Legislative Amendments

1910
An ACT to regulate the storage and distribution of ardent spirits by persons, firm, corporation or clubs in the city of Winchester and the county of Frederick.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the making, changing and working of roads in the county of Rockingham
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 46 of article 4 of the Constitution of Virginia.

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 2 of section 2 and subsections 2, 5, 6, 8 and 10 of section 20, and sections 1, 5, 7, 19, 24, 25 and 26 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities, and to ratify and confirm notices already given which conform to the requirements of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the governor’s staff approved January 11, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1900, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 84 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896.
An ACT to amend section 80 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896.
An ACT to require the reporting of cases of infectious, contagious, communicable and dangerous disease to boards of health.
An ACT to provide, with certain conditions, a site for the erection of a Confederate memorial institute on a portion of the land in the western section of the city of Richmond, now the property of the State, and known as the Soldiers’ Home property.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Basic City, approved December 19, 1891.
An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of bargain and sale heretofore made and certified by an officer having the authority to take such acknowledgments, who is named as trustee in a deed of trust securing the deferred purchase money.
An ACT to provide for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the city of Roanoke, Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission upon the reform and revision of the tax and assessment laws of Virginia; to define its duties; provide compensation for its members, and to make an appropriation therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia, as previously amended, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191, chapter 154, of the Code, as amended by an act in force on and after February 2, 1892, and by an act in force on and after July 1, 1896, relating to how a person is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to license and regulate the running of automobiles, loco- mobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same, to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations, and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, loco- mobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same, to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules,
An ACT to establish a uniform system of bookkeeping and accounting and for the appointment of a State accountant, and defining his duties, and to provide for the examination of the books of all officers entrusted with the collection and receipt, custody and disbursement of the revenues of the State.
An ACT to authorize Albemarle county from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $30,000.00, for the purpose of uniting in the building, in the county of Albemarle, of State money aid roads, as well as roads where private individuals contribute one-half the cost thereof, and to assist in securing undergrade crossings under the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and the Southern Railway Company, respectively, in the county of Albemarle.
An ACT to repeal sections 873 and 874 of the Code of Virginia in reference to certain reports of the superintendent of the poor and the auditor of public accounts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1164, 1168, 1169 and 1170 and 1171 of the Code of Virginia, and to add independent sections thereto, so as to provide for the examination of banks and other similar institutions in this State, and to make certain general provisions and for the conduct of the business of banking, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof.
An ACT to amend an re-enact an act entitled an act to empower the circuit court and board of supervisors of any county to authorize and permit the erection of a Confederate monument upon the public square at the county seat thereof
An ACT to provide for the assessment and payment of omitted capitation taxes and of capitation taxes of persons who become of age after the first of February in any year, and to repeal chapter 342 of acts of assembly of 1902-1903-1904, entitled an act to prescribe the manner in which a duly registered voter who has not been assessed with his State capitation tax may pay same, and to prescribe penalties for failure on the part of clerks and treasurers to observe the provisions of this act, and to repeal chapter 26 of the acts of assembly of 1906, entitled an act authorizing and directing the auditor of public accounts to accept from the county and city treasurers of the Commonwealth all money collected by such treasurers as poll taxes under orders of courts since the first day of July, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled 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.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 50 of article four of the Constitution of Virginia.

1912
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to prohibit the granting of charters to banks having a minimum capital stock of less than ten thousand dollars, and providing how the same shall be paid in, and how branches thereof may be authorized, and providing that such banks shall be subject to local taxation in the county, city or town in which such branch is located,” approved March 16, 1910.
An ACT to provide for and authorize the purchase of at least one half of the property in the city of Richmond known as the Ford's hotel block, for the purpose of erecting a modern fire-proof building for the State library rooms, for the supreme court of appeals of Virginia, and for other buildings for the departments and agencies of the state.
An ACT to prevent deception in the sale of ice cream and to establish standards for the same, defining condensed milk and providing for its sale.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider and other drinks containing over one-half of one per centum alcohol within one mile of Elon Baptist church, in the town of Pamplin City, Appomattox county.
An ACT to regulate the sale of cider other than cider which is the pure juice of the apple, and mixtures, preparations and liquids containing alcohol in excess of one per cent. by volume, when sold to be used as a beverage, and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT regulating policies insuring against accidental bodily injury or disease issued in this State, and the companies issuing
An ACT to make vahd and effective deeds of corporations
An ACT to establish and regulate the holding of primary elections; to pay expenses of same; to secure the regularity and purity of the same, and to prevent and punish any corrupt practices in connection therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 2 and section 2 of chapter 6 of an act entitled, ‘‘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 forty-three of chapter five of the charter of Basic City, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 5 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations
An ACT to provide that the status of a bank as a State depository shall not be affected by a change of the name or merger of such bank with another bank, or because it shall be converted into a national bank.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 7, 1901, entitled 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 amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3526 of the Code of Virginia in relation to fees of attorneys for the commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section three thousand and fifty-seven 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 three thousand and fifty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled an act to repeal sections, three thousand and sixty-three, three thousand and sixty-five, three thousand and sixty-six, three thousand and sixty-seven, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections three thousand fifty-six, three thousand and fifty-seven, three thousand and fifty-eight, three thousand and fifty-nine, three thousand and sixty and three thousand and sixty-two 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 issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State.
An ACT to provide for submission to the people for approval and ratification the proposed amendment to section 117 of article 8 of the constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to re-enact section 50 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to representation of the State in the congress of the United states
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled '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 ninth day of January, 1906.'
An ACT to amend section 7 of an act to require all water companies, heat, light and power companies and gas companies to pay a franchise tax, a property tax, and to furnish certain reports to the State corporation commission
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3533 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to author-ize 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, etc., to collect fees therefor, and to report collections to the auditor of public accounts, approved March 5, 1908.
An ACT to provide for working roads in Stafford county.
An ACT to amend the divorce practice in the State of Virginia and to provide for the mailing of a copy of the order of publication against non-resident defendants to his or her last known place of address by registered mail at least fifteen days before the taking of depositions
An ACT to prescribe the effect as evidence to be given to deeds recorded prior to the year 1865.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1169 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1527 of chapter 67 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act of the general assembly, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact chapter 67 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public free schools in cities and towns, constituting separate school districts,” so as to provide that certain officers shall not be eligible to more than one office.
An ACT to invest in boards of supervisors of counties having a population greater than 300 inhabitants per square mile as shown by United States census, the same powers and authority now vested or hereafter conferred upon common councils of cities and towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections four, five, seven and eight of section 184 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 24, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sub-sections four, five, six, seven, eiyht and nine 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 eight of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage and other allowances, approved February 7, 1903.
An ACT to prevent the hearing of causes in the supreme court of appeals of Virginia on imperfect records and their decision on technical points without regard to the merits; and to simplify prace- dure in that court, in regard to bills of exceptions.
An ACT to provide for the resubmission to the people for approval and ratification of the proposed amendments to section 119 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia, in relation to commissioners of the revenue in the cities, and section 120 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia, in relation to treasurers in the cities, in order that there may be a separate vote of the people on each of said proposed amendments.
An ACT to provide for the payment to the Richmond Press of the balance due them for printing the Index to enrolled bills.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to amend and combine chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia, as amended as to section 277 of said chapter by an act approved January 165, 1890, and by an act approved January 16, 1892, and further amended by act approved May 13, 1903, and chapter 377 of the acts of assembly, extra session, 1887, entitled ‘an act to amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the public printing and binding and defining the duties of the superintendent of public printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the acts of assembly, 1879-1880, approved May 23, 1887, as amended as to section ten of said act by act approved March 5, 1888, and by act approved February 5, 1892, and as amended as to section 11 of said act by act approved February 24, 1890, and by act approved February 9, 1894, and to consolidate and re-enact the same into chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved December 31, 1903, as amended by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 273 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the superintendent of puble printing, approved March 15, 1904; as further amended as to section 273 by an act approved March 14, 1908; to repeal chapter 421, acts 1902-3-4 (extra session) in conflict; and to enlarge the duties of the superintendent of public print- ing and to provide additional help, when necessary, in the department of public printing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act relating to demurrers to evidence
An ACT to provide for the payment to Weymouth, Meister & Smethie of the balance due them for binding the index to enrolled bills.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections, 1168, 1169, 1170f and 1171 of an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 1164, 1168, 1169 and 1170 and 1171 of the Code of Virginia, and to add ‘independent sections thereto, so as to provide for the examination of banks and other similar institutions in this State, and to make certain general provisions and for the conduct of the business of banking, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof"
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 1 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law May 21, 1903, with reference to the decrease of outstanding capital stock.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to pro-
An ACT to require the State board of education to ascertain and report the amount paid by patrons of public schools for adopted school books.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to provide a new charter for the town of Liberty, to extend its limits and change the name to Bedford City, approved March 38, 1890; and to change the name of the town to Bedford."
An ACT to make an appropriation to provide for the relief of needy Confederate veterans who are not eligible to become inmates of the Soldiers’ home because of suffering with cancerous affection or contagious disease.
An ACT to prohibit the opening, repairing or maintaining of any street or alley through, on or over any lands within any of the cities or towns of this Commonwealth, which belongs to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to the Confederate Memorial Association, or any agency of the State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth,” approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 9, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualifications, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing section seven of chapter two of said city charter.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 117 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to prohibit the use of the name, photograph or likeness of any deceased officer of the Confederate army or navy as the name, brand, trademark or trade name for any intoxicating liquor or beverage, and providing penalty for violation.

1914
An ACT to prohibit the running at large of dogs, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend section 14, chapter 3, of charter of the city of Portsmouth, so as to authorize the city clerk to qualify members elected to the city council,
An Act to authorize and provide for the purchase of a suitable lot of land in close proximity to the capitol, in the city of Richmond, and to create a State building commission to act for the State, and to make an appropriation therefor.
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
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pearisburg, Virginia, and to repeal ail acts in conflict.
An ACT to permit counties having a population greater than 300 inhabitants per square mile, as shown by the United States census, to bond for 18 per cent. of the assessed value of real estate in such county.
An ACT to provide for the revision, codification and indexing, with suitable marginal citations and references, of the statute law of Virginia; for the printing, publication and disposition thereof; to appoint commissioners therefor and fix their compensation; to provide for the necessary clerical assistants to said commissioners; and to appropriate the necessary funds for said work.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191, chapter 154, of the Code, as amended by an act in force on and after February 2, 1892, and by an act in force on and after July 1, 1896, and by an act approved March 14, 1910, relating to how a person is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a joint committee on tax revision to consider and report on all questions pertaining to the assessment and collection of taxes, and the method of appropriating and expending the revenue of the State, and to provide compensation to be paid said committee and such clerks, stenographers and experts as may be employed by said committee, and other necessary expenses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Honaker, in Russell county
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections E, T and Z, of section 3059 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended
An ACT to clearly define the exemption of building and loan associations or companies from the payment of any State franchise tax
An ACT requiring all railway corporations or receivers or lessees operating a standard gauge line of railway in this State, to equip its locomotive engines with electric headlight, or other headlights of not less than 500 candle power with the aid of a reflector, and providing a penalty for violation of this act.
An ACT for the relief of J. W. Gordon, of Augusta county, Virginia, who was convicted of a felony in the courts of the Commonwealth.
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 counties of Fairfax and Alexandria, 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 counties of Fairfax and Alexandria, 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 counties of Fairfax and Alexandria, as further amended by an act approved March 2, 1892, and as further amended by an act approved March 10, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 207 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the duties of keeper of the rolls, as amended by an act approved February 3, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 46, article 4, of the Constitution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 256 of the acts of assembly, of 1855-6, as amended by chapter 123, acts of ussembly of 1883-4, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Orange, and to enable said town to borrow
An ACT to empower the banks chartered by the State of Virginia to become member banks of the federal reserve banks of the United States, as provided for by an act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for the establishment of federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes,” approved December 23, 1915.
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 sub-section-i of section 3059 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, has heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 11 of an act approved March 18, 1912, entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia, in conflict with the provisions thereof, especially an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 22, 1894, and sections 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751 and 1752 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, and all amendments thereto.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Eastville, Northampton county, Virginia
An ACT to authorize and direct the auditor of public accounts to prescribe and furnish forms of accounts for claims against the Commonwealth which are allowed from time to time by the several corporation and circuit courts in this State.
An ACT to repeal an act approved January 30, 1912, providing for remedy, by motion, after 30 days’ notice, for any tort.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to State depositories.