360 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 11, Sec. 8]

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 seventh thereof, as it' may
deem best; and this Article shall not be so construed, or
taken as to make the political corporation of Baltimore in-
dependent of, or free from the control, which the General
Assembly 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, and by Chapter 555 of the Acts of 1920,
the voters of Baltimore City at the election in November,
1946, adopted the following amendments to the City Char-
ter:

MAYOR

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.

* Thus amended by Chapter 456, Acts of 1933. ratified November 6, 1934.