Chap. 845.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 4106 of the code of Virginia, touching the jurisdiction
of police justices and justices of the peace as to the trial of offenders in
certain cases, approved February 28, 1894.

Approved March 5, 1896.

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, as amended by an act of the general assem-
bly of Virginia, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, 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. What criminal offences police justices and justices of the
peace may try; discretion given them either to try or only to exam-
ine into the offence.—The several police justices and justices of the
peace, in addition to the jurisdiction exercised by them as conser-
vators of the peace, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all
misdemeanor cases occurring within their jurisdiction, in all of
which cases the punishment may be the same as the county and
corporation 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 shall try, or procure some other justice to try, every misde-
meanor case which is brought before him.

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