CITY or BALTIMORE. 147

" until changed in due course of law." The laws applicable to appointments gener-
ally were also continued in force by the Constitution; in case of conflict between
the above ordinance and the statute authorizing appointments generally, the par-
ticular method would be held to be an exception to the general method. Meaning
of the phrase " until changed in due course of law." Ordinance of 1866 held not
to have been " changed in due course of law "; that provision continued in force,
not merely the ordinance of 1866, but the power which that ordinance contained
authorizing the municipality to follow the special method of making selections for
school commissioners therein prescribed. See notes to art. 8, of the Md. Constitu-
tion. Hooper v. New, 85 Md. 578.

This section referred to in construing art. 15, sec. 3, and art. 4, sec. 42—see notes
to former. Smith v. Thursby, 28 Md. 270 (dissenting opinion).

See notes to sec. 1.

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

The Constitution recognizes Baltimore city as a public corporation, established
for public purposes, and in this character it is in no wise distinguished from the
several counties; except in so far as the Constitution forbids, the city, like the
counties, is subject to legislative control—see notes to sec. 1. Baltimore v. Gorter,
93 Md. 5.

While it is not claimed that the legislature has unlimited control over the appel-
lant, it may require the payment by the city of a sum requisite to pay for the
maintenance and treatment of habitual drunkards in said city. Baltimore v. Keeley
Institute, 81 Md. 115.

This section referred to in upholding the power of the legislature to pass the act
of 1876, ch. 220, directing Baltimore City to take possession of Harman's bridge over
Gwynn's Falls. Pumphrey v. Baltimore, 47 Md. 151.

CHANGES MADE IN THIS ARTICLE BY THE CHARTER OF BALTIMORE CITY AND

AMENDMENTS THERETO.

In pursuance of the power conferred by Article XI-A of the Constitution,
the voters at the election in November, 1918, have changed the following
provisions:

16. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore qualified to vote for mem-
bers 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 pre-
ceding 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 dis-
charge 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.

20. The term of Mayor shall commence on the Tuesday next after the
third Monday of May succeeding his election, and continue for four vears,
and until his successor shall be elected and qualified, and he shall receive
a salary of ten thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. He may