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MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF GALESTOWN ADOPTED
PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY OF ARTICLE III OF THE
CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND AND SECTION 13 OF ARTICLE 23A OF
THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND (1971 REPLACEMENT VOLUME)
TITLED "CORPORATIONS-MUNICIPAL" TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF
THE COMMISSIONERS OF GALESTOWN BY REPEALING AND
REENACTING SECTION 269 "QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS AND
COMMISSIONERS" OF THE CODE OF PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS OF
DORCHESTER COUNTY (1961 EDITION), SAID CODE BEING ARTICLE
10 OF THE CODE OF PUBLIC LAWS OF MARYLAND, TITLE
"DORCHESTER COUNTY", SUBTITLE "GALESTOWN", REMOVING
CERTAIN OBSOLETE LANGUAGE, CHANGING THE VOTING AGE AND
PROPERTY REQUIREMENT FOR VOTING AND HOLDING OFFICE.

SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED by The Commissioners of
Galestown that the Charter of said municipal corporation
be, and the same is, hereby amended by repealing and
reenacting said Section 269 to read as follows:

269. Qualifications of Voters and Commissioners:

The citizens of Galestown, of the age of
[twenty—one] EIGHTEEN years and upwards, being citizens
of the United States, who have resided in the said
village for or during the space of six months next
preceding the first Monday in June OF EVERY ODD NUMBERED
YEAR, may on that day, at the usual place of holding
elections in said Tillage [and on the first Monday in
June in every second year thereafter,] be authorized to
elect three Commissioners for said town for the term of
two years, who shall have resided within the limits of
the same for one year next preceding the election, [and
who are assessed on the tax books of Dorchester County
and owning Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) worth of
property within the corporate limits of said Town of
Galestown]. Said Commissioners of Galestown shall
receive no pay for their services as such, and they shall
continue to reside in said town during their term of
office[: provided, however, that there shall be no
election of Commissioners of Galestown in the month of
June 1951, but that Walter J. Brady, William W. Collison
and Rose Bialk shall be and constitute the Commissioners
of Galestown, from and after the first Monday in June,
1951, subject to the provisions of this sub-title].

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution
shall become effective the 29th day of March, 1974.

ORDAINED AND PASSED by the Commissioners of
Galestown this 4th day of February, 1974.