2206                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be posted in the Town
Hall of Elkton until August 7, 1972, and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that public
notice of the contents of this Resolution shall be published in the "Cecil Whig" or
"Cecil Democrat," a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Elkton, once
in each of the weeks of May 3, 10, 17, 24, 1972.

Section 6. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor of the Town
of Elkton be and he is hereby specifically enjoined and instructed to carry out the
provisions of Section 5 hereof, and, as evidence of said compliance, the Mayor and
Commissioners of the Town of Elkton shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of
this meeting appropriate certificates of publication of the newspaper 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 hereof.

Section 7. 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 and Commissioners of the Town of Elkton
shall send separately, by Registered Mail, to the Secretary of the State of
Maryland, and to the Department of Legislative Reference, to the Clerk of the
Court for Cecil County, and to the Clerk or similar official thereof with the
Director of the Hall of Records, the following information concerning the charter
amendment: (1) The complete text of Section 3B of the new charter of the Town of
Elkton as adopted on October 30, 1968 and as under The Code of Cecil County,
Maryland, adopted January 25, 1971, under Chapter 27 of said Code which
incorporates the charter of the Town of Elkton by reference; (2) the date of the
referendum election, if any, held with respect thereof; (3) the number of votes cast
for and against the question containing the charter amendment, whether by the
Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Elkton or in a referendum; (4) the
effective date of the charter amendment; and (5) a complete description of the
original boundaries of the municipality and a complete description of the new
boundaries of the area hereby annexed.

The charter amendment enacted by the aforegoing Resolution becomes effective
on the 7th day of August, 1972.

THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE
ATTEST:                            TOWN OF ELKTON

Mary D. Pippin                                                                                           

Secretary                                                                                          Arthur M Rudy

Mayor

Introduced before the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Elkton at a
regular meeting held on the 5th day of April 1972, and submitted to the Town of
Elkton Planning Commission for the necessary public hearings and
recommendations in accordance with law.

EMMITSBURG

( Frederick County)