2110                               Municipal Charters

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the date of
the passage of this Resolution is February 16, 1971, and the amendment
of the Charter of the City of Cumberland, hereby enacted, shall become
effective on April 7, 1971, 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 Resolu-
tion shall be continuously posted on the North Centre Street entrance
of the City Hall, Cumberland, Maryland, until March 28, 1971, and pro-
vided further that a fair summary of the proposed amendment shall be
published in the Cumberland Evening Times, a newspaper of general cir-
culation in the City of Cumberland, once in each of the weeks of February
15, 22; March 1, 8 and 15, 1971.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Mayor of
the City of Cumberland is hereby specifically directed to carry out the
provisions 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 April 7, 1971, 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 in-
clusive, 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 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 hereon, and the effective date of the
Charter Amendment.

This Resolution passed this 15th day of February, 1971.

Thomas P. Conlon, Mayor
ATTEST:
Wallace G. Ullery, City Clerk

The Charter Amendment enacted by the aforegoing Resolution be-
came effective April 7, 1971.

Thomas P. Conlon, Mayor
ATTEST:
Wallace G. Ullery, City Clerk

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That the aforegoing Resolution, amending
the Charter of the City of Cumberland, Maryland, passed this 16th day
of February, 1971, with 5 votes in the affirmative and 0 votes in the
negative.

Wallace G. Ullery, City Clerk