Amendments

1897/1898
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2823 of chapter 150 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 23, 1806, In relation to Interest.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2476 of the code of Virginia in relation to perfection of mechanics’ lien record, and notice of lien, as amended by an act approved January 16, 1806, and as further amended by an act approved March 5, 1896, and to amend and re-enact section 2477 of the code of Virginia in relation to the perfection of lien by sub-contractors and extent. of liens, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1894, and as further amended by an act approved March 5, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 812 of the code of Virginia in regard to the superintendent of the poor of Lee county, so as to include Hanover county, and also the county of Northampton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the time for the completion of the Virginia Western coal and iron railroad company, approved March 4, 1806, so as to change the name to the Virginia Carolina railway Company.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 1 and 2 of article seven of the constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 606 of the code of Virginia in reference to the form of list and oath to be made by the treasurer in returning lists of uncollected taxes and delinquent.
An ACT to authorize the governor to appoint a beard of commission-ers forthe prumotion of the uniformity of legislation in the United States.
An ACT to amend the road law in the county of Buckingham.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4107 of the code of Virginia in relation to the right of appeal to court from the judgments of police justices and justices of the peace in criminal cases, to provide for the disposition of the accused unless let to bail; the issue of a new warrant or the amendment of the original warrant by the county, corporation or hustings court, and to fix the rule of procedure on these Warrants in the said county, hustings or corporation court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 494, 496, 497 and 498 of chapter 24 of the code of Virginia relating to the assessment and valuation of personal property.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to strike from the constitution the second clause of article ten and providing for publishing and certifying the same to the next general assembly of Virginia.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Gordonsville.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3430 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to payment of money into treasury when deposited in banks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2671 of the code of Virginia in relation to commissioners of accounts, their appointments and duties.
An ACT for the relief of Martha Willams, of Hanover county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1453 of the code of Virginia in regard to school trustees, their number and term of office in the county of Craig.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 817 of the code of Virginia providing for oaths to be taken by the deputies of certain city and county officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twelve of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Ashland
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved December 20, 1895, entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Cape Charles, in the county of Northampton
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1767, of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1767 and 1774 as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 18.4, reluting to the practice of dentistry
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 3581 of the code of Virginia in relation to fieri facias on judgment for money; what writs may not issue; and when writ of distringas may issue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 286 of the acts of assembly of 1895-’96, entitled an act for the protection of laboring men who are householders against being deprived of the exemption to which they are entitled under section 3052 of the code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved March 5, 1888, for the preservation of oysters, and to obtain revenue for the privilege of taking oysters from the waters of the commonwealth, and to amend and re-enact section 2148 of an act approved March 6, 1804, in relation to oysters and to add independent sections.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1245 of the code of Virginia allowing the qualified voters of Floyd county to vote a subscription to the Blue Ridge railway company.
An ACT for relief of Thomas H. Durham, a needy Confederate soldier of Essex county.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 11, 1896, entitled 'An Act to amend and re-enact section S12 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in regard to the superintendent of the poor of Lee county,’ so as to include Hanover county.
An act to amend and re-enact section 814 of the code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 4, 1896, prescribing the penalties of bonds of county officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act approved February 18, 1887, relating to the incorporation of the town of Rocky Mount, so as to enlarge the powers of the council of said town, and prescribe the circumstances under which an appeal may be taken by a party convicted of a breach of any ordinance passed by the said council in the exercise of its power
An ACT for the relief of the Orange and Keysville railroad company.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the code of Virginia in relation to satisfaction of lien to be entered by creditor; how signed; how owner of real estate may have lien released
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35, chapter 4, and section 40 of chapter 5, of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville, approved February 26, 1886.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25 of an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and income, and on licenses to transact business, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required’
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3527 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section $927 of the code of Virginia, in relation to payment of fees to officers out of the treasury in criminal cases
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2674 of the code of Virginia providing for the returns of accounts of sales of fiduciaries, their duty and penalty on trustees for failure to make returns of sale.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the collection of fees of the commissioner of the revenue
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act, approved February 20th, 1802, entitled an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia, not funded under the provisions of an act, entitled an act to ascertain and declare Virginia’s equitable share of the debt created before and actually existing at the time of the partition of her territory and resources, and to provide for the issuance of bonds covering the same and the regular and prompt payment of interest thereon, approved February 14, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate and license pawnbrokers, and to regulate junk dealers and dealers in second hand personal property, approved March 4, 1896, by adding thereto a section requiring pawnbrokers’ places of business to be closed during certain hours, and a section making the displaying of the ordinary sign of a pawnbroker prima facie evidence of guilt in any prosecution
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to compensate Justices of the peace of the city of Norfolk for acknowledgment of bail in certain cases
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter three hundred and thirty-nine of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1889-'90, entitled an act to incorporate the Baptist orphanage of Virginia, approved February 24, 1890, as amended by chapter 108 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1893-94, approved January 30, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 717 and 718 of the code of Virginia relating to fines and costs before justices of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a method for a better assessment of personal property under the control of fiduciaries and the several courts of the commonwealth
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the code of Virginia in relation to fees of the sheriff, sergeant, coroner, crier, or constable.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 730 of the code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 92 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia of 1803-'94 entitled ‘An act to Incorporate the American mutual benefit society,’ approved January, 1804, by changing its name to the Mutual benefit fraternity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 598 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 3, 184, entitled an act in relation to working and keeping In repair the roads and bridges of Alexandria county, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1896.
An ACT to regulate the sale of cider in Montgomery county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 366 of the code of Virginia in relation to the term of enlistment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section six of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 573, acts of 1891-’92, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, and to amend and re-enact chapter 494, acts of 1895-’96, entitled an act to amend the 3d, 15th and 19th sections, and to repeal and re-enact sections 14 and 17 of an act passed March 2, 1892, entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, approved January, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 569 of the code of Virginia in relation to treasurers restrained from collecting; how money refunded.
An Act to require a record of money under control of courts and to provide for the assessment and payment of taxes thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth subdivision of section S34, code of Virginia
An ACT to incorporate the town of Buchanan, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the towns of Buchanan and Pattonsburg, in the county of Botetourt, under the name of the town of Buchanan, approved January 19, 1882. and acts amendatory thereof, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to enlarge the powers of the town of Buchanan, in the county of Botetourt, approved March 3, 1800, approved February 25, 18u2.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 102 of the code of 1887, when officers to enter upon their duties in relation to the beginning of the term of superintendent of the poor in Nelson county.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Newport News shipbuilding and dry dock company by amending and re-enacting section 4 of chapter 51, acts of assembly, 1885-1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Chesapeake dry dock and construction company, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2033 of the code of Virginia as to limitation of suits
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2935 of the code of Virginia in relation of proceedings to enforce deeds of trust, mortgages and vendors’ liens.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Washington, in the county of Rappahannock, approved February 12, 1894, with license to sell liquor in said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section eighty-seven of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and on licenses to transact business, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required
An ACT to amend sections 19 and 21 of chapter 615 of the acts of 1893-’94, approved March 3, 1894, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Crewe, in the county of Nottoway.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1894, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Nelson county as amended by an act approved February 26, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "An act to incorporate Chatham Female Episcopal institute," so as to change the name of said institute and define and establish its powers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Neaboard and Western railroad company, approved February 10, 1894, and to amend and re-enact section 11 of said act as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Seaboard and Western railroad company, approved February 10, 1894; approved January 11, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 35d section of the charter of the city of Alexandria
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 848 of chapter 36 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the compensation of supervisors, approved March 5, 1894, and by an act entitled an act in reference to compensation of supervisors of Lee county, Virginia, approved February 14, 1896.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 101 of the acts of assembly of 1895-’6, entitled an act to incorporate the Mary F. Ballentine home for the aged, approved January 21, 1896, so as to change and extend the localities and individuals from which the inmates of said home may be selected.
An ACT to prohibit hogs running at large upon the streets or roads within certain prescribed limits at Accomac Courthouse, county of Accomac
An ACT to amend an act to provide for a Normal school in the Virginia Normal and collegiate institute, approved May 21, 1857.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3419 of the code of Virginia
An ACT for the relief of Jacob Fisher, a wounded Confederate soldier.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in order all the public roads and bridges in the county of Hanover, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of a road commissioner in each magisterial district in Hanover county, and to define his duties and powers, approved February 25, 1802, and to repeal all acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 4, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 161, session 1891-1892, for the protection of terrapins.
An ACT providing for the relief of H. J. Swindall, Fd. Tall, and John Hall, administrators of John Branham, deceased, all of Wise county of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2838 of chapter 132 of the code of Virginia, relating to dealings with students and gaming.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of the charter of the town of Richlands
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor
An ACT to change and amend charter of the Farmers’ mutual benefit assuciation.
An ACT amending creek laws in Charlotte county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Richmond eye, ear and throat dispensary and infirmary.
An ACT for relief of F. M. Price
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3585 of the code of Virginia in relation to killing trees near highways, injuring bridges, obstructing roads, and riding or driving animals or vehicles on sidewalks, &c.; how punished.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'An act to provide for the working of the roads in the county of Washington'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of article 1 and section 7 of article 4 of an act entitled 'an act incorporating the town of Barton Heights, in Henrico county'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2872 of the code of Virginia, when capital not to be withdrawn on dividend made.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3798 of the code of Virginia, prohibiting profane swearing and drunkenness.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 3 of section 833 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the powers and duties of the board of supervisors of each county at their annual meeting.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections of the charter of the city of Richmond
An ACT for the protection of game and song-birds in the counties of Amelia and Nottoway.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county.
An ACT for relief of J.D. Harvey, a one-legged Confederate soldier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled ‘‘An act to authorize the district school boards in the county of Rockingham to use district school funds for the payment of teachers’’
An ACT to amend and re-enact independent sections 5 and 8 of act of the general assembly of Virginia in relation to oysters
An ACT to amend and re-enact section seven of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Potomac river power company, approved January 21, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 27 and 28 of chapter 577 of the acts of the assembly of Virginia 1895-96 entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Waynesboro.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 666 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1894, in relation to delinquent lands purchased in the name of the auditor.
An ACT to incorporate the trustees of the Joseph H. Sands division, No. 401, of the Grand international brotherhood of locomotive engineers.
An ACT to exempt those engaged in the publication of newspapers from being required to obtain a license fur the privilege or right of printing or publishing the same in the cities, towns and counties in this state.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2945 and 2919 of the code relating to warrants for small claims.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of the charter of the town of Hampton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2 in relation to the mayor; sections 6 and 7 of chapter 3 in relation to the common council; sections 2, 8, 9 and 10 of chapter 4 in relation to finance; section 11 of chapter 5 in relation to the city officers; and to add an independent section, in relation to omitted assessments, to said chapter of an act entitled, ‘‘An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg,” approved March 11, 1875, as amended by an act approved April 4, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 923 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 923 of the code of Virginia, in regard to the appointment and qualification of notaries public.