An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled “an act concerning public service corporations, approved January 18, 1904,” and providing for the continuance of annual tolls on turnpikes. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of chapter 2 and sections 40 and 63 of chapter 5 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations |
An ACT to punish the wilful or malicious taking or removing of the waste or packing from out any journal box or boxes of any locomotive, engine, tender, carriage, coach, car, caboose, or truck used or operated upon any rail-road, whether the same be operated by steam or electricity. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 2 of an act entitled ‘‘an act concerning corporations” |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437a of an act approved December 10, 1903, amending and re-enacting chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots, so that said section shall apply to and provide for the assessment of standing timber trees, and to make the same retrospective as to certain assessments. |
An ACT to appropriate money to pay certain expenses incurred in protecting the oyster industry, for which the chairman and secretary of the board of fisheries have given their personal obligation to provide means for continued protection till March 1, 1908. |
An ACT to regulate the taking of seed oysters in a certain part of the Potomac river, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437-a of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessment of lands and lots as the same was amended and re-enacted by chapter 388 of the acts of assembly of 1902-3-4, approved December 10, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid act of assembly, approved March 17, 1906, so that said section shall apply to and provide for the assessment of standing timber trees. |
An ACT to require owners and agents of peanut cleaning establish-ments and cotton factories to furnish employees or operatives with a suit-able sponge shield to protect such employee or operative from inhaling the dust or floating particles in the air, and fixing a penalty for failure so to do. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for making, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county |
An ACT to authorize the sinking fund commissioners of the State of Virginia to convert the stock and dividend obligations of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company into stocks of said company under any new charter or amendment of its charter which said company may hereafter acquire. |
An ACT to vest in railroad companies an insurable interest in property upon the route of any railroad operated by them. |
An ACT to require railroads to provide suitable caboose cars on freight trains, and to impose a penalty for failure so to do. |
An ACT to revise, arrange, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section forty-three of chapter five of the charter of Basic City, Virginia. |
An ACT to appropriate the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars |
An ACT to prevent the spread of blight to chestnut trees in this State and to appropriate money therefor. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1103-b of the Code of Virginia, to enable certain mining and manufacturing corporations of other States or countries to conduct operations in this State. |
An ACT to facilitate the development of the resources of the State by providing ways of ingress and egress for mining, manufacturing and timber cutting, and to authorize proper passways, tram-roads, haulroads and other means of transportation over the lands of another or others. |
An ACT to amend section 437a of an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessments of land and lots approved December 10, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act to amend and re-enact section 437a of an act approved December 10th, 1903, amending and re-enacting chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to assessment of lands and lots so that the said section shall apply to and provide for the assessment of standing timber trees and to make the same retrospective as to certain assessments approved February 21st, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessment of lands and lots as the same was amended and reenacted by chapter 388 of Acts of assembly 1902-34, approved December 10th, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid act of assembly approved March 17th, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act to amend and re-enact section 437a of an act entitled an act to amend and reenact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessment of lands and lots as the same was amended and reenacted by chapter 388 of the acts of assembly of 1902-3-4, approved December 10, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid acts of assembly approved March 17th, 1906, so that said section shall apply to and provide for the assessment of standing timber trees, approved March 12th, 1908, as amended and reenacted by an act to amend and reenact section 437a of chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia relating to assessment of lands, lots and interest therein and improvements thereon as the same has been heretofore amended by chapter 319 acts of 1906, approved February 19th, 1910. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 10 of an act entitled an act concerning public service corporations, approved January 18, 1904, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act concerning corporations, approved January 18, 1904, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act concerning public corporations, approved January 18, 1904, and providing for the continuance of annual tolls on turnpikes. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved February 27, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 4, 1898, amending and re-enacting sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for a bureau of labor and industrial statistics, and defining the duties of said bureau, approved March 3, 1898, and adding an independent section thereto, so as to make more complete regulations for factory inspection and for the appointment of factory inspectors. |
An ACT to make it obligatory upon persons, firms, or corporations employing men in foundries or moulding shops to provide for proper ventilation in such foundries or moulding shops. |
An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of Norfolk county, subject to certain specified conditions, to borrow a sum not exceeding $250,000.00 for the purpose of building, macadamizing or otherwise permanently improving public roads and bridges, and acquiring toll roads and toll bridges, in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by a deed of trust on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; and to provide for the expenditure and application of the proceeds of said bond issue, and for the payment of said bonds. |
An ACT to authorize the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Com- pany, Incorporated, to take possession of the turnpike leading from near Warrenton to Fairfax courthouse, and prescribing the terms and limitations of the same. |
An ACT to provide for the encouragement, maintenance and supervision of industrial, agricultural, household arts and commercial education. |
An ACT to provide for the segregation of the tax upon the rolling stock of corporations operating railroads by steam; to make such rolling stock liable to taxation by the State alone; to fix the rate of such taxation; and to provide for the assessment of the said eed stock. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the segregation of the tax upon the rolling stock of corporations operating railroads by steam, to make such rolling stock liable to taxation by the State alone, to fix the rate of such taxation, and to provide for the assessment of said rolling stock, approved February 16, a. 101 |
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Brunswick to issue bonds of the said county to an amount not exceeding $57,000.00 in exchange for and to raise funds to pay off the outstanding bonds of said county, issued by it in payment of its subscription to the capital stock of the Atlantic and Danville Railway Company, approved January 30, 1914; to ratify the action of the said board of supervisors to the extent that it has issued bonds of the county pursuant to said act; to authorize the said board of supervisors to issue coupon bonds, or registered bonds as provided in said act, in exchange for and to raise funds to pay off the balance of the outstanding bonds of said county issued by it in payment of its subscription to the capital stock of the said Atlantic and Danville Railway Company ; and to authorize the said board of supervisors, in its discretion, to issue coupon bonds authorized by this act in exchange for the registered bonds of the said county heretofore issued pursuant to said act approved |
An ACT to amend sections 1 and 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road and bridge improvement in the counties of the State, approved February 25, 1910. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved March 138, 1912, chapter 178 of acts of 1912, entitled 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 authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to acquire rock quarries. |
An ACT to prohibit stealing and taking away sand and gravel |
An ACT to appropriate money to the convict lime board to remove deficit in the funds available for use at the State lime grinding plants at Staunton and Irvington. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 48 and 63 of an act entitled an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved July 9, 1870, and to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 21, 1877, and to amend and re-enact an act approved February 17, 1890, and to re-enact an act, approved January 29, 1894, relating to the charter of the town of Harrisonburg, approved March 3, 1896. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3857 of the Code of Virginia. |
An ACT for the protection of persons employed in the construction or repair of railroad cars or car trucks or similar equipment. |
An ACT to provide for the marking of boats engaged in the taking of fish, oysters, clams and crabs in the tidal waters of this State; for the marking of all pound nets, fike nets, purse nets, haul seines and other devices for the taking of fish in the tidal waters of this State; and to provide penalties for the violation thereof. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3257 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 3163 of the Code of Virginia. |
An ACT to require all owners, operators, proprietors, superin- |
An ACT authorizing the convict lime board to borrow not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars on the lime grinding plant at Irvington; in case the said loan cannot be effected, to lease the said plant for not exceeding two years; also authorizing the said board to sell the lime now in storage at said plant in any way it may consider to be to the best interests of the State. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6438 of the Code of Virginia |
An ACT to regulate highway contractors’ association. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1797 of the Code of Virginia |
An ACT to authorize the convict lime board to sell and convey its plant at Irvington, including the land and the buildings and other property located thereon, and to pay the proceeds of such sale into the treasury of the State. |
An ACT to provide that in certain cases it shall be prima facie presumed that no minerals, coals, oils, or ores exist in or on certain lands situated in the non-mountainous regions of this Commonwealth, having an elevation not in excess of six hundred feet above sea level, and for the extinguishment in certain cases of the claim to undiscovered or exhausted minerals, coals, oils or ores in such land. |
An ACT to grant to the land owners in Montgomery and Pulaski counties, Virginia, below the mouth of Little river, abutting on and adjacent to New river, the privilege of mining coal and other minerals under New river, to the center thereof, subject to certain qualifications. |
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia, in relation to special, private and local legislation. |
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on selective immigration, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the commission. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of the act entitled 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 grant to the landowners in Montgomery and Pulaski counties, Virginia, below the mouth of Little river, abutting on and adjacent to New river, the privilege of mining coal and other minerals under New river, to the center thereof. |
An ACT to appropriate to the commission on conservation and development the sum of $50,000.00 for each of the years of the biennium ending February 29, 1928, the same to constitute a State advertising fund. |
An ACT concerning taxation; to segregate for the purposes of taxation, the several kinds or classes of property, so as to specify and determine upon what subjects State taxes, and upon what subjects local taxes, may be levied; to amend and re-enact sections 2205, 2206, 2207 and 2212 of the Code of Virginia; to amend and re-enact sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, 2914, 31, 33, 35, 36 and 36% of the tax bill, as heretofore amended; to repeal section 2209 of the Code of Virginia; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in “the State highway system,” and to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades, from the first to the seventh, inclusive, and to provide for the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis among the people of this State, and to extend the work of the State board of health, approved March 16, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise additional revenue for the support of the government, approved March 23, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in the “State highway system,” approved September 5, 1919; to repeal sections 2 and 7 of the tax bill, in relation to real estate and tangible personal property; to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the situs of taxation of bank stock, approved March 16, 1918; to raise revenue for the support of the government and to provide a minimum fixed appropriation of State revenue for public free school purposes and to provide penalties for violations of this act. |
An ACT to grant the James River Bridge Corporation the right to open a temporary construction channel across the shoals on the north and south sides of the main ship channel, of James river, near its mouth, to facilitate the construction of its bridge, authority for which was granted by the general assembly of Virginia by its act, approved April 8, 1927. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1269 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the establishment of lime grinding plants. |
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 section 220 of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to taxes on stock cars, furniture cars, fruit cars, and other similar cars. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 403 of the acts of assembly of 1922, being the act creating a State highway commission and prescribing its powers and duties, the section here amended, being in relation to adding additional mileage to the State highway system, as last amended by chapter 160 of the acts of assembly of 1928. |
An ACT to authorize cities, towns and counties to exempt manufacturing establishments and works of internal improvements from local taxation. |
An ACT authorizing the Standard Dredging Company to construct a bulkhead west of Craney Island, in the county of Norfolk, Virginia, and to deposit excavated material behind said bulkhead. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3240 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the taking of oysters, fish, crabs, clams and all other shell fish. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4450 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, relating to the sale and purchase of second-hand metals. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3281 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to fish and oysters. |
An ACT to provide for a commission to study the forestry conditions of the State, to prescribe the powers and duties of said commission and to make an appropriation to carry the provisions of this act into effect. |
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 6438 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to liens of laborers and other persons. |
An ACT to establish and to provide for the maintenance and operation, under the management, direction and control of the authorities of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, of a nautical school for merchant marine training, to confer certain express powers and duties upon the said authorities with respect to such school, to permit them to accept gifts and loans and other aid in the maintenance of the said school, and to provide for the practical training of the students attending the same. |
An ACT to authorize the sale and conveyance to Whiting Oil Company of a small parcel of land on State highway route 800, in Alleghany county, Virginia, acquired for State highway purposes. |
An ACT to provide for co-operation between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States Employment Service |
An ACT to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development, the town of Virginia Beach, and any agency of the Federal government to open, clear, deepen and widen channels from Chesapeake Bay through Lynnhaven Inlet, Long Creek, Broad Bay and Linkhorn Bay, in the county of Princess Anne; to confer the right of eminent domain for such purpose; and to authorize the town of Virginia Beach to participate in, and take advantage of the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, approved June 16, 1933, and known as the National Industrial Recovery Act. |
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 release the United States of America, and any contractor therefor or agent thereof, from any and all claims for damages to the oyster and other public interests of the Commonwealth of Virginia by reason of the dredging and maintenance, by the United States or any such contractor or agent of, including the deposit of material dredged in connection with, navigable channels. |
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 8 of an act entitled "an act to create a State Highway Commission; to provide for a chairman thereof; and to prescribe the powers, duties and the compensation of the commission and chairman; and to provide for a State Highway Commissioner; to create road construction districts; to provide for the apportionment among them of road construction funds, and to provide for road construction, improvement, maintenance and preservation, also to repeal Sections 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974 and 1975 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a State Highway Commission; to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commission to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1906; to provide for the appointment of a commission, and fixing their term of office; to give to said commission the power of eminent domain, the power to make and enforce rules and regulations governing the traffic and use of the State highway system, not in conflict with the laws of this State, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations, approved September 5, 1919, and to repeal all other sections of the Code and acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act,” approved March 24, 1922, said section relating to the advertising for bids. |
An ACT to provide for the establishment, maintenance and operation of a tannery at the State Penitentiary Farm, and to provide funds therefor. |
An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors or other governing bodies in counties to divide the area of counties in the unincorporated portions thereof into one or more districts; to regulate the use of lands and of buildings and other structures; to provide the locations of those areas which may be used as places of residence or in which agriculture, forestry, trade, industry or other specific uses, may be conducted, the height, bulk and size of buildings or other structures, the percentage of land area which may be occupied, and the minimum sizes of yards, courts or other open spaces; to provide for amendments and changes therein; to require county planning commissions to perform certain duties with reference thereto; to permit cooperation between political subdivisions, State and Federal agencies and officials thereof; to permit the appointment and prescribe the powers and duties of county boards of zoning appeals; to provide that this act shall not apply to certain counties heretofore authorized to regulate the use of land and the construction and use of buildings and structures therein; to provide for the enforcement of this act; and to provide penalties for violation of this act. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact. Section 1838 and Section 1887, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, Section 1838 being in relation to maps of coal mines, and Section 1887 being in relation to mines to which the chapter on mining shall apply. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 12, and 19 of an act entitled “An act to define motor vehicle carriers and transportation brokers; to provide for the regulation, supervision, and control of persons, firms, corporations, and associations, owning, controlling, operating, or managing motor vehicles used for the transportation of persons or property for compensation on the public highways of this State, and of transportation brokers; to provide for the regulation of the rates thereof; to provide for and/or regulate and/or control the operation of, and the charges, rates, or services imposed by any person, firm or corporation operating motor vehicles for compensation over the highways of this State; to provide for the enforcement of this act, and for the punishment of violations thereof; and to repeal chapter 359 of the Acts of 1932, and all statutes and/or acts, or parts of statutes and/or acts, in conflict with the provisions of this act” |
An ACT to amend an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth” |
An ACT to amend chapter 342 of the acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section numbered 35-c, prescribing the fees for certificates of registration and license plates for certain trucks, trailers and semi-trailers used solely for transporting well-drilling machinery. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3265 of the Code of Virginia, relating to taking, catching, picking, canning, packing, buying and selling crabs. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled ‘‘An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about railroad shops, coal mines, manufacturies of iron and steel, and all other manufacturies, and railroad clerks the payment of wages at regular intervals, and in lawful money of the United States approved May 23rd, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11th, 1912.” |
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 43 of an act entitled ‘‘An act to provide a new charter for the Town of Luray, Virginia.’’, approved March 21, 1928, so as to confer additional powers on the council of the said town. |
An ACT to prohibit the use of certain mercurial carroting solutions in the preparation of hatters’ fur, and the use of certain hatters’ fur in the manufacture of hats, in the State of Virginia, and to prescribe penalty for violation. |
An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 73-c, in relation to the taxation of suppliers of pulpwood, veneer logs, mine props and railroad cross-ties. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1887-h of the Code of Virginia relating to Division of Mines, and to duties of the mine inspector as inspector of weights and measures for certain purposes. |
A Joint RESOLUTION proposing amendment to Section 183 of the Constitution of Virginia. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1879 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the use of inflammable oils in operating machinery underground, so as to permit the use of Diesel powered equipment in the operation of limestone mines. |
An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding a new section to Chapter 16 thereof, to be numbered Section 229-a, relating to the franchise or license tax of certain public service corporations beginning business in this State; to the franchise or license tax of certain public service corporations acquiring the business or any part thereof of another public service corporation, and to the franchise or license tax in cases of consolidations or mergers of public service corporations. |
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 3573-a authorizing the leasing by the State of the beds of certain waters within the jurisdiction of the State, for certain purposes. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3, as amended, of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Medical College of Virginia." |
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1 of an act entitled “An Act to regulate investments of domestic life insurance companies” |
An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding a section, numbered 188-b, to define the words “place of manufacture”. |
An ACT to amend an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth.” |
An ACT to amend and reenact Sectien 3208 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to taking shellfish from the natural rocks, beds or shoals in the waters of the Commonwealth. |
An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 216, 216-b, 219, 222, 224, 227, and 229 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the taxation of railway and canal corporations; motor bus transportation companies in cities and towns; express companies; corporations operating steamships, steamboats or other floating property for the transportation of passengers or freight; sleeping car, parlor car, and dining car companies; telegraph and telephone companies, and any firm or person operating the apparatus necessary to communicate by telegraph or telephone; and water or heat, light and power companies; which are in Chapter 16 of the Tax Code of Virginia, entitled 'Public Service Corporations'. |
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 30-a requiring certain persons drilling wells for water, oil, or gas to supply the State Geological Survey Division of the Virginia Conservation Commission with geological and other data, and to prohibit and punish violations |
AN ACT requiring certain dry or abandoned oil wells in the State to be plugged, sealed or filled; and to provide equitable relief and penalties for violations. |
An ACT to provide that certain leases of lands for the operation and development of oil and gas in the State of Virginia shall contain certain provisions with respect to offset wells. |
An ACT to provide that all existing leases of lands for the operation and development of oil and gas in the State of Virginia shall be construed as if containing certain provisions with respect to offset wells. |