215. Fur the purpose of establishing Councilmanic Dis-
tricts, the Mayor shall appoint, as soon as may be, a Com-
mission consisting of three members, who shall be members
of the Board of Supervisors of Election of Baltimore City;
the said Commissioners shall serve without pay; one of the
said Commissioners shall be the President of said Commis-
sion and shall be so designated by the Mayor. In case any
one or more persona who are members of the Board of Su-
pervisors of Election shall refuse or be unable to serve, the
Mayor shall appoint such other persons not members of the
Board of Supervisors of Election as he may deem fit for said
office, but not more than two of said Commissioners shall
be affiliated with the same political party. The said Com-
mission shall divide and apportion the City of Baltimore
into six Councilmanic Districts, as near as may be, of equal
population and of contiguous territory, and fix the bounda-
ries thereof. The districts so divided shall be the Council-
manic Districts for the election of members of the City
Council. When the said six Councilmanic Districts are so
laid out by the said Commissioners as hereinbefore directed,
it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners to make or
cause to be made in a proper book, a careful description of
the boundaries of each of said Councilmanic Districts num-
bered under its proper number and after making a careful
and exact copy of the same in another proper book, and
after verifying the said original book and the said copy by
their signatures, to deposit the original book in the Clerk's
Office of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, and to be
recorded by him among the Land Records in his Office, and
a copy of the description or descriptions contained in the
said record of the boundaries or any one or more Council
manic Districts therein mentioned and described, shall be
evidence of the boundaries of such Councilmanic District of
Districts so laid out as aforesaid, and the copy of said orig-
inal book so made and so verified, as aforesaid, shall be
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