County Commissioners; and if a majority of the votes cast
for and against the adoption of said charter shall be in favor
of such adoption, the said charter from and after the
thirtieth days^ from the date of such election shall become
the law of said City or County, subject only to the Consti-
tution and Public General Laws of this State, and any
public local laws inconsistent with the provisions of said
charter and any former charter of said the City of Balti-
more or County shall be thereby repealed.

[SEC. 1. On demand of the Mayor of Baltimore and
City Council of the City of Baltimore, or on petition bear-
ing the signatures of not less than 20% of the registered
yoters of said City or any County (Provided, however, that
in any case 10,000 signatures shall be sufficient to complete
a petition), the Board of Election Supervisors of said City
or County shall provide at the next general or congres-
sional 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 mem-
bers for said charter board may be made not less than forty
days prior to said election by the Mayor of Baltimore and
City Council of the City of Baltimore or the County Com-
missioners 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 complete any such nominating petition, and if
not more than eleven registered voters of the City of Balti-
more 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 Baltimore 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 crea-
tion 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 charter board shall be against said creation the election
of the members of said charter board shall be void; but if

* Thus in original.