nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or
empower the County Council of any county in this State to en-
act laws or regulations for any incorporated town, village, or
municipality in said county, on any matter covered by the
powers granted to said town, village, or municipality by the
Act incorporating it, or any subsequent Act or Acts amenda-
tory thereto. Provided, however, that the charters of the
various counties shall provide that the 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, hereinbe-
fore provided, shall be subject to the same rules of interpreta-
tion 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 Council 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 id 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