THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     705

the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Municipal Corporation
Charter."

24. (Posting and Publication.) The Board of County Commis-
sioners or County Council shall give notice by posting and publication
of the submission of the proposal of incorporation to the voters of the
area proposed to be incorporated. for not less than the four weeks
immediately preceding the election at which the question is to be
submitted, a complete and exact copy of the wording of the proposed
charter shall be posted or available for public inspection at the office
of the Board or Council. On the day of the election a similar copy
shall be posted or available for public inspection at the place or places
for voting on the question of incorporation. Notice of the election,
together with a fair summary of the proposed charter, shall be pub-
lished in a newspaper OR NEWSPAPERS of general circulation in
the particular area proposed to be incorporated not less than once in
each of the four weeks immediately preceding the election.

25. (Referendum.) (a) On the day and during the hours specified
for the referendum, the question of incorporation under the proposed
charter shall be submitted to the registered voters of the area pro-
posed to be incorporated. The Board of Supervisors of Elections of
the county, and its clerks, judges of election and subordinates, shall
arrange for and conduct the referendum. It is the intent of this sec-
tion that the referendum election shall be conducted generally accord-
ing to the procedures and practices observed for regular county-wide
elections, except as specifically or necessarily modified by the pro-
visions of this sub-title. The wording specified by the Board of County
Commissioners or County Council, in the resolution providing for a
referendum on the question of the proposed incorporation, shall be
placed on the ballots or voting machines used at the referendum
election.

(b)  The Board of Supervisors of Elections, and its clerks, judges
of election and subordinates, promptly following the closing of the
polls shall tally the results thereof, and shall forthwith certify the
results of the referendum to the Board of County Commissioners or
County Council.

(c)  If a majority of those who vote on any question so submitted
to the voters of a particular area, proposing the incorporation thereof,
shall cast their votes in favor of the incorporation under the pro-
posed charter, the Board of County Commissioners or County Council
shall within ten days after receiving a certification of the vote
from the Board of Supervisors of Elections so proclaim publicly, and
on the thirtieth day following the public proclamation the area
specified, and the residents thereof, shall be deemed to be a municipal
corporation operating under and in accordance with the charter so
proposed, in all respects to be effective and observed as the charter
of the municipal corporation. If less than a majority of those who
vote on any such question of proposed incorporation shall cast their
votes in favor of the incorporation under the proposed charter, the
Board or Council likewise shall so proclaim, adding to the procla-
mation the statement that the proposed incorporation is of no effect
and that as to the said proposed municipal incorporation the pro-
posed charter is null and void and of no effect whatsoever.

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