stitution and laws of this State to the Mayor of Baltimore and
City Council of the City of Baltimore or to the County Com-
missioners of the Counties, shall be construed to refer to the
Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore
and to the President and County Council herein provided for
whenever such construction would be reasonable. From and
after the adoption of a charter by the City of Baltimore, or any
County of this State, as hereinbefore provided, the Mayor of
Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore or the
County Council of said County, subject to the Constitution
and Public General Laws of this State, shall have full power to
enact local laws of said City or County including the power to
repeal or amend local laws of said City or County enacted by
the General Assembly, upon all matters covered by the express
powers granted as above provided; provided that nothing
herein contained shall be construed to authorize or empower
the County Council of any County in this State to enact laws
or regulations for any incorporated town, village, or municipal-
ity in said County, on any matter covered by the powers
granted to said town, village, or municipality by the Act in-
corporating it, or any subsequent Act or Acts amendatory
thereto. Provided, however, that the charter for the various
Counties shall [provide] specify the number of days, not to
exceed forty-five, which may but need not be consecutive, that the
County Council of the Counties [shall not] may sit [more
than one month] in each year for the purpose of enacting
legislation for such Counties, and all legislation shall be enacted
[during the month] at the times so designated for that purpose
in the charter, and the titles of all laws and ordinances so enacted
shall be published once a week for [three] two successive weeks
in at least one newspaper published in such Counties, so that
the taxpayers and citizens may have notice thereof. This
provision shall not apply to Baltimore City. All such local
laws enacted by the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of
the City of Baltimore or the Council of the Counties as herein-
before provided, shall be subject to the same rules of interpreta-
tion as those now applicable to the Public Local Laws of this
State, except that in case of any conflict between said local law
and any Public General Law now or hereafter enacted the Public
General Law shall control.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That the foregoing amend-
ment to Article XIA, title "Local Legislation", Section 3,
hereby proposed an an amendment to the Constitution of
Maryland, shall, at the election to be held in November, 1956,
be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland
for their adoption or rejection in pursuance of the directions
contained in Article XIV of the Constitution of Maryland,
and at the said general election the vote on the proposed amend-