Judicial

1902/1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 880, acts of assembly, session 1897-’98, entitled “an act to provide for the appointment of special prosecuting attorneys in proper cases.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2629 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 125, acts of assembly, session 1895-’96, entitled “an act to require sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this State to report to courts of their respective counties and cities the number of prisoners confined in their respective jails,”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2939, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1892; section 2956 and section 2957, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1894, of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled "an act to provide that if the plaintiff in a warrant upon a contract of such nature that an action of assumpsit would lie on same shall have served with the warrant a copy of this account, verified by affidavit, he shall have judgment for the amount of the said account, unless the defendant shall deny under oath that the account is due; and if the defendant deny only a part of the account he shall have judgment as to the residue, and the case be tried as to the part so denied," approved March 1, 1898; and also to repeal an act entitled "an act to provide how appeals from justice and warrants removed shall be tried, and how defects, omissions, and irregularities in the proceedings below may be corrected in the court to which the appeal is taken or the warrant removed," approved February 27, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3454, 3455, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved January 18, 1888; sections 3457, 3459, 3460, 3465, 3466, 3467, 3469, 3471, 3474, 3485, 3488, and 3490 of chapter 170 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 3453, 3468, 3473, 3482, 3483, and 3487 of said chapter of said Code.
An ACT to amend and combine chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, as to section 277 of said chapter, by act approved January 15, 1890, and by act approved January 16, 1892, and further amended by act approved May 13, 1903, and chapter 377 of the acts of assembly, extra session 1887, entitled 'an act to amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the public printing and binding, and defining the duties of the superintendent of public printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the acts of assembly 1879-’80,' approved May 23, 1887, as amended, as to section 10 of said act by act approved March 5, 1888, and by act approved February 5, 1892, and as amended, as to section 11 of said act, by act approved February 24, 1890, and by act approved February 9, 1894; and to consolidate and re-enact the same into chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 143 of an 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 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 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 provide for the maintenance and management of the State library.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3376 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2961 as amended by an act approved March 2, 1896, 2962, and 2965 as amended by an act approved February 27, 1894, of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT vesting in the circuit courts of this Commonwealth, and in the judges thereof, the jurisdiction and powers now vested in and exercised by, and duties imposed upon, the county courts, or the judges thereof, under the laws of this State, or under any will or other instrument of writing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1894, and to amend and re-enact sections 2534 and 2538 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend section 2547 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1898, in relation to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills.
An ACT to validate certain records of the county court of the county of Powhatan.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to require the judges of county and corporation courts to set criminal cases for trial,” approved February 24, 1890, and make it apply to judges of circuit courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 890 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, 10, and 14 of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to establish a State board of embalming; to provide for the better protection of life and health; to prevent the spread of contagious diseases; to regulate the practice of embalming, and the care and disposition of the dead; and to add additional section 15 thereto
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 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 repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled “an act to allow a remedy by motion for judgment in the county court, after ten days’ notice, whenever a person is entitled to recover money or specific personal property by action in the circuit court or by warrant before a justice of the peace, where the claim exceeds twenty dollars, and does not exceed one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest,” approved March 1, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2357 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4050, 4051, and section 4052, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898; sections 4053, 4057, 4060, 4073, and section 4074, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1896, of chapter 198 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2716, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2716 of the Code, in relation to unlawful detainer,” approved March 4, 1890, and sections 2717, 2718, 2719, and 2720 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3552 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, so as to authorize the signing of bills of exception, either in term time or vacation,' so as to make the same apply to criminal as well as civil cases.
An ACT to repeal so much of an act approved December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, as repeals section thirty-five hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section thirty-five hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to validate the acts of certain commissioners in chancery in the Commonwealth.
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 amend and reenact sections 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 250, 252, and 267 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3196 of chapter 154 of the Code, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 3195 and 3196 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3197 of same Code, in reference to disbarring attorneys at law.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2999, 3000, and 3004 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3207 and 3208 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 567, 568, 571, 573, and 578 of the Code of Virginia, in relation tu the erroneous assessment of real and personal property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3888, as amended by an act approved January 15, 1894; 3902, 3903, 3904, 3909, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898, and 3911, and to repeal section 3910 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of police justices and their jurisdiction in cities of a population of ten thousand or over, in which, by the terms of their charters, no provision is made for the election or appointment of police justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3111 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT limiting the time in which witnesses can be paid out of the treasury.

1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2698, 2700, 2702, and 2703 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to confirmation of fiduciary accounts, and the investment, payment, or distribution of money in hands of fiduciary.
An ACT to validate certain records and proceedings of the circuit court of Chesterfield county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 923 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 16, 1892, and by an act approved March 3, 1898, approved December 10, 1903,” so as to allow notaries public to qualify before clerks of courts.
An ACT to extend the terms of commissioners of accounts and to authorize them to complete such accounts as are now before them for settlement, and return them to their respective circuit courts.
An ACT to validate certain orders of publication heretofore made
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2716 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend section 3799 of the Code of Virginia respecting violations of the Sabbath so as to provide the right of appeal from judgments in such cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2689 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to resignation by fiduciary of his trust.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 273 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the superintendent of public printing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24a of the charter of the city of Richmond, as prescribed by an act approved February 20, 1886, entitled ‘an act giving authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control roads to the Reservoir and Soldiers’ Home,’ so as to give authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control a road running east from the corporate limits along P street to Thirty-fourth street extended; thence northwardly along Thirty-fourth street extended to Oakwood avenue; thence along Oakwood avenue to Oakwood Cemetery; and to amend section 105 of the charter of the city of Richmond providing for the election of a police justice, as prescribed in an act approved July 11, 1870, amending certain sections of the city charter, so as to fix the term of office of said police justice at four years.
An ACT to prescribe the duties of the judges of circuit and corporation courts and to fix the compensation of attorneys for the Commonwealth relative to violations of the law prohibiting the sale of adulterated and misbranded foods.
An ACT to amend section 3049 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, as further amended by an act approved May 20, 1903, and by an act approved December 12, 1903, and as further amended by an act approved January 12, 1904.
An ACT providing for additional terms of the circuit court in the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to continue in office the commissioners in chancery of the present circuit courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 5, 1900, entitled “an act to provide for the establishment, alteration, discontinuance, and working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Giles county, and to punish obstructions of the road commissioners in the discharge of their duties,” and also to punish road officials of Giles county for any neglect of their official duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059 of the Code, as amended by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled ‘an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, and 3067 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060, and 3062 of the Code as heretofore amended,” and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, in so far as the same applies to the Fifth, Seventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first judicial circuits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3978 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 2, 1904, which is chapter 549 of the acts of the special session of 1902-’3-’4, relating to grand juries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3956 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1898, and by an act approved February 9, 1900, and by an act approved February 16, 1901; section 3958 and section 4106, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1894, and by an act approved March 5, 1896, and by an act approved February 9, 1898, and by an act approved March 5, 1900, and by an act approved December 10, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4016 and 4018 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 2, 1904, concerning the trial of criminal cases and juries therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 723 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 10, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2981 of the Code, empowering judges of circuit and corporation courts to hear testimony and quash attachments in vacation upon reasonable notice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2533 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in reference to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1894, and to amend and re-enact sections 2534 and 2538 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend section 2547 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1898, in relation to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1764 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, relating to the practice of pharmacy
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1670 of the Code of Virginia, 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 7, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3122 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3055 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903.
An ACT to provide for taking the depositions of female witnesses in cases of rape and attempted rape.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled “an act to provide for the appointment of police justices, and their jurisdiction in cities of a population of ten thousand and over, in which, by the terms of their charters, no provision is made for the election or appointment of police justices,”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2942 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how and when warrant tried and judgment given, and in relation to how a justice may associate justices with him, and whose opinion to prevail.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 6 of section 185 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 7, 1903.
An ACT to provide offices and rooms for the use of the department of education and public instruction, for the supreme court of appeals and to appropriate the sum of $1,440, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the payment of the rental thereof, and to prescribe the method of such payment.
An Act to repeal sections twelve hundred and ninety-five, twelve hundred and ninety-six, and twelve hundred and ninety-seven of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3340 and 3341 of the Code of Virginia so as to allow the contents of any paper which has been filed in any county, circuit, or corporation court or in the clerk’s office to be proved before a commissioner; and to authorize the judges of circuit and corporation courts to make such orders in vacation as may be necessary to secure to persons seeking to prove the contents of any will, deed, or other paper which has been filed in the clerk’s offices of said courts, or of the county courts, or recorded in a book therein, and which is lost or illegible, the benefits thereof.
An ACT to allow notaries public of this State under the age of twenty-one years to sue for fees due them as notaries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “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 of the 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 February 4, 1892; and by an act approved January 29, 1894; and by an act approved February 27, 1894; and by an act approved January 18, 1896; by an act approved February 12, 1898, approved February 17, 1900; and by an act approved February 15, 1901.
An ACT to repeal chapter 630 of the acts of the general assembly of!
An ACT in relation to the commitment of minors to the Prison Association of Virginia, their custody therein, the compensation for, and expenses of, such custody, and their discharge therefrom.
An ACT to provide for official receipts for fines.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4036 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2967 of the Code of Virginia in relation to attachments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to authorize the governor to grant conditional pardon to persons confined in the peniten- tiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution"
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 637 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact section 637 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to clerks delivering to treasurers copy of list of delinquent real estate; treasurers to post the same with notice of sale of lands for taxes, levies, etc., attached,’”’
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4036 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 836 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 826, 831. 832. 833 834, 835, 836, 838, 840, 841, 846, 847, 849 and 850, and to repeal section 839 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2693 of the Code of Virginia in reference to posting lists of fiduciaries by commissioners of accounts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3129 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3768 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 26, 1898, which is chapter 513 of the acts of 1897-1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled ‘‘An act to repeal section 3064, 8065, 3086 and 3067 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 8056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060 and 3(‘62 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended,’
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3916 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 24, 1903.
An ACT to provide for the correction of errors in judgments and proceedings in cases pending or decided in the county courts on or prior to February 1, 1904, and for the disposition of such cases where further proceedings are necessary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved March 7, 1900, providing for the appointment of a State board of health.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2434 and 2618 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 10, 1903 entitled 'an act vesting in the circuit courts of this Commonwealth, and in the judges thereof, the jurisdiction and powers now vested in and exercised by the duties imposed upon the county court or the judges thereof under the laws of this State or under any will or writing,' which is chapter 401 of the acts of the special session of 1902 and 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in reference to when and where writings admitted to record, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the Code as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 10, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the Code, in relation to certificates of acknowledgment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3154 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved January 11, 1904, in relation to selection and peremptory challenge of jurors in civil cases.
An ACT to amend sections 3146 and 3147 of the Code of Virginia, amended and re-enacted by act approved December 10, 1903, which is chapter 384 of acts of the extra session of 1902-’03-’04, relating to juries.
An ACT prescribing and defining the right to an attorney’s lien in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3214 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT authorizing the judges of circuit courts in cities of the first class having over forty thousand population and a separate clerk for said circuit court to make an annual allowance for such clerk, payable out of the treasury of said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4048 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved January 2, 1904, which is chapter 553 of acts of the extra session of 1902-’03-’04, in relation to jurors in cases of misdemeanors.

1906
An ACT ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within the city of Fredericksburg, in this State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof.