Judicial

1926
An ACT to prohibit, for a period of two years, the killing or capturing, for sale, and the selling, of wild rabbits in Orange county.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Danville to create the office of bail commissioner, and to prescribe his powers and duties, and fix his compensation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to prescribe the mode in which clerks of courts shall keep a record of all taxes and other public moneys collected by them, and to require them to pay the same into the treasury, as heretofore amended, and to reped section 3 of the said act.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 88 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5912 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, relating to the courts of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Fauquier county and the several district road boards of said county to use without the institution of condemnation proceedings land for camp sites, storage yards, or detours.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 5186 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 210 of the said Code on acts which are valid between the parties, but void as to creditors and purchasers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6006 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to obtaining jurors for the trial of civil cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining cities in the State of Virginia having a population of one hundred and seventy thousand or more, to provide for the appointment of clerks for such trial justices; and to prescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices and clerks: and to prohibit and provide penalties for alteration or failure to serve process issued by such trial justices and clerks
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6369 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT declaring it a misdemeanor for any maker or drawer with intent to defraud, to make or draw or utter or deliver any check, draft, or order, when such person has not sufficient funds in, or credit with the depository upon which the same is drawn, and making certain provisions in relation to the admissibility of evidence in civil cases respecting collateral agreements, statements or representations as to said draft, check or order, growing out of arrest under this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4473 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the unlawful shooting at, or throwing stones or other missiles at or against, certain trains, cars, vessels, motor vehicles and other vehicles carrying passengers.
An ACT to regulate the operation of vehicles on public highways to govern and protect pedestrians while using such highways; to provide penalties for violating the provisions of this act and the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected hereunder, to make uniform the law relating to the subject matter of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of the attorneys for the Commonwealth, as amended by acts approved March 20, 1922, and March 21, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 298 of the Code of Virginia in relation to continuance of right in court proceedings when a member or officer of the general assembly is counsel.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5898 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved February 26, 1924, in relation to the power of judges to hold courts other than their own.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5209 of the Code of Virginia, providing when notaries or other officers who hold stock in companies, or are officers thereof, or both, may take acknowledgments to deeds or other writings, which said companies execute, or which are executed to or for the benefit of such companies, if not otherwise interested.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6506 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how debtor may be arrested and held to answer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5905 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to corporation or hustings courts.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of an assistant to the Commonwealth’s attorney for the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to provide for the payment of $1,298.28, subject to a credit of $114.00 to John H. McClellan to satisfy a judgment obtained against one R. B. Whitten, an agent and servant of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and employed by the highway department, as provided by law.
An ACT to provide an additional civil justice for cities containing by 1920 United States census one hundred and seventy thousand (170,000) inhabitants or more; to prescribe his powers, duties and jurisdiction; to provide a clerk, bailiff and substitute for such additional justice; and to provide for rules of practice before the civil justices in such cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5888 of the Code of Virginia, aS amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 29, 1920, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 20, 1920, and further amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 30, 1922, in relation to judicial circuits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3516 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the compensation of clerks of courts, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constables, city sergeants, attorneys for the Commonwealth, examiners of records, civil justices, justice of a juvenile court, justices of the peace and clerk of a civil justice court; and to repeal an act entitled an act to create a commission to consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constables, and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commission to fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers, approved March 27, 1914, as heretofore ae
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Roanoke and Floyd counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the twentieth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (c) of section 27 of the Roanoke charter of 1924, in relation to the jurisdiction and procedure of the civil and police justice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2854 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, which section is in chapter 115 of the said Code on courthouses, clerk’s offices, jails and jailers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3854 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1922.
An ACT permitting the establishment of industrial alcohol plants for the manufacture of alcohol for non-beverage purposes upon the petition of the city council in cities of over one hundred thousand; authorizing the attorney general to issue permits therefor, requiring the giving of bond; fixing the conditions and regulations under which such alcohol may be manufactured and sold, and defining the offenses and penalties for violation of the act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5905 of the Code of Virginia.
An Act Authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Princess Anne County to Borrow Money for Road Improvement
An ACT to authorize the hustings court of the city of Roanoke, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint a bail commissioner for the city
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2385 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 16, 1920, and March 20, 1924; sections 2386, 2387 and 2388 of the said Code; section 2389 of the said Code, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920; and sections 2390 and 2391 of the said Code, all of which sections relate to redress against erroneous assessments of taxes and levies.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Waverly, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the council and government of the town of Waverly and all powers heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office to be legal and valid.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Galax, situated in part in the county of Carroll and in part in the county of Grayson, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act, approved February 25, 1922, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 66, in relation to a juvenile and domestic relations court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3240 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922, in relation to the taking of oysters from natural rocks, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3394 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1920, in relation to general indexes for clerk’s offices.
An ACT to establish a State farm for defective misdemeanants on the Powhatan side of the State prison farm or other place; to define the classes of defective misdemeanants to be transferred thereto; to provide for the location, construction, government thereof; to provide for the allowance and anticipation of the per diem costs of jail inmates and for the transportation of prisoners there.
An ACT to prescribe the time for the holding of courts of the sixth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 24, 25, 37 and 44 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Farmville
An ACT to provide for holding the courts of the twenty-seventh judicial circuit of Virginia, and who may hold the same, and the pay of the judge holding said court, and as to the other counties in said judicial circuit reimbursing the county in which said court is held for part of the pay of said judge so holding said court.
An ACT to amend chapter 243 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to circuit and other courts, by the addition thereto of a new section to be numbered 5901-a, in relation to judges pro tempore.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1927, and the 29th day of February, 1928.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 234, Acts of Assembly of Virginia, 1918, approved March 15, 1918, entitled an act for the relief of all taxpayers in the State of Virginia, whose lands during the year nineteen hundred and seventeen were taken or acquired by the United States, or shall be so taken or acquired in any year subsequent to the year nineteen hundred and seventeen
An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the probation officer of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 24, 1874, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow members of the United States military or naval reserve force to hold office under the government of this Commonwealth or the political or administrative subdivisions thereof
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6049 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to venue in actions at law and suits in equity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2777. of the Code of Virginia, in relation to bonds of treasurers of counties and cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 57 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto, as approved April 2, 1902, and amended, Acts 1910, 1916 and 1922; and to provide for the appointment by the town council of a police justice for the town of Covington, Virginia, and to define his powers and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6232 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to depositions.
An ACT for the protection of fish in certain streams in Alleghany and Craig counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to create the city of Hopewell, in the county of Prince George; to provide temporary and permanent officers for its organization and management and to authorize the assessment and collection of revenue necessary for the permanent improvement and government of said city
An ACT to prevent fraud and deception at certain auctions in this State; to regulate such auctions; to provide for licenses and bonds and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to fix the number of terms of the circuit courts of the Thirty-fourth judicial circuit, and to authorize the judge of such courts to fix the days for the commencement of the said terms.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact subsection C of section 2546 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to official receipts for fines.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5252 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to when deposition of witness may be taken and read on probate of will.
An ACT requiring permits to be obtained for the construction, repair or improvement of buildings or structures in counties having a density of population of more than 300 per square mile according to the United States census.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1294-k, Pollard’s Code, Supplement 1916, approved March 14, 1912, Acts Virginia Assembly 1912, page 583, entitled an act imposing upon railroad corporations liability for injury to their employees in certain cases omitted in the Code revision of 1919 and thereby repealed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5465 of the Code of Virginia; relating to evidence in actions of ejectment and unlawful detainer in certain cases.
An ACT to provide for the marking satisfied of judgments recovered by the Commonwealth, and for the releasing of recognizances by the clerks of courts of record.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3102 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts, approved March 27, 1922, and March 15, 1924, in relation to civil and police justices, civil justices and judges of municipal courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6279 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the compensation of special commissioners of sale, acting under an order of court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 328 and 374 of chapter 21 of the Code of Virginia of 1887 as heretofore amended, which said sections were continued in force by section 2673 of the Code of 1919, and to amend the said Code of 1887 by adding thereto three new sections, to be numbered sections 355-a, 374-a and 374-b, all of which sections relate to the military.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5786 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 236 of the said Code, in relation to actions for injuries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1922, and Section 2003 of the Code of Virginia, in respect to the working of prisoners on the public roads.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 2850-a, in relation to notaries public for the State at large.
An ACT to provide that officers making arrests, searches or seizures on the public roads or highways of this State shall, in order to obtain any fee therefor, be dressed at the time of such arrest, search or seizure in a uniform; to prescribe the uniform to be worn, and to prevent the taxing or collection of any fees, mileage, attendance, pay or any other charge, compensation or reward for arrests or prosecutions where the arrest, search or seizure was made on a public road or highway by an officer not wearing the uniform prescribed by this act.
An ACT to amend chapter 191 of the Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 4822-a, in relation to search warrants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section (c) of an act 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
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 20, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41, 55, 61, 65, 67, 69 and 75 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act.

1928
An ACT to prohibit the public mutilation, defacement, defilement of, or casting contempt upon flags of the United States or of the State of Virginia, and providing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4489 of the Code of Virginia, relating to forgery, and making it apply to any person who shall, by any false pretense or token, obtain the signature of another person to a writing, with intent to defraud.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5947 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the jurisdiction of the court of law and chancery of the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be designated as section 1050a of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of trustees for ex-service persons found
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2698 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to bonds of officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6063 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to how process served on domestic corporations.
An ACT creating a judicial council in Virginia for the purpose of considering and recommending needed changes in the rules of practice of the courts of the Commonwealth, and the improvement and simplification of the administration of justice, and defining its other duties, and providing for the payment of its actual expenses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5017 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 6 of chapter 301 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, entitled an act to regulate the treatment, handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary, and to appropriate funds therefor
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 61 of chapter 400 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, page 637, commonly known as the “workmen’s compensation law,” as last SETAE by chapter 7 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 7.
An ACT to authorize the clerk of the circuit court of Henricv county to attest the correctness of the orders of said court entered at special terms of said court on the ninth and twenty-seventh days of December, 1927.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of an official reporter for the thirty-first judicial circuit and prescribing his powers and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3102 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, by acts approved March 27, 1922, March 15, 1924 and March 23, 1926, in relation to civil and police justices, civil justices and judges of municipal courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 329 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended, relating to the collection of fines imposed by court martial, the same having been omitted from the official Code of 1919, but continued in force by the provisions of section 2673 thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4366 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, in relation to the exercise of the power of eminent domain and concerning the pay of commissioners.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4928 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to compensation and mileage of jurors in criminal cases.
An ACT ‘to amend and re-enact section 1051 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointments of committees of residents.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the charter of the city of Williamsburg, as defined by chapter 507 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1884, and as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 5, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5281 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to partitions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3405 of the Code of Virginia, relating to reports by clerks of courts of the business of such courts, and to repeal so much of section 306 of the Code as requires abstracts of reports made by clerks of courts to the clerk of the house of delegates to be made by him to the general assembly.
An ACT to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to banks and banking, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia banking act. and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith. and to provide penalties for the violations thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 231 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, relative to the time of commencement of the regular terms of the circuit court of the twenty-eighth judicial circuit
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4926 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the transfer of certain public records to the State library board; to prescribe the duties of the State librarian and the State library board in connection with such records, and to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions of this act.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of trustees to hold gifts, grants, or devises of real estate for charitable purposes to unincorporated bodies or societies, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such trustees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6020 of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide that proceedings before justices, including civil justices, civil and police justices, trial justices and judges of mayoralty courts, in civil cases, may also be by notice and motion.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-five hundred and fifty of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted, in relation to fines.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the following sections of the Code of Virginia: 1612; 1613; 1614; 1615, as amended; 1616, as amended; 1617; 1618; 1619; 1621; 1622; 1623; 1639; relating to the regulation of the practice of medicine; and to repeal section 1620.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 273 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874.