Judicial

1915
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 450, 451, 456, 458, 462, 464, 466, 468, 471, 486, 487, 489, 491, 494, 496, 497, 498, 503, 504, 511, 520, 527, 548, 550, 553, 555, 556, 561 and 578 of chapter 24 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and to repeal sections 465, 502, 518, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 521, and 544 of the same chapter of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, said chapter 24 having relation to the assessment of taxes on persons and property, licenses and so forth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45, 46, 46%, 46% (a), 4614(b), 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51(a), 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 8&5, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 9214, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 97%, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 104, 105, 106, 106%4, 107, 108, 109, 10944, 110, 111, 11144, 112, 1138, 118%, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 118(a), 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 1380, 131, 18382. 133, 1384, 1385, 136, 137, 138, 140 and 141 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the revision, codification and indexing with suitable marginal citations and references, of the statute law of Virginia; for the printing, publication and disposition thereof; to appoint commissioners therefor and fix their compensation; to provide for the necessary clerical assistants to said commissioners; and to appropriate the necessary funds for said work.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section four of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds and to build bridges and macadamize the roads of said county and to authorize the qualified voters of the said county to vote on the question as amended
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 24, 1914, and entitled, an act to amend and re-enact section 28 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887; April 28, 1887; May 14, 1887: February 14, 1900; February 21, 1900; February 26, 1900; February 2, 1901; February 15, 1901; March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887; February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Brodnax, in Brunswick and Mecklenburg counties, Virginia.

1916
An ACT to provide for the indexing of deeds and other records in ledgerized general index books.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3905 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary once before sentenced in the United States to a like punishment.
An ACT to provide for payment of compensation to counsel employed by the judge presiding at the trial to defend Luther Canter and James Canter, in the circuit court of Washington county, charged with having raped and murdered Maude Wilson, who were unable to employ counsel.
An ACT to regulate the use of utensils for testing the composition or value of milk and cream, providing standards and providing for its enforcement, prohibiting false andate or over-reading or under-reading of milk and cream tests, defining violations of the act and fixing penalties therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
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 and re-enact section 3059-w of an act titled, an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to permit females to qualify, give bond and act as deputy clerks in all courts of this Commonwealth.
An ACT to define feeble-mindedness and to provide for the examination, legal commitment, and the custody and care of feeble minded persons, and their segregation in institutions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of an act approved March 15, 1906, and entitled, an act to amend and re-enact sections 4, 5, 6, 9, 14, 26 and 27 of an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain, approved January 18, 1904.
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, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3560 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT permitting the creation of the office of public defender in cities having a population of fifty thousand, or more, and providing for their appointment and defining their powers and duties.
An ACT for the relief of Sam Rankin, of Alleghany county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Buckingham county to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of constructing improved and permanent highways.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2989 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903, in relation to jurisdiction of justices of the peace.
An ACT to prohibit division of fees between physicians and surgeons.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Tazewell, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
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, and to provide a charter therefor
An ACT providing for the service or execution by the high constable of any summons, order, attachment, or other process, entered or issued by civil justices elected for cities containing over 45,000 inhabitants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section F of section 3059 of an act entitled 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 and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1912, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 27, 1914, relating to the terms of the circuit court for the sixth circuit.
An ACT to provide when and to what extent the statute of limitations shall be suspended by proceedings in creditors’ suits, as to claims provable therein.
An ACT to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the issuance, sale, promotion, negotiation, or distribution of any stocks, bonds, notes or other securities or contracts, and to provide penalties for violation thereof and to authorize the State corporation commission to make investigations in connection with the sale of such securities or contracts.
An ACT to compensate R. Gordon Finney for services rendered as trial justice for Alexandria county, Virginia, for the months of January and February, 1914, under the act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 23, 1912.
An ACT to authorize the appointment of one additional commissioner in chancery for the circuit court of Warren county.
An ACT for the relief of Ollie Fowler
An ACT authorizing commitment of persons charged with crime, who are suspected of being feeble-minded, to city or county farms, and providing for length of sentence and examination.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1901, in regard to releases on the margin of record books by clerks of courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code, providing for the recovery by motions, after fifteen days’ notice on contracts to recover money or to recover damages; when notice to be returned to the clerk’s office; provisions to prevent discontinuance of motion, approved March 14, 1912, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, approved February 27, 1914.
An ACT to amend section 3530 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, in relation to the fees of justices of the peace.
An ACT to provide for the sale of property, real or personal held subject to a deed or deeds of trust, to secure the payment of money, or any evidence of debt, where there is no date fixed for the payment thereof, and for the investment of the proceeds of sale under decree of court subject to the terms of said deed or deeds of trust.
An ACT for the relief of C. C. Cain.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4144 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to giving credit to convicts for good conduct.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3603 of the Code of Virginia, relative to interrogatories.
An ACT relating to liability of common carriers, whose motive power is steam and engaged in intrastate commerce, for injuries to, or death of, their employees, and provide for the pleading thereof; provided that the provisions of this act shall not apply to electric railways or roads that are in part electric, operated wholly within this State.
An ACT to amend chapter 333 of the acts of 1914, in relation to the ventilation of found ies, by adding an independ2nt section thereto, providing for adequate toilets and wash rooms.
An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation for sale, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits as herein defined, except as provided herein; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to the sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond, so as to amend and re-enact section 106 as the same has been heretofore amended, concerning the election, qualification and duties of justices of the peace.
An ACT making the Norfolk county courthouse and the Norfolk county jail, in the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, a part of the several magisterial districts of the county of Norfolk, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of Norfolk county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat.
An ACT to abolish the bill of exception and to prescribe the means whereby in the trial court the record of the cause in any judicial proceeding at common law, or in any kindred proceeding in a suit in chancery, shall be ascertained and authenticated; to prescribe certain duties of the trial judge and of the clerk of the trial court, in respect to such record; and to prescribe in certain respects how such record shall be certified upon a writ of error, or supersedeas, to a final judgment, or upon an appeal from a final decree, in the cause and to make the provisions of this act apply to all cases now pending in any court of this State and to any case in which bill of exception has been filed within the time required by law with the trial judge, but not signed by him for any cause, and extending the time within which said bill of exception or certificate may be signed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3977 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to grand jurors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 301, 304, 305, 314, 323, 3387, 348, 366, 368, 372, 372a, and 374, chapter 21 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the public defense. (H. B. 323.)
An ACT to define and regulate the practice of optometry, to provide for the establishment of a board of examiners in optometry, for the examination of practitioners of optometry, for registration and license of practitioners, to provide for a penalty for violations of this act, and for other purposes.
An ACT concerning the enforcement of the laws governing the manufacture, storage, preparation for sale, and sale of articles used as food or condiment for human beings or animals, and prescribing the duties and compensation of Commonwealth’s attorneys in connection with the enforcement of such laws.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 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 2907 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to seizure in detinue of property sued for.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3591 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fisca! years ending respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1917, and the 28th day of February, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act appointing trustees for the town of Christiansburg, in the county of Montgomery, and for other purposes, giving said town a charter
An ACT to allow a credit to persons, convicted of any crime or misdemeanor and sentenced to a term in jail or the penitentiary, of all time spent by such person in jail awaiting a trial or pending an appeal, or awaiting removal to the penitentiary.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3584 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1910, in relation to the execution of writs of possession and unlawful detainer damages and costs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3182 of the Sar of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3112 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of J. P. K. Walling, of Scott county, Virginia.
An ACT to repeal section 3509 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 3508, as amended by an act approved December 31, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13 1908, a relation to the fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
An ACT to prevent and punish the desecration of the flag of the United States.
An ACT providing for deduction from the term of service of persons sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary, of the number of days such person may have been held in a jail because of quarantine regulations.
An ACT to provide for the removal of persons holding any office of trust or profit under and by virtue of any of the laws of the State of Virginia, either State, county or municipal, except such officers as are by the Constitution removable only and exclusively by methods other than those provided by this act, who shall knowingly or wilfully misconduct himself in office, or who shall knowingly or wilfully neglect to perform any duty enjoined upon such officer by any law of the State of Virginia, or who shall in any public place be in a state of intoxication produced by ardent spirits voluntarily taken, or who shall engage in any form of gambling or who shall commit any act constituting a violation of any penal statute involving moral turpitude; and providing a procedure therefor; and for the appearance of the commissioner of prohibition, or some one representing his office, in certain cases arising hereunder.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3561 of the Code of Virginia as amended heretofore.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 925 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT requiring contributory negligence to be set forth in bill of particulars when relied upon as a defense.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 17, 1910, amending and re-enacting section 2219 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to how a minister is authorized to celebrate the rites of matrimony as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 12, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 78 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the duties and compensation of registrars.
An ACT to give the courts of record the power to suspend sentence in convictions of larceny, forgery or uttering or attempting to employ as true such forged writing, knowing it to be forged, during good behavior and the effect thereof.
An ACT to provide for jurors in cities that have been incorporated less than two years.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3906 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts twice before sentenced in the United States to confinement in the penitentiary.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Parksley, in the county of Accomac, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Parksley, Virginia,
An ACT to authorize and empower the attorneys for the Commonwealth to supply lost, destroyed or stolen indictments.
An ACT to enjoin and abate houses of lewdness, assignation, and prostitution; to declare the same to be nuisances; to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner or agent of any building used for such purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2257 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2992 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to judgment debtors about to quit the Hn 56.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2911 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to judgment in detinue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising and making such advertising a misdemeanor, and providing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 780 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1898 (chapter 959, acts 1897-98), so as to impose certain duties upon Commonwealth’s attorneys in regard to the collection of fines and costs and to allow them compensation therefor.
An ACT to provide for the settlement, registration, transfer, and assurance of titles to land, and to establish courts of land registration, with jurisdiction for said purposes, and to make uniform the laws of the States enacting the same.
An ACT to provide compensation for judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in their retirement from the bench after a service of twelve consecutive years and after attaining the age of seventy years
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2674 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the return of accounts of sales by tH Bai
An ACT to prohibit chauffeurs, motormen, engineers and other persons from driving or running automobiles, cars, trucks, engines, trains, or other vehicles while under the influence of intoxicants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for the payment to sheriffs, sergeants and constables the fees provided by law for serving process when required to make such service and such person cannot be found.
An ACT to provide for a temporary adequate administration and government of the local affairs of the unincorporated community known as Hopewell and adjacent territory, now a portion of the Bland magisterial district, in the county of Prince George, until such time as it becomes a city.
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, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1910, and to provide for bail after writ of error has been granted to a convicted person pending such writ of error and appeal.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3793 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to buggery and kindred crimes and punishment therefor.
An ACT to provide for compensation to attorneys appointed to defend poor persons charged with certain offences, and for the payment of such compensation out of the treasury of the county or city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to require sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this State to report to the courts of their respective counties and cities the number of prisoners confined in their respective jails
An ACT to provide for the collection of delinquent capitation taxes, past due three (3) years or more, by collectors to be appointed by the judges of the courts of the Commonwealth and to the compensation of such collectors.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $25,000 for the administration of the affairs of that part of Bland magisterial district, Prince George county, Virginia, known as Hopewell, and its suburbs; to prescribe the method whereby the said appropriation shall be expended, and to provide for the payment thereof to the State treasury.
An ACT to provide for the Sport nent of a police justice for the city of Alexandria and his jurisdiction.
An ACT to provide when a person convicted of a misdemeanor may be sentenced to the State convict road force.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of 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
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1912, entitled an act to consolidate into one act, all acts relating to Confederate pensions, and to repeal all acts, and parts of acts, in conflict herewith.