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Maryland Manual, 1927
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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222 as hereby enacted, are hereby repealed and declared null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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