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provided in subsection (b) of this section. If said remaining members
are unable to agree as to who shall assume said office, then the candidate
who received the next highest number of votes for the office of Mayor in
the preceding general election, provided he has retained the necessary
qualifications, shall assume said office until the holding of a special election.

(g) In the event a special election is required, as provided in sub-
section (e), said election shall be held within ninety (90) days of the
occurrence of the vacancy which has resulted in a Council of less than
three (3) members. Provided, however, that no election need be held if the
date thereof would be less than one (1) calendar year from the next
regular general municipal election. In such case, those persons temporarily
appointed under the provisions of subsection (e) shall serve until suc-
cessors are duly elected and qualified at the next general election.

(h) Any special election called in accordance with the provisions
of this section shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of
Section 10 of this Charter.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the date of
the passage of this Resolution is November 4, 1968, and the amendment
of the Charter of the City of Cumberland, hereby enacted, shall become
effective on December 24,1968, unless a proper Petition for a Referendum
hereon shall be filed as provided by 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 December 14,
1968, and provided further that a fair summary of the proposed amend-
ment 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 November 4, 11, 18, 25, and December 2, 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 to the Charter
Amendment Resolution a certificate of the 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 to be effective on the effective date herein provided
for, which is December 24, 1968, by affixing his signature hereto in the
space provided below the effective date hereof.

Section 5. 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 the provisions set forth in Sections 13 to 17, both
inclusive, of Article 23