Law Enforcement

1895/1896
An ACT authorizing board of supervisors of Accomac county to levy a tax on real and personal property in Island district, for the erection of a lock-up on Chincoteague island, Accomac county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 525, 3518 and 3519 of the code of Virginia, in relation to fee bills.
An ACT to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
An ACT to dispense with formal warrants in certain cases before the police justices and justices of the peace.
An ACT to compensate justices of the city of Norfolk for acknowledgment of bail in certain cases.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the salary of the police justice of the city of Norfolk
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled “ an act to incorporate Bondtown, in Wise county,” approved February 24, 1894.
An ACT to punish the illicit traffic in intoxicating liquors in the counties of Wythe, Carroll and Grayson.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Saxis in the county of Accomac.
An ACT to add independent sections to an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Fredericksburg, approved March 23, 1871.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 87 of the charter of the city of Richmond as amended by an act approved February 25, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 15, 33, 87 and 94 and subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Mount Crawford, in the county of Rockingham.
An ACT to require sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this state to report to the courts of their respective counties and cities the number of prisoners confined in their respective jails.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3164 of the code of Virginia, in reference to allowance to jurors and requiring lists certified by the judge of the court and the clerk thereof to be sent to the treasurer of the county or corporation and to the auditor of public accounts immediately after the adjournment of any court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780 of the code in relation to carrying concealed weapons.
An ACT to provide a quarantine for convicts in the penitentiary and prisoners in the jails of the commonwealth, in case of any contagious or infectious diseases, breaking out among convicts and prisoners dangerous to the public health.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 of an act approved February 29th, 1892, acts of 1891 and ’92,chapter 439, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 46 of chapter 4 of an act approved February 12th, 1890, entitled an act to change the name of Goodson to the city of Bristol, Virginia, and to provide a new charter for the same.
An ACT to impose a special license on dealers in pistols and pistol-cartridges in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
An ACT to authorize the Crockett Springs company to appoint police agents.
An ACT to provide for the better preservation of order at race-courses, fair-grounds, base-ball and foot-ball parks, and other places where athletic sports are held.
An ACT protecting and enlarging the powers of the Pulaski agricultural and mechanical society.
An ACT to consolidate in one act all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to create a new charter for said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act. entitled "An act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, and by an act approved the 17th day of March, 1876, and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act approved February 25, 1892, and an act approved March 8, 1894."
An ACT requiring superintendent of penitentiary to keep account of all expenses incurred in delivering convicts to the penitentiary.
An ACT to provide a charter incorporating the town of Eastville,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3810 of the code of Virginia, entitled appointment of police for religious meetings.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2109, code of Virginia, relating to penalty for unlawful fishing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 5, and 6 of an act approved November 24, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, in the county of Southampton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3890 of the code of Virginia, in relation to offences committed without and made punishable within the state where prosecuted, and making liable to punishment persons committing robbery beyond the state and bringing the stolen property within the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3969 of the code of Virginia, with reference to when a justice to discharge an accused person who is before him for examination, and what to do when there is sufficient cause to charge him.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8991, code of Virginia, 1887 entitled “Name of prosecutor to be written on indictment, &c., for mis- demeanor when required to give security for costs.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved Fehruary 23, 1888, as amended by an act entitled “ an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Waynesboro,” approved January 26, 1992, and to authorize said town to issue bonds for water and cemetery purposes.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Belle Haven, Accomac county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3515 of the code of Virginia in relation to fees of officers.
An ACT for the relief M. P. Fulcher of the county of Floyd.

1901/1902
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15, 84, and the first sub-division of section 93 of the charter of the city of Richmond, in regard to terms of members of the city council, and in regard to the police department and fire and fire-alarm departments.
An ACT to allow H. L. Pearson, of the city of Richmond, to take the law examination.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2169 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to payment of fines to oyster inspectors or police captains.
An ACT to authorize and empower corporations or persons operating electric railroads or railways in the city of Alexandria and from the city of Alexandria to any point in the county of Alexandria, and from the city of Alexandria to any point in the county of Fairfax, to provide for the separation of white and colored passengers traveling upon cars and coaches upon their respective lines of railroad or railway, and to require passengers to obey the instructions and directions of the conductors or managers of such cars or coaches.
An ACT for relief of R. F. Ragland.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth county to, in their discretion, pay the sheriff the amount annually required to heat and light the county jail.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 15 of an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Manassas, approved April 2, 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1884, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1894, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and to enact two additional sections thereto, numbered 28 and 29.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved March 8, 1873, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Louisa, Louisa county, Virginia.
An ACT amending the charter for the town of Bond Town, in Wise
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the fees of the sheriff or sergeant, coroner, crier, or constable, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Windsor, in the county of Isle of Wight.
An ACT for the relief of R. I. Orange, deputy sheriff of Prince Edward county.
An ACT to authorize the constable of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, to perform the duties of constable within the Charlottesville magisterial district, in the county of Albemarle, whenever there is no constable in said magisterial district.
An ACT vesting conductors and motormen on street cars in the counties of this State with police powers, and authorizing them to carry concealed arms while on duty.
An ACT to authorize the police commissioners of the city of Rich-
An ACT to suppress tippling houses, the illegal and unlawful sale or traflic in ardent spirits, in the county of Mathews, and to provide a penalty therefor.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 374 of the Code, in relation to the appointment, conduct, and organization of courts-martial and courts of inquiry.
An ACT to regulate and fix the fees of the sheriff and his deputies for services rendered in guarding juries in criminal cases.
An ACT to reimburse T. R. Tillett, sergeant of the city of Roanoke, out of the public treasury for certain expenditures hy him on behalf of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county.
An ACT for the relief of D. P. Eanes
An ACT requiring the Richmond and Petersburg Electric Railway Company to provide separate accommodations for the white and colored passengers upon its line between Hull street, in the city of Manchester, and Old street, in the city of Petersburg, and conferring upon its conductors and motormen powers of conservators of the peace and policemen upon its cars and right of way.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Wakefield.
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.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Mineral, in the county of Louisa.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Clifton, in Fairfax county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3706 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the punishment for house-breaking.

1901es
An ACT to authorize the justices of the peace of the Washing-
An ACT to incorporate the town of South Hill, Mecklenburg county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to increase
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the separate accommodation of white and colored passengers in the sitting, sleeping, and eating apartments of steamboats plying in the waters within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth, and to provide certain police powers for captains, pursers, and other officers in command to enforce such regulations and to prevent and suppress disorderly conduct on said boats
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2168 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the disposition of fines.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith
An ACT to prevent expectorating on the floors and aisles of churches, and in other places of public worship, and to provide the penalty therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to tax sale of liquor in said county
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 3, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the salary of the police justice of the city of Norfolk, approved February 18, 1896,” and also in relation to the said police justice and to the clerk of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk in connection with fines imposed by said police justice.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, Tazewell county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 554 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia 1899-1900 entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 65 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick,” approved February 27, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3537 of the Code of Virginia, with regard to allowances to deputy sergeants of certain cities.
An ACT to incorporate the town of La Crosse, Mecklenburg county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Warwick, in their discretion, to pay the sheriff of said county annually such an amount as may be necessary to cover the costs of fuel for heating the county jail.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to issue new bonds, etc.

1902/1903
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 5, and 11 of an act approved March 4, 1898, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Buchanan and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the towns of Buchanan and Pattonsburg, in the county of Botetourt, approved January 19, 1882, and amendatory thereof, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and enact an act entitled an act to enlarge the powers of the town of Buchanan, in the county of Botetourt, approved March 3, 1890, approved February 25, 1892.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a bail commissioner for the several counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4110, 4113, 4114, 4115, 4143, 4154, 4155, 4156, 4157, 4168, 4172, 4173 of the Code of Virginia, and section: 4123, 4124, 4159, 4162, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4123, 4124, 4152, 4159, 4160, 4161, 4162, 4163, 4164, 4167, and 4173 of chapter 202, Code of Virginia, in relation to rules governing the management of the penitentiary, approved February 19, 1892, and section: 4133, 4160, and 4167, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4130, 4132, 4133, and 4136 of the Code of Virginia and sections 4137 and 4138 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, and sections 4160 and 4167 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, relating to rules governing the penitentiary, approved March 18, 1892, of title 55 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the organization, government, and discipline of the penitentiary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3960 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts 1895-’6, page 365, in relation to bail.
An ACT to provide a rule of evidence in prosecutions under sections
An ACT to provide for the support, maintenance, and instruction of the Virginia volunteers, and for their maintenance and pay when called into service in aid of the civil authorities or by the governor and commander-in-chief, and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to allow notaries or other officers who hold stock in companies to take acknowledgments to deeds or other writing which said companies execute, provided said notaries or other officer are in no otherwise interested,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 85 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved July 28, 1902, making registrars conservators of the peace.
An ACT to provide for the prosecution of criminal cases removed from the State to the Federal courts under section 643 of the revised statutes of the United States, and for the payment of the costs thereof.
An ACT to provide for the payment of the cost and expenses of prosecuting a certain criminal case removed from the county court of Patrick county, and of a certain criminal case removed from the county court of Wythe county, to the circuit court of the United States for the Western district of Virginia, under section 643 of the revised statutes of the United States.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 85 of the Code of Virginia: 1887, making registrars conservators of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of the charter of the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874.
An ACT to prevent disturbance of registrars in the discharge of their duties, and to define the punishment therefor.
An ACT to provide for the raising and training of bloodhounds for police purposes.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the governor to grant a conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution

1902/1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 890, 891, 896, and 912 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of police justices and their jurisdiction in cities of a population of ten thousand or over, in which, by the terms of their charters, no provision is made for the election or appointment of police justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1681 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900, in relation to commitment certain persons to insane hospitals.
An ACT to prohibit advertising of any offer to obtain divorces.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 884 and 885 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to vagrancy, so as to define who are vagrants, and to punish persons convicted of vagrancy as for a misdemeanor, and to repeal section 886 of the Code of Virginia.