148 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND.

appoint such persons to aid him in the discharge of his duties as may be
prescribed by ordinance.1

In pursuance of the power conferred by Article XI-A of the Constitution
and by Chapter 555 Acts of 1920, the voters of Baltimore City adopted the
following amendment to the City Charter at the November election 1922:

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 a single
chamber.

210. The City Council shall consist of nineteen members, one of whom
shall be the President thereof, and shall possess the qualifications and be
elected as hereinafter provided. The other eighteen members shall be elected
from the six Councilmanic Districts, three from each district, as hereinafter
provided.

The members of the City Council, except the President thereof, shall be
citizens of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, residents
of the City of Baltimore three years prior to their election, and for the
same time residents of the Councilmanic District for which they are elected,
and assessed with property to the amount of three hundred dollars
($300.00) each, who have paid taxes on the same one year prior to their
election, and they shall hold office for four years. Each member of the
City Council shall be paid a salary of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00)
per annum, payable monthly.

211. The Election for members of the City Council shall be held on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in May in the year 1923, and upon
every fourth year thereafter. Their terms of office shall be for four years.
Said election shall be held by Councilmanic Districts and no person shall be
entitled to vote for any member of the City Council except for the member
for the Councilmanic District of which the voter is a resident. The members
of the First Branch and Second Branch of the City Council now in office
shall hold office until their successors have been elected under the provisions
of this Charter and have duly qualified.

212. There shall be elected on the Tuesday next after the first Monday
in May, 1923, and upon every fourth year thereafter, from the City at
large, a person to be the President 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 City Council and vote
on all questions and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by
ordinances not inconsistent with this Charter. He shall be paid a salary of
three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum payable monthly. The City
Council, by two-third vote of all the members elected may remove from
office the President of the City Council for incompetency, willful neglect
of duty or misdemeanor in office upon charges preferred by the Mayor, and
after notice of such charges is given to the President of the City Council
and an opportunity afforded him to be heard.

1 Thus amended by ordinance ratified by the voters November, 1923.