Business

1916
An ACT to make the failure to pay for or refusal to return goods, wares or merchandise delivered for selection or approval larceny in certain cases.
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 sections 10, 11, 46, 47, 68 and 118% 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, and to add three new sections thereto designated respectively, section 86% providing for a license tax on collection agencies, and sections 86% and 36% providing for the taxation of water, heat, light and power companies.
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 providing for the assessment and taxation of stock cars, furniture cars, fruit cars, refrigerator cars, meat cars, oil cars, tank cars, and other similar cars used in this State and owned by corporations or individuals having no domicile within the State.
An ACT to prevent the fraudulent sale in bulk of merchandise or any portion thereof otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade, and providing that any sale thereof shall be void as against creditors, and the purchaser, transferee or assignee and shall be accountable to such creditors for the goods, wares and merchandise so received by them unless the provisions hereof are complied with; and to repeal an act to prevent merchants engaged in buying and selling merchandise, while indebted, from selling their entire stock of merchandise in bulk or selling the major portion otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade, and to repeal an act of the general assembly, entitled an act to prevent the fraudulent sale, in bulk, of merchandise, or any portion thereof, otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade, approved May 20, 1903
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 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 of Virginia
An ACT in relation to the sale of farm produce on commission, defining the terms 'farm produce' and 'commission merchant,' and regulating commission merchants and providing for their registration and bonding, and the issuing of a certificate of such registration by the commissioner of agriculture and immigration; also empowering the commissioner of agriculture and immigration, upon complaint, and in certain cases, to investigate the acts of commission merchants, and to revoke or refuse certificate of registration and prescribing regulations and offenses under this act, and providing penalties for violations of such regulations and of this act.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of North Tazewell, in the county of Tazewell; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
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 2907 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to seizure in detinue of property sued for.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 27, 1914, entitled an act to provide how trust companies may be incorporated and to provide for general powers for the purpose of doing a trust business in this State in addition to a general banking business.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Tazewell, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, to issue bonds not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of building and maintaining a sewerage system, high school building, street paving and filtration plant.
An ACT to authorize banks and trust companies to make acceptances and to issue letters of credit.
An ACT to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising and making such advertising a misdemeanor, and providing penalties.
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 amend and re-enact section 2820 ef the Code of Virginia in relation to the rate of interest allowed to bankers, brokers and corporations.
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 sections 460, 486, 496, 511, 520, 548, 568, 564, 603 and 604 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
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 relating to the situs for taxation of intangible property owned by corporations which do no business in this State
An ACT to prevent the sale or the offering or exposure for sale of deleterious foods; providing for the seizure and destruction of such foods and fixing penalties for violations of the act.
An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation for sale, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits as herein defined, except as provided herein; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to the sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magisterial districts thereof; to authorize the erection of toll-gates and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads, therein and making certain provisions for the enforcement and collection of said tolls and the protection of the said roads, and the property of said district road boards, and providing certain penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal all special acts heretofore enacted in reference to the public roads of said county, and to validate the official acts of certain officers under laws heretofore in effect in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations
An ACT to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the issuance, sale, promotion, negotiation, or distribution of any stocks, bonds, notes or other securities or contracts, and to provide penalties for violation thereof and to authorize the State corporation commission to make investigations in connection with the sale of such securities or contracts.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of article 2, and section 1 of article 3, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county
An ACT to define and regulate the practice of optometry, to provide for the establishment of a board of examiners in optometry, for the examination of practitioners of optometry, for registration and license of practitioners, to provide for a penalty for violations of this act, and for other purposes.
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 amend and re-enact section 254 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 8, 1904, entitled 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 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 section 7 of chapter 8 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg
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 allow C. H. Mathews, his successor or assigns, to build a wharf on the York river, near Croaker, upon a site leased by him from the county of James City.
An ACT to regulate the use of utensils for testing the composition or value of milk and cream, providing standards and providing for its enforcement, prohibiting false andate or over-reading or under-reading of milk and cream tests, defining violations of the act and fixing penalties therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 1 of an act concerning corporations which became a law May 21, 1903; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 20, 1912, relating to the decrease of the outstanding stock of corporations.
An ACT to prevent fraud and deception in the storage and sale of oleomargarine, process and renovated butter; regulating the storage and sale of such products; defining violations of the act, and fixing penalties therefor.
An ACT to provide that it shall not be lawful for druggists in the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth and the county of Norfolk to purchase, store or sell ardent spirits, except wine for sacramental purposes and pure fruit and grain alcohol for medicinal, scientific, mechanical or pharmaceutical purposes.
An ACT to define intra-state messages and what is held not to be such a message.
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 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 allow E. W. Mouring to build a wharf in the York river, upon a site leased by him from the county of Gloucester.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of an act approved March 15, 1906, and entitled, an act to amend and re-enact sections 4, 5, 6, 9, 14, 26 and 27 of an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain, approved January 18, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 36 of chapter 5 of an act concerning corporations, which became a law May 21, 1908, relating to the re-organization of corporations by pure asers of the franchise and property of corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 81 of the acts of the general assembly of 1874 for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick and Charlotte.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 9 and 48 of an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter of the city of Williamsburg
An ACT concerning actions and suits against eral and special partners and members of unincorporated companies or associations.
An ACT to regulate the selling, offering or exposing for sale of agricultural seeds; and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the sale of agricultural seeds, to provide a standard of purity for such seeds, to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act, and vesting the execution and enforcement of this act in the commissioner of agriculture, approved March 16, 1910.

1918
An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Bedford.
An ACT to prevent corporations not organized under the laws of this Commonwealth securing a certificate of authority or license to do business in Virginia where the name of such corporation would conflict with a corporation already doing business in Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the issuance of shares of capital stock of corporations organized under the laws of this State without nominal or par value.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to regulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establishments where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations
An ACT to amend and reenact section 2 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act imposing public duties on heat, light, power, water and telephone companies and providing for the control and regulation of such companies by the State corporation commission, which was approved March 27, 1914.
An ACT to regulate the situs of taxation of bank stock.
An ACT to amend and reenact sections 21, 22, 59, 65, 72, 73 and 121 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, as amended and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 14, 1908, and to add a new and independent section 125-a thereto.
An ACT making it unlawful for a person, firm or association to transact business in this State as a corporation, or to offer or advertise to transact business as a corporation without first being incorporated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of chapter V of an act concerning corporations, which became a law May 21, 1903; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 23, 1916, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: {S B 318}
An ACT to make uniform the law relating to partnerships.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 30 of chapter 5, of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law on the 21st day of May, 1903, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to refund money improperly collected from the Vinton-Roanoke Water Company, a corporation, and paid into the treasury of the State.
An ACT for the rellef of oyster planters, from their rent of oyster planting grounds in the waters of the Commonwealth on account of “green gill” in the oysters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magisterial districts thereof; to authorize the erection of toll gates and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads therein, and making certain provisions for the enforcement and collection of said tolls and the protection of the said roads, and the property of said district road boards, and providing certain penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal all special acts heretofore enacted in reference to the public roads of said county, and to validate the official acts of certain officers under laws heretofore in effect in said county, and to prescribe a penalty for the violation thereof; and to add an independent section thereto, numbered 1514, so as to require the owners or occupants of land abutting on any public road to keep the same free from certain obstructions, approved February 2, 1915, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 13 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15 and 17 of the charter of the town of Mimnassas
An ACT to require the clerks of courts to keep a separate book to be known as the Federal farm loan mortgage book and to provide how farm loan mortgages shall be recorded.
An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916 and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to provide for the acceptance of the conditions of the federal act commonly called the Smith-Hughes bill (public No. 347, 64th congress), and authorizing the State board of education to act as a State board of vocational education for the Commonwealth, and authorizing the treasurer of the State of Virginian to act as custodian of such funds as may be received from the federal government, and to pay the same out on warrant drawn by the State board of education, and authorizing the State board of education to establish a department of vocational education. and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to create the office of State forester, under the direction and control of the State geological commission, and defining his duties, approved March 21, 1914, and to make provision for the prevention of fires, approved March 20, 1916.
An ACT to amend and reenact an act approved February 17 18980 (acts 1889-90), as amended by an act approved February 12, 189:(acts 1891-982) as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900 (acts 1899 1900), to protect the owners of bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, kegs crates and boxes, used in the manufacture and sale of soda waters, mineral or aerated waters, cider, ginger, ale, milk, cream, ice cream, soft drinks, or other beverages, medicine and perfumery, and to fix the punishment for unlawful buying, having, handling, using, trafficking in or disposing of such bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, kegs, crates, and boxes, and to provide when and how a search warrant may be issued to discover and obtain the same, and to declare and define what shall be deemed unlawful buying, having, handling, using, disposing of, dealings and trafficking in the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about railroad shops, coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories, and railroad clerks the payment of wages at regular intervals, and in lawful money of the United States, approved May 28rd, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11th, 1912.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of water by one city to the inhabitants, firms, corporations or industries of another city; and the right to occupy and use the streets, lanes, parks or other public places in the latter city without the consent of the council of said city.
An ACT to prescribe who may administer an oath or affidavit to the purchaser of fuel, provisions, or other thing, and the effect of such oath or affidavit.
An ACT to license persons to breed game, game fish and fur bearing animals for sale, prescribing regulations for such business and providing penalties for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18, 19 and 20 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and the 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, and to segregate to localities the tax upon shares of stock of banks, banking associations, trust and security companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of an act, approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows and to enact and add two sections to said act, to be known as sections 26 and 27, providing for the collection of town levies and assessments, and prescribing penalties for the violation of the license ordinances of the town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2700a of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow executors and other fiduciaries to invest in Virginia three per centum bonds issued by virtue of an act approved February 14, 1882, approved February 9, 1898, approved March 22, 1916, in relation to fiduciary investments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1359 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, with reference to grain to be ground in turn; amount of toll; penalty for violations.
An ACT to authorize and regulate the exchange of certain classes of reciprocal and inter-insurance contracts among individuals, partnerships and corporations, empowering corporations generally to make such contracts, regulating process in suits on such contracts, and prescribing certain fees, taxes and licenses, and penalty for ee
An ACT to amend the sixth sub-section of section twenty of the charter of the city of Norfolk, as amended by an act approved March 17, 1916
An ACT to punish the making or use of false statements to obtain property or credit.
An ACT to permit the transfer of the Valley Turnpike to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to fix the terms and conditions of such transfer and to provide for the maintenance of said turnpike.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act providing for the sanitation of slaughter houses, abattoirs, packing houses, sausage factories, rendering plants and other places where animals are slaughtered for sale for human food, or where animal carcasses or parts thereof are prepared for human food; providing for the licensing of such establishments: defining violations of the act, and fixing penalties therefor.
An ACT to regulate the appointment of receiver for insurance companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 9 and 48 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 March 5, 1900, and as amended March 20, 1916.
An ACT authorizing the board of directors of any public service corporation operating a gas, electric or water plant within the limits of any city or town, or within territory contiguous thereto, to sell or lease to said city or town the entire plant of said corporation, or any part thereof, including its franchises and easements, provided said action of the board of directors be authorized or ratified by an affirmative vote of a majority in interest of the stock issued and outstanding, unless a larger interest is provided by the charter or by-laws of said corporation.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to provide for the protection of sheep and other live stock by a license tax on dogs, the enforcement thereof, and the reimbursement of the owners of such animals, killed or injured by dogs, out of the proceeds of such tax.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved
An ACT to amend and re-enact 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 regulate the business of making small loans, by requiring persons charging directly or indirectly a greater rate of compensation than the conventional legal interest rate per annum on loans not exceeding three hundred ($300) dollars, to any person, to obtain a license; by prescribing the maximum amount of compensation which licensees may charge; by regulating assignments to licensees of salaries or wages earned, or to be earned; by prohibiting false or deceptive advertising concerning such loans; by fixing penalties for violation of certain provisions of this act; by prescribing certain duties of the chief examiner of banking division of the corporation commission in respect to licensees; repealing section 81 of the revenue act and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act relating to the situs for taxation of intangible property owned by corporations which do no business in this State
An ACT to amend and reenact section 4 of an act entitled an act concerning the appointment of a dairy and food commissioner within the department of agriculture and immigration, and imposing penalties for its violation, approved March 11, 1908S, and to repeal section 15-a of an act entitled an act to prevent the manufacture or sale of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous or deleterious stock and cattle feeds, and to repeal section 15 and sub-sections a, b, c, d, e, f, and g of said section 15, chapter 188, acts of assembly, 1908, approved March 11, 1908, and to repeal all other laws in conflict with this act, in so far as they may be in conflict with the provisions of this act, approved March 14, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act in relation to the sale of farm produce on commission; defining the terms “farm produce” and “commission merchant,” and regulating commission merchants and providing for their registration and bonding, and the issuing of a certificate of such registration by the commissioner of agriculture and immigration; also empowering the commissioner of agriculture and immigration, upon complaint, and in certain cases, to investigate the acts of commission merchants, and to revoke or refuse certificate of registration, and prescribing regulations and offenses under this act, and providing penalties for violations of such regulations and of this act
An ACT for the relief of Smith-Courtney company.
An ACT to restrict the trading in second-hand grate baskets, electric lights or gas fixtures, locks or other builders’ hardware, plumbing fixtures, bells and bell fixtures, lead or brass water pipes, or any part of such fixtures or pipes, any wire, cable, lead, solder, copper, iron or brass used by or belonging to a railroad, telephone, telegraph, gas or electric light company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act imposing public duties on heat, light, power, water and telephone companies, and providing for the control and regulation of such companies by the State corporation commission
An ACT to make uniform the law relating to limited partnerships.
An ACT to regulate the business of itinerant venders and itin- erant auctioneers, prescribing a specific license therefor and providing penalties for a violation thereof.