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Section 401.1. ORDER OF FILLING OFFICES. The office for Councilmen from Ward One, Ward Three, and Ward Five shall be filled at the General Municipal Election held on the first Tuesday of April, 1957, and the office for Councilmen from Ward Two and Ward Four shall be filled at the General Municipal Election held on the first Tuesday of April, 1959. Thereafter, the office of Councilmen from Wards One, Three and Five and from Wards Two and Four shall be filled at the alternate General Municipal Elections. The offices of Councilmen from Wards Six and Eight shall be filled at the same Election as the offices for Wards Two and Four, and the offices for Wards Seven and Nine shall be filled at the same election as for Wards One, Three and Five; except that the first elections for the offices of Councilmen from Wards Six, Seven, Eight and Nine shall be in each instance at the next General Municipal Election subsequent to the formation of the Ward. The candidate elected from each Ward shall be the candidate receiving the highest number of votes cast for any candidate from said Ward. Section 402. CITY COUNCIL: COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS. Each member of the City Council shall receive as compensation for his services as such a monthly salary in the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars ($125.00). The member elected by the City Council to fill the office of Mayor shall receive the additional amount of Seventy-Five Dollars ($75.00) for each month said member shall fill the office of Mayor. Further, each member of the City Council shall receive reimbursement for required travel and other expenses while on official business of the City as authorized and approved by the City Council. Absence of a member of the City Council from all regular and special meetings of the City Council during any calendar month shall render him ineligible to receive the monthly salary for such a calendar month unless by permission of the City Council expressed in its official minutes. -4-