Chap. 433.—An ACT to enlarge and define the power and jurisdiction of
police justices, justices of juvenile and domestic relations courts, and civil
and police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation
therefor, and to repeal an act entitled an act to enlarge and define the
power and jurisdiction of police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing
the compensation therefor, approved February 17, 1920. _ [H B 168]

Approved March 27, 1922. -

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all
police justices, justices of juvenile and domestic relations.courts, and
civil and 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 none
of the said officers shall admit to bail after any court of record having
jurisdiction 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 of said officers shall refuse to admit to bail or require
excessive bail, then application for bail may be made to the court
of record having 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.

None of said officers who receives a salary from his county or
city, except in cities of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, by
latest United States census, shall, while he is holding court or imme-
diately prior to or after holding court while he is at the place where
his court is held, charge or receive any fee for admitting any person
to bail or for any service whatever rendered by him in connection
with any criminal case; but at all other times said last above men
tioned officers may charge and receive from the person for whom such
services are rendered the same fee for admitting to bail and other
services as allowed by law to justices of the peace, except that in
admitting to bail in felony cases said fee shall be two dollars. Pro-
vided, any city or county may provide by ordinances for such bail
fees to be collected and paid into the treasurery of such city or
county.

2. An act entitled an act to enlarge and define the power and
the jurisdiction of police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing
the compensation therefor, approved February seventeenth, nineteen
hundred and twenty, is hereby repealed.