No new county shall contain less than four hundred
square miles of territory, nor shall any county be
reduced below that amount; and all laws creating new
counties, changing county lines, or removing county
seats, shall, before taking effect, be submitted to the
electors of the several counties to be affected thereby,
at the next general election after the passage thereof,
and be adopted by a majority of all the electors voting
at such election, in each of said counties; but any
county now or hereafter containing one hundred thousand
inhabitants, may be divided, whenever a majority
of the voters residing in each of the proposed divisions
shall approve of the law passed for that purpose; but
no town or city within the same shall be divided, nor
shall either of the divisions contain less than twenty
thousand inhabitants.
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