timore, or hold any employment or position, the compensa-
tion of which shall be paid., directly or indirectly, oat of the
City Treasury; nor shall any such person be interested,
directly or indirectly, in any contract to which the City is
a party; nor shall it be lawful for any person holding any
office under the City, to be interested, while holding such
office, in any contract to which the City is a party.

SEC. 6. The Mayor shall, on conviction in a Court of
Law, of wilful neglect of duty, or misbehavior in office, be
removed from office by the Governor of the State, and a suc-
cessor shall thereafter be elected, as in a case of vacancy.

SEC. 7. From and after the adoption of this Constitu-
tion, no debt (except as hereinafter excepted), shall be
created by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; nor
shall the credit of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
be given or loaned to, or in aid of any individual, associa-
tion, or corporation: nor shall the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore have the power to involve the City of Baltimore
in the construction of works of internal improvement, nor
in granting any aid thereto, which shall involve the faith
and credit of the city, nor make any appropriation therefor,
unless such debt or credit be authorized by an Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland, and by an ordinance of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, submitted to the legal
voters of the City of Baltimore, at such time and place as
may be fixed by said ordinance, and approved by a majority
of the votes cast at such time and place; such ordinance
shall provide for the discharge of any such debt or credit
within the period of forty (40) years from the time of con-
tracting the same; but the Mayor and City Council may,
temporarily, borrow any amount of money to meet any defi-
ciency in the City Treasury, and may borrow any amount at
any time to provide for any emergency arising from the
necessity of maintaining the police, or preserving the health,
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.

SEC 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

*Thus amended by Act of 1938, Chapter 456, ratified by the people Novem-
ber, 1934.