Judicial

1908
An ACT to define and regulate the sale, distribution, rectifying, manufacture and distilling of intoxicating liquors and malt beverages, and to impose license taxes thereon, and to prohibit the drinking of ardent spirits on railroad trains, and to repeal sections 141 and 142 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled an act to raise revenue for the 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, approved February 19, 1904, and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3534 Code of Virginia in relation to payment for witnesses summoned for the Commonwealth.
An ACT amending and re-enacting section 3438 of the Code of Virginia, 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3110 of the Code of Virginia, giving jurisdiction of courts of counties and cities over water courses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3361 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4053 of the Code of 1887,
An ACT to declare of what protest is prima facie evidence.
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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780, of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to carrying concealed weapons, and the punishment therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1472 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to school officers and teachers not having any pecuniary interest in school books, appliances, furniture, or supplies; exceptions: neither school nor corporation officers to discount warrants.
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, as the same was amended by an act approved March 17, 1906, which is chapter 321 of the acts of the session of 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3138 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the method whereby any citizen residing in this State may change his name; and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
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 74 of an act entitled: An act to put in 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 members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its officers, 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, ete.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 3, 1898, and April 2, 1902, in relation to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers and constables.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending respectively on the 28th day of February, 1909, and the 28th day of February, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 15 of chapter 1, and sections 3 and 8 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the charter of the town of Chatham.
An ACT to amend an re-enact section 738 of the Code, as amended by an act of the General Assembly of 1902-3-4, approved December 10, 1903.
An ACT to provide where suits may be brought against telegraph and telephone companies for failing to transmit or deliver messages promptly and as required by law.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to provide for submitting the question of the removal of the court-house of any county to the qualified voters of such county, and in the event such removal is voted, to authorize the board of supervisors to acquire necessary land and erect buildings.
An ACT fixing the penalty for writing or composing and sending or procuring the sending of letters or inscribed communications threatening to kill or do bodily harm.

1910
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and also to amend and re-enact section 3059 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted 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, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and as further amended by an act approved February 26, 1910.
An ACT to provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the city of Newport News.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1660 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to hospitals for the insane, so as to provide proper and separate custody of insane convicts and certain other insane persons.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 50 of article four of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to establish a court of law and chancery for the city of Roanoke, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3938 of the Code of Virginia, relative to duties of a coroner.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1682 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the admission to the State hospitals of insane persons charged with or indicted for crime; and insane convicts in the penitentiary and other penal institutions of the State.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment of sections 119 and 120 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for compromise, settlement and release of State and county taxes and levies, in certain cases, and to provide a method and remedy therefor where grants of land have been made by this State, or by colonial governors of Virginia prior to the organization of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and subsequent grants were made which are contained partly or wholly within the boundaries of such
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3584 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1687 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the disposition of insane persons charged with crime, when restored to sanity, etc.
An ACT to amend an re-enact section 925 of chapter 42 of the Code of the Virginia, as amended by act approved March 5, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to punish as for a misdemeanor a person using abusive language to another
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act of assembly 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, and by an act approved February 12, 1898, and by an act approved February 15, 1901, and by an act approved March 15, 1904, and by an act approved February 29, 1908, in relation to appointment of commissioners in chancery.
An ACT to provide within what time and by whom the writ tax shall be paid in case of removal or appeal from a justice, and how judgment shall be entered against a surety where appeal is dismissed.
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 reenact section 4020 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to juries for the trial of felonies.
An ACT to repeal an act to authorize and empower the county court of Cumberland county, and the judge thereof in vacation, to take charge and control of the clerk’s office, courthouse, public square and jail, and lot around the jail of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 of chapter 1 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, to amend and re-enact chapters 2, 3 and 5 of said act, as amended by subsequent acts, and to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5, and to repeal section 7 of chapter 6 of said act.
An ACT to amend and renact 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, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1908, 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 AGT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incor-porate the town of Stuart, in the county of Patrick
An ACT to amend and re-enact 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 of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908.
An ACT to provide for the recordation of copies of certaiD papers from the records of the United States courts in bankruptcy preceedings, their effect as evidence, and the fees which may be charged by clerks for certain services in connection therewith.
An ACT to provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the county of Elizabeth City, or of portions thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191, chapter 154, of the Code, as amended by an act in force on and after February 2, 1892, and by an act in force on and after July 1, 1896, relating to how a person is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to permit rules for the government of jails and the reduction of sentences of prisoners therein confined to be prescribed by the circuit and corporation judges and the boards of supervisors and councils of the respective counties and cities of the State, and to provide for the enforcement of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4051 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in regard to suspending sentence, or execution thereof, and to provide for bail pending suspension of sentence, or execution thereof, after conviction.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the collection of taxes and levies, funds, securities, moneys and other property under the control of the fiduciaries and the several courts of the Commonwealth, incorporated into the Code of Virginia, 1904, as section 492b, so as to provide for the collection of taxes and levies on such funds in the hands of the fiduciaries not held by or under the control of any court.
An ACT to regulate employment bureaus or agencies and to provide penalties for. violation of same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3371 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to establish a permanent place in the State penitentiary, at Richmond, Virginia, for the execution of felons upon whom the death penalty is to be imposed, and to change the mode of execution so that the death sentence shall be by electricity, and to provide an appropriation therefor
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1752 of the Code of Virginia regulating the practice of medicine and surgery.
An ACT to establish a uniform system of bookkeeping and accounting and for the appointment of a State accountant, and defining his duties, and to provide for the examination of the books of all officers entrusted with the collection and receipt, custody and disbursement of the revenues of the State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3370 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2219 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to how a minister is authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1900, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 84 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896.
An ACT to establish a State board of accountancy and prescribe its duties and powers; to provide for the granting of certificates to accountants who qualify under the provisions of this act, and to provide a penalty for violation of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 7 and 10 of an act approved March 6, 1906, and amended by an act approved February 25, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled an act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; provided for an increase of the penitentiary guard, not to exceed forty-five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
An ACT to authorize the judge of any court, police justice or justice of the peace in cities of forty thousand inhabitants and over to continue the case and admit to bail any person brought before him charged with being an habitual drunkard, with failing to support his wife or children, with being a vagrant or an idler able to work, and who is liable to become a charge upon the corporation, and to commit such person to the supervision of an officer to be known as a probation officer; to provide for the appointment and compensation of such probation officer, and to invest him with full police power while in the discharge of his duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair of all public roads, bridges, causeways and wharves, in the several counties of this State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May 20, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 3, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2229 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certificates to be issued by the clerk with marriage licenses, the return to be made by persons celebrating the marriage.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, relating to the appointment of trustees, as amended by an act approved February 7, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1898, as amended by an act approved December 10, 1903, entitled 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 act 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 in relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same, to provide for the punishment thereof and for the competency of certain evidence at the trial thereof.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of chapter 5 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law without the governor’s signature May 21, 1903.
An ACT to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of the same and to provide penalties for the violation of the provision of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section forty-one hundred and six of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and four.
An ACT to allow the land assessors of the State further time in which to make their returns for the year 1910, and making certain provisions for the review, revision and correction of their assessments, under certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section ninety of an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section ninety of an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, in relation to justices of the peace In said city, as amended by an act approved March sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled-an act to amend and re-enact section ninety of an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, 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 providing for detention or commitment of minors under seventeen years of age for certain offenses not in jails or penitentiaries; placing them in suitable homes and institutions under certain circumstances; when they can and cannot be sent to jail; allowing them to be released on probation; the approval of the State board of charities and corrections under certain contingencies; penalties for removing any child committed hereunder or violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals: appointment of probation officers and outlining their duties; and declaring an emergency.
An ACT to authorize recitals in deeds of conveyance executed prior to April, 1865, that the deed from the patentee of the land conveyed to or from his vendees was admitted to record in the general court at Richmond, Virginia, or Frankfort, Kentucky, and authenticated copies of such original deeds to be received as prima facie evidence of the execution of the said deed in suits and actions where the title to the land purported to be conveyed is involved.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section sixteen hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the proceedings before a commission to ascertain insanity.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Radford, and
An ACT to establish the Virginia State epileptic colony.
An ACT in relation to discharge and retirement of commissioned officers of the Virginia volunteers.
An ACT to provide for submission to the people for approval and ratification the proposed amendments to section 46 of article 4, section 50 of article 4, sections 110, 119 and 120 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize any county which shall alone constitute a judicial circuit to increase the salary of the circuit judge.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, entitled 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 2526 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved January 15, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 3, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved January 2, 1904.

1912
An ACT to validate and hold firm and binding the receipt, recordation and verification of deeds, orders of probate, fiduciary accounts, and other papers and writings received into the clerk’s offices of the courts of this Commonwealth by the clerks thereof, and transcribed upon the record books in said offices, though the receipt, recordation and verification certificates attached thereto have not received the attesting signatures of the said clerks, and to provide for the attesting and verification of the same.
An ACT to prescribe the effect as evidence to be given to deeds recorded prior to the year 1865.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, 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 the divorce practice in the State of Virginia and to provide for the mailing of a copy of the order of publication against non-resident defendants to his or her last known place of address by registered mail at least fifteen days before the taking of depositions
An ACT to give concurrent jurisdiction to the circuit court of any county within which is situated any city which has undergone transition from a city of the second class to a city of the first class since the present Constitution went into effect, with the corporation court of such city in all actions at law and suits in equity until a separate circuit court for such city shall be established.
An ACT to prevent the hearing of causes in the supreme court of appeals of Virginia on imperfect records and their decision on technical points without regard to the merits; and to simplify prace- dure in that court, in regard to bills of exceptions.
An ACT to provide a trial justice in all counties having a population in excess of 300 persons per square mile as shown by United States census, to prescribe his jurisdiction in both civil and criminal matters, and to fix his compensation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth,” approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 9, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualifications, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing section seven of chapter two of said city charter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-six hundred and twenty-seven of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to invest in boards of supervisors of counties having a population greater than 300 inhabitants per square mile as shown by United States census, the same powers and authority now vested or hereafter conferred upon common councils of cities and towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1698 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT prohibiting the direction of verdicts; to what cases applicable.
An ACT to declare that when offices held by persons who may be or have become adjudged to be lunatics or insane shall be vacant and how such vacancies shall be filled.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 655 of chapter 28 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, entitled “when deed to be made to purchaser; clerk to make it; what to contain; fee of clerk,” as amended by an act approved March 16, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 7 of an act en-
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act relating to demurrers to evidence
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'fan act to authorize the judge of any court, police justice, or justice of the peace, in cities of forty thousand inhabitants and over, to continue the case and admit to bail any person brought before him charged with being an habitual drunkard, with failing to support his wife or children, with being a vagrant or an idler able to work, and who is liable to become a charge upon the corporation, and to commit such person to the supervision of an officer to be known as a probation officer; to provide for the appointment and compensation of such probation officer, and to invest him with full police power while in the discharge of his duties,' so as to cover cities of fifteen thousand inhabitants and over.