COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		City Council in extra session whenever, and
		as often as it may appear to him that the
		public good may require; but no called, or
		extra session shall last longer than twenty
		days, exclusive of Sundays.
		Sec. 5. No person elected and qualified
		as Mayor, or as a member of the City
		Council, shall, during the term for which he
		was elected, hold any other office of profit
		or trust, created, or to be created, by the
		Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or by
		any Law relating to the Corporation of
		Baltimore, or hold any employment, or posi-
		tion, the compensation of which shall be
		paid, directly or indirectly, out of the City
		Treasury; nor shall any such person be in-
		terested, directly or indirectly, in any con-
		tract, to which the City is a party; nor
		shall it be lawful for any person, holding
		any office, under the City, to be interested,
		while holding such office, in any contract, to
		which the City is a party.
		Sec. 6. The Mayor shall, on conviction in
		a Court of Law, of wilful neglect of duty,
		or misbehavior in office, be removed from
		office by the Governor of the State, and a
		successor shall thereafter be elected, as in
		a case of vacancy.
		ARTICLE XI-A. LOCAL LEGISLATION
		Section 1. On demand of the Mayor of
		Baltimore and City Council of the City of
		Baltimore, or on petition bearing the sig-
		natures of not less than 20% of the
		registered voters of said city or any county
		(Provided, however, that in any case 10,-
		000 signatures shall be sufficient to com-
		plete a petition), the Board of Election
		Supervisors of said city or county shall
		provide at the next general or congres-
		sional election, occurring after such demand
		or the filing of such petition, for the election
		of a charter board of eleven registered
		voters of said city or five registered voters
		in any such counties. Nominations for
		members for said charter board may be
		made not less than forty days prior to said
		election by the Mayor of Baltimore and City
		Council of the City of Baltimore or the
		County Commissioners of such county, or
		not less than twenty days prior to said
		election by petition bearing the signatures
		written in their own handwriting (and not
		by their mark) of not less than 5% of the
		registered voters of the said City of Balti-
		more or said county; provided, that in any
		case two thousand signatures of registered
		voters shall be sufficient to complete any

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