152 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND.

Sec. 3. Every charter so formed shall provide for an elective legislative
body in which shall be vested the law-making power of said City or County.
Such legislative body in the City of Baltimore shall be known as the City
Council of the City of Baltimore, and in any County shall be known as the
County Council of the County. The chief executive officer, if any such
charter shall provide for the election of such executive officer, or the pre-
siding officer of said legislative body, if such charter shall not provide for
the election of a chief executive officer, shall be known in the City of Balti-
more as Mayor of Baltimore, and in any County as the President of the
County Council of th'e County, and all references in the Constitution and
laws of this State to the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City
of Baltimore or to the County Commissioners of the Counties, shall be con-
strued to refer to the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of
Baltimore and to the President and County Council herein provided for
whenever such construction would be reasonable. From and after the adop-
tion of a charter by the City of Baltimore, or any County of this State, as
hereinbefore provided, the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City
of Baltimore or the County Council of said County, subject to the Constitu-
tion and Public General Laws of this State, shall have full power to enact
local laws of said City or County including the power to repeal or amend
local laws of said city or county enacted by the General Assembly, upon
all matters covered by the express powers granted as above provided; pro-
vided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or
empower the County Council of any County in this State to enact laws or
regulations for any incorporated town, village, or municipality in said
County, on any matter covered by the powers granted to said town, village,
or municipality by the Act incorporating it, or any subsequent Act or Acts.
amendatory thereto. Provided, however, that the charters for the various
Counties shall provide that the County Council of the Counties shall not
sit more than one month in each year for the purpose of enacting legislation
for such Counties, and all legislation shall be enacted during the month so
designated for that purpose in the charter, and all laws and ordinances so
enacted shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in at least
one newspaper published in such Counties, so that the taxpayers and citi-
zens may have notice thereof. This provision shall not apply to Baltimore
City. All such local laws enacted by the Mayor of Baltimore and City
Council of the City of Baltimore or the Council of the Counties as herein-
before provided, shall be subject to the same rules of interpretation a?
those now applicable to the Public Local Laws of this State, except that in
case of any conflict between said local law and any Public General Law now
or hereafter enacted the Public General Law shall control.

Sec. 4. From and after the adoption of a charter under the provisions of
this Article by the City of Baltimore or any County of this State, no public
local law shall be enacted by the General Assembly for said City or County
on any subject covered by express powers granted as above provided.
Any law so drawn as to apply to two or more of the geographical sub-
divisions of this State shall not be deemed a Local Law, within the meaning