Chap. 457.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 87 of the charter of the
city of Richmond as amended by an act approved February 25, 1892, entitled
an act to amend and re-enact sections 15, 33, 87 and 94 and subdivisions 5
and 6 of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond.

Approved February 26, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion eighty-seven of the charter of the city of Richmond as amended
by an act approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections fifteen,
twenty-three, eighty-seven and ninety-four, and subdivisions five
and six of section nineteen of the charter of the city of Richmond
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 87. In time of exigency said commissioners, or a majority of
them, or any one of them, if the others should be absent from the
city or unable to act, may appoint temporarily without authority
from the city council a suitable number of additional policemen for
such time as shall appear necessary, not, however, to extend beyond
the next meeting of the city council. The mayor may confer police
powers upon the clerks of the markets and their deputies, keepers
of parks and cemeteries and their subordinates, watchmen and cus-
todians of the city reservoirs, and janitor or superintendent of the
city hall and his subordinates, and such other officers or employees
and their subordinates, of the city as shall have custody of any
other piece or part of the city’s property so as to authorize them to
prevent any violation of any law or city ordinance within or upon
such pieces or parts of the city property as may be under their
charge or custody, and to prevent any injury or damage from being
done to such pieces or partsof the city property ; and the bailiff of the
police court shall have police powers when acting under the orders
of the police justice of the city.

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