SEC. 6. The power heretofore conferred upon the General
Assembly to prescribe the number, compensation, powers and
duties of the County Commissioners in each county, and
the power to make changes in Sections I to 6, inclusive, Article
XI of this Constitution, when expressly granted as herein-
before provided, are hereby transferred to the voters of each
county and the voters of the City of Baltimore, respectively,
provided that said powers so transferred shall be exercised
only by the adoption or amendment of a charter as hereinbefore
provided; and provided further, that this Article shall not be
construed to authorize the exercise of any powers in excess of
those conferred by the Legislature upon said counties or city
as this Article sets forth.

SEC. 7. The word "Petition," as used in this Article,
means one or more sheets written or printed or partly written
and partly printed; "Signature" means the signature of a
registered voter written by himself in his own handwriting (and
not by his mark), together with the ward or district and pre-
cinct in which he is registered. The authenticity of such signa-
tures and the fact that the persons so signing are registered
voters shall be evidence by the affidavit of one or more reg-
istered voters of the city or county in which said voters so sign-
ing are registered, and one affidavit may apply to or cover any
number of signatures to such petition. The false signing of any
name, or the signing of any fitictious name to said petition shall
be forgery, and the making of any false affidavit in connection
with said petition shall be perjury.

ARTICLE XI-B.
BALTIMORE REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

*SECTION 1. The General Assembly of Maryland, by public
local law, may authorize the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more to create a Baltimore Redevelopment Commission. Any
public local law authorizing the creation of the Baltimore Re-
development Commission shall contain the following provi-
sions:

(a) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall come
into being only when the City Council of Baltimore shall pass
a resolution that there is need for the establishment of such
a Commission in the City of Baltimore. When the City Council
of Baltimore adopts such a resolution, it shall promptly notify
the Mayor of Baltimore City of such adoption. Upon receiving
such notice and approving said resolution, the Mayor shall
appoint five persons (or such additional number of persons as
the General Assembly may provide in said public local law),
as Commissioners of the Baltimore Redevelopment Commis-

* Thus amended by Chapter 649, of the Acts of 1943 and ratified by the people in Novem-
ber, 1944.