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which shall require them to make return to the Mayor and Common
Council, and provide for the preservation of the ballots for a reasonable
time. If notice of such election shall not be given as hereinbefore required,
or if the judges of election shall be appointed or shall refuse to act, five
or more voters of said city may call an election for said officers by notice
set up in the most public places in said city, not less than one week pre-
vious to such election, therein naming the time and place of holding such
election, and naming three judges thereof, who, or any two of whom,
may hold such election, and have the same powers in respect thereto as the
judges appointed by the Mayor.

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of the
adoption of this Resolution is January 9, 1967, and that the amendments
to the Charter of The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster hereby
proposed by this enactment shall be and become effective on February 28,
1967 unless a proper petition for a referendum hereon shall be filed as
permitted by law. A complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be
posted in the City Hall until February 18, 1967 and a copy of this Resolu-
tion or a fair summary thereof shall be published in a newspaper of
general circulation in Westminster not less than four times at weekly
intervals before February 18, 1967.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as soon as the
charter amendment hereby enacted shall become effective, either as herein
provided or following a referendum, the Mayor of Westminster shall send
separately, by registered mail, to the Secretary of State of Maryland, and
to the Department of Legislative Reference, the following information
concerning the charter amendment; (1) the complete text of Section 739
of the Charter of The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster, as
hereby enacted; (2) the date of the referendum election, if any, held with
respect thereto; (3) the number of votes cast for and against the question
contained in the charter amendment, whether by the Common Council of
Westminster or in a referendum; and (4) the effective date of the charter
amendment.

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor of
Westminster be and he is hereby specifically enjoined and instructed to
carry out the provisions of Sections 2 and 3. As evidence of compliance
herewith, the said Mayor shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of this
meeting, (1) appropriate certificates of publication of the newspaper in
which the Title of this Resolution shall have been published and (2) the
return receipts of the mailing referred to in Section 3, and shall further
complete and execute the Certificate of Effect attached hereto.

/s/ Russell A. Sellman

/s/ David S. Babylon, Jr.

/s/ LeRoy L. Conaway

/s/ F. Kale Mathias

/s/ Emerson H. Palmer

APPROVED this 9th day of January, 1967.
ATTEST:
John R. Eckard, City Clerk

/s/ Joseph H. Hahn, Jr., Mayor