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Art. 11-A] MARYLAND MANUAL 641
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 congres-
sional 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 Council
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 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 alphabeti-
cal order without any indication of the source of their nomi-
nation, 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 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 newspapers of general circulation
published in the City of Baltimore or County within thirty
days after it shall be reported to him. Such charter shall

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