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Maryland Manual, 1935
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490 MARYLAND MANUAL


safety and sanitary condition of the city, and may make due
and proper arrangements and agreements for the renewal
and extension, in whole or in part, of any and all debts and
obligations created according to law before the adoption of
this Constitution.*
Sec 8. All Laws and Ordinances now in force applicable
to the City of Baltimore, not inconsistent with this Article,
shall be, and they are hereby continued until changed in due
course of law.
Sac 9. The General Assembly may make such changes
in this Article, except in Section 7 thereof, as it may deem
best; and this Article shall not be so construed or taken as
to make the political corporation of Baltimore independent
of, or free from the control which the General Assembly of
Maryland has over all such Corporations in this State.

CHANGES MADE IN THIS ARTICLE BY THE CHAR-
TER OF BALTIMORE CITY AND AMEND-
MENTS THERETO.

Article XI.A of the Constitution, the voters at the election
in November, 1918, have changed the following provisions:
16. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore qualified to
vote for members of the House of Delegates shall, on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-nine, and on the same day and month in
every fourth year thereafter, elect by ballot a person of
known integrity, experience and sound judgment, over twen-
ty.five years of age, a citizen of the United States, and five
years a resident of said City next preceding the election, and
assessed with property in said City to the amount of two
thousand dollars, and who has paid taxes thereon for two
years preceding his election, to be Mayor of the City of
Baltimore; but the Mayor chosen at the first election under
this section shall not enter upon the discharge of the office
until the expiration of the term for which the present Mayor
was elected; unless the said øffice of Mayor shall become va-
cant by death, resignation, removal from the State or other
disqualification of the present Mayor.
20. The term of Mayor shall commence on the Tuesday
next after the third Monday of May succeeding his election,
and continue for four years, and until his successor shall be
elected and qualified, and he shall receive a salary of six
thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. He may ap-
point such persons to aid him in the discharge of his duties
as may be prescribed by ordinance.
In pursuance of the power conferred by Article XI-A of
the Constitution and by Chapter 555 Acts of 1920, the voters
of Baltimore City adopted the following amendment to the
City Charter at the November election 1922:
*ThUB amended by Act of 1933, Chapter 456, ratified by the people at the No-
vember election, 1934.


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