Chap. 158.—An ACT to provide for the appointment of a police justice or
police justices in the counties having a population of fifty thousand or
over.

Approved March 12, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the judge
of the circuit court having jurisdiction in counties having a population
of fifty thousand or more shall have the power and is hereby authorized
to appoint any qualified elector or electors in his judicial district a police
justice, or police justices in conformity with the terms and conditions
of this act. 2

(1) A police justice may be so appointed for each magisterial district
of said county: provided, such district has a population of fifteen thou-
sand or over.

(2) Such police justice or police justices so appointed shall have all
the powers conferred upon justices of the peace by existing law with
power to suspend any constable or special police officer of his district
for neglect of duty or misfeasance. Such suspension shall be referred to
the circuit court whose action therein shall be final.

(3) No appointment shall be made under this act prior to January
lirst, nineteen hundred and eight.

(4) The salary of such police justice shall be not less than eighteen
hundred dollars, which shall be in lieu of all fees. The salary shall be
fixed by the hoard of supervisors of the county, and paid out of the
county treasury: all fees collected by him shall be turned into the county
treasury. ‘

(5) The terms of police justices shall be four years from the date of
their appointment. The court which or whose judge appoints a police
Justice may at any time reinove him for good cause shown upon a hear-
ing after reasonable notice to him of the charges against him.