MAYOR.

1908, Chapter 157 (p607), has made the following changes
in the foregoing provisions, viz:

16. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore qualified to
vote for members of the House of Delegates shall, on the Tues-
day next after the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and
ninety-nine, and on the same day and month in every fourth
year thereafter, elect by ballot a person of known integrity,
experience and sound judgment, over twenty-five years of age,
a citizen of the United States, and five years a resident of said
City next preceding the election, and assessed with property
in said City to the amount of two thousand dollars, and who
has paid taxes thereon for two years preceding his election, to
be Mayor of the City of Baltimore; but the Mayor chosen at
the first election under this section shall not enter upon the
discharge of the office until the expiration of the term for
which the present Mayor was elected; unless the said office of
Mayor shall become vacant by death, resignation, removal
from the State or other disqualification of the present Mayor.

20. The term of Mayor shall commence on the Tuesday
next after the third Monday of May succeeding his election,
and continue for four years, and until his successor shall be
elected and qualified, and he shall receive a salary of six
thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. He may ap-
point such persons to aid him in the discharge of his duties
as may be prescribed by ordinance.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

209. The Legislative Department of the Mayor and Cnty
Council of Baltimore shall be vested in the City Council,
which shall consist of two Branches, one of which shall be the
First Branch and the other the Second Branch.

210. The First Branch shall consist of one member from
each ward of the City, who shall be a citizen of the United
States, above the age of twenty-one years, a resident of the
City three years preceding his election, and for the same time
a resident of the ward for which he is elected, and assessed
with property, to the amount of three hundred dollars, who
has paid taxes on the same one year prior to his election, and
. shall hold his office for two years. Each member of the First