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and Town Council, such ordinance shall be immediately sus-
pended, and the Mayor and Town Council shall reconsider it,
and if it be not repealed, the Mayor and Town Council shall
submit it to a vote of the duly qualified voters of said Town
at the next election; provided, however, that if the next elec-
tion shall occur more than ninety days after the date of
passage of said ordinance, the Mayor and Town Council shall
call a special election for the purpose of deciding whether
said ordinance shall or shall not become a law, and the same
shall become operative or repealed by the majority of the
votes cast in this election.

217. If any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this
sub-title shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of
competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, such
adjudication shall not affect or impair or invalidate the re-
mainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the
clause, sentence, paragraph or section thereof so found uncon-
stitutional or invalid. If any clause, sentence, paragraph or
section of this sub-title shall, for any reason, be adjudged by
any court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or
invalid, in any particular application, and the clause, sen-
tence, paragraph or section of this sub-title shall be con-
stitutional and valid when otherwise applied, such adjudica-
tion shall not affect, impair or invalidate said clause, sen-
tence, paragraph or section, but shall be confined to the par-
ticular application so found unconstitutional or invalid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not
become effective until it shall have been submitted to the
qualified voters of the Town of Cheverly, in Prince George's
County, at the next regular municipal election, or at a special
election to be held on such date as shall be determined by the
Mayor and Town Council; there shall be printed on the
ballots to be used at said election, the title of this Act and
underneath said title on separate lines, a square or box to
the right of and opposite the words "For Charter Adoption",
and a corresponding square or box to the right of and opposite
the words "Against Charter Adoption", so that the voters
shall be able to designate by a cross mark in the proper square
or box his or her decision for or against said Proposed
Charter. If it shall appear, from the results of said election,
that a majority of the votes cast are "Against Charter Adop-
tion", then this Act shall not become effective and it shall be
null and void, but if a majority of the votes cast are "For
Charter Adoption", then this Act shall immediately become
effective.