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Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the date of
adoption of this Resolution is August 17th, 1970, and the amendment of
the Charter of the Town of Easton hereby enacted shall become effective on
October 6th, 1970, unless a proper petition for a 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 of the Town
Hall until September 26th, 1970, and provided further that a copy of the
title of this Resolution shall be published in the Easton Star Democrat, a
newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Easton, or in any other
newspaper of such general circulation, once in each of the weeks of August
17th, August 24th, August 31st and September 7th, 1970.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Mayor of
Easton is hereby specifically enjoined to carry out the provisions of Section
2 hereof, and, as evidence of said compliance, the Mayor of Easton shall
cause to be affixed to the minutes of this meeting appropriate certificates
of publication of the newspaper or newspapers in which the title of this
Resolution shall have been published and shall declare the Charter Amend-
ment hereby enacted to be effective by affixing his signature hereto in the
space provided on the effective date hereof.

Section 4. 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 of Easton shall send sepa-
rately by registered mail, to the Secretary of State of Maryland, and to
the Department of Legislative Reference of Maryland, a clear certified
copy of the text of Section 13 of Article 23-A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1955 Supp.), a certified copy of this Resolution showing the
number of members of the Council voting for or against it and, if there
be a referendum, a report on the votes cast for or against the amendment
enacted at such referendum thereon, and the date of such referendum.

The Charter Amendment enacted by the foregoing resolution became
effective this sixth day of October, 1970.

S. M. Hubbard
Mayor of Easton
Purdy—Yea
Lyons—Yea
Shockley—Yea
Murphy—Yea
Barnes—Yea

I hereby certify that the above Resolution was passed by a Yea and
Nay vote of the Council this seventeenth day of August, A.D., 1970.

Walter A. Barnes
President of the Council

Delivered to the Mayor by me this seventeenth day of August, A.D.,
1970.

Elizabeth M. Willey, Town Clerk
APPROVED AUGUST 17th, 1970

S.M. Hubbard
Mayor of Easton