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Sec. 2. The City Council of Baltimore shall consist of two branches,
one of which shall be called the First Branch, and the other the Second
Branch, and each shall consist of such number of members, having such
qualification, receiving such compensation, performing such duties, pos-
sessing such powers, holding such terms of office, and elected in such
manner, as are now, or may hereafter be prescribed by Law.

See notes to sec. 1.

Sec. 3. An. election for members of the First Branch of the City Council
of Baltimore shall be held in the City of Baltimore on the Tuesday after
the first Monday of November in every year; and for members of the
Second Branch on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November eight-
een hundred and eighty-nine, and on the same day in every second year
thereafter; and the qualification for electors of the members of the City
Council shall be the same as those prescribed for the electors of Mayor. ¹

See notes to sec. 1.

This section referred to in construing Home Rule Amendment—see notes to art. 11A,
sec. 1, of Constitution. Gaither v. Jackson, 147 Md. 656.

Sec. 4. The regular sessions of the City Council of Baltimore (which
shall be annual), shall commence on the third Monday of January of each
year, and shall not continue more than ninety days, exclusive of Sundays;
but the Mayor may convene the City Council in extra session whenever,
and as often as it may appear to him that the public good may require, but
no called or extra session shall last longer that twenty days, exclusive of
Sundays.

Sec. 5. No person elected and qualified as Mayor, or as a member of the
City Council, shall, during the term for which he was elected, hold any
other office of profit or trust, created, or to be created by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, or by any Law relating to the Corporation of
Baltimore, or hold any employment or position, the compensation of which
shall be paid, directly or indirectly, out of the City Treasury; nor shall
any such person be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract to
which the City is a party; nor shall it be lawful for any person holding
any office under the City, to be interested, while holding such office, in
any contract to which the City is a party.

Sec. 6. The Mayor shall, on conviction in a Court of Law, of wilful
neglect of duty, or misbehavior in office, be removed from office by the
Governor of the State, and a successor shall thereafter be elected, as in a
case of vacancy.

Sec. 7. From and after the adoption of this Constitution, no debt
(except as hereinafter excepted), shall be created by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore; nor shall the credit of the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore be given or loaned to, or in aid of any individual, association,
or corporation; nor shall the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore have
the power to involve the City of Baltimore in the construction of works
of internal improvement, nor in granting any aid thereto, which shall
involve the faith and credit of the city, nor make any appropriation there-
for, unless such debt or credit be authorized by an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, and by an ordinance of the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, submitted to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, at
such time and place as may be fixed by said ordinance, and approved by a
majority of the votes cast at such time and place; such ordinance shall

¹Thus amended by the act of 1888, ch. 397.