Amendments

1904
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in the county of Louisa, approved February 29, 1892, as amended by an act to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in the county of Louisa, approved March 4, 1896, as amended by an act to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act approved February 29, 1892, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads in the county of Louisa, approved February 26, 1900.
An ACT to empower any corporation, its agents, conductors, or employees, operating in this State sleeping, dining, palace, parlor, chair, or compartment cars on the railroads in this State, to reject and refuse admittance to any and all persons to enter into and to ride in such sleeping, dining, palace, parlor, chair, or compartment cars, when in the discretion of such corporation, its agents and conductors, it may be advisable to do so.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 2, 1898, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to let to contract public roads of that county, and levy tax to keep the same in repair, and to amend section 3 of said act as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled “an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution.”
An ACT to amend section 3799 of the Code of Virginia respecting violations of the Sabbath so as to provide the right of appeal from judgments in such cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 29, 1871, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 12, 1903, relating to the election of municipal officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to appropriate certain sums of money from the public treasury in aid of Confederate memorial associations having in charge cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers,” approved February 8, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to prescribe the jurisdiction of the several boards of supervisors of the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Page, and Shenandoah, on and after the first day of February, 1904, in matters pertaining to county roads, toll-roads, bridges, ferries, mills, fences, stock laws and apprentices, approved May 20, 1903, and to fix the times of meeting of the boards of supervisors of said counties."
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24a of the charter of the city of Richmond, as prescribed by an act approved February 20, 1886, entitled ‘an act giving authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control roads to the Reservoir and Soldiers’ Home,’ so as to give authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control a road running east from the corporate limits along P street to Thirty-fourth street extended; thence northwardly along Thirty-fourth street extended to Oakwood avenue; thence along Oakwood avenue to Oakwood Cemetery; and to amend section 105 of the charter of the city of Richmond providing for the election of a police justice, as prescribed in an act approved July 11, 1870, amending certain sections of the city charter, so as to fix the term of office of said police justice at four years.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2698, 2700, 2702, and 2703 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to confirmation of fiduciary accounts, and the investment, payment, or distribution of money in hands of fiduciary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 95 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2981 of the Code, empowering judges of circuit and corporation courts to hear testimony and quash attachments in vacation upon reasonable notice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 131 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, approved March 5, 1900, and to repeal sections 132 and 133 thereof.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 443 of the Code of Virginia in relation to making copies of assessments and disposition of copies, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots, approved December 10, 1903, so as to provide additional time for returning assessments in cities having a population of over 50,000 by the last United States census.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 249, 253, 254, 255, 258, 259, and 260 of the Code of Virginia, and an act amendatory thereof, approved January 2, 1904, in relation to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth and board of directors of the State library, and concerning the State and certain other libraries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2935 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by the acts of 1897-’98.
An ACT to amend section 3049 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, as further amended by an act approved May 20, 1903, and by an act approved December 12, 1903, and as further amended by an act approved January 12, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2942 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how and when warrant tried and judgment given, and in relation to how a justice may associate justices with him, and whose opinion to prevail.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2689 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to resignation by fiduciary of his trust.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3711 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, so as to repeal so much thereof as applies to the county of Dinwiddie.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3340 and 3341 of the Code of Virginia so as to allow the contents of any paper which has been filed in any county, circuit, or corporation court or in the clerk’s office to be proved before a commissioner; and to authorize the judges of circuit and corporation courts to make such orders in vacation as may be necessary to secure to persons seeking to prove the contents of any will, deed, or other paper which has been filed in the clerk’s offices of said courts, or of the county courts, or recorded in a book therein, and which is lost or illegible, the benefits thereof.

1906
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2148 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1901, as amended by an act approved April 24, 1903, and by previous acts, in relation to the time for taking oysters, and to prohibit use of patent tongs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, approved the 30th day of January, 1888, as further amended by an act approved March 25, 1902, entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of South Boston, in Halifax county, Virginia, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 20, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 22 of the charter of the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in 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, approved April 2, 1902, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 15, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 50 of chapter 7 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the apportionment of representation in congress,” approved February 15, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1901 (extra session), in relation to the compensation of supervisors.
An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Emporia, Virginia.
An ACT to provide new charter for the town of Iron Gate, in the county of Alleghany.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 4. 1898, amending and re-enacting sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for a bureau of labor and industrial statistics, and defining the duties of said bureau, approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 108 of the Code of Virginia so as to authorize county, city, and district officers who are appointed to fill vacancies to qualify in the same manner as if elected by the people.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1423 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1894, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of article 4 of an act entitled “an act incorporating the town of Barton Heights, in Henrico county”
An ACT to provide for the establishment of “Virginia State school for colored deaf, dumb and blind children.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the opening, altering, changing, and working the public roads in the county of Warren, approved February 18, 1886, to provide for the working, repairing, opening, altering, changing, and building of the public roads, bridges, ferries, and landings in Warren county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved March 6, 1900, to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, or corporations to sell, barter or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with said act, so far as they apply to the said magisterial district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 175 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to where the fact of oaths have been taken are recorded.
An ACT to enable the city of Norfolk to furnish water to the Jamestown exposition company at Sewell’s Point, in Norfolk county, Virginia, by the extension of the city water mains or by leasing or purchasing a part or the whole of the property of the Norfolk county water company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 3, and section 9, chapter 3, of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 139 of the act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
An ACT to establish a State highway commission, to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commissioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 2, 1898, entitled “an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to let to contract the public roads of that county and levy a tax to keep the same in repair,” as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled “an act to authorize the governor to grant conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution”
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Section 41 of an Act Entitled 'An Act to Raise Revenue for the Support of the Government and Public Free Schools and to Pay the Interest on the Public Debt, and to Provide a Special Tax for Pensions as Authorized by Section 189 of the Constitution'
An ACT to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed forty-five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1671 of the Code of Virginia in relation to disposition of proceedings before commission, fees, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 1 of section 184 of the Code as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 2 of an act entitled ‘‘an act concerning corporations”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the charter of the city of Richmond relating to the filling of vacancies in elective offices, and to amend and re-enact section 19 and sub-sections III., V., VIII. and XI. of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond relating to the powers of the council of the city of Richmond, and to amend and re-enact section 22 of the charter of the city of Richmond relating to the making of compensation and the payment of damages for land or other property taken by the city of Richmond for its purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of assembly, approved March 12, 1904, relating to official receipts for fines.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of an act entitled act to put into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment, and organization of the ‘State corporation commission,’ its jurisdiction, powers, functions, and duties; the qualifications of the members and officers thereof, their appointment, and salaries; the location of its offices, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders, findings, and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings, and judgments, and its expenses,” etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourteenth clause of section 183 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances
An ACT to validate the acknowledgment taken by mayors and members of councils who are ex-officio justices of the peace, and whose power to take such acknowledgments has been questioned.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 18, 1903, entitled “an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Patrick.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1470 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the division of school districts and sub-districts, so as to provide for such division; for the government and administration of sub-districts; for additional school tax therein; and for appointment of school directors, providing for their terms of office, powers, duties, adoption of this act by the counties of the State, and for relief from adoption.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of an act entitled ‘“‘an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved May 15, 1903, entitled “an act to appropriate the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of the act to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in statuary hall in Washington, and to constitute a commission to contract for said statue and present the same.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the roads of said county, and to levy a tax to keep the same in proper repair,” as amended by an act approved February 29, 1894, and February 2, 1892, and acts amendatory thereof, respectively, January 22, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to amend paragraph 4, chapter X, of chapter 609, of the acts of the general assembly, sessions 1902-03-04, approved January 18, 1904, entitled “an act concerning public service corporations.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1904, entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact section 847 of the Code of Virginia,” as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and reenact sections 826, 831, 832, 834, 835, 836, 838, 840, 841, 846, 847, 849, and 850,” and to repeal section 839 of the Code, approved December 31, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections twenty, twenty-five, and twenty-seven of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas, approved March 24, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to authorize the councils of towns, villages, or where there are no such councils, the boards of supervisors of any county in which there may be any town, village, or other point in this State not having adequate police protection, to prohibit the transportation by railroad companies of excursions or picnic parties, and to make it unlawful for railroad companies to transport excursions or picnic parties to such towns, villages, or other points in this State under certain conditions
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 69 and 70 of chapter 148 of the acts of 1902-03-04, entitled “an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution,” approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved December 18, 1903.
An ACT to amend and reenact section. 2168 of the Code
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 6, and 9, and to repeal sections 8 and 12 of the act approved February 16, 1901, which is chapter 331 of the acts of the special session of 1901, concerning the roads in Montgomery county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2154 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1038 of an act entitled 'chapter 269, 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,' approved May 20, 1903.'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 631 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relative to the reimbursement of a fiduciary out of estate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a normal school at William and Mary college in connection with its collegiate course, approved March 5, 1888, and to transfer the ownership of the real estate and personal property of the said college to the State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Pulaski, in the county of Pulaski, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquor in said town, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act so far as they apply to said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to regulate and restrict the shooting and to prevent the destruction of wild fowl in the waters of Back Bay and its tributaries, in the county of Princess Anne
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Page county, and for opening new roads and changing the location of existing roads
An ACT to relieve the south and western railway company from any possible forfeiture of its charter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to who are exempt from jury service.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1035 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, with reference to the salary of mayors of towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend and combine chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, as to section 277, of said chapter, by an act approved January 15, 1890, and by an act approved January 16, 1892, and further amended by act approved May 15. 1903, and chapter 377 of the acts of assembly, extra session, 1887, entitled ‘an act to amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the public printing and binding, and defining the duties of the superintendent of public printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the acts of assembly, 1879-1880,' approved May 23, 1887, as amended, as to section ten of said act by act approved March 5, 1888, and by act approved February 5, 1892, and as amended as to section 11 of said act, by act approved February 24, 1890, and by act approved February 9, 1894, and to consolidate and re-enact the same into chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved December 31, 1903, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 273 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the superintendent of public printing, approved March 15, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 2, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 20, 1903, providing for the working and keeping in repair the roads, and the building and keeping in repair the bridges in the county of Essex, and providing what tax shall be used for keeping the same in order.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 185 of an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances,” approved February 7, 1903, as further amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact subsection 6 of section 185 of the Code of Virginia,” approved March 12, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, section 2, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 15, 1904, and sections 7, 12, 16, 18, and 20 of an act entitled ‘an act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war or by the infirmities of old age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors or marines who lost their lives in said service or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 288-299 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the superintendent of public buildings, etc., and to repeal an act approved January 30, 1900, entitled ‘an act to prescribe the duties of the register of land office, and ‘fix his salary,” approved December 14, 1903.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Botetourt county, and to repeal an act entitled 'an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt county'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30 of chapter 5, of an act entitled “an act concerning corporations,” which became a law on the 21st day of May, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1904, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia in relation to State depositories.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 85 of article VI of an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate in one act the laws relating to negotiable instruments, known as the negotiable instruments law
An ACT to repeal chapter 544 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1902-03-04, approved December 31, 1903, entitled “an act to authorize Brookland school district of Henrico county to borrow ten thousand dollars and issue bonds therefor, to be used for the erection of a school-house at Barton Heights.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437a of an act approved December 10, 1903, amending and re-enacting chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots, so that said section shall apply to and provide for the assessment of standing timber trees, and to make the same retrospective as to certain assessments.

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled: An act to put into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment and organization of the State Corporation Commission; its jurisdiction, powers, functions and duties; the qualifications of the members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its officers, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders, findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and judgments, and its expenses, etc
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia, as amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437-a of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessment of lands and lots as the same was amended and re-enacted by chapter 388 of the acts of assembly of 1902-3-4, approved December 10, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid act of assembly, approved March 17, 1906, so that said section shall apply to and provide for the assessment of standing timber trees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of the act approved March 12, 1904, relating to the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for’ building and keeping in good order and repair all roads, bridges, causeways and wharves and so forth, approved March 17, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3334 of the Code of Virginia of 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Richmond county,” approved January 22, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved May 20, 1903, as heretofore amended, entitled: An act defining the duties and powers of the board of agriculture and immigration, so as to prescribe the powers and auties of said board and said commissioner, and to repeal an act approved February 29, 1888, entitled: An act to further define the duties and enlarge the powers of the commissioner of agriculture, and an act approved March 5, 1888, entitled: An act to provide a Commissioner of Agriculture of Virginia and making an appropriation therefor and to repeal sections 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, and 1790 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act amending the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county, entitled: An act to amend the charter of the town of Norton, Wise county, approved March 29, 1902.
An ACT to prescribe the manner in which amendments to the Constitution shall be agreed to and submitted.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 121 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools; , and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, and approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 3, 1900, and in force from its passage, entitled: An act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT to authorize the supervisors of each county and the council of each city to make a special levy for the support and maintenance of maimed and disabled Confederate soldiers, or the needy and indigent widows of Confederate soldiers, in their respective counties and cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2219 of the Code of Virginia in regard to how a minister is authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage.