2056                               Municipal Charters

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the date of
the passage of this Resolution is March 24, 1970, and the amendment of
the Charter of the City of Cumberland, hereby enacted, shall become
effective on May 13, 1970, unless a proper Petition for a Referendum
hereon shall be filed as provided by Section 13 of Article 23A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, and provided a complete and exact copy of
this Resolution shall be continuously posted on the North Centre Street
entrance of the City Hall, Cumberland, Maryland, until May 3, 1970, and
provided further that a fair summary of the proposed amendment shall be
published in the Cumberland Evening Times, a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of Cumberland, once in each of the weeks of March
23, 30, April 6, 13, 20, 1970.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Mayor of
the City of Cumberland is hereby specifically directed to carry out the
provision of Section 2 hereof regarding the giving of notice by posting
and publication of this Resolution approving the same, and, as evidence
of said compliance, the City Clerk shall cause to be affixed to the Charter
Amendment Resolution a certificate of the publication of the newspaper
in which the summary of this Resolution shall have been published, and the
Mayor, if there is no Petition for a Referendum, shall declare the Charter
Amendment to be effective on the effective date herein provided for, which
is May 13, 1970, by affixing his signature hereto in the space provided
below the effective date hereof.

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, if a proper
Petition for a Referendum on the Charter amendment herein proposed is
filed, the Mayor and other proper officials of the City of Cumberland shall
comply with all the provisions set forth in Sections 13 to 17, both inclusive,
of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

Section 5. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That as soon as the
Charter amendment hereby made shall become effective, either as herein
provided for or following a Referendum, the Mayor shall send separately,
by Registered Mail, to the Secretary of the State of Maryland, and to the
Department of Legislative Reference of Maryland, a complete certified
copy of the text of this Resolution, the date of the Referendum, if any is
held, a certificate showing the number of Councilmen 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 effective date of the
Charter Amendment Resolution.

This Resolution passed this 24th day of March, 1970.

Frederick J. Hill, Acting Mayor
ATTEST:
Wallace G. Ullery, City Clerk

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That the aforegoing Charter Amendment
Resolution was passed this 24th day of March, 1970, with 3 votes in the
affirmative and 0 votes in the negative.

Wallace G. Ullery, City Clerk

Charter Amendment
Resolution No. 47

RESOLUTION of the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland,
Maryland, adopted pursuant to the authority contained in Article
11-E of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, and Section 13 of