Judicial

1922
An ACT to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining one or more cities having a population of thirty thousand or more in the aggregate; to prescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices.
An ACT to regulate the confession of judgment in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia and to prescribe the procedure thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5189 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved September 5, 1919, and as further amended by an act approved March 19, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3887 of the Code of Virginia; and to amend and re-enact section 5888 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 29, 1920, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920.
An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of Princess Anne and Isle of Wight counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the twenty-eighth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3408 to 3422, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, section 3408 of which was amended by an act approved February 21, 1920, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6322 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4909 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections fifty-three hundred and thirty-five and fifty-three hundred and forty of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the business of making small loans, by requiring persons charging directly or indirectly a greater rate of compensation than the conventional legal interest rate per annum on loans not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00) to any person, to obtain a license; by prescribing the maximum amount of compensation which licensees may charge; by regulating assignments to licensees of salaries or wages earned, or to be earned; by prohibiting false or deceptive advertising concerning such loans; by fixing penalties for violation of certain provisions of this act; by prescribing certain duties of the chief examiner of the banking division of the State corporation commission in respect to licenses; repealing section 81 of the revenue act and all other acts, or parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1918, sections 14, 16, 17 and 18 of which said act were amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1920.
An ACT providing an additional regular term of court for Giles county, and prescribing the times for holding the regular terms of court in the twenty-second judicial circuit.
An ACT to authorize and empower cities which have, by the latest United States census, over one hundred thousand inhabitants, to provide for the collection and payment into their treasury of fees for certain services rendered by their police justices either in criminal cases or in cases of violation of ordinances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6317 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5205 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2215, 2228 and 2229 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 2226 and 2227 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT making it a misdemeanor knowingly and wilfully to give false and untrue information concerning any person or corporation to publishers, or employees of publishers, with intent that the same shall be published.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3468 of the Code of Virginia, as amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3513 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5428 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT prescribing the times of holding the regular terms of court in the twenty-fourth and thirty-third judicial circuits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3481 and 3507 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1920.
An ACT to prohibit the printing, stamping or impressing of words, figures, designs, pictures, emblems or advertisements on newspapers after the same shall have been issued for circulation, without first obtaining consent of the publisher so to do; to prohibit the circulation, distribution or Sale of a newspaper so printed, stamped or impressed; and to prescribe fines and penalties for the violation hereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3486 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3102, 3105 and 3106 of the Code of Virginia, 1919.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3504 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3527 of the Code of 1887, as amended by chapter 392, Acts 1918, approved March 20, 1918.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1923, and the 29th day of February, 1924.
An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of Accomac and Northampton counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the thirty-first judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6062 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for a special police force in certain counties, prescribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for their compensation and defining their powers and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6348 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920.
An ACT providing for the use of voting machines in cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4719 of the Code fe Si
An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of Alleghany, Botetourt, Bath and Craig counties and the council of the city of Clifton Forge to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the nineteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4930 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 10, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4439 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3101 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to grant jurisdiction to all courts of record to make binding declarations of rights and determine questions of construction, whether any consequential relief is or could be claimed or not, and to prescribe where, and how, and with what effect suits seeking the exercise of such jurisdiction shall be brought and conducted, and how this act shall be construed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6355 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to require persons sixteen years of age, or over, of sufficient earning capacity or income, to support their parents who are in destitute or necessitous circumstances; and to repeal an act entitled an act to require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their parents in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6358 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6337 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide a simple remedy for the correction of erroneous assessment of taxes when such error is due to a mistake on the part of the assessing officer or to the mistake of the officer on whose report the assessment was made.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Suffolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Suffolk.
An ACT to authorize and provide for the expenditure of the surplus of the proceeds of the road bonds issued by the county of Henry, pursuant to the road bond election held on the twenty-eighth day of June, 1921, in the construction and improvement of public roads in said county, in addition to those designated in the order of election; and for the construction of bridges on the aforesaid designated roads and on the said additional roads; and for the appointment, by the circuit court of Henry county, of a commission to act jointly with the State highway commissioner or road engineer, in inspecting and receiving any work done under or by virtue of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4902 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT prescribing the time of holding the regular terms of court in the twentieth judicial circuit
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 9, 19 and 21 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended, and to repeal sections 7 and 8 of said charter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2546 and 2550 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6245 of the Code of 1919, providing when and how docket of chancery cases; how cases called and disposed of.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3466 of the Code of Virginia, fixing the salary of the judge of the first judicial circuit.
An ACT to prescribe how a new day for the execution of the sentence of death shall be fixed, and dispensing with the presence of the person to be executed.
An ACT for the appropriation of $500.00 out of the treasury for the payment of J. Taylor Thompson for legal services rendered the State in the matter of contest over the will of Emmett D. Gallion (deceased)
An ACT to re-imburse J. P. Taylor and J. C. Hart for barn and hay destroyed in order to capture Walter Ware who was escaping after the murder of Sheriff W. C. Bond and Sargeant Julian F. Boyer, of Orange county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1028 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to establish an additional corporation court for the city of Norfolk, Virginia.

1923es
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "An act authorizing the boards of supervisors of Princess Anne and Isle of Wight counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the twenty-eighth judicial circuit"
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2546 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922, in relation to official receipts for fines.
An ACT amending chapter 362 of the acts of 1922, entitled an act prescribing the time of holding the regular terms of court in the 20th judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6075, 6243 and 6245 of the Code of Virginia, the latter of which sections was amended by an act approved February 25, 1922.
An ACT conferring jurisdiction upon the supreme court of appeals, or the judges thereof, in vacation, to consider certain petitions for appeals and writs of error or supersedeas and to allow the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4722 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the operation of automobiles, engines, etc., while intoxicated.
An ACT providing for the regulation, supervision and control of persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation on the improved public highways of this State which are, or may hereafter be declared to be, parts of the State highway system or any of the county highway systems; declaring motor vehicle carriers, as herein defined, to be common carriers, transportation companies and public service corporations within the meaning of the law; and prescribing ana im- posing license fees and providing for the disposition of the revenue raised by the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 27, 1922, entitled "An act to regulate the confession of judgments in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to prescribe the procedure thereon; and to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 23rd, 1922, entitled "An act requiring every power of attorney to confess judgment, to be signed and acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds."
An ACT authorizing the council of the city of Portsmouth and the board of supervisors of the county of Norfolk to sell and convey the present courthouse property in said city, the clerk’s office site and the land in the rear of said clerk’s office site of said county, adjoining said courthouse property on the west, and the land in the rear of the municipal building of said city, adjoining said courthouse property on the north; or, in lieu thereof, to authorize the said board to convey to the said city the county’s interest in said property, and if so conveyed, to authorize the said council to sell said property at public auction; also to authorize the said council to acquire land in said city and erect thereon a courthouse, and office building and to convey to the said county for its courthouse, clerk’s office, and other office purposes, a one-half interest in said land and buildings.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five thousand nine hundred and fifty-six of the Code of Virginia, relating to the court of law and chancery of the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia, relating to the clerk of the circuit court of the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax, and appropriate funds for the administration of this act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1922.
An Act to approve the grants and conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia of a lot of land with improvements thereon, located in the city of Richmond and the State of Virginia, which said lot of land was not enumerated as a part of the property of the said association in an act approved February 21, 1920, and to declare the grant and conveyance by the said association to the Commonwealth of all its property, wherever located, valid in all respects.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3513 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 27,1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5161 of the Code of Virginia, which provides for the sale of contingent and other estates, and the procedure therefor; and validating proceedings and sales in certain suits in equity heretofore instituted.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5867 and 5869 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 23, 1922, in relation to the business of the supreme court of appeals to be done at Richmond and Staunton.
An ACT to reimburse Robert Landreth for a certain sum improperly paid by him into the treasury of the State of a aw
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of chapter five of an act approved March 13, 1918, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg.”

1924
An ACT to validate conveyances of real estate by executors given power of sale under wills admitted to probate in other jurisdictions.
An ACT. to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the boards of supervisors of Accomac and Northampton counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the thirty-first judicial circuit
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 20-a, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41, 50, 53, 55, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69 and 75, of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents: ‘to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or death sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4781 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2546 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922, and as further amended by act approved March 23, 1923, in relation to official receipts for fines.
An ACT to amend and re-enact clause or sub-section (f) of section 6253 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide the time within which objections may be made to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees under deeds of trust securing money and to validate deeds made by such trustees.
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henry to borrow the sum of $100,000.00 and to issue serial bonds or notes for the same running from one to ten years; to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity; to provide that the money so borrowed shall be used for the retirement or payment of any notes, bonds or warrants heretofore issued by said board; to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to borrow the sum of $50,000.00 to be used for the construction and permanent improvement of roads and bridges in said county under the supervision of the State highway commissioner or the board of supervisors of said county and to provide for the payment of same and to provide for the retirement of any notes or bonds which may have been issued by said board pursuant to acts of the general assembly, approved March 9, 1918, and March 14, 1918, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, approved September 5, 1919; and to provide that no bank, person, firm or corporation in the county of Henry shall hereafter receive any interest on any loan made to the board of supervisors of the county of Henry unless such loan shall have been authorized by the general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act prescribing the time of holding the regular terms of court of the twentieth judicial circuit, approved March 23, 1922, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1923 and prescribing the time of holding the regular terms of the thirty-third judicial circuit.
An ACT allowing cash deposits in lieu of recognizances with surety
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 129 of an act 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 April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6252 of the Code of Virginia of 1919
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5944 of the Code of virginia
An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of the counties of Richmond, Northumberland, Lancaster, Westmoreland and Essex to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the twelfth judicial circuit.
An ACT to provide that a third person who is injured by a party carrying indemnity insurance shall be subrogated to the is of the part carrying such insurance and the insurance company shall be liable to suc third party up to the amount of the insurance carried by the party eine the injury.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4828 of the Code of Yep orl
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter III of an act entitled An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5889 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5873 of the Code, relating to a special court of appeals, and to repeal section 5876 of the Code.
An ACT to declare the courthouse square, on which is located the courthouse, clerk’s office, jail and other public buildings of Mathews county, Virginia, a part of each of the several magisterial districts of the county of Mathews, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of Mathews county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat.
An ACT relating to the practice of law, and preventing persons, firms and corporations, not practicing attorneys, from appearing before any magistrate, civil or police justice, civil justice court, or any other court, to represent any claim or cause of any person, firm or corporation, unless the person, firm or corporation has a property interest in said claim or cause; preventing evasions of this act and crexeribing penalties.
An ACT to provide for the payment of $3,052.00 to C. W. Coleman, judge of the first judicial circuit, for mileage and traveling expenses, as provided by law.
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of Rappahannock Fauquier and Loudoun counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3466 of the Code of Virginia relating to the compensation of judges, as amended by Acts 1922, page 5, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5125 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assignment of dower.