ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 809

porate business and contracts made for the town, but it shall
not be necessary to note in the minutes the approval of the
Mayor of each transaction therein stated or acted upon by
the Council; but the town clerk shall present to the Mayor
the corrected and approved minutes of each meeting of the
Council; and the Mayor shall sign his name to said minutes
to signify his approval of all the matters and transactions
therein recorded; but if he disapproves of any of the trans-
actions therein recorded in the minutes he shall note his
disapproval at the foot of the minutes, and such disapproval
shall be an effective veto of the action so disapproved of,
unless said veto is overruled by the unanimous vote of the
Council at their next regular meeting. The Mayor shall
receive the annual salary of Four Hundred ($400) Dollars
which said sum shall be payment in full for all services
rendered to said town as Mayor or otherwise, provided, how-
ever, that the Mayor may be reimbursed by the town for
actual and necessary traveling expenses while outside the
corporate limits of Pocomoke City on business for the said
town; and the Mayor shall perform the duties of Building
Inspector for said town without compensation.

260. The Council shall meet on the first Monday of every
month, and adjourned or special meetings may be called by
the Mayor as often as necessary for the transaction of business,
and two Councilmen shall constitute a quorum. At the regular
meeting on the first Monday in May of each year the new
Councilman or Councilmen elected at the previous annual elec-
tion shall be entitled, if duly qualified, to take their seat in
the Council, and the Council shall first proceed to elect a presi-
dent, whose duty it shall be to preside over the Council in the
absence of the Mayor; and the president of the Council by
virtue of his office shall be acting Mayor of Pocomoke City
whenever the Mayor of said town shall be absent from the
town for the space of three days at any one time, and in such
absence of the Mayor he may perform any of the duties im-
posed or conferred upon the Mayor by the provisions of this
charter; wherever in the charter any powers are conferred upon
or any duties imposed upon the Mayor and Council the con-
current action of both the Mayor and the Council shall be
necessary for any effective and legal performance of all acts
performed by virtue of the powers so conferred. In cases where
powers are so conferred on the Council the concurrence or ap-
proval of the Mayor shall not be necessary. In the enactment