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420 MARYLAND MANUAL or in either of them, shall be vested in the City Council, as herein constituted. All powers, rights, duties and privileges heretofore vested in the President of the Second Branch of the City Council shall be vested in the President of the City Council as provided for herein. All acts subject to amend ment in accordance with Article XI-A of the Constitution, or parts of such acts, and all ordinances or parts of ordi nances, and all sections, or parts of sections of this charter, including Section 657B of Article IV of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, inconsistent or in conflict with Sections 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 221 and 222 as hereby enacted, are hereby repealed and declared null and void. 215. For the purpose of establishing Councilmanic Dis tricts, the Mayor shall appoint, as soon as may be, a Com mission consisting of three members, who shall be members of the Board of Supervisors of Election .of Baltimore City; the said Commissioners shall serve without pay; one of the said Commissioners shall be the President of said Commis sion and shall be so designated by the Mayor. In case any one or more persons who are members of the Board of Su pervisors of Election shall refuse or be unable to serve, the Mayor shall appoint such other persons not members of the Board of Supervisors of Election as he may deem fit for said office, but not more than two of said Commissioners shall be affiliated with the same political party. The said Com mission shall divide and apportion the City of Baltimore into six Councilmanic Districts, as near as may be, of equal population and of contiguous territory, and fix the bounda ries thereof. The districts so divided shall he the Council- manic Districts for the election of members of the City Council. When the said six Councilmanic Districts are so laid out by the said Commissioners as hereinbefore directed, it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners to make or cause to be made in a proper book, a careful description of the boundaries of each of said Councilmanic Districts num bered under its proper number and after making a careful and exact copy of the same in another proper book, and after verifying the said original book and the said copy by their signatures, to deposit the original book in the Clerk’s Office of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, and to be recorded by him among the Land Records in his Office, and a copy of the description or descriptions contained in the said record of the boundaries or any one or more Council manic Districts therein mentioned and described, shall be evidence of the boundaries of such Councilmanic District or Districts so laid out as aforesaid, and the copy of said orig inal book so made and so verified, as aforesaid, shall be |
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