Chap. 249.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act of the general
assembly of Virginia, approved March 24, 1920, entitled an act to provide
a new charter for the town of Narrows and to repeal all other acts or parts
of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, so as to provide that said
town may have a police justice. [H B 513]

Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,.That sec-
tion three of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved
March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty, entitled an act
to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows and to repeal all
other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Sec. 3. The town shall have a sergeant, clerk, treasurer, and such
other officers as the council may deem nesessary or proper, all of
whom shall be elected or appointed by the council, and the council
shall prescribe their duties, in addition to the duties required of them
by law; fix their compensation; prescribe penalties for neglect or
violation of their duties; and determine which of them shall give
bond and fix the penalties thereof. The said town shall also have a
police justice who shall be a qualified voter in the town and shall be
elected by the qualified voters at the same time members of the town
council are elected and whose term of office shall be the same as that
of members of said council. The said police justice shall, before
entering upon the discharge of his duties, qualify in the same manner
as justices of the peace are required by law to qualify. He shall be
clothed with all the powers and authority of a justice of the peace
in all criminal matters within the corporate limits of said town
and for one mile beyond the same, and shall have concurrent juris-
diction with, and like power and authority as the mayor, in the trial
of all prosecutions, cases and controversies growing out of violations
of the by-laws and ordinances of said town.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its

passage.