Education

1928
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 authorize the city of Newport News to apply the unexpended proceeds from the sale of bonds for bridge purposes in said city issued under Acts of Assembly, 1920, chapter 125, to the payment to Elizabeth City county on public school bonds and on a public school in territory annexed to the city of Newport News.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Scott to levy, for local school purposes, a district tax, in addition to the maximum, now authorized by general law, on all property in Floyd magisterial district, subject to district taxation, for school purposes.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Loudoun county, with the approval of the board of supervisors of Loudoun county, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $55,400.00, on account of Mercer, Leesburg and Mt. Gilead school districts of said county, and to issue bonds theretor, and provicie for the levying of a tax to pay the interest. and te create a sinking tund for the redemption of the principal of said bonds at their maturity.
An ACT to authorize the county school board of King William county to borrow not exceeding $25,000.00, and issue its bonds therefor
An ACT to authorize the College of William and Mary in Virginia to sell, or otherwise dispose of, the property, held by it, known as the “Matthew Whaley school’ property.
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 authorize the governing boards of the University of Virginia, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute and the State teachers colleges at Farmville and Harrisonburg to issue and sell, through the commissioners of the sinking fund, certificates of indebtedness in the name and on behalf of their institutions, respectively, to raise funds for dormitory construction purposes and for the construction of a power and heating plant at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this act; to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1646 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to licenses to practice dentistry.
An ACT to provide that the heads of the tax-supported institutions of higher learning shall confer with each other, with the rectors or chairmen of the governing boards of said institutions, with the State superintendent of public instruction and the State board of education under the direction of the governor, for the purpose of preparing a plan eliminating unnecessary duplication, defining the educational scope and activity of each institution and means for future coordination; to provide for the elimination of certain courses and to prevent future duplication.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission to study and report to the next session of the general assembly the advisability of establishing a liberal arts college for women at one of the State teachers colleges, or elsewhere; to provide for the expenses of the commission and the employment of the necessary technical and clerical assistants; and to appropriate the money necessary to defray the expenses of the commission.
An ACT to provide for protection of school children upon the streets and highways, when being transported to and from school by buses and other vehicles.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind to sell and convey certain land belonging to said school.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 93 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to provide for the retirement of registered certificates of the State issued to schools, colleges and other organizations, by authorizing and directing the issuance and sale of two million, four hundred and sixty-eight thousand, six hundred and five dollars and eighty-five cents ($2,468,605.85) of bonds of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and the principal thereof at maturity
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty of chapter one hundred and sixty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen, as amended by chapter one hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, relating to the charter of the town of Pocahontas, Virgimia.
An ACT to provide for the acceptance by the board of the Virginia teachers colleges, of gifts, donations and benefactions offered by any person,
An ACT to authorize the city school board of the city of South Norfolk to borrow money not in excess of $150,000.00, and to issue its bonds therefor, to be used for the construction of a high school for white children in the city of South Norfolk, and to require the council of said city, annually to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 14 of chapter 407 of the acts
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Fluvanna county to levy an additional capitation tax, which shall be applied in aid of the public schools of the said county, or for such other county purposes as the said board shall determine.
An ACT to authorize the board of the Virginia teachers colleges to sell and convey a tract of land belonging to the State teachers college, at Fredericksburg, and to acquire by purchase for said college certain lots from the proceeds of sale.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Tazewell to levy a district school tax.
An ACT to provide for levying and collecting a special school tax in Wythe and Chesapeake magisterial districts in the county of Elizabeth City, after the same shall have been authorized by the people, by an election to be held for the purpose and to prescribe how the funds raised by such tax shall be used and expended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend ard re-enact an act approved March 20, 1920, entitled an act in relation to local school taxes; and repealing sections 740 and 2721 of the Code of Virginia, by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section la, relating to Incal school taxes in the county of Lee approved March 7, 1924, as amended by chapter 62 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 70.
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 authorize the board of supervisors of Dickenson county to levy additional taxes for the benefit of the public schools in said county, the several magisterial districts and incorporated towns therein, and authorizing the school board to borrow money for saicd* purpose.
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to give effect to a compromise of litigation in respect to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to establish the manual labor school provided for in the twenty-fifth clause of said will, approved February 24, 1874, as amended by acts approved April 2, 1877, April 19, 1884, February 29, 1892, January 11, 1896, May 13, 1903, respectively. And to repeal an act approved February 19, 1904, entitled an act to regulate the number of votes to be cast by the school trustees of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, in the semi-annual meetings of the city and county school boards held at the Miller school on Tuesday after the third Monday in January and July of each year or any adjourned meeting thereof.
An ACT to authorize a school census in the city of Hopewell, Virginia, to be in lieu of the regular quinquennial census taken in said city in 1925.
An ACT to authorize and require certain district school taxes to be levied in the county of York, and to provide for the collection and expenditure of the funds derived from such levies.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fauquier county to levy an additional capitation tax on all residents of the county, subject to the levy and payment ot the State capitation tax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 and section 47 of an act entitled, 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, approved March 22, 1924, subsection 10 of section two of which as amended, and subsection 11 of section two of which, as amended.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Princess Anne to levy certain district school taxes, and to provide for the collection and expenditure of the funds derived from such levies.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Buckinghain county to levy an additional capitation tax on all residents of the county.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia.
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 authorize and empower the State board of health to convey to the county school board of Roanoke county, a lot of land in Catawba valley, in the county of Roanoke, owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to make use of the money received therefor; and, to authorize and empower the county school board of Roanoke county to sell a school building to the State board of health, and to make use of the money received therefor.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Fluvanna county to levy an additional capitation tax, which shall be applied in aid of the public schools of the said county, or for such other county purposes as the said board shall determine.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Waynesboro, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT authorizing and empowering the school board of the city of Williamsburg to convey, for a proper consideration, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem advisable, any property it has title to, in the city of Williamsburg, to W. A. R. Goodwin, agent, or his successor.
An ACT to authorize the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to borrow a sum of money not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) and issue bonds therefor, to cover the cost of addition to the high school building in said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of chapter 423 of the acts of 1922, entitled an act to create county school boards; to prescribe the powers, duties, obligations and compensation of such boards; to provide that, in counties, the county school board shall be the unit of operation of the public free school system, and to abolish district school boards in counties, and county school boards as they may exist on September 1, 1922, approved March 24, 1922.

1930
An Act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Virginia Beach and to define its boundaries, provide for a town school board, and to levy taxes for school establishment and maintenance.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of York county to levy certain school taxes in the Grafton district, in addition to the levies authorized by general law, and to apply the proceeds of such additional levy towards the payment of interest and creating a sinking fund to retire a loan for the erection of a school house in Nelson district; and to provide how such loan shall be obtained.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 684 of the Code of Virginia, as enacted in law by chapter 471 of the acts of 1928, relating to the compulsory attendance of children at school and providing for the compulsory education of blind and deaf children.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 (26), 7, 18, 28 (a), (d), 31 (e), (h), 40, 50 (a), (d), and 56, of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 19, 1920, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize the issuance of bonds by county school boards of counties in the State of Virginia for the purpose of funding or refunding any of the current indebtedness of such counties incurred for school purposes and for the purpose of constructing school buildings or additions thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 93 of the acts of assembly of 1927, providing for the retirement of certain registered certificates of the State, issued to schools, colleges, and other organizations by issuing certain bonds of the Commonwealth.
An ACT for the establishment of a liberal arts co'lege for women, and to continue in force the commission on a liberal arts college for women.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2968 of the Code of Virginia, providing what property shall not be included in the annexed territory; what territory shall be annexed and what persons shall not be included in the enumeration of population.
An ACT to provide educational opportunities for the orphans of soldiers, sailors and marines who were killed in action or died during the World War.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 681 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the establishment of public schools.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Accomac to increase the district school levies in said county, and to provide for the collection and expenditure of funds provided by such levies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 473, of the acts of assembly of 1924, entitled “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,” as last amended by chapter 333 of the acts of assembly of 1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 671 of the Code of Virginia, relating to school houses and the construction thereof, and providing for fire drills, fire exits and escapes, and making the violation of this section a misdemeanor.
An ACT to provide for the issuance of bonds by the county school boards of the counties of this State, for the purpose of funding or refunding bonds issued by any county, or by or on behalf of any school district for school purposes in such county, or school district.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the period of four months from the first day of March to the thirtieth day of June, inclusive 1930, and for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June 1931, and the thirtieth day of June, 1932, including the appropriation of fund which may be derived from certificates of indebtedness authorized by this act to be issued by certain State educational institutions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2184 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the issuance of duplicate warrants by the comptroller or State treasurer, where the original warrant has been lost.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of the charter of the city of Hampton
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1077 of the Code of Virginia as amended, in relation to State colony for epileptics and feeble-minded.
An ACT to permit the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary to dispose of certain parcels of land.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5314, 5316 and 5320 of the Code of Virginia, all of which sections are in chapter 216 of the said Code entitled “Guardians and Wards.”
An ACT to repeal chapter 242 of the acts of assembly of 1878, entitled “An act to constitute the town of Warrenton and surrounding territory a separate school district”
AN ACT to authorize the State highway commission to include in the State highway system certain streets and roads in incorporated towns and cities of thirty-five hundred (3,500) inhabitants or less.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section (s) of section two of chapter sixty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled 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 validate certain conveyances of school properties where all legal requirements were not strictly complied with.
An ACT to authorize the College of William and Mary in Virginia to sell or otherwise dispose of the property held by it known as the Paradise property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 807 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appointment of board of visitors for University of Virginia.
An ACT to repeal chapter 829 of the acts of 1899-1900, entitled an act to create Ettrick school district in Matoaca school district of Chesterfield county, approved March 6, 1900, and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to sell and convey a farm belonging to said school, commonly known as the Vincent property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 698 of chapter 471 of the acts of assembly of 1928, said chapter being a general revision, consolidation, amendment and codification of the school laws, the section to be here amended, being in relation to school levies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 835 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of the board of visitors for the Virginia Military Institute.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to authorize counties to establish county free libraries and reading rooms, and to provide for their operation and maintenance
An ACT to authorize and empower the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to sell and convey to J. H. Huntley, certain real estate in the county of Augusta.
An ACT to validate the authorization, issuance and sale of fifteen thousand dollars school board bonds of the city of South Norfolk, Virginia, and providing for their payment by an annual tax on all taxable property in said city.
An ACT to authorize the town of Cape Charles to borrow $20,000.00 and issue bonds therefor for the purpose of refunding outstanding school bonds.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Carroll county to make a special levy of fifty cents on each one hundred dollars assessed value of all property in the county subject to local taxation, for the years 1930, -1931 and 1932, to raise funds for the erection and equipment of a high school building in the town of Hillsville.
An ACT to appropriate a sum of money for the education of Gale McGuire Turner, who lost his left hand, caused by an explosion of a detonator, placed by some member of Battery H, 246 Coast Artillery Corps, Virginia National Guard, near the room of said battery, in the town of Christiansburg, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 61 of the act of 1874, entitled an act to give effect to a compromise of litigation in respect to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to establish the manual labor school provided for in the twenty-fifth clause of said will
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1640, 1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1646, 1647, 1648, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1653 and 1654 of the Code of Virginia, relating to and regulating the practice of dentistry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 859 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of the board of visitors for the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 611, 612, 617, 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 626, 629, 630, 642, 647, 649, 650, 651, 653, 655, 660, 673, 678, 682, 684, 695, 778 and 780 of the Code of Virginia as amended into law by ‘chapter 471 of the acts of 1928, which act revised, consolidated, amended and codified the school laws of Virginia relating to the public school system. [S B 168]
AN ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Colonial Heights, Chesterfield county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to authorize and empower the school board of Mecklenburg county to make sale and conveyance of property in Chase City, known as the “Old Academy Lot.”
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Dickenson county, Virginia, to convey by proper deed all its title and interest in the Dickenson County Memorial and Industrial High School building and the grounds and appurtenances thereto belonging, to the Dickenson county school board.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission to study the question of retirement of and pensions for the public school teachers of the State of Virginia and judges and State employees.
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 435 of the tax Code of Virginia, providing what property real and personal shall be exempt from taxation State and local.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Augusta county, Virginia, to invest the sinking fund of said county in the notes, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness of the county school board of Augusta county.
An ACT to authorize the State board of education in its discretion, to convey to the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company a certain easement in a part of the land occupied by the Virginia State College for Negroes, at Petersburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 28, 38, 40, 41, and 45 of chapter 273 of the acts of assembly of 1874, entitled an act to provide a churter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia chartering the city of Buena Vista
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 690 of chapter 471 of the acts of assembly of 1928, which chapter is a general revision, amendment and codification of the school laws, the section to be amended being in relation to vaccination of pupils.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 320 of the acts of assembly of 1928, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Dickenson county to levy additional taxes for the benefit of the public schools in said county, the several magisterial districts and incorporated towns therein, and authorizing the school board to borrow money for said purpose
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved July 11, 1870, providing a charter for the town of West Point, in King William county.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered section 644-a, relating to who may be chosen members of a county school board, and to repeal chapter 499 of the acts of assembly of 1928.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 683 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the compulsory education of children.

1932
An ACT for the relief of county treasurers who have, prior to March 1, 1932, paid interest on school warrants issued by the school boards of their respective counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 688 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to authorize the surviving trustees of Cedar Grove School property in Scott county to turn over to Scott county school board for the benefit of Shoemaker high school the funds in their hands as such trustees.
An ACT to permit the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary to dispose of certain parcels of land and improvements thereon in the city of Williamsburg.