Chap. 454.—An ACT requiring the Richmond and Petersburg Electric Railway
Company to provide separate accommodations for the white and colored pas-
sengers upon its line between ull street, in the city of Manchester, and Old
street, in the city of Petersburg, and conferring upon its conductors and motor-

men powers of conservators of the peace and policemen upon its cars and right
of way.

Approved April 2, 1902.

- 1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That the Rich.
mond and Petersburg Electric Railway Company shall be, and the said
company is hereby, required to set apart upon its cars traversing its line
between Hull street, in the city of Manchester, and Old street, in the city
of Petersburg, separate seats, compartments, or accommodations for the
white and colored passengers, respectively, and to plainly designate the
same, and it may use separate cars on such occasions as it may deem it
proper. But no difference or discrimination shall be made between white
and colored passengers in the equality of the accommodations.
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2. It is further provided that the conductor or person in charge of each
car operating upon said line shall have the right, at any time, when, in
his judgment, it may be necessary and proper for the comfort and con-
venience of the passengers s6 to do, to change the said designation so as to
increase or decrease the amount of space sét apart for either race, and he
may require any passenger to change his or her seat when and as often as
he may deem it necessary.

3. It is further enacted that all persons who shall fail to take and oc-
cupy the seats assigned to them as provided in the two preceding sections
of this act, or fail to obey the instructions and directions of the conductor
or manager of such car as to the seat or space to be occupied by such
passenger, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hun-
dred dollars. And any person or persons failing to take and occupy the
seat or seats, compartments, or cars assigned to him, her, or them, or fail-
ing to obey the instructions and directions as provided for in this act,
may be ejected from said car and from the right of way of said company
by any conductor, motorman, or manager of said company; and in case
such passenger ejected shall have paid his fare upon said car, he shall not
be entitled to a return of any part of said fare. Any conductor or man-
ager, or person having charge and control of such car, who shall fail or
refuse to carry out the provisions of this act, or fail to require the same
to be complied with, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

4, Each conductor and motorman in the employ of said company upon
the cars of said company shall be a special police and have all the powers
of conservators of the peace while upon the cars and right of way of said
company in the enforcement of the provisions of this act, and in the dis-
charge of his duty as such special police in the enforcement of order upon
said cars and said right of way.

5. Neither the said Richmond and Petersburg Electric Railway Com-
pany nor any conductor or manager of any car operating upon suid line
betweeen Hull street, in the city of Manchester, and Old street, in the
city of Petersburg, shall in any case be liable for damage to any one for
any act performed in the due and lawful enforcement of the provisions
of this act.

6. This act shall be in force on and after the first day of May, ninetecn
hundred and two.