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day shall be considered an absentee voter of said municipality. Such per-
sons, as well as those set forth in the preceding paragraph, shall make
application on forms to be supplied, upon application, by the Board of
Registration, and shall obtain a certificate from a duly licensed physician
as evidence of his qualification for an absentee ballot hereunder. The cer-
tificate shall state that the voter is mentally incompetent to vote in elec-
tions in this State, and that because of illness or injury which confines him
to a hospital or causes him to be confined to a bed, the voter is now, or will
be, prevented from voting personally at said election. Such certificates
shall be filed with said municipality not later than ten days prior to any
election. Thereupon an absentee ballot shall be mailed to the voter entitled
thereto.

The "Determination Upon Absentee Voters' application for ballots;
delivery of ballots" and "Ballots for Absentee Voters" and "Instructions
to Voters" shall be the same as contained in Sections 236-237-238 of said
Annotated Code of Maryland.

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the date of the
adoption of this Resolution is October 19th, 1970, and that the amendment
to the Charter of The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster hereby
proposed by this enactment shall be and become effective on December 9th,
1970, unless a proper petition for a referendum thereon shall be filed as
permitted by law. A complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be
posted at the City Hall, Westminster, Maryland, until December 9, 1970,
and a copy of this Resolution or a fair summary thereof shall be published
in a newspaper of general circulation in Westminster not less than four
times at weekly intervals before November 28, 1970.

Section 5. 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 Westminster shall send
separately by registered mail to the Secretary of State and to the Depart-
ment of Legislative Reference the following information concerning the
Charter Amendment: (1) the complete text of Section 741(A) of the
Charter of The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster, as hereby
enacted; (2) the date of the referendum election, if any, held with respect
thereto; (3) the number of votes cast for and against the question con-
tained in the Charter Amendment, whether by the Common Council of
Westminster or in a referendum; and (4) the effective date of the Charter
Amendment.

Section 6. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor of
Westminster be and he is hereby specifically enjoined and instructed to
carry out the provisions of Sections 4 and 5. As evidence of compliance
herewith, the said Mayor shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of this
meeting (1) appropriate certificate of publication of the newspaper in
which the Title of this Resolution shall have been published and (2) the
return receipts of the mailing referred to in Section 3, and shall further
complete and execute the Certificate of Effect attached hereto.

Russell A. Sellman, President
David S. Babylon, Jr.
LeRoy L. Conaway
F. Kale Mathias
Ray D. Riley
Attest:
George R. Zinn, Clerk