Budget

1924
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to anticipate by counties or otherwise the construction of the State highway system
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to issue bonds or other obligations of said county on behalf of Gladeville magisterial district thereof for a sum not exceeding $50,000, for the purpose of providing funds to be loaned the State highway commission of Virginia, to be used in the construction of that section of road in the State highway system extending 1.6 miles westwardly from the town of Norton in said district; and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof at maturity; and to authorize the State highway commission of Virginia to borrow said funds to finance the work aforesaid and to repay the same to said board of supervisors as funds are available
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 the contract of the roads of said county, and levy a tax to keep the same in said repair, as amended by an act approved February 29, 1892, and February 2, 1894, and acts amendatory thereto, respectively January 22, 1898, March 7, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, and as amended by an act approved March 15, 1910, and further amended by an act approved March 24, 1920, and further amended by an act approved March 24, 1922, and the purchase road machinery, implements, tools, and so-forth, pay of supervisors, clerk and duties of each, prescribing penalties and so-forth, and to repeal all special acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to borrow not over $30,000.00 on behalf of Jefferson magisterial district therein and to issue bonds of the county therefor, any sum so borrowed to be advanced to the State for the construction of a highway from Albee to Warrenton in said county, if such highway be included in the State highway system.
An ACT to provide how the incorporation of towns in Fauquier county heretofore incorporated by a court may be annulled.
An ACT to create boards of finance in and for the counties of Tazewell, Dickenson and Wise, State of Virginia, and to prescribe their powers and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2726 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 10, 1920, entitled an act to amend section 2726 of the Code of Virginia, and as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 77 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, approved March 3, 1892, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize and provide for a voluntary inspection service for agricultural products; to constitute certificates issued under this act or under authority of the Congress of the United States prima facie evidence in courts of this Commonwealth; and to repeal section 1471 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1920.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to issue bonds, or other obligations of said county, on behalf of Lipps magisterial district thereof, for the purpose of financing the construction of certain sections of the State highway system in the said district; to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said bonds at maturity; and to authorize the State highway commission of Virginia to borrow said funds, without interest, from the board of supervisors of Wise county, to finance the said work, and to repay the same to said board of supervisors as the funds therefor are available and are apportioned.
An ACT to amend ana re-enact section 6 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, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to provide for the investigation and means for the development of the water power, industrial and agricultural interests and resources of the State, to authorize surveys and to provide for the appointment of a water power and development commission, and to appropriate money to Oat B S90 Sol the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2698 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Page county to issue time warrants for a sum not exceeding $10,000, and to provide for the cashing of same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 864 of the Code of VSB ta
An ACT to authorize and direct the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia to surrender certain bonds of the Commonwealth of Virginia in exchange for a registered certificate of the Commonwealth, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such certificate.
An ACT to require the State accountant to prepare and cause to be published annually a statement showing in detail the comparative cost of local government as among counties and cities of the State and the per capita cost thereof.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of the counties of Gloucester, Mathews, King and Queen, King William and Middlesex to make appropriations for the expenses of the Judge of the thirteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an jact to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894, approved February 1, 1915, by adding thereto a new section numbered 7-b, and to amend and re-enact section 4 of the said act, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to create the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election, and compensation; and to transfer from the secretary of the Commonwealth to such commissioner all powers and duties heretofore conferred or imposed upon the former by the laws concerning motor vehicles and the taxes on motor vehicle fuels, and to invest the commissioner and his assistants with the powers of a sheriff for the purpose of enforcing EE ni
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending,
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county to order the transfer of certain balances in the hands of the county treasurer
An ACT to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining cities in the State of Virginia having a population of one hundred and seventy thousand or more; to provide for the appointment of clerks for such trial justices; and to rescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices and clerks; and to prohibit and provide penalties or alteration or failure to serve process issued by such trial justices ae clerks.
An ACT authorizing the county school board of Norfolk county to borrow money, not in excess of $250,000.00, and to issue its bonds therefor, for school improvements in said county; and requiring the board of supervisors of said county annually to levy a tax to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1922.
An ACT to authorize, empower and require the board of supervisors of Grayson county to borrow the sum of $23,000.00 and to issue bonds therefor for the repair, improvement and construction of certain roads and bridges in Wilson, Providence and Old Town magisterial districts of said county; to provide for the expenditure of the funds raised by such bond issues; to authorise the employment of civil engineers or men versed in road building, road builders and labor; to specify the roads and parts thereof to be constructed and the amounts to be expended thereon; to provide for imposing a tax on all property county and district, including property in any incorporated town situated within the above named districts, for the purpose of paying the interest and principal of such debt; to do all things necessary, needful or incidental to the main purpose of this act; and to declare an emergency.
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Warwick county to borrow money, not in excess of $25,000.00, and to issue its bonds therefor, for the purpose of cancelling an outstanding indebtedness incurred in erecting and equipping the Morrison high school building with an addition thereto in Newport school district; and requiring the board of supervisors of said county to levy an annual tax to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to raise revenue for the support of the government.
An ACT to refund money unlawfully collected from certain hotels
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2154 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Charlotte to lend out, upon real estate security, or to invest in bonds of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or bonds or interest-bearing notes, certificates, or other obligations of the United States, or deposit in bank at interest, all accumulations of money to the credit of any sinking fund which has been created, or which may be hereafter created, for the retirement of bonds issued by the said county for permanent road and bridge improvement in the magisterial districts thereof.
An Act to amend and re-enact sections 1015 and 2172 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2233 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 437 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, approved September 176
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk; and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2417 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT authorizing the council of the town of Virginia Beach, Princess Anne county, Virginia, to borrow money and issue bonds in an amount not exceeding the sum of eighty-five thousand ($85,000.00) dollars, for the purpose of general improvements within said town.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and the council of the town of Parksley, in the county of Accomac, to borrow not exceeding $25,000 and issue bonds therefor for the purpose of erecting and equipping a school building in said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3159 of the Code of Virginias
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Scott county to issue bonds for the purpose of erecting, improving, and furnishing school buildings in the school districts of the county and to prescribe the arrangements thereof
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 38, 39, and 47 of an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter of the city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884, as amended by an act approved at , 1900.
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Wise, formerly Gladeville, in the county of Wise, to borrow not in excess of $125,000.00, and to issue bonds of the town therefor, for the purpose of installing and maintaining water works and sewerage systems, providing adequate fire protection, and refunding existing indebtedness, or for either or all of said purposes;
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 108 and 109 of an act entitled.
An ACT to authorize and empower the school board of Norton school district, Wise county, Virginia, to issue and sell bonds to an amount not exceeding $75,000.00 for the purpose of funding the floating indebtedness of Norton school district of Wise county, for funding certain bonded indebtedness of said district and for the purpose of acquiring additional school property in said district; and to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 170 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tazewell county issue county bonds to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousagd dollars ($100,000.00), part of the proceeds of which shall be expended in refunding to to the treasurer of Tazewell county certain funds heretofore advanced to the State highway commission of Virginia, and the residue to be used in meeting the residue of the obligation of said board of supervisors to the said State highway commission of Virginia, by virtue of a certain contract.
An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to borrow a sum not exceeding one hundred and ten thousand dollars ($110,000.00), to issue bonds therefor for the purpose of completing and equipping the school buildings now in course of construction and altering and enlarging and equipping existing school buildings, and to reimburse the general fund of the city for money paid and to be paid on account of said schools.
An ACT to authorize and empower the councils of the cities and towns of the State to appropriate money for advertising their resources.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Grayson county to borrow a sum not exceeding $75,000.00 and to issue bonds therefor for the construction and improvement of a public road in Old Town magisterial district of said county; to provide tor a tax to pay the principal and interest of said bonds; to appoint a commission to supervise the construction of the said road; and to provide tor submitting to the voters of the said district the ques-<br />tion of issuing the said bonds.
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Pittsylvania county to borrow the sum of two hundred thousand dollars and to issue county bonds therefor, and providing for the collection of a tax for the payment thereof, and validating all proceedings heretofore had and declaring an omer
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Mathews to appoint each member of the board of supervisors as supervisor of roads for his magisterial district; to provide for their compensation, and to prescribe their duties and powers.
An ACT to appropriate out of the game protection fund a sum sufficient
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Sussex county to borrow money to pay off the existing indebtedness of Wakefield school district in said county, and to issue bonds therefor; and to provide for a tax to pay the principal and interest on such bonds.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors ot Albemarle county to borrow money not in excess of $500,000, and to issue bonds of said county therefor, for the purpose of refunding certain bonds issued under the authority of an act approved March 24, 1920, and to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to issue time warrants for an amount not exceeding $20,000.00, for a period of not exceeding four years.

1926
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1927, and the 29th day of February, 1928.
An ACT to authorize, empower and require the board of supervisors of Grayson county to borrow the sum of $30,000.00 and to issue bonds therefor for the repair, improvement and construction of certain roads and bridges in Wilson, Elk Creek and Providence magisterial districts of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 71 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city
An ACT for the relief of the members of the board of supervisors of the county of Fauquier.
An ACT to authorize and empower the county school board of Madison county to borrow the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars for the purpose of paying existing indebtedness, and to require the board of supervisors of Madison county to levy a tax to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof in five years.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 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, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended.
An ACT authorizing the county school board of Nansemond county to borrow an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00), and issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of paying the existing indebtedness of said board, other than its present bonded indebtedness, and for the purpose of carrying on its building program and present plan of school work and activities, and to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to anticipate by counties, or otherwise, the construction of the State highway system, approved March 15, 1920.
An ACT to extend the powers of the State highway commission in relocating or changing the location and establishment of certain parts of the State highway system located by said commission, but not actually constructed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a population of fifty thousand or more
An ACT to prohibit school boards of counties, cities and towns from borrowing money except under express authority of law; to declare any loan negotiated by any such board without authority of law to be utterly void; to authorize local school boards to borrow money on short time loans, with certain restrictions; to prohibit every such school board from borrowing money under any general statute in force the day before this act takes effect, and from expending, or contracting to expend in any fiscal year, any sum of money in excess of the funds available for that fiscal year unless in each case the board of supervisors of the county, or the council of the city or town, as the case may be, shall first approve the same; to provide for the removal from office of any member of a school board knowingly violating, or voting to violate any provision of this act; and to repeal an act entitled an act authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans, approved March 16, 1918.
An ACT to appropriate $145.00 to reimburse Charles Cortlandt Walton, Jr., for expenditures made and bills incurred by him in the organization and recruiting of the Ninth Company, Virginia Coast Artillery, between the time its organization was authorized by the State and its muster into Federal service, August 4, 1917.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 403 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 24, 1922, as amended by an act approved March 21, 1924, in relation to the State Highway Commission and the State highway system.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2165 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to moneys may be paid into treasury by check, et cetera.
An ACT in relation to local taxes and revenues for public free school purposes in the county of Loudoun.
An ACT to appropriate to the military board of the State of Virginia the sum of $4,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used to defray the expenses incident to certain litigation now pending in reference to the State rifle range and camp at Virginia Beach.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Winchester to borrow a sum of money not in excess of $10,000.00, and to issue bonds of the town therefor; and to advance the proceeds in aid of the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park; and to provide for the payment of the interest on said bonds and the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2775 of the Code of Virginia requiring treasurers of counties and auditors of cities to file with the auditor of public accounts detailed statement of annual receipts and disbursements so as to hereafter require such reports to be made to the State accountant, and impose a fine for failure to make such reports, and to require the State accountant to prepare and cause to be published annually a statement showing in detail the comparative cost of local government as among counties and cities of the State and the per capita cost thereof; and to repeal an act approved February 15, 1924, entitled an act to require the State accountant to prepare and cause to be published annually a statement showing in detail the comparative cost of local government as among counties and cities of the State and the per capita cost thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 392 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, known as the centralized purchasing law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4122 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 25, 1920, regarding fees for examination of banks.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond.
An ACT to require the approval of the qualified voters of the county of Washington on certain local questions; to prohibit the board of supervisors of the said county from appropriating the county levy for certain purposes; to require the division superintendent of schools and members of the board of supervisors of the said county to be bonded, and to make them liable on their official bonds in certain cases; and to limit the rates of levy in the said county; also, to authorize and direct the county school board of Washington county to borrow a sum not in excess of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and to issue its notes therefor, the proceeds to be used to pay the existing school indebtedness of the school districts of the county and to replace funds expended during the present year for indebtedness incurred during the last preceding year or years; and providing for the levy and collection of a tax for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of an advisory committee to the board of supervisors of the county of Greensville and to prescribe the powers, duties, and compensation of the members of such advisory committee.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of Greene to borrow money, not in excess of $25,000.00, and to issue its bonds therefor, for the purpose of repairing the present courthouse or building a new one for the said county; and requiring the said board annually to levy a poll on other tax to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 24, 1922, creating the Hampton Roads port commission, and to abolish the said commission; to create a State port authority of Virginia as an agency of the State, provide for the appointment of its members and for their compensation, and to define its powers and duties; to define the area of the port of Hampton Roads; to permit the council or other governing body of certain cities and towns within the State to appoint boards of municipal dock commissioners; to define and limit their powers; to regulate the construction, alteration, etc., of wharves, piers, etcetera, within the port area; to regulate dredging within the port area; to exempt the property and income of the port authority from taxation; to revoke all laws in conflict with this act; and to provide funds for carrying into effect the provisions of the act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 2 of section 5 of an act approved March 27, 1918, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to prescribe the mode in which clerks of courts shall keep a record of all taxes and other public moneys collected by them, and to require them to pay the same into the treasury, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914; and to require the clerk in connection therewith, to keep a record of fees received.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the roads of the county of Louisa
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 24, 1920, by adding thereto subsection “k”, regulating the management of its waterworks.
An ACT concerning taxation; to segregate for the purposes of taxation, the several kinds or classes of property, so as to specify and determine upon what subjects State taxes, and upon what subjects local taxes, may be levied; to amend and re-enact sections 2205, 2206, 2207 and 2212 of the Code of Virginia; to amend and re-enact sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, 2914, 31, 33, 35, 36 and 36% of the tax bill, as heretofore amended; to repeal section 2209 of the Code of Virginia; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in “the State highway system,” and to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades, from the first to the seventh, inclusive, and to provide for the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis among the people of this State, and to extend the work of the State board of health, approved March 16, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise additional revenue for the support of the government, approved March 23, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in the “State highway system,” approved September 5, 1919; to repeal sections 2 and 7 of the tax bill, in relation to real estate and tangible personal property; to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the situs of taxation of bank stock, approved March 16, 1918; to raise revenue for the support of the government and to provide a minimum fixed appropriation of State revenue for public free school purposes and to provide penalties for violations of this act.
An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the board of supervisors of the county of Princess Anne to borrow money by the issue of bonds for the purpose of purchasing, building and improving roads and bridges in Pungo magisterial district in said county.
An ACT to appropriate $7,672.06 to the War Memorial Commission
An ACT to amend chapter 448 of the acts of assembly of 1920 in relation to a bond issue for roads in the county of Carroll, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 7-a.
An Act Authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Lee County to Borrow Money and Issue Bonds for Road and Bridge Construction in Rocky Station Magisterial District
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of the special road law of Wythe county, approved March 23, 1920, so as to allow the board of supervisors to contract with the several members of said board to inspect certain road and bridge maintenance and construction and to compensate them therefor.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 2430-a, in relation to the compensation of treasurers of cities who do not handle local revenues, for receiving and paying over State revenues, such local revenues being handled in such cities by city collectors in pursuance of the charters of such cities.
An ACT to enable the county school board of Hanover county to request the board of supervisors of said county to lay district school levies in the several magisterial districts for the purpose of providing funds for the erection and equipment of school buildings; to enable said school board to permit such funds to accumulate from year to year; and to enable said county school board with the school board of the town of Ashland, to establish and maintain in said town, or in Ashland district, in the vicinity of said town, a public high school for the children of said town and district.
An ACT to create a commission of roads and bridges for the county of Princess Anne, Virginia, for Pungo magisterial district, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission and to provide to controlling construction, and keeping in repair public roads and bridges within said magisterial district of said county and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein.
An ACT providing for the restoration to its former condition, as far as possible, of that portion of the capitol building formerly constituting the hall of the house of delegates and for the removal of the exhibits therein, and authorizing the placing of tablets and paintings therein, and appropriating the sum of five hundred dollars for the removal of said exhibits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 19 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Southampton county to borrow not to exceed twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars; and to issue its bonds therefor for the purpose of paying a like amount of outstanding bonds of Jerusalem school district in said county and to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to repeal section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the duties of the board of supervisors of Scott county, Virginia, and directing them to publish amount of funds received and expended by them and fixing a penalty for their failure to do so, approved March 7, 1924.
An ACT to create a commission of roads and bridges of the county of Princess Anne, Virginia, for Seaboard magisterial district, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and to provide for controlling constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said magisterial district of said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein, and for obtaining and applying any and all State aid now and hereafter available for said purpose.
An ACT to require the approval of the qualified voters of Dickenson county on certain local questions; to prohibit the board of supervisors of the said county from appropriating the county levy for certain purposes; to limit the rates of levy in the said county; and to invest the court or judge with certain authority.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the county of Princess Anne