Chap. 117.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled
un act to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing
70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the
peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction 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-enacted by an act
approved February 14, 1910, and as amended and re-enacted by an uct
approved March 14, 1912, by (1) increasing the salary limit of said
civil justice; (2) providing for interrogatories under executions issued
by said civil justice, and (4) giving said civil justice certain powers in
matters of contempt; (5) by enlarging the jurisdiction of said civil
justice in interpleader proceedings and otherwise, approved March
10, 1914. [S B 306]

Approved March 9, 1918.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two 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 justice of the peace, to be known as the
civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction 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, ap-
proved March fifth, nineteen hundred and eight, as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred
and ten, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March
fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, by (1) increasing the
salary limit of said civil justice; (2) providing for interrogatories
under executions issued by said qjvil justice; (3) creating the posi-
tion of clerk to said civil justice, and (4) giving said civil justice
certain powers in matters of contempt; (5) by enlarging the juris-
diction of said civil justice in interpleader proceedings and other-
wise, approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 22. All acts, parts of acts or charter provisions, except those
of the city of Roanoke, in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.