ART. XI] CITY OF BALTIMORE. III

211. The Second Branch shall consist of nine members, one of whom
shall be the President thereof, and shall possess the qualifications and
be elected as hereinafter provided. The other eight members shall be
elected from four Councilmanic Districts, two from each district; said
district to be established and fixed as herein defined by this Act. The
members of the Second Branch, excepting the President thereof, shall
be citizens of the United States above the age of twenty-five years, resi-
dents of the City of Baltimore four years prior to their election, each
of whom has been assessed with property in the said city in the sum
of five hundred dollars, and who has paid taxes on the same for two
years prior to his election; and the said members of the Second Branch
shall hold their offices for four years, except as provided in Section
213 of this Article, and each of them shall be paid a salary of one
thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly.

212. The election for members of the First Branch shall be held on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, in the year nineteen
hundred and eleven, and upon every fourth year thereafter. Their
terms of office shall be for four years. Said election shall be held by
Avards, and no person shall be entitled to vote for any member of the
First Branch except for the member for the ward of which the voter
is a resident. The members of said branch now in office shall hold office
until their successors have been elected under the provisions of this
article, and have duly qualified.

213. The election for the said eight members of the Second Branch
shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, in
the year nineteen hundred and eleven, and upon every fourth year
thereafter. Their terms of office shall be for four years. The members
of the Second Branch now in office shall hold office until their succes-
sors have been elected under the provisions of this article, and have
duly qualified.

214. There shall be elected on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in May, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and
upon every fourth year thereafter, from the City at large, a person to be
the President of the Second Branch of the City Council, who shall
possess the qualifications required and hereinbefore defined, of the
Mayor of the City of Baltimore. His duty shall be to preside over the
Second Branch of the City Council, and vote on all questions, and per-
form such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinances not incon-
sistent with this Article. He shall be paid a salary of three thousand
dollars per annum, payable monthly. A joint convention of the two
branches of the City Council, by a majority vote of all the members
elected to the City Council, may remove from office the President of
the Second Branch for incompetency, wilful neglect of duty or misde-
meanor in office, upon charges preferred by the Mayor, and after notice
of such charges is given to the President of the Second Branch, and an
opportunity afforded him to be heard.