
exercise of any of the powers which it may grant to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under the provisions
of this Article as it may deem proper and expedient.

ARTICLE XII.

PUBLIC WORKS.

SECTION 1. The Governor, the Comptroller of the
Treasury and the Treasurer, shall constitute the Board of
Public Works in this State. They shall keep a journal of their
proceedings, and shall hold regular sessions in the City of
Annapolis, on the first Wednesday in January, April, July
and October, in each year, and oftener, if necessary, at
which sessions they shall hear and determine such matters
as affect the Public Works of the State, and as the General
Assembly may confer upon them the power to decide.

SEC. 2.202 They shall exercise a diligent and faithful
supervision of all Public Wjrks in which the State may be
interested as Stockholder or Creditor, and shall appoint the
Directors in every Railroad and Canal Company, in which
the State has the legal power to appoint Directors, which
said Directors shall represent the State in all meetings of the
Stockholders of the respective Companies for which they
are appointed or elected. They shall require the Directors of
all said Public Works to guard the public interest, and
prevent the establishment of tolls which shall discriminate
against the interest of the citizens or products of this State,
and from time to time, and as often as there shall be any
change in the rates of toll on any of the said Works, to furnish
the said Board of Public Works a schedule of such modified
rates of toll, and so adjust them as to promote the agricul-
tural interests of the State; they shall report to the General
Assembly at each regular session, and recommend such
legislation as they may deem necessary and requisite to
promote or protect the interests of the State in the said
Public Works; they shall perform such other duties as may

Article XII

be hereafter prescribed byLaw, and a majority of them shall
be competent 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. 3.203 The Boaid of Public Vtbrks is hereby author-
ized, 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 Improvement,
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 remov-
ing 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
proposcd 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 hundrca 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 inhabi-
tants, 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.

SEC. 2.20S The General Assembly shall pass all such
Laws as may be necessary more fully to carry into effect the
provisions of this Article.

ARTICLE XIV.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

SEC. 1.206 The General Assembly may propose amend-
ments to this Constitution; provided that each amendment
shall be embraced in a separate bill, embodying the Article
or Section, as the same will stand 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 pressed amendment. The requirement in this section
that an amendment proposed by the General Assembly shall
be embraced in a separate biU shall not be construed or
applied to prevent the General Assembly from (1) propos-
ing in one Dili a series of amendments to the Constitution
ofMaryiand for the general purpose of removing or correct-
ing constitutional provisions which are obsolete, inaccurate,