280 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

given and trial had before the Mayor. The terms of all
municipal officials appointed by the Mayor shall be four
years, unless otherwise provided for in this Article. All
municipal officials who are appointed by the Mayor shall
be appointed in the month of September succeeding his
election, and enter into their respective offices on the first
Monday in October, immediately following their respective
appointments, or as soon thereafter as their appointments
have b'een confirmed, as above provided, if appointed or
confirmed subsequent thereto; but the Mayor first chosen
under this Article shall appoint said officials in the month
of February succeeding his election, subject to confirmation by
the Second Branch of the City Council, and they shall enter
upon their duties on the succeeding first of March, and shall
hold office until their successors under the provisions of this
Article are appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed
under the provisions of this Article. All municipal officials,
boards and commissioners in office under the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, upon the date of the passage of this
Article, unless otherwise provided in this Article, shall hold
their respective offices under existing laws and ordinances, the
same as if this Article had not been passed, until their succes-
sors are appointed, as provided in this section, in February
nineteen hundred; they shall be subject to removal, as pro-
vided in said laws and ordinances, and all vacancies occurring
in said offices shall be filled as now provided for in said exist-
ing laws and ordinances; said municipal officials, boards and
commissioners shall perform the duties respectively now pre-
scribed by existing laws and ordinances which are not incon-
sistent with the provisions of this Article, and they shall also
perform such additional duties as may be required to be per-
formed by such officers in this Article. The Mayor first
elected under the provisions of this Article, shall organize the
municipal government of Baltimore City, as provided for in
said Article, and appoint the heads of departments, sub-
departments, municipal officers, boards and commissions pro-
vided for therein, in the month of February, nineteen hun-
dred. All persons appointed by the Mayor, as well as
those municipal officials elected by the people or by the joint
convention of the City Council, shall, before entering upon the