or to be created by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or by any Law relating to the Corporation of Baltimore, or hold any employment or position, the compensation of which shall be paid, directly or indirectly, out of the City Treasury; nor shall any such person be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract to which the City is a party; nor shall it be lawful for any person holding any office under the City, to be interested, while holding such office, in any contract to which the City is a party.

Sec. 6. The Mayor shall, on conviction in a Court of Law, of wilful neglect of duty, or misbehavior in office, be removed from office by the Governor of the State, and a successor shall thereafter be elected, as in a case of vacancy.

Sec. 7. From and after the adoption of this. Constitution, no debt (except as hereinafter excepted), shall be created by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; nor shall the credit of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be given or loaned to, or in aid of any individual, association, or corporation; nor shall the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore have the power to involve the City of Baltimore in the construction of works of internal improvement, nor in granting any aid thereto, which shall involve the faith and credit of the City, nor make any appropriation therefor, unless such debt or credit be authorized by an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, and, by an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, submitted to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, at such time and place as may be fixed by said ordinance, and approved by a majority of the votes cast at such time and place; but the Mayor and City Council may, temporarily, borrow any amount of money to meet any deficiency in the City Treasury, or to provide for any emergency arising from the necessity of maintaining the police, or preserving the 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 according to Law before the adoption of this Constitution.

Mayor, etc., of Balto. v. Gill, 31 Md. 375. Pumphrey v. Mayor, & C. C. of Balto., 47 Md. 145. Balto. City v. Gorter, 93 Md. 1.

Sec. 8. All Laws and Ordinances now in force applicable to the City of Baltimore, not inconsistent with this Article, shall be, and they are hereby continued until changed in due course of Law.

Hooper v. New, 85 Md. 565.

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Sec. 9. The General Assembly may make such changes in this Article, except in Section 7th thereof, as it may deem best; and this Article shall not be so construed or taken as to make the political corporation of Baltimore independent of, or free from the control which the General Assembly of Maryland. has over all such Corporations in this State.

Pumphrey v. Mayor, etc., 47 Md. 145.

Amendments to this Article by the new Charter of Baltimore City..

In pursuance of the power conferred by Section 9, the General Assembly by the Act of 1898, Chapter 123, commonly called the New Charter of Baltimore City, changed the tenure, qualifications and time of election of the Mayor and members. of the City Council, as follows, viz:

MAYOR.

1898, ch. 123.

16. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore qualified to vote for members of the House of Delegates shall, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and on the same day and month in every fourth year thereafter, elect by ballot a person of known integrity, experience and sound judgment, over twenty-five years of age, a citizen of the United States, and five years a resident of said City next preceding the election, and assessed with property in said City to the amount of two thousand dollars, and who has paid taxes thereon for two years preceding his election, to be Mayor of the City of Baltimore; but the Mayor chosen at the first election under this section shall not enter upon the discharge of the duties of the office until the expiration of the term for which the present Mayor was elected; unless the said office of Mayor shall become vacant. by death, resignation, removal from the State or other disqualification of the present Mayor.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

209. The Legislative Department of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall be vested in the City Council, which shall consist of two Branches, one of which shall be the First Branch and the other the Second Branch.

210. The First Branch shall consist of one member from each ward of the City, who shall be a citizen of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, a resident of the City three years preceding his election, and for the same time

a resident of the ward for which he is elected, and assessed with property to the amount of three hundred dollars, who has paid taxes on the same one year prior to his election, and shall hold his office for two years. Each member of the First Branch shall be paid a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly.

211. The Second Branch shall consist of nine members, one of whom shall be the President thereof, and shall possess the qualification and be elected as hereinafter provided. The other eight members shall be elected from the City of Baltimore at large, until the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall divide the City of Baltimore into four Councilmanic Districts, to be known as the first, second, third and fourth Councilmanic Districts, which shall each contain as near as possible one-fourth of the population of the City of Baltimore, and shall each be composed of six contiguous wards, according to their numerical order, beginning with the first ward. After said division, then two members of the Second Branch shall be elected from each of said Districts. The members of the Second Branch, excepting the President thereof, shall be citizens of the United States above the age of twenty-five years, residents of the City of Baltimore four years prior to their election, each of whom has been assessed with property in the said City in the sum of five hundred dollars, and who has paid taxes on the same for two years prior to his election, and said members of the Second Branch shall hold their offices for four years, except as provided in section 213 of this Article, and each of them shall be paid a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, provided, that the members of the Second Branch of the City Council in office upon the date of the passage of this Article shall receive such compensation as they would have been entitled to receive if they had served out the full term for which they were elected.

212. The election for members of the First Branch shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and upon every second year thereafter. Said election shall be held by wards, and no person shall be entitled to vote for any member of the First Branch except for the member for the ward of which the voter is a resident. The members of said Branch now in office shall hold office until their successors have been elected under the provisions of this Article, and have duly qualified.

213. The election for the said eight members of the Second Branch shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, in the year eighteen hundred and ninetynine. Their terms of office shall be for four years, except that the members of the Second Branch first elected shall determine by lot their terms of office, so as to provide for the retirement of one-half of the said members of the Second Branch at the end of the first two years. On the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, in the year nineteen hundred and one, and in every second year thereafter, an election shall be held for four members of said Branch to fill the places of the members then retiring.

214. There shall be elected on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, in the year eighteen hundred and ninetynine, and upon every fourth year thereafter, from the City at large, a person to be the President of the Second Branch of the City Council, who shall possess the qualifications required and hereinbefore defined, of the Mayor of the City of Baltimore. His duty shall be to preside over the Second Branch of the City Council, and vote on all questions, and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinances not inconsistent with this Article. He shall be paid a salary of three thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. A joint convention of the two Branches of the City Council, by a majority vote of all the members elected to the City Council, may remove from office the President of the Second Branch for incompetency, wilful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in office, upon charges preferred by the Mayor, and after notice of such charges is given to the President of the Second Branch, and an opportunity afforded him to be heard.

215. The qualifications of electors of members of the City Council shall be the same as those of electors of the Mayor. All vacancies in the First Branch shall be filled without delay by the First Branch from the ward in which the said vacancy occurs, by an election of a person possessing the qualifications hereinbefore prescribed, to fill the unexpired term of the former incumbent. If a vacancy occurs in the Second Branch, then said Branch shall forthwith fill said vacancy by the election of a person possessing the qualifications hereinbefore prescribed from the City at large or from the proper Councilmanic District, if there be such District at that time.

ARTICLE XII.

PUBLIC WORKS.

Section 1. The Governor, the Comptroller of the Treasury, and the Treasurer shall constitute the Board of Public Works in this State. They shall keep a journal of their proceedings, and shall hold regular sessions in the City of Annapolis on the first Wednesday in January, April, July and October in each year, and oftener if necessary; at which sessions they shall hear and determine such matters as affect the Public Works of the State, and as the General Assembly may confer upon them the power to decide.

Sec. 2. They shall exercise a diligent and faithful supervision of all Public Works in which the State may be interested as Stockholder or Creditor, and shall represent and vote the stock of the State of Maryland in all meetings of the stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; and shall appoint the Directors in every Railroad and Canal Company in which the State has the legal power to appoint Directors, which said Directors shall represent the State in all meetings of the Stockholders of the respective Companies for which they are appointed or elected. And the President and Directors of the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company shall so regulate the tolls of said Company from time to time as to produce the largest amount of revenue, and to avoid the injurious effect to said Company of rival competition by other Internal Improvement Companies. They shall require the Directors of all said Public Works to guard the public interest and prevent the establishment of tolls which shall discriminate against the interest of the citizens or products of this State, and from time to time, and as often as there shall be any change in the rates of toll on any of the said Works, to furnish the said Board of Public Works a schedule of such modified rates of toll, and so adjust them as to promote the agricultural interests of the State; they shall report to the General Assembly at each regular session, and recommend such legislation as they may deem necessary and requisite to promote or protect the interests of the State in the said Public Works; they shall perform such other duties as may be hereafter prescribed by Law, and a majority of them shall be competent to act. The Governor, Comptroller and Treasurer shall receive no additional salary for services rendered by them as members of the Board of