88 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 35

HE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO NO VOTE; THE CONCUR-
RENCE OF THE MAYOR WITH A MAJORITY OF THE
COUNCIL SHALL BE NECESSARY FOR THE TRANSAC-
TION OF CORPORATE BUSINESS AND CONTRACTS
MADE FOR THE TOWN, BUT IT SHALL NOT BE NECES-
SARY 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
CORRECT AND APPROVED MINUTES OF EACH MEET-
ING OF THE COUNCIL; AND THE MAYOR SHALL SIGN
HIS NAME TO SAID MINUTES TO SIGNIFY HIS AP-
PROVAL OF ALL THE MATTERS AND TRANSACTIONS
THEREIN RECORDED; BUT IF HE DISAPPROVES OF
ANY OF THE TRANSACTIONS THEREIN RECORDED
IN THE MINUTES HE SHALL NOTE HIS DISAP-
PROVAL 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 TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200. 00) WHICH SAID
SUM SHALL BE PAYMENT IN FULL FOR ALL SERV-
ICES RENDERED TO SAID TOWN AS MAYOR OR
OTHERWISE, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE
MAYOR MAY BE REIMBURSED BY THE TOWN FOR
ACTUAL AND NECESSARY TRAVELING EXPENSES
WHILE OUTSIDE THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF POCO-
MOKE CITY ON BUSINESS FOR THE SAID TOWN; AND
THE MAYOR SHALL PERFORM THE DUTIES OF BUILD-
ING INSPECTOR FOR SAID TOWN WITHOUT COMPEN-
SATION.

204. 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 busi-
ness, and [two] three 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 pre-
vious annual election shall be entitled, if duly qualified, to
take their seat in the Council, and the Council shall first
proceed to elect a president, 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 [or] 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 imposed or conferred upon