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492 MARYLAND MANUAL. such charges is given to the President of the City Council and an opportunity afforded him to be heard. 213. The qualifications of electors of members of the City Council shall be the same as those of electors of the Mayor. All vacancies in the City Council shall be filled without delay by the City Council from the Councilmanic District in which the said vacancy occurs, by an election of a person possess- ing the qualifications hereinbefore described, to fill the un- expired term of the former incumbent. 214. All powers, rights, duties and privileges heretofore vested in the First and Second Branches of the City Council, or in either of them, shall be vested in the City Council, as herein constituted. All powers, rights, duties and privileges heretofore vested in the President of the Second Branch of the City Council shall be vested in the President of the City Council as provided for herein. All acts subject to amend- ment in accordance with Article XI-A of the Constitution, or parts of such acts, and all ordinances or parts of ordi- nances, and all sections, or parts of sections of this charter, including Section 657B of Article IV of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, inconsistent or in conflict with Sections 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 221 and 222 as hereby enacted, are hereby repealed and declared null and void. 215. For the purpose of establishing Councilmanic Dis- tricts, the Mayor shall appoint, as soon as may be, a Com- mission consisting of three members, who shall be members of the Board of Supervisors of Election of Baltimore City; the said Commissioners shall serve without pay; one of the said Commissioners shall be the President of said Commis- sion and shall be so designated by the Mayor. In case any one or more persons who are members of the Board of Su- pervisors of Election shall refuse or be unable to serve, the Mayor shall appoint such other persons not members of the Board of Supervisors of Election as he may deem fit for said office, but not more than two of said Commissioners shall be affiliated with the same political party. The said Com- mission shall divide and apportion the City of Baltimore into six Councilmanic Districts, as near as may be, of equal population and of contiguous territory, and fix the bounda- ries thereof. The districts so divided shall be the Council- manic Districts for the election of members of the City Council. When the said six Councilmanic Districts are so laid out by the said Commissioners as hereinbefore directed, it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners to make or cause to be made in a proper book, a careful description of the boundaries of each of said Councilmanic Districts num |
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