Chap. 85.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 10 of an act
approved February .17, 1890, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the city of
Danville.”

Approved March 7, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
f chapter ten of an act approved February seventeenth, eighteen hun-
red and ninety, entitled “an act to incorporate the city of Danville,” be
mended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. The council shall have the power and authority to organize a
vlice force for the city, to be composed of a chief, other needed officers
ud such number of men as said council may think are needed for the
uardianship ‘and protection of said city. The officers and members of
aid force shall be elected or appointed for such time or term as to the
ouncil may seem fit, and the pay, uniform and regulations for the gov-
rnment of said police force shall be prescribed by the council: provided,
he council may; if it deem it best, provide for a board of police com-
hissioners, appoint them, define their duties and powers, pay, if any,
erms of office, etcetera: and provided, further, the council may empower
he mayor to appoint special policemen when on special occasions he may
ecm it necessary to the protection of the city.

The police force when duly constituted, shall be under the control of
he mayor, for the purpose of enforcing peace and good order and exe-
uting the laws of the State and the ordinances of the city. It shall also
erform such other duties as the council] may prescribe. For the pur-
ose of enabling it to perform its duties and powers each member thereof
: hereby made a conservator of the peace during his term of office or ser-
ice, and endowed with the powers of constable in criminal cases and all
ther powers, which under the law of the State, may be necessary to en-
ble him properly to discharge the duties of his office.

2. An emergency existing therefor, this act shall be in force from its
massae.