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 char-
ter 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 Legisla-
ture 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 writ-
ten and partly printed; "Signature" means the signature of
a registered voter written by himself in his own handwrit-
ing (and not by his mark), together with the ward or dis-
trict and precinct in which he is registered. The authen-
ticity of such signatures and the fact that the persons so
signing are registered voters shall be evidenced by the affi-
davit of one or more registered voters of the city or coun-
ty in which said voters so signing 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 fictitious 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.

1 SECTION 1. The General Assembly of Maryland, by
public local law, may authorize the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore to create a Baltimore Redevelopment Commis-
sion. Any public local law authorizing the creation of the
Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall contain the fol-
lowing provisions:.

(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 establish-
ment 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 Commission. The Commissioners.

1. Thus amended by Chapter 649, of the Acts of 1943, and ratified by the
people in November, 1944..