any such debt or credit within the period of forty (40)
years from the time of contracting the same; but the Mayor
and City Council may, temporarily, borrow any amount of
money to meet any deficiency in the City Treasury, and
may borrow any amount at any time to provide for any
emergency arising from the necessity of maintaining the
police, or preserving the health, safety and sanitary con-
dition of the city, and may make due and proper arrange-
ments and agreements for the renewal and extension, in
whole or in part, of any and all debts and obligations cre-
ated according to law before the adoption of this Consti-
tution. 1.

SEC. 8. All Laws and Ordinances now in force applica-
ble 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 1ndepend-
ent of, or free from the control which the General Assem-
bly 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..

In pursuance of the power conferred by Article XI-A
of the Constitution, the voters at the election in Novem-
ber, 1946, have changed the following provisions:.

7. Mayor—Election. The voters shall elect by ballot,
on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, 1947,
and on the same day and month in every fourth year there-
after, a person of known integrity, experience and sound
judgment, over twenty-five years of age, a citizen of the
United States, and ten years a resident of said city next
preceding the election, to be Mayor of the City..

9. Mayor—Term, etc. The term of Mayor shall com-
mence 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.

1 Thus amended, by Act of 1933, Chapter 456, ratified by the people Novem-
ber, 1934..