Civil Rights

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 62 of the Code prescribing the qualifications of voters in special and local option elections.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19 and 74, of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1878, and as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1900.
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 provide, in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities warrants cognizable by said civil justice.

1910
An ACT making it a misdemeanor for persons to unlawfully use or wear any insignia or button of any association, or society, or trade’s union, or any southern cross of honor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act approved March 10, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2, as amended by an act of the 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 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 amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May 20, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 3, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2229 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certificates to be issued by the clerk with marriage licenses, the return to be made by persons celebrating the marriage.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years
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 section 1682 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the admission to the State hospitals of insane persons charged with or indicted for crime; and insane convicts in the penitentiary and other penal institutions of the State.
An ACT to promote order and the comfort of passengers on the conveyances and at the stopping places of carriers of passengers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4051 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in regard to suspending sentence, or execution thereof, and to provide for bail pending suspension of sentence, or execution thereof, after conviction.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 49 of the Code of Virginia, 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to who are exempt from jury service.
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 to amend and re-enact subsection 2 of section 2 and subsections 2, 5, 6, 8 and 10 of section 20, and sections 1, 5, 7, 19, 24, 25 and 26 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities, and to ratify and confirm notices already given which conform to the requirements of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to punish as for a misdemeanor a person using abusive language to another

1912
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to pro-
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth,” approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 9, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualifications, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing section seven of chapter two of said city charter.
An ACT to consolidate into one act, all acts relating to Confederate pensions, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT concerning coal mines and safety of employees, creating a department and inspector of mines under the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia
An ACT to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the State of Virginia, by means of certificates of births and deaths, and burial or removal permits; to require prompt returns to the bureau of vital statistics at the capital of the State, as required to be established by the State board of health; to insure the thorough organization and efficiency of the registration of vital statistics throughout the State; to provide certain penalties; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to prescribe in what cases a justice of the peace shall not have jurisdiction in a suit or warrant.
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 in relation to the hustings court, part two, of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to pro-
An ACT to amend the divorce practice in the State of Virginia and to provide for the mailing of a copy of the order of publication against non-resident defendants to his or her last known place of address by registered mail at least fifteen days before the taking of depositions
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled: “An act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force, January 21,1884, entitled ‘An act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882,’ as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887, April 28, 1887, May 14, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21, 1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887, February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.”
An ACT providing for remedy by motion after thirty days’ notice for any tort; when notice to be returned to clerk’s office; provision to prevent discontinuance of the motion.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively on the 28th day of February, 1913, and the 28th day of February, 1914
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 22, 1871, to incorporate the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, and to provide a new charter for same.
An ACT to provide for designation by cities and towns of segregation districts for residence of white and colored persons; for the adoption of this act by such cities and towns, and for penalties for the violation of its terms.

1914
An ACT for the relief of J. W. Gordon, of Augusta county, Virginia, who was convicted of a felony in the courts of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3729 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State, jointly or severally, to establish county or city farms, and providing for the Joint use of the same, and for the government and support of persons confined therein.
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 amend section 3470 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relating to bonds of appellants or petitioners.
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 amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice
An Act to provide in cities containing 10,000 inhabitants and less than 45,000 inhabitants, for the election of a special justice of the peace to be known as the civil and police justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties, to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil and police justice, and to abolish the office of police justice in said cities and towns and transfer the jurisdiction of such police justices in said cities to such civil and police justices.
An ACT to provide for the revision, codification and indexing, with suitable marginal citations and references, of the statute law of Virginia; for the printing, publication and disposition thereof; to appoint commissioners therefor and fix their compensation; to provide for the necessary clerical assistants to said commissioners; and to appropriate the necessary funds for said work.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the 2 fiscal years
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 9, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualification, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing section 7 of chapter 2 of said city charter, approved March 12, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1420, chapter 65, of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the validity of gifts, devices, et cetera, for purposes of education.

1915
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties and councils of cities and towns to appropriate money at their discretion to defray the necessary expenses for the Confederate veterans of said counties, cities and towns to visit Richmond on June ist, 2nd, and 38rd, 1915, at the grand reunion of the United Confederate Veterans.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 450, 451, 456, 458, 462, 464, 466, 468, 471, 486, 487, 489, 491, 494, 496, 497, 498, 503, 504, 511, 520, 527, 548, 550, 553, 555, 556, 561 and 578 of chapter 24 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and to repeal sections 465, 502, 518, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 521, and 544 of the same chapter of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, said chapter 24 having relation to the assessment of taxes on persons and property, licenses and so forth.
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
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide in cities containing 10,000 inhabitants and less than 45,000 inhabitants, fur the election of a special justice of the peace to be known as the civil and police justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties, to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil and police justice, and to abolish the office of police justice in said cities and towns and transfer the jurisdiction of such justices in said cities to such civil and police justices, approved March 20, 1914.
An ACT to make an appropriation of ten thousand dollars, to be used by committee of R. E. Lee, camp, No. 1, Confederate veterans, viz.: general J. Thompson Brown, capt. John Lamb, and capt. E. D. Taylor, to aid in entertaining the united Confederate veterans in Richmond, on June 2, 3, 4, 1915, who will assemble in Richmond at this date.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia

1916
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 prevent and punish the desecration of the flag of the United States.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act to provide in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice
An ACT to provide for payment of compensation to counsel employed by the judge presiding at the trial to defend Luther Canter and James Canter, in the circuit court of Washington county, charged with having raped and murdered Maude Wilson, who were unable to employ counsel.
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 to abolish the bill of exception and to prescribe the means whereby in the trial court the record of the cause in any judicial proceeding at common law, or in any kindred proceeding in a suit in chancery, shall be ascertained and authenticated; to prescribe certain duties of the trial judge and of the clerk of the trial court, in respect to such record; and to prescribe in certain respects how such record shall be certified upon a writ of error, or supersedeas, to a final judgment, or upon an appeal from a final decree, in the cause and to make the provisions of this act apply to all cases now pending in any court of this State and to any case in which bill of exception has been filed within the time required by law with the trial judge, but not signed by him for any cause, and extending the time within which said bill of exception or certificate may be signed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1912, entitled an act to consolidate into one act, all acts relating to Confederate pensions, and to repeal all acts, and parts of acts, in conflict herewith.
An ACT to prohibit discrimination by common carrier, innkeeper, proprietor, or lessee of any place of public amusement, or any agent or representative of such, against persons lawfully wearing the uniform of the military service of the State or United States, and providing penalties therefor.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to refund the amounts of certain taxes unlawfully and illegally collected from Sarah E. Ashby.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2989 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903, in relation to jurisdiction of justices of the peace.
An ACT for the relief of J. P. K. Walling, of Scott county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code, providing for the recovery by motions, after fifteen days’ notice on contracts to recover money or to recover damages; when notice to be returned to the clerk’s office; provisions to prevent discontinuance of motion, approved March 14, 1912, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, approved February 27, 1914.
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 to enjoin and abate houses of lewdness, assignation, and prostitution; to declare the same to be nuisances; to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner or agent of any building used for such purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 7, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887; April 28, 1887; May 14, 1887; February 14, 1900; February 21, 1900; February 26, 1900; February 2, 1901; February 15, 1901; March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887; February 22, 1890 and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.
An ACT to provide for the payment to sheriffs, sergeants and constables the fees provided by law for serving process when required to make such service and such person cannot be found.
An ACT requiring contributory negligence to be set forth in bill of particulars when relied upon as a defense.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved March 12, 1912, and entitled an act to provide for designation by cities and towns of segregation districts for residence of white and colored persons; for the adoption of this act by such cities and towns, and for penalties for the violation of its terms; and to ratify and confirm certain ordinances relating to the segregation of races heretofore passed by certain cities and towns of this Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3793 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to buggery and kindred crimes and punishment therefor.
An ACT to permit females to qualify, give bond and act as deputy clerks in all courts of this Commonwealth.
An ACT for the relief of Sam Rankin, of Alleghany county, Virginia.

1918
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia of 1904 as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1908, as amended and re-enacted March 17, 1910, as amended and re-enacted February 18, 1915, in relation to qualifications of disability of persons holding office under United States so as to allow rural carriers of United States government to be appointed and act as notary public.
An ACT to organize home guard companies.
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
An Act to provide for the use of probation and the suspension of sentence in criminal and juvenile courts, providing for the appointment of probation officers and defining their powers and duties.
An ACT to provide for the continuance of all proceedings, civil or criminal, in which any party thereto is engaged in the military or naval service of the United States.
An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916 and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1912, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 10, relating to the initiative, referendum and recall.

An ACT to provide for the admission of women to the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
An ACT regulating marriages and the issuance of marriage licenses; prohibiting marriages in certain cases, providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.

1919es
An ACT to add a new section to the charter of the city of Suffolk, to be known as section 34, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualifications, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office, and compensation, and repealing all acts and parts of acts and all charter provisions in conflict herewith.

1920
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 amend and re-enact section 3408 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing who may practice law in this State.
An ACT to permit females to qualify, give bond and act as deputy clerks in all courts of this Commonwealth; and to validate certain acts heretofore performed by females acting as such deputy clerks.
An ACT to provide for submission to the people for approval and ratification the proposed amendments to section 32 of article 2, section 117 of article 8, section 133 of article 9, section 136 of article 9, section 138, and section 184 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4909, 4910, 4912, and 4913, chapter 195; section 1045, chapter 46, Code of Virginia, 1919, in relation to person charged with crime and whose sanity is doubted, the disposition of such person when found insane or feeble-minded; disposition of persons who become insane after conviction, and the disposition of insane or feeble-minded persons charged with crime and confined in the department for criminal insane at a State hospital or elsewhere, when restored to sanity.
An ACT to provide for the extradition of persons of unsound mind, and to make uniform the laws of the States which enact it
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 18, 20, 21, and 173 of the Constitution of Virginia, so as to extend the rights of suffrage to women.
An ACT to provide for the issuing of bonds of Fauquier county for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3107 of the Code of Virginia, [H B 123]
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1921, and the 28th day of February, 1922.
An ACT respecting the character of evidence in criminal prosecutions for seduction under section 4410 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3905 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT extending the right of suffrage to women; assessing a State capitation tax on certain women residents of Virginia; and prescribing the qualifications of women entitled to vote for members of the general assembly and all officers elective by the people, and the manner in which women may register and vote; also providing when this act shall take effect.
An ACT to add a new section to the charter of the city of Radford, to be known as section 70, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualifications, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing all acts and parts of acts and all charter provisions in conflict
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the roads of said county and levy a tax to keep the same in proper repair.