Education

1901/1902
An ACT to compensate school trustees other than the clerk of said board in Giles county.
An ACT to allow H. L. Pearson, of the city of Richmond, to take the law examination.

1901es
An ACT to incorporate the Sweet Briar institute, in the county of Amherst, Virginia.
An ACT to empower the school board of Battletown district, Clarke county, to borrow money to retire outstanding bonds.
An ACT to incorporate the Union co-operative college, at Bedford City, Virginia.
An ACT authorizing the county school board of Elizabeth City county to borrow ten thousand dollars ($10,000), and issue bonds therefor,
An ACT to constitute the town of Covington in Alleghany county and certain territory adjacent thereto, a separate school district, and to authorize the council of said town to appoint a board of school trustees for the said district and to levy and collect certain taxes for the benefit of said district.
An ACT amending the charter of the Rawlings institute.
An ACT to confirm the authority given the auditor of public accounts to compromise, adjust, and settle the claims and demands of the commonwealth of Virginia against the estate of Indiana Fletcher Williams, late of Amherst county.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Catalpa school and magisterial district, in Culpeper county, to fund the existing bonded indebtedness of the district incurred under former acts of the general assembly of Virginia.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of Franklin town school district
An ACT to authorize and empower the school board of Big Stone Gap school district, in Wise county, to issue additional bonds to complete the erection of a building for a graded school.
An ACT to incorporate Hollins institute.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southern seminary at Bowling Green, Virginia, approved February 5, 1900, and to add to said act additional sections.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act creating and establishing a teachers’ retirement fund in the city of Richmond
An ACT to incorporate the Bethel military academy, Fauquier county, Virginia.
An ACT authorizing the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds not exceeding $25,000 for public school purposes in Atlantic City ward.
An ACT to allow school district number one, of Norfolk county, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
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.
An ACT to authorize the secretary of the commonwealth to turn over to the department of public instruction certain annual reports of State officers.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to issue a duplicate for the school warrant of Greene county, and to take from the treasurer of said county an indemnifying bond.
An ACT to authorize and empower the school board of Wise school district, in Wise county, to issue bonds to erect building for a graded school.
An ACT authorizing the county school board of Elizabeth City county to borrow fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) and issue bonds therefor, for the building and equipment of a new school house in the town of Hampton.

1902/1903
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 15, 1901, entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Jerusalem magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firme, or corporations, except manufacturers of apple and peach brandy, within said district, to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to said district.
An ACT authorizing Fairfiel€ school district to issue bonds for the purchase of property to be used for school purposes
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Petsworth school district, in Gloucester county, to borrow money and to issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to authorize the school board of the city of Manchester to borrow money and issue bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 73, Code of 1887, relating to general provisions as to colleges and academies and other institutions, of the Miller Manual Labor School and the Medical College of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 'an act requiring educational institutions receiving State appropriations to make annual reports to the board of education,' approved January 12, 1888, and an act entitled 'an act to provide for the expenses of the boards of visitors of the institutions of learning,' approved March 4, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 4 of an act entitled “an act to appoint a board of trustees for the Virginia Female Institute at Staunton, and to provide for the future government of said institute,” approved March 14, 1874, as amended by an act approved January 18, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1101 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and reenact sections 242. 243, 244, 245, 246, 250, 252, and 267 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth.
An ACT appropriating the sum of five thousand dollars to the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to meet current expenses.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate High Point Academy, in Grayson county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 69, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the Virginia Military Institute, as amended by an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, and 14 of chapter 54 of the acts of the general assembly, extra session 1884, in relation to the appointment of a board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute,’ approved May 18, 1887, and as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 1582 of chapter 22 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the government of the Virginia Military Institute,” approved February 18, 1890, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of William and Mary College to use the appropriation of 35.000 heretofore made to said college for an electric ight plant for that or such other svstem of lighting as the said board mity deem expedient.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act incorporating the ‘Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute,’ and to provide for the support of the same,” approved May 20, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 29, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 74, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, as amended by an act entitled 'an act to provide for the reorganization of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled 'an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute at Staunton, Virginia,'' approved May 14, 1887, as amended by an act entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled 'an act to provide for the reorganization of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind,'' and to repeal chapter 74 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled 'an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute at Staunton, Virginia,' approved May 14, 1887, approved March 4, 1896, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
An ACT to incorporate the General Alumni Association of the University of Virginia, with authority to issue certificates of membership to local associations and individuals composing said General Alumni Association.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1546 and 1551 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the board of visitors of the Universitr of Virginia, the salaries of professors, ete.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 71, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the State Female Normal School, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Clintwood school district, in Dickenson county, to issue bonds and use the proceeds to purchase a site and erect thereon and furnish a school-house for said school district, and to authorize said trustees to sell the present school-house lot, and invest the proceeds in another school-house lot.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887) 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.”
An ACT to regulate the professional nursing of the sick in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, and corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said district.
An ACT to establish Jonesville high school district, in Lee county, Virginia, providing the mode of appointing trustees, levying tax for district school purposes therein, and authorizing the trustees to apply the money collected for district school purposes to the payment of teachers’ salaries, the purchasing, renting, or building of school-houses, apparatus, furniture, appliances,
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $5,000 to the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute.
An ACT to establish Norton school district.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $5,000 to add to and improve the buildings at the State Female Normal School, at Farmville, and to increase the annual appropriation to said school from $15,000 to 825,000.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved May 10, 1887, authorizing and making provision for the leasing and operating of the New London Academy as a public free school for the benefit of the counties of Bedford and Campbell.
An ACT to increase the annual appropriation to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute from $25,000 to $40,000.
An ACT to provide for vesting in the circuit court of Albemarle county, or the judge thereof, on and after February 1, 1904, the jurisdiction and powers now by law vested in the county court of Albemarle county, or the judge thereof, in relation to the Miller Manual Labor School, of Albemarle county.
An ACT to authorize the couneil of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, Virginia, to cause to be issued the bonds of the said town to the amount of $10,000, and borrow money thereon for the purchase of a lot and the building of a public free school-house thereon,
An ACT to authorize and direct the auditor of public accounts to pay to James E. Phillips, his heirs, assigns, or personal representatives a sum of $5,000 out of any money in the treasury of the Commonwealth of Virginia, not otherwise appropriated, for material furnished and work done on the buildings at the University of Virginia.
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 act approved March 1, 1892, relating to appointment of visitors, and by 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 payment of interest and declaring the board of visitors.
An ACT to provide for the maintenance and management of the State library.
An ACT for the relief of any county or city treasurer who has lost the school warrant issued to any county or city treasurer, and to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit the said treasurer with the amount of such lost school warrant.
An ACT to put into operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the composition and organization of the State Board of Education; the election and appointment of its members; their qualification; powers and duties of the board; expenses, etc.
An ACT to appropriate $5,000 to the State Female Normal School for improvements.

1902/1904
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Petaworth school district, in Gloucester county, to borrow money and to issue bonds therefor.
An ACT authorizing Fairfield school district to issue bonds for the purchase of property to be used for school purposes.
An ACT to authorize the school board of the city of Manchester to borrow money and issue bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 73, Code of 1887, relating to general provisions as to colleges and academies and other institutions, of the Miller Manual Labor School and the Medical College of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act requiring educational institutions receiving State appropriations to make annual reports to the board of education,” approved January 12, 1888, and an act entitled “an act to provide for the expenses of the boards of visitors of the institutions of learning,” approved March 4, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1421 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of any county wherein the board of school trustees in any school district of such county has, prior to the passage of this act, issued bonds under any special act of the general assembly, to levy a sufficient tax on the property in such school district, in addition to the levy authorized by law to be laid for general district school purposes, to pay the interest on and principal of such bonds as the same shall become due.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1101 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and reenact sections 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 250, 252, and 267 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1591 and 1595 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1903.
An ACT to authorize the University of Virginia to send property to St. Louis for exhibition purposes.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate High Point Academy, in Grayson county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 69, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the Virginia Military Institute, as amended by an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, and 14 of chapter 54 of the actes of the general assembly, extra session 1884, in relation to the appointment of a board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute,” approved May 18, 1887, and as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 1582 of chapter 22 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the government of the Virginia Military Institute,’ approved February 18, 1890, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1781 of the Code of Virginia.
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections 2 and 4 of an Act Entitled 'An Act to Appoint a Board of Trustees for the Virginia Female Institute at Staunton, and to Provide for the Future Government of Said Institute'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act incorporating the ‘Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute,” and to provide for the support of the same,” approved May 20, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 29, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 74, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind
An ACT to provide for the additional wards to the University Virginia Hospital.
An ACT appropriating the sum of five thousand dollars to the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to meet current expenses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1546 and 1551 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia, the salaries of professors, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 71, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the State Female Normal School, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public free schools for counties and to the literary fund.
An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of William and Mary College to use the appropriation of 35.000 heretofore made to said college for an electric light plant for that or such other system of lighting as the said board may deem expedient.
An ACT to raise revenue for 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, and corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 67 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public free schools in cities and in towns constituting separate school districts.
An ACT to incorporate the General Alumni Association of the University of Virginia, with authority to issue certificates of membership to local associations and individuals composing said General Alumni Association.
An ACT to establish Jonesville high school district, in Lee county, Virginia, providing the mode of appointing trustees, levying tax for district school purposes therein, and authorizing the trustees to apply the money collected for district school purposes to the payment of teachers’ salaries, the purchasing, renting, or building of school-houses, apparatus, furniture, appliances,
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $5,000 to the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute.
An ACT to repeal sections 1532, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1639, and 1540 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public free schools in cities and in towns constituting separate school districts.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Clintwood school district, in Dickenson county, to issue bonds and use the proceeds to purchase a site and erect thereon and furnish a school-house for said school district, and to authorize said trustees to sell the present school-house lot, and invest the proceeds in another school-house lot.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 16, 17, and 20 of an act approved March 15, 1902, entitled an act to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, Virginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein.
An Act to Appropriate the Sum of $5,000 to Add to and Improve the Buildings at the State Female Normal School, at Farmville, and to Increase the Annual Appropriation to Said School from $15,000 to $25,000.
An ACT to repeal sections 1440, 1480 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 14, 1890, and 1513 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act approved May 15, 1903, entitled “an act to put into operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the composition and organization of the State board of education; the election and appointment of its members; their qualifications; powers and duties of the board; expenses, etc.”
An ACT to establish Norton school district, in Wise county.
An ACT to increase the annual appropriation to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute from $25,000 to $40,000.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1608 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved May 10, 1887, authorizing and making provision for the leasing and operating of the New London Academy as a public free school for the benefit of the counties of Bedford and Campbell.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, Virginia, to cause to be issued the bonds of the said town to the amount of $10,000, and borrow money thereon for the purchase of a lot and the building of a public free school-house thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 826, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 838, 840, 841, 846, 847, 849, and 850, and to repeal section 839 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for vesting in the circuit court of Albemarle county, or the judge thereof, on and after February 1, 1904, the jurisdiction and powers now by law vested in the county court of Albemarle county, or the judge thereof, in relation to the Miller Manual Labor School, of Albemarle county.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 70 of the Code of 1887 relating to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute and the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.