Chap. 375.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 6 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, enti-
tled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved
March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chap-
ter 9, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election
or appointment and qualification, describing his powers, duties, jurisdic-
tion, term of office and compensation, and repealing section 7 of chapter
2 of said charter, approved March 12, 1912. [S B 365]

Approved March 16, 1918.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act
to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new
charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March tenth, nine-
teen hundred and eight, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be
known as chapter nine, in relation to a civil and police justice,
providing for his election or appointment and ualifications, de-
scribing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and com-
pensation, and repealing section seven of chapter two of said city
charter, approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and twelve,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6. Daily sessions; exceptions; substitute-——The court
of justice shall be open for the transaction of business every day
in the year except Sundays and legal holidays. The judge of the
court of hustings for the city of Portsmouth shall, by proper order
of record, appoint as substitute civil and police justice a person with
like qualifications as said civil and police justice. The said sub-
stitute civil and police justice shall sit for the civil and police jus-
tice in the event of the inability of the said civil and police justice
to perform the duties of his office by reason of sickness, absence,
interest in the claim, or parties, or otherwise; such substitute civil
and police justice shall perform the duties of the office during such
absence or disability, and shall receive compensation for his ser-
vices at the rate of not less than five dollars per day, the account
for such services to be approved by the court of hustings for the
city of Portsmouth. While acting as such, either the civil and
police justice or the substitute civil and police justice may issue
executions upon, grant new trials, hear motions, and perform other
acts in reference to the judgments and proceedings of the other
in the same manner as if they were his own.