with the provisions of said charter and former charter of said
.the city of Baltimore or county shall be thereby repealed.

SEC. 2. The General Assembly at its first session after the
adoption of this amendment shall, by Public General Law,
provide a grant of express powers for such county or counties
as may thereafter form a charter under the provisions of this
Article. Such express powers granted to the counties and the
powers heretofore granted to the city of Baltimore, as set
forth in Article 4, Section 6, Public Local Laws of Maryland,
shall not be enlarged or extended by any charter formed
under the provisions of this Article, but such powers may be
extended, modified, amended or repealed by the General
Assembly.

SEC. 3. Every charter so formed shall provide for an elec-
tive legislative body in which shall be vested the law-making
power of said city or county. Such legislative body in the
city of Baltimore shall be known as the City Council of the

city of Baltimore, and in any county shall be known as the
County Council of the county. The chief executive office, if
any such charter shall provide for the election, of such execu-
tive officer, or the presiding officer of said legislative body, if
such charter shall not provide for the election of a chief execu-
tive officer, shall be known in the city of Baltimore as
Mayor of Baltimore, and in any county as the President of
the County Council of the county, and all references in the
Constitution and laws of this State to the Mayor of Baltimore
and City Council of the city of Baltimore and to the Presi-
dent and County Commissioners of the counties shall be con-
strued to refer to the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of
the city of Baltimore and to the President and County Coun-
cil herein provided for, whenever such construction would be
reasonable. From and after the adoption of. a charter by the
. city of Baltimore, or any county of this State, as hereinbefore
provided, the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the city

of Baltimore or the County Council of said county, subject

to the Constitution and Public General Laws of this State,
shall have full power to enact local laws of said city or county,

including the power to repeal or amend Local Laws of said
city or county enacted by the General Assembly, upon all

matters covered by the express powers granted as above pro-
vided; provided that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to authorize or empower the County Council of any
county in this State to enact laws or regulations for any in-
corporated town, village, or municipality in said county, on
any matter covered by the powers granted to said town, vil-
lage, or municipality by the Act incorporating it, or any sub-
sequent Act or Acts amendatory thereto. Provided, however,
that the charters of the various counties shall provide that the