Branch shall be paid a salary of One Thousand Dollars per
annum, payable monthly.

211. The Second Branch shall consist of nine members, one
of whom shall be the President thereof, and shall possess the
qualifications and be elected as hereinafter provided. The
other eight members shall be elected from four Councilmanic
Districts, two from each district; said district to be estab-
lished and fixed as herein defined by this Act. The members
of the Second Branch, excepting the President thereof, shall
be citizens of the United States above the age of twenty-five
years, residents of the City of Baltimore four years prior to
their election, each of whom has been assessed with property
in the said City in the sum of Five Hundred dollars, and who
has paid taxes on the same for two years prior to his election;
and the said members of the Second Branch shall hold their
offices for four years, except as provided in Section 213 of this
Article, and each of them shall be paid a salary of one thou-
sand dollars per annum, payable monthly.

212. The election for members of the First Branch shall
be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May,
in the year nineteen hundred and eleven, and upon every
fourth year thereafter. Their terms of office shall be for four
years. Said election shall be held by wards, and no person
shall be entitled to vote for any member of the First Branch
except for the member for the ward of which the voter is a
resident. The members of said branch now in office shall hold
office until their successors have been elected under the pro-
visions of this article, and. have duly qualified.

213. The election for the said eight members of the Sec-
ond Branch shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in May, in the year nineteen hundred and eleven, and
upon every fourth year thereafter. Their terms of office shall
be for four years. The members of the Second Branch now
in office shall hold office until their successors have been
elected under the provisions of this Article, and have duly
qualified.

214. There shall be elected on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in May, in the year eighteen hundred and nine-
ty-nine, and upon every fourth year thereafter, from the City
at large, a person to be the President of the Second Branch
of the City Council, who shall possess the qualifications re-
quired and hereinbefore defined, of the Mayor of the City of
Baltimore. His duty shall be to preside over the Second