Chap. 36.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 19, 1894,
entitled an act to provide police for Newport magisterial district, in the
county of Warwick.

Approved January ll, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide special police for Newport magisterial dis-
trict, in the county of Warwick, approved February nineteenth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
county board of supervisors of Warwick county are hereby constituted
a board of police commissioners for the county of Warwick, and to serve
without compensation.

§ 2. The said board (a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business) shall (with the approbation of the county
judge of the county of Warwick) appoint a special police force to consist
of not less than two suitable and discreet persons, who shall have au-
thority within the said county of Warwick, and within one hundred
yards of the boundary lines of the said county, to exercise all powers
which can be exercised by any constable for the preservation of peace,
the arrest of offenders and disorderly persons, and for the enforcement
of the laws of the state against crime.

§ 3. The said board shall fix the compensation of the members of
said police force, which compensation shall be certified to the judge of
the court, and by him allowed to be paid out of the police fund of said
county. The said board shall designate one member of the police to be
the chief of said force, and require him to report to the said board
monthly all arrest and disposition of same, and any other duties the board
may see fit to require of him; he shall report any member of the said
force who shall be guilty of any malfeasance, misfeasance or neglect of
official duty. The board shall have power to remove any member of the
police force for cause.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

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