2308                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

November 29, 1972, unless a proper Petition for a Referendum thereon shall be
filed as provided by Section 13 of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, and provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be
continuously posted at the Town Office, 8 York Street, Manchester, Maryland,
until November 19, 1972, and provided further that a fair summary of the
proposed amendment shall be published in the Hanover Evening Sun, a newspaper
of general circulation serving the community of Manchester, once in each of the
four weeks commencing on October 20, 1972.

SECTION 3: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Mayor of the
Town of Manchester is hereby specifically directed to carry out the provisions of
Section 2 hereof regarding the giving of notice by posting and publication of this
Resolution approving the same, and, as evidence of that compliance, the Town
Clerk shall cause to be affixed to the Charter Amendment Resolution a certificate
of the publication of the newspaper in which the summary of this Resolution shall
have been published, and the Mayor, if there is no Petition for a Referendum, shall
declare the Charter Amendment to be effective on the effective date herein
provided for, which is November 29, 1972, by affixing his signature hereto in the
space provided below the effective date thereof.

SECTION 4: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, if a proper
Petition for a Referendum on the Charter Amendment herein proposed is filed, the
Mayor and other proper officials of the Town of Manchester shall comply with all
the provisions set forth in Sections 13-17, inclusive, of Article 23A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland.

SECTION 5: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That as soon as the
Charter Amendment hereby made shall become effective, either as herein provided
or following a Referendum, the Mayor shall send separately by registered mail to
the Secretary of the State of Maryland and to the Department of Legislative
Reference of Maryland a complete certified copy of the text of this Resolution, the
date of the Referendum, if any is held, a certificate showing the number of
Councilmen voting for and against it, and a report on the votes cast for or against
the amendment hereby enacted at any Referendum hereon and the effective date of
the Charter Amendment.

This Resolution passed this 10th day of October, 1972.

Henry L. Hoffman, Mayor
ATTEST:

Kathryn L. Riley, Town Clerk

The Charter Amendment enacted by the aforegoing Resolution
became effective November 29, 1972.

CHARTER AMENDMENT
RESOLUTION NO. 5-72