Chap. 319.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 85 of the Code of Virginia as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved July 28, 1902, making registrars
conservators of the peace.

Became a law, without the governor’s signature, May 26, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eighty-five of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted ! yy an act
approved July twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 85. Registrars to be conservators of the peace; to preserve order.—
Every board of registrars provided for by the Constitution, or their suc-
cessors, for the years nineteen hundred and two and nineteen hundred and
three, or a majority thereof, every registrar thereafter appointed, and
every registrar for any town in this Commonwealth, shall preserve order
at and in the vicinity of the place of registration; and to enable it or him
to do so, they shall be clothed with all the powers of a conservator of the
peace while engaged in the discharge of the dutics imposed by law, may
exclude from its sittings all persons whose presence it or he deems unneces-
sary, and may appoint special constables, not exceeding three in number
in each magisterial district or ward, and may summon the by-standers,
or other persons in the vicinity, to assist whenever in its judgment it
shall be necessary to preserve order.

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

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