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Amendments

1916
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3906 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts twice before sentenced in the United States to confinement in the penitentiary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled 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 approved March 4, 1896, and an act amendatory thereof approved February 14, 1901, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code, providing for the recovery by motions, after fifteen days’ notice on contracts to recover money or to recover damages; when notice to be returned to the clerk’s office; provisions to prevent discontinuance of motion, approved March 14, 1912, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, approved February 27, 1914.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 526 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by act approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 526 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of the same, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and to repeal an act entitled an act to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of same, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, approved March 14, 1910, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 32 of the Constitution of Virginia and providing for publishing the said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 16, 22, 35, 60 and 63 of an act approved March 14, 1906, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, 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, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887, April 28, 1887, May 14, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21, 1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887, February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2911 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to judgment in detinue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3591 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-division 25 of an act entitled an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide fire escapes from buildings of over three stories
An Act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1912, entitled an act to establish on the farm of the Virginia State epileptic colony, the Virginia colony for the feeble-minded, and to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4051 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in regard to suspending sentence, or execution thereof, and to provide for bail pending suspension of sentence, or execution thereof, after conviction, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1910, and to provide for bail after writ of error has been granted to a convicted person pending such writ of error and appeal.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2674 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the return of accounts of sales by tH Bai
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 38, 39 and 53 of an act approved March 14, 1906, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 20, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3182 of the Sar of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1906, entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried, to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary, for the commission of felony, as heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, made by the act approved February 29, 1912, chapter 59, acts of assembly, session 1912, pages 101 and 102.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3561 of the Code of Virginia as amended heretofore.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 27, 36, 41, 45, 46 and 47 of an act approved March 12, 1908, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 27, 34, 36, 41, 45, 46, and 47 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled, an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, 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, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887, April 28, 1887, May 14, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21, 1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, and March 15, 1902, and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk as extended by the several acts of the general assembly and approved April 6, 1887, February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county which was entered on the 9th day of January. 1906, and add an independent section thereto to be known as section 33-a; and to repeal an independent section of said act known as section 33-a.
An ACT to amend section 6 of an act approved January 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3793 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to buggery and kindred crimes and punishment therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a change in the form of government of cities having a population of less than 100,000, and of towns, and to provide in what manner such cities and towns may adopt such form of government
An ACT requiring sheriffs and sergeants to keep a record of persons confined in jails; stating what said record shall contain; requiring reports to be made to the State board of charities and corrections; prescribing penalty.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 36 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto.
An ACT to prevent the buying and selling of the “Ss es
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond so as to amend and re-enact sections 9, 11, 12, 13, 28, 30-a, 30-c, 30-d, 30-h, 37, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92 as the same or any of them may have been heretofore amended, and so as to add to the said charter certain sections to be known as 13-a, 13-b, 18-a and 18-b, and to repeal sections 24-a, 24-b, 66-a, 66-b, 66-c, 66-d, and 66-e, as the same or any of them may have been heretofore amended.
An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act Approved March 17, 1915, Entitled an Act to Create a State Advisory Board on Taxation and County and City Boards of Review of Assessments; to Define the Powers and Duties of Such Board; to Fix the Compensation of Their Members and to Appropriate Money to Carry Out the Provisions of This Act; to Provide for the Review of Reports of Purchases by Merchants and the Review of the Annual Returns and Assessments of Intangible Personal Property, Income and Money, by Certain Officials and Fixing Their Compensation Therefor and to Provide Penalties for the Violation of This Act, and to Repeal an Act Entitled An Act to Create a State Advisory Board on Taxation and County and City Boards of Review of Assessments to Define the Powers and Duties of Such Boards; to Fix the Compensation of Their Members and to Appropriate Money to Carry Out the Provisions of This Act: to Provide for the Review of Assessments on Intangible Personal Property, Income and Money by Certain Officials, and Fixing Their Compensation Therefor and to Provide Penalties for the Violation of This Act, Approved February 16, 1915. And to Change the Name of the State Advisory Board to the State Tax Board and to Appropriate Money to Carry Out the Provisions of This Act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2678 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the exhibit of the accounts of fiduciaries for settlement.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4130 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for the removal of persons holding any office of trust or profit under and by virtue of any of the laws of the State of Virginia, either State, county or municipal, except such officers as are by the Constitution removable only and exclusively by methods other than those provided by this act, who shall knowingly or wilfully misconduct himself in office, or who shall knowingly or wilfully neglect to perform any duty enjoined upon such 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 shall engage in any form of gambling or who shall commit any act constituting a violation of any penal statute involving moral turpitude; and providing a procedure therefor; and for the appearance of the commissioner of prohibition, or some one representing his office, in certain cases arising hereunder.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to create a commission to consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constables and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commissioner to fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 5, 1915, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 443 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the returns to be made by land assessors and the penalty for their failure to comply with the requirements of the law as amended by act approved March 17, 1906, and by an act approved March 13, 1908, so as to provide for an extension of time.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town, now city, of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, approved May 23, 1887, by adding thereto section 18, authorizing the council of said city to prescribe by ordinance the limits within which no buildings shall be constructed except of brick, stone or other incombustible material, with fire proof roof; and to impose a penalty for violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 25, 1914, providing for the opening, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Caroline county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3905 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary once before sentenced in the United States to a like punishment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section F of section 3059 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and also to amend and re-enact section 3059 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, 3067, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060 and 3062 of the Code, as heretofore amended, and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, as to the times for holding regular terms of the courts in the several circuits and giving jurisdiction to courts during recess, whether adjourned for the purpose of opening or holding another term, or part or portion there or otherwise, which the judges of the circuit courts now have in vacation, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1912, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 27, 1914, relating to the terms of the circuit court for the sixth circuit.
An ACT to amend section 5 of an act entitled an act to prevent deception in the sale of ice cream and to establish standards for the same; defining condensed milk and providing for its sale
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 508 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, and to appropriate sums collected hereunder for the payment of pensions and for the support of the public free schools of the primary and grammar grades.
An ACT to provide for the settlement, registration, transfer, and assurance of titles to land, and to establish courts of land registration, with jurisdiction for said purposes, and to make uniform the laws of the States enacting the same.
An ACT declaring abandoned so much of the Winchester and Berry’s ferry turnpike as lies within the county of Frederick; and providing that the Winchester and Berry’s ferry turnpike company shall continue to enjoy all of its rights and privileges under its charter to so much of its said road as lies within the county of Clarke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1871, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Strasburg, in Shenandoah county, approved March 19, 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 460, 486, 496, 511, 520, 548, 568, 564, 603 and 604 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1901, in regard to releases on the margin of record books by clerks of courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 50 of an act 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, 1908, and acts amendatory thereof, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1914.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 6 of an act to provide a better assessment of personal property under the control of the fiduciaries and the several courts of the Commonwealth
Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to section 117 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond so as to amend and re-enact sections 93-a and 93-b as the same have been heretofore amended, concerning the terms of the members of the board of fire commissioners and the number necessary to constitute a quorum thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, approved March 12, 1912. (H. B. 278.)
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 614 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2466 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the recordation of certain writings.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved March 138, 1912, chapter 178 of acts of 1912, entitled an act concerning coal mines and safety of employees, creating a department and inspector of mines under the bureau of labor and industrial statistics.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1407 of the Code of Virginia relating to conveyance of land to benevolent associations, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth article of section one hundred and eighty-three (183) of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December eighteen (18), nineteen hundred and three (1908), entitled an act to amend and re-enact the fourth article 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, approved February 7, 1903.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 50 of article IV. of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter X of an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, 11, 24, 54, 56, 60, and 61 and to repeal 62 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896, as amended, and to provide for the adoption by the qualified voters of the change in form of government and for a special primary election for mayor and councilmen.
An ACT to repeal section 10 of chapter 2 and to amend and re-enact section 53 of chapter 2 and section 12 of chapter 5 of an act entitled an act concerning the bureau of insurance, approved March 9, 1906, as subsequently amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to make the unauthorized use of automobiles or motor vehicles a misdemeanor, approved March 14, 1912, and providing punishment therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1408 of the Code of Virginia relating to quantity of land benevolent associations may hold.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to create Ettrick sub-school district in Matoaca district of Chesterfield county
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 20, 1896, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county, approved March 5, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 11, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1914.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 833-a of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 833 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 11, 1908, and other acts in relation to the powers and duties of the board of supervisors at annual meetings, by changing the body of said section, and by amendment in addition to the new section designated as section 833-a, which shall prescribe the powers and duties of boards of supervisors in relation to county and school levies, approved March 11, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1914, and as further amended by an act approved March 17, 1915.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 10, 35 and 86 of an act approved March 17, 1910, entitled an act to revise, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams crabs and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3286 of the Code of Virginia, providing when, in an action of assumpsit, no plea to be received, or inquiry of damages made unless defendant file with plea affidavit denying plaintiff’s claim, but judgment given therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Buckingham, and to levy a capitation tax in connection therewith
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide for the Working of Certain Long Term or Desperate Convicts by the Superintendent of the Penitentiary, the Governor and the Commissioner of Agriculture, for the Manufacture of Ground Limestone and Oyster Shells, and Incidentally for the Disposition of Same, and the By-Products Suitable for Road Construction, to the Citizens of the State, Adding the Manufacture of Ground Marl.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 89 of an act entitled an act to provide for the settlement, registration, transfer, and assurance of titles to land, and to establish courts of land registration, with jurisdiction for said purposes, and to make uniform the laws of the States enacting the same
An ACT to amend section 7 of an act entitled an act to prevent the manufacture or sale of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous or deleterious foods or liquors and to repeal an act to prevent the sale of adulterated and misbranded foods in the State of Virginia
An ACT to enjoin and abate houses of lewdness, assignation, and prostitution; to declare the same to be nuisances; to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner or agent of any building used for such purpose.
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, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3526 of the Code of Virginia in relation to fees of attorneys for the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1912, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 34 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 27, 34, 36, 41, 45, 46 and 47 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, 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, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved respectively, April 6, 1887; April 28, 1887; May 14, 1887; February 14, 1900; February 21, 1900; February 26, 1900; February 2, 1901; February 15, 1901; and March 15, 1902, and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly and approved April 6, 1887; February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by order of the circuit court of Norfolk county which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906, and add an independent section thereto to be known as section 33-a.
An ACT to amend section 5 of the charter of the town of Falls Church, in the counties of Fairfax and Alexandria.
An Act to authorize the several magisterial districts of Accomac county to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of building, improving, and maintaining the public roads of said districts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act requiring the several county and district school boards of Virginia to make and publish annually a statement of receipts and disbursements, amErOTGing a penalty for failure to do so
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1898, entitled, an act to create the board of fisheries of Virginia, and define its duties and fix the salary of its members, as amended by acts approved February 21, 1900, February 15, 1901, and Mareh 12, 1908, respectively, so as to change the position of secretary of the commission of fisheries to that of shellfish commissioner, to define the duties and powers of the commission, to fix salaries and provide a fund for carrying out the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3560 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2817 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interest on money.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond, so as to amend and re-enact section 106 as the same has been heretofore amended, concerning the election, qualification and duties of justices of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act in relation to the government of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the Commonwealth for the caring for such minors
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1912, entitled an act to consolidate into one act, all acts relating to Confederate pensions, and to repeal all acts, and parts of acts, in conflict herewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to create a commission to consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constable, and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commissioner to fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 3 of an act concerning corporations which became a law May 21, 1903, relating to the decrease of the outstanding stock of corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 7 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2538, extra session 1902-3-4, of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act providing for the working, opening and keeping in repair the roads in Cumberland county
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 8, 11, 12 and 14 of an 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 ah 17,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 923 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of notaries public.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3799 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended and re-enacted in relation to violation of the Sabbath; how punished, and providing that the delivery of ice cream on the Sabbath day, where said ice cream has been manufactured on some day other than the Sabbath day shall be construed to be a work of necessity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend an act ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within this State and authorizing the acquisition thereof, approved March 14, 1912, by stating and declaring more clearly the meaning of the term “purchase,” as used
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 2 of an act concerning corporations which became a law May 21, 1903, relating to the decrease of the outstanding stock of corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor for the improvement of public roads
1918
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 185 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary, for the commission of felony, as heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, as amended by acts approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the incorporation by the courts of towns of more than two hundred and less than five thousand inhabitants, and conferring upon said towns, when incorporated, certain powers of taxation, approved March 14, 1908, in order to provide for the repeal of charters of towns.
A RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 117 of article S of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly.