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An Act to authorize Rail Road Companies to appoint Police Agents. 1861 62 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0766 and id is 1 raw text is: POLICE AGENTS ON RAIL ROADS.-TURNPIKES. CHAP. 44.-An ACT to authorize Rail Road Companies to appoint Police Agents. Pansed April 3, 1861. How police 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the president of agent appointed any rail road company incorporated by this state, may, with the ap- probation of the county court of any county through which the road Powers may pass, appoint a police agent or agents, who shall have authority upon the road and other property within this state, of such company, to exercise all the powers which can lawfully be exercised by any constable for the preservation of the peace, the arrest of offenders and disorderly persons, and for the enforcement of the laws against How removed crimes; and such president may remove such agents at his pleasure:. provided, that any county court giving such consent, may at any time revoke it. Powers as to 2. It shall be lawful for any such police agent, or for any person arrest of negroes in the employment of such company, to arrest any negro found on such road, or any branch thereof, or any of the cars, works or pro- perty of such company, without having the proper evidence of the right of such negro to le there; and the person making such arrest, may deliver such negro to any jailor, or carry him or her before any justice of the peace in the county or corporation in which such arrest is made, to be examined, and committed to the proper custody, or otherwise dealt with according to law. Commencement 3. This act shall be in force from its passage. CHAP. 45.-An ACT amending the act passed April 2d, 1858, concerning the Ierryville and Charlestown Turnpike. Passed April 3,1861. Act of 1858 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the second section amended of an act passed April the second, eighteen ulmdred and fifty-eight, entitled an act to provide for the payment of the purchase money of the Berryville and Charlestown turnpike, by the Board of public works, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: Superintendent § 2. The commissioners of the Board of public works may appoint of road, how appointed a superintendent of the said turnpike ; but in appointing such super- compensation intendent, the said commissioners of the Board of public works shall not allow or pay to such superintendent a larger salary per annum, or for a greater or less period of time than the superintendence of such work can be let for to the lowest bidder deemed competent; and to carry out this provision, the said commissioners of public works, in making the appointment of such superintendent, are hereby

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