Judicial

1901/1902
An ACT to regulate and fix the fees of the sheriff and his deputies for services rendered in guarding juries in criminal cases.
An ACT to allow H. L. Pearson, of the city of Richmond, to take the law examination.
An ACT to authorize the military board of Virginia to examine, scrutinize, compromise, and settle a judgment obtained against R. S. Weaver, W. Marbury McCafferty, W. H. Cheatham, L. Van R. Smith, W. H. Wilson, Jr., and W. R. Butcher in favor of Oehm & Co., of Baltimore, Maryland, for uniforms and equipment furnished Division B, Virginia Naval Reserves, and for that purpose to pay such sum, if any, out of the military fund as in the opinion of said board ought to be paid to said Oehm & Co. on account of said judgment.

1901es
An ACT to provide what evidence may be considered in the appellate courts.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, Tazewell county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to increase
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia casket, cemetery, burial and crematory company.
An ACT to allow the county court of Albemarle county to make corrections of clerical errors in assessor’s books for 1900.
An ACT to authorize the holding of an additional term of the circuit court in Norfolk county.
An ACT to require the board of pharmacy of Virginia to register as pharmacists certain persons who failed to avail themselves of the requirements of the act of March 3, 1886, as amended by the act of March 3, 1887, and to permit such persons so registered to practice pharmacy in the state of Virginia as registered pharmacists and without examination.
An ACT in relation to actions for damages against the city of Lynchburg, Va.
An ACT to include and embrace the county of Surry within the oyster territory of the state, and to lay off, designate, and survey the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals in James river in said county, and to provide for an oyster inspector in said county.
An ACT to repeal an act approved February 27, 1900, entitled 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, approved February 12, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 2, 1892, and by an act approved January 11, 1896, relating to the licensing of persons to practice law in this state.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, approved November 24, 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 92 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, so as to authorize the signing of bills of exceptions, either in term or in vacation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the Code of Virginia in reference to clerks’ offices, approved February 5, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the Code of Virginia in reference to clerks’ offices, so as to close the clerks’ offices of the courts of Norfolk county and the city of Portsmouth on all legal holidays, approved February 9, 1901, so as to close the clerks’ offices of the county of Shenandoah on all legal holidays.
An ACT to incorporate the bar association of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 3, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the salary of the police justice of the city of Norfolk, approved February 18, 1896,” and also in relation to the said police justice and to the clerk of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk in connection with fines imposed by said police justice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the circuit courts in the fourth judicial circuit since the addition thereto of the city of Lynchburg and county of Campbell, as provided by an act approved February 5, 1896, approved February 9, 1898, so as to provide for a term of the circuit court of Henry on the 15th day of December of each year.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the code of Virginia in reference to clerks’ offices,” approved February 5, 1900, so as to close the clerks’ offices of the courts of Norfolk county and city of Portsmouth on all legal holidays.
An ACT to authorize the justices of the peace of the Washing-
An ACT for the relief of Lewis C. Williams, a native of Virginia, authorizing the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia to grant him a certificate to practice law under certain conditions.
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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1900, 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 so as to include the county of Nelson.
An ACT to give justices of the peace in incorporated towns of Charlotte county concurrent jurisdiction with mayors of said towns, in trying offenses against the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted, so as to give Rappahannock county five commissioners in chancery.
An ACT making it lawful for the county court and justices of the peace cf the county of Fairfax, and the mayors of the towns of the said county, to sentence certain criminals to work upon the roads or other public works, or on the streets or other public works of the towns in said county, and prescribing a penalty for persons thus sentenced who escape or attempt to escape.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1666 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1660 to 1712, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to state hospitals for the insane and the commitment of insane persons.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 186 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the salaries of certain judges, so as to permit the board of supervisors of Nansemond county to increase the compensation of their circuit judge out of county funds.

1902/1903
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 concerning corporations.
An ACT to authorize the supreme court of appeals of Virginia to direct the clerk of the court to destroy manuscript records in cases where the records are printed, and to require the binding of the records with briefs of counsel in each case.
An ACT to provide for the commitment to private hospitals or sani-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act approved July 28, 1902, in relation to who liable to serve as jurors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 27, 1903, as amended by an act approved April 27, 1903.
An ACT to provide for the substitution of the State corporation commission in the place and stead of the board of public works in all proceedings at law or in equity, to which the said board of public works was a party when it ceased to exist.
An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 2260 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relating to proceedings for divorce.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a bail commissioner for the several counties.
An ACT amending section 819 of Code in relation to the residence of county, district, and corporation officers.
An ACT to validate the acts of certain commissioners in chancery in the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1681 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900, in relation to commitment of certain persons to insane hospitals.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4110, 4113, 4114, 4115, 4143, 4154, 4155, 4156, 4157, 4168, 4172, 4173 of the Code of Virginia, and section: 4123, 4124, 4159, 4162, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4123, 4124, 4152, 4159, 4160, 4161, 4162, 4163, 4164, 4167, and 4173 of chapter 202, Code of Virginia, in relation to rules governing the management of the penitentiary, approved February 19, 1892, and section: 4133, 4160, and 4167, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4130, 4132, 4133, and 4136 of the Code of Virginia and sections 4137 and 4138 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, and sections 4160 and 4167 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, relating to rules governing the penitentiary, approved March 18, 1892, of title 55 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the organization, government, and discipline of the penitentiary.
An ACT to ascertain and fix the term of office of the judges in the twenty-four judicial circuits of the State, respectively, at the first election by the general assembly under the Constitution which came into effect at noon on the 10th day of July, 1902.
An ACT limiting the time in which witnesses can be paid out of the treasury.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled "an act to provide a method of voting by ballot"
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to provide for defending certain suits involving the validity of the Constitution, or article second thereof, brought against members of the Constitutional Convention, the governor, and other officers," approved December 20, 1902.
An ACT to provide for defending certain suits, involving the validity of the Constitution, or Article Il. thereof, brought against members of the constitutional convention, the governor, and other officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3972 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to how a justice may associate justices with him; it they disagree, whose opinion to prevail.
An ACT to fix the terms of the judges of the corporation courts for the cities of Bristol, Radford, and Buena Vista.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider within one mile of the courthouse of Appomattox county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1662, 1663, 1664, 1665,1666, 1669, 1670, 1672, 1673, 1674, 1675, 1677, 1679, 1680, 1682, 1684, 1685, 1688, 1697, 1702, 1707, and 1710 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1660 to 1712, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia in relation to State hospitals for the insane, and the commitment of insane persons, approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3960 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts 1895-’6, page 365, in relation to bail.
An ACT to validate certain records of the county court of the county of Powhatan.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of the charter of the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874.
An ACT to provide a rule of evidence in prosecutions under sections
An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to use the money derived from the sale of bonds, and appropriated for the establishment of a crematory, In paying for street improvements
An ACT to put, into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment and organization of the “State Corporation Commission,” its jurisdiction, powers, functions and duties; the qualification of the members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its offices, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders, findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and judgments, and its expenses, etc.
An ACT to provide for vesting in the circuit court of Albemarle county, or the judge thereof, on and after February 1, 1904, the jurisdiction and powers now by law vested in the county court of Albemarle county, or the judge thereof, in relation to the Miller Manual Labor School, of Albemarle county.
An ACT to declare the powers and jurisdiction of the county and corporation courts in the exercise of the jurisdiction created by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 666 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to sale of delinquent lands purchased in the name of the auditor," which act was approved March 6, 1900, and to prescribe when the same shall be in force.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 931 of the Code of Virgima
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 136 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts, or parts of acts, or charters in conflict therewith
An ACT to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3090 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by the act of the general assembly approved January 18, 1888, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, so as to place the county of Craig with those counties west of the Blue Ridge, whose causes in the court of appeals are heard in Staunton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to keep in its clerk’s office a book showing the amount of money and notes under the control or subject to the order of said court, approved February 19, 1898,” so as to make said act apply also to the law and equity court of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to provide for the prosecution of criminal cases removed from the State to the Federal courts under section 643 of the revised statutes of the United States, and for the payment of the costs thereof.
An ACT to provide for the raising and training of bloodhounds for police purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3976 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3976, 3974, and 3984 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to grand jurors,
An ACT to provide for the payment of the cost and expenses of prosecuting a certain criminal case removed from the county court of Patrick county, and of a certain criminal case removed from the county court of Wythe county, to the circuit court of the United States for the Western district of Virginia, under section 643 of the revised statutes of the United States.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county in the State to adjust and settle judgments in favor of any county against any treasurer, or ex-treasurer thereof, and his sureties.
An ACT to provide for the maintenance and management of the State library.
An ACT to appropriate the stm of $1,200 for payment of the steno-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1750 of the Code of Virginia, regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to put into operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the composition and organization of the State Board of Education; the election and appointment of its members; their qualification; powers and duties of the board; expenses, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code, 1887, in reference to who liable to serve as jurors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the Code of Virginia, providing when a judge of a county or corporation court fails to hold same what judge may do so; When governor to designate judge to do so; his pay and mileage.
An ACT to regulate the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the estates of decedents, and the appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators, committees by the clerks of circuit courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how a chancery cause submitted for decision in vacation, how the decree certified and entered, its effect,” approved January 27, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia,” as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘‘an act to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how a chancery cause submitted for decision in vacation, how the decree certified and entered, its effect,” approved January 27, 1896, so as to permit the court, when not advised of its judgment, without consent of parties, to direct a chancery cause to be submitted for decision and decree in vacation, and also to direct decrees and orders acted upon in term to be entered in vacation, and to provide for the hearing of matters of law, or fact, requiring argument in open court, so far as practicable, approved March 3, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact. section 3427 of the Code of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, in relation to how a chancery cause, motion, action at law, or matter of law, or fact, arising therein may be submitted for decision in vacation; the powers of the judge thereinunder; how the decree, judgment, or order, is to be certified and entered, and the effect thereof; and how causes are to be heard.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2847 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887) in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled “an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns.”
An ACT prescribing the cases in which the governor shall have power to remit fines and penalties, the rules and regulations under which the same may be done, and how such judgments for fines, penalties, and costs may be marked satisfied upon judgment lien dockets.

1902/1904
An ACT to protect persons, firms, corporations, associations, or unions of workingmen in the use of their labels, trade marks, terms, designs, devices, and forms of advertisements, and to provide for the registry thereof.
An ACT concerning corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3436 of chapter 168 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3436 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the jurisdiction of injunctions,” approved March 6, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 791, 793, 796, 799, 801, S04, and 810 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3419, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, in reference to the powers of a personal representative of a dead trustee,” approved February 7, 1890, and by an act approved March 7, 1898, and section 3426, as amended by an aet entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders,” approved February 12, 1894, and by an act approved January 27, 1896, and by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to permit persons more than nineteen years of age to take the State bar examination for a license to practice law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3498, 3500, 3505, 3506, and 3508 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3515 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1896, and section 3519 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 18, 1896, and section 3528, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, and also to repeal section 3524 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1900, and section 3525 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3630 and 3636 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3154 of the Code of Virginia
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact the Act Authorizing the Governor to Grant Conditional Pardons to Persons Confined in the Penitentiary
An ACT to prevent the encroachment on or the changing of the lines or direction of any public road without permission of the court, and to prescribe a penalty therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 890, 891, 896, and 912 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An Act to amend and re-enact sections 3139, 3140, 3142, 3143, 3144, 3145, 3146, and 3147 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to jurors.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 3214, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1900, and by an act approved March 3, 1900, and section 3218 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4179 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and reenact sections 3744 and 3745 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the giving or acceptance of a bribe, and the punishment therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 18 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth and concerning the State and certain other libraries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1903, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act approved July 28, 1902, in relation to who liable to serve as jurors.