2196                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Town of Easton that the Charter of
the Town of Easton as amended be and the same is hereby amended and revised to
read as follows:

Sec. 1. Eligibility to vote.

All elections shall be by ballot, and every citizen of the age of [twenty-one]
EIGHTEEN years or upwards, who is a citizen of the United States and who has
been a bona fide resident of the town for one year next preceding the election and
whose name shall appear upon the list of registered voters of the town, as
hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to vote at all elections hereafter to be held;
but no person who has been convicted of larceny or other infamous crime, unless
pardoned by the President or the Governor, shall ever be entitled to vote at any
town election, and no person under guardianship as a lunatic or as person "non
compos mentis," shall be entitled to vote.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of adoption
of this Resolution is February 21, 1972, and the amendment of the Charter of the
Town of Easton hereby enacted shall become effective on April 11, 1972, unless a
proper petition for a 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 of the Town Hall until April 1, 1972, and provided further
that a copy of the title of this Resolution shall be published in The Easton
Star-Democrat, a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Easton, or in
any other newspaper of such general circulation, once in each of the weeks of
February 23, 1972, March 1, 1972, March 8, 1972, and March 15, 1972.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor of
Easton is hereby specifically enjoined to carry out the provisions of Section 2
hereof and, as evidence of said compliance, the Mayor of Easton 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 this Resolution shall have been
published and shall declare the Charter amendment hereby enacted to be effective
by affixing his signature hereto in the space provided on the effective date thereof.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as soon as the Charter
amendment hereby enacted shall become effective, either as herein provided or
following referendum, the Mayor of Easton 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 the complete text of this Resolution
and the following information concerning the Charter amendment or amendments:
the date of the referendum election, if any, the number of votes cast for and against
the Charter amendment or amendments, whether in the legislative body or in a
referendum and the effective date of the Charter amendment or amendments. The
Charter Amendment enacted by the foregoing Resolution became effective this 11th
day of April, 1972.

Henry H. Purdy
Mayor