CHAP. 287.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing
seventy thousand inhabitants: or more for the election of a special jus-
tice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his ju-
risdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the
issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable
by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908, as amended and re-enact-
ed by an act approved February 14, 1910.

Approved March 14, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirteen of an act entitled an act to provide in cities con-
taining seventy thousand inhabitants or more for the election of a
special justice of the peace to be known as a civil justice and to
prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation:
and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in the
said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved
March fifth, nineteen hundred and eight, as amended and re-
enacted by an act of assembly approved February fourteenth.
nineteen hundred and ten, be amended and re-enacted so as tc
read as follows:

$13. Dismissal of claims.—If any claim shall have been pend-
ing before such justice sixty days, he shall notify the parties that
the same will be dismissed in ten davs thereafter unless rood
cause can be shown to the contrary, and unless such cause can be
shown such justice shall forthwith dismiss such claim.
All papers connected with any of the proceedings in the trial
of cases before such civil justice, excepting such as may be re-
moved on appeal, shall remain in the office of the said civil justice
and shall be properly indexed and filed and preserved, and the con-
stable or sergeant serving said papers shall at the time of or be-
fore such service collect from the plaintiff in said claim the sum
of twenty-five cents, to be daily turned over by said constable or
sergeant to said civil justice and taxed as costs for the filing and
indexing said papers, and said civil justice shall monthly pay into
the treasury of his city all such fees so paid to him. The charge
of twenty-five cents provided for in this section shall not apply to
any city having a population of one hundred thousand or more.