ANNAPOLIS                                             2061

SECTION I: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF
THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS that Section 6 of the Charter of the City of
Annapolis be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 6. Appointment of members of board of supervisors of election;
qualifications; terms; vacancies.

The mayor and alderman of the City of Annapolis shall, on the second Monday
of [February] SEPTEMBER every four years, beginning in [1957] 1973,
appoint three persons who shall be residents in and voters of the City of
Annapolis, two of whom shall always be selected from the leading political
parties of the state, one from each of said parties. They shall be persons of
approved integrity and capacity, and none of them shall hold elective office and
they must not be candidates for office during their term of office. They shall
constitute the board of supervisors of election of the City of Annapolis, each of
said supervisors shall hold office for four years from the date of appointment,
and in the event of a vacancy existing for any reason, the mayor and aldermen
of the City of Annapolis shall proceed immediately to appoint another person to
fill such vacancy. Before appointing such supervisors of election, the mayor and
alderman of the City of Annapolis shall request the city central committees
representing the two leading political parties of the state in said city each to
designate at least four eligible candidates for the positions of supervisors of
election in said city, and the mayor and aldermen of the City of Annapolis shall
appoint the supervisors from the persons so designated for said city, unless in
the judgment of the mayor and aldermen of the City of Annapolis, all of said
persons designated by any such city central committee shall be unfit or
incompetent for said position, in which case said mayor and aldermen shall file
a written statement to that effect with the city clerk, setting forth such fact and
the grounds therefor, and thereupon said mayor and alderman shall call upon said
city central committee for another list of six names and from said list and the
original list said mayor and aldermen shall make the appointment or
appointments.

SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR
AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS that the date of adoption
of this Resolution is June 12, 1972, and the amendment of the Charter of the City
of Annapolis, hereby enacted shall become effective on August 1, 1972, unless a
proper petition for referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted by law, provided
a complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be continuously posted on the
bulletin board in the City Hall, until July 22, 1972, and provided further that a
copy of the title of this Resolution shall be published in the "Evening Capital", a
newspaper of general circulation in the City of Annapolis, or in any other
newspaper of such general circulation, once in each of the weeks, June 19, June 26,
July 3, July 10, and July 17, 1972.

SECTION III: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor is
hereby specifically commanded to carry out the provisions of Section II hereof,
and, as evidence of such compliance, the Mayor shall cause to be affixed to the
Minutes of this meeting appropriate certificates of publication of the newspaper or
newspapers in which the title of the Resolution shall have been published and shall
declare the Charter change hereby enacted to be effective on August 1, 1972, or
following a favorable referendum thereon, by affixing his signature hereto in the
space provided on the effective date of change.

SECTION IV: 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 shall send separately by registered
mail, to the Secretary of State of Maryland and to the Department of Legislative