Chap. 243.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1230 of the code of Vir-
ginia, providing for the appointment of police agents and making certain
persons conservators of the peace.

Approved February 12, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twelve hundred and thirty of the code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1230. Railroad companies may appoint police agents, conductors
of trains, masters of steamers and depot agents to be conservators
of the peace. The president of any railroad company incorporated
by this etate may, with the approbation of the county court of any
county or the corporation court of any corporation through which the
road passes, appoint one or more police agents,who shall have authority
upon the road and at other places within this state belonging to
such company to exercise all the powers which can lawfully be ex-
ercised by any constable for the preservation of the peace, the arrest
of offenders and disorderly persons and for the enforcement of the
laws against crimes, and such president may remove any such agent
at his pleasure: provided that any county or corporation court
giving such consent may at any time revoke it. Conductors of rail-
road trains and station or depot agents shall be conservators of the
peace, and they and each of them shall have the same power to make
arrests that justices have, except that the conductors shall only
have such power on board their respective trains, and the agents at
their respective places of business; and the said conductors and
agents may cause any person so arrested by them to be detained and
delivered to the proper authorities for trial as soon as practicable.
The masters of all steamers navigating the waters of this state shall,
on board their respective vessels, exercise the powers as conservators
of the peace conferred by this section on conductors of trains and
depot agents.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.