Charity
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section | of an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to issue bonds and raise money for the purpose of providing for and erecting the neces- sary buildings for a poorhouse |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the public treasury in aid of Confederate memorial associations having in charge cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers. |
| 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 an act entitled an act to incorporate Saint Mary's Benedictine Institute, approved March 15, 1875, Richmond, Virginia. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority of the State Female Normal School, of Farmville, Virginia. |
| An ACT to incorporate Richmond Lodge, No. 45, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Richmond, Virginia. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Methodist Mission Association |
| An ACT for the relief of A. G. L. Van Lear, M. D., a disabled Confederate soldier, from payment of license tax. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke Orphan Asylum. |
| An ACT to confirm the authority given the auditor of public accounts to compromise, adjust, and settle the claims and demands of the commonwealth of Virginia against the estate of Indiana Fletcher Williams, late of Amherst county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 and 3 of an act e!titled an act to incorporate the home for needy Confederate women |
| An ACT to incorporate the nurses settlement. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Independent Baptist aid society of Westmoreland courity, Virginia. |
| An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Henrico county to pay additional compensation to L. L. Fussell, temporary superintendent of poor of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize the trustees of Oxford Presbyterian church, in the county of Rockbridge, to sell certain lots for burial purposes. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Bethel military academy, Fauquier county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower Roman Eagle lodge, No. 122, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, of Danville, Virginia, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor, secured by deed of trust, mortgage, other lien upon its real estate in Danville, Virginia, for the purpose of improving and erecting buildings on said real estate. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to employ physicians, by the year, to attend the sick paupers in each magisterial district, and to employ a physician to attend the sick at the poorhouse. |
| An ACT releasing the Florence Crittenden home from taxes erroneously assessed. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Isle of Wight Confederate memorial association. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Independent order of true reformers of Westmoreland county, Virginia. |
| An ACT amending the charter of the Rawlings institute. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Sweet Briar institute, in the county of Amherst, Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize the Home for Needy Confederate Women to use for the purpose of enlarging the present buildings at Richmond, or for purchasing land or for erecting new buildings on a new site, the sum of $5,000, which was appropriated to it by act approved April 2, 1902, entitled "an act appropriating the public revenues for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on September 30, 1902, and September 30, 1903." |
| An ACT to incorporate the General Alumni Association of the University of Virginia, with authority to issue certificates of membership to local associations and individuals composing said General Alumni Association. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 as materiel by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved January 22, 1894, and by an act approved May 20, 1903; section 457 as amended by an act approved January 22, 1894; section 459 as amended by an act approved February 9, 1898; section 492 as amended by an act approved February 24, 1898; section 498 as amended by an act approved January 8, 1898; sections 460, 462, 487, 488, 491, 503, 521, 524, 527, 528, and 532, and to repeal section 472 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1421 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize the school board of the city of Charlottesville to borrow money and to execute its bonds for said loan. |
| An ACT to authorize the exchange of lots between the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the county of Albemarle. |
| An Act appropriating the sum of $20,000 to be used to meet the deficit in the appropriation for the Eastern State Hospital. |
| AN ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 70 of the Code of 1887 relating to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute and the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 72, Code of 1887, as amended by act approved March 29, 1902, in regard to the management of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, and to conform the same to the Constitution. |
| An ACT to authorize the Home for Needy Confederate Women to use for the purpose of enlarging the present buildings at Richmond, or for purchasing land or for erecting new buildings on a new site, the sum of $5,000 |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 875, 882, and 883 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to exempt persons conducting temporary eating or lodging houses, horse-lots, and confectioneries at religious gatherings from license tax. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 142 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 7 5 to 147, inclusive, of an-act approved April 16, 1903,” and to provide how social clubs chartered since April 16, 1903, shall obtain licenses to sell ardent spirits, etc. |
| An ACT to amend section 43 of an act entitled “an act to raise reve- |
| An ACT to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments, and other erections, and authorizing cemetery companies or trustees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise, or gift. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to appropriate certain sums of money from the public treasury in aid of Confederate memorial associations having in charge cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers,” approved February 8, 1904. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of Handley trustees to invest the money received by them in the purchase of debts which may be secured by lien on property in which the Handley fund may be in whole or in part invested, or to purchase the property itself, which it may be desirable that the Handley trustees should own for the purposes of their trust; to receive from the Handley executors the corpus of the residuum of said estate; to pay all expenses necessarily incident to the duties imposed upon said board by the act approved February 7, 1896, entitled 'an act to enable the city of Winchester to accept the bequest of John Handley, deceased, to validate the same and to provide for the administration thereof.' to construe said act as to the corporate powers given, and validate all acts of said board not done in accordance with the construction of said act herein given and give said board a corporate name. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the public treasury in aid of Confederate memorial associations having in charge cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia. |
| AN ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the public treasury in aid of Confederate memorial associations having in charge cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers. |
| 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 compensation to the ‘Virginia home and industrial school for girls” for caring for girls committed to its custody and control under the commitment of a court, judge, or justice. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1423 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 3, and section 9, chapter 3, of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898. |
| An ACT to repeal sections 1501 and 1504, and to amend and reenact sections 1432, 1433, 1434, 1438, 1447, 1450, 1451, 1454, 1460, 1462, 1465, 1466, 1474, 1476, 1481, 1489, 1496, and 1497 of an act of assembly, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia relating to public free schools for counties and to the literary fund,” approved December 28, 1903, as amended by an act approved March 11, 1904. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1038 of an act entitled 'chapter 269, an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887), in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled 'an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns,' approved May 20, 1903.' |
| An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide Places of Abode and for the Safe Custody and Proper Guardianship of Children |
| An ACT for the retirement of bonds held by St. Paul’s Endowment Fund, Incorporated, and providing for the issuance of registered certificate therefor and the payment of interest thereon. |
| 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 create a fireman’s relief fund and to increase the efficiency of the fire departments in the cities, towns and counties of Virginia. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers. |
| An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to pay to the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Petersburg, Virginia, certain sums of money appropriated by an act approved March 14, 1904, acts 1904, page 266, no part of said appropriation having been paid. |
| An ACT to require all eleemosynary institutions, hospitals, colleges, universities, prisons and reformatories to report monthly to the auditor of public accounts in detail the manner in which all funds received by said institutions from the Commonwealth are disbursed. |
| 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 establish a board of charities and corrections to define its duties and to fix the compensation of said board and subordinates and to provide for the manner in which they shall be appointed to said offices. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1904, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Narrows, in Giles county, Virginia, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardianship of children who are vicious, or depraved, or without proper places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian or other custodian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1038 of an act entitled chapter 269, an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns, approved May 20, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906. |
| An ACT to authorize Albemarle county to borrow and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $30,000, to pay off the floating debt for building the new county poor-house, as well as to build a new bridge over the Rivanna river at Rio Mills, and assist in securing under-grade crossings under the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and of the Southern Railway Company, respectively, in the county of Albemarle, and to re-imburse the amount for the building of the bridge over James river at Scottsville. |
| 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 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 4 of an act entitled an act to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardianship of children who are vicious or depraved, or without proper places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian or other custodian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training |
| An ACT to organize county and city boards of poor commissioners, and requiring reports from said boards. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 875 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to authorize the town council of Manassas to pay an annuity to Isaac P. Baldwin and Wilma E. Baldwin, his wife, in consideration for donation of property for the benefit of said town and Eastern College. |
| An ACT to permit rules for the government of jails and the reduction of sentences of prisoners therein confined to be prescribed by the circuit and corporation judges and the boards of supervisors and councils of the respective counties and cities of the State, and to provide for the enforcement of the same. |
| An ACT concerning the charter and transactions of the General Alumni Association of the University of Virginia, and accepting the provisions of a certain deed of trust made by said association for the use and benefit of the University of Virginia. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years |
| An ACT providing for detention or commitment of minors under seventeen years of age for certain offenses not in jails or penitentiaries; placing them in suitable homes and institutions under certain circumstances; when they can and cannot be sent to jail; allowing them to be released on probation; the approval of the State board of charities and corrections under certain contingencies; penalties for removing any child committed hereunder or violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals: appointment of probation officers and outlining their duties; and declaring an emergency. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended |
| An ACT to amend an act approved March 13, 1908, entitled an act to provide for the payment of a license tax for the exhibition of any 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 permit the boards of supervisors of counties and the councils of cities to provide help for destitute persons bitten by mad dogs. |
| An ACT to authorize the judge of any court, police justice or justice of the peace in cities of forty thousand inhabitants and over to continue the case and admit to bail any person brought before him charged with being an habitual drunkard, with failing to support his wife or children, with being a vagrant or an idler able to work, and who is liable to become a charge upon the corporation, and to commit such person to the supervision of an officer to be known as a probation officer; to provide for the appointment and compensation of such probation officer, and to invest him with full police power while in the discharge of his duties. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Gordonsville, approved July 9, 1870, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, as amended by an act approved February 7, 1894, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1898, adding an additional section thereto. |
| An ACT to require the licensing and adequate inspection and supervision of persons and corporations conducting maternity hospitals and lying-in asylums, and of those engaged in placing destitute children in family homes. |
| An ACT amending sections 2 and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of the Gravel Spring Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Frederick county, to receive a donation of $1,000 and invest the same |
| An ACT to refund to the Home for Needy Confederate Women taxes illegally paid upon its property. |
| An ACT to direct the board of charities and corrections to ascertain the facts concerning the weak-minded, other than insane and epileptic, in the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to authorize supervisors of each county and the council of each city to make a special levy for the support and maintenance of maimed and disabled Confederate soldiers or the needy and indigent widows of Confederate soldiers in their respective counties and cities. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors. |
| An ACT to continue and extend an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to direct the board of charities and corrections to ascertain the facts concerning the weak-minded, other than insane and epileptic in the State of Virginia, and also to direct the said board of charities and corrections to ascertain, investigate and report to the next general assembly of Virginia, as to the propriety of providing surgical aid and treatment to the deformed, crippled and disfigured persons of the commonwealth who are too poor to provide such treatment for themselves, and to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars for the purpose. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of New London academy to lease said buildings to county superintendents of schools of Bedford and Campbell counties for school purposes, approved May 10, 1887, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1910, authorizing the trustees of the New London academy to convey the real and personal property vested in them to the county school boards of Bedford and Campbell counties, and providing for the maintenance and management of the academy; and to enlarge the powers of the said board of managers. |
| An ACT to make an appropriation to provide for the relief of needy Confederate veterans who are not eligible to become inmates of the Soldiers’ home because of suffering with cancerous affection or contagious disease. |
| An ACT to appropriate a sum of money not to exceed twenty-five hundred dollers per vear for the two years nineteen hundred and twelve and ninetcen hurdred and thirteen, for the relief of needv Confederate women of Virginia who are not upon the State pension rolis. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-eight 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 one hundred and eighty-nine of the constitution, approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, with reference to fees on charters of domestic corporations, as amended by the act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and ten. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 854 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 14, 1908, approved March 16, 1910. |
| An ACT to require the inspection and supervision of the State board of charities and corrections of persons or corporations placing children in family homes; said persons or corporations to furnish information; the State board of charities and corrections to visit and report upon the children placed in homes; authorizing the courts to commit destitute and delinquent children to the State board of charities and corrections, and said board to place said children in homes or reformatories to report to the court under certain contingencies; penalties prescribed. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act providing for detention or commitment of minors under seventeen years of age for certain offenses not in jails or penitentiaries, placing them in suitable homes and institutions under certain circumstances; when they can and cannot be sent to jail; allowing them to be released on probation; the approval of the State board of charities and corrections under certain contingencies; penalties for removing any child committed hereunder or violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals; appointment of probation officers and outlining their duties; and declaring an emergency |
| An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of the several counties of the State of Virginia to appropriate money to defray the expenses of such indigent Confederate veterans of the counties of the State desiring to attend the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, to be held at Gettysburg, Pa., on the Ist, 2nd and 3rd of July, 1913. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8&5 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 14 1908, relative to the duties and powers of the boards of supervisor of the several counties of the State, approved March 16, 1910. |
| An ACT to require the licensing and adequate inspection and supervision of persons and corporations conducting maternity hospitals and lying-in asylums, and of persons receiving, boarding and keeping children, not relatives; prescribing rules for placing out and for reports; penalty. |
| An ACT to permit the county of Rockingham, through its board of supervisors, to accept donations and trusts made for benevolent or charitable objects of a public character within its territorial limits, and to perform such conditions and execute such trusts as may be connected with the same. |
| An ACT to establish the Pulaski County Confederate home. |
| An ACT to make an appropriation to provide for the relief of needy confederate veterans who are not eligible to become inmates of the Soldiers’ Home because of suffering with cancerous affection or contagious disease. |
| An ACT authorizing the State board of charities and corrections to continue the investigation of the weak-minded, other than insane and epileptic; to report to the general assembly of 1916 a scheme for training, segregation and prevention of procreation of mental defectives; authorizing the employment of experts; and appropriating the sum of $3,000 annually for expenses. |
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