Judicial

1906
An ACT to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State, to provide for the registration of the same, to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules.
An ACT to provide judges for new or additional circuits when created, and for their terms of office.
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, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, in so far as the same applies to the sixteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1904, entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact section 847 of the Code of Virginia,” as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and reenact sections 826, 831, 832, 834, 835, 836, 838, 840, 841, 846, 847, 849, and 850,” and to repeal section 839 of the Code, approved December 31, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 26, 1903.
An ACT to provide that a publication of the Code of Virginia, as amended to the adjournment of the General Assembly of 1904, together with all other statistics of a general and permanent nature including the tax bill then in force, published by the authority of the general assembly and edited by John Garland Pollard, shall be received in the courts of this Commonwealth as prima facie evidence of the statutes therein published.
An ACT upon the subject of county roads, causeways, and bridges, etc., and providing for the further division of counties into road sub-districts; for additional road tax therein; for election and appointment of officers of same, providing for their terms of office, powers, duties, etc., and duties of the State engineer in connection with the carrying into effect of this act.
An ACT to provide for the purchase and distribution to certain officials copies of Waddey’s guide to magistrates, and to appropriate money for that purpose.
An ACT to prescribe the time in which allowances made by order of any circuit or corporation court shall be presented to the auditor of public accounts for payment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 185 of an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances,” approved February 7, 1903, as further amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact subsection 6 of section 185 of the Code of Virginia,” approved March 12, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the judges of the 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 3022 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to award of writ of quo warranto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30 of chapter 5, of an act entitled “an act concerning corporations,” which became a law on the 21st day of May, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3507 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the clerks of courts of appeals and to printing records.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled “an act to authorize the governor to grant conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution”
An ACT to provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the counties of Tazewell, Giles, and Bland.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a police justice or police justices in the counties having a population of fifty thousand or over.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of an act entitled 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 qualifications 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 amend and reenact section 3232 of the Code of Virginia in relation to orders of publication and the publication of copies of process and notices.
An ACT providing that the judgment of a circuit or corporation court, or other law court of record, in any action at law requiring a plaintiff to remit any part of his recovery, as ascertained by the verdict of a jury, and accept a reduced sum, may be accepted by such plaintiff under protest; and that such judgment, if accepted under protest, may be the subject of review by the supreme court of appeals upon a writ of error awarded either the plaintiff or defendant.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1470 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the division of school districts and sub-districts, so as to provide for such division; for the government and administration of sub-districts; for additional school tax therein; and for appointment of school directors, providing for their terms of office, powers, duties, adoption of this act by the counties of the State, and for relief from adoption.
An ACT to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 92 and 98 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 18, 1903, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May 20, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to election of State, county, district and city officers, and the terms of their offices, and filling vacancies.
An ACT to amend paragraph 4, chapter X, of chapter 609, of the acts of the general assembly, sessions 1902-03-04, approved January 18, 1904, entitled “an act concerning public service corporations.”
An ACT to permit persons charged with crime and unable to furnish a bail bond or not let to bail, with the consent of the Commonwealth’s attorney, to work in chain gangs or in the State convict road force, and allowing such persons credit therefor on any sentence thereafter imposed for such crime of which he is charged; and in case of acquittal, allowing him pay for his labor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 173 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, so as to empower clerks of city councils, common councils, and boards of aldermen to administer oaths and take affidavits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 as amended and re-enacted by the general assembly of Virginia
An ACT conferring upon the common council of the city of Winchester power to elect a police justice for said city, and defining his duties and jurisdiction.
An ACT relating to demurrers to evidence.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county or council of any city or town to offer rewards for the arrest and conviction of criminals where the crime was committed within the limits of said counties, cities or towns.
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide Places of Abode and for the Safe Custody and Proper Guardianship of Children
An ACT to define what is pure apple cider within the meaning of section 141 of chapter 20 of acts of 1904, approved February 19, 1904.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the Code of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1894, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1896, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1904, in regard to obstructing or injuring any part or work of any canal, railroad, and soforth. and prescribing punishment therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 175 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to where the fact of oaths have been taken are recorded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3811 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 5, 6, 9, 14, 25, and 27 of an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain, approved January 18, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 36, 39, 40 and 41 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper.
An ACT to create drainage districts of adjoining or adjacent owners of low lands, and to give jurisdiction to the circuit court in which said lands lie to enforce its provisions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 90 of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled 'an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke,' in relation to justices of the peace in said city
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to who are exempt from jury service.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1671 of the Code of Virginia in relation to disposition of proceedings before commission, fees, etc.
An ACT to authorize the governor and the attorney-general to secure the services of associate counsel to assist the attorney-general in representing the interests of the Commonwealth in certain litigation affecting the classification of freight and the schedules of transportation rates recently formulated by the State corporation commission, and to provide compensation for such counsel.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'an act to provide for the election of justices of the peace, and their jurisdiction, in cities in which, by the terms of their charters, no provision is made for the election of justices of the peace,' so as to provide for the appointment of additional justices when necessary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of assembly, approved March 12, 1904, relating to official receipts for fines.
An ACT to allow continuances as of right to parties in any action or proceeding during the session of the general assembly when a member or officer of the general assembly has been employed or retained as attorney prior to the beginning of the session of the general assembly.

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to validate the acknowledgment by mayors and members of councils who are ex officio justices of the peace and whose power to take such acknowledgment has been questioned.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 3526 of the Code of Virginia in relation to fees of attorneys for the Commonwealth
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, 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, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, as to the times for holding regular terms of the courts in the several circuits, and giving jurisdiction to courts during recess, whether adjourned for the purpose of opening or holding another term, or part or portion, there or otherwise, which the judges of the circuit courts now have in vacation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1017a, in relation to powers and duties of the police force of the cities and towns of an act entitled 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, approved May 20, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3701 of the Code of Virginia regarding setting fire to woods, fences and other matter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 24, 1874, as amended by an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact the third section of an act entitled: An act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 31, 1875.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3160 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to pay and mileage of jurors, as amended by act of assembly, 1895-1896, chapter 746.
An ACT relating to the grant of letters of administration upon the estates of persons presumed to be dead, by reason of long absence from their former domicile.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3334 of the Code of Virginia of 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the Code as heretofore amended, in relation to the pay of judges, clerks and commissioners of elections.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19 and 74, of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1878, and as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 8 of an act entitled: An act to establish a corporation court for the city of Bristol, in Washington county, as approved February 12, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3508 of the fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3287 of the Code of Virginia, relating to office judgments.
An ACT conferring upon courts of equity the power to entertain suits for the removal of clouds upon the title to real estate created by tax sales or deeds, made in pursuance of the statutes provided for the sale of real estate for the non-payment of taxes thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 mayor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 67 of the Code of Virginia of 1887; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1894; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1900; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved July 28, 1902; and amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 8, 1903, in relation to appointment of registrars and providing that registrars and clefks appointed in cities having a population of 50,000 or more by the last United States census shall be compelled to serve unless excused by the judge of the corporation court of such cities and prescribing penalties for failure to do so.
An ACT amending and re-enacting an act approved March 3, 1896, entitled: 'an act to regulate the granting of injunctions in certain cases.'
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 3527 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to payment of fees to officers out of the treasury in criminal cases
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: 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, approved April 2, 1902, in respect to the amount of money that may be paid to the infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, approved December 26, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2967 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904, in relation to attachments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact section 3379 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the docketing of chancery cases, motions, etc.'
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges, and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, and repealing so much of the acts as affect the county of Augusta, approved February 26, 1884; February 19, 1886; February 28, 1890; March 3, 1894, and March 2, 1898, approved February 26, 1900.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 119 and 120 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendments and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
An ACT to provide, in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities warrants cognizable by said civil justice.
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 section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, so as to authorize the signing of bills of exception, either in term time or vacation, approved February 15, 1901, so as to make the same apply to criminal as well as civil cases, approved December 31, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 443 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1904, in relation to making copies of assessments and disposition of copies, as amended and re-enacted by 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, approved December 10, 1903, so as to provide for additional time for returning assessments in cities having a population of over forty-six thousand by the last United States census.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardianship of children who are vicious, or depraved, or without proper places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian or other custodian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training
An ACT to ratify and confirm the appointment of a certain commissioner for the circuit court of Fairfax county, Virginia, and to ratify and validate all depositions and other acts or transactions taken, done or performed by, or before, such commissioner.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 925 of chapter 42 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections or sub-sections 4 and 5 of an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact an act of assembly approved March 12, 1904, relating to official receipts for fines, approved March 14, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2432 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for defending certain suits in the United States courts by railroad companies, against the members and the clerk of the State corporation commission, involving important public interests, and for indemnity to the defendants in said suits.
An ACT to legalize the introduction of certain evidence in prosecutions for felonious homicide and assaults with felonious intent, and cases arising under section 3671 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 207 of the Code of Virginia relative to the duties of the keeper of the rolls.
An ACT to declare what equivalent, in city or town, to personal service of notice of protest or dishonor of a bill, note or other negotiable instrument.
An ACT allowing courts to approve and confirm compromises it actions and suits wherein infants, idiots or lunatics are parties.
An ACT providing for the shortening of the period of labor required of persons sentenced to work on public roads, and fixing maximum period for which they shall be required to so labor, for non-payment of fines and costs,
An ACT to make appropriations to pay the expenses incident to the investigation of charges against Judge William F. Rhea.
An ACT providing for additional terms of the circuit court in the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Branehville, Southampton county, Va.
An act to provide for the incorporation by the courts of towns of more than two hundred and less than five thousand inhabitants, and conferring upon said towns, when incorporated, certain powers of taxation.
An ACT to make an appropriation to pay the expenses incident to the investigation of charges preferred against Judge J. W. G. Blackstone.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3500 of the Code of Virginia relating to the fees of notaries and justices of the peace as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4025 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, with reference to when jury not to be kept together; when so kept to be boarded: rate of board; how paid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT amending and re-enacting section 3456 of the Code of Virginia, 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 7 of an act entitled: An act in relation to the government of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the Commonwealth, for the caring for such minors
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 400 of the Code df Virginia, in relation to coupons heretofore tendered for taxes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3073 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 23, 1900, in relation to the terms of the hustings court of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3358 of the Code of Virginia.
Joint resolution proposing amendment to section 50 of article 4 of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment, and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3530 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1894, relative to the fees of justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 7 of an act entitled an act to create the State convict road force, etc.