Employment and labor

1930
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 75 of chapter 400 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, commonly known as the workmen’s compensation act, as last amended by chapter 445 of the acts of the general assembly of 1928.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of trial justice for every county in this State which now has or may hereafter have an area of not less than two hundred and ten, nor more than two hundred and fifty square miles and having a density of population of not less than forty, nor more than fifty-five inhabitants to the square mile.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Burkeville, Nottoway county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to provide for the relief of the family of S. M. Watts, a special prohibition officer, killed while in the discharge of his duty as such.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new chapter numbered 243-a and nine new sections, numbered 5904-a, 5904-b, 5904-c, 5904-d, 5904-e, 5904-f, 5904-g, 5904-h and 5904-i, providing for the establishment of a county court in each county of the Commonwealth having a population greater than 500 inhabitants per square mile as shown by the last United States census; to provide for its jurisdiction; to provide for the officers of said court and fix their duties; to provide for the pleadings in said court; to provide for appeals from decisions of said court; to provide for its terms; to fix the compensation of the judge and the court officers; and to abolish in the counties in which such courts are established the offices of justices of the peace, trial justices, and juvenile and domestic relations justice; and to transfer the powers of such courts to the county court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of chapter 214 of the acts of assembly of 1926, entitled an act to establish a State farm for defective misdemeanants on the Powhatan side of the State prison farm or other place; to define the classes of defective misdemeanants to be transferred thereto; to provide for the location, construction, government thereof; to provide for the allowance and anticipation of the per diem costs of jail inmates and for the transportation of prisoners there, approved March 19, 1926, and to enlarge the same to include any other misdemeanants, and felons.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of le II of chapter 96 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session of 1899-1900, approved January 22, 1900, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus.
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 amend and re-enact section 1952 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to juvenile courts.
AN ACT to provide a landscape planning engineer for the State highway commission, and to define his duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 5 of chapter 321 of the acts of assembly of 1928, entitled an act to provide for a special police force for the county of Fairfax, appointment and compensation,
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections (d) and (t) of the defini-tion clause defining the term “tractor truck” and “highway,” and to amend and re-enact sections three, eighteen, nineteen and one-half, twenty, as amended, twenty-nine, as amended, and thirty-two, of chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, relating to the office of the director of the division of motor vehicles, and his assistants, their powers and duties, and to the licensing and registration of motor vehicles.
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 for the relief of Holt Page.
An ACT to authorize and empower corporations to grant pensions to their former officers and employees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 39, of the Virginia workmen's compensation act
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 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 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 establish an industrial farm for women; to provide for the removal of female prisoners from the Virginia penitentiary thereto; to provide for the removal of female prisoners from the county, town and city jails thereto; to provide for the location, construction, equipment and government thereof; to provide for the use of certain funds therefor; to authorize the payment of the jail per diem thereto; to provide for the commitment thereto of female delinquents by justices, courts and the transfer thereto from certain institutions and agencies as provided by law.
AN ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Stony Creek, in the county of Sussex, 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 Stony Creek 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 3150 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the offices and employees of the commissioner of fisheries.
An ACT to appropriate $60,000.00 annually, payable out of the State highway maintenance and construction fund, to enable the director of the division of motor vehicles to employ twenty-two additional inspectors, to aid in the enforcement of the laws relating to motor vehicles.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the disability of a person holding office or employment under the United States government, to hold office in Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3153 of the Code of Virginia relating to oyster inspectors.
An ACT to provide for a trial justice in counties having a population of not less than forty thousand nor more than forty-six thousand, and to prescribe the term of office, the jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia, relating to exemptions from jury service.
An ACT to amend and re-enact clause first of section thirty-eight of chapter six of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, approved March 21, 1928.

1932
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of nonsupport; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties, and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to create a fund for the relief of injured and disabled firemen; for the relief of the dependents of deceased firemen; to provide for the appointment of trustees to administer said fund; to levy a tax upon the premiums collected by all fire and lightning insurance companies doing business in this State, for the purposes aforesaid; to provide for reports of such business; to fix penalties for the violation of the requirements imposed upon the said business; and for other purposes in connection therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act
An ACT to abolish fees and commissions as a method of compensating treasurers and commissioners of the revenue of counties; to provide for fixing and payment of compensation and expenses of such officers, and expenses of clerks of the circuit courts, attorneys for the Commonwealth and sheriffs and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 69 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5791 of chapter 236, of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the liability of intrastate common carriers by railroads operated by steam for injury to, or death of, employees.
An ACT to prescribe the compensation of clerks of courts, attorneys for the Commonwealth, commissioners of the revenue, city sergeants, and city treasurers in cities of this Commonwealth having a population of over sixty-five thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants, according to the United States census of 1930; to provide for the payment of such compensation and the expenses of office of such officers; to impose certain duties on the State fee commission; to provide for the appointment and compensation of jailors in such cities; to prescribe the powers and duties of such jailor, and to confer certain powers on the city manager in such cities in relation to the jail and jailor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to disabilities to hold office.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by incorporating therein a new section to be designated as section 1834-b, the object thereof being to create and establish a safety codes commission of Virginia, and to prescribe its duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled 'an act to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the probation officer of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4570 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to working or transacting business on Sunday.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3424 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to attorneys-at-law.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto six new sections, numbered 2702-a to 2702-f, both inclusive, in relation to giving two or more counties the right to employ, appoint, or elect conjointly ministerial and executive officers, after the conjoint employment, appointment, or election of such officers has been adopted, in accordance with section 110 of the Constitution of Virginia, by a majority of the qualified voters of each such counties voting in an election held for that purpose, and prescribing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to exemptions from jury service.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 109-a thereof fifty-six new sections numbered 2773-n 1 to 2773-n 56, both inclusive, relating to the organization and government of counties, and providing for complete forms of county organization and government different from that provided for in article VII of the Constitution of Virginia, sections 110 to 115, both inclusive thereof, to become effective in any county in Virginia when submitted to the qualified voters thereof in an election held for such purpose and approved by a majority of those voting thereon, as is authorized by section 110 of the Constitution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 136 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to prosecuting business, employment or profession without a license.
An ACT to amend section 3035 of the Code of Virginia relating to pensions and group insurance in cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1614 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1614-a, regulating the practice of medicine.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5904-b, 5904-c, 5904-e, 5904-f and 5904-g of the Code of Virginia, which are in relation to county courts in counties having a density of population in excess of 500 inhabitants per square mile as shown by the last United States census; and to repeal section 5904-d of said Code relating to said courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act which became a law March 21, 1918, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for the licensing of chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle operators, and for the suspension and revocation of such licenses for certain causes; to fix liability on certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways; and to prescribe penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6556 of the Code of Virginia, which said section is in chapter 274 of the said Code on the subject of exemption of property of householders.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4960 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation for officers for services in certain cases where no other compensation is provided, and to amend and re-enact section 2860 of the Code of Virginia, relating to records to be kept by jailors; how time deducted or added.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 42 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gordonsville, Virginia; to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State.
An ACT for the relief of Norella J. Wood, Mary Norella Wood, James Newton Wood and John Edwin Wood.
An ACT to provide that during periods of unemployment citizens of Virginia shall be employed for the labor in connection with the work on roads, highways, etc., whenever and wherever the State highway commissioner deems the same available and efficient.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4797 of the Code of Virginia relating to the appointment of special policemen.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia relating to trial justices, as last amended by an act approved March 24, 1930

1933es
An ACT to provide for co-operation between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States Employment Service
An ACT to authorize the State Prison Board to expend certain funds heretofore appropriated for per diem allowance to prisoners for the purpose of purchasing certain equipment and machinery and to provide for the repayment thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 192 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the license taxation of peddlers
An ACT to authorize and empower the State Commission on Conservation and Development for the purpose of co-operating with the government of the United States in reducing and relieving unemployment and in conserving natural resources, and to extend the park system of the Commonwealth, to purchase or otherwise acquire for park purposes real estate within the Commonwealth and for such purpose to appropriate the sum of $50,000.00.
An ACT to encourage State and national industrial recovery by co-operating with the national government in fostering fair competition; and to that end to authorize the utilization of State and local officers and employees by the President of the United States; to prescribe the force and effect in Virginia of codes of fair competition, agreements and licenses, approved, prescribed or issued under an act of the Congress of the United States, known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933; and to prescribe penalties for violations of any such code, agreement or license.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 2073-a and 2073-b, all pertaining to the State convict road force, the employment of convicts and misdemeanants, and the purchase of articles produced and manufactured thereby.

1934
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 8, 14, 16, 17, 18, 23 and 24 of chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, entitled an act to provide for the licensing of chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle operators, and for the suspension and revocation of such licenses for certain causes; to fix liability on certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways; and to prescribe penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act, approved March 29, 1932.

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as last amended by an act approved February 27, 1930.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for licensing dealers in motor fuel; to require certain reports by such dealers and certain other persons; to levy a tax upon motor fuel: to provide for its collection; to appropriate the revenue raised by the same; to prescribe penalties for violations; and to repeal an act of the General Assembly entitled an act to levy a tax upon motor vehicle fuel; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenue raised by the same, and to prescribe penalties, approved March 26, 1923, and to repeal all acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1932, in relation to refunds of taxes paid on motor fuel
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 of chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, in relation to registration fees.
An ACT to amend chapter 6 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new section thereto to be designated as section 70-a, providing that the council of said city may establish a system of pensions for injured, retired or superannuated members of the police and fire departments and prescribing how funds may be raised for such purposes.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Lawrenceville, Virginia; to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State.
An ACT for the relief of Norella J. Wood, Mary Norella Wood, James Newton Wood and John Edwin Wood.
An ACT for the relief of J. T. Pleasants.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 169 thereof three new sections numbered 4258-h, 4258-i and 4258-j, defining group life insurance, providing standard provisions for policies thereof and exempting such policies and proceeds thereof from execution, attachment, garnishment and other similar processes.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto sixteen new sections, numbered 4988-a to 4988-p, both inclusive, relating to the appointment of trial justices and substitute trial justices in counties; providing for the appointment of clerks for such trial justices, and prescribing the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices, substitute trial justices and clerks; to appropriate the sum of forty thousand ($40,000.00) dollars annually or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose, for distribution among certain counties, and to repeal section 4988-a of the Code of Virginia, as enacted into law by chapter 81 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1926, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of an act entitled an act to reorganize the administration of the State government in order to secure better service, and through co-ordination and consolidation, to promote economy and efficiency in the work of the government; to create and establish or continue certain departments, divisions, offices, officers, and other agencies, and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, commissions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency, approved April 18, 1927, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2773-h of the Code of Virginia, relating to county managers.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 4326-a, requiring certain liability insurance policies issued or delivered in this State to contain certain provisions; and to repeal chapter 339 of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, approved March 20, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 191 of the Tax Code of Virginia in relation to pawn-brokers.
An ACT to provide for the compensation of attorneys for the Commonwealth in the counties and cities, county and city treasurers, and county and city commissioners of the revenue, and officers and employees performing the duties of such officers in counties which adopt optional forms of county organization and government; to prescribe the method of fixing and paying their salaries and the expenses of the operation of their offices; to provide for the payment of such salaries and expenses; to provide for the disposition of the fees collected by such officers; to provide for a Compensation Board to administer this act; to provide for the powers, duties and functions of such board: to abolish the State Fee Commission; to appropriate funds for the payment of salaries and expenses and for the administration of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.

1936
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5984 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to who are liable to serve as jurors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 19 of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond,” approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 638, 641, 642, 643, 649, 653, 655, 656, 657, 660, 667, 669, 673, 674, 683, 684, 688, 695, 700, 707, 708, and 716 of the Code of Virginia, Sections 611, 612, 638, 642, 649, 653, 655, 656, 660, 673, 683, 684, 688 and 695 of which have heretofore been amended, all of which sections relate to the State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, division superintendents, county and city school boards, the literary fund, and to the establishment, maintenance and administration of the public school system, so as, among other things, to make certain of said sections applicable to cities, to validate county bond elections, to prescribe qualifications of certain teachers for purposes of compulsory education; to provide for settlements of treasurers with school boards, and to prohibit school boards from employing their members for certain purposes; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered six hundred and ninety-eight, providing for the levying of taxes and the appropriation of moneys in counties, cities and towns for public school purposes, and to repeal section six hundred and ninety-eight-a of the Code of Virginia relating to the same matter, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered seven hundred and forty-one, relating to the qualifications of drivers of school buses and the methods by which their fitness shall be determined; and to prohibit the school board from employing certain persons related to the Division Superintendent.
An ACT to authorize, under certain conditions and under the direc-tion and control of certain courts, assignments by certain persons of salary, wages and income to trustees for the benefit of creditors; defining the power and duties of such trustees and fixing their compensation; and prescribing the effect of such assignments as to creditors of the parties so assigning.
An ACT to regulate the business of cleaning, dyeing and pressing; defining what constitutes engaging in said business, as well as defining certain other words; creating a State Dry Cleaners Board; empowering and authorizing said board to promulgate rules and regulations; requiring the issuance of licenses by said board as a prerequisite to engaging in said business, and providing penalties for the violation of any of the provisions of this act; and providing that this act shall apply in all cities, and in any counties when two-thirds of the resident persons actively engaged in the cleaning, dyeing and pressing business in such counties petition the State Dry Cleaners Board to be entitled to the benefits of this act, then such counties shall be governed by this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2808 of the Code of Virginia, designating persons who shall be deemed vagrants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, so as to provide for working certain prisoners confined in jail.
An ACT to transfer to and vest in the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration, to be exercised by it through the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration and a Supervisor of Inspection of Apples and Peaches, certain powers and duties heretofore conferred and imposed by law upon the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, the Division of Markets, the Director of the Division of Markets, and the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration, and to provide compensation for the said supervisor and other necessary inspectors and employees and the expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of the Virginia Workmen’s Compensation Act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as last amended by an act approved March 24, 1932.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 175 thereof a new section to be numbered Section 4354-a, relating to the collection of premiums by industrial insurance agents.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 7, 9, 13, 15, 19, 20, 20-a and 21 of an act entitled "an act to provide for a State Boxing and Wrestling Commission, to prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the expense of administering this act; to authorize and empower counties, cities and towns to determine by ordinance, referendum, or otherwise, when boxing and wrestling contests may be held therein; to provide for boxing and wrestling contests for prizes or purses, or where an admission is charged, and limiting such boxing contests to fifteen rounds and wrestling matches by such rules as may be promulgated by the commission; to prescribe conditions under which licenses shall be issued and contests held; to declare that amateur boxing and wrestling contests conducted heretofore shall be subject to the provisions of this measure and under the sole jurisdiction of such commission in all cases wherein an admission fee is charged spectators to witness such amateur boxing and/or wrestling contests; to provide for licensing and taxing such boxing and wrestling matches and providing for the distribution of the moneys derived therefrom," approved March 29, 1934, said sections being in relation to licenses, permits, compensation of officers, referees, number of bouts of matches, and appropriation of money collected.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to disabilities to hold office and exceptions thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 13, 15 and 16 of an act entitled "An act to regulate the employment of children; to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact Chapter 210 of the Acts of 1908, regulating the employment of children in certain employments, approved March 13, 1908, as amended by Chapter 339 of the Acts of 1914, approved March 27, 1914, approved March 14, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to permit children over the age of twelve years to work in fruit and vegetable canneries and to transmit merchandise or run errands, approved March 20, 1920, and to repeal Sections 1809 to 1816, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, Section 1810 of which was amended by an act approved March 25, 1920," approved March 27, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918, in relation to jurisdiction in cases of desertion and non-support.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending
An ACT to appropriate to the Division of Motor Vehicles $161,500 for the year beginning July 1, 1936, and $146,500 for the year beginning July 1, 1937, to be used for the employment of additional police officers and the adjustment of salaries of the police force of the said division.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.