Civil Rights

1895/1896
An ACT for the relief of R. W. Read, a Confederate veteran, of Augusta county.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth Covington, widow of a Confederate soldier.

An ACT to allow a pension to Susan A. Rickman, of Halifax.
An ACT to remove the political disabilities of W. P. Bugg.
An ACT to allow a pension to Sarah Right, of Patrick county
An ACT in relation to officers and teachers of public free schools having any pecuniary benefit in furnishing books, &c., to public free schools in this state.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3680 of the code of Virginia in reference to rape and its punishment.
An ACT to incorporate the Powhatan troop association.
An ACT for the relief of J. H. Wingfield.
An ACT directing the auditor of public accounts to place the name of Andrew Austin on the pension list.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a method of voting by ballot, approved March 6, 1894.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia union university, in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
An ACT to punish as for a misdemeanor a person using abusive language to another.
An ACT to incorporate the Society of the sons of the revolution in the state of Virginia.

1901/1902
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act incorporating the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, and to provide for the support of the same
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 regulate and fix the fees of the sheriff and his deputies for services rendered in guarding juries in criminal cases.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on September 30, 1902, and September 30, 1903.
An ACT to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war, or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service, or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act.
An ACT requiring the Richmond and Petersburg Electric Railway Company to provide separate accommodations for the white and colored passengers upon its line between Hull street, in the city of Manchester, and Old street, in the city of Petersburg, and conferring upon its conductors and motormen powers of conservators of the peace and policemen upon its cars and right of way.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to legalize primary elections in the county of Prince William
An ACT to authorize and empower corporations or persons operating electric railroads or railways in the city of Alexandria and from the city of Alexandria to any point in the county of Alexandria, and from the city of Alexandria to any point in the county of Fairfax, to provide for the separation of white and colored passengers traveling upon cars and coaches upon their respective lines of railroad or railway, and to require passengers to obey the instructions and directions of the conductors or managers of such cars or coaches.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. M. B. Hurst from payment of a recognizance to the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to make husband and wife competent witnesses for or against each other in certain civil and criminal cases.
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 Southwest Academy, at Pulaski, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of W. K. Donald, a Confederate soldier of Rockbridge county.
An ACT for relief of Joseph R. Bunting
An ACT to incorporate the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to children.
An ACT to amend and reenact an act in relation to the preservation of order at the pells

1901es
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to require railroad companies to provide separate cars for white and colored passengers, approved January 30, 1900, relating to the persons to whom the act shall not apply.
An ACT to incorporate the town of La Crosse, Mecklenburg county, Virginia.
An ACT to require the Richmond Passenger and Power Company to provide separate accommodations for the white and colored passengers upon its line between Twenty-ninth and P streets, in the city of Richmond, and Seven Pines, in the county of Henrico.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the separate accommodation of white and colored passengers in the sitting, sleeping, and eating apartments of steamboats plying in the waters within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth, and to provide certain police powers for captains, pursers, and other officers in command to enforce such regulations and to prevent and suppress disorderly conduct on said boats

1902/1903
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled "an act to provide a method of voting by ballot"
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1662, 1663, 1664, 1665,1666, 1669, 1670, 1672, 1673, 1674, 1675, 1677, 1679, 1680, 1682, 1684, 1685, 1688, 1697, 1702, 1707, and 1710 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, 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.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act approved July 28, 1902, in relation to who liable to serve as jurors.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of the act to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in statuary hall at Washington, and to constitute a commission to contract for said statue and present the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887) in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled “an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 85 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved July 28, 1902, making registrars conservators of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code, 1887, in reference to who liable to serve as jurors.
An ACT to carry into effect an ordinance of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia, which assembled at Richmond on the 12th of June, 1901, entitled “an ordinance to provide for the registration of voters under this Constitution and prior to 1904,” so far as legislative action may be necessary, and to make it applicable to towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1681 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900, in relation to commitment of certain persons to insane hospitals.

1902/1904
An ACT to repeal sections 63 and 66, and to amend sections 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, and 85, as amended by act approved May 26, 1903, of chapter 8 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2999, 3000, and 3004 of the Code of Virginia.
An Act to amend and re-enact sections 3139, 3140, 3142, 3143, 3144, 3145, 3146, and 3147 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to jurors.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 3214, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1900, and by an act approved March 3, 1900, and section 3218 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2216, as amended by an act approved January 17, 1896; 2224, as amended by an act approved December 17, 1895; 2225, as amended by an act approved January 28, 1896; 2228, 2240, 2250, and to repeal section 2233 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2552 of the Code, in relation to how bastards take by inheritance, so as to prescribe in what cases the children of former slaves may take by inheritance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2939, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1892; section 2956 and section 2957, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1894, of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled "an act to provide that if the plaintiff in a warrant upon a contract of such nature that an action of assumpsit would lie on same shall have served with the warrant a copy of this account, verified by affidavit, he shall have judgment for the amount of the said account, unless the defendant shall deny under oath that the account is due; and if the defendant deny only a part of the account he shall have judgment as to the residue, and the case be tried as to the part so denied," approved March 1, 1898; and also to repeal an act entitled "an act to provide how appeals from justice and warrants removed shall be tried, and how defects, omissions, and irregularities in the proceedings below may be corrected in the court to which the appeal is taken or the warrant removed," approved February 27, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2716, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2716 of the Code, in relation to unlawful detainer,” approved March 4, 1890, and sections 2717, 2718, 2719, and 2720 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to carry into effect an ordinance of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia, which assembled at Richmond on the 12th of June, 1901, entitled ‘an ordinance to provide for the registration of voters under this Constitution and prior to 1904,’ so far as legislative action may be necessary, and to make it applicable to towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3559; section 3560, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 24, 1898; sections 3562 and 3563, chapter 174, of the Code of Virginia.
An Act to provide for the commitment to private hospitals or sanitariums of inebriates, opium eaters, or persons addicted to other drug habits and lost self-control.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3888, as amended by an act approved January 15, 1894; 3902, 3903, 3904, 3909, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898, and 3911, and to repeal section 3910 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to provide a method of voting by ballot”
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3498, 3500, 3505, 3506, and 3508 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3515 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1896, and section 3519 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 18, 1896, and section 3528, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, and also to repeal section 3524 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1900, and section 3525 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act approved July 28, 1902, in relation to who liable to serve as jurors.
An ACT to provide for the transfer of causes at law, presentments, informations, and indictments for misdemeanors and felonies pending in the county courts of the Commonwealth to the circuit courts of such counties.
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 to remove the political disabilities of George T. Croxton, of the county of Essex.
An ACT to provide an appeal to any person denied registration.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how a chancery cause submitted for decision in vacation, how the decree certified and entered, its effect
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.

1904
An ACT to prevent the unauthorized use of the name or picture of any person for the purpose of trade or for advertising purposes.
An ACT to empower any corporation, its agents, conductors, or employees, operating in this State sleeping, dining, palace, parlor, chair, or compartment cars on the railroads in this State, to reject and refuse admittance to any and all persons to enter into and to ride in such sleeping, dining, palace, parlor, chair, or compartment cars, when in the discretion of such corporation, its agents and conductors, it may be advisable to do so.
An ACT to provide for lists of all persons who have paid their State poll taxes, and for posting the same; for providing compensation therefor.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue
An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the voting precinct of Windsor, in the county of Isle of Wight, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Windsor, and in the event of a majority of those voting at said election vote for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter, within said voting precinct, or within one mile of its limits, the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as provided herein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4016 and 4018 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 2, 1904, concerning the trial of criminal cases and juries therefor.
An ACT to provide for taking the depositions of female witnesses in cases of rape and attempted rape.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059 of the Code, as amended by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled ‘an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, and 3067 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060, and 3062 of the Code as heretofore amended,” and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, in so far as the same applies to the Fifth, Seventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first judicial circuits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 453, acts of assembly 1901-2, approved April 2, 1902, entitled “an act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States, while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war, or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service, or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act.”
An ACT to require the owner or owners of steamboat wharves to provide thereat suitable accommodations for the patrons of steamboats using the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 504 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 464 and 504 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the mode in which land and property books shall be made out

1906
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, section 2, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 15, 1904, and sections 7, 12, 16, 18, and 20 of an act entitled ‘an act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war or by the infirmities of old age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors or marines who lost their lives in said service or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act.
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 3059 of the Code, as amended by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled “an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, and 3067 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060, and 3062 of the Code as heretofore amended,” and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, in so far as the same applies to the sixteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 3, and section 9, chapter 3, of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to 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 amend and reenact section 3232 of the Code of Virginia in relation to orders of publication and the publication of copies of process and notices.
An ACT to permit persons charged with crime and unable to furnish a bail bond or not let to bail, with the consent of the Commonwealth’s attorney, to work in chain gangs or in the State convict road force, and allowing such persons credit therefor on any sentence thereafter imposed for such crime of which he is charged; and in case of acquittal, allowing him pay for his labor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47, chapter 4, of an “act concerning public service corporations,” approved January 18, 1904, so as to require a separation of white and colored passengers on cars operated by electricity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a normal school at William and Mary college in connection with its collegiate course, approved March 5, 1888, and to transfer the ownership of the real estate and personal property of the said college to the State.

1908
An ACT to provide for the office of secretary of Virginia military records, prescribing his duties, and for collecting materials for the History of Virginia in the Civil War; and to appropriate the sum of $5,000 annually for the years 1908 and 1909, to defray the necessary expenses of the office.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2, as amended by act of general assembly approved March 15, 1904, and sections 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 20 of an act entitled: An act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors or marines of Virginia and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors or marines of Virginia who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act as amended by previous acts and by subsequent acts and by the act approved March 10, 1906.
An ACT to define and regulate the sale, distribution, rectifying, manufacture and distilling of intoxicating liquors and malt beverages, and to impose license taxes thereon, and to prohibit the drinking of ardent spirits on railroad trains, and to repeal sections 141 and 142 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved February 19, 1904, and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to establish a board of charities and corrections to define its duties and to fix the compensation of said board and subordinates and to provide for the manner in which they shall be appointed to said offices.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending respectively on the 28th day of February, 1909, and the 28th day of February, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, approved March 2, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 27, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 25, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 6, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 14, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardianship of children who are vicious, or depraved, or without proper places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian or other custodian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1492 and 1493 of the Code as heretofore amended, in relation to persons who shall be admitted to public schools.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the appointment of a certain commissioner for the circuit court of Fairfax county, Virginia, and to ratify and validate all depositions and other acts or transactions taken, done or performed by, or before, such commissioner.
An ACT making ita soisflemennon for persons to unlawfully use or wear any insignia or button of any association, society, or trade’s union, or any Southern cross of honor.
An ACT to legalize the introduction of certain evidence in prosecutions for felonious homicide and assaults with felonious intent, and cases arising under section 3671 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper, approved January 25, 1898, and as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1906.