2262                               Municipal Charters

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution shall be-
come effective September 16, 1969.

ORDAINED AND PASSED by The Commissioners of Cambridge
July 28, 1969.

THE COMMISSIONERS OF CAMBRIDGE

By: Osvrey C. Pritchett, Mayor
ATTEST:

Kenneth L. Hughes, Clerk
APPROVED September 16, 1969.

Osvrey C. Pritchett, Mayor

Charter Amendment No. 27

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 reen-
acting, with amendments, Section 42, "Mayor; election, compensation,
veto powers", 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 "Cam-
bridge", repealing certain obsolete material pertaining to the election
of the Mayor of Cambridge.

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 reenacting said Section 42 to read as follows:

42. MAYOR; ELECTION, COMPENSATION, VETO POWERS.

The Mayor of Cambridge shall be nominated in the manner set forth
in Section 33 of this subtitle and shall be elected by the voters of the
entire town for a term of four years, and the election for Mayor shall
be held at the same time as the Commissioners [for the first, fourth
and fifth wards are elected]. The Mayor shall receive an annual salary
as set from time to time by an ordinance passed by the Commissioners
in the regular course of business. Provided, however, that no change shall
be made in the salary for any Mayor during the term for which he was
elected. The ordinance making any change in the salary paid to the Mayor,
either by way of increase or decrease, shall be finally ordained prior to
the municipal election to elect the next succeeding Mayor, and shall take
effect only as to the next succeeding Mayor. In addition to the powers,
hereinafter vested in him, said Mayor shall have the power to veto any
ordinances passed by the Commissioners of said city. Every ordinance
passed by said Commissioners, before it becomes valid, shall be presented
to said Mayor; if he approved it he shall sign it, but if not he shall return
it with his objections to said Commissioners; if, after reconsideration
thereof, four-fifths of said Commissioners vote affirmatively for said ordi-
nance, it shall become valid. If any ordinance shall not be returned by the
Mayor within six days after it shall have been presented to him, the same
shall become valid.