(Special to The Times-Dispatch.)
PISTERSBURG, VA., August?At the meeting of the Common Council last night, the City Treasurer reported a balance in hand of $630,110, and the Auditor reported expenditures during the month of July of $5,852. Resides, disposing of the usual routine business, several matters of interest were passed upon.
A request from the Board of Supervisors of Prince George County asking that the city's appropriation of $525,000 be deposited with the city's attorney was referred to the Committee. The Council was informed that the ordinance regulating Police Court hours, recently passed, was unconstitutional and had been illegally enacted. The ordinance provides for two daily sessions of the Police Court, and was laid to be unconstitutional in that the police justice is a State officer, under the sole control of the State law, and not of the city government. The State law allows him to hold as many sessions of his court as may be necessary. The ordinance was illegally passed in that it was introduced in the Council, concurred in by the Board of Aldermen, vetoed by the Mayor and brought back to the Aldermen and passed over the veto, whereas it should have been brought back to the Council.  In which body it originated. 