County Council of the counties shall not sit more than one
month in each year for the purpose of enacting legislation for
such counties, and all legislation shall be enacted during the
month 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, 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 provided.
Any law so drawn as to apply to two or more of the geographi-
cal sub-divisions 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 Bal-
timore or any of the counties of this State.

SEC. 5. Amendments to any charter adopted by the city of
Baltimore or by any county of this State under the provisions
of this Article may be proposed by a resolution of the Mayor
of, Baltimore and the City Councill of said the city of Balti-
more, or the Council of said county, or by a petition signed by
not less than 20 per cent of the registered, voters of said city
or county, provided, however, that in any case 10,000 signa-
tures shall be sufficient to complete a petition, and. filed with
the Mayor of Baltimore or the President of the County Coun-
cil, and when so proposed shall be submitted to the voters of
said city or county at the next general or Congressional elec-
tion occurring after the passage of said resolution, or the filing
of said petition; and if at said election the majority of the
votes cast for and against said amendments shall be in favor
thereof, said amendment shall be adopted and become a part
of the charter of said city or county from and after the
thirtieth day after said election. Said amendments shall be
published by said Mayor of Baltimore or President of the
County Council once a week for five successive weeks prior
to said election in at least one newspaper published in said
city or county.