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for three successive weeks in at least one newspaper published
in such Counties, so that the taxpayers and citizens may have
notice thereof. This provision shall not apply to Baltimore
City. All such local laws enacted by the Mayor of Baltimore
and City Council of the City of Baltimore or the Council of the
Counties as hereinbefore provided, shall be subject to the same
rules of interpretation as those now /applicable to the Public
Local Laws of this State, except that in case of any conflict be-
tween said local law and any Public General Law now or here-
after enacted the Public General Law shall control.
SEC. 4. Prom and after the adoption of a charter under the
provisions of this Article by the City of Baltimore or any County
of this State, no public local law shall be enacted by the General
Assembly for said City or County on any subject covered by the
express powers granted as above provided. Any law so drawn
as to apply to two or more of the geographical sub-divisions
of this State shall not be deemed a Local Law, within the mean-
ing of this Act. The term "geographical sub-division" herein
used shall be taken to mean the City of Baltimore or any of the
Counties of this State.
SEC. 5. Amendments to any charter adopted by the City of
Baltimore or by any County of this State under the provisions
of this Article may be proposed by a resolution of the Mayor
of Baltimore and the City Council of said the City of Baltimore,
or the Council of said County, or by a petition signed by not
less than 20% of the registered voters of said City or County,
provided, however, that in any case 10,000 signatures shall be
sufficient to complete a petition, and filed with the Mayor of
Baltimore or the President of the County Council, and when so
proposed shall be submitted to the voters of said City or County
at the next general or congressional election occurring after the
passage of said resolution, or the filing of said petition; and if
at said election the majority of the votes cast for and against
said amendment shall be in favor thereof, said amendment shall
be adopted and become a part of the charter of said City or
County from and after the thirtieth day after said election.
Said amendments shall be published by said Mayor of Balti-
more or President of the County Council once a week for five
successive weeks prior to said election in at least one newspaper
published in said City or County.
SEC. 6. The power heretofore conferred upon the General
! Assembly to prescribe the number, compensation, powers and
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