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annexation is referred, and any such alderman or aldermen so elected shall hold
office until the expiration of the terms of the aldermen of the City of Annapolis
in office at the time of such election. No person shall be elected an alderman
for any new ward of the city so established unless he shall have resided in the
area included in said ward, as above provided, for a period of at least [five 1
TWO years immediately preceding his election and unless he shall also have
been a qualified voter of Anne Arundel County, registered in said area for at
least one year immediately preceding said election, and no person so elected as
an alderman shall be entitled to qualify and take office unless the proposed
annexation of the area in which he resides shall be approved in the manner
prescribed by law, as aforesaid. Following any such annexation, the mayor and
aldermen of the City of Annapolis shall enact, in the manner prescribed by law,
an appropriate amendment or amendments of the city Charter, changing the
boundaries thereof and increasing the number of wards of the city, if any such
increase was provided by ordinance as above provided.

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 October 30, 1972, and the amendment of the Charter of the
City of Annapolis, hereby enacted shall become effective on December 19, 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 December 9, 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,
November 6, November 13, November 20, November 27, and December 4, 1972.

SECTION III: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR
AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS 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 December 19, 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 BY THE MAYOR
AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS that as soon as the
Charter amendment enacted shall become effective, either as provided herein 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 Reference of
Maryland a clear certified copy of this Resolution showing the number of
Aldermen voting for and against it and a report on the votes cast for or against the
amendment hereby enacted at any referendum thereon and the date of such
referendum.

The above Charter Amendment was enacted by the foregoing Resolution which
was passed at a special meeting of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Annapolis, October 30, 1972, the Mayor and eight (8) Aldermen voting in the
affirmative and zero (0) Aldermen voting in the negative, and the said Resolution
becomes effective in accordance with law on the 19th day of December, 1972.

THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS

BY: ROGER W. MOYER, MAYOR