Chap. 163.—An ACT to authorize the Crockett Springs company to appoin
police agents.

Approved January 27, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That on ap
plication of the president of the Crockett Springs company, of Roa
noke, Virginia, a company duly incorporated under the laws o
this state, the judge of the county court of Montgomery county shal
appoint one or more police agents, who shall have authority upor
and within four hundred yards of said company’s property, in saic
county, to exercise all the powers which can lawfully be exercisec
by any constable for the preservation of the peace, the arrest o:
offenders and disorderly persons, and the enforcement of the law
against crime. The cost of these appointments shall be borne by
the company aforesaid.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.