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MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

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 the above
sections and 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 26th day of November, 1973.

RESOLUTION NO. 2nd of 1973

A RESOLUTION of the City of Laurel Adopted Pursuant
to the provisions of Article 23A, Sections 11 through 18,
titled Corporations — Municipal, subtitled Charter
Amendments, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1973
Replacement Volume) to amend the Charter of the City of
Laurel, Section 11, entitled "Government — City Council",
to reduce the age limit of the candidates seeking
election to the City Council to twenty—one (21) years of
age, to exclude the requirement that a candidate for
election to the City Council own real property within the
City and has paid the real estate taxes thereon, to
increase the salary of the councilmen, to exclude
provisions authorizing the Mayor and City Council to
increase or decrease the salary of the councilmen, and to
require that a councilman remain a resident of the City
while holding office.

THEREFORE: BE IT ENACTED AND ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR
AND CITY COUNCIL OF LAUREL, MARYLAND, that Section 11 of
the Charter of the City of Laurel, entitled "Government —
City Council" be amended by the exclusion of the word
"twenty-five" and the substitution in lieu thereof of the
word "twenty-one", by the exclusion of the words "who
have been assessed upon the assessment books of said town