Children -- Institutional care

1910
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, and 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.
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 in relation to certain proper sanitary arrangements to be provided in factories, workshops, mercantile establishments or offices, and imposing penalties for failure to provide such arrangements.
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 allow compensation to the “Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls’ for caring for girls committed to its custody and control under a commitment of a court, judge or justice.
An ACT to establish a public free school on the grounds of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia in Hanover county, and to provide for the conduct and maintenance of the same.
An ACT to provide for public playgrounds in certain cities and towns.
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 legalize the adoption of minor children by adult persons
An ACT to establish the Virginia State epileptic colony.
An ACT making it a misdemeanor for parents or guardians to refuse or neglect to support their children under fourteen years of age, or to subject children under seventeen years of age to vicious or immoral influence, encourage any child to commit a misdemeanor, or to send a child under seventeen years of age to certain places; punishment therefor, and declaring an emergency.
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 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.

1912
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 amend and re-enact an act entitled 'fan 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,' so as to cover cities of fifteen thousand inhabitants and over.
An ACT to establish on the farm of the Virginia State epileptic colony, the Virginia colony for the feeble minded and to provide for the commitment of feeble minded persons to such colony.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to reg-ulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establishments where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives, approved March 4, 1890, so as to embrace work-shops, and mercantile establishments.
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 sections 1492 and 1493 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘act to amend and re-enact chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia relating to public free schools of counties and to the literary fund, approved December 28, 1903,” as also amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 1492 and 1493 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to persons who shall be admitted to public schools, approved March 16, 1908,” in relation to persons admitted to public schools.
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 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 amend and re-enact chapter 14, of acts 1910, entitled an act in relation to certain proper sanitary arrangements to be provided in factories, workshops, merchantile establishments or offices, and imposing penalties for failure to provide such arrangements

1914
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 14, of acts 1910, en- titled an act in relation to certain proper sanitary arrangements to be provided in factories, workshops, mercantile establishments or offices, and imposing penalties for failure to provide such arrangements
An ACT to regulate the employment of children in factories, mercantile establishments, workshops and laundries, and as messengers, or in selling or distributing newspapers or other periodicals in this Commonwealth on and after July 1, 1914, and to prescribe penalties for violations of such regulations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11, 12, and 63 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
An ACT to establish on the land of the Central State hospital, in the county of Dinwiddie, Virginia, the Central State colony for the feeble-minded, and to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony, and for the examination and furloughing of such persons.
An ACT to provide for the commitment of delinquent, dependent, or neglected children to the State board of charities and corrections, and to certain societies, associations, or reformatories, and authorizing such organizations to place said children in suitable homes and institutions; defining the terms “delinquent,” “dependent,” and “neglected” child: when children under eighteen years of age may or may not be sent to jail, workhouse, police station or penitentiary; requiring parents in certain contingencies to pay for support of delinquent, dependent or neglected children, providing for physical and mental examination of children, and for placing them in hospitals when necessary; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; allowing delinquent children to be released on probation; prescribing the procedure in the hearing of children’s cases; penalties for removing or interfering with any child committed hereunder, or for violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals; and providing for the supervision and inspection of societies and associations by the State board of charities and corrections.
An ACT to provide, in cities containing 50,000 inhabitants or more, for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the justice of the juvenile and domestic relations court, and to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties.
An ACT to admit children 6 years of age to the public free schools of the State under certain conditions.
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.
An Act to amend and re-enact 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, approved March 4, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912, so as to embrace mercantile establishments on Saturdays, and laundries, and adding an independent section thereto prohibiting the employment of males under twenty-one years of age, and females in places where intoxicating liquors are manufactured, bought, sold, packed, or shipped.
An ACT to provide unon the conveyance by the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls, of its property, real and personal, lo- cated in the county of Chesterfield, to the State of Virginia, that the State will assume control, operation and management of the said home in accordance with the charter of the said corporation, and to assume any indebtedness of the said home existing on the 1st day of March, 1914, not in excess of $1.500.00.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Basic City
An ACT making it a misdemeanor for any person over the age of 18 years to cause or encourage any child under the age of 18 year to commit any misdemeanor; to send a child under 18 to certain places: or in any way to contribute to or cause a child under 18 to be guilty of vicious or immoral conduct, and providing punishment therefor.

1915
An ACT making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his child or children under the age of sixteen years; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provisions for the apprehension and punishment of persons convicted of non-support, and providing that persons convicted of non-support shall be sent to the convict road force in certain contingencies; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of said recognizances; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; and making chief of police and sheriff probation officers in certain contingencies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45, 46, 46%, 46% (a), 4614(b), 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51(a), 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 8&5, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 9214, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 97%, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 104, 105, 106, 106%4, 107, 108, 109, 10944, 110, 111, 11144, 112, 1138, 118%, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 118(a), 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 1380, 131, 18382. 133, 1384, 1385, 136, 137, 138, 140 and 141 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

1916
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish on the land of the Central State Hospital, in the county of Dinwiddie, Virginia, the Central State Colony for the Feeble-minded, to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony and for the examination and furloughing of such persons.
An ACT authorizing commitment of persons charged with crime, who are suspected of being feeble-minded, to city or county farms, and providing for length of sentence and examination.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 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 define feeble-mindedness and to provide for the examination, legal commitment, and the custody and care of feeble minded persons, and their segregation in institutions.
An ACT allowing (under certain conditions) district ao: county school boards to provide free school books for children attending the public schools and instructing boards of supervisors and city councils to provide the necessary revenue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to re-quire 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 provide that where deductions are allowed by law in the assessment of income or other taxes on account of an unmarried child or children of the person assessed, the same allowances shall be made in the case of a child or children legally adopted as for natural children.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1408 of the Code of Virginia relating to quantity of land benevolent associations may hold.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fisca! years ending respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1917, and the 28th day of February, 1918.
An ACT providing additional powers and duties of the State board of charities and corrections.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1912, entitled an act to establish on the farm of the Virginia State epileptic colony, the Virginia colony for the feeble-minded, and to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony.

1918
An ACT to provide for the disposition of infants of convict mothers.
An ACT to ratify and confirm judicial proceedings in partition suits where parcels of real estate, in which infants had undivided interests, have been conveyed to corporation organized for the purpose of acquiring such real estate in exchange for its capital stock.
An ACT to regulate the operation of motor vehicles in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
An ACT to provided for the conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia of the Laurel Industrial School, its property, real and personal, located in the county of Henrico, to the State of Virginia; that the State will assume control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the charter of the said association.
An ACT to prevent minors from frequenting, playing in or loitering in public pool rooms, billiard rooms, outside of the corporate limits of towns and cities.
An ACT to provide (in certain cases) for the compulsory attendance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide (in certain cases) for the compulsory attendance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia, and providing penalties for failure, and designating the manner of collecting such penalties, approved March 14, 1908.
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 provide whole family protection for members of fraternal benefit societies.
An ACT for the prevention of blindness from opthalmia neonatorum, designating certain powers and duties and otherwise providing for the enforcement of this act ,and making appropriation to carry it into effect.
An ACT to permit the councils, or other governing bodies, of cities of the first class, to appropriate money to aid in the support of dependent children of members of the police and fire departments of such cities who may have lost their lives through injuries received or disease incurred while in the performance of their duties as members of such departments.
A RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 188 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to establish a hospital for the treatment of crippled and deformed children, and to appropriate money therefor.
An ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of any two or more counties in this State, or the board of supervisors of any one or more of the counties in this State and the council or councils of any one or more of the several cities in this State, to establish a home for the care and maintenance of the poor; to authorize the sale and conveyance of certain rental and personal property belonging to such cities and counties as may adopt the provisions of this act; to authorize the authorities of such counties and cities to purchase farms of suitable size, fertility and location; to authorize such authorities to erect suitable buildings to be called district homes, to which all of the counties and cities composing such district must send its poor, and care for same; providing for the appointment of boards of control, superintendents, physicians and necessary employees; and to abolish county and city poor houses in the several counties and cities which adopt the provisions of this act.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $170,687 to the State hospitals for the insane and the Virginia colony for epileptics, and the State colony for the feeble-minded, to meet the deficits In maintenance of these institutions for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1918
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 3401 of the acts of 1908, regulating the employment of children in certain employments, approved March 13, 1908, as amended by chapter 339 of the acts of 1914, approved March 27, 1914.
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.
An ACT relating to the filing of answers in suits for the sale of infants’ interest in real estate.

An ACT to provide for taking a special school census in Newport magisterial district of Warwick county, and for basing the apportionment of school funds upon such census.
An ACT authorizing experts in making mental tests to act as members of commissions in proceedings for commitment of feeble-minded persons to the State colonies and also to testify before such commis.

1919es
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $9,260 to the Virginia home and industrial school for girls at Bon Air for the payment of salaries and the purchase of supplies and equipment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled "an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March 12, 1908, March 14, 1908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 18, 1914, March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, February 5, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk," approved February 7, 1918.

1920
A RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 138 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to permit children over the age of twelve years to work
An ACT confirming a payment by the auditor of public accounts to Lynchburg city farm, and authorizing the payment of two hundred and sixty-four dollars to said city farm.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1810 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend section 719 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the conveyance by the Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored Girls of its property, real and personal to the Commonwealth of Virginia; that the Commonwealth will assume control, operation and management of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia-of the Laurel Industrial School, its property, real and personal, located in the county of Henrico and the State of Virginia; that the State will assume the control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the charter of the said association, approved March 16, 1918.
An ACT to provide for an election by the qualified voters of Grafton magisterial district, in the county of York, State of Virginia.
An ACT concerning the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1923 of the Code of Virginia, relating to causing or encouraging children under eighteen years of age to commit misdemeanors, etc.
An ACT to amend section 786 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of any two or more counties in this State, or the board of supervisors of any one or more of the counties in this State and the council or councils of any one or more of the several cities in this State, to establish a home for the care and maintenance of the poor; to authorize the sale and conveyance of certain real and personal property belonging to such cities and counties as may adopt the provisions of this act; to authorize the authorities of such counties and cities to purchase farms of suitable size, fertility and location; to authorize such authorities to erect suitable buildings to be called district homes, to which all of the counties and cities composing such district must send its poor, and care for same; providing for the appointment of boards of control, superintendents, physicians and necessary employees; and to abolish county and city poor houses in the several counties which adopt the provisions of this act, approved March 14, 1918.
An ACT to amend sections 653 and 654 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1004, 1005, 1019, 1021, 1022, 1024, 1027, 1047, 1050, 1063, 1066, 1067, 1076, 1078, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1085, and 1089 of title 12, chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate.
An ACT for the relief of the family of J. C. Shelhorse.
An ACT to require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their parents in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more.
An ACT to provide for public health nursing, health examinations and physical education of school children, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for public health nursing and medical inspection and health inspection of school children, approved March 15, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5333 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the conveyance by the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia of its property, real and personal, located in the county of Hanover, to the State of Virginia, that the State may assume control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the provisions of the charter of said association.

1922
An ACT to amend an act approved March 20, 1920, entitled an act for the protection of patients and inmates of State hospitals and colonies for the insane, epileptic and feeble-minded from improper and unlawful marriages and providing punishment for violation of this act.
An ACT to provide for the licensing, regulation, and inspection of maternity hospitals, and to repeal sections 1925 to 1930, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to prohibit the selling of children; to protect children from wilful or negligent injuries; and to prevent children from being overworked, tortured, tormented, mutilated, or cruelly beaten or cruelly treated.
An ACT to provide for the licensing, regulation and inspection of children’s boarding houses and nurseries.
An ACT to require persons sixteen years of age, or over, of sufficient earning capacity or income, to support their parents who are in destitute or necessitous circumstances; and to repeal an act entitled an act to require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their parents in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more
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.
An ACT to authorize the postponement of the payment of the sum of $16,000.00 and interest due by the school board of Ettrick sub-school district, of Chesterfield county, to the literary fund.
An ACT to regulate the employment of children
An ACT to effect the separation of the schools for the deaf and the blind at Staunton, and to provide for a commission to make recommendations concerning the establishment of a separate school for the education of the white blind children of Virginia, and appropriating one thousand dollars for the expenses of said commission.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to establish a home for women and girls convicted of certain offenses.