Charity

1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 412 of the acts of the general assembly of 1922, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Woodstock and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government of the town of Woodstock and all power heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office, to be legal and valid, approved March 24, 1922, relating to the public schools of said town, as amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide whole family protection for members of fraternal benefit societies
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 provide for the acceptance by the board of the Virginia teachers colleges, of gifts, donations and benefactions offered by any person,
An ACT defining and regulating co-operative non-profit life benefit corporations with representative form of government, providing the term:
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4555 of the Code of Virginia, of 1919, relating to officers and agents of societies for prevention of cruelty to animals, given power to arrest offenders.
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 244 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of buildings on lands of benevolent and charitable institutions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to give effect to a compromise of litigation in respect to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to establish the manual labor school provided for in the twenty-fifth clause of said will, approved February 24, 1874, as amended by acts approved April 2, 1877, April 19, 1884, February 29, 1892, January 11, 1896, May 13, 1903, respectively. And to repeal an act approved February 19, 1904, entitled an act to regulate the number of votes to be cast by the school trustees of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, in the semi-annual meetings of the city and county school boards held at the Miller school on Tuesday after the third Monday in January and July of each year or any adjourned meeting thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3464 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the retirement of judges of the supreme court of appeals.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirteen of the charter of the town of Bedford, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Hanover county to set up in a special fund the proceeds derived from the sale of property formerly used for the general reception of the poor of said county, and to invest the same, and use the income therefrom, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the care and maintenance of the poor of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (c) of section 25 of the Tax Code of Virginia and to add a new subsection to the said section 25 of the Tax Code of Virginia to be designated (m), the said subsections being in relation to deductions allowed under the income tax law; also to amend and re-enact sections 71, 72, 73, 77, and 91 of the Tax Code of Virginia which sections are in chapter 7 and 8 of the Tax Code of Virginia on the subjects of intangible personal property and banks, banking associations and trust companies.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of trustees to hold gifts, grants, or devises of real estate for charitable purposes to unincorporated bodies or societies, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such trustees.

1930
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2795 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the support of the poor and the sum necessary for their support.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 61 of the act of 1874, entitled an act to give effect to a compromise of litigation in respect to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to establish the manual labor school provided for in the twenty-fifth clause of said will
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 242, 243, 244, 247, 250, 251, 253, 273, 275, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, and 435 of the tax Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 245, 246, 248, and 249 of the tax Code of Virginia, section 244 having been amended by an act approved March 28, 1928, all of which sections relate to the assessment and taxation of real estate, except section 435, which relates both to real and personal property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2805 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the poor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 127 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to election of district officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 161, acts of assembly, 1928, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2, of chapter 180, of the acts of general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1918, as amended, relating to the establishment and maintenance of a home for persons unable to care for themselves, to be known as district homes for the poor.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 1514 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the establishment of local sanatoria for sufferers from tuberculosis, and to appropriate funds from the State treasury therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2802 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the poor.
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties of Gloucester and Mathews to appropriate funds for the purpose of contributing such funds to the Daughters of the American Revolution, to be used for re-establishing and marking places of historical interest in connection with the American Revolution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2800 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the poor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia chartering the city of Buena Vista
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 and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to said soldiers and sailors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 473, of the acts of assembly of 1924, entitled “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,” as last amended by chapter 333 of the acts of assembly of 1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 435 of the tax Code of Virginia, providing what property real and personal shall be exempt from taxation State and local.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1903-a providing for the disposition and care of expectant mothers who are prisoners in any penal institution in this State and for the care of such children born of such prisoners.
An ACT giving authority to city councils to make appropriations for the care of dependent children.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the counties of Richmond, Halifax, Craig, Wise, Lancaster and Roanoke to dispose of the poor farms, detention homes and other similar property of those counties.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to make certain contributions to the W. W. Baker Child Welfare Camp, Incorporated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 180 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session of 1918, as amended, relating to the establishment of homes for the care and maintenance of the poor, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered. section 11 and changing the existing section 11 to section 12.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2723 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sale, exchange and control of county property by supervisors.
An ACT to provide educational opportunities for the orphans of soldiers, sailors and marines who were killed in action or died during the World War.

1932
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 435 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to what property, real and personal, is exempt from taxation, State and local.
An ACT to ratify and approve the restoration of the original buildings and grounds of the Colonial College of William and Mary, authorizing their acceptance by the board of visitors of said college, and to provide for further changes by said college in the restoration of buildings, and decorations, furniture and furnishings, and in the landscaping of the grounds surrounding said Colonial College of William and Mary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4302 of chapter 171 of the Code of Virginia, providing for the regulation and control of beneficiary associations, orders or societies.
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 and sailors, and:in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to said soldiers and sailors.
An ACT to authorize the surviving trustees of Cedar Grove School property in Scott county to turn over to Scott county school board for the benefit of Shoemaker high school the funds in their hands as such trustees.
An ACT to accept a conditional gift of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) to the Commonwealth of Virginia from the Honorable John Barton Payne for the erection of an art museum and to authorize the governor and the art commission to proceed with the erection of a State museum without cost to the Commonwealth of Virginia on the soldiers home property or elsewhere in the city of Richmond if and when they shall receive the necessary additional donations.

1934
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 and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to said soldiers and sailors.
An ACT to define, and to provide for the management, control, maintenance and operation of, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for such purpose to provide for a board of directors, to set forth the powers and duties thereof; to define its relation to the Arts Commission and to provide for the disposition of any revenues derived by and from the said museum.
An ACT to abolish the offices of overseers of the poor in the county
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Lawrenceville, Virginia; to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 435 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to property exempt from taxation
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2723 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the sale, exchange and control of county property by supervisors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 157 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to licenses on theatrical and other performances, exhibitions, etc.
An ACT to provide, with certain restrictions, a site for the establishment of a Confederate memorial park to be known as the R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park; to provide for the establishment, management, control, maintenance and operation of said park, and to provide for the disposition of any revenues derived from said park.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to continue the board of charities and corrections under the name of State Board of Public Welfare; to provide for the composition and maintenance of said board; to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide how the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be appointed and compensated; to authorize the board to create a children’s bureau; to provide how county and city boards of public welfare must or may be appointed, with certain exceptions, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such local boards; to authorize such local boards to appoint local superintendents of public welfare, and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such superintendents if and when appointed; also to repeal sections 1888 to 1902 inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, approved February 27, 1922, so as to authorize boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of counties to appoint local superintendents of public welfare.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1215 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to ice cream and other frozen products, and to repeal sections 1216 and 1217 of the Code of Virginia, and any and all acts amendatory thereof relating to the same subjects.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to provide, in certain cases, for the payment out of county and city treasuries of allowances for the support of children in their own homes and for the partial reimbursement by the State of the counties and cities making such payments; also to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved February 28, 1918, approved March 27, 1922.

1936
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide, in certain cases, for the payment out of county and city treasuries of allowances for the support of children in their own homes and for the partial reimbursement by the State of the counties and cities making such payments; also to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved February 28, 1918,” approved March 27, 1922, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize and empower the State Board of Education to sell, transfer and convey certain real estate, together with buildings thereon, situated in the city of Petersburg, and to provide for the disposition of proceeds derived from the sale of such property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 435 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to property exempt from taxation.
An ACT to provide that persons, firms, corporations or associations which collect dues or assessments and provide burial benefits in return therefor shall be known as burial societies; to provide for the organization, licensing and regulation of such societies; and to provide penalties.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Altavista, Campbell county, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 2806-a providing for the pay and allowances to overseers of the poor, and to repeal section 2806 of the Code of Virginia relating to the same matters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 157 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to licenses on theatrical and other performances, exhibitions, etc.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tazewell county to pay Mrs. Nannie A. Bryant for services rendered by her as overseer of the poor for Clear Fork magisterial district for the years 1931 to 1935, inclusive.
An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of this State, having in charge, and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to said soldiers and sailors.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Thornton Massie.
An ACT to appropriate, subject to certain conditions $950,000.00 for each year of the biennium beginning July 1, 1936, to assist counties and cities to provide assistance to and for destitute persons in this State in need of public relief and for the purpose of providing for administration of the provisions of this act; to authorize the Governor to transfer certain funds to the State treasury; to provide for the distribution and expenditure of the funds herein appropriated; to require and empower counties and cities to match State funds to be paid to them hereunder; and to prescribe the powers and duties of the State Commissioner of Public Welfare relating to the distribution and expenditure of funds, hereunder.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5984 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to who are liable to serve as jurors.

1936/1937es
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled "An act to continue the board of charities and corrections under the name of State Board of Public Welfare; to provide for the composition and maintenance of said board; to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide how the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be appointed and compensated; to authorize the board to create a children’s bureau; to provide how county and city boards of public welfare must or may be appointed, with certain exceptions, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such local boards; to authorize such local boards to appoint local superintendents of public welfare, and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such superintendents if and when appointed; also to repeal sections 1888 to 1902, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia," approved February 27, 1922, so as to provide for the payment by the State of certain allowances to the State Board of Public Welfare for the maintenance of children in receiving or detention homes operated by the board.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the town of Altavista, Campbell county, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State,” approved March 30, 1936
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Norton, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and all former charters and amendments thereof, of said town.

1938
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 435 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to what property is exempt from taxation, State and local.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Cape Charles, Northampton county, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Cape Charles.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax”
An ACT to provide for financial aid and assistance to and for certain needy persons in need of public aid or assistance; to that end, to provide for the administration of the provisions of this act, and for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, costs, expenses, powers and duties of the officers, agents and employees, charged with the administration of the provisions of this act; to provide for State and local welfare administrative agencies; to impose certain duties upon the governing bodies of counties and cities; to appropriate money for, and in aid of, the purposes of this act; to impose penalties for violations of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money in aid of certain Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of this State, to be used in caring for the graves of and cemeteries wherein are buried Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors.
An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors, councils and other governing bodies of counties, cities and towns to permit blind persons to construct, maintain and operate, under supervision of the Virginia Commission for the Blind, on certain public property stands for the sale of newspapers, periodicals, confections, tobacco and other similar articles.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled “An act to provide for the regulation of public dance halls located in counties adjoining cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more and in counties having a density of population of more than three hundred per square mile, according to the last United States census”
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1014-a, authorizing the State Hospital Board to provide for the receipt, custody and expenditure of private funds provided for the benefit of patients in State hospitals and colonies; to authorize, under certain conditions, the expenditure of such funds, whether heretofore or hereafter received, for the benefit of all or any part of the patients in such hospital or colony; and to ratify, approve and validate, certain such expenditures heretofore made.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2799 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salary of superintendent of poor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 153 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to carnivals, shows, circuses, menageries, and other like amusements, so as to exempt industrial arts exhibits and fairs from obtaining licenses and paying license taxes.
An ACT to abolish the office of overseer of the poor, and to terminate the terms of office of overseers of the poor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 38, as amended, of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia”, approved March 21, 1928, relating to the powers of the council of the said city, so as to authorize the prohibition of lotteries and raffles therein, the fixing of certain penalties for violation of city ordinances, and prescribing the manner in which certain city ordinances shall be published.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000.00 toward the purchase of the birthplace of James Monroe, by the Monroe Birthplace Monument Association.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Thornton Massie.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Kate J. Foster.
An ACT to abolish the office of superintendent of the poor in the county of Mathews, to transfer the Glebe Funds of the said county held by the said superintendent of the poor to the county treasurer, and to provide how such funds shall be held and administered.

1940
An ACT to abolish the office of superintendent of the poor of the county of Bland.
An ACT to authorize the Commissioner of Public Welfare to enter into agreements with other states for the interstate transportation and support of poor and indigent persons under certain conditions, and to make uniform the law relating thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 98 and 120-1 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to inheritance and gift taxes, respectively.
An ACT to abolish the office of superintendent of the poor of the county of James City
An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled "An Act to provide for the regulation of public dance halls located in counties adjoining cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more and in counties having a density of population of more than three hundred per square mile according to the last United States census," approved March 9, 1926, as amended, so as to make it apply to public dance halls in all the counties in the State, and to authorize the boards of supervisors or other governing bodies to impose license taxes on the operators of such public dance halls.
An ACT for the relief of I. J. Smith
An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money in aid of certain Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia, to be used in caring for the graves of and cemeteries wherein are buried Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors.
An ACT for the relief of Pearson Martin
An ACT for the relief of Bernice M. Bull
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 4, 8, 13, 14, 19, 26, 27, 36, 37, 43, 44, 49, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 65, 66, 68, and 69 of Chapter 379 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938; to further amend the said Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938 by adding thereto a new section numbered 31-a, relating to procedure when a change of residence of a recipient of aid occurs; and to repeal sections 67 and 70-a of the said Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938, the said sections relating to appropriations, and to the continuation of the Public Assistance Act of 1936, respectively.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 15 of an act entitled 'An act to continue the Board of Charities and Corrections under the name of State Board of Public Welfare; to provide for the composition and maintenance of said board; to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide how the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be appointed and compensated; to authorize the board to create a children's bureau; to provide how county and city boards of public welfare must or may be appointed, with certain exceptions, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such local boards; to authorize such local boards to appoint local superintendents of public welfare, and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such superintendents if and when appointed; also to repeal sections eighteen hundred and eighty-eight to nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.'

1942
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 156 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to moving picture shows.
An ACT to transfer to the treasury of Virginia for credit to a special fund for disposition, for certain purposes, by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Chincoteague, Accomack County, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Chincoteague.
An ACT to amend Chapter 105, as heretofore amended, of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved February 27, 1922, relating to the powers and duties of the State Board of Public Welfare and of local boards of public welfare, by adding thereto a new section, numbered 14-a, authorizing local boards of public welfare to engage in certain child welfare activities, and to amend and re-enact Section 15 thereof, as heretofore amended, relative to the powers and duties of local superintendents of public welfare.
An ACT for the relief of Fannie Bass.