1012 ARTICLE 4.

shall be so designated by the Mayor. In case any one or more persons
who are members of the Board of Supervisors of Election shall refuse
or be unable to serve, the Mayor shall appoint such other persons not
members of the Board of Supervisors of Election as he may deem fit for
said office, but not more than two of said Commissioners shall be affiliated
with the same political party. The said Commission shall divide and
apportion the City of Baltimore into six Councilmanic Districts, as near
as may be, of equal population and of contiguous territory, and fix the
boundaries thereof. The districts so divided shall be the Councilmanic
Districts for the election of members of the City Council. When the
said six Councilmanic Districts are so laid out by the said Commissioners
as hereinbefore directed, it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners
to make or cause to be made in a proper book, a careful description of
the boundaries of each of said Councilmanic Districts numbered under
its proper number, and after making a careful and exact copy of the
same in another proper book, and after verifying the said original book
and the said copy by their signatures, to deposit the original book in the
Clerk's Office of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, and to be recorded
by him among the Land Records in his Office, and a copy of the descrip-
tion or descriptions contained in the said record of the boundaries of any
one or more Councilmanic Districts therein mentioned and described, shall
be evidence of the boundaries of such Councilmanic District or Districts
so laid out as aforesaid, and the copy of said original book so made and
so verified, as aforesaid, shall be deposited with the Board of Supervisors
of Election of Baltimore City to be retained among the records of the said
Board. Said Commissioners shall perform and complete duties herein
imposed upon them on or before the 15th day of February, 1923. When
said book containing the said descriptions of the said Councilmanic Dis-
tricts of the City of Baltimore so laid out as aforesaid, has been deposited
for record in the Clerk's Office of the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
then the said Councilmanic Districts as in said book described and laid
out shall thereafter be deemed to be the several Councilmanic Districts
of Baltimore City.

216. The City Council shall meet annually on the Thursday next after
the third Monday in May and may continue in session for one hundred
and twenty days and no longer in each year; provided that they may
by ordinance or resolution so arrange their sittings that the same may
be held continuously or otherwise, and provided further that the Mayor
may convene the City Council in extra session as he may now do by the
fourth section of the eleventh article of the State Constitution.
Baltimore City v. Gorter, 93 Md. 8.

Ordinances introduced during first legislative year may be passed during second
legislative year.

Bond v. M. & C. C., 111 Md. 364.

217. The City Council may compel the attendance of absent members
in such manner and under such penalties as it may by ordinance pro-