Civil Rights

1920
An ACT to validate certain allowances made to petit jurors by the circuit court of Washington county.
An ACT to amend sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, and 103 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, and to repeal sections 2 and 93 of said act and to add thereto sections 14a, 55a, 99a, 116a, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, and 132, which deal with and provide for vacancies in the council; the initiative and referendum; the general powers and duties of the department of public welfare; the division of the city into school districts and the election of trustees therefor; the creation of a civil service commission and its rules and regulations; the jurisdiction of courts to enforce ordinances; rules and regulations upon city owned property outside of the city; continuance of present officers in office until January 1, 1921, and the vacating of certain offices at that time; the penalties for violation of certain sections; the working of prisoners; the appointment of boards and the creation of pension funds.
An ACT endorsing the erection of a statute of brotherhood, at Fort Wool, otherwise called the “Rip Raps” in Hampton Roads.
An ACT concerning slander and libel and prescribing the punish-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4549 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to erect a library building and auditorium as a memorial to the soldiers, sailors, marines and women who served in the world war, and to appropriate money therefor; to dedicate as and for public streets and highways upon certain conditions a strip of land fifteen feet in width lying on the southern side of the Capitol square in the city of Richmond,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2854 of the Code of Virginia.
A JOINT RESOLUTION rejecting the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States on woman suffrage.
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 to prohibit any officer in administering an oath from requiring or requesting the person taking the oath to kiss the Holy Bible, or any book or books thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3716 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.

1922
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of chapter 6 of an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890.
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 regulate motion picture films and reels; providing a system of examination, approval and regulation thereof, and of the banners, posters and other like advertising matter used in connection therewith; creating the board of censors; and providing penalties for the violation
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 5995 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved February 25, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5205 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled 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, approved March
An ACT to grant jurisdiction to all courts of record to make binding declarations of rights and determine questions of construction, whether any consequential relief is or could be claimed or not, and to prescribe where, and how, and with what effect suits seeking the exercise of such jurisdiction shall be brought and conducted, and how this act shall be construed.
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 a new charter for the city of Suffolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Suffolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the town of Waynesboro.
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 3481 and 3507 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1920.
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 providing an additional regular term of court for Giles county, and prescribing the times for holding the regular terms of court in the twenty-second judicial circuit.
An ACT making it a misdemeanor knowingly and wilfully to give false and untrue information concerning any person or corporation to publishers, or employees of publishers, with intent that the same shall be published.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2146 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 422 of the acts of 1918.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining one or more cities having a population of thirty thousand or more in the aggregate; to prescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6046 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3102, 3105 and 3106 of the Code of Virginia, 1919.
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 amend and re-enact section 1028 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4719 of the Code fe Si
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1905 to 1922, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.

1923es
An ACT to authorize the establishment of a county hospital by the counties of Prince Edward and Cumberland, or either of them, and any contiguous county or counties, should the regular qualified voters of each such county so elect, and to provide for the submission of such question to the voters of the respective counties, and authorizing the issuance of bonds by the counties so electing for such purpose, upon the vote of the people so directing.

1924
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 authorize the boards of supervisors of counties to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges of the said counties, and for the regulation of traffic thereon.
An ACT to re-amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the town of Waynesboro, known since consolidation with Basic City as Waynesboro-Basic, and to provide a charter for the town of Waynesboro.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2146 of the Code. of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending,
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3106 and 6027 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appeals from justices, the former section having been amended by an act approved March 27, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3119 of the Code of 1919, relative to costs to be collected by civil justices.
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.
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.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 22 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3102 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia
An ACT to declare the court house of Arlington county, Virginia, a part of each of the several magisterial districts of said county, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of said county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat.
An ACT to regulate the sale of kosher meat and meat preparations.
An ACT to declare the courthouse square, on which is located the courthouse, clerk’s office, jail and other public buildings of Mathews county, Virginia, a part of each of the several magisterial districts of the county of Mathews, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of Mathews county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat.
An ACT to declare the courthouse square, on which is located the courthouse, clerk’s office, jail and other public buildings of Gloucester county in the village of Gloucester, Virginia, a part of each of the several magisterial districts of the county of Gloucester, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of Gloucester county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat.
An ACT to preserve racial integrity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk; and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk
An ACT to provide for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain cases.
An ACT relating to the practice of law, and preventing persons, firms and corporations, not practicing attorneys, from appearing before any magistrate, civil or police justice, civil justice court, or any other court, to represent any claim or cause of any person, firm or corporation, unless the person, firm or corporation has a property interest in said claim or cause; preventing evasions of this act and crexeribing penalties.

1926
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5786 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 236 of the said Code, in relation to actions for injuries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5103 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to divorces from the bond of matrimony.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8 of chapter 161 of the acts of assembly for 1923, as amended by act approved March 14, 1924, entitled an act providing for the regulation, supervision and control of persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation on the improved public highways of this State, which are or may hereafter be declared to be, parts of the State highway system or any of the county highway systems; declaring motor vehicle carriers, as hereinafter defined, to be common carriers, transportation companies and public service corporations within the meaning of the law; and prescribing and imposing license fees and providing for the disposition of the revenue raised by the same.
An ACT to provide increased Confederate pensions
An ACT to continue the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election; to prescribe his powers and duties; to protect the title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration of titles thereto and the issuance of certificates of title; to prescribe the effect of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor vehicles and chauffeurs; to provide penalties; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3102 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts, approved March 27, 1922, and March 15, 1924, in relation to civil and police justices, civil justices and judges of municipal courts.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter, in the place of chapter 9 of said charter, in relation to civil and police justice, providing for his election and qualifications, and prescribing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office, and compensation, and repealing chapter 9 of said charter as provided by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1918, and repealing all acts, parts of acts, and charter provisions inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Portsmouth, and to abolish the offices of civil justice and police justice in said city.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 22 of the Constitution of Virginia.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 88 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond.
An ACT to permit the filing and trials of certain cross-claims in certain cases for torts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 328 and 374 of chapter 21 of the Code of Virginia of 1887 as heretofore amended, which said sections were continued in force by section 2673 of the Code of 1919, and to amend the said Code of 1887 by adding thereto three new sections, to be numbered sections 355-a, 374-a and 374-b, all of which sections relate to the military.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Waverly, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the council and government of the town of Waverly and all powers heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office to be legal and valid.

1928
An ACT ‘to amend and re-enact section 1051 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointments of committees of residents.
An ACT to provide for the retirement of any judge of a corporation or circuit court who shall have attained the age of eighty years and who shall have served continuously as judge of said court for thirty years, and to provide for their compensation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to service of jurors.
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 80, 81, 131 and 145 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 4 and 5 of section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the charter of the city of Williamsburg, as defined by chapter 507 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1884, and as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 5, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 303 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to permit females to qualify, give bond, and act as deputy clerks, in all the courts of this Commonwealth; and to validate certain acts heretofore performed by females acting as such deputy clerks,” approved March 19, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 412 of the acts of the general assembly of 1922, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Woodstock and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government of the town of Woodstock and all power heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office, to be legal and valid, approved March 24, 1922, relating to the public schools of said town, as amended.
An ACT to prohibit hazing at any school, college or university receiving State appropriations in this State, and to provide punishment and civil liability therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6020 of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide that proceedings before justices, including civil justices, civil and police justices, trial justices and judges of mayoralty courts, in civil cases, may also be by notice and motion.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 202, 203, 205 and 208 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to absent voters.
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 4555 of the Code of Virginia, of 1919, relating to officers and agents of societies for prevention of cruelty to animals, given power to arrest offenders.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3504 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1924, relating to fees of certain officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5790 of the Code of Virginia in regard to the survival of the right of action against a deceased tort feasor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5106 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, so as to require depositions in certain divorce cases to be taken before a commissioner in chancery.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5890 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the jurisdiction of circuit courts.
An ACT to prohibit the public mutilation, defacement, defilement of, or casting contempt upon flags of the United States or of the State of Virginia, and providing penalties.
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 85, of the acts of 1918, approved February 28, 1918, as amended by chapter 188, of the acts of 1924, approved March 14, 1924, as amended by chapter 490, of the acts of 1926, approved March 25, 1926, as amended by chapters 100 and 101 of the acts of 1927, entitled an act relating to Confederate pensions.
An ACT to provide for the submission to the people for ratification or rejection the proposed revision and/or amendments of sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, Al, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197 of the Constitution of Virginia (a part of which said sections have not been altered but remain as they are in the present Constitution, but have been included in said proposed revision), and the addition thereto of seven new sections to be numbered as sections 86a, 115a, 183a, 184a, 184b, 195a and 198, and the repeal of sections 128, 148, 149, 150, 151 and 182 of the present Constitution, all as authorized by section 196 of the present Constitution; to provide when and how such election shall be held; to designate the persons who may vote in such election; and to provide for the ascertainment and proclamation of the result of such election.
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 define a “mob,” and a “lynching”; to provide for the punishment of persons composing a “mob,” the actions of which result in the injury or death of another person; to prescribe penalties therefor; to provide for the recovery of damages therefor from any person or persons composing the mob; to prescribe the jurisdiction of courts in actions and prosecutions under the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5074 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to marriage licenses.

1930
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6022 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to justices of the peace, as amended by chapter 515 of the acts of assembly of 1926.
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 to amend and re-enact sections 947, 948, 951, 953, 954, 957, and 969 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute and changing its name to the Virginia State College for Negroes, and abolishing the board of visitors thereof; and to repeal sections 949, 950, 952, 955, 956, 958, 959, 960, 961, 962, 963, 964, 965, and 968 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to said institution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to trial justices.