said creation the election of the members of said charter
board shall be void; but if such majority shall be in favor
of the creation of said charter board, then and in that event
the eleven nominees of the City of Baltimore or five mem-
bers in the county receiving the largest number of votes shall
constitute the charter board, and said charter board, or a
majority thereof, shall prepare within six months from the
date of said election a charter or form of government for
said city or such county and present the same to the Mayor
of Baltimore or President of the Board of County Commis-
sioners of such county, who shall publish the same in at
least two newspapers of general circulation published in
said the City of Baltimore or county within thirty days
after it shall be reported to him. Such charter shall be sub-
mitted to the voters of said city or county at the next gen-
eral or Congressional election after the report of said char-
ter to said Mayor of Baltimore or President of the Board of
County Commissioners; and if a majority of the votes cast
for and against the adoption of said charter shall be in favor
of such adoption, the said charter from and after the thir-
tieth day from the date of such election shall become the
law of said city or county, subject only to the Constitution
and Public General Laws of this State, and any Public
Local Laws inconsistent with the provisions of said charter
and any former charter of said the City of Baltimore or
county shall be thereby repealed.

SEC. 2. The General Assembly at its first session after
the adoption of this amendment shall, by Public General
Law, provide a grant of express powers for such county or
counties as may thereafter form a charter under the pro-
visions of this Article. Such express powers granted to the
counties and the powers heretofore granted to the City of
Baltimore, as set forth in Article 4, Section 6, Public Local
Laws of Maryland, shall not be enlarged or extended by any
charter formed under the provisions of this Article, but
such powers may be extended, modified, amended or re-
pealed by the General Assembly.

SEC. 3. Every charter so formed shall provide for an elec-
tive legislative body in which shall be vested the law-making
power of said city or county. Such legislative body in the
City of Baltimore shall be known as the City Council of the
City of Baltimore, and in any county shall be known as the
County Council of the county. The chief executive officer,
if any such charter shall provide for the election of such
executive officer, or the presiding officer of said legislative
body, if such charter shall not provide for the election of
a chief executive officer, shall be known in the City of Bal-