364 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 11-A, Sec. 2]

election the ballot shall contain the names of said nominees
in alphabetical order without any indication of the source
of their nomination, and shall also be so arranged as to
permit the voter to vote for or against the creation of said
charter board, but the vote cast against said creation shall
not be held to bar the voter from expressing his choice
among the nominees for said board, and if the majority
of the votes cast for and against the creation of said char-
ter board shall be against said creation the election of the
members of said charter board shall be void; but if such
majority shall be in favor of the creation of said charter
board, then and in that event the eleven nominees of the
City of Baltimore or five nominees in the County receiving
the largest number of votes shall constitute the charter
board, and said charter board, or a majority thereof, shall
prepare within six months from the date of said election
a charter or form of government for said city or such
county and present the same to the Mayor of Baltimore
or President of the Board of County Commissioners of
such county, who shall publish the same in at least two
newspapers of general circulation published in said the
City of Baltimore or County within thirty days after it
shall be reported to him. Such charter shall be submitted
to the voters of said City or County at the next general or
Congressional election after the report of said charter to
said Mayor of Baltimore or President of the Board of
County Commissioners; and if a majority of the votes cast
for and against the adoption of said charter shall be in favor
of such adoption, the said charter from and after the
thirtieth days¹ from the date of such election shall become
the law of said City or County, subject only to the Consti-
tution and Public General Laws of this State, and any
public local laws inconsistent with the provisions of said
charter and any former charter of said the City of Balti-
more or County shall be thereby repealed.

SEC. 2. The General Assembly at its first session after
the adoption of this amendment shall by public general
law provide a grant of express powers for such County or
Counties as may thereafter form a charter under the pro-
visions of this Article. Such express powers granted to the
Counties and the powers heretofore granted to the City of
Baltimore, as set forth in Article 4, Section 6, Public Local
Laws of Maryland, shall not be enlarged or extended by
any charter formed under the provisions of this Article,
but such powers may be extended, modified, amended or
repealed by the General Assembly.

* Thus In original.