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MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

any person desiring to be registered as hereinbefore provided, shall be taken by the
Board of Registration for that particular polling place, and in all other respects of
the provisions of this subsection shall be in force as to each of said places of
registration.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of the adoption of the Resolution is
8th of November, 1971 and that the Amendment to the Charter of the City of
Laurel, hereby proposed by this enactment, shall be and become effective on the
28th day of December, 1971, unless a proper petition for referendum hereon shall
be filed as permitted by law. A complete and exact copy of the Resolution shall be
posted in the City Office until the 18th day of December, 1971, and a copy of the
title of this Resolution shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in
the City of Laurel not less than four times at weekly intervals before the 20th day
of December, 1971.

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 of the City of Laurel shall send separately by registered
mail, to the Secretary of the State of Maryland, to the Department of Legislative
Reference, Hall of Records Commission and State Library, the following
information concerning the Charter Amendment:

1.  The complete text of this Resolution

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 City of Laurel or in a referendum;
and

4.  The effective date of the Charter Amendment.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor of the City of Laurel, be
and he is specifically enjoined and instructed to carry out the provisions of
Sections 2 and 3 as evidence of compliance herewith, the said Mayor shall cause to
be affixed to the Minutes of this meeting:

1.  An appropriate certificate of publication of the newspaper in which the title of
this Resolution shall have been published; and

2.  Return receipts of the mailing referred to in the aforegoing Sections and shall
further complete and execute the Certificate of effect attached hereto.

Passed this 8th day of November, 1971.

Leo E. Wilson
President of the City Council

Harold T. Rice, Clerk-Treasurer

APPROVED THIS 8th day of November, 1971.

Merrill L. Harrison, Mayor