with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall hold his office during the term of the Governor, by whom he shall have been appointed, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. His salary shall be fifteen hundred dollars a year; and he shall perform such duties as are now, or may hereafter be prescribed by law; and no appropriation shall be made by law to pay for any clerk, or assistant to the Librarian. And it shall be the duty of the Legislature, at its first session after the adoption of this Constitution to pass a law regulating the mode and manner in which the books in th library shall be kept and accounted for by the librarian, and requiring th librarian to give a bond, in such penalty as the Legislature may prescribe, fo the proper discharge of his duties.

SEC. 4. There shall be a Commissioner of the Land Office, who shall appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senat who shall hold his office during the term of the Governor, by whom he sha have been appointed, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualifie He shall perform such duties as are now required of the Commissioner the Land Office, or such as may hereafter be prescribed by law, and shall al be the Keeper of the Chancery Records. He shall receive a salary of or thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of the Treasury, an shall charge such fees as are now, or may be hereafter fixed by law. E shall make a semi-annual report of all the fees of his office, both as Comm sioner of the Land Office and as Keeper of the Chancery Records, to t Comptroller of the Treasury, and shall pay the same semi-annually into Treasury.

SEC. 5. The Commissioner of the Land Office shall also, without ad tional compensation, collect, arrange, classify, have charge of and safely ke all papers, records, relics and other memorials connected with the early h tory of Maryland, not belonging to any other office.

SEC. 6. The qualified voters of Worcester county shall on the Tuesd next after the first Monday in the month of November, in the year eighte hundred and sixty-seven, and every two years thereafter, elect a Wreck Mast for said county, whose duties and compensation shall be the same as are n or may be hereafter prescribed by law; the term of oflice of said Wreck Mast shall commence on the first Monday of January next succeeding his electio and a vacancy in said office shall be filled by the County Commissioners said county for the residue of the term.

ARTICLE VIII.

EDUCATION.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly, at its first session after the adopti of this Constitution, shall, by law, establish throughout the State a thoroug and efficient system of free public schools; and shall provide by taxation, i otherwise, for their maintenance.

SEC. 2. The system of public schools, as now constituted, shall remain force until the end of the said first session of the General Assembly, and sha then expire, except so far as adopted or continued by the General Assembly. SEC. 3. The school fund of the State shall be kept inviolate, and appre priated only to the purposes of education.

ARTICLE IX.

MILITIA AND MILITARY AFFAIRS.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly shall make, from time to time, sud provisions for organizing, equipping and disciplining the Militia, as the exi gency may require, and pass such laws to promote volunteer militia organi zations as may afford them effectual encouragement.

SEC. 2. There shall be an Adjutant-General appointed by the Governor. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. He shall hold his office until the appointment and qualification of his successor, or until removed in

pursuance of the sentence of a court-martial. He shall perform such duties and receive such compensation or emoluments as are now or may be presribed by law. He shall discharge the duties of his office at the seat of government, unless absent under orders, on duty; and no other officer of the General Staff of the Militia shall receive salary or pay, except when on service and mustered in with troops.

SEC. 3. The existing Militia Law of the State shall expire at the end of the next session of the General Assembly, except so far as it may be reenacted, subject to the provisions of this Article.

ARTICLE X.

LABOR AND AGRICULTURE, 31

SECTION 1. There shall be a Superintendent of Labor and Agriculture lected by the qualified voters of this State at the first general election for Delegates to the General Assembly after the adoption of this Constitution, who shall hold his office for the term of four years, and until the election and qualification of his successor.

SEC. 2. His qualifications shall be the same as those prescribed for the Comptroller; he shall qualify and enter upon the duties of his office on the cond Monday of January next succeeding the time of his election; and a acancy in the office shall be filled by the Governor for the residue of the term. SEC. 3. He shall perform such of the duties now devolved by law upon he Commissioners of Immigration and the Immigration Agent, as will promote he object for which those officers were appointed, and such other duties as may be assigned to him by the General Assembly, and shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars a year; and after his election and qualification, the offices before mentioned shall cease.

SEC. 4. He shall supervise all the State inspectors of agricultural prodats and fertilizers, and from time to time shall carefully examine and audit their accounts, and prescribe regulations not inconsistent with law, tending to cure economy and efficiency in the business of their offices. He shall have the supervision of the tobacco warehouses, and all other buildings used for nspection and storage purposes by the State; and may, at the discretion of the gislature, have the supervision of, all public buildings now belonging to, r which may hereafter, be erected by the State. He shall frequently inspect nch buildings as are committed to his charge, and examine all accounts for alor and materials required for their construction or repairs.

SEC. 5. He shall inquire into the undeveloped resources of wealth of the State of Maryland, more specially concerning those within the limits of the hesapeake Bay and its tributaries, which belong to the State, and suggest such dans as may be calculated to render them available as sources of revenue.

SEC. 6. He shall make detailed reports to every General Assembly within he first week of its session, in reference to each of the subjects committed to is charge, and he shall also report to the Governor, in the recess of the egislature, all abuses or irregularities which he may find to exist in any lepartment of public affairs with which his office is connected.

SEC. 7. The office hereby established shall continue for four years from he date of the qualification of the first incumbent thereof, and shall then xpire, unless continued by the General Assembly.

ARTICLE XI.

CITY OF BALTIMORE.

SECTION 1. 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,

This article expired by limitation.

a citizen of the United States, and five years a resident of said city nex preceding the election, and assessed with property in said city to the amoun of two thousand dollars, and who has paid taxes thereon for two years pr ceding his election to be Mayor of the City of Baltimore; but the May chosen at the first election under this section shall not enter upon the charge of the duties of the office until the expiration of the term for whi the present Mayor was elected; unless the said office of Mayor shall becom vacant by death, resignation, removal from the State or other disqualifie tion of the present Mayor.32

SEC. 2. The City Council of Baltimore shall consist of two branches, of which shall be called the First Branch, and the other the Second Brane and each shall consist of such numbers of members, having such qualificatio receiving such compensation, performing such duties, possessing such powe holding such terms of office, and elected in such manner as are now or m hereafter be prescribed by law.

SEC. 3. An election for members of the First and Second Branch of 14 City Council of Baltimore shall be held in the city of Baltimore on the four Wednesday of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and for members the First Branch on the same day in every year thereafter; and for memb of the Second Branch on the same day in every second year thereafter; the qualification for electors of the members of the City Council shall be same as those prescribed for the electors of Mayor.

SEC. 3. An election for members of the First Branch of the City Cour of Baltimore shall be held in the city of Baltimore on the Tuesday after first Monday of November in every year; and for members of the Sect Branch on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, eighteen dred and eighty-nine, and on the same day in every second year thereaft and the qualification for electors of the members of the City Council shall the same as those prescribed for the electors of Mayor.33

SEC. 4. The regular sessions of the City Council of Baltimore (wh shall be anual) shall commence on the third Monday of January of year, and shall not continue more than ninety days, exclusive of Sunda but the Mayor may convene the City Council in extra session whenever, and often as it may appear to him that the public good may require, but no cal or extra session shall last longer than twenty days, exclusive of Sundays.

SEC. 5. No person elected and qualified as Mayor, or as a member of City Council, shall, during the term for which he was elected, hold any of office of profit or trust, created or to be created by the Mayor and City Cour of Baltimore, or by any law relating to the corporation of Baltimore, or h any employment or position, the compensation of which shall be paid, direc or indirectly, out of the city treasury; nor shall any such person be interest directly or indirectly, in any contract to which the city is a party; nor shall be lawful for any person holding any office under the city, to be interest 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 will neglect of duty, or misbehavior in office, be removed from office by the G ernor of the State, and a successor shall thereafter be elected, as in a c of vacancy.

SEC. 7. From and after the adoption of this Constitution, no debt cept as hereinafter excepted) shall be created by the Mayor and City Coun of Baltimore; nor shall the credit of the Mayor and City Council of Bal more be given or loaned to, or in aid of any individual, association or poration; nor shall the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore have the pow

32 Thus amended by Chapt. 123, Sec. 16, Acts of 1898. By Chapt. 116, Acts 1870, the term of mayor was fixed at two years; by Chapt. 397, Acts of 1888, the da of election was set for the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The acti 1898, Chapt. 123, made the first Monday in May, 1899, the day of election, and ever four years thereafter. Other amendments have also been made by the legislature i the Baltimore Charter.

33 Thus amended by the Act of 1888, Chapt. 397, Sec. 212; further amended b the Act of 1898, Chapt. 123, Sec. 212, which has made material changes in the severs sections of this Article.

⚫ involve the city of Baltimore in the construction of works of internal mprovement, nor in granting any aid thereto, which shall involve the faith nd credit of the city, nor make any appropriation therefor, unless such debt credit be authorized by an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, and y an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, submitted to de legal voters of the city of Baltimore, at such time and place as may be xed by said ordinance, and approved by a majority of the votes cast at such me and place; but the Mayor and City Council may, temporarily, borrow any mount of money to meet any deficiency in the city treasury, or to provide r any emergency arising from the necessity of maintaining the police, or prerving the safety and sanitary condition of the city, and may make due and toper arrangements and agreements for the removal and extension, in whole in part, of any and all debts and obligations created according to law efore the adoption of this Constitution.

SEC. 8. All laws and ordinances now in force applicable to the city Baltimore, not inconsistent with this Article, shall be, and they are hereby antinued until changed in due course of law.

SEC. 9. The General Assembly may make such changes in this Article. cept in Section 7th thereof, as it may deem best; and this Article shall be so construed or taken as to make the political corporation of Baltimore dependent of, or free from the control which the General Assembly of Maryd has over all such corporations in this State.

ARTICLE XI-A.

LOCAL LEGISLATION.

SECTION 1. On demand of the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the ty of Baltimore, or on petition bearing the signatures of not less than 20 ercent of the registered voters of said city or any county (provided, hower, that in any case 10.000 signatures shall be sufficient to complete a peti, the Board of Election Supervisors of said city or county shall provide the next general or Congressional election, occurring after such demand or be filing of such petition, for the election of a charter board of eleven regisRed voters of said city or five registered voters in any such counties. Nomiations for members for said charter board may be made not less than forty ays prior to said election by the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of he City of Baltimore or the County Commissioners of such county, or not less n twenty days prior to said election by petition bearing the signatures ritten in their own handwriting (and not by their mark) of not less than per cent of the registered voters of the said City of Baltimore or said mty; provided, that in any case two thousand signatures of registered eters shall be sufficient to complete any such nominating petition, and if ot more than eleven registered voters of the City of Baltimore or not more han five registered voters in any such county are so nominated their names hall not be printed on the ballot, but said eleven registered voters in the ity of Baltimore or five in such county shall constitute said charter board rom and after the date of said election. At said election the ballot shall ntain the names of said nominees in alphabetical order without any indicaion of the source of their nomination, and shall also be so arranged as to ermit the voter to vote for or against the creation of said charter board. int 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 charter board shall be against said creation the election of the members of said charter ward shall be void; but if such majority shall be in favor of the creation of said charter board, then am in that event the eleven nominees of the City of Baltimore or five members 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 harter 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 Com

missioners of such county, who shall publish the same in at least two news papers 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 Baltimore or President of the Board of County Commissioners; and if majority of the votes cast for and against the adoption of said charter sha be in favor of such adoption, the said charter from and after the thirtieth day -n 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, an any Public Local Laws inconsistent with the provisions of said charter an former charter of said the City of Baltimore or county shall be there repealed.

SEC. 2. The General Assembly at its first session after the adoption this amendment shall, by Public General Law, provide a grant of express power ri for such county of counties as may thereafter form a charter under the pre visions of this Article. Such express powers granted to the counties and th powers heretofore granted to the City of Baltimore, as set forth in Article Section 6, Public Local Laws of Maryland, shall not be enlarged or extended bety any charter formed under the provisions of this Article, but such powej za may be extended, modified, amended or repealed by the General Assembly.

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SEC. 3. Every charter so formed shall provide for an elective legislati body in which shall be vested the law-making power of said city or count Such legislative body in the City of Baltimore shall be known as the CHE Council of the City of Baltimore, and in any county shall be known as t County Council of the county. The chief executive officer, if any such chart shall provide for the election of such executive officer, or the presiding offic of said legislative body, if such charter shall not provide for the election a chief executive officer, shall be known in the City of Baltimore as Mayor Baltimore, and in any county as the President of the County Council of t county, and all references in the Constitution and laws of this State to t Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore and to t President and County Commissioners of the counties shall be construed t refer to the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimo and to the President and County Council herein provided for, whenever sne construction would be reasonable. From and after the adoption of a charte by the City of Baltimore, or any county of this State, as hereinbefore pr vided, the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore ₫ the County Council of said county, subject to the Constitution and Publi General Laws of this State, shall have full power to enact local laws of sai city or county, including the power to repeal or amend Local Laws of salt city or county enacted by the General Assembly, upon all matters covered b the express powers granted as above provided; provided that nothing here contained shall be construed to authorize or empower the County Council o any county in this State to enact laws or regulations for any incorporates town, village, or municipality in said county, on any matter covered by the powers granted to said town, village, or municipality by the Act incorporating it, or any subsequent Act or Acts amendatory thereto. Provided, however, tha the charters of the various counties shall provide that the County Counci of the counties shall not sit more than one month in each year for the pur pose of enacting legislation for such counties, and all legislation shall b enacted during the month so designated for that purpose in the charter, and all laws and ordinances so enacted shall be published once a week for thre successive weeks in at least one newspaper published in such counties, so tha the taxpayers and citizens may have notice thereof. This provision shall no apply to Baltimore city. All such local laws enacted by the Mayor of Bair more and City Council of the City of Baltimore or the Council of the countie hereinbefore provided, shall be subject to the same rules of interpretations a those now applicable to the Public Local Laws of this State, except that i case of any conflict between said Local Law and any Public General Law no or hereafter enacted, the Public General Law shall control.