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final enactment, unless a proper petition for referendum hereof shall be
filed as permitted by law, provided a complete and exact copy of this Reso-
lution shall be posted in the Town Hall of Elkton for a period of forty (40)
days following enactment of said Resolution, and provided, further, that a
copy or fair summary of the proposed amendment shall be published in the
"Cecil Whig" or "Cecil Democrat," a newspaper of general circulation in
the Town of Elkton, once in each of the weeks of October 14, 21, 28 and
November 4, 1970.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor and Commissioners
of the Town of Elkton be and they are hereby specifically enjoined and
instructed to carry out the provisions as contained herein, and as evidence
of said compliance they shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of this
meeting appropriate certification of publication of the newspaper in which
the title of this Resolution shall have been published and shall declare the
charter amendment hereby enacted to be effective by affixing the signature
of the Mayor in the space provided on the effective date hereof.

The date of enactment of this Resolution for charter amendment is
the 7th day of October, 1970, and said charter amendment shall become
effective fifty (50) days from this date, or the 27th day of November, 1970.

THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS
OF THE TOWN OF ELKTON

ATTEST:                                             By: Kenneth A. Wilcox, Mayor

Mary D. Pippin, Secretary

RESOLUTION

RESOLUTION of the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of
Elkton, adopted pursuant to the authority of Article HE of the
Constitution of Maryland, and Section 19 of Article 23A of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), 1966 Replacement Volume,
Title "Corporations—Municipal" to add a new section to the Code of
the Public Local Laws of Cecil County of 1961, said Code being Article
8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, and said new section
to be known as Section 179A, and also known as Section 3A of the
new Charter of the Town of Elkton as adopted on October 30, 1968,
and constituting an amendment to the municipal charter of the body
politic and corporate known as the Town of Elkton, and to annex and
include the following described land in the boundaries and taxable
limits of the Town of Elkton.

Whereas, in accordance with Section 19(c) of Article 23A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition) at least 25% or more of the
registered voters in County elections who reside in the hereinafter de-
scribed area, and the owners of at least 25% of the assessed valuation in
the said area have petitioned the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town
of Elkton, to annex said area into the corporate boundaries of the Town
of Elkton, and

Whereas, upon presentation of the petitions to the Mayor and Com-
missioners of the Town of Elkton, the presiding officer thereof caused to
be made a verification of the signatures thereon and ascertained that the
persons signing the petitions represented at least 25% or more of the
registered voters residing in the area to be annexed and who are, in fact,