Chap. 123.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1035 of the Code of Vir-
ginia of 1887, with reference to the salary of mayors of towns.

Approved March 10, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section ten
hundred and thirty-five of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

$1035. The council of a town may adopt rules for the regulation of
their proceedings, but no tax shall be levied or corporate debt contracted
unless by a vote of two-thirds of the council, which vote shall he by yeas
and nays, and recorded in the journal. ‘The mayor shall preside over
the said council; and the council may direct the payment to the mayor
of a salary not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum, payable as
the council may direct, and anything in the charter of any town in this
Commonwealth in conflict with this provision is hereby repealed; and
in the event of the absence of the mayor the council may appoint a
president pro tempore. A journal shall be kept of their proccedings,
and at the request of any member present the yeas and nays shall be re-
corded on any question. At the next meeting the proceedings shall be
read and signed by the person who was presiding when the previous
meeting adjourned, or if he be not then present, by the person presiding
when they were read: provided, however, this act shall not become ope-
rative in any town in this State until in an election held in such town,
the qualified voters thereof shall have voted affirmatively as to the ques-
tion of the salary of the mayor.