Chap. 169.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10, chapter 4, of an act con-
cerning public service corporations, approved January 18, 1904, providing for
the appointment of police agents and making certain persons conservators of

the peace.
Approved March 14, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ten, chapter four, of an act concerning public service corporations, ap-
proved January eighteen, nineteen hundred and four, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 10. The president or any other executive officer of any railroad com-
pany incorporated by this State may, with the approbation of the circuit
court of any county or the corporation or hustings court of any city
through which the road passes or has its chief office, appoint one or
more police agents, who shall have authority in all cases in which the
rights of such railroad company are involved, to exercise within the State
all powers which can be lawfully exercised by any constable or police
officer for the preservation of the peace, the arrest of offenders and dis-
orderly persons, and for the enforcement of laws against crimes, and
such president or other executive officer may remove any such agent at
his pleasure: provided, that any court giving such consent may at any
time revoke it. Conductors of railroad trains, and station and depot
agents, shall be conservators of the peace, and they and each of them
shall have the same power to make arrests that justices have, except that
the conductors shall only have such power on board their respective
trains and on the property of their company while on duty and the agents
at their respective places of business, and the said conductors and

may cause any person so arrested by them to be detained, and
delivered to the proper authorities for trial as soon as practicable.