Chap. 369.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4106 of the code of Vir-
ginia, touching the jurisdiction of police justices and justices of the peace
as to the trial of offenders in certain cases.

Approved February 23, 18%.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-one hundred and six of the code of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, giving concurrent jurisdiction to justices
for the trial of offenders in certain cases, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 4106. The several police justices and justices of the peace of
this commonwealth, in addition to the jurisdiction exercised by
them as conservators of the peace, whenever the person charged with
any of the offences hereinafter mentioned elects to be tried by such
justice, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the county and cor-
poration courts of the state of all cases of assault and battery not
felonies, petit larceny, unlawful or malicious trespass, lewd and las-
civious association and cohabitation, adultery, fornication, keeping
house of ill fame, cruelty to animals, disturbance of public worship,
violation of section thirty-eight hundred and six or thirty-eight
hundred and seven, carrying concealed weapons and obstructing
highways and bridges, occurring within their jurisdiction, in all of
which cases the punishment may be the same as the said courts are
authorized to impose: provided that in any city in which there is a
police justice the powers and jurisdiction conferred by this section
shall not be exercised by any other justice of such city except when
acting for and in the stead of the police justice according to law.
Each police justice and justice of the peace, when the party so elects
as aforesaid, may try, or procure some other justice to try, every case
of the kind mentioned in this section which is brought before him,
and the same may be tried upon a warrant, or he, in his discretion,
may make an examination into the offence and proceed according to
the provisions of chapter one hundred and ninety-four.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.