Annapolis                                       1887

tional ward or wards of said city may be established by ordinance, in the
event additional territory is annexed to said city, as provided in Section 4
of this Charter. The citizens and residents of Annapolis qualified to vote
for members of the general assembly of Maryland, and otherwise qualified
by the registration and election laws for such cases made and provided,
shall elect by ballot every four years, beginning in 1953, on the third Tues-
day in May, a mayor; and the voters qualified as aforesaid, in each ward
shall at the same time elect by ballot one resident thereof as alderman,
and said mayor and said aldermen so elected shall constitute the corpora-
tion of said city, under the name and style of the mayor and aldermen of
the City of Annapolis. The Mayor shall receive a salary of $12,000.00 per
year payable monthly, and each alderman shall receive a salary of $2,400.00
per year payable monthly, for any and all services performed by them for
the municipality or any agency thereof. The Mayor and Aldermen shall
not be allowed any fixed amount for expenses. The terms of office of the
mayor and aldermen shall be four years, or until their successor shall be
elected and qualified, the beginning and ending of such terms to be as
prescribed in Section 5 of this Charter. The Mayor must have resided in
the City of Annapolis for at least five years immediately preceding his elec-
tion, must be a qualified voter in said city and may not hold office as Mayor
for more than two full consecutive terms to which he shall be elected in the
manner provided by Section 5 of this Charter. Aldermen, except those
first elected from areas annexed to the city, must have resided in the City
of Annapolis for at least five years immediately preceding their election,
shall be qualified voters in the city and must have been residents of the
ward from which they are elected for at least one year immediately pre-
ceding their election.

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Annapolis that the date of adoption of this
Resolution is the 13th day of January, 1969, and the Amendment of the
Charter of the City of Annapolis hereby enacted shall become effective on
the fiftieth day after its passage, unless a proper petition for referendum
shall be filed as permitted by law; provided a complete and exact copy of
this Resolution shall be continuously posted on the bulletin board in the
City Hall for at least forty (40) days after its passage, and provided
further that a copy of the title of this Resolution shall be published in "The
Evening Capital," a newspaper of general circulation once in each of the
five (5) successive weeks thereafter.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor is
hereby specifically enjoined to carry out the provisions of Section II hereof,
and, as evidence of such compliance, the Mayor shall cause to be affixed
to the minutes of this meeting appropriate certificates of publication of
the newspaper or ne