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
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

*Thus amended, by Act of 1933, Chapter 456, ratified by the people Novem-
ber, 1934.