ing those within the limits of the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries, which belong to the State, and suggest such
plans as may be calculated to render them available as
sources of revenue.

SEC. 6. He shall make detailed reports to every General
Assembly within the first week of its session, in reference to
each of the subjects committed to his charge, and he shall
also report to the Governor, in the recess of the Legislature,
all abuses or irregularities which he may find to exist in any
department of public affairs with which his office is con-
nected.

SEC. 7. The office hereby established shall continue for
four years from the date of the qualification of the first in-
cumbent thereof, and shall then expire, unless continued by
the General Assembly.

ARTICLE XI.
CITY OF BALTIMORE.

SECTION 1. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore
qualified by law to vote in said city for members of the
House of Delegates, shall on the fourth Wednesday of Oc-
tober, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and on the same
day in every fourth year thereafter, elect a person to be
Mayor of the City of Baltimore, who shall have such quali-
fications, receive such compensation, discharge such duties,
and have such powers as are now, or may hereafter be pre-
scribed by law; and the term of whose office shall commence
on the first Monday of November succeeding his election,
and shall continue for four years, and until his successor
shall have qualified; and he shall be ineligible for the term
next succeeding that for which he was elected.1

SEC. 1. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore qualified
by law to rote in said city for members of the House off
Delegates, shall on the Tuesday after the first Monday of
November, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and on the
same day in every second year thereafter, elect a person to
be Mayor of the City of Baltimore, who shall have such
qualifications, receive such compensation, discharge such
duties, and have such powers as are now, or may hereafter
be prescribed by law; and the term of whose office shall
commence on the first Monday of November succeeding his
election, and shall continue for two years, and until his suc-
cessor shall have qualified.

SEC. 2. The City Council of Baltimore shall consist of
two branches, one of which shall be called the First Branch,

' See changes made by Charter.