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of the State of Maryland and Article 23-A of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Corporations—Municipal," to re-
peal and re-enact Section 38 of the Charter of the City of Annapolis—
Subject—Port Wardens—relating to the increase in scope of matters
to be considered by Port Wardens and other matters relating gener-
ally.

SECTION I. BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of Annapolis that Section 38 of the Charter of the City of Annapolis
be repealed and re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 38. The wardens, or a majority of them, shall have power to
determine upon and regulate all matters relating to the creation or build-
ing of wharves in the said port, so far as respects the distance said
wharves may be extended into the water, and the materials of which they
shall be constructed, and the manner and form of construction, keeping in
view the preservation of the navigation of said port and the effect of the
proposed wharf and its uses alone or in concert with existing wharves
and their uses on marine life, wildlife, conservation, water pollution and
erosion by not permitting any wharf to be carried out in such manner as to
render the navigation of the same too close and confined, or to be built of
such materials or constructed in such manner as may be deemed not suffi-
ciently substantial and lasting, or to materially increase water pollution or
erosion, or materially impair marine life, wildlife, or conservation.

SECTION II. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Mayor
and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis that the date of adoption of this
Resolution is February 9, 1970, and the amendment of the Charter of the
City of Annapolis, hereby enacted, shall become effective on April 1, 1970,
unless a proper petition for referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted
by law, provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be
continuously posted on the bulletin board in the City Hall, until March 23,
1970, and provided further that a copy of the title of this Resolution shall
be published in the "Evening Capital", a newspaper of general circulation
in the City of Annapolis, or in any other newspaper of such general circu-
lation, once in each of the weeks February 16, 1970, February 23, 1970,
March 2, 1970, March 9, 1970, and March 16, 1970.

SECTION III. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor
is hereby specifically commanded to carry out the provisions of Section II
hereof and, as evidence of such compliance, the Mayor shall cause to be
affixed to the minutes of this meeting appropriate certificates of publica-
tion of the newspaper or newspapers in which the title of this Resolution
shall have been published and shall declare the Charter change hereby
enacted to be effective on April 1, 1970, or following a favorable refer-
endum thereon, by affixing his signature hereto in the space provided on
the effective date of change.

SECTION IV. 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 shall send separately
by registered mail, to the Secretary of State of Maryland and to the
Department of Legislative Reference of Maryland a clear certified copy of
this Resolution showing the number of Aldermen voting for and against
it and a report on the votes cast for or against the amendment hereby
enacted at any referendum thereon and the date of such referendum.

The above Charter Amendment was enacted by the foregoing Reso-
lution which was passed at a regular meeting of the Mayor and Aldermen