Libraries
| An ACT extending the Charter of the Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION for Removal of Books over the Portico of the Capitol |
| JOINT RESOLUTION Requiring the State Librarian to Mark and Place in the Attorney-General’s Office, a Volume of each of the Virginia Reports, ‘&c. |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Maury Literary Association in the town of Abingdon. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to Reprinting such of the Virginia Reports as are out of print. |
| An ACT making an Appropriation to Furnish aud Fit Up the State Courthouse. |
| An ACT Incorporating the Petersburg Law Association. |
| An ACT to Secure the Preservation of Historical Papers in the Capitol Building. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION Directing a Distribution of the New Code when Published |
| An ACT to Amend section fourteen of chapter nineteen of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, Directing the Committee on the Library to Make Purchases for the Library, |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Hunter Woodis Club of Norfolk. |
| An ACT Providing for the Preservation of Historical Papers |
| An ACT to Incorporate The Culpeper Library Association. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing and Directing the Removal of the State Library. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Odd Fellows Relief and Library Association, of the City of Staunton. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Royal Arch Masons’ Hall and Library Association of Farmville, Virginia. |
| An ACT to incorporate The Botetourt Library Company. |
| An ACT to limit expenditures from the library fund. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Commercial Club |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the United Ocean club of Norfolk city, approved February 20, 1878. |
| An ACT to incorporate the United Ocean Club of Norfolk city. |
| An ACT making further appropriation for the purchase of Books for the Law Library. |
| An ACT providing for the Reprinting and Binding of certain volumes of the Reports of the Coart af Appeals. |
| An ACT to dispose of certain Virginia Reports on hand and in the custody of the Librarian. |
| An ACT to provide additional accommodations for the Library. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke Library Association. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION to furnish certain Reports to Supreme Court of Appeals at Staunton and Wytheville. |
| An Act to incorporate the Jefferson Literary and Social Circle of the city of Richmond. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to donate to West Virginia certain Journals of the Virginia Legislature, Reports, and other documents, and to sell certain remaining volumes to public libraries. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section four of an act entitled an act extending the charter of the Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to dispose of certain Virginia Reports on hand and in the custody of the librarian |
| An ACT to incorporate the Mercantile club. |
| An ACT to adopt and provide for the publication and distribution of the Code of Virginia; for the preparation and publication of the explanatory notes of the revisors of the Code, and for furnishing the revisors with an office and stationery. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 331 of Acts of Assembly of 1887, entitled an act to adopt and provide for the publication and distribution of the Code of Virginia, for the preparation and gear of the explanatory notes of the revisors of the Code, and for furnishing the revisors with an office and stationery. |
| An ACT to incorporate the trustees of the Mu Sigma Rho Library association of Chesterfield county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of 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 of 1879-80. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Montgomery club of Radford, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of 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 of 1879 and 1880. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Beverley club. |
| An ACT to provide for the copying and preserving the old records of certain counties in the state of Virginia, and to make an appropriation therefor. |
| An ACT to provide for the erection of a fire-proof state library building, and also for the accommodation of the court of appeals, the auditor of public accounts, second auditor, treasurer, commissioner of agriculture, railroad commissioner, superintendent of public instruction, adjutant-general, superintendent of public printing and attorney-general and state laboratory. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Oronoco club, of Danville, Virginia. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Rosemary library. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk public library. |
| An Act to Provide for the Removal of the Several Offices of the Capitol and the Books and Documents from the Library to the New Library Building, and to Provide Suitable Furniture for the Same, and Also to Provide for Additional Officers in Said Building. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved Mareh 4, 1892, to incorporate the Rosemary library. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk public library, approved February 12, 1804. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Virginia club. |
| An ACT to authorize the Manassas district school board of Prince William county to receive donations of books and funds for a public library, and to provide suitable room and conveniences for same. |
| An ACT to authorize cities and incorporated towns to establish and maintain free public libraries and reading rooms. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 21 of the acts of the extra session of the general assembly of 1887, approved March 30, 1887, incorporating the Mercantile club, and to change the name to the Jefferson club. |
| An ACT to enable the city of Winchester to accept the bequest of John Handley, deceased, to validate the same, and provide for the administration thereof. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Blue Ridge club. |
| An ACT to allow the joint library committee and the general librarian of the commonwealth to permit the transfer of duplicate volumes in the state library to the library of the University of Virginia. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Bedford Library Association. |
| An ACT directing the library committee to have certain books, papers, and publications removed from the garret of the capitol, and authorizing the payment of cost of such removal, and directing the register of the land office to provide room for the storage of such books, etc., and appropriating money for such purpose. |
| An ACT to ratify the contract between the joint library committee of the general assembly of Virginia, dated February 21, 1900, and the Michie Company, and to provide for similar contracts with other persons. |
| A JOINT RESOLUTION of the two houses of the general assembly of Virginia authorizing and directing the secretary of the commonwealth to furnish the librarian of congress certain of the state publications necessary to complete the files in said library. |
| An ACT to amend and 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 maintenance and management of the State library. |
| An ACT to provide for the maintenance and management of the State library. |
| 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 to amend and re-enact chapter 18 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth and concerning the State and certain other libraries. |
| An ACT to provide for the protection of the books and other property in the State library, and to punish any person who shall wilfully remove the same therefrom or who shall fail to return the same after receiving notice from the librarian. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 249, 253, 254, 255, 258, 259, and 260 of the Code of Virginia, and an act amendatory thereof, approved January 2, 1904, in relation to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth and board of directors of the State library, and concerning the State and certain other libraries. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of Handley trustees to invest the money received by them in the purchase of debts which may be secured by lien on property in which the Handley fund may be in whole or in part invested, or to purchase the property itself, which it may be desirable that the Handley trustees should own for the purposes of their trust; to receive from the Handley executors the corpus of the residuum of said estate; to pay all expenses necessarily incident to the duties imposed upon said board by the act approved February 7, 1896, entitled 'an act to enable the city of Winchester to accept the bequest of John Handley, deceased, to validate the same and to provide for the administration thereof.' to construe said act as to the corporate powers given, and validate all acts of said board not done in accordance with the construction of said act herein given and give said board a corporate name. |
| AN ACT to make further appropriations of the public revenues for the two fiscal years ending February 28, 1907, and February 29, 1908 |
| An ACT to authorize the city council of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to use a portion of the lot in said city on which the city courthouse is located as a site for a public library building. |
| An ACT to authorize the State library board to charge fees for certain services rendered by the library staff, the said fees to be turned into the State treasury to the credit of the library fund. |
| An ACT to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural districts, and to appropriate money therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural dis- tricts, and to appropriate money therefor, approved March 14, 1908, so as to extend its provisions to the libraries of city schools. |
| An ACT to empower the State library board to exchange or sell duplicates in the Virginia State library. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Accomac county to levy a tax for the support and maintenance of a public library. |
| An ACT to require cities and towns in the State, institutions of learning, and eleemosvnary and other institutions to deposit two copies of each of their publications in the Virginia State library. |
| An ACT to require the clerks of the Supreme Court of Appeals, at its various places of session, to mail to the law librarian of the University of Virginia copies of all printed briefs and records filed in said court. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural districts, and to appropriate money therefor, approved March 14, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural districts and to appropriate money therefore, approved March 17, 1910. |
| An ACT to appropriate $4,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the State library board for the purpose of buying necessary metal filing cases and for properly protecting the valuable manuscripts in the department of archives in the State library building. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 254 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 8, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 249, 253, 254, 255, 258, 259 and 260 of the Code of Virginia, and an act amendatory thereof, approved January 2, 1904, in relation to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth and board of directors of the State library, and concerning the State and certain other libraries. |
| An ACT to allow public officials in Virginia, both State and local, to deposit records in the Virginia State Library. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 280 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended and re-enacted. |
| An ACT to authorize counties to establish county free libraries and reading rooms, and to provide for their operation and maintenance. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4482 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to erect a library building and auditorium as a memorial to the soldiers, sailors, marines and women who served in the World war, and to appropriate money therefor; to dedicate as and for public streets and highways upon certain conditions a strip of land fifteen feet in width lying on the southern side of the Capitol Square in the city of Richmond, for the widening of Bank street; to allow the library board to borrow money, issue bonds therefor and secure the same; and to allow the State board of education, from time to time, to invest the cash in hand of the literary fund in said bonds, approved March 25, 1920; and to provide for the disposition or use of the lot, square or parcel of land situated in the city of Richmond, described in the said act, and bounded by Eleventh, Twelfth, Capitol and Broad streets. |
| An ACT to provide libraries in the public schools and to repeal sections seven hundred and fifty-four, seven hundred and fifty-five and seven hundred and fifty-six of the Code of Virginia of nineteen hundred and nineteen. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow public officials in Virginia, both State and local, to deposit records in the Virginia State Library, approved March 15, 1918, and to authorize the State Librarian to remove such records to the State Library in certain cases. |
| An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to borrow a sum of money not exceeding forty-five thousand dollars and to issue bonds therefor to be used for the establishment of a public library and reading room in the said city. |
| An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Newport News to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $45,000.00, and to issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness therefor, for the purpose of purchasing property, if necessary, and for the establishment, construction and equipment of a public library and reading room in said city, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and the redemption of the principal thereof at maturity. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section (s) of section two of chapter sixty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Suffolk, and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the said city of Suffolk |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of chapter 13 of acts of 1924, entitled an act to authorize counties to establish county free libraries and reading rooms, and to provide for their operation and maintenance, approved February 13, 1924, so as to provide for the appointment of boards of seven in counties adjacent to counties having a density of population in excess of five hundred inhabitants per square mile. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to authorize counties to establish county free libraries and reading rooms, and to provide for their operation and maintenance |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 367 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the protection of books and other property in the State library, or other repository of public records; punishment for defacement, destruction and removal of same. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 611, 612, 617, 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 626, 629, 630, 642, 647, 649, 650, 651, 653, 655, 660, 673, 678, 682, 684, 695, 778 and 780 of the Code of Virginia as amended into law by ‘chapter 471 of the acts of 1928, which act revised, consolidated, amended and codified the school laws of Virginia relating to the public school system. [S B 168] |
| An ACT to provide for the sending of certain land books to the Virginia State Library. |
| An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on the distribution and disposal of surplus State publications; to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; and to appropriate funds for certain expenses in connection with the distribution and disposal of such publications. |
| An ACT to provide for the creation of a Library Building Commission; to prescribe the powers and duties of the said commission; to authorize the Governor to accept certain real estate on behalf of the Commonwealth; and to appropriate $5,000.00 or so much thereof as shall be necessary, for the purpose of securing architectural plans for said building and carrying out the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT to authorize and direct the Director of the Division of Purchase and Printing to furnish to the law school of any university or incorporated college whose law library has been destroyed by fire, out of any surplus copies on hand and available for distribution, certain copies of the Virginia Reports and of the Acts of the General Assembly. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 365 of the Code of Virginia, relating to free library systems for counties, so as to permit the governing body of any county in which no such system has been established to appropriate funds for the support and maintenance of any free library or library service operated therein by a company, society or association organized under the provisions of Chapter one hundred and fifty-one of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide for the erection of a suitable building to house the State Library, the State Law Library, the Supreme Court of Appeals, and the offices of the Attorney General; to that end to create a commission to be known as the State Library Building Commission; to provide for the appointment of the members of such commission; to prescribe the powers and duties of the said commission; to provide for the acceptance by the Commonwealth of certain land which may be conveyed by the City of Richmond, and for the erection thereon of a suitable building to house the State Library, the State Law Library, the Supreme Court of Appeals, and the offices of the Attorney General; and to continue the State Library Building Commission created by the General Assembly of 1936 until June 30, 1938, and to prescribe its powers and duties for the said period. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2725 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the power of boards of supervisors of counties with respect to county buildings, so as to authorize the board of supervisors or other governing body of any county to locate, build and keep in repair county buildings, and to locate and construct, on the same lot on which is located the courthouse, clerk’s office, jail or public high school, a suitable building for a county or regional free library or library system, and office buildings. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 401-p of the Code of Virginia, relating to public printing, so as to provide that Chapter 25 of the said Code relating to public printing, unless otherwise ordered by the Governor, shall not apply to the binding of certain books and other literary material of libraries operated by the State of Virginia or under its authority. |
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