stitution 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shall be thereby repealed.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 provisions 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modified, amended or repealed by the General Assembly.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 exe-
cutive officer, or the presiding officer of said legislative body,
if such charter shall not provide for the election of a chief exe-
cutive officer, shall be known in the City of Baltimore as Mayor
of Baltimore, and in the county as the President of the County
Council of the county, and all references in the Constitution
and laws of this State to the Mayor of Baltimore and City
Council of the City of Baltimore and to the President and
County Commissioners of the counties shall be construed to
refer to the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of
Baltimore and to the President and County Council herein
provided for, whenever such construction would be reasonable.
From and after the adoption of a charter by the City of Balti-
more, or any county of this State, as hereinbefore provided, the
Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore
or the County Council of said county, subject to the Constitu-
tion and Public General Laws of this State, shall have full
power to enact local laws of said city or county, including the
power to repeal or amend Local Laws of said city of county
enacted by the General Assembly, upon all matters covered by
the express powers granted as above provided; provided that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or
empower the County Council of any county in this State to
enact laws or regulations for any incorporated town, village, or
municipality in said county, on any matter covered by the
powers granted to said town, village, or municipality by the
Act incorporating it, or any subsequent Act or Acts amendatory