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paid a salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum
payable monthly. The City Council, by two-third vote of all the
members elected, may remove from office the President of the
City Council for incompetency, willful neglect of duty of mis-
demeanor in office upon charges preferred by the Mayor, and
after notice of 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 unex-
pired 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 oaccordance 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222 as hereby enacted, are hereby repealed and declared null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 Commission
shall divide and apportion the City of Baltimore into six Coun-
cilmanic Districts, as near as may be, of equal population and
of contiguous territory, and fix the boundaries thereof. The
districts so divided shall be the Councilmanic Districts for thr
election of members of the City Council. When the said six
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