J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                         393

usual course of considering resolutions in the government of the
municipal corporation, by a majority of all the persons elected to
the legislative body. [The]

(b)   In conformity with a requirement imposed upon the General
Assembly by Article 3, Section 29 of the Constitution of Maryland,
the resolution shall contain the complete and exact wording of the
proposed amendment or amendments, prepared so that the section
or sections are set forth as they would read when amended or en-
acted. No charter and no section of a charter may be revised or
amended by reference to its title or section only.

(c)   In conformity with a requirement imposed upon the General
Assembly by Article 3, Section 29 of the Constitution of Maryland,
every charter amendment adopted by a municipal corporation shall
embrace but one subject, and that shall be described in its title.

(d)   The mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipal
corporation, by whatever name known, shall give notice by posting
and publication of any resolution which proposes an amendment or
amendments to the municipal charter. A complete and exact copy
of the resolution containing the proposed amendment or amendments
shall be posted at the town hall or other main municipal building or
public place for a period of at least forty days following its adoption,
or the posted notice shall state that, if the proposed amendment is
adopted, the municipal corporation then shall be governed under
and according to the municipal corporation charter contained in
Article 23B of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Municipal
Corporation Charter.'- Or, if the municipal corporation has adopted
substantially the provisions of said Article 23B, the posted notice
shall so declare and shall also include a fair summary of the pro-
visions in the charter which differ from those in Article 23B.

(e)   A fair summary of the proposed amendment or amendments
shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the munic-
ipal corporation not less than four times, at weekly intervals within
a period of at least forty days after the adoption of the resolution
containing the proposed amendment or amendments.

(f)   The amendment or amendments so proposed by the legislative
body of the municipal corporation shall become and be considered a
part of the municipal charter, according to the terms of the amend-
ment or amendments, in all respects to be effective and observed as
such, upon the fiftieth day after being so ordained or passed, un-
less on or before the fortieth day after being so ordained or passed
there shall be presented to the legislative body of the municipal
corporation, or mailed to it by registered mail, a petition meeting
the requirements of this section.

(g)   The petition shall be signed by twenty per centum or more
of the persons who are qualified to vote in municipal general elections
of the particular municipal corporation and shall request that the
proposed amendment or amendments be submitted on referendum
to the voters of the municipal corporation. Each person signing the
petition shall indicate thereon both his name and residence address.
Upon receiving the petition for a referendum, the legislative body
of the municipal corporation is directed to verify that any person
who signed it is qualified to vote in its municipal general elections
and shall consider the petition as of no effect if it is signed by fewer