Chap. 409.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act
to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20, 1871,
as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871,and by an act approved
March 17, 1876, and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act ap-
proved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act
approved February 25, 1892.

Approved February 26, 1894,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of
Alexandria, approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-one, as amended by an act approved March twenty-second,
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and by an act approved March
seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and by an act ap-
proved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and
by an act approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-nine, and by an act approved March first, eighteen hundred and
elghty-eight, and by an act approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 5. The acts of the city council shall be signed by the president
of each branch and shall be presented to the mayor for his approba-
tion, who, if he objects thereto, shall, within three days after it shall
be presented to him for his assent, return it to that branch of the
city council in which it originated, with his objections in writing,
and if a majority of the whole number of members of each branch
shall be of the opinion that the law ought to be passed, it shall, not-
withstanding the objections of the mayor, become a law and be
signed by him.

The clerk of each branch of the city council shall record in a
book to be kept by him for the purpose all the proceedings of his
branch, and shall deliver a copy of them to the public printer or
public printers, to be published for the information of the people;
and the clerk of the common council shall also record in a book to
be kept by him for that purpose all the laws of the corporation, and
shall furnish a copy of every law for publication as aforesaid.

The city council shall have the authority to adopt such rules and
to appoint such officers and clerks as they may deem proper for the
tegulation of their proceedings and for the convenient transaction
of business; to compel the attendance of absent members, to pun-
ish its members for disorderly behavior, and, by a two-thirds vote of
the memhers of the branch in which it occurs, expel a member for
malfeasance or misfeasance in office.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.