2112                               Municipal Charters

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Mayor of
the City of Cumberland is hereby specifically directed to carry out the
provisions of Section 3 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 June 30, 1971, by affixing his signature hereto in the space
provided below the effective date hereof.

Section 5. 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
inclusive, of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

Section 6. 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 sepa-
rately by Registered Mail, to the Secretary of the State of Maryland, and
to the Department of Legislative Reference of Maryland, a complete cer-
tified 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 11th day of May, 1971.

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

The Charter Amendment enacted by the aforegoing Resolution be-
came effective June 30,1971.

Thomas P. Conlon, Mayor
ATTEST:
William Z. Burke, Acting City Clerk

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That the aforegoing Resolution, amending
the Charter of the City of Cumberland, Maryland, passed this 11th day
of May, 1971, with 5 votes in the affirmative and 0 votes in the negative.

Wallace G. Ullery, City Clerk

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That the aforegoing is a true and exact copy
of Charter Amendment Resolution No. 53, passed by the Mayor and City
Council of Cumberland, Maryland, in Regular Session on May 11, 1971.

I FURTHER CERTIFY, That there was no Petition for a Referen-
dum on the proposed amendment filed within the required time and,
therefore, the same became effective on June 30, 1971.

William Z. Burke, Acting City Clerk