Legislative Amendments

1906
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second clause of section 185 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact the second clause of section 183 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances,” approved March 7, 1904.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of an auditing committee and to appropriate money to pay the expenses of same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 92 and 98 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 18, 1903, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May 20, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to election of State, county, district and city officers, and the terms of their offices, and filling vacancies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 8 of an act concerning public service corporations
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 173 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, so as to empower clerks of city councils, common councils, and boards of aldermen to administer oaths and take affidavits.
An ACT to provide for the transition of municipalities from the grade of cities of the second-class to the grade of cities of the first-class.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia in relation to public holidays
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 section 78 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved December the 8th, 1903, entitled 'an act to repeal sections 63 and 66, and to amend and re-enact sections 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, and 85, as amended by an act approved May 26, 1903, of chapter 8 of the Code of Virginia,' in relation to 'duties of registrars; their pay.'
An ACT concerning the bureau of insurance, and insurance, guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, security, and fraternal benefit companies, associations, societies, and orders, and imposing penalties for its violation.
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, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, in so far as the same applies to the sixteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 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.”
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal year ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1907, and the 29th day of February, 1908.
An ACT to provide that a publication of the Code of Virginia, as amended to the adjournment of the General Assembly of 1904, together with all other statistics of a general and permanent nature including the tax bill then in force, published by the authority of the general assembly and edited by John Garland Pollard, shall be received in the courts of this Commonwealth as prima facie evidence of the statutes therein published.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30 of chapter 5, of an act entitled “an act concerning corporations,” which became a law on the 21st day of May, 1903.
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the several counties of this Commonwealth to appropriate county funds to secure historical and physical descriptions of their respective counties, and to edit and publish the same, for distribution at the Jamestown tercentennial exposition and elsewhere, and to select and prepare exhibits of the industrial, agricultural, mineral, and commercial resources of their respective counties, to be exhibited at the Jamestown tercentennial exposition.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 11 of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke,” in relation to the appointment of certain municipal officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1429 of the Code of Virginia as the same has been amended by chapter 509 of the acts of 1902
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 empower boards of supervisors to enact special and local legislation to protect the public roads and bridges from obstruction, encroachment, and injury, to make violations of such enactments a misdemeanor, and providing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 50 of chapter 7 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the apportionment of representation in congress,” approved February 15, 1892.
An ACT to provide for the purchase and distribution to certain officials copies of Waddey’s guide to magistrates, and to appropriate money for that purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 108 cf the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 7, 1884, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1903, as amended by an act approved December 18, 1903.
An ACT to amend section 2536 of the Code of Virginia relating to the probate of copy of wills, proved without the State; to what extent admitted to probate, and validating the orders of the clerk of any court admitting such wills to probate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1429 of the Code of Virginia as the same has been amended by an act approved February 19, 1906.
An ACT to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to provide for the organization and government of incorporated communities which shall become cities of the second class under the provisions of section 1013b of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 1 of section 184 of the Code as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “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 appropriate money to pay for twenty-five copies Pollard’s Code purchased for the use of the general assembly.
An ACT to authorize the several cities and towns of this Commonwealth to appoint officers and employees in addition to those expressly authorized in their respective charters and provide for the filling of vacancies in all municipal offices for the unexpired term.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3507 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the clerks of courts of appeals and to printing records.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109 of the Code.

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 206 of the Code of Virginia relative to the duties of the clerk of the house of delegates.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Branehville, Southampton county, Va.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, approved December 26.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled: An act to provide for lists of all persons who have paid their State poll taxes, and for posting the same; and providing compensation therefor.
An ACT to authorize any railroad corporation chartered by the general assembly of the State of Virginia to surrender its entire legislative charter, and to take a new charter under the present Constitution and general laws of the State, relinquishing special privileges and special disabilities, and providing the manner for so doing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1906, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1904, to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 28, 1903, in relation to changing the boundaries of wards in cities, and for increasing and diminishing the number thereof, to provide for the appointment of commissioners to rearrange and revise registration books therein, and to validate and establish the wards in those cities which have been re-districted into wards since the adoption of the present Constitution, and to prevent gerrymandering.
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 secton 3532 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by acts approved February 24. 1890, and March 4, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3532 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fees of a jailor,
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend section 3 of an act amending the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 207 of the Code of Virginia relative to the duties of the keeper of the rolls.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1556 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the distribution of certain State publications.
An ACT to authorize the superintendent of public printing to furnish certain persons with copies of house and senate bills, advance sheets of house and senate journals, acts of assembly, ete., to collect fees therefor, and to report collections to the auditor of public accounts.
An ACT to require all eleemosynary institutions, hospitals, colleges, universities, prisons and reformatories to report monthly to the auditor of public accounts in detail the manner in which all funds received by said institutions from the Commonwealth are disbursed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164, of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2418 of the Code of Virginia, concerning disposal of interest in real estate; estates by deed may commence in futuro; and executory limitations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3358 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the sinking fund commissioners of the State of Virginia to convert the stock and dividend obligations of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company into stocks of said company under any new charter or amendment of its charter which said company may hereafter acquire.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 210 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the duties of the clerks of the senate and house of delegates.
An ACT to declare of what protest is prima facie evidence.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth of section 184 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sub-section 184, concerning the salary of members and officers of the general assembly,” approved March 6, 1900, and as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances,” approved February 7, 1903.
An ACT to provide for the disposal of copies of the debates of the Constitutional convention of 1901-1902 to certain public libraries, educational institutions and State officers, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield, and to grant a new charter to the said town, which took effect February 17, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 15, acts of assembly, 1906-7, entitled ‘an act to provide for the expense of removing, supporting and maintaining insane persons—how paid,” approved March 10, 1906.
An ACT to repeal section 1508 of the Code of Virginia in reference to division superintendents endorsing and depositing warrant with treasurer.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the Code as heretofore amended, in relation to the pay of judges, clerks and commissioners of elections.
An ACT providing for additional terms of the circuit court in the city of Norfolk.
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, 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, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, as to the times for holding regular terms of the courts in the several circuits, and giving jurisdiction to courts during recess, whether adjourned for the purpose of opening or holding another term, or part or portion, there or otherwise, which the judges of the circuit courts now have in vacation.
An ACT to validate the acts of the councils of such of the towns in the State of Virginia as may be invalid by reason of the failure to conform to the general law in the election of town officers.
An ACT to provide for the office of secretary of Virginia military records, prescribing his duties, and for collecting materials for the History of Virginia in the Civil War; and to appropriate the sum of $5,000 annually for the years 1908 and 1909, to defray the necessary expenses of the office.
An ACT to authorize and empower incorporated educational institu-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3500 of the Code of Virginia relating to the fees of notaries and justices of the peace as heretofore amended.
An ACT to define and regulate the sale, distribution, rectifying, manufacture and distilling of intoxicating liquors and malt beverages, and to impose license taxes thereon, and to prohibit the drinking of ardent spirits on railroad trains, and to repeal sections 141 and 142 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act approved April 16, 1903, 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 February 19, 1904, and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental ex-
An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of Bedford City, in the county of Bedford, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Bedford City, and in the event of a majority of those voting at said election for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter, within said town, or within one mile of its limits, the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms or corporations, except as provided herein, and to provide for a second election to be held after two years from the date of the first election.
An ACT to provide for the organization and government of incorporated communities which have no corporation courts, contain less than ten thousand inhabitants, and are hereafter declared to be cities of the second class.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 852 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as heretofore amended, relating to salary of clerk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 62 of the Code prescribing the qualifications of voters in special and local option elections.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 306 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to prohibit the granting of charters to banks having a minimum capital stock of less than ten thousand dollars.
An ACT amending and re-enacting section 3456 of the Code of Virginia, 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3361 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 3 of section 184 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sub-section 184, concerning the salary of members and officers of the general assembly
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, so as to authorize the signing of bills of exception, either in term time or vacation, approved February 15, 1901, so as to make the same apply to criminal as well as civil cases, approved December 31, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved March 24, 1903, entitled: 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, and to grant immunity to witnesses.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 46, article 4, of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, approved December 26, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact-an act approved March 7, 1906, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county,” approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county, and directing the disbursement of the county road fund.
Joint resolution proposing amendment to section 50 of article 4 of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment, and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia

1910
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 repeal chapter 482 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 21, 1900, acts 1889 and 1900, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act to provide for working roads in Russell county, approved February 25, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 11, 14 and 17 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities.
An ACT to continue in force and to again appropriate the ten thousand dollars heretofore appropriated by an act approved March 9, 1908, entitled an act to make an appropriation to provide for the erection of a monument on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa., to commemorate the services of Virginia troops in the battle on that field (no part thereof having been expended up to this time); also to approve the design of the monument selected by the committee appointed under said act of March 9, 1908, and to authorize and direct said committee to contract for the erection of said monument and to appropriate the further sum of forty thousand dollars for that purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908.
An ACT for the relief of the estate of James E. Phillips, deceased.
An ACT to provide for submission to the people for approval and ratification the proposed amendments to section 46 of article 4, section 50 of article 4, sections 110, 119 and 120 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to prohibit the use of opium in the manufacture of cigarettes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 43 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and 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 amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1904, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and also to amend and re-enact section 3059 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, 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, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, as to the times for holding regular terms of the courts in the several circuits, and giving jurisdiction to courts during recess, whether adjourned for the purpose of opening or holding another term, or part or portion there or otherwise, which the judges of the circuit courts now have in vacation, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and as further amended by an act approved February 26, 1910.
An ACT to provide for the organization and government of incor-porated communities which shall beecome hereafter cities of the second class, as provided by law.
An ACT to authorize cities of this State to make additional allowance or compensation to commissioners of the revenue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1875, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1879, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30, 1875, and as further amended by an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to amend section 7 of chapter 316 of the Acts of Assembly, session of 1874-1875, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, and as further amended by an act approved March 2, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1104 and 1105 of the Code of Virginia, so as to require foreign corporations to procure certificates of authority from the State corporation commission for the privilege of transacting business in this State, and to prescribe penalties against such corporations for failure to do so, and to provide for the enforcement of such penalties, as amended by an act approved May 15, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437 of the Code of Virginia having reference to the periodical appointment of assessors to assess lands and lots, as amended by subsequent acts.
An ACT to require the licensing and adequate inspection and supervision of persons and corporations conducting maternity hospitals and lying-in asylums, and of those engaged in placing destitute children in family homes.