Chap. 60.—An ACT conferring upon the common council of the city of Win-
chester power to elect a police justice for said city, and defining his duties
and jurisdiction.

Approved February 27, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the com-
mon council of the city of Winchester be, and hereby is, delegated the
authority and power to elect a police justice, who shall hold his office for
the term of one year, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified,
unless sooner removed from office.

2. The police justice shall hold court every week day, when necessary, in
such places as the city council may provide and appoint. The jurisdiction of
the court shall extend to all cases arising within the jurisdictional limits
of the city of which a justice of the peace may take cognizance under the
laws of the State, and to all cases arising under the ordinances of the city
or the charter, or where there is a claim against the 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 con-
troversy, exclusive of costs, is not more than twenty dollars. He shall
have such other powers and jurisdiction as may be conferred upon him by
the city council not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the
United States and of the State of Virginia.

3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

4. An emergency existing, which makes immediate action on the part
of the said city council necessary, this act shall be in force from its
passage.