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
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

i Added by Chapter 416, Acts of 1&14, ratified November 2, 1915.