Chap. 63.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a
| | new charter for the city of Bristol.

Approved March 7, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general asesmbly of Virginia, That sections
nine, twenty-one, and subsection c of section twenty-three of an act ap-
proved March the fifth, nineteen hundred, entitled an act to provide a
new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts
of acts or charters in conflict herewith, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 9. The council at its first meeting in September, nineteen hundred
and four, and at its first meeting in September every year thereafter,
shall elect a chief of police, who shall hold office for one year, and may
at the same time elect a clerk of the council, who shall hold office for one
year, or until their successors qualify, and may also elect a city engineer,
a city attorney, an auditor, a collector of taxes, a water commissioner, a
street commissioner, each for a term of one year, and may elect such
other officers as it may deem expedient for the proper conduct of the
affairs of the city, and prescribe their salaries, duties, and terms of office.
Any office which the city council has power to create it may at any time,
for good cause, abolish, whether the term of office of the incumbent has
expired or not.

§ 21. The mayor’s salary shall be fixed by the council at an amount
not exceeding five hundred dollars per year, but the same shall not be
diminished during his term of office, and he shall receive no other com-
pensation or emolument whatever, except as hereinafter provided. He
shall, by virtue of his office, be police justice, and when acting as such
police justice he may collect such fees as are allowed by law to @ justice
of the peace.
Subsection c of section 23. If the mayor shall decide that he does not
want to act as police justice, he shall report that fact to the council, and
the council shall elect some person as police justice who shall have and
possess all the powers and privileges conferred by law on the police jus-
tice of said city. In event of the election of a police justice by the coun-
cil as above provided, the mayor shall receive a salary to be fixed by the
council, not exceeding three hundred dollars a year, and the police jus-
tice so elected shall receive a salary to be fixed by the council, not exceed-
ing two hundred dollars a year, and said salaries shall not be reduced
during said terms of office. In addition to said salary, the police justice
shall receive such fees as are allowed by law to a justice of the peace.