Judicial

1895/1896
An Act to amend sections 3501 and 3502 of code of Virginia in relation to fees of commissioners in chancery.
JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of James G. Field
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Lancaster to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3160 of the code of Virginia in relation to the pay and mileage of jurors.
An ACT to consolidate in one act all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to create a new charter for said city.
An ACT for the relief of Sterling Willis, of Scott county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1894, in relation to the power of the courts to order a suit in equity or action at law to abate as to any improperly joined plaintiff or defendant, and to proceed hereafter by or against the others as if such misjoinders had not been made, &c.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2961 of the code of Virginia, relative to attachments,
An ACT providing for the appointment and removal of coroners, and for the enacting and re-enacting of section 891 of the code of Virginia, 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4059 of the code of Virginia, with respect to appeals in civil and criminal cases.
An ACT to authorize and empower the several boards of visitors to the institutions of this state to investigate the management of their institution, or the conduct of any of its officers or employees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3515 of the code of Virginia in relation to fees of officers.
An ACT empowering the judge of the circuit court of Russell county to order certain causes to be properly indexed by the clerk thereof.
An ACT providing that when a mortal wound or injury is inflicted by a person within the state upon one outside the same, or upon one in this state who afterwards dies from the effects of the same outside of the state, that the offender shall be amenable to punishment, and where he may be prosecuted.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to establish an additional court for the city of Norfolk, and to define its jurisdiction
An ACT to provide for the trial of cases pending in the county court of Warwick county.
An ACT to amend section 8 of an act to establish a corporation court for the city of Bristol, in Washington county, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17 and 18 of an act entitled ‘“‘an act to provide a new charter for the town of Waverly,” approved February 29, 1892, and to validate certain taxes and assessments levied and imposed by the council of said town.
An ACT to establish a circuit court for the city of Newport News.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years
An ACT to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
An ACT to amend section 2486 of chapter 18, code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1894, in relation to the secretary of the commonwealth furnishing reports of the decisions of the court of appeals.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8398 of the code, in relation to how judgment entered on bond for the payment of money.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3705 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3705 of the code of Virginia—entering dwelling-house or other house, vessel or car, in the night, &c., with intent to commit murder, rape or robbery, &c.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3164 of the code of Virginia, in reference to allowance to jurors and requiring lists certified by the judge of the court and the clerk thereof to be sent to the treasurer of the county or corporation and to the auditor of public accounts immediately after the adjournment of any court.
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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3251 of the code of Virginia relating to forms of actions and declarations on policy of insurance.
An ACT making it lawful for the county courts and justices in Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Southampton, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to sentence certain criminals to work upon the roads, farms, or other public works in said counties, or on the streets of any town in said counties, and prescribing penalty for persons thus sentenced who escape or attempt to escape.
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts for the First judicial circuit.
An ACT incorporating the town of Barton Heights, in Henrico
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3960 of the code of Virginia with reference to bail in criminal cases, when allowed and by whom.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections thirty-five hundred and forty-nine and thirty-five hundred and fifty of the code of Virginia, in reference to allowance to witnesses; how and by whom entered; by whom and upon what certificate paid, and requiring lists, certified by the judge of the court and the clerk thereof, of all allowances made witnesses on behalf of the commonwealth, to be sent to the treasurer of the county or city and to the auditor of public accounts immediately after the adjournment of any court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1894, prescribing the time for holding the circuits courts in the several counties comprising the Fifteenth judicial circuit of Virginia.
An ACT to compensate justices of the city of Norfolk for acknowledgment of bail in certain cases.
An ACT to incorporate the Tobacco warehousing and trading company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the code of Virginia in relation to the remedy by motion for judgment after fifteen days’ notice on contracts generally.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4093 of the code, in relation to recognizances.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Middlesex county to increase the salary of the county judge.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2,295 of the code in relation to the liability of the corpus of the equitable separate estate of married women for their contracts.
An ACT suspending time of redeeming lands sold for delinquent taxes and bought by the auditor in cases where proceedings in equity have been instituted by parties interested in such lands.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of an assistant commissioner of accounts of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, and define his duties and powers.
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 the 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 March 4, 1892, and by an act approved January 29, 1894, and by an act approved February 27, 1894.

1901/1902
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3567, 3570, and 3576, and to repeal section 3568 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the lien of a judgment.
An ACT for the relief of Harrison Robertson against an erroneous assessment in 1900 of lands owned by him in Botetourt county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to make husband and wife competent witnesses for or against each other in certain civil and criminal cases.
An ACT to repeal chapter 883 of acts of assembly of session of 1897-8, in relation to allowances for furnishing clerks’ ollices, ete., in the county of Scott.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the Code of Virginia, and other acts amendatory thereto.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act for the incorporation of the town of Bowling Green, in the county of Caroline.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 59 and 60 of an general assembly of Virginia, approved December 23, 1891, entit amending sections 58, 59, and 60 of the Code of Virginia, in relatiox apportionment of representation in the general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of chapter 42 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 23, 1898, and entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 929 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to jail inspection,” and allowing certain compensation for such inspection at the jail in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 21, 1901, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia.
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, and in the event a majority of those voting in said election vote for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and the conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter within said town, or within the magisterial district in which said town is situated, the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as provided herein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 374 of the Code, in relation to the appointment, conduct, and organization of courts-martial and courts of inquiry.
An ACT to authorize J. N. Whittaker, of Amelia county, Virginia, to become a notary public in the State of Virginia while acting as clerk to United States officials.
An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment taken by persons styling themselves officers authorized by law to take and certify acknowledgments, but whose terms of office had expired prior to the taking and certifying thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3062 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 333 of the acts of the general assembly of 1897-8, page 371, and section 3065 of the Code of Virginia, requiring the governor, under certain circumstances, to designate a judge to hold regular or special terms of the courts.
An ACT to authorize the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia to pay money to infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases, without the intervention of a guardian.
An ACT to authorize the appointment of two additional commissioners in chancery for the circuit court of Alexandria county.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on September 30, 1902, and September 30, 1903.
An ACT in relation to the printing and binding of the Virginia reports of decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Urbanna, in the county of Middlesex.
An ACT for relief of Joseph R. Bunting
An ACT to enable Eldridge M. Gathright, of Louisa county, Virginia, to stand an examination by the Court of Appeals for a license to practice law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the fees of the sheriff or sergeant, coroner, crier, or constable, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to refund to John R. Dillon, of Southampton county, the sum of $100 paid into the county court of Southampton county as bail in the case of the Commonwealth v. Peter Austin, lately pending in said court.
An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act authorizing the filing of a petition in a pending chancery cause in the clerk’s office, and to mature the same at rules
An ACT to authorize the county court of Warwick county to correct an alleged erroneous assessment of lands of John Pembroke Jones and Mary S. Jones in said county.
An ACT for the relief of R. I. Orange, deputy sheriff of Prince Edward county.
An ACT to permit Charles H. Gurney, Jr., a person under the age of 21 years, to obtain a license to practice law in the courts of the State of Virginia,
An ACT to incorporate the town of Wakefield.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2505 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an aet approved March 3, 1890, in relation to the indexing of deeds and other writings admitted to record by the clerks of the courts of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. M. B. Hurst from payment of a recognizance to the Commonwealth.
An ACT imposing upon railroad corporations liability for injury to their employees in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the Code of 1887, relating to the compensation of judges and clerks of election.
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 Seventeenth judicial circuit
An ACT to incorporate the town of Fairmount, in Henrico county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 685 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Cape Charles, in the county of Northampton.
An ACT to exonerate, relieve, and forever discharge William Lark
An ACT for relief of J. M. Speece, clerk of circuit court of Bedford county.
An ACT for the relief of J. L. Yingling from the operation of an erroneous entry on the assessors’ books of Roanoke county, growing out of a clerical error.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2949, chapter 140, of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the mode of collecting certain clerks’ fees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to impose additional duties upon the examiners of records of the several judicial circuits, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3199 of Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved February 23, 1894.
An ACT to permit Charles Lockey Collier, a person under the age of 21 years, to appear before the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
An ACT authorizing J. F. Alley to practice law in the courts of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to prescribe a penalty for persons who, under the provisions of sections 3932 and 3934 of the Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in chain-gangs and escape, or attempt to escape, from the person in whose custody they lawfully are.
An ACT for relief of Thomas J. Todd from erroneous assessment.
An ACT requiring notaries within this State to affix to certificates of acknowledgment hereafter taken by them upon writings which are admitted to record the date when their terms of office shall expire.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the reinstatement of a cause after 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 an act entitled an act to amend and<br />re-enact section 2616 and section 2620 of an act entitled an act to revise, ar-<br />range, and consolidate into a code the general statutes of the Commonwealth,<br />approved May 16, 1887, approved 23d February, 1888, and as further amended<br />by an act approved Sth March, 1888, so as to authorize the encumbrance of the<br />lands of infants and insane persons for the purpose of improving the same.
An ACT in relation to the printing and binding of the Virginia reports of decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
An ACT for the relief of George H. H. Tripp from the payment of a fine imposed by the county court for the county of Craig.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2900 of the Code of Virginia, relating to damages from violation of a statute, so as to provide what form of action may be brought, and to provide that such damages and the penalty for violation of the statute may be recovered in one and the same action in certain cases.
An ACT to allow Joseph C. Bristow, of Middlesex county, to take the State law examination.
An ACT to enable Aubrey G. Weaver, of Warren county, Virgima to appear before the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
An ACT to permit Orren Lyne Shackleford, of Warsaw, to appear before the Court of Appeals of Virginia and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
An ACT to permit the Queen Annes Railroad Company to construct and operate its railway in Virginia, and to grant to it the franchises and powers of a Virginia corporation, subject to the laws of Virginia.
An ACT to allow H. L. Pearson, of the city of Richmond, to take the law examination.