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the minutes of this meeting appropriate certificate of publication of the
newspaper in which a fair summary of the amendment proposed hereby
was published, and shall declare the Charter amendment hereby proposed
to be effective by affixing his signature hereto in the space provided on the
effective date thereof.

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as soon as
the Charter Amendment hereby proposed 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 Depart-
ment of Legislative Reference of Maryland a clear certified copy of the
full text of said new Section 94A of the Charter of the Mayor and Council
of Boonsboro, a certified copy of this Resolution showing the number of
Councilmen voting for and against it, a report on the votes cast for or
against the amendment hereby proposed at any referendum thereon, the
date of any such referendum and the effective date of the Charter amend-
ment hereby proposed.

THE Charter Amendment proposed by the aforegoing Resolution
became effective this

John L. Herr, Mayor

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given of the adoption by the Council of the Mayor
and Council of Boonsboro on March 4, 1968, of a resolution to amend the
Town Charter, which such resolution is entitled:

Resolution of the Council of the Mayor and Council of Boonsboro,
adopted pursuant to the authority of Article 11-E of the Constitution
of Maryland and Section 13 of Article 23-A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Corporations-Municipal," sub-title "Home Rule," sub-
heading "Charter Amendments," as said section was enacted by
Chapter 423 of the Laws of Maryland of 1955, to amend the Charter
of the Mayor and Council of Boonsboro, as said Charter appears in
the Code of Public Local Laws of Washington County (1957 Edition),
by adding a new section to said Charter immediately following Sec-
tion 94 thereof, to be known as Section 94A, such new section pro-
viding that, notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 93 and 94 of
said charter, the Mayor and Council, by ordinance duly passed, is
authorized and empowered to grant partial exemptions from real
property taxes imposed by it, not to exceed a specified maximum, to
certain qualified persons; said new section providing that the Mayor
and Council is authorized to establish and change the qualifications
necessary to entitle persons to such partial exemptions but not below
those specified as property owners who are of age 65 or over,
who have a total gross income or combined total gross income, of
$2,000.00 or less per year and who have resided in said property for
the preceding 3 years; that the Mayor and Council is prohibited from
granting an exemption or deduction from assessment greater than
$2,500.00 or 50% of the assessed valuation whichever is lesser, that
the Mayor and Council is prohibited from altering any of the specified
qualifications in such manner that a greater number of persons would
become entitled to said exemption than would be entitled if said
qualifications were strictly applied, but that the Mayor and Council
may tighten said qualifications, impose other restrictions, reduce said
exemption figure, not grant any exemption or repeal any exemption
previously granted.