Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1914-04-10

dCteu uuIlng the month so designated Tor
that purpose in the charter, and all laws
and ordinances so enacted shall be pub
lished once a week for three successive
weeks in at least one newspaper published
in such counties so that the taxpayers and
citizens may have notice thereof. This
provision shall not apply to Baltimore city.
All such local laws enacted by the Mayor
and City Council Of the city of Baltimore
or the Council of the counties as hereinbe-
fore provided shall be subject to the same
rules of Interpretation as those now ap-
plicable to the Public Local Laws of this
State. except that in case of any conflict
between said local law and any Public
General Law now or hereafter enacted the
Public General Law shall control.
Section a. From and after the adoption
of charter under the provision of this
article by Baltimore city or any county of
this State, no public local law shall be
enacted by the General Assembly for said
city or county on any subject covered by
the express powers granted as above pro-
vided. Amy law so drawn as to apply to
two or more of the geographical subdivis-
ions of this State shall not be deemed
a local law, within the meaning of this act.
The term geographical subdivision" here
in used shall be taken to mean the city of
Baltimore or any of the counties of this
State.
Section S. Amendments to any charter
adopted by the city of Baltimore or by any
county of this State under the provisions
of this article may be proposed by a reso-
luton of the Mayor of Baltimore city and
the City Council of said CITY, or the Coun-
Gil of said county, or by a petition signed
by not less than 20 per cent of the regis
tered voters Of said city or county pro-
vided. however, that in any case 10000
signatures shall be sufficient to complete
petition and filed with the Mayor of Bal
timOre or the President of the County
Council. and when so proposed shall be
submitted to the voters of said city or
county at the next general or Congress
sional election occurring after the passage
of said resolution. or the filing of said petit
ton. and If at said election the majority
of the votes cast for and against said
shall be in favor thereof, said
shall be adopted and become
a part of the charter of said city or county
from and after the thirtieth day after said
election. Said amendments shall be pub
lished by said Mayor of Baltimore or Pres-
dent of the County Council once week for
five successive weeks prior to said election
in at least one newspaper published in
in said city or county.
Section 6. The power heretofore con-
ferred upon the General Assembly to pre-
scribe the number, compensation, powers
and duties Of the County Commissioners
in each county and the power to make
changes in Sections to 6, inclusive, Arti-
Gle XII, of this Constitution, when expressly
granted as hereinbefore provided. are here
by transferred to the voters of each county
and the voters of the city of Baltimore,
respectively, provided that said power so
transferred shall be exercised only by adop-
ton or amendment of charter as herein
before provided; and provided further, that
this article shall not be construed to au-
thorize the exercising of any powers in ex-
cess of those conferred by the Legislature
upon said counties or city, as this article
sets forth.
Section 7. The word petition" as used
in this article, means one or more sheets
written or printed. or partly written and
partly printed; signature" means the sig
nature Of a registered voter written by
himself in his own handwriting (and not
by his mark, together with the ward or
district and precinct in which he is regis
tered. The authenticity of such signatures
and the facts that the persons so signing
are registered voters shall be evidenced
by the affidavit of one or more registered
voters Of the city or county in which said
voters so signing are registered, and one
affidavit may apply or cover any number
of signatures to such petition. The false
signing of any name. or the signing of any
fictitious name to said petition shall be
forgery. and the making of any false aft
davit in connection with said petition shall
be perjury.
Section 8. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid. that the aforesaid
article hereby proposed as an amendment
to the Constitution shall be. at the next
general election for members of the Cen
eral Assembly held in this State, sub
mitted to the legal and qualified voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection in
pursuance Of the directions contained in
Article XIV of the Constitution of this
State. and at the said general election the
vote on the said proposed amendment to
the Constitution shall be by ballot, and
upon each ballot shall be printed the words,
For Constitutional Amendment" and
Against Constitutional Amendment" as
now provided by law. and Immediately
after said election due return shall be
made to the Governor Of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment as d.
rected by said Fourteenth Article Of the
Constitution.