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| An ACT to provide for working vagrants on public roads in the county of Norfolk. |
| An ACT to incorporate the trustees of the Joseph H. Sands division, No. 401, of the Grand international brotherhood of locomotive engineers. |
| An ACT to provide for working vagrants on public roads in the counties of Franklin, Warren, Clarke, Augusta and the city of Staunton. |
| An ACT to provide for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Patrick, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in the same county. |
| An ACT to provide for a Bureau of labor and industrial statistics and for defining the duties of said bureau. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 573, Acts of 1891-92, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski County and to amend and re-enact chapter 494, Acts of 1895-06, entitled an act to amend the 3d, 15th, and 19th sections, and to repeal and re-enact sections J. and 17 of an act passed March 2, 1802, entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county. |
| An ACT for the protection of farmers, &c., in Buckingham county by requiring license of labor agents and imposing penalties for violation. |
| An ACT to provide a road law for Rappahannock county. |
| An ACT for working and Sepik in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy cf taxes for that purpose. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clifton Forge, |
| 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 caring for such minors. |
| An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair, opening, and discontinuing the public roads in the county of Brunswick, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in the said county. |
| An ACT for the protection of laboring-men, who are householders. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4144 of the code of Virginia, entitled record to be kept of conduct of convicts; to have credit for good conduct. |
| An ACT to protect sub-contractors, supply men and laborers. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend section 2844 of the code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays |
| An ACT providing for working public roads in Prince Edward county. |
| An ACT providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the counties of Brunswick, Nottoway, and Amelia, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in said counties. |
| An ACT for working, keeping in repair, and building the roads and bridges in Buckingham county. |
| An ACT providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Lunenburg, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in said county. |
| An ACT making it lawful for the county courts and justices in Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Southampton, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to sentence certain criminals to work upon the roads, farms, or other public works in said counties, or on the streets of any town in said counties, and prescribing penalty for persons thus sentenced who escape or attempt to escape. |
| An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to make rules concerning the working of criminals sentenced to work on the public roads or farms, or other public works of said counties, and to provide suitable buildings for the care and custody of said criminals. |
| An ACT for the relief of the county of Bedford from further penalties |
| An ACT to prescribe a penalty for persons who, under the provisions of sections 3932 and 3934 of the Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in chain-gangs and escape, or attempt to escape, from the person in whose custody they lawfully are. |
| An ACT to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Caroline county. |
| An ACT to work and keep in repair roads and bridges in the county |
| An ACT making it lawful for the county court and any justice of the peace of the county of Caroline, or any mayor of any town of said county, to sentence criminals to work upon the public roads or other public works or on the streets or other public works of the towns in said county, and prescribing a penalty for persons thus sentenced who escape or attempt to escape. |
| An ACT to incorporate the United Waiters’ Union of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend section 13 of chapter 339 of acts of assembly of session of 1897-8 in relation to the working of roads in the counties of Scott and Lee. |
| An ACT to suspend collection from Bedford county, Virginia, for penalties for certain escaped convicts working on its roads. |
| A JOINT RESOLUTION providing for a commission to investigate certain matters in relation to the penitentiary. |
| An ACT as to working inmates of Norfolk city jai. |
| An ACT making it lawful for the county court and justices of the peace cf the county of Fairfax, and the mayors of the towns of the said county, to sentence certain criminals to work upon the roads or other public works, or on the streets or other public works of the towns in said county, and prescribing a penalty for persons thus sentenced who escape or attempt to escape. |
| An ACT to protect persons, firms, corporations, associations, or unions of workingmen in the use of their labels, trade marks, terms, designs, devices, and forms of advertisements, and to provide for the registry thereof. |
| An ACT providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in Cumberland eounty. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Caroline county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887) in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled “an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns.” |
| An ACT to designate and establish certain days as public holidays, and to establish and declare Saturday after 12 0’clock noon a half-holiday as regards the transaction of business generally, with exceptions specified in this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 72, Code of 1887, as amended by act approved March 29, 1902, in regard to the management of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, and to conform the same to the Constitution. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact: sections 3916, 3918, 3922, 3929, 35. and 3933 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to prescribe a penalty for persons who, under the provisions of sections 3932 and 3934 of the Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in chain-gangs and escape, or attempt to escape, from the person in whose custody they lawfully are.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the counties of Northumberland and Westmoreland. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 573 of the acts of 1891-1892, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as amended by an act passed March 2, 1892, as amended by an act passed January 25, 1898, as amended by an act passed February 28, 1898, as amended hy an act passed March 6, 1900, as amended by an act passed December 19, 1901, to increasing the rate per hour paid day laborers for work on the roads in Pulaski county. |
| An ACT to authorize the use of convicts confined in the penitentiary in digging the foundation of the proposed additions to the State capitol, and in digging the foundation of the heat, light, and power plant proposed for the State capitol and other buildings, and in grading or moving property incident to either of said undertakings, and to require the board of directors of the penitentiary to furnish, under guard, such convicts as are called for by the capitol building committee. |
| An ACT to amend section 3799 of the Code of Virginia respecting violations of the Sabbath so as to provide the right of appeal from judgments in such cases. |
| An ACT to create a road board for the county of Fauquier, and to provide for the working of the roads of said county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, |
| An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal year ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1907, and the 29th day of February, 1908. |
| An ACT to assign offices to the several departments and officers of the State government in the several public buildings owned by the State. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the opening, altering, changing, and working the public roads in the county of Warren, approved February 18, 1886, to provide for the working, repairing, opening, altering, changing, and building of the public roads, bridges, ferries, and landings in Warren county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 3, and section 9, chapter 3, of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 4. 1898, amending and re-enacting sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for a bureau of labor and industrial statistics, and defining the duties of said bureau, approved March 3, 1898. |
| An ACT to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony. |
| An ACT to permit persons charged with crime and unable to furnish a bail bond or not let to bail, with the consent of the Commonwealth’s attorney, to work in chain gangs or in the State convict road force, and allowing such persons credit therefor on any sentence thereafter imposed for such crime of which he is charged; and in case of acquittal, allowing him pay for his labor. |
| An ACT to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed forty-five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 2, 1904, entitled "an act to provide for the opening, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Caroline county." |
| An ACT to regulate the employment of children in factories, mercantile establishments, workshops and mines in this Commonwealth, on and after March 1, 1909, and to prescribe penalties for violations of such regulations. |
| An ACT providing for the shortening of the period of labor required of persons sentenced to work on public roads, and fixing maximum period for which they shall be required to so labor, for non-payment of fines and costs, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to who are exempt from jury service. |
| An ACT making ita soisflemennon for persons to unlawfully use or wear any insignia or button of any association, society, or trade’s union, or any Southern cross of honor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled: An act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed 45 men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 7 of an act entitled an act to create the State convict road force, etc. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19 and 74, of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1878, and as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1900. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond as heretofore amended, in relation to the powers of the city council; and to amend and re-enact section 64 of the said charter in relation to the duties of the city engineer. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3932 of the Code of Virginia in relation to chain-gangs, as amended by an act approved December 24, 1903, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact sections 3916, 3918, 3922, 3929, 3932 and 3933 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 928 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending respectively on the 28th day of February, 1909, and the 28th day of February, 1910. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 16 of an act entitled an act for working the roads in the county of Loudoun, approved February 16, 1880, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 2, 1894, and further amended by an act approved April 27, 1903. |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor for persons to unlawfully use or wear any insignia or button of any association, or society, or trade’s union, or any southern cross of honor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 7 and 10 of an act approved March 6, 1906, and amended by an act approved February 25, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled an act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; provided for an increase of the penitentiary guard, not to exceed forty-five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to assign offices to the several departments and officers of the State gov-ernment in the several public buildings owned by the State, approved March 14, 1906." |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the making and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Charlotte county, approved March 6th, 1896, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to reg-ulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establishments where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives, approved March 4, 1890, so as to embrace work-shops, and mercantile establishments. |
| An ACT to authorize and direct work on the public roads of Goochland County by convicts at the State farm now located in Goochland county. |
| An ACT to provide for the working of certain long term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road construction, to the citizens of the State. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitled ‘fan act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed forty-five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force, and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1906, entitled “an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony,” as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony approved February 27, 1906. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 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 amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about railroads shops, coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories, the payment of wages at regular intervals and in lawful money of the United States. |
| An ACT to reimburse W. C. Parks and others, district road commissioners for Washington county, for advancing certain funds for local public road improvements on account of a deficiency in the State convict road force fund. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively on the 28th day of February, 1913, and the 28th day of February, 1914 |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'fan act to authorize the judge of any court, police justice, or justice of the peace, in cities of forty thousand inhabitants and over, to continue the case and admit to bail any person brought before him charged with being an habitual drunkard, with failing to support his wife or children, with being a vagrant or an idler able to work, and who is liable to become a charge upon the corporation, and to commit such person to the supervision of an officer to be known as a probation officer; to provide for the appointment and compensation of such probation officer, and to invest him with full police power while in the discharge of his duties,' so as to cover cities of fifteen thousand inhabitants and over. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 7, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the 2 fiscal years |
| An ACT to amend section 11 of an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission, to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary, and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commissioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect |
| An ACT to appropriate $30,000.00, the unexpended appropriation heretofore made by the general assemby to provide for the working of certain long term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road con-struction to the citizens of the State, so as to make this amount avail. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working of certain long-term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor, and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road construction, to the citizens of the State, approved March 14, 1912, adding the manufacture of ground marl. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved February 27, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 4, 1898, amending and re-enacting sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for a bureau of labor and industrial statistics, and defining the duties of said bureau, approved March 3, 1898, and adding an independent section thereto, so as to make more complete regulations for factory inspection and for the appointment of factory inspectors. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State, jointly or severally, to establish county or city farms, and providing for the Joint use of the same, and for the government and support of persons confined therein. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorpo- |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 3 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 of chapter 1 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, to amend and re-enact chapters 2, 3 and 5 of said act as amended by subsequent acts, and to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5, and to repeal section 7 of chapter 6 of said act. |
| An ACT to amend and 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 appropriate the sum of $55,000.00 to reimburse the superintendent of the penitentiary and to be used for the establishment and maintenance of the convict road force as provided by an act approved March 6, 1906, known as the Lassiter, Withers act. |
| 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 4144 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to giving credit to convicts for good conduct. |
| 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 3799 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended and re-enacted in relation to violation of the Sabbath; how punished, and providing that the delivery of ice cream on the Sabbath day, where said ice cream has been manufactured on some day other than the Sabbath day shall be construed to be a work of necessity. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved March 138, 1912, chapter 178 of acts of 1912, entitled an act concerning coal mines and safety of employees, creating a department and inspector of mines under the bureau of labor and industrial statistics. |
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