Judicial

1940
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4866 of the Code of Virginia, relating to presentment, information, and indictment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘An Act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, formerly the town of Hampton, approved May 23, 1887, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved, respectively, February 29, 1892; February 24, 1896; March 3, 1898; January 13, 1900; January 30, 1900; February 23, 1901; the two acts of May 15, 1903; March 2, 1914; March 9, 1916, and the act of December 26, 1903, which became a law without the Governor’s signature; and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Hampton.’
An ACT to require the trial justice of each and every county through any part of which both State Highways, number one and number two pass, to appoint a clerk; to prescribe the powers and provide for the compensation of such clerks, and to fix their terms of office.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2737 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the board of supervisors compromising judgments of claims against county treasurers and ex-treasurers and their sureties
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4829-a of the Code of Virginia, authorizing certaén justices and clerks to admit persons charged with crime to bail, so as to authorize the clerks and deputy clerks of civil and police justices to admit such persons to bail.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5915 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the terms of certain courts in the City of Richmond, so as to change the time for the terms of the Hustings Court, Part II, of the City of Richmond.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia regarding the filling of judicial circuit vacancies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, Coroners and constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6 of an act entitled ‘An act tc provide for the supervision, regulation and control of the production, processing transportation, storage, distribution, and sale of milk and cream; to create a Milk Commission and local milk boards and to define and provide for the functions, duties and powers thereof: to provide for the appointment, suspension. removal, compensation, costs, and expenses of such commission and boards and the members, officers, agents and employees thereof; to provide for licensing processors, bottlers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers of milk and cream, or either; to provide for the raising of funds for the administration of this act and to provide for the disposition of revenue collected hereunder and to impose penalties for violations of the provisions of this act,' approved March 29, 1934, so as to provide for appeals to certain courts of the Commonwealth from the orders and decisions of the Milk Commission in certain cases, and to prescribe the procedure therefor and the incidents thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4806, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to coroners’ inquests.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-f, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the jurisdiction of a trial justice, so as to require any officer making an arrest, upon the request of the person arrested, to take him before a justice of the peace or other officer having power to grant bail for the purpose of being admitted to bail for his appearance before such trial justice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11 of Chapter One of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-1937, approved December 18, 1936, as amended, known and designated as the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5964 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the places for holding circuit and corporation courts, so as to authorize the judge of the circuit court of any county or city to enter certain orders and decrees at any place within his circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5825 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to limitation of actions when prosecution of action obstructed by defendant in certain cases, and to limitation of actions on foreign contracts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5904-f of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the county court being kept open, and to the appointment of a substitute justice, so as to amend the method of com a
An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of trust, taken by persons who are trustees therein and who are also officers authorized by law to take acknowledgments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1920 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appeals from certain courts with respect to delinquent, dependent and neglected children, so as to prescribe the courts in the city of Richmond to which such appeals will lie.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections.353, 354. and.355 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the deposit of certain public records in the State Library
An ACT to fix the number of terms of the circuit courts of the Thirty-third 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 Section 2958 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the extension of corporate limits of cities and towns
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 14, as heretofore amended, and Section 43 of 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, approved September 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk; and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk,’’ approved March 20, 1924, Section 14 relating to the trial justice of the city and his jurisdiction, Section 43 to the budget for the fiscal year; and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section numbered 28-a, providing for liens on real estate for taxes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4768 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the limitation of certain prosecutions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4776 of the Code of Virginia, relating to conviction of persons accused of felonies.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new chapter numbered 203-A and thirty-one new sections numbered 5070-a to 5070-ee, both inclusive, providing for the extradition of persons in this State accused or convicted of crime in other States and territories of the United States and in the District of Columbia, providing for the requisitioning and return to this State of persons in other States and territories of the United States or in the District of Columbia who are accused or convicted of crime against the laws of this State and making the law uniform with reference thereto; and to repeal Sections 5061 to 5067, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 276 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to fees for transferring and entering lands on the books of commissioners of the revenue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1018 and 1019 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to proceedings for the commitment of insane, feeble-minded, epileptic and inebriate persons to the several State hospitals and colonies.

1942
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5189 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to docketing conditional sales contracts, and certain other contracts, so as to permit the use of a separate general index therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3504 of the Code of Virginia relating to the fees of Attorneys for the Commonwealth, clerks, enforcement officers, et cetera, and the certification of their accounts payable out of the State treasury.
An ACT to amend, as heretofore amended, and to re-enact Section 4987-2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to trial justices and clerks of trial justice courts, so as to increase the maximum possible salary of clerks under certain circumstances.
An ACT to prescribe the regular terms of the Circuit Court of Buckingham County.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Kenbridge, in the County of Lunenburg, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to incorporate the City of Arlington, the corporate limits which shall include the entire area of the County of Arlington, subject to referendum.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5786 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to actions for wrongful death, so as to eee the time within which any such action may be instituted.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 7, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 47, 50, 52, 56, 57 and 58 of an act entitled "An act to provide a new charter for the City of Lynchburg, Virginia.", approved March 21, 1928, as heretofore amended, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto thirteen new sections numbered 36-a to 36-m, inclusive.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5992 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to jurors for the trial of civil and misdemeanor cases.
An ACT to provide that no person shall be disqualified from holding any State, county or municipal office or position by reason of certain federal service.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5978-b, to provide for retirement and compensation of judges under certain circumstances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4960 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the compensation of sheriffs and other persons for services in certain criminal cases and of witnesses from without the State compelled to attend a court in this State, so as to provide more specifically the compensation of sheriffs and other persons for such services, and to limit such compensation to amounts due for services rendered within the State of Virginia and to provide the compensation allowed hospitals for treatment of prisoners.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-d of the Code of Virginia, and Section 4987-j of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, Section 4987-d relating to oath and bond of trial justices, substitute trial justices, and clerks of trial justice courts, and Section 4987-j relating to the return of papers by trial justices to clerks’ offices, and issuing executions and abstracts of judgments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5887 and 5888 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to circuit courts for counties and cities and the division of the State into judicial circuits, so as to provide a circuit court for the City of Martinsville and to include such court in the Seventh Judicial Circuit, and to add the City of Fredericksburg heretofore provided with a circuit court and included in the Fifteenth Circuit.
An ACT to regulate certain child welfare agencies; and to that end
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1945 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to appointment of judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts, to provide that in any city having a population of more than 25,000 and lying wholly within a county having a population of more than 58,000, according to the last preceding United States census, the judge of such court need not be a person licensed to practice law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-b of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to substitute trial justices, to provide for appointment of assistant substitute trial justices under certain circumstances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 24, as-héretofore amended, of Chapter 39 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved February 20, 1932, which chapter provided a new charter for thé City; of Winchester, so as to provide for a civil and police justice for said City.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6477 of the Code of Virginia, relating to issuing executions and bringing scire facias or action.
An ACT to provide for receiving and maintaining in State Hospitals Federal prisoners whose sanity is in doubt for detention and diagnosis.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5787 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to actions for damages for death from wrongful act, so as to provide a limitation of the amount that may be recovered.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6167 of the Code of Virginia, relating to procedure where death or other fact is relied on in abatement in the appellate court.
An ACT to transfer certain appropriations to the State Board of Corrections, and to appropriate to the State Board of Corrections certain funds in addition thereto, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of certain acts providing for and relating to the Department of Corrections, and the State Board of Corrections, and to provide for the payment and disbursement of such funds.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1943, and the thirtieth day of June, 1944, to prescribe the provisos, terms, conditions and provisions with respect to the items of appropriation and their payment, and to repeal all acts wholly in conflict with this bill, and all parts of all acts inconsistent with this bill to the extent of such inconsistency.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6300 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to the execution of trusts where certain trustees have died, resigned, become incapable of executing the trust, declined to accept the trust, or removed from the State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 71, as amended, of an act entitled “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 acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for the violations thereof.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4374 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the disposition of awards paid into court in condemnation cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 14, and 16 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-37, approved December 18, 1936, as heretofore amended, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act, said sections relating to definitions, benefits, benefit eligibility conditions, disqualification for benefits, claims for benefits, contributions, employment service, collection of contributions, and penalties, so as, among other purposes, to make certain changes therein, especially with respect to definitions of employment, and to provide for the protection of benefit rights of persons in the military service of the United States, to change the minimum benefits payable, to provide for a Board of Review, to provide for appeals to the Supreme Court of Appeals in certain cases, to add a new provision relating to determination of liability, to provide for adjustments in rate of contributions in case of certain amendments to the Federal statutes relating to unemployment compensation tax, and to repeal the provision requiring the Commissioner of Labor shall be chief executive of the Virginia State Employment Service.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4987-a as amended, 4987-b as amended, 4987-c, 4987-e, 4987-g as amended, 4987-1 and 4987-m, of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide for the fixing of the salaries of trial justices and their associates, substitutes, clerks, deputy clerks and clerical assistants, by a committee of judges of circuit courts; to provide for the appointment of such committee; to provide that such salaries shall be paid wholly by the State; and to provide for the disposition of fees and fines collected by the trial justices.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Chatham, in the County of Pittsylvania; to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present governing body and council while in office, not inconsistent with this new charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend, as heretofore amended, and to re-enact sections 4804 and 4805, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of conservators of the peace and policemen at certain places, so as to add any place which is deemed by the court to be essential to National or State defense, and to increase the penalty of the requisite bond to be given in certain cases, and to provide for disposition of any fees or mileage received by them.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3388 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to clerks’ offices of courts, so as to permit clerks’ offices in cities of certain classes to be closed on certain days.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 62, as heretofore amended, of Chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and cited as “The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia’, so as to prescribe further reductions in speed limits, in the interest of greater safety, and to provide for further reductions thereof, under certain circumstances, by executive order.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n 14 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the department of law enforcement in counties having the county executive form of government.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 414, as amended, of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to the correction of erroneous assessments.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and to repeal the existing charter of the said city, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
creating the Elizabeth River Tunnel District; providing for the creation of the Elizabeth River Tunnel Commission as the governing body of said district; authorizing the construction, operation and maintenance by said commission of a project to provide a vehicular connection between the cities of Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia, and consisting of a tunnel or tunnels under the Elizabeth River or a bridge over and a tunnel under the south branch of the Elizabeth River and a tunnel under or a bridge over the east branch of the Elizabeth River, as determined by said commission, which project may include the existing Norfolk County Ferries if acquired as authorized herein; authorizing the county of Norfolk and the city of Portsmouth to sell and convey, and the commission to acquire, maintain, and operate, and to compensate the said county and city for loss of revenue from, the existing Norfolk County Ferries; conferring powers and imposing duties on said commission; authorizing the issuance by said commission of tunnel revenue bonds of said district, payable solely from earnings, to pay the cost of such project; providing that no debt of said district, of the State or of any county, city district or political subdivision thereof shall be incurred in the exercise of any of the powers granted by this act; providing for the collection of tolls for the payment of such bonds and for the cost of maintenance, operation and repair of such project; providing for the execution of a trust indenture to secure the payment of such bonds without mortgaging or encumbering such project; authorizing the issuance of revenue refunding bonds, prescribing the conditions upon which such project shall become free from tolls; making such project and such bonds exempt from taxation, and prohibiting, under certain conditions, the construction or maintenance of competing means of transit between the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4806 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the functions and duties of coroners.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3734 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appeals from the Corporation Commission to the Supreme Court of Appeals, so as to limit to four months the time within which such appeals may be taken and perfected.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5433 of the Code of Virginia, relating to disbursement of certain funds by certain fiduciaries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4970 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to special prosecuting attorneys, so as to provide for the designation of the Commonwealth’s Attorney for any other county or city, or an attorney at law to act for a Commonwealth’s Attorney who for certain reasons is unable or disqualified to perform the duties of his office, and to authorize the appointment of acting Commonwealth’s Attorneys in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 11, 63 and 64, as heretofore amended, 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 to amend and re-enact Section 3391 of the Code of Virginia, relating to indexes to be kept by clerks of courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 430 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1924, approved March 21, 1924, as heretofore amended, relating to the preparation of transcripts of records on application to the Supreme Court of Appeals for writs of error or appeals, and costs and charges.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, as attended, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 18, 20 and 21 of Chapter 12 of an act entitled ‘““An Act to provide a new charter for the City of Portsmouth.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1080-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the appointment of guardians and committees in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4828, 4829-a (said Section 4829-a being added to the Code of Virginia by Chapter 334 of the Acts of Assembly of 1930) and 4830 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to bail by justices of the peace, police justices, justices of juvenile and domestic relations courts, civil and police justices, bail commissioners and clerks of courts, so as to enlarge the powers of said officers in admitting persons to bail and to prescribe the powers of trial justices in admitting persons to bail.
An ACT to abolish the special town school district of the Town of Falls Church, in Fairfax County, except for the purpose of representation on the county school board; to provide for the transferring of all property owned by or held for the use of said town school district, including all funds standing to the credit of the district, to the county school board; to provide that all outstanding bonds and other valid obligations of said district shall constitute valid obligations of said county; to provide for levying taxes for the payment of such bonds and obligations; and to provide that if and when it shall be determined in the manner prescribed by law, that the Town of Falls Church has sufficient population to constitute it a city of either the first or second class, the schools within the boundaries thereof shall be under the jurisdiction of the county school board of Fairfax County, and the school taxes thereafter levied upon the property within such boundaries, shall be annually levied and collected by the city and paid over to the county.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 4508-a, to provide for punishment of a prisoner escaping, before or after conviction, without force, violence, or by setting fire toa jail.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 7 and 8 as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An act to provide for a new charter for the town of Farmville.”, approved February 10, 1890, relating to the mayor and councilmen of the said town, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto a new section numbered 11-b, authorizing the appointment and fixing the compensation of bail commissioners therein.
An ACT in relation to traffic regulations to facilitate the movement over public highways and streets of troops, military vehicles and material affecting national defense and prescribing the powers, duties and responsibilities of the Governor and other officials and agencies with respect thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 126 of the Code of Virginia, relating to surveyors and superintendents of the poor, and Section 127 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to election and term of office of certain district officers, to omit provisions therefrom as to superintendents, and overseers, of the poor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5, as heretofore amended, of Chapter 385 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, and therein designated as the Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License Act, relating to persons to whom a license shall not be issued.
Proposing amendment to Section 73 of the Constitution of Virginia:
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 3, 9, 17, 53, 54 and 55 of Chapter 217 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1918, approved March 14, 1918...
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 567 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to who may become certified public accountants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 267 and 268 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to lists of deeds et cetera to be made by clerks of courts, and to the transfer of lands by Commissioners of the Revenue.
An ACT concerning arrests of peace officers, providing for the questioning and detention of suspects, searching suspects for weapons, the force permissible in making and resisting arrests, arrests without a warrant, the release and detention of persons arrested and the identification of witnesses, and prescribing penalties and making uniform the law relating thereto.
An ACT to provide that certain desk sergeants of the City of Danville shall have power to admit persons to bail; to prescribe the amount of bail fee and provide that all such fees be paid into the city treasury; to require certain records to be kept by such sergeants; to require them to secure certain information from professional bondsmen; to prescribe penalties for false information or for refusal to give information; to authorize such sergeants to issue processes of arrest and search warrants; to provide for penalties and punishment for issuing a search warrant without the affidavit required by law; and to repeal Chapter 108 of the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, relating to a bail commissioner for said city.
An ACT to fix the number of terms of the circuit courts of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, and to designate the days upon which the same shall commence.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 199 thereof, eight new sections numbered 4987-f 1 to 4987-f 8, both inclusive, relating to jurisdiction of trial justices, justices of the peace and mayors, and to repeal Section 4987-f of the Code of Virginia, and all acts amendatory thereof, relating to the same subjects.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1698-a, 1698-b, 1698-c, 1698-d and 1698-e, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to hypnotic drugs.
An Act to validate sales of real estate in chancery suits brought under Chapter 217 of the Code of Virginia, and deeds made to the purchasers thereof, where the purpose of such suits was to pay off and discharge liens on such real estate superior to the rights of the persons for whose benefit the suits were brought.
An ACT to provide that any person born in this State prior to June 14, 1912, may, under certain circumstances, have the date and place of his birth established by a court order, and certified to the Registrar of Vital Statistics, upon which record, the Registrar may issue a birth certificate to such person.
An ACT to provide a circuit court for the City of Bristol ; to provide that it shall constitute a part of the twenty-third judicial circuit, and that the judge of that circuit shall be judge of the new court; to provide for fixing the number and times for holding the terms of the court; and to provide when the foregoing provision shall become effective.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n 55 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain county officers, so as to provide for the appointment of additional justices of the peace, by the judge of the circuit court of any county operating under the county manager form of government and organization adjoining a city lying wholly in the Commonwealth of Virginia having a population of more than 170,000 according to the last preceding United States census.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as heretofore amended, of Chapter 303 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1920, approved March 19, 1920, relating to female deputy clerks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6172 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, authorizing courts to strike certain cases from its docket, and prescribing how such cases may be reinstated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4242 and 4243 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the rights, powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission upon certain conditions to take possession of the property and conduct the business of domestic insurance companies.
An ACT to — and re-enact Section 519 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the publication of notice of suits to residuum of a decedent’s estate, belonging to the Commonwealth, and any other property derelict or having no rightful owner.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of Chapter 380 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1940, approved April 1, 1940, relating to the exercise of the power of eminent domain by the State Highway Commissioner, said section prescribing the procedure therefor.
An ACT to fix the number of terms of the Circuit Court of the City of Martinsville and to designate the days upon which the same shall commence.
An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to provide by-passes through or around cities and incorporated towns, and to make the provisions of general law with respect to certain roads and highways applicable to such by-passes.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Chincoteague, Accomack County, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Chincoteague.