Education

1912
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of New London academy to lease said buildings to county superintendents of schools of Bedford and Campbell counties for school purposes, approved May 10, 1887, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1910, authorizing the trustees of the New London academy to convey the real and personal property vested in them to the county school boards of Bedford and Campbell counties, and providing for the maintenance and management of the academy; and to enlarge the powers of the said board of managers.
An ACT to provide how persons who have been placed on the "retired teachers’ list" may retire or be removed therefrom under certain circumstances and may cease to receive the pension provided for in the act providing a retirement fund for public school teachers, approved March 9, 1910.
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 require the clerks of the Supreme Court of Appeals, at its various places of session, to mail to the law librarian of the University of Virginia copies of all printed briefs and records filed in said court.
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 authorize the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 1, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow $81,600.00 for the purpose of refunding bonds issued by authority of Acts of the General Assembly, approved February 16, 1901; March 8, 1906; February &, 1908; March 12, 1908, and March 4, 1910, and also an additional $20,000.00 for the purpose of school improvements in said district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to assign offices to the several departments and officers of the State gov-ernment in the several public buildings owned by the State, approved March 14, 1906."
An ACT authorizing the council of the city of Radford, Virginia, to have issued and sold bonds of the city of Radford, Virginia, to the amount of $35,000.00 for general public improvements for school purposes.
An ACT to repeal an act approved March 2, 1910, to authorize the district school board of Grafton school district of York county, to borrow $4,000 and to issue tonds therefor for a new high school building.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 and section 8 of an act entitled, “an act to constitute the town of Warrenton and surrounding territory a separate school district,” approved March 14, 1878
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1014a of the Code of Virginia, entitled extension of the corporate limits of cities and towns
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1573, Code of Virginia of 1904, providing for the officers of the institute to be part of the militia, and commissioned.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1527 of chapter 67 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act of the general 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 towns, constituting separate school districts,” so as to provide that certain officers shall not be eligible to more than one office.
An ACT to authorize the School Board of Jerusalem Magisterial District, Southampton county, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose to pay off school indebtedness in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $12,000.00 in amount.
An ACT to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions thereof, especially an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 22d, 1894, and sections 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751 and 1752 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, and all amendments thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1582, Chapter 69, of the Code of Virginia relating to State Cadets in the Virginia Military Institute.
An ACT to allow the council of the town of Rocky Mount, Virginia, to appropriate from the town revenues a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars to be used in the construction of a high school building in said town.
An ACT to require the State board of education to ascertain and report the amount paid by patrons of public schools for adopted school books.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Grafton magisterial district, of York county, to borrow a sum not exceeding $2,500 and to issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section fifteen hundred and seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘fan act to amend and re-enact section fifteen hundred and seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight.
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 authorize the county school board of the county of James City to convey what is known as the Hickory Neck academy lot, with the building thereon, to the duly appointed trustees for the congregation of Hickory Neck Protestant Episcopal church of Blissland-parish, in James City county, Virginia.
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 authorize the school board of Washington magisterial district, No. 5, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $20,000.00 in amount.

1914
An ACT empowering the school boards of 2 adjacent districts to establish joint schools for the use of both districts, and to purchase, take, hold, lease and convey school property for the joint use of the districts.
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 prohibit the sale of cider, and other drinks containing over one-half of 1 per cent. alcohol within 1 mile of the public school building, in the village of Capron, Southampton county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 45 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874.
An ACT to lega‘ize the donation of the sum of $1,500 by the council of the town of Claiksville, Virginia, to the district school board of Clarksville magisterial district, for the purpose of aiding in the con-struction of a public high school bui.ding in said town and district.
An ACT to provide for the commitment of delinquent, dependent, or neglected children to the State board of charities and corrections, and to certain societies, associations, or reformatories, and authorizing such organizations to place said children in suitable homes and institutions; defining the terms “delinquent,” “dependent,” and “neglected” child: when children under eighteen years of age may or may not be sent to jail, workhouse, police station or penitentiary; requiring parents in certain contingencies to pay for support of delinquent, dependent or neglected children, providing for physical and mental examination of children, and for placing them in hospitals when necessary; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; allowing delinquent children to be released on probation; prescribing the procedure in the hearing of children’s cases; penalties for removing or interfering with any child committed hereunder, or for violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals; and providing for the supervision and inspection of societies and associations by the State board of charities and corrections.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the 2 fiscal years
An ACT; to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1910, entitled an act to constitute a united agricultural board to co-ordinate the Virginia college of agriculture and polytechnic institute and the Virginia agricultural experiment station, the commissioner and the State board of agriculture and the State board of education, in co-operation with the United States department of agriculture, for the betterment of agricultural experimental and demonstration work, and generally to advance the agricultural interests of this State, and to authorize the boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for experimental and demonstration work in their respective counties, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1912, and enacting certain provisions in lieu thereof, and making appropriations to the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute for demonstration work, and to authorize boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for demonstration work in their respective counties, in co-operation with the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute and the United States department of agriculture, and providing for co-ordination of certain agricultural activities within the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Basic City
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 and section 8 of an act of assembly entitled an act to authorize the several school boards of the school districts in this State to borrow money belonging to the literary fund for certain purposes, and to authorize the loan of said funds for each district, approved March 15, 1906, extending the same privileges to cities, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 25, 1908.
An ACT to permit the Gorham Manufacturing Company, of Providence, Rhode Island, to make further copies and reproductions of the Houdon statue of George Washington from the moulds now in possession of the said Gorham manufacturing company, belonging to the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 833 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 11, 1908, and other acts, in relation to the powers and duties of the board of supervisors at annual meetings, by changing the body of said section, and by an amendment in addition to the new section designated as section 833-a, which shall prescribe the powers and duties of boards of supervisors in relation to county and school levies, approved March 11, 1908.
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.
An ACT to provide for the segregation of the tax upon money on deposit or otherwise, and to make it liable to taxation by the State alone and to fix the rate of such taxation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1506 of Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to what school funds shall consist of
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight, in its discretion, to contribute and expend annually, out of the general county levy, a sum of money for the conduct of an educational and agricultural fair, to be held in said county.
An ACT to authorize the school boards of Sulphur Springs school district, Piper Gap school district, and Fancy Gap school district, in Carroll county, to purchase and hold certain real estate.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Emporia to aid the county school board of Greenville county in the construction of a school building in the said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1526 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the jurisdiction and powers of the school board in cities, and to the clerks of said board and ex- tending its provisions to towns, constituting separate school districts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of 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 17, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 of chapter 1 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, to amend and re-enact chapters 2, 3 and 5 of said act as amended by subsequent acts, and to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5, and to repeal section 7 of chapter 6 of said act.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Powhatan district No. 2, of the county of James City, and the school board of Stonehouse district No. 3, of the county of James City, of the State of Virginia, to borrow money, and to issue bonds for the purpose of paying off and discharging the present indebtedness upon the Toano high school, owned jointly by said school districts, and making such further improvements to said high school, and any other purpose deemed pertinent by said school board, and to provide for the payment of such bonds and the interest to accrue thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1600 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 70 of the Code of 1887 as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1892, relating to appointment of visitors, and by an act approved February 23, 1894, giving the assent of Virginia to certain endowments provided by act of congress, and by act approved March 5, 1896, amending sections 1586 and 1592 of the Code in relation to the payment of interest and declaring the board of visitors a corporation under control of general assembly and by act approved February 18, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1900, providing for the protection of domestic animals and authorizing the establishment of live stock quarantine lines, rules, regulations, etc., approved May 20, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1507 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to provide for the issuance by the city of Newport News of $40,000.00 of bonds for rebuilding and equipping the John W. Daniel School, recently destroyed by fire.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 246 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the custody, disposal and sale of published reports of the decisions of the supreme court of appeals.
An ACT to prevent the expenditure of money by the various institutions of the State by sending members of their boards, managers, superintendents or presidents, or other persons to the legislature for the purpose of obtaining appropriations for said institutions or for any other purpose.
An ACT to provide for instruction in the public schools, for preventing accidents.
An ACT to create the Virginia normal school board; to define its Powers and duties, and to abolish the boards of trustees of the State female normal school at Farmville, the State normal and industrial school for women at Harrisonburg, the State normal and industrial school for women at Fredericksburg, and the State normal and industrial school for women at Radford, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Sussex county to lay a special levy of not exceeding ten cents on the one hundred dollars’ worth of property in Wakefield magisterial district, in said county, for the purpose of providing for the final liquidation of the bonded indebtedness of said district.
An ACT to prohibit the manufacture of cider in Loudoun county, Virginia, within 1 mile of a public high school building, by the owner of a cider mill, for other than himself.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Albemarle to grant aid to a woman’s co-ordinate college of the university of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural districts, and to appropriate money therefor, approved March 14, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural districts and to appropriate money therefore, approved March 17, 1910.
An ACT to provide for the use of district schoolhouses out of
An ACT to authorize the city council of the city of Charlottesville to grant aid to a woman’s co-ordinate college of the university of Virginia.
An ACT to admit children 6 years of age to the public free schools of the State under certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1488 of the Code as heretofore amended in relation to the condemnation and purchase of land for schoolhouses.
An ACT to provide for participation by the State of Virginia in the Panama exposition at San Francisco, to appoint a commission, and to appropriate money for that purpose.
An ACT to provide for the encouragement, maintenance and supervision of industrial, agricultural, household arts and commercial education.

1915
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1507 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to the approximate apportionment and disbursement of State school funds.
An ACT relating to contracts for text books adopted for use in the public free schools of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section &33 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 11, 1908, and other acts, in relation to the powers and duties of the board of supervisors at annual meetings, by changing the body of said section, and by an amendment in addition to the new section designated as section S33-a, which shall prescribe the powers and duties of boards of supervisors in relation to county and school levies
An ACT to segregate, for the purposes of taxation, pursuant to section 169 of the Constitution of Virginia, the several kinds and classes of property so as to specify and determine upon what subjects State taxes, and upon what subjects local taxes may be levied, and to provide for the continuance for the year 1915, and until otherwise provided by law, of the present State school tax of ten cents on every one hundred dollars of the assessed value of real estate and tangible personal property; and to repeal an act entitled an act to segregate for the purposes of taxation, pursuant to section 169 of the Constitution of Virginia, the several kinds and classes of property so as to specify and determine upon what subjects State taxes, and upon what subjects local taxes may be levied, and to provide for the continuance for the year 1915, of the present State school tax of ten cents on every one hundred dollars of the assessed value of real estate and tangible personal property, approved February 16, 1915.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 16, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to empower the council of the town of Rocky Mount to contribute from the revenues of the town to the support and maintenance of a graded school in Rocky Mount school district, approved February 16, 1901.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act approved March 16, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 12 of an act entitled an act to annex additional territory to the city of Norfolk, and provide for the government of said annexed territory, approved March 14, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the school board of Jerusalem magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose to pay off school indebtedness in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $12,000 in amount
An ACT to authorize the school board of Tanner’s Creek magisterial district number six of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding twenty thousand ,$20,000) dollars in amount.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1494 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the ages of persons admitted as pupils to the public free schools of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34 and 35 of an act 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 of Virginia, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended, and to add a new section thereto hereby designated as section 2914, providing for a tax on express companies, refrigerator, oil, stock, fruit and other car loaning and other car companies operating upon the railroads in this State, except sleeping car, dining car, drawing-room car and palace car companies.
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 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 amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield and to grant a new charter to the said town, which took effect February 17, 1900.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of twenty-one thousand dollars to the State normal and industrial school for women at Radford.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider containing over one-half of one per cent. alcohol within 144 miles of the public school building in the town of Strasburg, Shenandoah county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 59 of an act entitled 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 to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 16 of the charter of the city of Suffolk, as heretofore amended, approved March 4, 1912.
An ACT to segregate, for the purposes of taxation, pursuant to section 169 of the Constitution of Virginia, the several kinds and classes of property so as to specify and determine upon what subjects State taxes, and upon what subjects local taxes may be levied, and to provide for the continuance for the year 1915, of the present State school tax of ten cents on every one hundred dollars of the assessed value of real estate and tangible personal property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 of an act 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 April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904, as amended by an act approved January 31, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1914, defining incomes and tax on incomes.

1916
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 incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 508 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, and to appropriate sums collected hereunder for the payment of pensions and for the support of the public free schools of the primary and grammar grades.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county to appropriate out of the general funds of said county to the public schools thereof a sum not to exceed 25 per cent. of the amount collected for county purposes during the next preeee year.
An ACT to authorize the school board uf Claremont school district, No. 4, of the county of Surry, Virginia, to borrow money and to issue bonds for the purpose of erecting and furnishing one or more school houses, and to purchase sites therefor, and to provide for the payment of such bonds and the interest to accrue thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1408 of the Code of Virginia relating to quantity of land benevolent associations may hold.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 1, of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $15,000 in amount.
An ACT to amend section 5 of the charter of the town of Falls Church, in the counties of Fairfax and Alexandria.
An ACT to authorize and empower the school boards of the several school districts of Nansemond county to send students in high school grades in such districts, to the agricultural high school of the second congressional district, known as the Driver school, and pay the cost of the board and lodging of the said students out of the respective district fund of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 10, 1914, entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight in its discretion, to contribute and expend, annually, out of the general county levy, a sum of money for the conduct of an educational and agricultural fair, to be held in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in Rockingham county.
An ACT to authorize the issuance of $130,000.00 of bonds by the city of Newport News, for school purposes.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of school trustees of Slate River magisterial district of Buckingham county to borrow money for the purpose of completing school houses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1433 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 28, 1903, as amended by an act approved March 11, 1904, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1906, as amended by an act approved March 14 1908, amending sections 1438, 1437 and 1438 of the Code of Virginia. in relation to the duties of the State board of education and of division superintendents of schools, to the composition of school divisions, and the salaries of division superintendents.
An ACT to define and regulate the practice of optometry, to provide for the establishment of a board of examiners in optometry, for the examination of practitioners of optometry, for registration and license of practitioners, to provide for a penalty for violations of this act, and for other purposes.
An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds to be issued by the town of Ashland, in Hanover county, the ordinance authorizing the issue and providing for the redemption thereof, and for the ordering and holding of an election of the qualified voters of said town to pass upon such issue, and the election ordered and held in pursuance thereof, for the purpose of raising funds for the erection of a public high school building in said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1484 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to annual reports of treasurers and clerks of district boards to county board.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Medical College of Virginia, approved February 25, 1854, as amended by an act approved January 22, 1879, and also by an act approved February 2, 1898.
An ACT to empower the school board of Battletown district, Clarke county, to borrow money to retire outstanding bonds.