Children -- Institutional care
| An ACT providing for a commission on mental health. |
| An Act making appropriations for the support of the government of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the year ending February 29, 1924. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1799, 1802, 1807, 1817, 1822 and 1830 and to repeal sections 1831 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1039 and 1075 and 1077 of title 12, chapter 46, of the Code of Virginia, 1919, relative to the insane, epileptics, feeble-minded, and inebriates. |
| An ACT to provide for the compulsory education of children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, 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 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, approved March 27, 1918. |
| An ACT to authorize “Occupational Therapy” to be provided for children in certain institutions. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4695 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to create county school boards; to prescribe the powers, duties, obligations and compensation of such boards; to provide that, in counties, the county school board shall be the unit of operation of the public free school system; and to abolish district school boards in counties, and county school boards as they may exist on September 1, 1922. |
| An ACT to regulate child placing, and to provide for the licensing, visitation, supervision, inspection and regulation of agencies engaged in the business of receiving and caring for children or placing or boarding them in private homes; and to repeal sections 1931 to 1935, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1905 to 1922, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to accept the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, approved November 23, 1921, entitled an act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1945 to 1953, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and to add six new sections to the said Code, to be numbered 1951a, 1951b, 1951c, 1951d, 1951e, and 1951f. |
| 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. |
| An ACT to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties. |
| An ACT to provide a suitable pavilion at Catawba and Piedmont sanatoria for the care of young children with active disease from tuberculosis infection and providing moneys therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. |
| An ACT to validate and authorize contracts upon the life of infants, under certain conditions, and, subject to certain provisos, to give a valid discharge of the contract or for ‘any benefits available or money payable under the same and to create liens thereon. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizance, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918. |
| An ACT to authorize the State board of public welfare to sell and convey certain lots, pieces or parcels of ground situated in the city of Newport News, and to use the proceeds of sale to purchase other property more suitable for a detention home for the cities of Newport News and Hampton. |
| An ACT to authorize the county school board of Scott county to issue bonds for the purpose of erecting, improving, and furnishing school buildings in the school districts of the county and to prescribe the arrangements thereof |
| An ACT to establish a school for the blind white children of Virginia of school age, whose parents or guardians are citizens of Virginia, to be known as the Virginia School for the Blind. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1822 of the Code of Virginia, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5343 of the Code of YS S133 |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5321 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to authorize the postponement of the Payment of the sum of $16,000.00 and interest due by the Ettrick sub-school district of Chesterfield county, to the literary fund. |
| An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henry to borrow the sum of $100,000.00 and to issue serial bonds or notes for the same running from one to ten years; to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity; to provide that the money so borrowed shall be used for the retirement or payment of any notes, bonds or warrants heretofore issued by said board; to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to borrow the sum of $50,000.00 to be used for the construction and permanent improvement of roads and bridges in said county under the supervision of the State highway commissioner or the board of supervisors of said county and to provide for the payment of same and to provide for the retirement of any notes or bonds which may have been issued by said board pursuant to acts of the general assembly, approved March 9, 1918, and March 14, 1918, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, approved September 5, 1919; and to provide that no bank, person, firm or corporation in the county of Henry shall hereafter receive any interest on any loan made to the board of supervisors of the county of Henry unless such loan shall have been authorized by the general assembly. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5242 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize, and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the Justice ¢ of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county. |
| SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the proposed child labor amendment to the Constitution of the United States. |
| An ACT to improve a license tax on pistols and revolvers; to regulate the sale thereof and of ammunition therefor; and to provide that the proceeds of such tax shall be used for the establishment of a diseased and crippled children’s hospital. |
| An ACT to provide for the taking of a school census of all persons between the ages of seven and twenty years residing in Lee school district in Shenandoah county, who may be inmates of the Hines Memorial Pythian Home, located in said district. |
| An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the probation officer of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Wise to use for any lawful purpose whatsoever, or lease, or sell and convey, in its discretion, the home for women and girls in the county of Wise, established under the provisions of chapter 73 of the acts of assembly of 1922, together with all property of every kind and description used in connection with such home; and to provide for the submission of the question of the use, lease or sale thereof to the qualified voters of Wise county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to create the Virginia commission for the blind, to define its duties, and to make appropriation for its maintenance, approved March 23, 1922; to abolish the board of visitors of the Virginia school for the blind, created by an act approved March 21, 1924, and to confer upon the Virginia commission for the blind all the powers and to impose upon it all the duties of such board of visitors. |
| An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Galax, situated in part in the county of Carroll and in part in the county of Grayson, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act, approved February 25, 1922, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 66, in relation to a juvenile and domestic relations court. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1929, and the 28th day of February, 1930. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5343 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the payment of money to infants entitled thereto, or their parents by courts without the intervention of a guardian. |
| An ACT to provide for protection of school children upon the streets and highways, when being transported to and from school by buses and other vehicles. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 324 of the acts of 1922, entitled 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, approved March 19, 1920, approved March 20, 1922. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5342 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the sale of lands of persons under disabilities. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, Roanoke county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 and section 47 of an act 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, approved March 22, 1924, subsection 10 of section two of which as amended, and subsection 11 of section two of which, 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 amend and re-enact section 5321 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to disbursements by guardians and other fiduciaries. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1021 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and ney 165 |
| A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to the Constitution of Virginia. |
| An ACT to revise, consolidate, amend and codify the school laws of Virginia and certain laws relating to the State board of education, its powers and duties; to repeal certain Code sections and substitute in their place such revised, consolidated and amended Code sections and acts of the general assembly passed since the year 1916, as relate or pertain to the public schools; to number such revised, consolidated and amended statutes as sections 611 to section 718 of the Code of Virginia, both inclusive, all of which said sections relate or pertain to the State board of education, its powers and duties, the superintendent of public instruction, division superintendents, the school system in Virginia; the laws relative to the public school system in the counties in all its phases and relating to every matter that may affect, or in any manner pertain to the public schools in the counties, including the abolition of all school boards and the transfer of their powers and duties after January 1, 1932, to the several boards of supervisors; to provide for the levying, collecting and expenditure of school taxes or appropriations made in lieu thereof; to abolish school districts for all purposes save for purposes of representation for capital expenditures, and the payment of present existing debts; to make all the provisions of such sections applicable to city schools, so far as possible; to repeal sections 586, 594 and 595 of the Code of Virginia and sections 611 to 773 of the Code of Virginia, both inclusive, and any and all acts amendatory of such sections, all of which Code sections relate to the public schools, or matters pertaining thereto; to repeal chapter 412 of the acts of 1918 and chapter 381 of the acts of 1922, both of which relate to the compulsory attendance of children between certain ages upon the public schools of Virginia; to repeal chapter 233 of the acts of 1918 and chapter 327 of the acts of 1920, both of which relate to public health nursing and medical and health inspection of school children; to repeal chapter 32 of the acts of 1918, relating to the exemption of school and college pupils, and the vehicles in which they are traveling, from the payment of tolls on any roads located in this State; to repeal chapter 295 of the acts of 1918, permitting the teaching of high school subjects in primary schools in certain cases; to repeal chapter 371 of the acts of 1918, providing for deposit and disbursement of donations for public free school purposes; to repeal chapter 352 of the acts of 1918, authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans; to repeal chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, relating to local school taxes, except so much thereof as repeals sections 740 and 2721 of the Code of 1919, and all amendments to such act which are found in chapter 29 of the acts of 1923 and chapter 175 of the acts of 1924; to repeal chapter 106 of the acts of 1924, amending chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, by adding thereto section la, relating to local school taxes in Lee county; to repeal chapter 143 of the acts of 1922, relating to contracts for textbooks adopted for use in the public schools of the State; to repeal chapter 423 of the acts of 1922, creating county school boards, providing for their powers and duties, abolishing district boards, etc.; to repeal chapter 148 of the acts of 1922, providing for the establishment of recreation centers and for the teaching of home-crafts; to repeal chapter 46 of the acts of 1926, relating to the borrowing of money by school boards, authorizing short time loans, prohibiting certain other loans and prohibiting school boards from expending or contracting to expend, in any fiscal year, any sum of money in excess of the funds available for that year, unless approved by the boards of supervisors or the councils, etc.; to repeal chapter 493 of the acts of 1926, relating to school taxes; to repeal chapter 529 of the acts of 1926, prohibiting the State board of education from refusing to accredit any school, or any diploma or certificate issued by such school, for the sole reason that such school is not being conducted in a building meeting the requirements of said board; to repeal chapter 564 of the acts of 1926, relating to contracts for textbooks adopted for use in the public schools of the Commonwealth; to repeal chapter 62 of the acts of 1926, amending chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, in relation to local school levies, and relating especially to school taxes in Lee county; to repeal chapter 189 of the acts of 1926, authorizing the issuance of bonds by county school boards for the purpose of refunding school bonds issued on behalf of the school districts; to repeal sections 1529 and 1530 of the Code of Virginia; to repeal sections 798 and 849 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal all Code sections, acts and parts of acts, which are, or may be, in conflict with the provisions of the statutes embraced in the contents of this bill. |
| 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 1077 of the Code of Virginia as amended, in relation to State colony for epileptics and feeble-minded. |
| 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 to authorize the State highway commission to include in the State highway system certain streets and roads in incorporated towns and cities of thirty-five hundred (3,500) inhabitants or less. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3105 of the Code of Virginia, relating to procedure in the courts of civil and police justices. |
| 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 Chesterfield county to make certain contributions to the W. W. Baker Child Welfare Camp, Incorporated. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 241 of the acts of assembly of 1918, entitled an act relating to the filing of answers in suits for the sale of infant’s interests in real estate so as to include insane persons within the provisions of said act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5335 of the Code of Virginia as amended by acts of assembly of 1922, chapter 113. |
| 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. |
| 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 611, 612, 617, 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 626, 629, 630, 642, 647, 649, 650, 651, 653, 655, 660, 673, 678, 682, 684, 695, 778 and 780 of the Code of Virginia as amended into law by ‘chapter 471 of the acts of 1928, which act revised, consolidated, amended and codified the school laws of Virginia relating to the public school system. [S B 168] |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section (c) section 21, chapter 33, acts of assembly, 1927, entitled an act to reorganize the administration of the State government, making the commissioner of public welfare, ex-officio, a member of certain boards and agencies. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the period of four months from the first day of March to the thirtieth day of June, inclusive 1930, and for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June 1931, and the thirtieth day of June, 1932, including the appropriation of fund which may be derived from certificates of indebtedness authorized by this act to be issued by certain State educational institutions. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2805 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the poor. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Bluefield, Virginia, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 683 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the compulsory education of children. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Burkeville, Nottoway county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 684 of the Code of Virginia, as enacted in law by chapter 471 of the acts of 1928, relating to the compulsory attendance of children at school and providing for the compulsory education of blind and deaf children. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia chartering the city of Buena Vista |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 681 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the establishment of public schools. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less that 25,000 and more than twenty thousand inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1085 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to duties of courts when a person before it appears to be feeble-minded. |
| An ACT for the relief of King’s Daughters’ Hospital, at Staunton, |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled 'an act to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the probation officer of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county' |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the justice of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county” |
| 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. |
| An ACT to permit the trial together of cases for personal injury of infants, with claims for the expenses of curing or attempting to cure infants from such injury. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 683 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to compulsory education. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5337 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to answers of guardians ad litem and infants in certain cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of an act entitled an act to reorganize the administration of the State government in order to secure better service, and through co-ordination and consolidation, to promote economy and efficiency in the work of the government; to create and establish or continue certain departments, divisions, offices, officers, and other agencies, and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, commissions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency, approved April 18, 1927, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1935, and the thirtieth day of June, 1936. |
| 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 for the relief of William A. Tuck, guardian of Helen Mitchell Morgan. |
| An ACT for the relief of H. I°. Minter |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to impose a license tax on pistols and revolvers; to regulate the sale thereof and of ammunition therefor; and to provide that the proceeds of such tax shall be used for the establishment of a diseased and crippled children’s hospital |
| 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 amend and re-enact Section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the adoption of minor children by adult persons, so as to provide for reporting adoptions to the State Bureau of Vital Statistics. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 63 and 64 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, Virginia, as amended by act approved March 24, 1920, as amended by act approved March 10, 1928, and to add thereto a new section to be known as section 64-a. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 13, 15 and 16 of an act entitled "An act to regulate the employment of children; to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact Chapter 210 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, approved March 14, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to permit children over the age of twelve years to work in fruit and vegetable canneries and to transmit merchandise or run errands, approved March 20, 1920, and to repeal Sections 1809 to 1816, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, Section 1810 of which was amended by an act approved March 25, 1920," approved March 27, 1922. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 672 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the establishing and maintenance of public high schools, and the charging of tuition in such schools. |
| 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 provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5343 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to courts authorizing payment of money to infants, or to other persons for their benefit, without the intervention of a guardian. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1077 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded. |
| 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, 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 authorize the State Board of Public Welfare to buy, lease, own and operate property, real and personal, for the use and benefit of dependent, delinquent or defective persons under its care, supervision or control, and to expend funds appropriated, allocated or granted for such purposes by the United States, or any instrumentality or agency thereof, or by the State of Virginia, or any of its political subdivisions, or donated or provided by private persons or others, and to sell, convey or lease any such property. |
| 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 1005 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the boards of directors of the State hospitals and the colony for epileptics and feeble-minded, so as to abolish the present general and special boards of directors of said institutions; to provide for a single board of directors to be known as the State Hospital Board, and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the appointment, suspension and removal of the members of such board and to provide for the expenses of the members of the said board and its secretary. |
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