Chap. 66.—An ACT to enlarge and define the power and the jurisdiction of
police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation

therefor: {S B 79]
Approved February 17, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all
police justices, whether elected or appointed under general law or city
charter, shall have the power and jurisdiction within their respective
cities or. counties to admit to bail, upon recognizance with surety,
persons charged with crime in all cases where courts of record or the
judges thereof are authorized to admit to bail; but no police justice
shall admit any person to bail after any court of record having juris-
diction to admit to bail in the case, or the judge thereof, has acted upon
the application or pending proceedings before said court or judge to
obtain bail.

If any police justice shall refuse to admit to bail or require excessive
bail, then application for bail may be made to the court of record hav-
ing jurisdiction to bail in the case, or to the judge thereof, and the
same proceedings may be had as if application had been made in the
first instance to said court or judge. i

The police justice shall receive the same fee for admitting persons
to bail as allowed by law to the bail commissioners of the several
counties, the same to be paid by the person at whose instance the ser-
vices are performed.