COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		cil of the counties may sit in each year for
		the purpose of enacting legislation for such
		counties, and all legislation shall be enacted
		at the times so designated for that purpose
		in the charter, and all laws and ordinances
		so enacted shall be published once a week
		for three successive weeks in at least one
		newspaper published in such counties, so
		that the taxpayers and citizens may have
		notice thereof. This provision shall not
		apply to Baltimore City. All such local laws
		enacted by the Mayor of Baltimore and
		City Council of the City of Baltimore or the
		Council of the counties as hereinbefore
		provided, shall be subject to the same rules
		of interpretation as those now applicable to
		the Public Local Laws of this State, except
		that in case of any conflict between said
		local law and any Public General Law now
		or hereafter enacted the Public General
		Law shall control.
		Sec. 4. From and after the adoption of a
		charter under the provisions of this Article
		by the City of Baltimore or any county of
		this State, no public local law shall be
		enacted by the General Assembly for said
		city or county on any subject covered by
		the express powers granted as above pro-
		vided. Any law so drawn as to apply to two
		or more of the geographical subdivisions of
		this State shall not be deemed a Local Law,
		within the meaning of this Act. The term
		"geographical sub-division" herein used shall
		be taken to mean the City of Baltimore or
		any of the counties of this State.
		Sec. 6. The power heretofore conferred
		upon the General Assembly to prescribe the
		number, compensation, powers and duties
		of the County Commissioners in each
		county, and the power to make changes in
		Sections 1 to 6 inclusive, Article XI of this
		Constitution, when expressly granted as
		hereinbefore provided, are hereby trans-
		ferred to the voters of each county and the
		voters of City of Baltimore, respectively,
		provided that said powers so transferred
		shall be exercised only by the adoption
		or amendment of a charter as hereinbefore
		provided; and provided further that this
		Article shall not be construed to authorize
		the exercise of any powers in excess of those
		conferred by the legislature upon said
		counties or city as this Article sets forth.
		See Art. XI -B, Sec. I and Sec. 2 at Section
		1.16 for the power of the General Assembly
		by public local law to authorize the Mayor
		and City Council of Baltimore to acquire
		and sell land for land development.

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