ART. 4.] CITY OF BALTIMORE. 591

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. He shall be appointed
by a joint convention of the two Branches of the City Council
on the Tuesday next after the fourth Monday of May in the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and on the same day
and month in every fourth year thereafter. His salary shall be
three thousand and three hundred dollars per annum, payable
monthly, in addition to three hundred dollars for services ren-
dered the State, as provided for in section 108 of article 81,
Code of Public General Laws. The Second Branch of the City
Council, by a majority vote of all the members elected to said
Branch, may remove the City Register from office for incom-
petency, wilful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in office, upon
charges preferred by the Mayor, and after notice of such
charges is given to the City Register, and an opportunity af-
forded him to be heard by said Branch. The City Register
shall take under his charge and keeping the corporate seal of
the city, and use it in all cases which are now or may be here-
after required by Federal or State laws, ordinances, or the uses
and customs of nations, and shall charge a fee of two dollars
for each impression of the seal, except such as shall be affixed
to or impressed upon documents for the Mayor and City Coun-
cil, or used in connection with the affairs of the city. He shall
pay to the Comptroller, for the use of the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, all fees so received by him. He shall have power
to appoint a deputy register, with a salary of two thousand
dollars per annum, payable monthly, and such other clerical
assistants as may be prescribed by ordinance not inconsistent
with this article. In case of a vacancy occurring in the office
of City Register by removal or otherwise, the joint convention
of the two Branches of the City Council shall forthwith fill said
vacancy. He shall perform such other duties as may be pre-
scribed by ordinance not inconsistent with this article, t pro-
vided, the present incumbent of the office of the City Register
shall hold his office until the expiration of his term, as now pro-
vided under existing laws and ordinances, and should a va-
cancy occur in said office a successor shall be appointed by a
joint convention of the City Council for the balance of said
term.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1908.

CHAPTER 151.

AN ACT to add a new section relating to the grant of fran-
chise or rights in the water front, wharf property, land under