Loch Lynn Heights: Mayor and six Town Councillors. Oakland Mayor and Town Council, six in number (half elected each year). HARFORD COUNTY (Family name of last Lord Proprietary). Aberdeen: Five Town Commissioners. Belair Five Town Commissioners. Havre de Grace: Mayor and City Council of six members. HOWARD COUNTY (John Eager Howard). Ellicott City: Mayor and City Council of six members. KENT COUNTY (English county). Chestertown Three Town Commissioners. Galena (formerly Georgetown Cross Roads): Five Town Commissioners. Millington Three Town Commissioners (partly in Queen Anne's County). Sassafras Five Village Commissioners. MONTGOMERY COUNTY (Gen. Richard Montgomery). Barnesville: Five Town Commissioners. Brookeville: Three Town Commissioners. Damascus Three Town Commissioners. Gaithersburg: Mayor and Town Council of four. Garrett Park: Mayor and Town Council of four (two to be elected yearly). Hyattstown: Three Town Commissioners. Kensington: Mayor and Town Council of four. Laytonsville: Three Town Commissioners. Poolesville: Five Town Commissioners. Rockville Mayor and Town Council of four members. PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY (Husband of Queen Anne). Bladensburg: President and five Village Commissioners. Hyattsville Five Town Commissioners. Laurel: Mayor and (Town) City Council of five — two at large, one from each of three wards. Piscataway: Three Village Commissioners. Takoma Park (partly in Montgomery County): Mayor and Town Council of six. Upper Marlborough: Three Town Commissioners. QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY (Queen of England). Centreville: Three Town Commissioners. Sudlersville: Three Town Commissioners. ST. MARY'S COUNTY (Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ). SOMERSET COUNTY (English county). Crisfield Five Town Commissioners. Princess Anne: Three Town Commissioners. TALBOT COUNTY (English family name). Easton Three Town Commissioners. Trappe: Five Town Commissioners. WASHINGTON COUNTY (Gen. George Washington). Boonsborough: Burgess, Assistant Burgess, and five Town Commissioners. Clearspring: Burgess, Assistant Burgess, and three Town Commissioners. Hagerstown: Mayor and City Council of five ward. one for each Hancock: Burgess, Assistant Burgess, and three Town Commissioners. Jerusalem (also called Funkstown): Burgess, Assistant Burgess, and five Town Commissioners. Keedysville Burgess, Assistant Burgess, and three Town Commissioners. Leitersburg: Burgess, Assistant Burgess, and three Town Commissioners. Sharpsburg Burgess, Assistant Burgess, and five Town Commissioners. Smithsburg: Burgess, Assistant Burgess, and three Town Commissioners. Williamsport: Burgess, Assistant Burgess, and five Town Commissioners. WICOMICO COUNTY (Indian word, Wicka-menach, enclosed house, or wicko-mekee, where houses are building). Delmar Three Town Commissioners. Salisbury: Mayor and Town Council of five. WORCESTER COUNTY (English town). Berlin: Mayor and five Town Councillors. Ocean City: Mayor and City Council of three. Pocomoke City (formerly Newtown): Mayor and three Town Councillors. Snow Hill Mayor and five Town Councillors. CHAPTER XIII. BALTIMORE CITY. 1. The Charter. - In 1897 it was felt that the Baltimore City Charter was unsatisfactory, and the Mayor appointed a commission of eminent citizens to prepare a new one. This charter was passed, almost without change, by the General Assembly of 1898. As Baltimore contains nearly half Maryland's population and differs in its government from the other municipalities of the State, it seems best to discuss its government in a separate chapter. Baltimore was laid out as a town in 1729, and was made a city in 1797. It lies on the Patapsco River, and is one of the great cities of the United States. As we see, it receives especial attention from the General Assembly, and has many special laws framed for it. It is not included in any county, but has a Sheriff, Orphans' Court, and Surveyor of its own. It ranks as a Judicial Circuit and as three counties for purposes of representation in the General Assembly. Two Congressional Districts and parts of two others are included in its borders (Laws of 1898, ch. 123). 2. Elections. Municipal elections are held on the odd years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in May. A Mayor, President of the Second Branch of the City Council, Comptroller, and members of the City Council are chosen by the people. 3. The Mayor. He is elected for four years with a salary of $6000 — the highest amount paid any public official in the State. He may sign the ordinances passed by the Council or may veto them. He may also veto separate items in an ordinance, while approving the ordinance in general. If he veto an ordinance, he returns it to the Branch in which it originated, with his objections, within five days of its regular sessions. That Branch may then vote on it, after five and before ten days of its sessions, and may pass it over the veto by a vote of three-fourths of the members elected. It then goes to the other Branch and the same procedure is gone through. If he does not return the ordinance in the specified time, it becomes a law, unless the Council has adjourned in the mean time. He is to see that the ordinances are executed, to supervise all the departments of the government, and to make an annual report to the Council in January. Every head of a department must report to him monthly, and he must consult with all the heads as a body at least once a year. He must be twenty-five years old, have been a resident of the city for five years, and a taxpayer in the city on at least $2000 for two years before the election. 4. City Council. The City is divided into twentyfour wards, each of which elects a member to the First Branch of the City Council. This Council is the legislative or ordinance-making body for the city, and, like the General Assembly, is divided into two houses, known as Branches. The members of the First Branch serve for two years. Vacancies are to be filled by a new election. It chooses its own President, who acts as |