138 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



powers or privileges lias been, or may hereafter be, conferred u})on the 

 courts of this Commonwealth. 



ARTICLE XII. 



OF NEW COUNTIES. 



No county shall be divided by a line cutting off over one-tenth of its 

 population (either to form a new county or otherwise,) without the ex- 

 press assent of such county, by a vote of the electors thereof; nor shall 

 any new county be established, containing less than four hundred square 

 miles. 



SCHEDULE TO THE AMENDMENTS OF 1838. 



That no inconvenience may arise from the alterations and amendments 

 in the constitution of this Commonwealth, and in order to carry the same 

 into complete operation, it is hereby declared and ordained that 



I. All laws of this Commonwealth, in force at the time when the said 

 alterations and amendments in the said constitution shall take effect, and 

 not inconsistent therewith, and all rights, actions, prosecutions, claims 

 and contracts, as well of individuals as of bodies corporate, shall continue 

 as if the said alterations and amendments had not been made. 



II. The alterations and amendments in the said constitution shall take 

 effect from the first day of January 1839. 



III. The clauses, sections and articles of the said constitution, which 

 remain unaltered, shall continue to be construed and have effect as if the 

 said constitution had not been amended. 



IV. The General Assembly which shall convene in December 1838, 

 shall continue its session as heretofore, notwithstanding the provisions in 

 the eleventh section of the first article, and shall, at all times, be regarded 

 as the first General Assembly under the amended constitution. 



Y. The Governor who shall be elected in October 1838, shall be inaugu- 

 rated on the third Tuesday in January 1839 ; to which time the present 

 executive term is hereby extended. 



VI. The commissions of the judges of the Supreme court, who may 

 be in ofEice on the first day of January next, shall expire in the follow- 

 ing manner : The commission which bears the earliest date shall expire 

 on the first day of January, Anno Domini 1842 ; the commission next 

 dated shall expire on the first day of January, Anno Domini 1815 ; the 

 commission next dated shall expire on the first day of Januarj^, Anno 

 Domini 1848 ; the commission next dated shall expire on the first day of 

 January, Anno Domini 1851; and the commission last dated shall expire 

 on the first day of January, Anno Domini 1854. 



VII. The commissions of the president judges of the several judicial 

 districts, and of the associate law judges of the first judicial district, shall 



