890 ARTICLE 4.

or decrease is .inserted in the Ordinance of Estimates in the manner pro-
vided by Section 36-A of the Charter of Baltimore City. The power
herein conferred may be exercised by the Board of Estimates in carry-
ing out the proposed re-organization, of the City Government without
regard to the salaries or compensation fixed for the present terms of
municipal officials.

The Mayor and City Council may, by ordinance, increase or decrease
the salaries of the members of the Board of Estimates, but when the
salary of any member shall be so increased or decreased it shall not again
be increased or decreased during his term of office. The Board of Esti-
mates shall include in the Ordinance of Estimates each year the salaries
of its members as fixed by ordinance. All provisions of the Charter of
Baltimore Citv and all Public Local Laws inconsistent with the provisions

of this section are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
See Section 36AA hereof.

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.

1898, ch. 123.

32. There shall be a Department of Finance of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore which shall consist of the Comptroller, City Regis-
ter, Board of Estimates, Commissioners of Finance and City Collector.
The head of said Department shall consist of a Board of Finance com-
posed of the Comptroller, City Register, President of the Board of Esti-
mates, President of the Commissioners of Finance and City Collector.
This Board shall be for consultation and advice, and it shall have no
power to direct or control the duties or the work of any sub-department.
It shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinances not
inconsistent with this Charter. The Comptroller shall be the President
of said Board. The fiscal year of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall begin on the first clay of January and end on the thirty-first

day of December in every year.

1906, ch. 459.

33. The Comptroller shall be elected by the inhabitants of the City of
Baltimore qualified to vote for Mayor on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in May, in the year 1919, and on the same clay and month in
every fourth year thereafter. He shall be a person possessing the same

qualifications as herein prescribed for Mayor. The term of the Comp-
troller shall commence on the Tuesday next after the third Monday in
May in the year 1919, and continue for four years, and until his suc-
cessor is elected and qualified, and he shall receive a salary of four thou-
sand dollars per annum, payable monthly.

Baltimore City v. Lyman, 92 Md. 610.

1898, ch. 123.

34. The Comptroller shall be the head of the first sub-department of
Finance, and he shall appoint a Deputy Comptroller and such clerks as