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[Art. IIA, Sec. 2] MARYLAND MANUAL 637
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 day 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 the City of Baltimore 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County shall be thereby repealed.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repealed by the General Assembly.
1SEC. 3. Every charter so formed shall provide for an
elective legislative body in which shall be vested the law-
making power of said City or County. Such legislative body
in the City of Baltimore shall be known as the City Council
of the City of Baltimore, and in any County shall be known
as the County Council of the county. The chief executive
officer, if any such charter shall provide for the election of
such executive officer, or the presiding officer of said legis-
lative body, if such charter shall not provide for the elec-
tion of a chief executive officer, shall be known in the City
of Baltimore as Mayor of Baltimore, and in any County as
the President of the County Council of the County, and all
references in the Constitution and laws of this State to the
Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Balti-
more or to the County Commissioners 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 when-
ever 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 Balti-
i Thus amended by Chapter 557, Acts of 1955, ratified November 6, 1956,

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