complete a petition), the Board of Election Supervisors
of said City or County shall provide at the next general or
Congressional election, occurring after such demand or the
filing of such petition, for the election of a charter board of
eleven registered voters of said City or five registered voters
in any such Counties. Nominations for members for said
charter board may be made not less than forty days prior
to said election by the Mayor of Baltimore and City Coun-
cil of the City of Baltimore or the County Commissioners
of such County, or not less than twenty days prior to said
election by petition bearing the signatures written in their
own handwriting (and not by their mark) of not less than
5^ of the registered voters of the said City of Baltimore
or said County; provided, that in any case two thousand
signatures of registered voters shall be sufficient to com-
plete any such nominating petition, and if not more than
eleven registered voters of the City of Baltimore or not
more than five registered voters in any such County are
so nominated their names shall not be printed on the
ballot, but said eleven registered voters in the City of Bal-
timore or five in such County shall constitute said charter
board from and after the date of said election. At said
election the ballot shall contain the names of said nominees
in alphabetical order without any indication of the source
of their nomination, and shall also be so arranged as to
permit the voter to vote for or against the creation of said
charter board, but the vote cast against said creation shall
not be held to bar the voter from expressing his choice
among the nominees for said board, and if the majority
of the votes cast for and against the creation of said char-
ter board shall be against said creation the election of the
members of said charter board shall be void; but if such
majority shall be in favor of the creation of said charlei-
board, then and in that event the eleven nominees of the
City of Baltimore or five nominees in the County receiving
the largest number of votes shall constitute the charter
board, and said charter board, or a majority thereof, shall
prepare within six months from the date of said election
a charter or form of government for said city or such
county and present the same to the Mayor of Baltimore
or President of the Board of County Commissioners of
such county, who shall publish the same in at least two
newspapers of general circulation published in said the
City of Baltimore or County within thirty days after it
shall be reported to him. Such charter shall be submitted
to the voters of said City or County at the next general or
Congressional election after the report of said charter to
said Mayor of Baltimore or President of the Board of