1450 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 665

and any ordinance proposed by petition or which shall be
adopted by a vote of the people cannot be repealed or amended
except by a vote of the people. Any number of proposed
ordinances may be voted upon at the same election, but there
shall not be more than one special election in any period of
six months for such purposes. The Council may submit a
proposition to repeal or amend any such ordinances, to be
voted upon at any succeeding general town election, and
should such proposition be submitted receive a majority of
the votes cast thereon, such ordinance shall thereby be re-

pealed or amended accordingly. Whenever any ordinance or
proposition is required by this charter to be submitted to the
voters at any election, the town clerk shall cause its publi-
cation in newspapers published or circulated in the town not
more than twenty or less than five days before submission to
the voters.

SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That no ordi-
nance passed by the Council, except when otherwise re-
quired by the general laws of the State, or by the
provisions of this charter, except an ordinance for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health or
safety, which contains a statement of its urgency, and is
passed by a four-fifths vote of the entire Council, shall go into
effect before ten days from the date of its final passage; and
if during said ten days a petition signed by town electors
equal in number to at least 25 per centum of the entire vote
cast for all candidates for Mayor at the last preceding gen-
eral town election, protesting against the passage of such
ordinance, be presented to the Council, the same shall there-
upon be suspended from going into operation, and it shall
be the duty of the Council to reconsider such ordinance;
and if the same is not entirely repealed, the Council shall
submit the ordinance as is provided by sub-section (b) of
Section 22 of this charter, and such ordinance shall not be-
come operative unless a majority of the qualified electors
voting on the same shall vote in favor thereof. Amendments
to this charter, except such as affect the power of the Mayor
and Common Council to levy taxes sufficient to meet the
town necessities, and subject to the constitution and general
laws of the State and the public local laws of Prince George's
County, other than this Act, shall, upon a petition signed
by town electors equal in number to at least twenty-five per
centum of the entire vote cast for all candidates for Mayor