Section XVII-4: Legislature to provide for creation or alteration - Submission to vote - Area, population and taxable wealth.

  The Legislature shall provide by general laws for the creation
of new counties or altering or changing lines and the equitable
division of assets and of liabilities, and the original location
of county seats in such new counties:  Provided, That every such
question shall be submitted to the vote of the qualified electors
residing in the territory to be formed into such new county or
transferred to another county, and shall be approved by sixty per
centum of the votes cast in said election:  Provided, That no new
county shall be formed of less than four hundred square miles
taxable area, nor with a population less than fifteen thousand
people, nor with taxable wealth less than two and one-half
million dollars, as shown by the current tax rolls.  Nor shall
any territory be taken from an existing county for any purpose
bringing the newly created line of such existing county nearer
than ten miles to the county seat thereof.  Nor shall the taxable
area, population, or taxable wealth of said existing county be
reduced below that required for a new county.  Nor shall any
territory, in any case, be transferred from one county to an
existing county, if, by such transfer of territory, the county
from which the territory be taken will then be smaller in area
than the county to which the addition is made:  Provided, That
when territory is to be transferred from an existing county to
either a new or an existing county, there must be sixty per
centum of the vote cast in such particular territory in favor of
the transfer, and, in case the transfer be to an existing county,
the acceptance of such territory must first be approved by a
majority vote of the electors of said county, at an election to
be called and held therefor, as may be provided by law.  The
limitation as to area, valuation and population shall not be
increased by the Legislature.