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City Council in special session from time to time as, in his
opinion, the public business demands. The President also
may call the City Council to meet in special session when-
ever in his opinion such action is desirable, and shall call
it into special session upon the written request of two-thirds
of its members.

Any ordinance or resolution passed by the City Council
while in special session shall be presented to the Mayor as
provided in Section 11 and if not approved or returned by
the Mayor to the City Council within five actual special
meetings after it has been delivered to him, the same shall
become an ordinance or resolution of the City in the same
manner as if the Mayor had approved it.

ARTICLE XI-A.¹

LOCAL LEGISLATION.

SECTION 1. On demand of the Mayor of Baltimore and
City Council of the City of Baltimore, or on petition bear-
ing the signatures of not less than 20% of the registered
voters of said City or any County (provided, however,
that in any case 10,000 signatures shall be sufficient to
complete a petition), the Board of Election Supervisors
of said City or County shall provide at the next general or
Congressional election, occurring after such demand or the
filing of such petition, for the election of a charter board of
eleven registered voters of said City or five registered voters
in any such Counties. Nominations for members for said
charter board may be made not less than forty days prior
to said election by the Mayor of Baltimore and City Coun-
cil of the City of Baltimore or the County Commissioners
of such County, or not less than twenty days prior to said
election by petition bearing the signatures written in their
own handwriting (and not by their mark) of not less than
5% of the registered voters of the said City of Baltimore
or said County; provided, that in any case two thousand
signatures of registered voters shall be sufficient to com-
plete any such nominating petition, and if not more than
eleven registered voters of the City of Baltimore or not
more than five registered voters in any such County are
so nominated their names shall not be printed on the
ballot, but said eleven registered voters in the City of Bal-
timore or five in such County shall constitute said charter
board from and after the date of said election. At said

* Added by Chapter 418, Acts of 1914, ratified November 2, 1915.