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CAMBRIDGE

Dorchester County
Charter Amendment No. 19

Resolution of The Commissioners of Cambridge adopted pursuant
to the authority of Article 11E of the Constitution of Maryland and
Section 13 of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition, as amended), title "Corporation—Municipal," to amend the
Charter of The Commissioners of Cambridge by repealing and re-
enacting, with amendments, Section 30, "Commissioners; Number,
Election, Tenure, Qualifications," of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Dorchester County (1961 Edition), said Code being Article 10 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Dorchester County,"
subtitle "Cambridge," repealing certain obsolete material and mention
of Commissioners being voted on in wards and substituting provi-
sions that Commissioners run at large and require ward residence.

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED by The Commissioners of Cambridge
that the Charter of said Municipal Corporation be, and the same is hereby,
amended by repealing and re-enacting said Section 30 to read as follows:

30. COMMISSIONERS: NUMBER, ELECTION, TENURE, QUALIFI-
CATIONS.

The corporate authority, government, rights, powers, and preroga-
tives of Cambridge shall be vested in and exercised by five commissioners,
who shall be known as "The Commissioners of Cambridge," and shall be
elected as in this subtitle is provided. [The three Commissioners who
shall be elected from Wards 1, 4, and 5 at the election to be held on the
second Tuesday of July, 1912, as hereinafter provided, shall hold office
for four years from said second Tuesday of July and until their successors
are elected and qualified, and the two Commissioners who shall be elected
from Wards 2 and 3 at the election on the second Tuesday of July, 1912,
as hereinafter provided shall hold office for two years from said second
Tuesday of July, 1912, and until their successors are elected and qualified.
The terms of office of all Commissioners elected from each of said five
wards at any regular election held under this subtitle after the year
1912, shall be for a term of four years, and until their successors are duly
elected and qualified. The said Commissioners shall be elected by ballot,
one from each of the several wards, and each ward shall vote separately
for its Commissioner.] The terms of office of all Commissioners elected
at any regular election held under this subtitle shall be for a term of four
years and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The said
Commissioners shall be elected by ballot at a municipal election conducted in
said town and every qualified voter shall be entitled to vote for five Com-
missioners, provided, however, that no two Commissioners shall reside in
the same ward. No one shall be eligible to be elected to the office of
Commissioner unless on the day of election, wherein he is elected, he shall
be a qualified voter and entitled to vote at the municipal election of said
town, and is then at least 25 years of age and has been a bona fide resident
of said City for one year and a bona fide resident of [The] Ms ward
[which he seeks to represent] for six months next preceding the day of
such election and unless he or his wife hold and possesses on the day of
such election and has held and possessed for six months previous, thereto,
real estate or leasehold property, which is assessed on the assessment
books of said City as worth at least $300.00, provided, that in the case of