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 which the political parties shall always nominate for the said body representatives of the various interests and activities of the locality.

227. The Mayor, the Manager, and the Commissioners shall receive from the municipal treasury a compensation that can be changed at any time, but the change shall not be effective until there has been a new election for Mayor, for the Council or for the Commission. Any increase in the compensation of the Mayor shall depend on an effective increase in the municipal revenues during the last 2 years preceding the date it is to be effective. The office of Councilman can be compensated when the financial situation of the Municipality permits it and the public services are duly financed and taken care of.

228. In case of temporary or definitive absence of the Mayor in any of the three systems heretofore specified, he shall be substituted by the Councilman or Commissioner who shall have been elected for that purpose at the first session held by the Municipal Council or Commission.

If it is the Manager who is absent, the Municipal Council shall proceed to fill the vacancy in the same manner directed for filling the office.

229. To be Mayor, Manager, Commissioner or Councilman, it is necessary to be a Cuban citizen, 21 years of age, and to meet the other requisites specified by law. In the case of the Mayor it shall also be required that he was not a member of the armed forces of the Republic in active service during the 2 years immediately preceding the date of his designation as a candidate.

Domicile or residence in the Municipality shall not be required in the case of the Manager.

230. A Metropolitan District of Havana can be created by law, federating with the capital city the municipalities that surround it, in the number that the law shall determine.

The federated municipalities shall have direct representation in the government of the Metropolitan District, conserving their democratic and popular organisation.

231. Municipal budgets shall allot for the needs of rurai boroughs the amounts corresponding in accordance with the following gradual scale:

In rural boroughs which contribute from $100 to $1,000, 35 per cent.