1980                              MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

exceed such amount and to evidence such borrowing by promissory note
or notes or any other certificates of indebtedness and generally to negotiate
for and issue such notes or other certificates of indebtedness without the
necessity of advertising them for sale or otherwise; acting in a manner
which they shall deem most advantageous to, or in the best interest of, the
Town of St. Michaels.

Section 2. And be it further enacted that, The effective date of this
Act shall be the fiftieth day following the approval of the aforegoing
Resolution by the Commissioners of the Town of St. Michaels, as herein-
after set forth.

Approved October 8, 1968.
Mary A. Sewell, Clerk

Helen K. Plummer

Guy W. Parks

Virgil W. Maxwell

Resolution of December 19, 1968

Resolution of the Commissioners of St. Michaels to amend their
Charter by repealing and re-enacting, with amendments, Sections
445, 447 and 448 of Article 21 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, 1930, title "Talbot County," subtitle "St. Michaels," pro-
viding for the procedures of town elections; prescribing for officer's
qualifications and duties; setting the means of registration and voting
and generally providing for rules and regulations pertaining to the
registration, registration books, procedure, time and place of regis-
tration, designation and duties of the judges of election and Town
Clerk as Supervisor of Elections and revision of registry books, as
well as those who will be allowed to register, vote or hold office and
other election problems.

RESOLVED, By the Commissioners of St. Michaels, Talbot County,
Maryland, that Sections 445, 447 and 448 of Article 21 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, 1930, title "Talbot County," subtitle "St.
Michaels," be amended to provide for a repeal of requirement of property
ownership or taxation to vote or hold office, to permit use of voting ma-
chines, to designate that the judges of election shall be appointed by the
commissioners prior to each election.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Commissioners of St. Michaels, Talbot
County, Maryland, that Sections 445, 447 and 448 of Article 21 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, 1930, title "Talbot County," sub-
title "St. Michaels," be, and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

445. The Commissioners shall be three in number; and every citizen
of said town of St. Michaels, who has resided, in said town six months
next preceding the election and whose name shall appear upon the list of
registered voters of the town, as hereinafter provided, [and who pays
taxes in said town on an assessment of personal property or real estate],
shall be entitled to vote at all elections hereafter to be held, but no person
under the age of twenty-one (21) years and no person who has been con-
victed of larceny or other infamous crimes, unless pardoned by the Gover-
nor, and no person under guardianship as a lunatic or as a pe