Children -- Institutional care

1893/1894
An ACT amending and re-enacting an act incorporating the Richmond male orphan society.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2 and 3 of an act approved February 24, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Baptist orphanage of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the directors and managers of the Female orphan asylum at Fredericksburg, Virginia, to transfer, convey and deliver the real and personal property of that corporation to the Assembly’s home and school at Fredericksburg, Virginia, so soon as the last named corporation is organized under its charter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Staunton, in force March 22, 1872, as amended by sundry subsequent acts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1733, code of 1887, in relation to compulsory vaccination.
An ACT to incorporate the Assembly’s home and school at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1661 of chapter 75 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the change of the names of the lunatic asy- lums of the state.
An ACT to amend chapter 152 of the acts of 1889-90, approved February 28, 1890, relative to furnishing cigarettes or tobacco in any form to minors.
An ACT to authorize and empower the school districts of Scott county to make appropriation to aid in building Shoemaker college.

1897/1898
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2 in relation to the mayor; sections 6 and 7 of chapter 3 in relation to the common council; sections 2, 8, 9 and 10 of chapter 4 in relation to finance; section 11 of chapter 5 in relation to the city officers; and to add an independent section, in relation to omitted assessments, to said chapter of an act entitled, ‘‘An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg,” approved March 11, 1875, as amended by an act approved April 4, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1890.
An ACT to empower any judge or justice of the commonwealth before whom a minor under sixteen years of age is convicted of a misdemeanor to substitute stripes in lieu of fine and imprisonment, or of either, with the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3828 of the code of Virginia, in relation to an sale of Ttoxdeat- Ing liquors to minors or certain students, approved February 4, 1sd6, and to reg- ulate the sale, barter, giving or furnishing of spirituous or Pruderscl oui ing or malt hquors to such minors and students
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2600 of the code of Virginia to authorize a minor over 14 years nominating in writing his guardian to acknowledge the same before any person competent to take acknowledgment of deeds.
An ACT to incorporate the John Hay normal and industrial school, of Alexandria, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to provide for the reorganization of the institutions for the deaf and dumb and blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, dumb and blind institute at Staunton, Va., approved May 14, 1887, approved March 4, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Foundling hospital of the city of Richmond, increasing the number of the board of governors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to legalize the adoption of minor children
An ACT to provide that the governor of the commonwealth shall have the right and authority, in certain cases, to pardon minors convicted and committed to the custody and control of the Prison association of Virginia, and to release said minors from such custody and control.
An ACT relating to the support and maintenance, In certain cases, of minors committed to the Prison association of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled an act In relation to commitment of minors to Prison association of Virginia and their custody
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Cedar Grove school property to sell said property and dispose of and invest the proceeds according to the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter three hundred and thirty-nine of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1889-'90, entitled an act to incorporate the Baptist orphanage of Virginia, approved February 24, 1890, as amended by chapter 108 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1893-94, approved January 30, 1894.
An ACT to exempt the wages of minors from garnishment process.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize certain persons when arrested or convicted to be committed to the custody of the Prison association of Virginia
An ACT to incorporate the Home for friendless children.

1899/1900
An ACT to incorporate the children’s home society of Virginia.
An ACT to validate sales of certain infants’ lands.
An ACT in relation to the government of the negro reformatory association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment, and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the commonwealth for caring for such minors.
An ACT to incorporate the Radford colored orphanage and educational reformatory school.
An ACT to empower the trustees of the Bell home to receive land for the use of the said Bell home, in the county of Westmoreland, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of the personal representative and estate of William M. Flanagan.
An ACT for the relief of Charles E. Blankenship.
An Act to exempt the home for friendless children, situated in Chesterfield county, from taxation.
An ACT to ratify and confirm an order entered in the circuit court of the city of Richmond March 6, 1894, permitting James Grant and Mary Grant, his wife, to adopt as their own child Kate Woods, a female minor child under the age of fourteen, changing her name to Annie Grant, and to change the name of said female minor child to Annie Grant, and to declare the said Annie Grant to all legal intents and purposes the child of the said James Grant and Mary Grant.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2615 of the code of Virginia in relation to how leases on behalf of persons under disability may be made.
An ACT for relief of W. L. Rye, of Halifax county.
An ACT to incorporate the first free school society of Alexandria, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia conference orphanage of the Methodist Episcopal church, south.
An ACT to incorporate the Keysville bluestone mission industrial school.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Martha Jane Harvey, widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1660 to 1712, inclusive, of the code of Virginia in relation to state hospitals for the Insane and the commitment of insane persons.
An ACT to pension Mrs. E. A. Wallace, widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT for the relief of Johnson & Early, assignees of Mag. Crockett.
An ACT for the relief of Josiah Dodson, a Confederate soldier.
An ACT for the relief of Johnson & Early, assignees of Gordon S. Ogle.

1895/1896
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the charter of the city of Williamsburg and to authorize the common council to issue bonds for the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a school building for white children of said city.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Catalpa district, in Culpeper county, to borrow money.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1492, code of Virginia, 1887 in relation to the attendance of children in public schools.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 22, 1892 entitled an act to amend and re-enact clause 4 of section 6 of an act approved February 24, 1874, entitled an act to give effect to a compromise of the 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 25th clause of said will, as amended by acts approved on April 2, 1887, and on February 19, 1884, respectively.
An ACT to prevent cruelty to children, and to regulate and provide for their control and custody in certain cases.
An ACT to incorporate the trustees of the Whosoever home and farm.
An ACT to provide for the reorganization of the institution for the deaf and dumb and the blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled “an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the deaf, dumb and blind institute at Staunton, Virginia,” approved May 14, 1887.

1901/1902
An ACT to incorporate the Presbyterian Orphans’ Home.
An ACT to provide for the incorporation of associations or societies for charitable and benevolent purposes, and for the care, custody, and maintenance of and for the prevention of cruelty to children.
An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke Orphan Asylum.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and<br />re-enact section 2616 and section 2620 of an act entitled an act to revise, ar-<br />range, and consolidate into a code the general statutes of the Commonwealth,<br />approved May 16, 1887, approved 23d February, 1888, and as further amended<br />by an act approved Sth March, 1888, so as to authorize the encumbrance of the<br />lands of infants and insane persons for the purpose of improving the same.
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 authorize the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia to pay money to infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases, without the intervention of a guardian.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 2, 1898, changing the name of the John Hay Normal and Industrial School, of Alexandria, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘an act to incorporate the Children’s Home Society of Virginia,
An ACT to incorporate the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to children.
An ACT to incorporate the Northern Neck Industrial Academy.

1901es
An ACT to incorporate the Union co-operative college, at Bedford City, Virginia.

1902/1903
An ACT making it a misdemeanor to employ children under the age of twelve years in manufacturing, mechanical and mining operations, and to regulate the hours of employment of children between the ages of twelve and fourteen, and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of said act.
An ACT to prevent the sale or gift of toy firearms to persons under twelve years of age, and to provide a penalty therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 74, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, as amended by an act entitled 'an act to provide for the reorganization of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled 'an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute at Staunton, Virginia,'' approved May 14, 1887, as amended by an act entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled 'an act to provide for the reorganization of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind,'' and to repeal chapter 74 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled 'an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute at Staunton, Virginia,' approved May 14, 1887, approved March 4, 1896, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 71, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the State Female Normal School, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
An ACT appropriating the sum of five thousand dollars to the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to meet current expenses.

1902/1904
An ACT making it a misdemeanor to employ children under the age of twelve years in manufacturing, mechanical and mining operations, and to regulate the hours of employment of children between the ages of twelve and fourteen, and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of said act.
An ACT to prevent the sale or gift of toy firearms to persons under twelve years of age, and to provide a penalty therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 74, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind
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 amend and re-enact section 2773 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2757 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 appropriating the sum of $20,000 to be used to meet the deficit in the appropriation for the Eastern State Hospital.

1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2434 and 2618 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2599, 2600, 2601, 2602, as amended by an act approved January 2, 1904, providing for the appointment of guardians by the circuit and corporation courts and the judges thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1670 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 1660 to 1712, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to State hospitals for the insane and the commitment of insane persons," approved March 7, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 7, 1903.
An ACT in relation to the commitment of minors to the Prison Association of Virginia, their custody therein, the compensation for, and expenses of, such custody, and their discharge therefrom.

1906
An ACT to provide for the establishment of “Virginia State school for colored deaf, dumb and blind children.”
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 1470 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the division of school districts and sub-districts, so as to provide for such division; for the government and administration of sub-districts; for additional school tax therein; and for appointment of school directors, providing for their terms of office, powers, duties, adoption of this act by the counties of the State, and for relief from adoption.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1531 and 1538 of an act of assembly entitled “an act to amend and re-enact chapter 67 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public free schools in cities and in towns constituting separate school districts,”
An ACT to establish an epileptic colony on land of the Western State hospital, in Amherst county.
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide Places of Abode and for the Safe Custody and Proper Guardianship of Children

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 2, of an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact section 1470 of the Code of Virginia relating to the division of school districts and subdistricts, so as to provide for such division; for the government and administration of such subdistricts; for additional school tax therein; for appointment of school directors, providing for their terms of office, powers, duties, for adoption of this act by the counties of the State, and for relief from such adoption
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to authorize the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia to pay money to infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases, without the intervention of a guardian, approved April 2, 1902, in respect to the amount of money that may be paid to the infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $4,100 to meet certain expenses for the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, Staunton.
An ACT prescribing the punishment for abducting, kidnapping or unlawfully aiding in the escape of the inmates of any of the public hospitals of this State.
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 1 of an act entitled: An act to establish an epileptic colony on land of the Western State Hospital in Amherst county
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to prevent cruelty to children and to regulate and provide for their control and custody in certain cases
An ACT to regulate the employment of children in factories, mercantile establishments, workshops and mines in this Commonwealth, on and after March 1, 1909, and to prescribe penalties for violations of such regulations.
An ACT allowing courts to approve and confirm compromises it actions and suits wherein infants, idiots or lunatics are parties.
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 provide (in certain cases) for the compulsory attend-ance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia, and providing penalty for failure, and designating the manner of collecting such penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 7 of an act entitled: An act in relation to the government of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the Commonwealth, for the caring for such minors
An ACT to establish a public free school on the grounds of the prison association of Virginia at Laurel, Henrico county, and to make an appropriation for erection and equipment of the school house, and to provide for the conduct and maintenance of the same.