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| 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 heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, made by the act approved February 29, 1912, chapter 59, acts of assembly, session 1912, pages 101 and 102. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Buckingham, and to levy a capitation tax in connection therewith |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2538, extra session 1902-3-4, of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act providing for the working, opening and keeping in repair the roads in Cumberland county |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1914, entitled 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, 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 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 heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, as amended by acts approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and sixteen. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact an act approved February 17 18980 (acts 1889-90), as amended by an act approved February 12, 189:(acts 1891-982) as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900 (acts 1899 1900), to protect the owners of bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, kegs crates and boxes, used in the manufacture and sale of soda waters, mineral or aerated waters, cider, ginger, ale, milk, cream, ice cream, soft drinks, or other beverages, medicine and perfumery, and to fix the punishment for unlawful buying, having, handling, using, trafficking in or disposing of such bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, kegs, crates, and boxes, and to provide when and how a search warrant may be issued to discover and obtain the same, and to declare and define what shall be deemed unlawful buying, having, handling, using, disposing of, dealings and trafficking in the same. |
| 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 3630 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to homestead exemption. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about railroad shops, coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories, and railroad clerks the payment of wages at regular intervals, and in lawful money of the United States, approved May 28rd, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11th, 1912. |
| 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. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1919, and the 29th day of February, 1920. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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, approved March 14, 1912, so as to make the requirements thereunder more specific. |
| An ACT to amend section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to public holidays. |
| An ACT to authorize the use, so far as practicable, of the convict road force in the construction and maintenance of “The State Highway System.” |
| An ACT to prevent trusts, combinations and monopolies inimical to the public welfare. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 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 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, approved March 6, 1906, as amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2094 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT for the protection of persons employed in the construction or repair of railroad cars or car trucks or similar equipment. |
| An ACT to provide for the examination and certification of professional engineers, architects and land surveyors; and to regulate the practice of engineering, architecture and land surveying; to establish their relation to public works and the surveying and platting of land. |
| An ACT: to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act 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, as heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, as amended by acts approved February 29, 1912, and March 22, 1916, approved March 15, 1918. |
| An ACT to provide for the control and prevention of venereal diseases; to provide for the reporting by physicians and other persons of said diseases; to provide for the apprehension, treatment, and detention of promiscuous carriers; to provide for the protection of other persons from infection by venereally diseased persons; to provide the penalty for the violation of this act, and to provide for the maintenance of persons convicted hereunder. |
| An ACT to amend sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, and 103 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, and to repeal sections 2 and 93 of said act and to add thereto sections 14a, 55a, 99a, 116a, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, and 132, which deal with and provide for vacancies in the council; the initiative and referendum; the general powers and duties of the department of public welfare; the division of the city into school districts and the election of trustees therefor; the creation of a civil service commission and its rules and regulations; the jurisdiction of courts to enforce ordinances; rules and regulations upon city owned property outside of the city; continuance of present officers in office until January 1, 1921, and the vacating of certain offices at that time; the penalties for violation of certain sections; the working of prisoners; the appointment of boards and the creation of pension funds. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1810 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to erect a library building and auditorium as a memorial to the soldiers, sailors, marines and women who served in the world war, and to appropriate money therefor; to dedicate as and for public streets and highways upon certain conditions a strip of land fifteen feet in width lying on the southern side of the Capitol square in the city of Richmond, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6426 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. [H B 6] |
| An ACT to prohibit the baiting of wild turkeys in this State for the purpose of killing or capturing same. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4719 of the Code fe Si |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894, approved February 1, 1915, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section §758 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to public holidays |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4835 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1799, 1802, 1807, 1817, 1822 and 1830 and to repeal sections 1831 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1905 to 1922, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1797 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 6429-a, so as to provide, in the mechanics’ lien law, how the owner or general contractor may be made personally liable to subcontractors, laborers, or material men. |
| 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 3061 of the Code of Virginia, 1924, in reference to the establishment of chain gangs. |
| An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on fire, liability, casualty and workmen’s compensation insurance rates in Virginia, and to prescribe the powers and duties of said commission. |
| 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. |
| SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the proposed child labor amendment to the Constitution of the United States. |
| 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 amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to authorize the manufacture of motor vehicle license plates, road signs and kindred articles for the use of the State or to be sold. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2094 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1920, in relation to jail prisoners on road or quarry force and the credit to be allowed them for good behavior. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2095 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1929, and the 28th day of February, 1930. |
| 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 1 of chapter .301 of the acts 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 sections 5019, 5048 and 2091 of the Code of Virginia, the former as heretofore amended, and to repeal section 5036 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 65 and 67 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 412 of the acts of the general assembly of 1922, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Woodstock and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government of the town of Woodstock and all power heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office, to be legal and valid, approved March 24, 1922, relating to the public schools of said town, as amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 434 of the acts of 1922, providing for exceptions from jury service. |
| A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to the Constitution of Virginia. |
| An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections One, Three and Five of an Act Entitled an Act to Authorize the Counties and Cities of the State to Establish County or City Farms, and Providing for the Use of the Same, and for the Government and Support of Persons Confined Therein |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved July 11, 1870, providing a charter for the town of West Point, in King William county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia, relating to exemptions from jury service. |
| An ACT to provide for the registration and protection of the names, badges, mottoes, buttons, decorations, charms, emblems, rosettes, and other insignia of associations, lodges, orders, fraternal societies, beneficial societies, or fraternal and beneficial societies or associations, historical, military, or veterans’ organizations, labor union, foundation, federation, or any other society, organization, or association, degree, branch, subordinate lodge or auxiliary thereof; to prohibit the wearing, exhibition, display, or use of the same, by any person not entitled to wear, exhibit, display, or use the same; and fixing a penalty for the violation of this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6454 of the Code of Virginia, relating to liens of landlords and farmers for advances to tenants and laborers. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5758 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to public holidays. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4426 and 4427 of the Code of Virginia, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4426-a, said sections relating to fights between men and fights between men and animals and amateur boxing matches and exhibitions. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to authorize the manufacture of motor vehicle license plates, road signs and kindred articles for the use of the State or to be sold, with prison labor at the penitentiary; to authorize the purchase of the necessary equipment and materials and the employment of the necessary foremen and all things necessary or incident to the manufacture of said license plates, markers and kindred articles,” approved March 28, 1928, and to authorize the board of directors of the State penitentiary to retain possession and control of the equipment purchased under the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 2096-b relating to authorizing the State prison board to enter into agreements with counties, towns, and State departments to construct and maintain roads and streets and to do other public work, and for such purposes establishing and providing for supervision, regulation, and maintenance of convict camps; and appropriating money for such purposes. |
| An ACT to require funds paid by the owner to a general contractor or by the owner or general contractor, to a subcontractor, under contracts fot the construction, removal, repair or improvement of buildings or structures permanently annexed to the freehold, to be used for the purpose of paying persons performing labor upon or furnishing material for such construction repair, removal or improvement, and prescribing penalties. [H B 399] |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6438 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to liens of laborers and other persons. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5007 of the Code of Virginia, relating to male prisoners in the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5445 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to unlawful detainer. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 2073-a and 2073-b, all pertaining to the State convict road force, the employment of convicts and misdemeanants, and the purchase of articles produced and manufactured thereby. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5758 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to public holidays. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 38 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, approved March 21, 1928, as heretofore amended, defining the powers of the council of said city and relating to when certain ordinances shall be published and take effect. |
| An ACT to prohibit the sale or exchange on the open market, within this State, of goods, wares and merchandise prepared or manufactured by convicts or prisoners of other states; and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent therewith. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1935, and the thirtieth day of June, 1936. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2095 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to prisoners on the State convict road force, so as to make the same applicable to prisoners in chain gangs, at the State Farm, and at the State Industrial Farm for Women, and so as to provide for certain credits against unpaid fines and costs. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4950 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when and how persons held in custody, or under a capias pro fine, may be hired out to pay fine and costs. |
| An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Independence, in the county of Grayson, approved March 27, 1934, by adding thereto a new section numbered 7-a, providing how persons convicted of violating town ordinances may be required to work on the streets and roads in said town. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, so as to provide for working certain prisoners confined in jail. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 13, 15 and 16 of an act entitled "An act to regulate the employment of children; to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact Chapter 210 of the Acts of 1908, regulating the employment of children in certain employments, approved March 13, 1908, as amended by Chapter 339 of the Acts of 1914, approved March 27, 1914, approved March 14, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to permit children over the age of twelve years to work in fruit and vegetable canneries and to transmit merchandise or run errands, approved March 20, 1920, and to repeal Sections 1809 to 1816, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, Section 1810 of which was amended by an act approved March 25, 1920," approved March 27, 1922. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Altavista, Campbell 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. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1835 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the Department of Mines, so as to change the name of the said department to the Division of Mines to conform to existing law, and to provide that the State Mine Inspector shall for certain purposes be the inspector of weights and measures and be vested with the authority, and charged with the duties, of inspectors of weights and measures; and to appropriate money to pay the costs and expenses incident to the discharge of his duties as such. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6438 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to lien of employees of transportation, etc., companies, so as to make it apply to individuals, partnerships and unincorporated associations as well as incorporated companies. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6555 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to exemptions of wages of a laboring man who is a householder or head of a family, so as to increase the amount of such exemptions in certain cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact. Section 1838 and Section 1887, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, Section 1838 being in relation to maps of coal mines, and Section 1887 being in relation to mines to which the chapter on mining shall apply. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1939, and the thirtieth day of June, 1940, 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 act, and all parts of all acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency. |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $220,000.00, or so much thereof as may be required, for the biennium beginning July 1, 1938, for the purpose of paying retirement compensation to judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and of other courts of record, and to members of the State Corporation Commission, who may retire, and to supplement other appropriations made for the purpose of paying salaries of such judges and of members of the said commission. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5758 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘‘An act to provide a new charter for the town of Woodstock and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government of the town of Woodstock and all power heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office, to be legal and valid.”’ |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gate City, in the county of Scott, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide for a referendum. |
| An ACT to authorize the Commissioner of Labor to permit females to be employed for hours in excess of those otherwise prescribed by law, under certain conditions, for temporary periods in time of war; and to prescribe penalties. |
| 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, as heretofore amended, and to re-enact Section 15, Chapter 400, Acts of 1918, which became a law March 21, 1918, short title of which is “The Virginia Workmen’s Compensation Act.” |
| An ACT to prohibit the use of certain mercurial carroting solutions in the preparation of hatters’ fur, and the use of certain hatters’ fur in the manufacture of hats, in the State of Virginia, and to prescribe penalty for violation. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6454 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to liens of landlords and farmers for advances to tenants and laborers. |
| 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 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. |
| Proposing amendment to Section 73 of the Constitution of Virginia: |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2096 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the use of certain misdemeanants on the State convict road force, so as to provide for a per diem allowance to such misdemeanants. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 217 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 13, 1942, relating to regional jail farms, so as to limit such farms to male prisoners, to provide that prisoners may be required to work at such farms, and to prescribe how such prisoners may work out certain fines and costs. |
| An ACT to amend Chapter 400 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, which became a law without the approval of the Governor March 21, 1918, known as "The Virginia Workmen’s Compensation Act', as it has been amended from time to time, in order to extend the scope of the law to include certain coverage of occupational diseases; and to such end, to amend and re-enact, as previously amended, Section 2, by re-enacting the matter of Section 2, with certain amendments, as follows: Section 2, and five new sections numbered 2-a, 2-b, 2-c, 2-d and 2-e; and to add to the law eleven other new sections numbered 2-f, 2-g, 2-h, 2-1, 2-j, 2-k, 2-1, 2-m, 2-n, 2-0 and 2-p. |
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