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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 mem-
ber 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 sal-
ary of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum payable monthly.
The City Council, by a two-third vote of all the members elected, may
remove from office the President of the City Council for incompetency,
wilful 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.
Baltimore City v. Gorter, 93 Md. 8.

213. The qualifications of electors of members of the City Council shall
be the same as those of electors of the Mayor. All vacancies in the City
Council shall be filled without delay by the City Council from the Council-
manic District in which the said vacancy occurs, by an election of a person
possessing the qualifications hereinbefore prescribed, to fill the unexpired
term of the former incumbent.

Baltimore City v. Gorter, 93 Md. 8.

214. All powers, rights, duties and privileges heretofore vested in the
First and Second Branches of the City Council, or in either of them, shall
be vested in the City Council, as herein constituted. All powers, rights,
duties and privileges heretofore vested in the President of the Second
Branch of the City Council shall be vested in the President of the City
Council as provided for herein. All acts subject to amendment in accord-
ance with Article XI-A of the Constitution, or parts of such acts, and all
ordinances or parts of ordinances, and all sections, or parts of sections of
this charter, including Section 65YB of Article IV of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, inconsistent or in conflict with Sections 209, 210,
211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 221 and 222 as hereby enacted, are
hereby repealed and declared null and void.

215. For the purpose of establishing Councilmanic Districts, the Mayor
shall appoint, as soon as may be, a Commission consisting of three mem-
bers, who shall be members of the Board of Supervisors of Election of
Baltimore City; the said Commissioners shall serve without pay; one of
the said Commissioners shall be the President of said Commission and