92 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. XI

Sec. 8. All Laws and' Ordinances now in force applicable to the
City of Baltimore, not inconsistent with this Article, shall be, and
they are hereby continued until changed in due course of Law.

Sec. 9. The General Assembly may make such changes in this
Article, except in Section 7th thereof, as it may deem best; and this
Article shall not be so construed or taken as to make the political cor-
poration of Baltimore independent of, or free from the control which
the General Assembly of Maryland has over all such Corporations in
this State.

Changes made in this Article by tlw Charter of Baltimore City and

Amendments thereto.

In pursuance of the power conferred: by Section 9, the General Assem-
bly by the Act of 1898, Chapter 123, commonly called the New Charter
of Baltimore City, and by Amendments thereto, has made the follow-
ing changes in the foregoing provisions, viz :

MAYOR.

1898, ch. 123.

16. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore qualified to vote for
members of the House of Delegates shall, on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and on the
same day and month in every fourth year thereafter, elect by ballot a
person of known integrity, experience and sound judgment, over
twenty-five years of age, a citizen of the United States, and five years a
resident of said City next preceding the election, and assessed with
property in said City to the amount of two thousand dollars, and who
has paid taxes thereon for two years preceding his election, to be Mayor
of the City of Baltimore; but the Mayor chosen at the first election
under this section shall not enter upon the discharge of the duties of the
office until the expiration of the term for which the present Mayor was
elected; unless the said office of Mayor shall become vacant by death,
resignation, removal from the State or other disqualification of the
present Mayor.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

209. The Legislative Department of the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore shall be vested in the City Council, which shall consist
of two Branches, one of which shall be the First Branch and the other
the Second Branch.

210. The First Branch shall consist of one member from each ward
of the City, who shall be a citizen of the United States, above the age
of twenty-one years, a resident of the City three years preceding his
election, and for the same time a resident of the ward for which he is
elected, and assessed with property to the amount of three hundred
dollars, who has paid taxes on the same one year prior to his election,
and shall hold his office for two years. Each member of the First
Branch shall be paid a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, paya-
ble monthly.