CUMBERLAND                                            1913

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the date of
the passage of this Resolution is June 17, 1968, and the amendment of the
Charter of the City of Cumberland, hereby enacted, shall become effective
on August 6, 1968, unless a proper Petition for a Referendum hereon
shall be filed as provided in Section 13 of Article 23A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, and provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolu-
tion shall be continuously posted on the North Centre Street entrance of
the City Hall, Cumberland, Maryland, until July 27, 1968, and provided
further that a fair summary of the proposed amendment shall be pub-
lished in the Cumberland Evening Times, a newspaper of general circula-
tion in the City of Cumberland, once in each of the weeks of June 17, 24,
July 1, 8, and 15,1968.

Section 5. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Mayor of
the City of Cumberland is hereby specifically directed to carry out the
provisions of Section 4 hereof, regarding the giving of notice by posting
and publication of this Resolution approving the same, and, as evidence of
said compliance, the City Clerk shall cause to be affixed hereto a certificate
of publication of the newspaper in which the summary of this Resolution
shall have been published, and the Mayor, if there is no Petition for a
Referendum, shall declare the Charter Amendment made to be effective on
the effective date herein provided for, which is August 6, 1968, by affixing
his signature hereto in the space provided below the effective date hereof.

Section 6. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That if a proper
Petition for a Referendum on the Charter Amendment herein proposed is
filed, the Mayor and other proper officials of the City of Cumberland shall
comply with all of the provisions set forth in Sections 13 to 17, both inclu-
sive, of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

Section 7. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That as soon as the
Charter Amendment hereby made shall become effective, either as herein
provided or following a Referendum, the Mayor shall send separately, by
registered mail, to the Secretary of the State of Maryland, and to the
Department of Legislative Reference of Maryland, a complete certified
copy of the text of this Resolution, the date of the Referendum, if any is
held, a certificate showing the number of Councilmen voting for and
against it, and a report on the votes cast for or against the amendment
hereby enacted at any Referendum thereon, and the effective date of the
Charter Amendment.

This Resolution passed this 17th day of June, 1968.

Thomas F. Conlon, Mayor
ATTEST:
Wallace G. Ullery, City Clerk

The Charter Amendment enacted by the aforegoing Resolution be-
came effective this 6th day of August, 1968.

/s/ Thomas F. Conlon, Mayor
ATTEST :

/s/ Wallace G. Ullery, City Clerk

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That the aforegoing Resolution, amending
the Charter of the City of Cumberland, Maryland, was passed this 17th
day of June, with three vo