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copy of this Resolution shall be continuously posted on the bulletin board
in City Hall for at least forty (40) days after its passage, and provided
further that a copy of the title of this Resolution shall be published in
"The Evening Capital," a newspaper of general circulation in the City of
Annapolis, or in any other newspaper of such general circulation once
in each of the five (5) successive weeks thereafter.

SECTION III. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor
is hereby specifically enjoined to carry out the provisions of Section II
hereof, and, as evidence of such compliance, the Mayor shall cause to be
affixed to the minutes of this meeting appropriate certificates of publication
of the newspaper or newspapers in which the title of this Resolution shall
have been published and shall declare the Charter amendment hereby en-
acted to be effective in due course of law by affixing his signature hereto
in the space provided, on the effective date of such amendment.

SECTION IV.—AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as soon
as the Charter amendment hereby enacted shall become effective, either
as herein provided or following a referendum, the Mayor shall send sep-
arately by registered mail to the Secretary of the State of Maryland and
to the Department of Legislative Reference of Maryland, a clear certified
copy of this Resolution showing the number of Aldermen voting for and
against it and a report on the votes cast for or against the amendment
hereby enacted and any referendum thereon and the date of such refer-
endum.

The above Charter amendment was enacted by the aforegoing resolu-
tion which was passed at a regular meeting of the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Annapolis, 8 Aldermen voting in the affirmative and 0 Alder-
men voting in the negative, and said Resolution becomes effective in ac-
cordance with law on the 3rd day of August, 1971.

THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE
CITY OF ANNAPOLIS

By: Roger W. Moyer, Mayor
ATTEST:
Margaret D. Burket, City Clerk

Resolution of the

Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis
to Repeal and Re-enact Section 5 of the City Charter

Resolution of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis,
adopted pursuant to the authority of Article 11-E of the Constitution
of the State of Maryland and Article 23-A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition), titled "Corporations—Municipal", to repeal
and re-enact Section 5 of the Charter of the City of Annapolis.

SECTION I. BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of Annapolis that Section 5 of the Charter of the City of Annapolis
be repealed and re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 5. Nominations for mayor and aldermen; date of municipal elec-
tions; terms of mayor and aldermen; application of general
laws to municipal and primary elections; Absentee Voting.

Nominations for a mayor and for one alderman from each ward in the
City of Annapolis shall be made by direct vote of the respective political
parties at primary elections to be held in the City of Annapolis for the
several candidates for mayor and in each ward thereof for the several
candidates for alderman on the third Tuesday of April in each year in