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ance with such rules and regulations as may from time to time be pre-
scribed by the State Board of Health of Maryland.

In the event the President and Commissioners shall construct both a
water system and a sewer system, both systems may be maintained and
operated as a single utility for operating and financial purposes. If either
system shall generate a surplus, the same may be applied to off set a
deficit realized by the other, but this authority shall not be construed to
prevent the President and Commissioners from adjusting rates for use of
either system to eliminate any such deficit and to use any such surplus
for capital improvements.

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of
adoption of this Resolution is December 16, 1968, and the amendment of
the Charter of the Commissioners of Charlestown, by adding a new Sec-
tion 44-A, herein set forth, shall become effective on February 4, 1969,
unless a proper petition for a referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted
by law, provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be
continuously posted on the Bulletin Board in the Town Office until Jan-
uary 25, 1969, and provided further, that a copy of the Title of this Reso-
lution shall be published in the Cecil Whig, a newspaper of general circu-
lation in the Town, once in each of the weeks of December 18 and 25,
1968 and January 1 and 8, 1969.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the President
of the Commissioners of Charlestown is hereby specifically enjoined to
carry out the provisions of Section 2 hereof and, as evidence of said com-
pliance, said President shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of this
meeting an appropriate Certificate of Publication of the newspaper in
which the title of this Resolution shall have been published and shall de-
clare the charter amendment hereby enacted to be effective by affixing
his signature hereto in the space provided, on said effective date.

Section 4. 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 thereon, said President shall send
separately, by registered mail, to the Secretary of State of Maryland, a
clear certified copy of the text of Section 44-A of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Cecil County, (1961 Edition), as hereby enacted a certified copy
of this Resolution showing the number of Commissioners voting for and
against it, and a report on the votes cast for and against the charter
amendment hereby enacted at any referendum thereon and the date of
any such referendum.

The foregoing Resolution was passed at a special meeting of the
Commissioners of Charlestown, held at the Town Hall on December 16,
1968, at which 4 Commissioners were present, 4 Commissioners having
voted for said Resolution and 0 Commissioners having voted against it.

Ralph Murphy, President

of the Commissioners of Charlestown
ATTEST:
Patricia J. Murphy, Secretary