deposited with the Board of Supervisors of Election of
Baltimore City to be retained among the records of the said
Board. Said Commissioners shall perform and complete
duties herein imposed upon them on or before the 15th day
of February, 1923. When said book containing the said
descriptions of the said Councilmanic Districts of the City
of Baltimore so laid out as aforesaid, has been deposited
for record in the Clerk's Office of the Superior Court of
Baltimore City, then the said Councilmanic Districts as in
said book described and laid out shall thereafter be deemed
to be the several Councilmanic Districts of Baltimore City.

216. The City Council shall meet annually on the Thurs-
day next after the third Monday in May and may continue
in session for one hundred and twenty days and no longer
in each year; provided that they may by ordinance or resolu-
tion so arrange their sittings that the same may be held
continuously or otherwise, and provided further that the
Mayor may convene the City Council in extra session as he
may now do by the fourth section of the eleventh article of
the State Constitution.

ARTICLE XI-A *.
LOCAL LEGISLATION

SECTION 1. On demand of the Mayor of Baltimore and
City Council of the City of Baltimore, or on petition bearing
the signatures of not less than 20 per cent of the registered
voters of said city or any county (provided, however, that
in any case 10,000 signatures shall be sufficient to complete
a petition), the Board of Election Supervisors of said city
or county shall provide at the next general or Congressional
election, occurring after such demand or the filing of such
petition, for the election of a charter board of eleven regis-
tered voters of said city or five registered voters in any such
counties. Nominations for members for said charter board
may be made not less than forty days prior to said election
by the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of
Baltimore or the County Commissioners of such county, or
not less than twenty days prior to said election by petition
bearing the signatures written in their own handwriting
(and not by their mark) of not less than 5 per cent of the
registered voters of the said City of Baltimore or said coun-
ty; provided, that in any case two thousand signatures of
registered voters shall be sufficient to complete any such

*Added by Chapter 416, 1914, ratified November 2. 1915