such majority shall be in favor of the creation of said
charter 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 there-
of, shall prepare within twelve 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 Bal-
timore 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 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 con-
gressional election after the report of said charter to said
Mayor of Baltimore or President of the Board of 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
day from the date of such election shall become the law of
said City or County, subject only to the Constitution and
Public General Laws of this State, and any public local
laws inconsistent with the provisions of said charter and
any former charter of the City of Baltimore or County
shall be thereby repealed.]^

SEC. 2. The General Assembly at its first session after
the adoption of this amendment shall by public general
law provide a grant of express powers for such County or
Counties as may thereafter form a charter under the pro-
visions of this Article. Such express powers granted to the
Counties and the powers heretofore granted to the City of
Baltimore, as set forth in Article 4, Section 6, Public Local
Laws of Maryland, shall not be enlarged or extended by
any charter formed under the provisions of this Article,
but such powers may be extended, modified, amended or
repealed by the General Assembly.

"SEC. 3. Every charter so formed shall provide for an
elective legislative body in which shall be vested the law-
making power of said City or County. Such legislative body
in the City of Baltimore shall be known as the City Council
of the City of Baltimore, and in any County shall be known
as the County Council of the county. The chief executive
officer, if any such charter shall provide for the election of
such executive officer, or the presiding officer of said legis-

i "This amendment was stihiniltcil I.} Chapter 192, Acts of ]9")3 to be ioted n-pon
by the voters in 1964.
^Thns amended hy Chapter 557, Acts of 1955, ratified November 6, 1956.