Chap. 852.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 90 of an act, approved
February 28, 1896, entitled an act to provide for the city of Roanoke, in
relation to justices of the peace in said city.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ninety of an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-six, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city
of Roanoke, in relation to justices of the peace in said city, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 90. The city of Roanoke shall be divided into two magisterial dis-
tricts. The third and fifth wards shall constitute district number one,
and the first, second, and fourth wards shall constitute district number
two. There shall be one justice of the peace for each district of said
city, who shall be residents of their respective districts, and who shall
be elected by the qualified voters of the city at large, and shall hold
office for the term of two years and until their successors be elected
and qualified, unless sooner removed from office. The said justices of
the peace shall be conservators of the peace within the limits of the
corporation of Roanoke, and one mile beyond, and shall have the same
powers and duties, within the said limits, and receive for their ser-
vices such compensation as is prescribed by law in respect to justices
of the peace now in the city of Roanoke, except that said justices shall
not have power to try civil cases, nor any of the powers granted to the
police justice of said city, or to the trial justice herein named, nor shall
they have the right to issue any garnishment process or executions
except in cases of unlawful detainer, and further whenever said justices
shall issue any civil warrant they shall collect the sum of fifty cents at
the time said warrant is issued. The justice issuing said warrant shall
retain out of the sum so collected the sum of twenty-five cents as his
compensation for the issue thereof; and he shall turf into the city
treasurers hands the sum of twenty-five cents for each warrant so
issued.

Such moneys shall be deposited on Monday of each week, with a list
of the warrants issued by him. The treasurer shall take such deposits
and hold the same, and on the first day of each month he shall turn
over the sums so deposited to the trial justice, taking his receipt there-
or.

The treasurer shall deposit annually to the council the amount of
money he has received and turned over to the trial justice; and said
treasurer shall not receive any additional compensation for the ser-
vices herein provided for.

There shali be elected by the qualified voters of the city of Roanoke
one Justice of the peace, who shall be known as the trial justice and
who shall hold his otlhice for the term of two years, and until his suc-
cessor be elected and qualified, unless sooner removed from ollice. He
shall reside in the city of Roanoke. |

The said trial justice shall be a conservator of the peace within the
lhmits of the corporation of Roanoke, and one mile beyond, and shall
have the same powers and duties within said limits, and receive for
his services such compensation as is now prescribed by law for justices
of the peace in the city of Roanoke, except that such trial justice shall
not have the power to issue any warrants in detinue, unlawful detainer
attachments, distress warrants, and warrants for small claims. All war-
rants and process issued by other justices except the police justice of
said city, shall be returnable before said trial justice, nor shall he issue
any writ instituting any civil action, and except that for the trial of
all civil cases he shall receive the sum of twenty-five cents heretofore
mentioned; nor shall he have any of the powers granted to the police
justice of said city. And in his absence or inability to act he may
designate one of the other justices of the peace of said city to act in
his stead, and on his failure so to do the mayor shall make such desig-
nation.

The term of office of all justices of the peace now holding office in
said city shall expire on the first day of July, nineteen hundred; and
at the general election, to be held on the fourth Thursday in May, nine-
teen hundred, the two district justices and the trial justice, provided
for in this act, shall be elected, and their respective terms of office shall
commence on the first day of July, nineteen hundred.

In case of the failure of any district justice to make report of and
deposit any of the fees collected by him, as herein provided, then the
trial justice shall have the right of action against the said district jus-
tice for the payment of the sums so collected; and any district justice
failing to make reports and deposits of the amounts collected by him,
as herein provided, shall, upon conviction thereof before the hustings
court of said city be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty
dollars for each offense, and, in the discretion of the judge of said
hustings court, removed from office.

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