Judicial

1897/1898
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3603 and 3604 of the code of Virginia relative to proceedings by interrogatories to ascertain the estate of debtor on which a fieri facias or a judgment may be alien, and to compel an examination of such debtor and his debtor or bailee and the delivery of the estate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3054 of the code of Virginia in relation to the terms of the corporation courts, and at what terms civil and criminal cases shall be tried therein.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending respectively on September 30, 1898, and September 30, 1899.
An ACT to empower any judge or justice of the commonwealth before whom a minor under sixteen years of age is convicted of a misdemeanor to substitute stripes in lieu of fine and imprisonment, or of either, with the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 730 of the code of Virginia.
An ACT authorizing and directing the attorney-general of this state to institute legal proceedings against William Ellinger, in the circuit court of Accomac to recover the state’s domain held by him in Accomac county, or to set aside and annul a certain deed or cession made to him from the state fish commissioner, and to do whatever may be necessary to maintain, protect and recover the rights of the state at, around and near Fox island or islands.
An ACT to create a circuit court for Radford city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3001 of the code of Virginia, in relation to indemnifying bonds to officers, their penalties and conditions.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 3581 of the code of Virginia in relation to fieri facias on judgment for money; what writs may not issue; and when writ of distringas may issue.
An ACT to provide a circuit court for the city of Bristol, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3527 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section $927 of the code of Virginia, in relation to payment of fees to officers out of the treasury in criminal cases
An ACT to provide that in any case where an action of covenant will lie, an action of assumpsit may be brought.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 174 of the code of Virginia, in relation to how officer of another state or country may take affidavit.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Accomac county to increase the salary of the county judge.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Fredericksburg, in relation to justices of the peace, police justice, constables, and the police of said city, and in relation to the office of mayor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5560 of the code of Virginia in reference to the docketing of Judgments.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the code of Virginia in relation to satisfaction of lien to be entered by creditor; how signed; how owner of real estate may have lien released
An ACT to authorize the governor to grant a conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the code of Virginia in relation to fees of the sheriff, sergeant, coroner, crier, or constable.

1899/1900
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3146 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3146 and 3147, of the code of Virginia in relation to jurors.
An ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Prince Edward county to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section 3319 of chapter 163, code of Virginia, in relation to appointment of commissioners in chancery, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 4, 1890, and by an act approved February 24, 1890, and by an act approved February 24, 1892, and by an act approved January 29, 1894, and by an act approved February 27, 1894, approved February 12, 1898.
An ACT to allow the Michie company to publish certain reports of the decisions of the court of appeals of Virginia.
An ACT to prevent the sale of adulterated and misbranded food
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2564 of the code of Virginia, in relation to when partition cannot be made there may be allotment or sale; proceedings in case of sale; how proceedings distributed or invested, and effect of sale on right of dower.
An ACT for the relief of James H. Wilson.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1749, 1750, and 1752 of chapter 77 of the code, regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 726 of the code of Virgini
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3192 of the code
An ACT to provide for the garnishment of and levy of execution on wages and salaries of all state officials, clerks, and employees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to establish a corporation court for the city of Bristol, in Washington county
An ACT to authorize courts to exclude from all trials of felony or misdemeanor cases any or all persons whose presence is not deemed necessary.
An ACT entitled an act to repeal an act, approved March 3, 1892, entitled an act to require prisoners charged with a capital offense, and on trial in a county court, to select in which court he shall be tried before making a motion for a continuance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3271 of the code of Virginia, in relation to demurrer.
An ACT to allow the board of supervisors of the county of Cumberland and the board of supervisors of the county of Powhatan to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of said counties.
An ACT to exonerate, relieve, and forever discharge James P. Keith from the payment of two fines and costs
An ACT for the relief of Charles Richardson from the payment of certain fines.
An ACT to incorporate the John Marshall memorial association.
An ACT in relation to special damages recoverable of a telegraph company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 90 of an act, approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to provide for the city of Roanoke, in relation to justices of the peace in said city.
An ACT creating a special board for Buckingham county, and defining its duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3147 of the code of Virginia, in relation to when and how court or judge may order greater number of jurors; duty of clerks in such case; issue venire facias, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3146 and 3147 of the code of Virginia, in relation to jurors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3351 of the code of Virginia, and to provide how party having adverse interest or an adverse witness may be examined.
An ACT regulating appointment of assessors of lands and lots in the county of Warwick, and providing compensation for same.
An ACT to provide payment out of the public treasury to Fauquier county of the amount of criminal expenses erroneously paid by said county.
An ACT for the relief of George A. Hutcheson, of the city of Staunton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 8, 1898, in reference to the pay of judges of election, so far as it relates to the counties of Prince William, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Warwick, Prince George, Surry, Amherst, Greene, Madison, Campbell, Tazewell, Scott, Mecklenburg, Amelia, Buckingham, Cumberland, Prince Edward, Russell, Culpeper, Pittsylvania, and Frederick.
An ACT to allow sheriffs, sergeants, or constables a fee for making return on executions delivered to them by the clerks of courts in cases when no levy is made or forthcoming bond is taken.
An ACT for the relief of Johnson & Early, assignees of Mary McGee.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3152 of the code of Virginia, in relation to how courts may discharge jurors or dispense with their attendance and provide for the time of service of jurors, and how any person may be disqualified to serve on any jury.
AN ACT for the relief of A. F. Frazier, a Confederate soldier, of Washington county.
An ACT for the relief of C. L. Kennedy, ex-sheriff of Stafford county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2940 of the code of Virginia, in relation to warrants for small claims, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 74 of acts of assembly 1889-90, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 541 of acts of assembly 1893-94, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 898 of acts of assembly 1897-98, approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4018 of the code of Virginia, in relation to writs of venire facias in cases of felony, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 7 of section 3214, code of Virginia, edition of 1887, providing how judge of a circuit court may be sued, or where sued before he is elected judge, when the suit may be removed to any county or corporation in an adjoining circuit.
An ACT providing for connection of railroads in the state of Virginia.
An ACT authorizing and directing the entry of satisfaction on the judgment lien docket of Wise county of a certain judgment in favor of the commonwealth against Ira Gilliam, late sheriff of Wise county, and the sureties on his official bond as such sheriff.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville,
An ACT for the relief of Jacob Yearout, a private Confederate soldier.
An ACT to increase the jurisdiction of justices of the peace for the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3524 of the code of Virginia in reference to allowance by boards of supervisors to clerks of circuit courts.
An ACT for the relief of Charles E. Blankenship.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2615 of the code of Virginia in relation to how leases on behalf of persons under disability may be made.
An ACT to extend the time in which R. D. Buford, ex-clerk of Bedford county court, may collect fee bills.
An ACT to enable William M. Crumpler, of Nansemond county, Virginia, to practice law, upon due examination by the court of appeals.
An ACT for the relief of David M. Rife soldier.
An ACT to enable commissioners in chancery to adjourn proceedings before them from their own county or corporation to any other county or corporation, and there continue such proceedings and take depositions and other evidence and compel attendance of witnesses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3752 and 3753 of the code of Virginia in relation to how officers suffering prisoners to escape shall be punished.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 356, of an act of assembly, approved February 17, 1896, entitled an act prescribing the times for holding the courts in the sixth judicial circuit of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the reinstatement of a cause after a final decree, to appoint a commissioner in the stead of one who has died, or become otherwise incapacitated, to make the conveyance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3435 of the code of Virginia relating to the bill of review.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3436 of the code of Virginia in reference to the jurisdiction of injunctions.
An ACT to authorize the voters of James river district in Buckingham county to vote on fence law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled "an act to repeal section 2 of an act approved January 28, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1871, and to amend and re-enact section 7 of said act as amended by an act approved January 31, 1888; also to amend and re-enact sections 31, 32, and $5 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1871; and also to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville, approved March 3, 1892," approved February 9, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3214, code of Virginia, in relation to the county or corporation in which actions at law or suits in equity may be brought.
An ACT to legalize primary elections and conventions in the county of Prince William.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 58 of the acts of 1889 and 1890, approved February 11, 1890, entitled an act to provide for the appointment of assistant commissioners of accounts, and to define their duties and powers.
An ACT to amend section 2498 of the code of Virginia, as here- tofore amended in relation to the release and satisfaction of liens.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 186 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the increase of salaries of judges of certain cities.
An ACT to provide payment out of the public treasury to Stafford county of the amount of criminal expenses erroneously paid by said county.
An ACT to incorporate the century banking and safe deposit company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as notaries, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as school trustees, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, approved February 23, 1898, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as justices.
An ACT to provide for the indexing of deeds and other records in Wise, Dickenson, and Buchanan county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 129 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 28, 1890, entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the courts of the seventeen-th judicial circuit, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1892, and further amended by an act approved February 7, 1898.
An ACT for the relief of R. M. Robinette, of the city of Roanoke, from the payment of a fine imposed by the hustings court of Roanoke city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3142 of the code of Virginia in relation to judges of county and corporation courts to prepare annually list of jurors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 387 of the acts of 1889-90 approved February 23, 1890, entitled an act to increase the salary of the judge of Tazewell county.
An ACT to prescribe the time for holding the circuit court for the eighth judicial circuit, and to regulate the compensation of the judge thereof.
An ACT to give county courts jurisdiction upon scire facias or motion to revive judgments of justices of the peace.
An ACT in relation to judgments, &c., in Appomattox county.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of special prosecuting attorneys in the county of Alexandria.
An ACT to seize, retain, destroy, and attach forged or counterfeit obligations, bonds, or coupons of the state, and to exonerate the officers and employees of the state in making such seizure, retention, destruction, and attachment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent deception in manufacture and sale of imitation butter
An ACT for the relief of W. T. Childress, of Appomattox county.
An ACT to prescribe the time for holding the circuit courts in the tenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 19, 1894, entitled an act to provide police for Newport magisterial district, in the county of Warwick.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to empower the board of supervisors of Buchanan county to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of said county.
An ACT to relieve Mary M. Smith from taxes improperly assessed against 117 acres of land in Henry district, in Hanover county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4106 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 23, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1896, in relation to the jurisdiction of police justices and justices of the peace as to the trial of offenders in certain cases, approved February. 9, 1898, providing for the prosecution of misdemeanors and the compensation of commonwealth’s attorneys for such services.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3144 of the code of Virginia, in relation to names of jurors to be written on separate ballots, ballots to be folded and deposited in a secure box.