Chap. 224.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act entitled an act
to incorporate the city of Newport News in the county of Warwick, and to
provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896, as amended by an
act approved March 24, 1924. [S B 308]

Approved March 23, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eighteen of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport
News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor,
approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as
amended by an act approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 18. The council, after the election of members, every two
years, shall, at its first meeting on or after the first day of September,
next following the date of said election, elect one of its members to
preside over its meetings, who shall be ex-officio mayor and shall have
the same powers and duties as other members of the council, with a
vote, but no veto; and he shall be official head of the city and shall
perform such other duties, consistent with his office, as may be im-
posed by the council. His term of office shall be for two years. The
council, at said meeting, shall also elect a mayor pro tempore, who
shall serve in the absence or disability of the mayor and shall receive
such additional compensation for such service, as the mayor would
receive therefor if present and acting.