2282                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all of the territory
hereby annexed into the Town of La Plata and such persons as may reside therein,
shall after the effective date of this resolution be subject to all the laws, ordinances
and regulations of said Town.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of the
adoption of this Charter Amendment Resolution is 26 October, 1972, and that the
amendment to the Charter of the Town of La Plata hereby proposed by this
enactment shall be and become effective on 11 December, 1972, unless a proper
petition for a referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted by law. A complete
and exact copy of this Charter Amendment Resolution shall be posted in the Town
Hall until 30 December 1972, and a copy of the Title of this Resolution shall be
published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of La Plata and the
area to be annexed, not less than three (3) times, at weekly intervals, before 11
December, 1972.

SECTION 6. 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 Town Manager of the Town of La Plata shall cause
to be sent separately, by registered mail, to the Secretary of State of Maryland, to
the Department of Legislative Reference of Maryland, to the Archivist and
Records Administrator, Hall of Records of Maryland, to the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Charles County, Maryland, and to each member of the legislative
delegation of Charles County, Maryland, the following information concerning the
charter amendment:

(1)  the complete text of this Charter Amendment Resolution as hereby enacted;

(2) the date of the referendum election, if any, held with respect thereto;

(3)   the number of votes cast for and against the question contained in the
charter amendment, whether by the Council of the Town of La Plata or in a
referendum;

(4)  the effective date of the charter amendment; and

(5)  descriptions of the corporate limits of the Town of La Plata prior to and
after the effective date of this Charter Amendment Resolution.

SECTION 7. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Town
Manager of the Town of La Plata be and he is hereby specifically enjoined and
instructed to carry out the provisions of Sections 5 and 6 hereof. As evidence of
compliance herewith, the said Town Manager shall cause to be affixed to the
minutes of this meeting: (1) appropriate certificates of publication of the newspaper
in which the Title of this Resolution shall have been published, and (2) the return
receipts of the mailing referred to in Section 6.

RAYMOND T. TILGHMAN
Mayor, Town of La Plata

VICTOR B. BOWLING, JR.
Councilman, Town of La Plata