EASTON                                                 2197

NO. 36

Resolution of the Town of Easton, adopted pursuant to authority of Article
11-E of the Constitution of Maryland, and Section 13 of Article 23-A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended, title "Corporations - Municipal,"
subtitle "Home-Rule," subheading "Charter Amendments," to amend Article 11,
Section 19 of its Charter to increase the limitation on sale and/or purchase of
property without the approval of the registered voters from One Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) to Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00).

SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF
EASTON, that Article 11, Section 19 of the Charter of the Town of Easton, as
amended, be and the same is hereby amended and revised to read as follows:

Article 11, Section 19. Limitation on sale and purchase of
property - Approval of voters.

The council shall make no sale to or purchase of property from one owner
having a single or composit value equal to or exceeding [One Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($100,000.00)] TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
($200,000.00) without the previous approval of a majority of all the registered
voters of the Town as evidenced at a special election held for that purpose after the
proposition has been given full publicity by newspaper advertisement in some
newspaper published in the Town of Easton, once in each of four successive weeks,
the last insertion being at least ten days before the date fixed for such election.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of adoption
of this Resolution is July 17, 1972, and the amendment of the Charter of the Town
of Easton hereby enacted shall become effective on September 6, 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 August 26, 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 July 19,
1972, July 26, 1972, August 2, 1972 and August 9, 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 sixth day of September, 1972.