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Legislative Amendments

1902/1904
An ACT to provide for making enumerations to determine the population of a town or city, as provided for by section 116 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 168, 169, 170, 175, and 180 of chapter 13 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2216, as amended by an act approved January 17, 1896; 2224, as amended by an act approved December 17, 1895; 2225, as amended by an act approved January 28, 1896; 2228, 2240, 2250, and to repeal section 2233 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled 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 17 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to provide a method of voting by ballot”
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1104 and 1105 of the Code of Virginia, relative to incorporated companies, so as to provide for the licensing of foreign corporations, and to prescribe penalties against such corporations transacting business in the State without a license, and to provide for the enforcement of such penalties.
An ACT to require clerks of circuit courts of counties and corporation or hustings courts of cities to send to the secretary of the Commonwealth certified lists of county, district, and city officers, and to provide a penalty for failure to do so.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2914 of the Code of Virginia in relation to 'where bond filed with justice to be returned.'
An ACT to facilitate the committees of the general assembly in their work of adjusting the general 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 amend and re-enact chapter 48 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing qualifications of bank directors.
An ACT to provide for the election of commissioners of the revenue for the counties of the State.
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 amend and re-enact section 60 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved April 2, 1902, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 59 and 60 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved December 23, 1891, entitled an act amending sections 58, 59, and 60 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the reapportionment of representation in the general assembly,” and to amend and re-enact section 61 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the act approved November 20, 1902, entitled “an act to provide for the payment of pensioners under the pension act of April 2, 1902, whose claims were not approved and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior to September 1, 1902.”
An ACT to repeal and amend various sections of the Code of Virginia regarding the duties and jurisdiction of circuit and city courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 623 of the Code of Virginia
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 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 sections 3, 8, 9, and 17 of an act entitled an act to regulate the holding of city and ward primary elections in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, approved March 5, 1894, and to repeal section 4 of said act.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to provide for making enumerations to determine the population of a town or city, as provided for by section 116 of the Constitution of Virginia,” which became a law without the governor’s signature May 21, 1903.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections 194, 197, 198, and 199, and to repeal sections 202 and 208 of chapter 15 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and direct the register of land office to make certain improvements to the hall of the house of delegates and to provide therefor.
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 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 provide for the preservation of the permanent registration rolls, and for the transfer of voters on said rolls, and for copy to be used for all purposes with same effect as the original.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2357 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the collection, classification, and publication of the general statutes of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to prohibit the auditor of public accounts from paying to certain officers and employees of the general assembly any warrant for compensation from the time between the 28th of July, 1902, and 12th of November, 1902.
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 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 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 10th day of November, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3116, 3117, 3120, 3122, as amended by act approved February 29, 1892, and as further amended by act approved February 12, 1894, 3129, 3130, 3131, 3132, 3134, and 3135 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled “an act to prescribe what judges may practice law,” approved March 2, 1888, and to repeal section 3109 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the payment of the work of indexing the act and journals of the present session of the general assembly when said work completed.
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 prohibit the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors
An ACT concerning corporations.
An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.
An ACT to ascertain and fix the term of office of the judges in the twenty-four judicial circuits of the State, respectively, at the first election by the general assembly under the Constitution which came into effect at noon on the 10th day of July, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved November 20, 1902, entitled an act to provide for the payment of pensions under pension act of March 7, 1900, whose claims were not approved under provisions of act of April 2, 1902, and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior to September 1, 1902.
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections 2 and 4 of an Act Entitled 'An Act to Appoint a Board of Trustees for the Virginia Female Institute at Staunton, and to Provide for the Future Government of Said Institute'
An ACT to put into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment and organization of the “State Corporation Commission,” its jurisdiction, powers, functions and duties; the qualification of the members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its offices, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders, findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and judgments, ana its expenses, ete.
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 repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May 23, 1887, entitled “an act to provide a modified oath to be taken by persons elected or appointed to any post or office under the laws of the Commonwealth who are unable to take the oath required under the acts of assembly approved April 21, 1882.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3231 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and reenact sections 3744 and 3745 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the giving or acceptance of a bribe, and the punishment therefor.
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 making it a misdemeanor to employ children under the age of twelve years in manufacturing, mechanical and mining operations, and to regulate the hours of employment of children between the ages of twelve and fourteen, and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of said act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, and corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection “sixteen” of section 5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to construction of the words “city,” “town,” and “council.”
An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled “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,” approved March 2, 1903.
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 officers are in no wise interested," approved February 2, 1892
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $1,200 for payment of the stenographer employed in the Campbell investigation.
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 appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of removing the remains of the wife and of the daughter of James Monroe from Oakhill, in Loudoun county, to Hollywood, in the city of Richmond.
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 repeal an act entitled 'an act providing for the compensation and mileage of members, committees, officers, and employees of the general assembly, and for the payment of the same'
An ACT to repeal an act entitled ‘an act to impose a tax on corporations chartered and organized as social clubs desiring to keep liquors at their club house or other place of meeting, to be sold or given away to the members of the corporation for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to prescribe the mode of paying such tax and penalty for its non-payment; to define the privileges of such clubs, and to prescribe in what cases their charters may be revoked.”
An ACT to authorize the taking of a census in the city of Manchester.
An ACT to confer upon all the city and municipal corporations additional and full power to regulate and control the sale of wine, malt liquors, ardent spirits, and all intoxicant liquors.
An ACT to provide for the payment of pensioners under pension act of March 7, 1900, whose claims were not approved under provisions of act of April 2, 1902, and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior to September 1, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to commencement of statutes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3316 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the legislature of Virginia, approved January 25, 1890, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3316 of the Code of 1887, in regard to the removal of causes,” and to repeal section 3315 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act of the general assembly, approved March 5, 1894.
An ACT to repeal sections 1440, 1480 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 14, 1890, and 1513 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act approved May 15, 1903, entitled “an act to put into operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the composition and organization of the State board of education; the election and appointment of its members; their qualifications; powers and duties of the board; expenses, etc.”
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 providing for the compensation and mileage of members, committees, officers, and employees of the general assembly, and for the payment of the same.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 1747 of the Code of Virginia, regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in Virginia
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 repeal sections 63 and 66, and to amend sections 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, and 85, as amended by act approved May 26, 1903, of chapter 8 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for defending certain suits, involving the validity of the Constitution, or Article II thereof, brought against members of the constitutional convention, the governor, and other officers.
An ACT to empower Samuel N. Hurst to publish new and revised editions of his annotated pocket Code of Virginia.
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.
1904
An ACT to make the 5th day of April, 1904, being the day selected for the launching of the battleship “Virginia,” a legal holiday in this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 340 of the acts of 1903-’4, relating to the time statutes take effect and the publication thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 10, 1903 entitled 'an act vesting in the circuit courts of this Commonwealth, and in the judges thereof, the jurisdiction and powers now vested in and exercised by the duties imposed upon the county court or the judges thereof under the laws of this State or under any will or writing,' which is chapter 401 of the acts of the special session of 1902 and 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of chapter 2 and sections 40 and 63 of chapter 5 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3122 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to repeal sections 1334, 1335, and 1336 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the city of Roanoke to donate or sell real estate owned by it to any State institution.
An ACT to repeal chapter 817 of the acts of the general assembly of 1897-’98, approved March 3, 1898; chapter 298 of the acts of the general assembly of the extra session of 1901, approved February 16, 1901; chapter 4 of the acts of the general assembly of 1895-6, approved December 14, 1895; chapter 299 of the acts of the general assembly of 1895-6, approved February 12, 1896; chapter 405 of the acts of the general assembly of 1901-2, approved March 29, 1902, and chapter 688 of the acts of the general assembly of 1897-’8, approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.
An ACT to provide for evidence of the prepayment of State poll taxes by voters transférred from one city or county to another city or county.
An ACT to provide for the extension of the corporate limits of cities and towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in reference to when and where writings admitted to record, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the Code as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 10, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the Code, in relation to certificates of acknowledgment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 273 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the superintendent of public printing.
An ACT to repeal sections 1185, 1186, 1187, and 1188, section 1189, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1892, and by an act approved January 31, 1898; sections 1190 and 1191, section 1192, as amended by an act approved February 3, 1888, and by an act approved February 28, 1890, and by an act approved March 6, 1896, and by an act approved February 26, 1900; sections 1193, 1194, and 1195, section 1196, as amended by an act approved February 3, 1888, and by an act approved February 28, 1890, and by an act approved March 5, 1896, and by an act approved February 26, 1900; section 1197, as amended by an act approved February 2, 1892, and by an act approved February 24, 1898; sections 1198, 1199, 1200, and 1201, section 1202, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1898; sections 1203, 1204, 1207, 1214, 1215, 1216, 1217, 1218, and 1219, section 1220, as amended by an act approved December 20, 1897; sections 1221, 1222, 1223, 1225, and 1226, section 1227, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1890; sections 1228 and 1229, section 1230, as amended by an act approved February 12, 1894; sections 1231, 1232, and 1233, section 1234, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1892; sections 1235, 1237, 1240, 1241, and 1242, section 1243, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1898, and by an act approved March 2, 1900; section 1244, section 1245, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved March 3, 1898; sections 1246, 1247, 1248, 1249, 12450, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1255, and 1256 of chapter 51 of the Code of Virginia relative to works of internal improvement.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059 of the Code, as amended by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled ‘an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, and 3067 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060, and 3062 of the Code as heretofore amended,” and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, in so far as the same applies to the Fifth, Seventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first judicial circuits.
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 amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled “an act to provide for the appointment of police justices, and their jurisdiction in cities of a population of ten thousand and 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 3804 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to repeal chapter 630 of the acts of the general assembly of!
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3055 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 585 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 581 and 585 of the Code of Virginia, approved December 10, 1903.
1906
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 108 of the Code of Virginia so as to authorize county, city, and district officers who are appointed to fill vacancies to qualify in the same manner as if elected by the people.
An ACT to repeal sections 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the charter of the town of Windsor.
An ACT to prevent fraudulent erasures, alterations, secreting, and destruction of bills and resolutions, and amendments to bills, pending before the general assembly, or either branch thereof, or of any committee of either or both branches, or of any bill of the general assembly.
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 to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Troutdale, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 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,