or county shall provide at the next general or Congressional
election, occurring after such demand or the filing of such
petition, for the election of a charter board of eleven registered
voters of said city or five registered voters in any such counties.
Nominations for members of said charter board may be made
not less than forty days prior to said election by the Mayor
of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore or the
County Commissioners of such county, or nor less than twenty-
days prior to said election by petition bearing the signatures
written in their own handwriting (and not by their mark) of
not less than 5 per cent of the registered voters of the said City
of Baltimore or said county; provided, that in any case two
thousand signatures of registered voters shall be sufficient to
complete any such nominating petition, and if not more than
eleven registered voters of the City of Baltimore or not more
than five registered voters in any such county are so nominated
their names shall not be printed on the ballot, but said eleven
registered voters in the City of Baltimore or five in such county
shall constitute said charter board from and after the date of
said election. At said election the ballot shall contain the names
of said nominees in alphabetical order without any indication
of the source of their nomination, and shall also be so arranged
as to permit the voter to vote for or against the creation of said
charter board, but the vote cast against said creation shall
not be held to bar the voter from expressing his choice among
the nominees for said board, and if the majority of the votes
cast for and against the creation of said charter board shall be
against 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 members
in the county receiving the largest number of votes shall con-
stitute 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 Balti-
more or President of the Board of County Commissioners of
such county, who shall publish the same in at least two news-
papers of general circulation published in said the City of Bal-
timore or county within thirty days after it shall be reported
to him. Such charter shall be submitted to the voters of said
city or county at the next general or Congressional election after
the report of said charter to said Mayor of Baltimore or Presi-
dent 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 thirtieth day from the date of such election shall be-
come the law of said city or county, subject only to the Con-