Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-12
"OUsTER" LAW TOPIC
OF MANY MINISTERS
Preachers Generally Urge Nor,
Strict Personal Observance
OF the Sabbath.
MAY DELIVER ICE CREAM
That Is. if 1t Is Made on Some Day
Other Than Sunday-Text of Act
Of Last Session OF General AS
sembly.

Police promises of r rigid enforce
ment Of Sunday and other statutes Of
a more or less obsolete character, be-
ginning with next Sunday, were tho
topic of much debate yesterday and
were alluded to in number Of ger
mons. Ministers generally were dis
posed to urge upon their people 4 more
strict personal observance OF the Sab
bath than in recent years has been
the case. Among those who have pro-
nounced Views OH the prohibition cues
ton, however, there wcro not lacking
some who ascribed the Wholesale move
ment for drastic law enforcement to
An effort to discredit the prohibition
movement even before 1t takes effect.
AS a matter of fact, the recent SEES
sion Of the General Assembly amend
ed tho Sunday law in only one respect,
and that was to legalize the delivery
OF ice cream on Sunday IL made on
some other day than tho Sabbath. The
present situation is caused not by
new Sunday law. for the statute has
been on the books since the Acts of
1877 fpage 304. with slight revision
In 1908. The act that has caused the
commotfon was offered in the Senate
at the recent session Of the General
Assembly by Senators Mapp, Walker,
Saunders and West. and, with other
bills championed by the Anti-Saloon
League of Virginia, 1t was referred
Welfare of which Senator Mapp was
chairman.
TEXT OF ACT PASSED
AT LAST SESSION
The act as passed appears as chapter
451 OF the Acts of 1915, and provides:
That every person holding any Of
flee of trust or profit under and by
virtue Of any Of the laws of the State
OF Virginia either State. county or
IuunfCiDal. eScoDt eIIch OfIicarc ara
by tho Constitution removable only
and exclusively by methods other than
those provided by this act, who shall
knowingly or wilfully misconduct him
self In office or who shall knowingly
or wilfully neglect to perform any
duty enjoined upon said officer by any
| law of the State of Virginia, or who
shall In any public place be in a state
Of intoxication produced by ardent
spirits voluntarily taken, or who shSll
engage in any form OF gambling, or
who shall commit any act constituting
violation of any penal statute involv-
Ing moral turpitude, shall forfeit his
Office and shall be oustcd from office
in the manner hereinafter provided.
ANY person, corporation or organi-
! zation may Ale with the Circuit Court
| OF the county or Corporation or Hust-
| ings Court Of the city in which the
| officer proceeded against resides and
| holds Office "A complaint in writing.
! stating with reasonable accuracy and
! detail the grounds or reasons for the
| removal Of any officer OF whom com
! plant Is made, which complaint shall
! be sworn TO by the person or persons.
| or by some officer OF the organiza-
| ton making It."
! SAYS JUDGE SHALL TRY
| COMPLAINT PROMPTLY
| The act says that the Judge shall
! try the complaint promptly, the case
! to have precedence over all other
| cases on the docket" and shall be
! tried forthwith" and continues:
| IF upon such trial it shall appear
that the officer has failed. neglected or
refused 20 perform his duty under sec