—the Supreme Court of the United States, commenting upon the authority of the legislature to control political subdivisions within the state, said: "Counties, cities, and towns are municipal corporations, created by the authority of the legislature; and they derive all their powers from the source of their creation, except where the constitution of the State otherwise provides." …

Debts previously contracted must be paid entirely by the old corporation, not has the new municipality any claim to any portion of the public property, except what falls within her boundaries, and to that the old corporation has no claim whatever.

"Regulation upon the subject may be prescribed by the Legislature; but, if they omit to make any provision in that regard, the presumption must be that they did not consider that any legislation in the particular case was necessary. Where the Legislature does not prescribe any such regulations, the rule is that the old corporation owns all the public property within her new …

Corporations of the kind are properly denominated public corporations, for the reason that they are but parts of the machinery employed in carrying on the affairs of the State; and it is well-settled law, that the charters under which such corporations are created may be changed, modified, or repealed, as the exigencies of the public service or the public welfare may …

The same consistent refusal of this Court to find that the Federal Constitution restricts state power to design the structure of state political institutions is reflected in the cases rejecting claims arising out of the States' creation, alteration, or destruction of local subdivisions or their powers, insofar as these claims are made by the subdivisions themselves

—the question was elaborately considered and the authorities reviewed, "it is everywhere acknowledged that the Legislature possesses the power to divide counties and towns at their pleasure, and to apportion the common property and the common burdens in such manner as to them may seem reasonable and equitable."

He felt that the right to vote does not entitle a person to vote in a particular municipal election, but only the general right to vote. 15.

Municipalities are creatures of state law and subject to the power of the State, as limited by its constitution, to create, divide, and even abolish them

"A county is a political subdivision of the state, created to aid in the administration of government."

The court adopts the view of the United States Supreme Court, that the Fourteenth Amendment imposed no restrictions on the states in this field