1924                              MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

is not addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. All em-
ployees of the Fire or Police Department shall become a resident of the
City of Cumberland within [thirty] ninety days after permanent ap-
pointment."

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the date of
the passage of this Resolution is October 21, 1968, and the amendment to
the Charter of the City of Cumberland, hereby enacted, shall become
effective on December 10, 1968, unless a proper Petition for a Referendum
hereon shall be filed as provided by Section 13 of Article 23A of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland, and provided a complete and exact copy of this
Resolution shall be continuously posted on the North Centre Street en-
trance of the City Hall, Cumberland, Maryland, until November 30, 1968;
and provided further that a fair summary of the proposed amendments
shall be published in the Cumberland Evening Times, a newspaper of gen-
eral circulation in the City of Cumberland, once in each of the weeks of
October 21, 28, November 4, 11, 1968.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Mayor of
the City of Cumberland is hereby specifically directed to carry out the
provisions of Section 2 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 there is no Peti-
tion for a Referendum, shall declare the Charter Amendment made to be
effective on the effective date herein provided for, which is December 10,
1968, by affixing his signature hereto in the space provided below the
effective date hereof.

Section 4. 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
inclusive, of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

Section 5. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That as soon as the
Charter amendments 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 De-
partment 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 amendments hereby
enacted at any Referendum thereon, and the effective date of the Charter
Amendment.

This Resolution passed this 21st day of October, 1968.

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

The Charter Amendment enacted by the aforegoing Resolution be-
came effective this 10th day of December, 1968.