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bar the voter from expressing his choice among the nominees 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 nomi-
nees 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 six 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 said the City of
Baltimore or County within thirty days after it shall be reported to him.
Such charter shall be submitted to the voters of said City or County at the
next general or congressional election after the report of said charter to
said Mayor of Baltimore or President of the Board of County Commis-
sioners ; and if a majority of the votes cast for and against the adoption of
said charter shall be in favor of such adoption, the said charter from and
after the thirtieth days from the date of such election shall become the law
of said City or County, subject only to the Constitution and Public General
Laws of this State, and any public local laws inconsistent with the pro-
visions of said charter and any former charter of said the City of Balti-
more or County shall be thereby repealed.

Baltimore city charter adopted under this article, upheld. Provision of this article
as to the newspapers in which the charter was to be published not so far manda-
tory as to render the charter after its adoption subject to attack on that ground,
in the absence of proof that the failure to comply strictly with the constitutional
provision affected the vote on the adoption of the charter. Charter held to have
been submitted to the qualified voters of the city. Amendment of the charter held
not to be in excess of the power conferred by this article. Taxation of property in
section annexed to Baltimore city by act of 1888. Williams v. Broening, 135 Md
229; Jones v. Broening, 135 Md. 239.

Extract from answer of Baltimore city to suit for refund under the act of 1920,
ch. 431, of unused liquor license, relying upon this article, quoted. Engel v Balti-
more, 140 Md. 288.

Intent and scope of this article not involved—see notes to art. 27, sec. 483
Levering v. Supervisors of Elections, 137 Md. 290.

See art. 25A, An. Code.

Sec. 2. The General Assembly at its first session after the adoption of
this amendment shall by public general law provide a grant of express
powers for such County or Counties as may thereafter form a charter under
the provisions of this Article. Such express powers granted to the Counties
and the powers heretofore granted to the City of Baltimore, as set forth in
Article 4, Section 6, Public Local Laws of Maryland, shall not be enlarged
or extended by any charter formed under the provisions of this Article,
but such powers may be extended, modified, amended or repealed by the
General Assembly.

See notes to sec. 1.