ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1531

provision may be made for the government of the City of
Annapolis and of the Annapolis Water Company through a
commission and a city manager. Said commission to draft
such amendments shall consist of the Mayor of Annapolis,
the City Counselor of Annapolis, one member of the City
Council to be named by said City Council, and five residents of
Annapolis, who shall be named by the City Council.

SEC. 3. And lc it further enacted, That the commission so
appointed shall have power to frame a plan of government for
the City of Annapolis through a commission and city manager,
the sections of such plan as drafted to take the place of such
sections of the City Charter, embraced in Article 2, Section

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28 of the Code of Public Local Laws, and Acts amendatory
thereto, as may be indicated by said commission, and to take
the place of Chapter 123 of the Acts of 1865, and the Acts
amendatory thereto, the charter of the Annapolis Water Com-
pany, incorporated under such act, being abrogated upon this
Act becoming effective, all of its powers, rights, property, and
obligations devolving upon the commission to be provided and
constituted as the governing body of the City of Annapolis.

-SEC. 3A. The plan of government for the City of Ann-
apolis to be prepared by the commission provided in this Act
and submitted to the qualified voters of the said city for
approval or rejection may contain provisions for the conduct
of municipal primary and general elections, but shall not alter
existing law as to qualifications for registration, and no powers
not now vested by law in the Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen
of the City of Annapolis or the Annapolis Water Company
shall be granted any body or person, through or by reason of
any portion of the plan of city government drafted or pre-
pared by the commission provided in this Act.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That within sixty days
after the draft of the proposed changes in the charter of the
City of Annapolis and for the abrogation of the charter of
the Annapolis Water Company are submitted to the Mayor,
Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis by the said
commission, the said Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the
City of Annapolis shall call a special election at which the
qualified voters of the City of Annapolis, as shown by the
registration books for the lasit municipal election, shall deter-
mine whether or not the changes and provisions and the re-
pealing of the charter of the Annapolis Water Company, as
provided and set out by such commission shall become effect-