Chap. 210.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 92 of an act entitled
an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of
Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16,
1896, and amended February 16, 1901. (S. B. 338.)

‘Approved March 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section ninety-two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the
city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide
a charter therefor, approved January sixteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-six, as amended by an act approved February
sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Sec. 92. Justice of the peace—tThere shall be one justice
of the peace for each ward of said city, who shall reside and have
his office in his respective ward and not elsewhere, and who shall
hold office for the term of four years, or until his successor be
elected and qualified, unless sooner removed from office. That
the present term of the justices of said city be extended until
January first, nineteen hundred and twenty, and that they be
elected at the general election to be held in the city of Newport
News, in November, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and every
four years thereafter.
Each justice of said city may issue process in favor of or
against any person in said city, but said process shall be issued
from the ward in which said justice resides, and not elsewhere.

If any justice violate any of the provisions of this act the
office of said justice shall be deemed to be vacant.