shall be paid an annual salary of $15,000.00 He may ap-
point such persons to aid him in the discharge of his duties
as may be prescribed by ordinance. 1.

In pursuance of the power conferred by Article XI-A of
the Constitution and by Chapter 555, Acts of 1920, the vot-
ers of Baltimore City adopted the following amendment to
the City Charter at the November election, 1946:.

CITY COUNCIL.

15. City Council—Qualification of Members. The Legis-
lative Department of the City shall be the City Council,
which shall consist of a single chamber and shall have the
number of members determined as provided in Section 16
and one additional member who shall be the President
thereof and who shall possess the qualifications and be
elected as provided in Section 17..

The members of the City Council, except the president
thereof, shall be citizens of the United States above the age
of twenty-one years, shall be voters and shall have been
residents of Baltimore City for at least two years prior
to their election. Each member of the City Council shall be
paid an annual salary of $4,000.00, except the vice-president
thereof whose annual salary shall be $4,500.00..

16. City Council—Number and Election of Members.
The voters shall elect the members of the City Council on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May in the year
1947 and every fourth year thereafter. Their term of office
shall be four years. Said election shall be held by Council-
manic Districts and no person shall be entitled to vote for
any member of the City Council except for the members
for the District in which the voter is duly registered. The
number of members to be elected from each district shall be
determined as follows: three members for each District in
which there were not more than 75,000 voters at the close
of office hours of the Board of Supervisors of Elections of
Baltimore City on the first Monday in December prior to
the election; four members for each District having more
than 75,000 such voters..

The determination of the number of registered voters in
each District, shall be made by the Board of Supervisors of
Election of Baltimore City and an appropriate certificate
with respect thereto shall be filed by said Board with the
Mayor and with the President of the City Council not later
than the Friday following the first Monday in December.

'Reference 18 to the 1946 edition of the Charter..