said city or five registered voters in any such counties. Nomi-
nations 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 per cent of the registered voters of the said.
City of Baltimore or said county; provided, that in any case
two thousand signatures of registered voters shall be sufficient
to complete any such nominating petition, and if not more
than eleven registered voters of the city of Baltimore or not
more than five registered votes in any such county are so
nominated their names shall not be printed on the ballot, but
said eleven registered, voters in the city of Baltimore or five
in such county shall constitute said charter board from and
after the date of said election. At said election the ballot
shall contain the names of said nominees in alphabetical order
without any indication of the source of their nomination, and
shall also be so arranged as to permit the voter to vote for or
against the creation of said charter board, bat the vote cast
against said creation shall not be held to bar the voter from
expressing his choice among the nominees for said board, and
if the majority of the votes cast for and against the creation
of said charter board shall be against said creation the election
of the members of said charter board shall be void; but if
such majority shall be in favor of the creation of said charter
board, then and in that event the eleven nominees of the city
of Baltimore or five members in the county receiving the
largest number of votes shall constitute the charter board, and
said charter board, or a majority thereof, shall prepare within
six months from the date of said election a charter or form of
government for said city or such county and present the same
to the Mayor of Baltimore or President of the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners of such county, who shall publish the same
in at least two newspapers of general circulation published in
said the city of Baltimore or county within thirty days after
it shall be reported to him. Such charter shall be submitted
to the voters of said city or county at the next general or Con-
gressional election after the report of said charter to said
Mayor of Baltimore or President of the Board of County Com-
missioners; and if a majority of the votes cast for and against
the adoption of said charter shall be in favor of such adoption,
the said charter from and after the thirtieth day from the
date of such election shall become the law of said city or
county, subject only to the Constitution and Public General
Laws of this State, and any Public Local Laws inconsistent