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AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Mayor of the City of
Mt. Rainier be, and he is specifically enjoined and instructed to carry out
the provisions herein before stated as evidence of compliance herewith,
and the said Mayor shall cause to be filed the appropriate certification of
publication and mailing receipts referred to in the before sections.

By Order of the Mayor and the City Council

Roy W. Callaway, Mayor
ATTEST:

Irving Fink, Clerk-Treasurer

CITY OF MT. RAINIER, MARYLAND
NOTICE OF CHARTER AMENDMENT

Notice is hereby given that on February 2, 1971, the Mayor and City
Council of Mt. Rainier initiated a proposed amendment to the City Charter
which will have the effect of lowering the age of voters in the city elec-
tions from twenty-one to eighteen years and changing the residency quali-
fications from 365 days to six months and adopted a resolution, pursuant
to the authority contained in Article 23A of the "Annotated Code of Mary-
land", to amend Section 53-13 of the City Charter to read as follows:

Section 53-13. Qualifications.

All citizens of the United States of the age of [twenty-one] EIGHT-
EEN years and over who shall have actually resided within the limits of
said city not less than [365 days] SIX MONTHS next preceding any
regular election for Councilmen, who have never been convicted of any in-
famous crime, shall be qualified voters of said city, and as such shall be
entitled to register as hereinafter provided, and after such registration
to vote at any election held in said city under the provisions of this
sub-title, or under the provisions of any other Act requiring an election to
be held in said city for any city purposes whatsoever, until they shall be
thereafter disqualified by loss of citizenship, actual removal from said city
or conviction for an infamous crime, and shall for such disqualification
be stricken from the registration books hereinafter provided for.

A copy of the exact text of the proposed amendment has been posted
at the City Municipal Building, 3409 Rhode Island Avenue, Mt. Rainier,
for a forty-day period. This Charter Amendment shall become effective
fifty (50) days after its adoption unless on or before the fortieth day of
adoption there be presented to the Mayor and City Council a petition
signed by twenty percent of the qualified voters of the City requesting a
referendum.

By Order of the Mayor and City Council

Roy W. Callaway, Mayor
ATTEST:

Irving Fink, Clerk-Treasurer

NEW CARROLLTON
Prince George's County

A Resolution to adopt eight amendments to the Charter of the City
of New Carrollton, Prince George's County, Maryland; said amend-
ments amending Section 1, and Sections 3 through 27, inclusive and