Law Enforcement

1902/1904
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 sections 718, 721, 723, 738, and 743, and to repeal sections 735 and 737 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2599 ; section 2600, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 3, 1898, and sections 2601 and 2602 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3972 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to how a justice may associate justices with him; if they disagree, whose opinion to prevail.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3174, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3174 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to clerks of courts.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 890 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of the charter of the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 125, acts of assembly, session 1895-’96, entitled “an act to require sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this State to report to courts of their respective counties and cities the number of prisoners confined in their respective jails,”
An ACT to repeal so much of an act approved December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, as repeals section thirty-five hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section thirty-five hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the raising and training of bloodhounds for police purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3207 and 3208 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1903, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and reenact sections 927, 929 as heretofore amended, 930 and 934 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3676 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to kidnapping and the punishment therefor.
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact the Act Authorizing the Governor to Grant Conditional Pardons to Persons Confined in the Penitentiary
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 812. 813, 814, 815, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, and 824 of the Code of Virginia.
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 provide for the appointment of a bail commissioner for the several counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 305, acts of assembly 1897-’8, entitled “an act to require the clerks of the county and corporation courts of this State to report to their respective courts a list of all fines reported by justices of the peace under section 718 of the Code of Virginia, what lists shall contain, and to require the auditor of public accounts to furnish blank forms upon which such lists shall be made.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how a chancery cause submitted for decision in vacation, how the decree certified and entered, its effect
An ACT providing that all dogs in this State which have been assessed with a license tax
An ACT providing for the appropriation of $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the cost of the completion of a fire-proof shell building, including heating, plumbing, etc., at the penitentiary.
An ACT pyYescribing the cases in which the governor shall have power to remit fines and penalties, the rules and regulations under which the same may be done, and how such judgments for fines, penalties, and costs may be marked satisfied upon judgment lien dockets.
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 amend and re-enact section 84 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 162, acts of assembly 1901-02, approved March 11, 1902, and to amend and re-enact sections 86 and 89 of said charter, all in regard to the police department of said city.
An ACT to provide a rule of evidence in prosecutions under sections
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1955, 1957, 1963, and 1967 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the maintenance and management of the State library.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3888, as amended by an act approved January 15, 1894; 3902, 3903, 3904, 3909, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898, and 3911, and to repeal section 3910 of the Code of Virginia.
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 amend and re-enact sections 3498, 3500, 3505, 3506, and 3508 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3515 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1896, and section 3519 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 18, 1896, and section 3528, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, and also to repeal section 3524 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1900, and section 3525 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia relating to State depositories.
An ACT to provide for the transfer of causes at law, presentments, informations, and indictments for misdemeanors and felonies pending in the county courts of the Commonwealth to the circuit courts of such counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 880, acts of assembly, session 1897-’98, entitled “an act to provide for the appointment of special prosecuting attorneys in proper cases.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3955 and 3956 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to process for the arrest of persons charged with crime.

1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10, chapter 4, of an act concerning public service corporations, approved January 18, 1904, providing for the appointment of police agents and making certain persons conservators of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4016 and 4018 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 2, 1904, concerning the trial of criminal cases and juries therefor.
An ACT to provide punishment for maliciously or unlawfully shooting at or throwing stones or other missiles at or against any train or car of any railroad or other transportation company, or at or against any vessel or river craft.
An ACT to require the owners or lessees of public halls, theatres, and opera houses to provide suitable and sufficient exits for the safety of persons attending all gatherings therein.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, in Tazewell county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24a of the charter of the city of Richmond, as prescribed by an act approved February 20, 1886, entitled ‘an act giving authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control roads to the Reservoir and Soldiers’ Home,’ so as to give authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control a road running east from the corporate limits along P street to Thirty-fourth street extended; thence northwardly along Thirty-fourth street extended to Oakwood avenue; thence along Oakwood avenue to Oakwood Cemetery; and to amend section 105 of the charter of the city of Richmond providing for the election of a police justice, as prescribed in an act approved July 11, 1870, amending certain sections of the city charter, so as to fix the term of office of said police justice at four years.
An ACT for working the roads and building and repairing the bridges in Caroline county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2942 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how and when warrant tried and judgment given, and in relation to how a justice may associate justices with him, and whose opinion to prevail.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3956 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1898, and by an act approved February 9, 1900, and by an act approved February 16, 1901; section 3958 and section 4106, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1894, and by an act approved March 5, 1896, and by an act approved February 9, 1898, and by an act approved March 5, 1900, and by an act approved December 10, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4048 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved January 2, 1904, which is chapter 553 of acts of the extra session of 1902-’03-’04, in relation to jurors in cases of misdemeanors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed March 21, 1836, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in the county of Botetourt (now in Roanoke county), and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to punish the wilful or malicious taking or removing of the waste or packing from out any journal box or boxes of any locomotive, engine, tender, carriage, coach, car, caboose, or truck used or operated upon any rail-road, whether the same be operated by steam or electricity.
An ACT to allow notaries public of this State under the age of twenty-one years to sue for fees due them as notaries.
An ACT to provide for official receipts for fines.
An ACT to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Parksley, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Damascus, Virginia.

1906
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a police justice or police justices in the counties having a population of fifty thousand or over.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Galax, in the counties of Grayson and Carroll.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of assembly, approved March 12, 1904, relating to official receipts for fines.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 24, 1874, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the third section of an act entitled an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 31, 1875.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections twenty, twenty-five, and twenty-seven of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas, approved March 24, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47, chapter 4, of an “act concerning public service corporations,” approved January 18, 1904, so as to require a separation of white and colored passengers on cars operated by electricity.
An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of Red Bank magisterial district, in which the town of Virgilina, in the county of Halifax, Virginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors there and in the event a majority of those voting at said election vote for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct the same, and to prohibit thereafter within said town the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as herein provided.
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 to make guards at the Jamestown exposition conservators of the peace.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county or council of any city or town to offer rewards for the arrest and conviction of criminals where the crime was committed within the limits of said counties, cities or towns.
An ACT prohibiting the corrupt influencing of agents, employees, or servants, and prescribing penalties upon persons using such influence and upon agents, employees, or servants submitting themselves thereto.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Dendron, in the county of Surry, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Independence, in Grayson county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1894, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex.
An ACT to allow continuances as of right to parties in any action or proceeding during the session of the general assembly when a member or officer of the general assembly has been employed or retained as attorney prior to the beginning of the session of the general assembly.
An ACT conferring upon the common council of the city of Winchester power to elect a police justice for said city, and defining his duties and jurisdiction.
An ACT to provide for the election and compensation of a police justice for the city of Staunton.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, Virginia, to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of establishing a system of water works and fire department, a jail, general lighting system, and street improvements for said city.
An ACT to prohibit the selling or furnishing of or having possession for the purpose of selling or furnishing blackjacks, brass knucks, and like weapons, and prescribing penalties therefor
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 36, 39, 40 and 41 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to incor-porate the town of Manassas, as 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; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1902."
An ACT to validate the acknowledgment taken by mayors and members of councils who are ex-officio justices of the peace, and whose power to take such acknowledgments has been questioned.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Cambria, in Montgomery county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 10 of an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the city of Danville.”

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3 .4. 5, 7. 8. 10, 11, and 12 of an act entitled: An act to incorporate the town of Fairfax, in the county of Fairfax, approved February 16, 1892, and to add thereto sections 13, 14. 15 and 16.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 of chapter 3, and sections 37 and 38 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter for the city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3508 of the fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1904, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Narrows, in Giles county, Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3922 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
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 repeal an act entitled: An act to provide for the appointment of a police justice or police justices in the counties having a population of fifty thousand or over
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Fredericksburg in relation to justices of the peace, police justice, constables, and the police of said city, and in relation to the mayor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3138 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the method whereby any citizen residing in this State may change his name; and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
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 3, 1898, and an act approved March 15, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1017a, in relation to powers and duties of the police force of the cities and towns of an act entitled 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, approved May 20, 1903.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Haymarket. in Prince William County, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to pay certain claims due the sheriff of Elizabeth City county by the State, which were stolen in 1892, and recovered in 1906, and therefore debarred by the statute of limitation.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3527 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3527 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to payment of fees to officers out of the treasury in criminal cases
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled, “an act to amend and re-enact section 3805 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to the disturbances of religious worship, and how the same shall be punished,” as approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to provide for defending certain suits in the United States courts by railroad companies, against the members and the clerk of the State corporation commission, involving important public interests, and for indemnity to the defendants in said suits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 3, 1898, and April 2, 1902, in relation to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers and constables.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Kenbridge, in the county of Lunenburg, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections or sub-sections 4 and 5 of an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact an act of assembly approved March 12, 1904, relating to official receipts for fines, approved March 14, 1906.
An ACT to regulate the sale of cider and other intoxicants in Arvonia village, Buckingham county, Virginia.
An ACT to require officers collecting taxes to furnish dated tax ticket or receipt therefor and providing punishment for failure so to do.