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the journal, and no ordinance shall be read a third time until it shall have
been actually engrossed for a third reading.

Glenn v. M. & C. C. of Baltimore, 5 G. & J. 424, 429. Central Savings Bank v.
Balto., 71 Md. 523. Baltimore City v. Gorter, 93 Md. 8. Cf., Drennen v. Bank, 80
Md. 316. Whitman v. Stoll, 80 Md. 417. Baltimore City v. Stewart, 92 Md. 547.
Sindall v. Baltimore City, 93 Md. 526. Hagerstown v. Startzman, 93 Md. 612.
Ordinances Introduced during first legislative year may be passed during second
legislative year.

Bond v. M. & C. C., 111 Md. 364.
As to sufficiency of title, see—

Baltimore v. Wollman, 123 Md. 310. Mogul v. Gaither. 143 Md. 380.
Same rules govern courts in determining whether ordinance has been passed
as in case of Acts of Legislature.

M. & C. C. v. First M. E. Church, 134 Md. 593.
As to defective title, see—

Smith v. Standard OH Co., 149 Md. 61.

1898, ch. 123.

222. In case it becomes necessary for the President of the City Council
to fill the unexpired term of the Mayor, or in case of the removal of the
President of the City Council, as herein provided, the City Council shall
Thereupon elect a new President for the unexpired term, but they shall not
elect as such President one of their own number.

(Article 2.)

PROVISIONS LIMITING THE OPERATION AND EFFECT
OF THIS CHARTER.*

SECTION I. This Charter shall not impair or affect any right vested
or acquired and existing at the time that this Charter takes effect; pro-
vided, that this section shall not be construed to make irrepealable or
irrevocable, any right which before this Charter takes effect was repealable
or revocable; nor shall this Charter discharge, release or impair any bond,
contract, obligation, duty, liability, penalty or forfeiture whatever exist-
ing when this Charter takes effect. All suits and actions, both civil and
criminal, then maintainable or pending, for causes of action then exist-
ing, or offenses already committed against any law or ordinance of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or any rule or regulation made
pursuant to any such law or ordinance, repealed or superseded by this
Charter, shall be instituted, proceeded with and prosecuted to final deter-
mination and judgment as if this Charter had not been adopted. No
assessment made, tax levied, or proceeding taken for the collection of
any tax, or the enforcement of the payment of the same, before this
Charter takes effect, including assessments made, or taxes levied for the
years 1918 and 1919 shall in any manner be affected by the adoption of
this Charter, and the mode of procedure in any such matter shall be the
same as if this Charter had not been adopted; and this shall likewise be

* Sections 1-4 following added by the Charter Board of 1918.