CUMBERLAND                                          1915

(b)    The City Solicitor shall be not less than twenty-five (25) years
of age, one year a resident of the City of Cumberland and three years a
member in good standing of the bar. Deputy or Assistant City Solicitors
shall be twenty-five years of age, one year a resident of the City of Cumber-
land and a member in good standing of the bar.

(c)    It shall be the duty of the City Solicitor to represent the said
Mayor and City Council in all cases brought for or against the City in the
courts of the United States, the State of Maryland or any other state, or
the Circuit Court for Allegany County. He shall prepare all ordinances
and examine, supervise, prepare and approve as to form and legal suffi-
ciency, all contracts, deeds and all other legal papers, documents and forms
of the Mayor and City Council and he shall attend to all legal business of
the said Mayor and City Council. When requested by said City Council,
or any member thereof, he shall, in writing, give legal advice on all ques-
tions that may be referred to him, and shall also, in writing, advise the
officers of the City as and when he may be called upon for such advice.

(d)    The Deputy or Assistant City Solicitors shall perform such
duties as, from time to time, may be assigned them by the City Solicitor.

(e)    The City Solicitor and Deputy or Assistant City Solicitors shall
be paid such salary as the Mayor and City Council shall, from time to time,
direct. The City Solicitor and each Deputy or Assistant City Solicitor
shall give bond for the faithful performance of their duties in the sum of
Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), to be approved by the Mayor and City
Council.

Section 3. 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 Resolution 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
published in the Cumberland Evening Times, a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of Cumberland, once in each of the weeks of June
17, 24, July 1, 8 and 15, 1968.

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Mayor of
the City of Cumberland is hereby specifically directed to carry out the
provisions of Section 3 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 cer-
tificate of publication of the newspaper in which the summary of this
Resolution shall have been published, and the Mayor, if the