Business

1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1271 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-énact section 907 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1888, in relation to the sale of mules, work oxen, and horses, when and where sold.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3214 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to legalize an election held in the corporation of Chase City, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, on the 9th of June, 1903, for the purpose of issuing bonds of the town for macadamizing streets and other town improvements and indebtedness.
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.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county to issue a duplicate bond.

1906
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia in relation to public holidays
An ACT to establish a dispensary, or dispensaries, for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in the city of Radford, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, and corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said city, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act so far as they apply to said city.
An ACT to amend and reenact 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 1902-1903-1904, approved December 10, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid act of assembly.
An ACT concerning the bureau of insurance, and insurance, guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, security, and fraternal benefit companies, associations, societies, and orders, and imposing penalties for its violation.
An ACT to define the business of a lightning rod dealer selling by sample and to impose a license tax on said business.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 131 of an act entitled 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, approved February 19, 1904.
An ACT to ratify and confirm a contract of lease entered into between the special board of directors of the Southwestern State hospital and United States spruce lumber company.
An ACT prohibiting the corrupt influencing of agents, employees, or servants, and prescribing penalties upon persons using such influence and upon agents, employees, or servants submitting themselves thereto.
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.”
An ACT to appropriate money to furnish the offices of the superintendent of public printing.
An ACT to provide for the holding of an election in the town of Abingdon on the question of a liquor dispensary in said town, and to provide for the establishment of such dispensary.
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 define the duties and liabilities of inn-keepers, hotel-keepers, and keepers of ordinaries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 17, 1903, entitled an act to provide for the collection of all taxes in arrear and past due to the Commonwealth prior to February 1, 1903, upon the shares of capital stock of banks and banking associations, whether due by resident or non-resident stockholders, and for this purpose to amend chapter 642 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session 1895-96, approved March 3, 1896, and appearing as section 492 c, of the Code of Virginia (Pollard’s edition)
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to lien on crops for advances to farmers; nature of agreement therefor; where and in what manner docketed, and the effect thereof, and the clerk’s fee therefor,” approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to regulate the business of lending money on household and kitchen furniture, household goods, wearing apparel, sewing machines, musical instruments, or wages and salaries, on conditional sales of the same, and the buying of salaries and wages.
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 amend and re-enact section 18 of the charter of the town of Suffolk as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2489 of the Code of Virginia in relation to lien of inn-keepers, etc.
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 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 clauses 7 and 39, chapter 5, of an act entitled ‘an act concerning corporations’
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 34 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, revive, and re-enact section 1295 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in relation to the liability of common carriers for loss or injury to goods.
An ACT to define what is pure apple cider within the meaning of section 141 of chapter 20 of acts of 1904, approved February 19, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 9 of chapter 10 of chapter 609 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1902-’03-’04, relating to turnpike companies.
An ACT to amend and reenact section. 2168 of the Code
An ACT to assign offices to the several departments and officers of the State government in the several public buildings owned by the State.
An ACT to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State, to provide for the registration of the same, to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules.
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 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 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 require common carriers doing business in this State to receive and receipt for all freights delivered to them, and to provide a penalty for neglect or refusal therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3022 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to award of writ of quo warranto.
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 submit to the qualified voters of Red Bank magisterial district, in which the town of Virgilina, in the county of Halifax, Virginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors there and in the event a majority of those voting at said election vote for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct the same, and to prohibit thereafter within said town the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as herein provided.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 8 of an act concerning public service corporations
An ACT to protect landlords against removal of crop by tenants
An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Emporia, Virginia.
AN ACT to create a harbor board for the waters adjacent to the site of the Jamestown exposition, and to amend and re-enact section 2010 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 26, 1890.
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 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 relieve the south and western railway company from any possible forfeiture of its charter.

1908
An ACT to authorize any railroad company, with the consent of the State corporation commission, to construct, purchase or take a lease of any railroad not exceeding twenty-five miles in length, which will furnish a cut-off or connecting line for the more efficient and economical transporta-tion of traffic.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 546 and 549 of the Code of Virginia, with reference to licenses issued by commissioners of the revenue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 15 of chapter 1, and sections 3 and 8 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled: An act to incorporate the town of Crewe, in the county of Nottoway
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2967 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904, in relation to attachments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3334 of the Code of Virginia of 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 of an act entitled: An act to submit to qualified voters of the town of Emporia, Virginia, at the next general election in June, 1906, for the election of mayor and councilmen, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the said town, and further to provide for the conduct of the said dispensary, and to prohibit thereafter within said town, or within the county of Greenesville, Virginia, the making, sale, barter or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms or corporations, except as provided herein.
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 require the debt due the Commonwealth by the insolvent Planters and Mechanics bank of Petersburg, Virginia, to be charged off the accounts kept by the auditor of public accounts and the treasurer, respectively, which show the amounts of money from time to time in the treasury to the credit of the Commonwealth, and to transfer said item to the account of suspended debts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 29, and 30 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, 1903.
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 interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
An ACT to provide for defending certain suits in the United States courts by railroad companies, against the members and the clerk of the State corporation commission, involving important public interests, and for indemnity to the defendants in said suits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2095 of the Code of Virginia, to prevent non-residents from being concerned or interested in fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth for the purpose of manufacturing the same into oil, fish scrap or manure, or in such manufacture.
An ACT to declare what equivalent, in city or town, to personal service of notice of protest or dishonor of a bill, note or other negotiable instrument.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 273 of chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled: An act to 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 13, 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 publie printing and binding, and defining the duties of the super intendent of public printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the acts of assembly, 1879-1880, approved May 23, 1887, as amended, as to section 10 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, approved March 14, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for 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 2 of chapter 6 and section 28 of chapter 8 of an act entitled: An act concerning the bureau of insurance, and insurance, guarantee, trust, indemnity, fidelity, security, and fraternal benefit companies, associations, societies, and orders, and imposing penalties for its violation
An ACT to authorize the sinking fund commissioners of the State of Virginia to convert the stock and dividend obligations of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company into stocks of said company under any new charter or amendment of its charter which said company may hereafter acquire.
An ACT concerning the appointment of a dairy and food commissioner within the department of agriculture and immigration, and imposing penalties for its violation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 27 of chapter 1; sections 13, 25, 31 and 40 of chapter 2; sections 4, 7, 8 and 10 of chapter 5, and section 26 of chapter 8, and to add independent section 51 to chapter 2 of an act entitled an act concerning the bureau of insurance, and insurance, guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, security, and fraternal benefit companies, associations, societies and orders, and imposing penalties for its violation
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 define and regulate the sale, distribution, rectifying, manufacture and distilling of intoxicating liquors and malt beverages, and to impose license taxes thereon, and to prohibit the drinking of ardent spirits on railroad trains, and to repeal sections 141 and 142 of an act entitled 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, approved February 19, 1904, and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to authorize any railroad corporation chartered by the general assembly of the State of Virginia to surrender its entire legislative charter, and to take a new charter under the present Constitution and general laws of the State, relinquishing special privileges and special disabilities, and providing the manner for so doing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 17, 1903, entitled: An act to provide for the collection of all taxes in arrear and past due to the Commonwealth prior to February 1, 1903, upon the shares of capital stock of banks and banking associations, whether due by resident or non-resident stockholders, and for this purpose to amend chapter 642 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session 1895 and 6, approved March 3, 1896, and appearing as section 492-c of the Code of Virginia (Pollard’s edition) so as to provide for the recovery and collection of State, county, and municipal taxes and levies due and in arrear prior to February 1, 1893, upon such shares of stock.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act authorizing boards of supervisors to contract loans for the erection of courthouses, clerk’s offices and jails, approved February 20, 1894, as amended as to section 2 of said act by act approved April 2, 1902, so as to include poor-houses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Jerusalem magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms or corporations, except manufacturers of apple and peach brandy, within said district 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, approved February 15, 1901, and to amend and re-enact section 11, of an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled: An act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Jerusalem magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms or corporations, except manufacturers of apple and peach brandy, within said district 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, approved February 15, 1901, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 15, 1903, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 27, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act, approved February 28, 1898, entitled an act to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 27, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to validate the acknowledgment by mayors and members of councils who are ex officio justices of the peace and whose power to take such acknowledgment has been questioned.
An ACT to provide where suits may be brought against telegraph and telephone companies for failing to transmit or deliver messages promptly and as required by law.
An ACT to validate the recordation of memoranda of sales or contracts for the sale of goods and chattels wherein the title thereto, or a lien thereon, is reserved or the transfer of title is made to depend on any condition, and possession is delivered to the vendee.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 104la of the Code of Virginia, 1904, as amended by the act approved May 20, 1903, entitled: 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 sections 19 and 74, of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1878, and as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2099 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 25, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2099 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, with relation to license required for catching fish for oil or manure.
An ACT to provide for the payment of a license tax for the exhibition of an automatic moving picture machine, phonograph, graphophone or similar musical machine, when the price of admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum of ten cents.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act amending and re-enacting sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 of an act entitled: An act to protect and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers and the guarantee and condition upon which they are to be sold, and fixing the penalties incurred for violation of the same, approved February 24, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 8, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1896, as amended by an act approved December 22, 1897, as amended by an act approved December 28, 1899.
An ACT to regulate the time and manner in which common carriers doing business in this State shall adjust and pay just freight charges, and claims for loss or damage to freight and claims for storage, demurrage and car service.
An ACT to prohibit the granting of charters to banks having a minimum capital stock of less than ten thousand dollars.
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 an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled: An act authorizing the auditor of public accounts to issue duplicates
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1965, 1968 and 1969 and to repeal section 1967 of the Code of Virginia in relation to pilots.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 823 of the Code of Virginia, relative to councilmen or other city officers forbidden to have interest in contract with, or claim against, their city; such contract to be void.
An ACT concerning warehouse receipts.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Shenandoah Valley Academy to contract a debt and secure the same by deed of trust on real estate held by them.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond as heretofore amended, in relation to the powers of the city council; and to amend and re-enact section 64 of the said charter in relation to the duties of the city engineer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8, section 17, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 12, 1903, and section 18 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.
An ACT to regulate the practice of pharmacy and the composition, branding, possession, dispensing, and sale of drugs, poison and narcotics, and to repeal certain existing acts in relation thereto.
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 authorize the superintendent of public printing to furnish certain persons with copies of house and senate bills, advance sheets of house and senate journals, acts of assembly, ete., to collect fees therefor, and to report collections to the auditor of public accounts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of chapter 5 of an act concerning corporations, which became a law without the governor’s signature
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 74 of an act entitled: An act to put in 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 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, ete.