Chap. 34.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11, 12, and 63 of an act
to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and
to provide a charter therefor. (H. B. 209.)

Approved March 4, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections eleven, twelve and sixty-three of an act to incorporate the
city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a
' charter therefor, be amended and re-enacted to read: as follows:
Sec. 11. The common council shall at its first meeting in October
after its organization, proceed to elect a city engineer, a city auditor,
a city attorney, a police justice, a city clerk, a health officer, in the
order named, all of whom shall hold office for two years and until
their successor be elected and qualified. The terms of office of all
the before mentioned officers shall begin on January first succeeding”
their election, the terms of office of all the present incumbents are-
hereby extended to January first, nineteen fifteen. The common
council may appoint where not otherwise provided, such officers as
are provided by this charter, but no offices not especially provided:
by this charter shall be created except by a vote of three-fourths
of the members of the council.

Sec. 12. The term of office of those officers mentioned in the
preceding section, and all other officers elected by the council, shall
begin on the first day of January succeeding their election.

Sec. 63. The police justice shall possess all the jurisdiction and
exercise all power and authority in criminal cases of a justice of
the peace of said city, but he shall receive no fees for services as
such police justice from said city. He shall also try all violations
of the city ordinances and inflict such punishment as may be pre-
scribed for a violation of the same. He shall keep his office and
court at the place prescribed by the council daily, except Sundays,
and if for any cause he shall be unable to act, the mayor shall ap-
point one of the justices of the peace of said city to discharge the
duties of the police justice prescribed herein during such inability,
and who shall be paid for such service by the police justice at the
same rate per diem as such police justice receives. From any de-
cision of the police justice affecting the legality or validity of any
ordinance passed by the council, the city shall have the right to an
appeal to the corporation court of said city.

The police justice shall hold a separate court for the trial of
juveniles at a different time from the regular police court for the
hearing of such cases; he may, in his discretion, exclude the public,
for which services he shall receive in addition to his regular salary
such sum as the council may prescribe.