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 Baltimore 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 nomina-
tion, 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 nomi-
nees for said board, and if the majority of the votes cast for
and against the creation of said charter 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]
eighteen TWELVE 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 news-
papers 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 con-
gressional 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
day [s] from the date of such election shall become the
law of said City or County, subject only to the Constitution
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 Baltimore or
County shall be thereby [hepealed] repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the foregoing
amendment to the Constitution of the State of Maryland
shall, at the election to be held in November, 1964, be sub-
mitted to the legal and qualified voters of the State for
their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the directions