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sons filing for the vacancies occurring pursuant to the provisions of Sec-
tion 22 of the CHARTER FOR THE TOWN OF CECILTON, which lack
of filing has required various Town Commissioners to continue to hold
office under the provisions of Section 3 of the aforesaid Town Charter, and

WHEREAS, various of said Town Commissioners would have filed
for reelection under these circumstances, but are prevented from filing
due to the provisions of Section 23 of the CHARTER FOR THE TOWN
OF CECILTON, which provides:

"23. (Tenure of Office) No Commissioner shall be eligible to hold more
than two consecutive terms of office.", and

WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 13(a) of Article 23A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), the President and Commis-
sioners of the Town of Cecilton unanimously resolved to repeal the afore-
said Section 23 of the Town Charter and to add a new Section 23 which
would permit Town Commissioners to be able to be eligible to hold more
than two consecutive terms of office, this Resolution is adopted.

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED by the President and Commissioners
of the Town of Cecilton, that Section 23 of the CHARTER FOR THE
TOWN OF CECILTON as adopted April 20, 1964, be and the same is
hereby repealed in its entirety.

Section 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a new Section 23 of
the CHARTER FOR THE TOWN OF CECILTON (said new section also
to be and constitute a part of the Charter of the Municipal Corporation
known as the Town of Cecilton), be and the same is hereby enacted to
read as follows:

23. (Tenure of Office) A Commissioner shall be eligible to hold consecu-
tive terms of office.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the date of
adoption of this Resolution is May 5, 1971, and the amendment to the
CHARTER FOR THE TOWN OF CECILTON by the President and Com-
missioners hereby proposed by this enactment shall become effective on the
24th day of June, 1971, 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 posted in the Public Library of Cecilton until the
14th day of June, 1971, and PROVIDED FURTHER, that public notice of
the contents of this Resolution shall be published in the "Cecil Whig" or
"Cecil Democrat," a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of
Cecilton, once in each of the weeks of May 12, 19, 26 and June 2.

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the President
of the Commissioners of the Town of Cecilton be and he is hereby specifi-
cally enjoined and instructed to carry out the provisions of Section 3
hereof, and, as evidence of said compliance, the President and Commis-
sioners of the Town of Cecilton shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of
this meeting appropriate Certificates of Publication of the newspaper in
which the Title of this Resolution shall have been published and shall de-
clare the Charter amendment hereby enacted to be effective by affixing his
signature hereto in the space provided on the effective date hereof.

Section 5. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that as soon as the
Charter amendment hereby shall become effective, either as herein pro-
vided or following a Referendum, the President and Commissioners of the
Town of Cecilton shall send separately by Registered Mail, to the Secre-