Death and burial
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3944 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2616 and 2620, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 23, 1888, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1888, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 2, 1902, and sections 2621 and 2622 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, so as to authorize and prescribe certain rules governing the leasing of the lands of infants or insane persons, and to repeal section 2617, and to amend and re-enact section 2625 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1896. |
| An ACT to confer on the town council of the town of Barton Heights, Henrico county, certain authority as to the cemeteries adjoining said town. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3676 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to kidnapping and the punishment therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases |
| An ACT to provide for the payment of the cost and expenses of prosecuting a certain criminal case removed from the county court of Patrick county, and of a certain criminal case removed from the county court of Wythe county, to the circuit court of the United States for the Western district of Virginia, under section 643 of the revised statutes of the United States. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, 10, and 14 of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to establish a State board of embalming; to provide for the better protection of life and health; to prevent the spread of contagious diseases; to regulate the practice of embalming, and the care and disposition of the dead; and to add additional section 15 thereto |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1101 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments, and other erections, and authorizing cemetery companies or trustees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise, or gift. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1416 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide punishment for maliciously or unlawfully shooting at or throwing stones or other missiles at or against any train or car of any railroad or other transportation company, or at or against any vessel or river craft. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2197, chapter 99, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to burial of hogs that died from disease, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 30, 1890, and by an act approved February 14, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing the penalties for violation thereof. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2903 and 2904 of the Code of Virginia of 1887. |
| An ACT to declare the effect of the death of the drawer of a check. |
| 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 amend and re-enact section 3695 of chapter 181 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved February 10, 1904, entitled “an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance and care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments, and other erections, and authorizing cemetery companies and trustees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift.” |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT relating to the grant of letters of administration upon the estates of persons presumed to be dead, by reason of long absence from their former domicile. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1038 of an act entitled chapter 269, an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia, 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, approved May 20, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the charter of the town of Chatham. |
| 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 an re-enact section 738 of the Code, as amended by an act of the General Assembly of 1902-3-4, approved December 10, 1903. |
| 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 providing for the condemnation, by cities and towns, of abandoned or unused and neglected burying grounds wholly or partly within the limits of such cities and towns, and making disposition of the remains interred in such burying grounds. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Radford, and |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3938 of the Code of Virginia, relative to duties of a coroner. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 5, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1903, entitled an act to establish a State board of embalming, to provide for the better protection of life and health, to prevent the spread of contagious diseases, and to regulate the practice of embalming, and the care and disposition of the dead, etc. |
| 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 1660 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to hospitals for the insane, so as to provide proper and separate custody of insane convicts and certain other insane persons. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to establish a permanent place in the State penitentiary, at Richmond, Virginia, for the execution of felons upon whom the death penalty is to be imposed, and to change the mode of execution so that the death sentence shall be by electricity, and to provide an appropriation therefor |
| An ACT to empower the board of visitors of Lee Camp Soldiers’ Home to take into its possession the money and personal effects found tn said home belonging to any inmate thereof who has died intestate, and to dispose of the same where no claim is made therefor within one year by any person entitled thereto. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2197 of the Code of Virginia in relation to burial of hogs that died from disease, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 30, 1890, and by an act approved February 1, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing penalties for violation thereof, approved March 15, 1904, making the act apply to animals or fowls dying from any disease. |
| 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 appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors. |
| An ACT to provide for the removal of the remains of General Henry Lee from the State of Georgia, and re-inter the same at some appropriate place in Virginia, and to appropriate funds for the purpose. |
| 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 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 provide for payment to the assessors of real estate for the city of Roanoke for work done by them in consequence of the death of one of said assessors. |
| An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to pay certain costs incurred in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the act in effect February 17, 1900, regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases. |
| An ACT to establish the Pulaski County Confederate home. |
| 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 a new charter for the town of Blackstone, in the county of Nottoway, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 31st, 1903. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1743-f of the Code of Virginia, prescribing rules for the transportation of dead bodies, as amended by act approved January 30, 1912. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 26388 and 2640 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT permitting the reciprocity of embalmers’ licenses in this State with other states, or Canada and foreign countries. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3663 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to appoint trustees from the members of the Hollywood Memorial Association, and to make an appropriation to enable said trustees and said association to make a contract with the Hollywood Cemetery Company by which the graves of the confederate dead in the soldiers’ section in Hollywood cemetery shall be kept in ‘perpetual care,’ and to relieve the State from further obligation in this behalf. |
| An ACT to provide for the payment of compensation to the counsel employed on behalf of the State by the governor and attorney general to prosecute Floyd Allen and others, charged with the murder of the judge of the circuit court of Carroll county, Virginia, and of certain officers and a juror in attendance upon said court, on the 14th day of March 1912, and for the payment of compensation to counsel employed by the judge presiding at the trials to defend certain of the prisoners unable to employ counsel. |
| 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 appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of marking the graves of the Confederate soldiers killed on the battle-field near Williamsburg. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2197 of the Code of Virginia in relation to burial of hogs that died from disease, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 30, 1890, and by an act approved February 1, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing penalties for violation thereof, approved March 15, 1904, making the act apply to animals or fowls dving from any disease, as amended by an act approved January 30, 1912. |
| 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 amend and re-enact section 1398 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to conveyances of real estate for religious purposes. |
| An ACT providing when the defense of death by suicide can be made in any action, motion, or suit on life insurance policies. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg |
| An ACT for the relief of Ollie Fowler |
| 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 amend and re-enact section 2678 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the exhibit of the accounts of fiduciaries for settlement. |
| An ACT to authorize the sale of Cypress church and lot, in Surry county. |
| An ACT to incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Virginia. |
| 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 require the auditor of public accounts to turn over to the State bureau of vital statistics certain marriage, birth and death records. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the removal of remains interred in grave-yards and sale of land vacated by such removals |
| An ACT providing when the defense of death by suicide can be made in any action, motion or suit on life insurance policies, and to define the period after which such policies shall be incontestible. |
| An ACT to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act. |
| An ACT to provide whole family protection for members of fraternal benefit societies. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 10, 1904, entitled an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments and other erections and authorizing cemetery companies and trustees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 20, 1906. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled "an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March 12, 1908, March 14, 1908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 18, 1914, March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, February 5, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk," approved February 7, 1918. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4930 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5787 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5790 of the Code of Pen ae |
| An ACT for the relief of the family of J. C. Shelhorse. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6239 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 59 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 10, 1904, entitled an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments and other erections and authorizing. cemetery companies and trutsees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift. |
| 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 all acts creating and amending the charter of the town of Waynesboro. |
| An ACT to prescribe how a new day for the execution of the sentence of death shall be fixed, and dispensing with the presence of the person to be executed. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4930 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 10, 1920. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4278 of the Code of 1919. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1920. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1569 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide for the licensing, regulation, and inspection of maternity hospitals, and to repeal sections 1925 to 1930, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide, in certain cases, for the payment out of county and city treasuries of allowances for the support of children in their own homes and for the partial reimbursement by the State of the counties and cities making such payments; also to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved February 28, 1918. |
| An ACT to 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 sections 5420 and 5423 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4148 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate veterans, in its discretion, to admit wives of Confederate veterans into the Confederate soldiers’ home at Richmond. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1568 and 1581 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are in chapter 66 of the said Code on the subject of vital statistics, section 1727 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 72 of the said Code on the subject of the practice of embalming and the transportation and disposition of dead bodies, and sections 4806, 4814 and 4818 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are in chapter 190 of the said Code on the subject of coroners’ inquests. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge, and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors. |
| An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Jack McCulloch. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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