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Art. 11-A] MARYLAND MANUAL 757
any amount at any time to provide for any emergency
arising from the necessity of maintaining the police, or pre-
serving the health, safety and sanitary condition of the
City, and may make due and proper arrangements and
agreements for the renewal and extension, in whole or in
part, of any and all debts and obligations created accord-
ing to law before the adoption of this Constitution.
SEC. 8. All Laws and Ordinances, now in force, applica-
ble to the City of Baltimore, not inconsistent with this
Article, shall be, and they are hereby continued until
changed in due course of Law.
SEC. 9. The (general Assembly may make such changes
in this Article, except in Section seventh thereof, as it may
deem best; and this Article shall not be so construed, or
taken as to make the political corporation of Baltimore in-
dependent of, or free from the control, which the General
Assembly of Maryland has over all such Corporations in
this State.
1 ARTICLE XI-A
LOCAL LEGISLATION
2 SECTION 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
voters 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 members 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 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
1 Added by Chapter 416, Acts of 1914, ratified November 2, 1915.
2 Thus amended by Chapter 192, Acts of 1963, ratified November 3, 1964.

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