Chap. 304.——An ACT to amend and re-enact section 45 of an act entitled an act
to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia, and to repeal all
acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 20, 1924. ‘

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Approved March 21, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-five of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the
town of Salem, Virginia, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in
conflict therewith, approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 45. Salaries and compensation——From and after the
passage of this act, the salaries of the councilmen and the chairman,
who is ex-officio mayor, shall be such as may be fixed by the council;
provided, however, that the salary of no councilman shall exceed
twenty-five dollars per month, and that the salary of the chairman of
the council, who is ex-officio mayor, shall not exceed the sum of fifty
dollars per month, 1n addition to his salary as councilman.

All charges, costs and fees taxable and collectible by the chairman,
who is ex-officio mayor, in the trial of all cases, civil and criminal,
when taxed and collected, shall be paid into the treasury of the town,
and the mayor shall have no personal financial interest therein. The
salaries and compensation of all other officers and employees of this
town shall be such as may from time to time be fixed and prescribed
by the council.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the foregoing provi-
sions of section forty-five of the new charter of the town of Salem
are hereby repealed.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.