thereto. Provided, however, that the charters of the various
counties shall provide that the County Council of the counties
shall not sit more than one month in each year for the purpose of
enacting legislation for such counties, and all legislation shall be
enacted during the month so designated for that purpose in
the charter, and all laws and ordinances so enacted shall be
published once a week for three successive weeks in at least
one newspaper published in such counties, so that the taxpayers
and citizens may have notice thereof. This provision shall not
apply to Baltimore City. All such local laws enacted by the
Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Balti-
more or the Council of the Counties, hereinbefore provided,
shall be subject to the same rules of interpretation as those
now applicable to the Public Local Laws of this State,
except that in case of any conflict between said Local
Law and any Public General Law now or hereafter enacted, the
Public General Law shall control.

SEC. 4. From and after the adoption of a charter under the
provisions of this Article by the City of Baltimore or any
county of this State, no Public Local Law shall be enacted by
the General Assembly for said city or county on any subject
covered by the express powers granted as above provided.
Any law so drawn as to apply to two or more of the geographical
sub-divisions of this State shall not be deemed a Local Law,
within the meaning of this Act. The term "geographical sub-
division" herein used shall be taken to mean the City of Bal-
timore or any of the counties of this State.

SEC. 5. Amendments to any charter adopted by the City
of Baltimore or by any county of this State under the pro-
visions of this Article may be proposed by a resolution of the
Mayor of Baltimore and the City Council of said the City of
Baltimore, or the Council of said county, or by a petition
signed by not less than 20 per cent of the registered voters of
said city or county, provided, however, that in any case 10,000
signatures shall be sufficient to complete a petition, and filed
with the Mayor of Baltimore or the President of the County
Council, and when so proposed shall be submitted to the voters
of said city or county at the next general or Congressional
election occurring after the passage of said resolution, or the
filing of said petition; and if at said election the majority of
the votes cast for and against said amendments shall be in favor
thereof, said amendment shall be adopted and become a part of
the charter of said city or county from and after the thirtieth
day after said election. Said amendments shall be published by
said Mayor of Baltimore or President of the County Council
once a week for five successive weeks prior to said election in at
least one newspaper published in said city or county.