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670 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 11 A, Sec. 6]
the Mayor of Baltimore and the City Council of said the City of Baltimore, or the Council of said County, or by a petition signed by not less than 20% of the registered voters of said City or County, provided, however, that in any case 10,000 signatures shall be sufficient to complete a petition, and filed with the Mayor of Baltimore or the President of the County Council, and when so proposed shall be submitted to the voters of said City or County at the next general or congressional election occurring after the passage of said resolution, or the filing of said petition; and if at said election the majority of the votes cast for and against said amendments shall be in favor thereof, said amendment shall be adopted and becomes a part of the charter of said City or County from and after the thir- tieth day after said election. Said amendments shall be published by said Mayor of Baltimore or President of the County Council once a week for five successive weeks prior to said election in at least one newspaper published in said City or County. SEC. 6. The power heretofore conferred upon the Gen- eral Assembly to prescribe the number, compensation, pow- ers and duties of the County Commissioners in each county, and the power to make changes in Sections I to 6 inclusive, Article XI of this Constitution, when expressly granted as hereinbefore provided, are hereby transferred to the voters of each County and the voters of City of Baltimore, re- spectively, provided that said powers so transferred shall be exercised only by the adoption or amendment of a char- ter as hereinbefore provided; and provided further that this Article shall not be construed to authorize the exercise of any powers in excess of those conferred by the Legisla- ture upon said Counties or City as this Article sets forth. SEC. 7. The word "Petition" as used in this Article, means one or more sheets written or printed, or partly writ- ten and partly printed; "Signature" means the signature of a registered voter written by himself in his own handwrit- ing (and not by his mark), together with the ward or dis- trict and precinct in which he is registered. The authen- ticity of such signatures and the fact that the persons so signing are registered voters shall be evidenced by the affi- davit of one or more registered voters of the City or Coun- ty in which said voters so signing are registered, and one affidavit may apply to or cover any number of signatures to such petition. The false signing of any name, or the signing of any fictitious name to said petition shall be forgery, and the making of any false affidavit in connection with said petition shall be perjury. |
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