CxChap. 46.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24a of the charter of the city
of Richmond, as prescribed by an act approved February 20, 1886, entitled ‘‘an
act giving authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control roads to
the Reservoir and Soldiers’ Home,” so as to give authority to the city of Rich-
mond to improve and control a road running east from the corporate limits
along P street to Thirty-fourth street extended; thence northwardly along
Thirty-fourth street extended to Oakwood avenue; thence along Oakwood ave-
nue to Oakwood Cemetery; and to amend section 105 of the charter of the city
of Richmond providing for the election of a police justice, as prescribed in an
act approved July 11, 1870, amending certain sections of the city charter, so as
to fix the term of office of said police justice at four years.

Approved March 2, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-four a of the charter of the city of Richmond, as prescribed by an
act approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, en-
titled “an act giving authority to the city of Richmond to improve and
control roads to the Reservoir and Soldiers’ Home,” be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 24a. That the city of Richmond shall have the control and manage-
ment of Grove avenue from the western limits of said city to the Soldiers’
Home, and of said boulevard from the Broad street or Mountain road to
said Reservoir, and of the city’s grounds contiguous thereto, and of a
road running east from the corporate limits along P street to Thirty-
fourth street extended; thence northwardly along Thirty-fourth street
extended to Oakwood avenue; thence along Oakwood avenue to Oakwood
cemetery ; and that said city of Richmond shall have the power to make
such ordinances, orders, and regulations relating to said avenues, roads,
and grounds as it may deem proper and necessary; but the citizens of
the county shall have the same privileges thereon as the citizens of the
city of Richmond.

2. Be it further enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one hundred and five of the charter of the city of Richmond pro-
viding for the election of a police justice, as prescribed in an act ap-
proved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, amending certain
sections of the city charter, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 105. There shall be appointed by the city ccuncil one police justice,
who shall hold his office for the term of four ycars, and until his successor
shall be elected and qualified, unless sooner removed from office. The
police justice shall hold a court daily in said city (Sundays excepted),
in such place as the city council may provide and appoint. The jurisdic-
tion of the court shall extend to all cases arising within the jurisdic-
tional limits of the city, of which a justice of the peace may take cogni-
zance under the laws of the State, and to all cases arising under the char-
ter of ordinances of the city, or where there is a claim against thé city
or a person therein, if it does not exceed one hundred dollars, exclusive
of interest; and the judgment shall be final in all civil cases, where the
matter in controversy, exclusive of costs, is not more than twenty dol-
lars. He shall have such other powers and jurisdiction as may be con-
ferred upon him by the city council, not in conflict with the Constitution
and laws of the United States and of the State of Virginia. The city
council may provide for the appointment of such clerks and officers for
said court of the police justice, and make such rules for the government
of said court, as they may find proper. If any person who has been duly
summoned as a witness to attend amd give evidence before the police
justice, touching any matter or thing pending before him under the
charter or any ordinance of the city, shall fail to attend in obedience to
said summons, he or she shall be fined, at the discretion of the said jus-
tice, in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.

3. This act shall be in force on and after July first, nineteen hundred
and four.