Amendments

1901/1902
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to legalize a certain election held by the qualified voters of Floyd county, Virginia, for the purpose of subscribing to the stock of the Mount Rogers and Eastern Railroad Company, and to empower and direct the board of supervisors of said county to subscribe to the preferred capital stock of said railroad company to the amount of $150,000, par value, upon the terms and under the conditions prescribed in the order of the county court under which the said election was held.
An ACT to amend section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Buckingham Tramroad Company, approved March 6, 1900, so as to extend the time in which said company shall commence its work.
An ACT to change the name and increase the capital stock of the Gladeville Railroad Company, in Wise county, and to amend and enlarge its charter, as incorporated by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 20, 1892, as amended by chapter 238 of the acts of the “general assembly of Virginia of 1895 and 1896, approved February 5, 1896, and as amended by chapter 299 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1899 and 1900, approved February 9, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 790 of an act entitled an act to authorize the superintendent of the penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm and erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts, approved March 5, 1900, so as to provide for board for the surgeon and his horse, and an increase in the compensation of the manager and provide board for himself and family at said farm.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Basic City, approved December 19, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the Cole of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1896, as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1896, as further amended by an act approved February 7, 1898, as further amended by an act approved January 24, 1900, and as further amended by an act approved March 6, 1900, in relation to the collection of the fees of the commissioner of the revenue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1101 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Onancock, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act approved March 20, 1877, entitled an act to incorporate the Westmoreland Club.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 1900, entitled an act to incorporate the New River, Holston and Western Railroad Company, and to ratify and amend an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 16, 1901, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 1901, entitled an act to incorporate the New River, Holston and Western Railroad Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 15 of an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Manassas, approved April 2, 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1884, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1894, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and to enact two additional sections thereto, numbered 28 and 29.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 947 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3706 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the punishment for house-breaking.
An ACT to incorporate the Manchester and Richmond Free Bridge Company, and granting certain powers to said company, and the city councils of the cities of Richmond and Manchester, for public purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 59 and 60 of an general assembly of Virginia, approved December 23, 1891, entit amending sections 58, 59, and 60 of the Code of Virginia, in relatiox apportionment of representation in the general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 5, and 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Electrical Railway and Development Company, approved February 7, 1898.
An ACT for the relief of W. R. Crockett, administrator of W. W. Hounshell, deceased, of Wythe county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2042 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of Consumers Light, Heat and Ice Company, to give it additional powers, and in relation to the stock of said company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 374 of the Code, in relation to the appointment, conduct, and organization of courts-martial and courts of inquiry.
JOINT RESOLUTION to suspend the operation of the act approved March 6, 1890, and acts amendatory thereof, entitled an act to require the payment of fees on certain charters so far as it applies to the charter of incorporation of any company that may be authorized by the general assembly for the purpose of celebrating the ter-centenary of the founding of Jamestown.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2949, chapter 140, of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the mode of collecting certain clerks’ fees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, approved February 28, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, approved February 5, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, approved February 19, 1896.
An ACT to allow School District No. 2, of Norfolk county, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 8, and 9 and to repeal section 17 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Belle Haven, in the county of Accomac, approved December 14, 1895.
An ACT to amend section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to State depositories.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3929 and 3930 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of conservator of the peace at watering place, university or college, or manufacturing plant, and prescribing his powers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and<br />re-enact section 2616 and section 2620 of an act entitled an act to revise, ar-<br />range, and consolidate into a code the general statutes of the Commonwealth,<br />approved May 16, 1887, approved 23d February, 1888, and as further amended<br />by an act approved Sth March, 1888, so as to authorize the encumbrance of the<br />lands of infants and insane persons for the purpose of improving the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the fees of the sheriff or sergeant, coroner, crier, or constable, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to authorize an increase of the capital stock of Virginia Carolina Railway Company, to authorize said company to acquire, hold, or guarantee the stocks and bonds, or either, of other corporations; to authorize an extension of its main line, and to build lateral branches; to issue bonds and secure same by deed or deeds of trust, mortgage or mortgages; to repeal section 4 of the act entitled “an act to incorporate the Abingdon Coal and Iron Railroad Company,” approved April 11, 1887, and to amend and re-enact the act entitled “an act to authorize the Virginia-Carolina Railway Company to sell or lease its railroad and franchises to, and to consolidate or merge its stock, railroad property, and franchises with, any other railroad company operating or authorized to operate, a connecting line of railroad, and to lease from any such railroad company its property, rights, and franchises,” approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT amending the charter for the town of Bond Town, in Wise
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the reinstatement of a cause after final decree, to appoint a commissioner in the stead of one who has died or become otherwise incapacitated to make the conveyance
An ACT to authorize and provide for a special election in the Dublin magisterial district, of Pulaski county, as to the purchase by the board of supervisors of said county of a one-third interest in the bridge across New river at the city of Radford
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 1, 1884, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 23, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1900, so as to allow foremen, quartermen, ete.
An ACT to amend sections 3 and 9 of chapter 53 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, extra session 1901, entitled a “bill to incorporate the Mount Rogers and Eastern Railroad Company, to grant said corporation certain privileges, and authorize the counties through which said road may be constructed to aid the construction thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 8 of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 1, 1901
An ACT to amend the charter of Birchfield Coal and Coke Company, and change its name to Stonegap Colliery Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2900 of the Code of Virginia, relating to damages from violation of a statute, so as to provide what form of action may be brought, and to provide that such damages and the penalty for violation of the statute may be recovered in one and the same action in certain cases.
An ACT to prevent the shipping, transportation, or sale of partridges, quail, rabbits, hares, pheasants, ruffed grouse, wild turkeys, or squirrels killed, captured, or obtained in the county of Clarke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1900, titled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and macadamize the roads in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question.
An ACT to invest the manager or other person in charge of the property of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities at James-
An ACT to refund to Tazewell Ellett $1,500 erroneously paid into the treasury.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of South Boston, in Halifax county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘“‘an act to authorize School District No. 4, in Elizabeth City county, to borrow money,” ete.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to prohibit hogs from running at large in the county of Rappahannock.
An ACT to incorporate Norfolk-Hampton Roads Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax, approved January 14, 1879, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend sections 6, 7, and 9 of chapter 28 of acts of assembly for the session of 1878-9, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in Fairfax county, approved March 4, 1890; and to amend and re-enact section 7 of said act amended as aforesaid, and as further amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 14, 1879, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 3, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘an act to incorporate the Children’s Home Society of Virginia,
An ACT for the relief of A. G. L. Van Lear, M. D., a disabled Confederate soldier, from payment of license tax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act incorporating the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, and to provide for the support of the same
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 24, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 17, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7, 17, and 18 of an act approved February 20, 1892, entitled an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia not funded, etc.

1901es
An ACT to amend section 848 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the compensation of supervisors, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 26, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 13, 1697, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 17, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 6, 1900, fixing the per diem and mileage of supervisors in certain counties of the State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45, 49, 50, 52, and 53 of an act in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, in relation to the lien of the city for taxes assessed on real estate, and to the sale thereof for non-payment of taxes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act for working and keeping in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy of taxes for that purpose
An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Farmville magisterial district, Prince Edward county, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said magisterial district.
An ACT to amend the charter for the town of Front Royal.
An ACT to amend section 882 of the code in relation to pay of Overseers of the poor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 1, of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved Fepruary 29, 1892, being an act to provide a new charter for the town cf Graham, in the county of Tazewell, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 1, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to create the board of fisheries, define its duties and fix the salaries of its members
An ACT to incorporate the farmer’s mutual fire insurance company.
An ACT to amend sections 1, 5, and 6 of the charter of the American development company of the United States, approved January 29, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to repeal subdivision 9 of section 19, chapter 3 of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 8, 1894, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood in Dickenson county.
An ACT to vest title of Cedar Grove Baptist church of Russell county, in A. D. Vermillion, G. L. Jessee, and D. C. Alderson, trustees, and their successors in office to hold for the benefit of the Missionary Baptist congregation who worship there.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2148 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 743 of the acts of 1893 and 94, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, and the independent sections 3, 5, 8, and 10, and to repeal section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, and 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2145, 2147 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to define who are officers and employees of cities, towns, and counties
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act entitled an act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield and to grant a new charter to the said town, which took effect February 17, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to increase
An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Boydton, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, and within one mile of the corporate limits of the said town, to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter or exchange such liquors in said town, and within one mile of the corporate limits thereof, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said town, and the country within one mile of its corporate limits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 17 as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7, 17, and 18 of an act approved February 20, 1892, entitled an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia not funded, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 48 of an act approved March 5, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to define the corporate limits and charter for the city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 7, 1835, providing a charter for the town of Bridgewater, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1884, and as amended by an act approved August 26, 1884, and all other acts amendatory thereof on condition.
An ACT to allow Charles B. Godwin to erect a wharf on the Nansemond river, in Nansemond county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Appomattox banking and trust company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2136 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2136 of the Code of Virginia as to right of owners in any creek, etc., within his survey
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act to authorize the council of the city of Fredericksburg to apportion the expenses of street and other local improvements between the city treasury and the real estate benefited thereby
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the fourth sub-division of section 834 of the Code or Virginia as amended and re-enacted by acts approved March 3, 1898, and January 11, 1900, so as to increase the compensation of the commonwealth’s attorney of Russell county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2168 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the disposition of fines.
An ACT to incorporate the sportsmen protective association of Roanoke, Va.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 27, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 28, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 17, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1900, in relation to deeds of trust and other incumbrances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 554 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia 1899-1900 entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 65 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick,” approved February 27, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incor-porate the Fredericksburg and Rappahannock railway company
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to require railroad companies to provide separate cars for white and colored passengers, approved January 30, 1900, relating to the persons to whom the act shall not apply.
An ACT to create a retired list of Virginia volunteers and to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 3, 1892, entitled an act to place on the retired list members of Virginia volunteers who have served ten years.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 9, 1898, entitled an act to incorporate the Union Indemnity League.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of all kinds of cider in Concord precinct, Campbell county, except apple cider, without liquor license, and to prescribe the penalty therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair, opening and discontinuing the public roads in the county of Brunswick, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in said county
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved February 2, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 32, chapter 1, of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and on license to transact business, and in paying 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, or malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required, approved March 6, 1890, relating to sale by peddlers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 3, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the salary of the police justice of the city of Norfolk, approved February 18, 1896,” and also in relation to the said police justice and to the clerk of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk in connection with fines imposed by said police justice.

1902/1903
An ACT to regulate the professional nursing of the sick in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 73, Code of 1887, relating to general provisions as to colleges and academies and other institutions, of the Miller Manual Labor School and the Medical College of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 'an act requiring educational institutions receiving State appropriations to make annual reports to the board of education,' approved January 12, 1888, and an act entitled 'an act to provide for the expenses of the boards of visitors of the institutions of learning,' approved March 4, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the governor to grant a conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution
An ACT to amend and reenact sections 242. 243, 244, 245, 246, 250, 252, and 267 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act approved July 28, 1902, in relation to who liable to serve as jurors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887) in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled “an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, and as to when bills, notes, etc., otherwise presentable on any such holidays are to be presentable, as amended and re-enacted by acts of the general assembly approved February 28, 1890, February 5, 1892, February 19, 1896, and April 2, 1902, and to establish the entire day of every Saturday as a public holiday and a non-secular and non-business day as regards negotiable instruments, and to relieve all persons of the duty of presenting, protesting, collecting, or giving notice of the non-acceptance, non-payment, or dishonor of any instrument whatever made after this act shall take effect on any publie holiday, Saturday or Sunday, but permitting all such notices to be given on said days.
An ACT concerning corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1101 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4110, 4113, 4114, 4115, 4143, 4154, 4155, 4156, 4157, 4168, 4172, 4173 of the Code of Virginia, and section: 4123, 4124, 4159, 4162, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4123, 4124, 4152, 4159, 4160, 4161, 4162, 4163, 4164, 4167, and 4173 of chapter 202, Code of Virginia, in relation to rules governing the management of the penitentiary, approved February 19, 1892, and section: 4133, 4160, and 4167, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4130, 4132, 4133, and 4136 of the Code of Virginia and sections 4137 and 4138 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, and sections 4160 and 4167 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, relating to rules governing the penitentiary, approved March 18, 1892, of title 55 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the organization, government, and discipline of the penitentiary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, and corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said district.