Chap. 451.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3101 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. [H B 50]
Approved March 2/7, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-one hundred and one of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

sec. 3101. Disability, etc., of civiland police justices—The court
of such civil and police justice shall be open for the transaction of
business every day in the year, except Sundays and legal holidays,
but the justice shall be allowed annually a vacation period of not
more than one month. The judge of the corporation or hustings
court of each of said cities shall, by proper order of record, appoint
as substitute civil and police justice a suitable person, preferably a
lawyer, and may at any time revoke such appointment, and may make
a new apointment in like manner in the event of such revocation, or
of the death, absence, or disability of such substitute civil and police
justice. In the event of the inability of the civil and police justice to
perform the duties of his office by reason of sickness, absence, vaca-
tion, interest in the claim, proceeding, or parties before his court, or
otherwise, such substitute civil and police justice shall perform the
duties of the office during such absence or disability, and shall receive
for his services a per diem compensation equivalent to one-twentieth
of a monthly installment of the salary of the civil and police justice,
payable out of the treasury of the city, the account for such services
to be approved by the corporation or hustings court. While acting as
such, either the civil and police justice or the substitute civil and
police justice, may perform all acts with reference to the proceedings,
judgments and proceeds of the other in any warrant, claim or pro-
ceeding before the court of the civil and police justice in the same
manner and with the same force and effect as if they were his own.