Legislative Amendments

1914
An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider containing over one-half of 1 per cent, alcohol within 1 mile of any church in the town of Front Royal, Warren county, and to provide a penalty for violation thereof.
An ACT relating to and providing for the incorporation of co-operative associations.
An ACT to provide for the calling and hoiding of an election upon the question of prohibiting the manufecture for sale and the sale of intoxicating liquors, to prescribe for qualification of voters in said election, to declare the effect of the result of such election, and to pro- vide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.
An ACT to simplify and expedite the administration of justice in this State by the elimination of useless technicalities and vexatious delays and permitting amendments under certain conditions in causes hereafter instituted.
An ACT to provide for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people in accordance with the amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
An ACT to provide for the immediate admission, without an order of commitment, into the State hospitals or other State institutions for the insane, or insane persons who are in urgent need of immediate treatment and care, or who are dangerously insane and a menace to the public safety, and for their subsequent commitment, and to provide for the conveyance of such patients to the hospital.

1915
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 25, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act in regard to the notice by publication of the codification of the ordinances of the city of Norfolk, approved March 10, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 relating to the issuance of fire insurance policies through an underwrighters’ agency, and providing a penalty for its violation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30 of chapter 1, and section 13 of chapter 2 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 extend to national banks the rights, powers, privileges and immunities conferred upon trust companies under an act entitled an act to provide how trust companies may be incorporated, and to provide for general powers for the purpose of doing a trust business in this State, in addition to a general banking business.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of sixty thousand dollars to pay the per diem, mileage, etc., of members, officers, employees, etc., of the general assembly of Virginia, now in extraordinary session.
An ACT to provide for the rearrangement of voting precincts and to change the names of the same whenever, by annexation proceedings, portions of a county have been taken within a city, and providing how such proceedings shall be paid for.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider containing over one-half of one per cent. alcohol within 144 miles of the public school building in the town of Strasburg, Shenandoah county, Virginia.
An ACT prescribing the manner in which cities in this Commonwealth having a population in excess of 75,000 inhabitants and less than 100,000 inhabitants may request the general assembly to grant a special form of government for any such city under section 117 of the Constitution, providing for the holding of special elections in relation thereto, and to repeal, so far as it may be in conflict therewith, section 14 of an act of the general assembly approved March 138, 1914, and entitled an act to provide for a change in the form of government of cities having a population of less than 100,000 and of towns, and to provide in what manner such cities and towns may adopt such form of government.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 446 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in reference to the compensation of land assessors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act authorizing cities and towns to impose taxes for their purposes at the respective rates now authorized to each of them by laws, plus an additional rate of twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed value of such property as they are not prohibited from taxing by general law and except upon property upon which a maximum rate for local purposes is fixed by a general law, approved the 18th day of February, 1915, so as to add an additional section thereto providing an emergency clause.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 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, approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904, as amended by an act approved January 31, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1914, defining incomes and tax on incomes.
An ACT to create a State advisory board on taxation and county and city boards of review of assessments, to define the powers and duties of such boards, to fix the compensation of their members, and to appropriate money to carry out the provisions of this act, to provide for the review of reports of purchases by merchants and the review of the annual returns and assessments of intangible personal property, income and money by certain officials and fixing their compensation therefor, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, and to repeal an act entitled an act to create a State advisory board on taxation and county and city boards of review of assessments, to define the powers and duties of such boards, to fix the compensation of their members and to appropriate money to carry out the provisions of this act, to provide for the review of assessments on intangible personal property, income and money by certain officials, and fixing their compensation therefor, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, approved February 16, 1915.
An ACT to create a State Advisory Board on Taxation and county and city boards of review of assessments; to define the powers and duties of such boards; to fix the compensation of their members and to appropriate money to carry out the provisions of this act; to provide for the review of assessments on intangible personal property, income and money, by certain officials and fixing their compensation therefor and to provide penalties for the violation of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the time for collecting taxes accounted for by the city and county treasurers and not returned delinquent
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT declaring who shall be entitled to vote in any special election upon the question of the removal of a courthouse.
An ACT providing mileage to the members, clerks, officers and pages of the general assembly for attending the reconvening of the general assembly on March 8, 1915.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 450, 451, 456, 458, 462, 464, 466, 468, 471, 486, 487, 489, 491, 494, 496, 497, 498, 503, 504, 511, 520, 527, 548, 550, 553, 555, 556, 561 and 578 of chapter 24 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and to repeal sections 465, 502, 518, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 521, and 544 of the same chapter of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, said chapter 24 having relation to the assessment of taxes on persons and property, licenses and so forth.
An ACT providing for the expenses of the members of the general assembly in attending the extended session beginning on March 8, 1915.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45, 46, 46%, 46% (a), 4614(b), 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51(a), 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 8&5, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 9214, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 97%, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 104, 105, 106, 106%4, 107, 108, 109, 10944, 110, 111, 11144, 112, 1138, 118%, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 118(a), 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 1380, 131, 18382. 133, 1384, 1385, 136, 137, 138, 140 and 141 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution

1916
An ACT requiring committees of persons lawfully confined in certain institutions of Virginia, who have no kin in the relation of husband or wife or child dependent on them, and who possess estates to pay to the steward of the institution in which they are confined such incomes as may arise from their estates to provide for such persons extra comforts not provided by such institutions in the ordinary maintenance of inmates.
An ACT to abolish the bill of exception and to prescribe the means whereby in the trial court the record of the cause in any judicial proceeding at common law, or in any kindred proceeding in a suit in chancery, shall be ascertained and authenticated; to prescribe certain duties of the trial judge and of the clerk of the trial court, in respect to such record; and to prescribe in certain respects how such record shall be certified upon a writ of error, or supersedeas, to a final judgment, or upon an appeal from a final decree, in the cause and to make the provisions of this act apply to all cases now pending in any court of this State and to any case in which bill of exception has been filed within the time required by law with the trial judge, but not signed by him for any cause, and extending the time within which said bill of exception or certificate may be signed.
An ACT prescribing the manner in which cities in this Commonwealth having a population in excess of 65,000 inhabitants and less than 100,000 inhabitants may request the general assembly to grant a special form of government for any such city, under section 117 of the Constitution, providing for the holding of special elections in relation thereto.
An ACT to invest in boards of supervisors of counties adjointing and abutting a city with a population of 125,000, or more inhabitants, 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 authorize the governor to classify the character and nature of discharge from the service of the Virginia volunteers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 12, 1908.
An ACT to give the courts of record the power to suspend sentence in convictions of larceny, forgery or uttering or attempting to employ as true such forged writing, knowing it to be forged, during good behavior and the effect thereof.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1912, entitled an act to establish on the farm of the Virginia State epileptic colony, the Virginia colony for the feeble-minded, and to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony.
An ACT to repeal section 2467 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the admission to record of certain writings.
An ACT to prohibit discrimination by common carrier, innkeeper, proprietor, or lessee of any place of public amusement, or any agent or representative of such, against persons lawfully wearing the uniform of the military service of the State or United States, and providing penalties therefor.
An ACT to provide for a temporary adequate administration and government of the local affairs of the unincorporated community known as Hopewell and adjacent territory, now a portion of the Bland magisterial district, in the county of Prince George, until such time as it becomes a city.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 50 of article IV. of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to make it unlawful to use the common or “roller towel” in any hotel, railway train, railway station, public or private school, public lavatory or washroom, and to provide punishment therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of the act of the general assembly entitled an act to create the Virginia normal school board; to define its powers and duties, and to abolish the boards of trustees of the State female school at Farmville, the State normal and industrial school for women at Harrisonburg, the State normal and industrial school for women at Fredericksburg, and the State normal and industrial school for women at Radford, Virginia,
Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to section 117 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia
An ACT to provide for the organization and government of incorporated communities becoming cities of the second class by the increase of their population to the number of 5,000, or more, when they have been duly ascertained and declared to be cities in the manner provided by law.
An Act to Authorize the Road Construction Board of Plymouth Magisterial District, Lunenburg County, to Expend Unexpended Balance from Sale of Bonds for Permanent Road Improvement
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to re-quire the licensing and adequate inspection and supervision of persons and corporations conducting maternity hospitals and lying-in asylums, and of persons receiving, boarding and keeping children, not relatives; prescribing rules for placing out and for reports : penalty.
An ACT providing how the cities of this Commonwealth having a population in excess of one hundred thousand inhabitants may request of the general assembly of Virginia to grant to any such city a special form of government.
An ACT to authorize the director of the legislative reference bureau to employ a sufficient number of clerical assistants to perform the work of the bureau and the stenographic and clerical work of the members of the general assembly during the present legislative session and to purchase codes, acts, journals, files and other books and equipment for the immediate use of said bureau; to appropriate money for such purposes and for the purpose of supplementing the former appropriation for salaries and expenses in connection with said bureau for the current fiscal year.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 819 of the Code, as heretofore amended, as to where officers shall reside.
An ACT to define intra-state messages and what is held not to be such a message.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887) in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled, an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns, approved May 20, 1903, by amending section 1015-a so as to reduce the minimum number of members of the board of aldermen and of the common council in cities.
An ACT to amend section 37 of an act approved January 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, Virginia, as further amended by an act approved March 13, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the eighth sub-section of section 5 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the computation of time.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to validate acknowledgment of deeds of trust taken by notaries public and justices of the peace who were trustees in said deeds, approved March 16, 1902, so as to include deeds of trust acknowledged before commissioners in chancery.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2820 ef the Code of Virginia in relation to the rate of interest allowed to bankers, brokers and corporations.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a special joint committee on publications
An ACT to provide for the assessment of lands in the Commonwealth at other than semi-decennial years when certain conditions arise.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 78 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the duties and compensation of registrars.
An ACT to provide for the Sport nent of a police justice for the city of Alexandria and his jurisdiction.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, 11, 24, 54, 56, 60, and 61 and to repeal 62 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896, as amended, and to provide for the adoption by the qualified voters of the change in form of government and for a special primary election for mayor and councilmen.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section seven hundred and fifty-three of the Code of Virginia, in relation to State depositories.
An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia, taken by commissioners of eeds appointed by governors of States other than the governor of the State of Virginia.
An ACT providing for the service or execution by the high constable of any summons, order, attachment, or other process, entered or issued by civil justices elected for cities containing over 45,000 inhabitants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10, 11, 46, 47, 68 and 118% 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, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof, and to add three new sections thereto designated respectively, section 86% providing for a license tax on collection agencies, and sections 86% and 36% providing for the taxation of water, heat, light and power companies.
An ACT to provide for the indexing of deeds and other records in ledgerized general index books.
An ACT authorizing commitment of persons charged with crime, who are suspected of being feeble-minded, to city or county farms, and providing for length of sentence and examination.
An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of counties and cities the question of interstate and intrastate shipment of ardent spirits for beverage purposes, and prohibiting the transportation, bringing into or receiving of ardent spirits for beverage purposes in any such county or city as shall by majority vote under this act declare against interstate and intrastate shipment of ardent spirits for beverage purposes; and prescribing penalties therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to establish and maintain a system of public high schools and to appropriate money therefor
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Shoemaker college to convey the real estate owned by Shoemaker college, a corporation, to the district school trustees of Estillville magisterial district of Scott county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved March 12, 1912, and entitled an act to provide for designation by cities and towns of segregation districts for residence of white and colored persons; for the adoption of this act by such cities and towns, and for penalties for the violation of its terms; and to ratify and confirm certain ordinances relating to the segregation of races heretofore passed by certain cities and towns of this Commonwealth.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on economy and efficiency to make a survey of the State and local governments of the Commonwealth of Virginia and to submit a report to the next general assembly of Virginia.
An ACT to allow E. W. Mouring to build a wharf in the York river, upon a site leased by him from the county of Gloucester.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 301, 304, 305, 314, 323, 3387, 348, 366, 368, 372, 372a, and 374, chapter 21 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the public defense. (H. B. 323.)
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gretna, Pittsylvania county, and to repeal all other acts ee with this
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 8 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol
An ACT to authorize and require the re-payment pro rata to banks which have paid the examination fees required by section 1169-b of the Code of Virginia of moneys collected by the banking department of the State corporation commission in excess of $3,000.00.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 450 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to enable voters, required by their duties to be absent from their voting precincts on the day of election, to vote by registered mail.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fisca! years ending respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1917, and the 28th day of February, 1918.
An ACT to allow the Richmond Yacht Club, incorporated, to build a wharf in James river, on its property in Chesterfield county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend section 122a and 122b of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 10 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to general and special elections; when and where to be held; regulation for their conduct and government; compensation for services in election
An ACT to prevent undue publicity of income tax returns.

1918
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to commissioners of revenue.
An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Dillwyn, in the county of Buckingham, the question of repealing the charter of said town.
An ACT to provide for the aeceptance of the terms and provisions of an act of congress, approved July 11, 1916, entitled an act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 11, 18, 18a, 18b, 19g, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 88, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89. 90, 91, 92, 98, 94, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107 and 108, of chapter 101 of the acts of the general assembly, approved May 24, 1870, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended; to add to said charter, as a part of the charter of the city of Richmond, sections to be Kngwn as sections 18c, 18d, 18e, 27a, 27b, 27¢c, 27d, 28a, and Slu, and to repeal sections 13b, 30u, 30b, 30c, 30d, 30e, 30f, 30g, 30h, 301, 30j, 93a, 93b, 93c, 938d, 98e, 93f, 938g, 93h, 931, 93), 93k, 931, 93m, 93n, 9380, 9383p, 93q, B8r, 938s and 109 of said charter, the general object of which amendments, added sections and repeal of sections is to require claimants for damages occurring by reason of the negligence of the city to give notice of such claim; to limit the time in which suit shall be brought to recover land opened to and used by the public as a street or alley; to divide the government of the city of Richmond into six departments; to provide for the appointment, qualification and duties of the head of each of said departinents; to enlarge the powers and duties of the mayor; to create a bvard to be known as the advisory board of the city of Richmond, and define their powers and duties; to provide for the better assessment, collection and levy of taxes: to authorize the council of the city of Richmond to pass ordinances deemed necessary to cure defects in the making of such levies and assessments of taxes; to abolish the board known as the administrative board of city of Richmond; to abolish the board known as the board of fire commissioners of the city of Richmond, and to provide for the holding of an election by the people to finally determine whether or not the said amendments shall become effective as a part of the charter of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1908, and entitled an act giving to cities and towns upon leasing or purchasing gas, electric and water companies operating in territory contiguous to its corporate limits the right to continue to operate, maintain and extend same.
An ACT to aménd and re-enact section 89 of an act entitled an act to provide for the settlement, registration, transfer, and assurance of titles to land, and to establish courts of land registration with jurisdiction for said purposes, and to make uniform the laws of the States enacting the same
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing seventy thousand 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1910, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1912, by (1) increasing the salary limit of said civil justice; (2) providing for interrogatories under executions issued by said civil justice, and (4) giving said civil justice certain powers in matters of contempt; (5) by enlarging the jurisdiction of said civil justice in interpleader proceedings and otherwise, approved March 10, 1914.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 5, 1915.
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 making it unlawful for a person, firm or association to transact business in this State as a corporation, or to offer or advertise to transact business as a corporation without first being incorporated.
An ACT to authorize cities in this Commonwealth of fifty thousand inhabitants or more, according to the last census of the United States, to increase the salary of the civil justice of said city to an amount not to exceed four thousand dollars per annum, during the term of office of said civil justice.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 24-a of an act approved March 20, 1914, printed as chapter 805, acts of assembly of Virginia, session 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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, approved March 14, 1912.
An ACT to prescribe who may administer an oath or affidavit to the purchaser of fuel, provisions, or other thing, and the effect of such oath or affidavit.
An ACT prohibiting the use of public drinking cups.
An ACT providing for expenses of the members of the general assembly in attending the extended session, beginning on March 18, 1918.
An ACT to appropriate $780.65 to reimburse Marshall M. Milton for expenditures made and bills incurred by him in the organization and recruiting of the fifth company, Virginia coast artillery, between the time of its muster Into State service, July 2, 1917, and its muster into federal service July 25, 1917.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia of 1904 as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1908, as amended and re-enacted March 17, 1910, as amended and re-enacted February 18, 1915, in relation to qualifications of disability of persons holding office under United States so as to allow rural carriers of United States government to be appointed and act as notary public.
An ACT to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain 'securities' herein defined by requiring an inspection thereof, providing for such inspection, supervision and regulation of the business of any person, association, partnership, or corporation, engaged or intending to engage, whether as principal, broker or agent, in the sale of any such securities in the State of Virginia as may be necessary to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of said securities, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059-h of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled 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 und 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 reenact 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 5062 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, approved March 4, 1912.