Chap. 487.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of an act entitled an
act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing
charter, approved April 21, 1882, in force January 21, 1884, as to the election
of a police justice and other justices of the peace.

Approved February 21, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
Lwenty-seven of an act entitled an act providing a charter for the city
of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April twenty-
first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in force January twenty-first,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 27. There shall be elected by the councils at their first regular meet-
ing after their election in May, nineteen hundred, or as soon thereafter
as practicable, and biennially thereafter, a justice of the peace, who
shall hold the police court and act as police justice of the city; and after
the election of the police justice there shall be elected a justice of the
peace for each ward, who shall reside in the ward for which he may be
elected during his term of office.

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