proper arrangements and agreements for the renewal and ex-
tension, in whole or in part, of any and all debts and obligations
created according to law before the adoption of this Constitu-
tion.*

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 Tues-
day next after the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine, and on the same day and month in every
fourth year thereafter, elect by ballot a person of known in-
tegrity, experience and sound judgment, over twenty-five years
of age, a citizen of the United States, and five years a resident
of said City next preceding the election, and assessed with prop-
erty in said City to the amount of two thousand dollars and,
who has paid taxes thereon for two years preceding his elec-
tion, to be Mayor of the City of Baltimore; but the Mayor
chosen at the first election under this section shall not enter
upon the discharge of the office until the expiration of the term
for which the present Mayor was elected; unless the said office
of Mayor shall become vacant by death, resignation, removal
from the State or other disqualification of the present Mayor.

20. The term of Mayor shall commence on the Tuesday
next after the third Monday of May succeeding his election,
and continue for four years, and until his successor shall be
elected and qualified, and he shall receive a salary of six
thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. He may ap-
point such persons to aid him in the discharge of his duties as
may be prescribed by ordinance.

* Thus amended by Act of 1933, Chapter 466, ratified by the people November, 1934.