Legislative Amendments

1901/1902
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act amending sections 58, 59, and G0 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to a reapportionment of representation in the General Assembly

1901es
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the circuit courts in the fourth judicial circuit since the addition thereto of the city of Lynchburg and county of Campbell, as provided by an act approved February 5, 1896, approved February 9, 1898, so as to provide for a term of the circuit court of Henry on the 15th day of December of each year.
A JOINT RESOLUTION of the two houses of the general assembly of Virginia authorizing and directing the secretary of the commonwealth to furnish the librarian of congress certain of the state publications necessary to complete the files in said library.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 8, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1900, in reference to the pay of judges of election so far as it relates to the counties of Prince William, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Warwick, Prince George, Surry, Amherst, Greene, Madison, Campbell, Tazewell, Scott, Mecklenburg, Amelia, Buckingham, Cumberland, Prince Edward, Russell, Culpeper, Pittsylvania and Frederick so as to include the county of Nelson.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the code of Virginia in reference to clerks’ offices,” approved February 5, 1900, so as to close the clerks’ offices of the courts of Norfolk county and city of Portsmouth on all legal holidays.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 42, 45, and 50, of the charter of the city of Manchester as enacted by an act of the General Assembly, approved March 20, 1874, providing for the submission of the same to an election by the qualified voters of said city, and providing for the proper operation of said amendments, and enact- ing a schedule in relation thereto.
An ACT to correct the error in chapter 1225, Acts 1899, as to the name of H. L. Bowen.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted, so as to give Rappahannock county five commissioners in chancery.
An ACT allow the Chuckatuck, Newport News, and Norfolk steamboat company to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek, in Nansemond county, Virginia.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the “Peoples Telephone Company,” and to give it additional powers.
An ACT for the relief of Harry Howard, of Newport News, Virginia.
A JOINT RESOLUTION etecting an electoral board for Warwick county.
An ACT to amend section 848 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the compensation of supervisors, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 26, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 13, 1697, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 17, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 6, 1900, fixing the per diem and mileage of supervisors in certain counties of the State.
An ACT to provide for the selection of delegates to the constitutional convention, for the convening of said delegates, the organization of the said convention and for submitting the revised and amended constitution to the people of the State of Virginia for ratification or rejection.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of an act approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order, building, and maintaining the public roads and bridges in the county of Scott, the opening and establishment of new roads, and to provide the funds therefor, approved February 14, 1898.
An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to acquire or acquire an interest in extensions and additions to its system of railroads within and without this state, and to acquire, hold, or guarantee the stock and bonds, or either, of other corporations.
An ACT to repeal an act approved February 27, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to establish a corporation court for the city of Bristol, in Washington county, approved February 12, 1890.
An ACT to provide for the necessary traveling expenses of the commissioners for the promotion of the uniformity of legislation in the United States, appointed by the governor in pursuance of an act approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to authorize the governor to appoint a board of commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, approved November 24, 1884.
An ACT to convert the woman’s club of Richmond, Virginia, from a joint stock company into a social corporation without stock, to extinguish the stock of said corporation, to declare those now entitled to membership to be members of said corporation, to continue and to validate said corporation, its acts and contracts, and to enlarge its powers.
An ACT to repeal section 6 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 1, 1867, entitled an act to incorporate the Valley railroad company.
An ACT to require the board of pharmacy of Virginia to register as pharmacists certain persons who failed to avail themselves of the requirements of the act of March 3, 1886, as amended by the act of March 3, 1887, and to permit such persons so registered to practice pharmacy in the state of Virginia as registered pharmacists and without examination.
An ACT giving the consent of this state to the acquisition by the government of the United States of so much land as may be necessary for a public building in the city of Charlottesville.
An ACT to amend an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a method of voting by ballot, approved March 6, 1894, by suspending the operation of section 20 of said act at the election to be held on the fourth Thursday in May, 1901.
An ACT to legalize primary elections and conventions for the nomination of candidates by any political party in the county of Augusta and city of Staunton.
An ACT for the relief of Drs. Robert Glasgow, J. H. Mapp, and A. D. Estill.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, so as to authorize the signing of bills of exceptions, either in term or in vacation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 2, 1892, and by an act approved January 11, 1896, relating to the licensing of persons to practice law in this state.
An ACT to validate all conveyances of land in this State heretofore made under powers of attorney executed by a married woman jointly with her husband.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the Code of Virginia in reference to clerks’ offices, approved February 5, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the Code of Virginia in reference to clerks’ offices, so as to close the clerks’ offices of the courts of Norfolk county and the city of Portsmouth on all legal holidays, approved February 9, 1901, so as to close the clerks’ offices of the county of Shenandoah on all legal holidays.

1902/1903
An ACT to prevent disturbance of registrars in the discharge of their duties, and to define the punishment therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia of 1887 in relation to elections of State, county, district, and city officers, and the terms of their offices, and filling vacancies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 587 as to licenses revoked by local option elections.
An ACT defining the powers and duties of the board of agriculture and immigration, and providing for an election of a commissioner of agriculture and immigration, and for repealing all acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to allow the auditor of public accounts to pay officers and employees of the State at stated periods,
An ACT to fix the times of holding regular sessions of the boards of supervisors of Warren, Page, Clarke, Shenandoah, and Frederick.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3090 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by the act of the general assembly approved January 18, 1888, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, so as to place the county of Craig with those counties west of the Blue Ridge, whose causes in the court of appeals are heard in Staunton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 70 of the Code of 1887 as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, as amended by act approved March 1, 1892, relating to appointment of visitors, and by act approved February 23, 1894, giving the assent of Virginia to certain endowments provided by act of congress, and by act approved March 5, 1896, amending sections 1586 and 1592 of the Code in relation to payment of interest and declaring the board of visitors.
An ACT to carry into effect an ordinance of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia, which assembled at Richmond on the 12th of June, 1901, entitled “an ordinance to provide for the registration of voters under this Constitution and prior to 1904,” so far as legislative action may be necessary, and to make it applicable to towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 232 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, in relation to the appointment of directors and surgeon of the penitentiary.
An ACT to provide for making enumerations to determine the popu-
An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 2260 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relating to proceedings for divorce.
An ACT extending the terms of the various officials of the several incorporated towns of this Commonwealth to conform to the Constitution.
An ACT providing mileage to the members of the general assembly, clerks, officers, and pages of same for attending the reconvening of the general assembly in the city of Richmond on the 12th day of November, 1902.
An ACT to provide for the appointment every two years by the governor of three commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States, to define their duties, and to authorize the payment of their traveling expenses.
An ACT to provide for the extension, through the State Corporation Commission, of charters of corporations which have complied with the provisions of the ordinance adopted by the Constitutional Convention on the 26th day of June, 1902.
An ACT to give the consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the acquisition of real estate in the city of Fredericksburg for a site for the Mercer monument, and authorizing the city to grant and condemn land therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 125 and 129 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to receiving and canvassing ballots and names of voters entered on poll-books.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2847 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1892.
An ACT to provide for defending certain suits, involving the validity of the Constitution, or Article Il. thereof, brought against members of the constitutional convention, the governor, and other officers.
An ACT to empower the county court of Campbell county to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected upon the public square, at the county seat thereof.
An ACT to provide for the appointinent of registrars for the several towns in the Commonwealth.
An ACT to facilitate the committees of the general assembly in their work of adjusting the genera! statutes to the new Constitution by providing for the collection, classification, and placing in convenient form for each committee such general statutes as pertain to the subjects assigned to it.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to appropriate and contribute money for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county.
An ACT authorizing mutual life insurance companies chartered in this State to re-incorporate as stock companies under their existing corporate names.
An ACT to empower the county court of King William county to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected upon the public square at the county seat thereof,
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; it they disagree, whose opinion to prevail.
An ACT to repeal section 83 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appeals from registrar; how case made up and heard.
An ACT to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances.
An ACT to authorize and appoint a special joint committee of the house and senate to investigate leasing out barren area and exhausted oyster bottom within the Baylor survey.
An ACT to amend and reenact sections 242. 243, 244, 245, 246, 250, 252, and 267 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to proluibit the auditor of publie aeeounts from paving to certain olicers and emplovees of the general assembly any warrant for compen- sation from the time between the 28th of July, 1902, and l2th of November, 1902.
An ACT regulating the grant of franchise, et cetera, by cities and towns, and providing for the advertisement thereof and the public reception of bids therefor, and providing for the enforcement of the obligations of the grantees, grantors or owners of franchises, and providing penalties for the usurpation of or violation of the terms and provisions of franchises.
An ACT to allow a manufacturer of wines who shall have a manufactory in any county, district, or corporation which may vote or has voted against liquor license therein, to sell therein such wines, provided delivery thereof be made to a common carrier to be transported out of such county, district, or corporation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1022 of the Code of Virginia in relation to registrars and judges of election for the towns of this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 67 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 5, 1900, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 67 and 71 of the Code of 1887, in relation to the appointment of registrars and the registration of voters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact. an act entitled an aet to provide for a method of voting by ballot, approved March 6, 1894,” and to repeal section 20 of said act.
An ACT to appropriate the stm of $1,200 for payment of the steno-
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 section 2 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to lay off, designate, and survey the natural rocks, beds, and shoals in Nomini and Currioman bays, in the county of Westmoreland, and to include the same in the original geodetic survey of the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to provide for the substitution of the State corporation commission in the place and stead of the board of public works in all proceedings at law or in equity, to which the said board of public works was a party when it ceased to exist.
An ACT to raise revenue for 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.
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.

1902/1904
An ACT to carry into effect an ordinance of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia, which assembled at Richmond on the 12th of June, 1901, entitled ‘an ordinance to provide for the registration of voters under this Constitution and prior to 1904,’ so far as legislative action may be necessary, and to make it applicable to towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke,” so as to consolidate the offices of city clerk and city auditor, and to prescribe the duties of the city clerk.
An ACT defining the powers and duties of the board of agriculture and immigration, and providing for an election of a commissioner of agriculture and immigration, and for repealing all acts in conflict with this act.
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 3086, 3093, and 3095 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to prevent merchants engaged in buying and selling merchandise, while indebted, from selling their entire stock of merchandise in bulk or selling the major portion thereof otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade.
An ACT to promote pure elections, primaries, and conventions, and to prevent corrupt practices or bribery in same; to limit the expenses of candidates, to prescribe the duties of candidates, and providing penalties and remedies for violations of this act, and declaring void under certain conditions elections in which the provisions of this act, or any of them, have been violated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2260 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relating to proceedings for divorce.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2847 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the title of an act entitled 'an act to prohibit the establishment and location of small-pox hospitals, or pest houses, within fifty yards of any street, public road, public park, or public cemetery, in any city, town, or county of the Commonwealth, or to hereafter establish any such hospital, or pest house, within one hundred and fifty yards of any public road, public park, or public cemetery, in any county of the Commonwealth'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3436 of chapter 168 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3436 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the jurisdiction of injunctions,” approved March 6, 1900.
An ACT to amend section 3382 of chapter 166 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend subsection (f) of section 1 of chapter 2, subsection (h) of section 1 of chapter 3, and section 28 of chapter 5 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act concerning corporations,” which became a law May 21, 1903.
An Act to provide for the appointment every two years by the governor of three commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States, to define their duties, and to authorize the payment of their traveling expenses.
An ACT to repeal chapter 153 of the acts of assembly of Virginia
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
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 581 and 585 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to limit the time in which warrants drawn by boards of supervisors, district school boards, and circuit courts shall be paid, and to repeal an act entitled “an act limiting the time in which warrants drawn by the supervisors, school boards, and county boards shall be paid,” approved January 20, 1898.
An ACT to remove the political disabilities of George T. Croxton, of the county of Essex.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 125 and 129 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to receiving and canvassing ballots and names of voters entered on poll-books.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Greenesville county to appropriate and contribute money to the Citizens’ Monument Association of Greenesville county, for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code as amended by an act approved January 22, 1894, in relation to the number of commissioners of the revenue, so as to provide for one commissioner for each magisterial district of the county of Caroline.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 157, 158, 159, 160, and 161 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to repeal sections 1068 and 1069; section 1070, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1890; sections 1071 and 1103 of chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Campbell county to appropriate and contribute money to the Citizens’ Association of Campbell county, for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact title 10, chapter 19, sections 270 to 286, inclusive, as amended by an act approved May 23, 1887.