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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 accor-
dance with Article XIA 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 657 B of Article, IV of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, inconsistent or in conflict with Sections 291, 292,
293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 303 and 304 as hereby enacted, are
hereby repealed and declared null and void.

297. For the purpose of establishing Councilmanic Districts, the Mayor
shall appoint, as soon as may be, a Commission consisting of three members,
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 Com-
missioners shall be the President of said Commission and shall be so desig-
nated 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 Super-
visors 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 con-
tiguous 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 num-
bered 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
description or descriptions contained in the said record of the boundaries
or any one or more Councilmanic Districts therein mentioned and de-
scribed, 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
Districts 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.

298. 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 ordi-
nance or resolution so arrange their sittings that the same may be held
continuously or otherwise, and provided further that the Mayor may con-
vene the City Council in extra session as he may now do by the fourth
section of the eleventh article of the State Constitution.