Chap. 12.—An ACT to amend an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter
for the town of Blackstone, in the county of Nottoway, and to repeal all
other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith,’ approved March 27, 1914,
as heretofore amended, by adding thereto, and inserting in Article V thereof,
a new section numbered 27-a, providing for compensation to the members of
the council. [S B 49]

Approved February 10, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town of Black-
stone, in the county of Nottoway, and to repeal all other acts or parts
of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March twenty-seventh, nine-
teen hundred and fourteen, as heretofore amended, be amended by
adding thereto, and inserting in Article V thereof, a new section num-
bered twenty-seven-a, to read as follows:

Section 27-a. The town council of said town is hereby authorized
and empowered, by ordinance or resolution, passed by the affirmative
recorded vote of two-thirds of the full membership thereof, to be de-
termined by yeas and nays, to provide and fix salaries for its members,
at such sums or in such amounts not exceeding the sum or amount of
one hundred and twenty dollars per annum for each member, as it
may determine, to be payable in such amounts and at such time or
times as it may direct.

The said council may provide and fix said salaries for said mem-
bers, on the basis of stated amounts or sums, not exceeding the limits
herein provided, for each regular meeting of said council attended by
said members, and may prescribe that no member shall receive any
compensation for any meeting of said council not attended by such
member.

And in the event said salaries shall be provided and fixed within
nine months from the date of the commencement of the terms of office
of said members, the said council is hereby further authorized and
empowered to make said salaries relate back to and become payable
from the commencement of the terms of office of said members.

Said salaries, when provided and fixed, shall be payable out of
the general funds of said town when approved for payment by said
council.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.