2134                               Municipal Charters

(c)   On the fourth Monday in May starting with the year 1972, the
duly registered voters shall elect by ballot two Commissioners who shall
serve for a term of four years and until their successors are duly elected
and qualified.

(d)   No person shall be entitled to have his or her name placed on
the ballot or be voted for as a candidate for Mayor or Commissioner, who
shall not have filed with the Board of Commissioners by 4:00 o'clock p.m.,
at least twenty (20) days before the date on which is to be held the
election at which he or she is a candidate, a certificate, under oath, setting
forth for which office he or she is a candidate and his or her qualifications
therefor under the provisions of this charter; and the Board of Com-
missioners shall give ample public notice of any such election at least
twenty (20) days before the date thereof.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of adoption of this
Resolution is                                    and the amendment to the charter

of the Town of Elkton by the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of
Elkton hereby proposed by this enactment shall become effective fifty (50)
days after final enactment, unless a proper petition for referendum hereof
shall be filed as permitted by law, provided a complete and exact copy
of this Resolution shall be posted in the Town Hall of Elkton for a period
of forty (40) days following enactment of said Resolution, and provided
further, that a copy or fair summary of the proposed amendment shall
be published in the "Cecil Whig" or "Cecil Democrat," a newspaper of
general circulation in the Town of Elkton, once in each of the weeks of

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor and Commissioners
of the Town of Elkton be and they are hereby specifically enjoined and
instructed to carry out the provisions as contained herein, and as evidence
of said compliance they shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of this
meeting appropriate certification of publication of the newspaper in which
the title of this Resolution shall have been published and shall declare the
charter amendment hereby enacted to be effective by affixing the signature
of the Mayor in the space provided on the effective date hereof.

The date of enactment of this Resolution for charter amendment is
the 3rd day of March, 1971, and said Charter amendment shall become
effective fifty (50) days from this date, or the 23rd day of April, 1971.

THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS
OF THE TOWN OF ELKTON
By: Kenneth A. Wilcox, Mayor

ATTEST:

Mary D. Lippin, Secretary

FREDERICK

Frederick County
Resolution No. 2-71

A Resolution to propose an amendment to Article I, Section 2 of the
Charter of the City of Frederick, entitled "Incorporation and Gen-
eral Government"; sub-titled "Boundaries", to provide for the an-
nexation of 0.1209 square miles more or less, of land into the cor-
porate limits of the City of Frederick on the Northern boundary.