Monuments and memorials
| An ACT to give the consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the acquisition of real estate in the city of Fredericksburg for a site for the Mercer monument, and authorizing the city to grant and condemn land therefor. |
| An ACT providing for the erection of a fence around Lee monument |
| An ACT to empower the county court of King William county to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected upon the public square at the county seat thereof, |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of King William county to appropriate and contribute money to the Confederate Monument Association of King William county, for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT dedicating a site on the Capitol grounds for an equestrian statue of General J. E. B. Stuart, and providing for an appropriation of $10,000 therefor. |
| An ACT to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in the National Statuary Hall, in the Capitol of the United States, at Washington, District of Columbia. |
| An ACT to empower the board of supervisors and judge of the county court of Giles to authorize the Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a monument on the courthouse square, at Pearisburg, Virginia, to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of said county, and in their discretion to appropriate money to aid in the erection of said monument. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bedford county to contribute such an amount as it shall deem proper towards the erection of a Confederate monument in the courthouse square of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Campbell county to appropriate and contribute money to the Citizens’ Association of Campbell county, for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT to empower the county court of Campbell county to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected upon the public square, at the county seat thereof. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to appropriate a sum of money to aid in the erection of a monument at Princess Anne courthouse to the memory of the Confederate soldiers from said county. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to appropriate and contribute money for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT to empower the county court of Botetourt county to authorize and permit the erection of a Confederate monument upon the public square, at the county seat thereof. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Greenesville county to appropriate and contribute money to the Citizens’ Monument Association of Greenesville county, for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county, |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of the act to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in statuary hall at Washington, and to constitute a commission to contract for said statue and present the same. |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of removing the remains of the wife and of the daughter of James Monroe from Oakhill, in Loudoun county, to Hollywood, in the city of Richmond. |
| An ACT to empower the county court of Greenesville county to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected upon the public square at the county seat thereof. |
| An ACT providing for the erection of a fence around Lee monument |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact: an act entitled “an act providing for an additional appropriation for the erection of a fence around the Lee monu-ment in Richmond, Virginia.” |
| An ACT appropriating the sum of ten thousand dollars for a statue of General J. E. B. Stuart, as pledged by an act approved March 28, 1903. |
| An ACT dedicating a site on the Capitol grounds for an equestrian statue of General J. E. B. Stuart, and providing for an appropriation of $10,000 therefor. |
| An ACT to empower the county court of King William county to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected upon the public square at the county seat thereof. |
| An ACT to empower the board of supervisors and judge of the county court of Giles to authorize the Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a monument on the courthouse square, at Pearisburg, Virginia, to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of said county, and in their discretion to appropriate money to aid in the erection of said monument. |
| An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Salem, in Roanoke county, to retire and refund certain bonds of said town. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bedford county to contribute such an amount as it shall deem proper towards the erection of a Confederate monument in the courthouse square of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize the University of Virginia to send property to St. Louis for exhibition purposes. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Campbell county to appropriate and contribute money to the Citizens’ Association of Campbell county, for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Amelia county to con-tribute such an amount as it shall deem proper towards the erection of a Con-federate monument in the courthouse square of said county. |
| An ACT to empower the county court of Campbell county to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected upon the public square, at the county seat thereof. |
| An ACT to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in the National Statuary Hall, in the Capitol of the United States, at Washington, District of Columbia. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to appropriate a sum of money to aid in the erection of a monument at Princess Anne courthouse to the memory of the Confederate soldiers from said county. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to appropriate and contribute money for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT to empower the county court of Botetourt county to authorize and permit the erection of a Confederate monument upon the public square, at the county seat thereof. |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of the act to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in statuary hall at Washington, and to constitute a commission to contract for said statue and present the same. |
| An ACT to empower the county court of Greenesville county to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected upon the public square at the county seat thereof. |
| An ACT to give the consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the acquisition of real estate in the city of Fredericksburg for a site for the Mercer monument, and authorizing the city to grant and condemn land therefor. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Washington county to appropriate and contribute money for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county to appropriate and contribute out of the county funds an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars to L. A. Armstead Camp Confederate Veterans, No. 26, of Virginia, for the purpose of aiding said camp in the completion of the monument upon the public square of said county, at the county seat thereof. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Nelson county to appropriate and contribute money for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to appropriate certain sums of money from the public treasury in aid of Confederate memorial associations having in charge cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers,” approved February 8, 1904. |
| An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Caroline county to grant permission for a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county to be erected in the courthouse square of said county, and to make appropriation thereto. |
| An ACT to provide for the removal of the Houdon statue of Washington from the capitol to the library building, or to some other place. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved April 4, 1893, entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to appropriate and contribute money for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| 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 authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Roanoke county and the council of the town of Salem to appropriate and contribute money for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize the erection of a bronze statue of Governor William Smith on the capitol square, in the city of Richmond. |
| An ACT to authorize the cities and towns of this Commonwealth to acquire, by purchase, gift, or condemnation, property adjoining parks, monuments, or other public property belonging to such cities or towns |
| An ACT to place a bronze tablet in the capitol building containing thereon the names of the commissioners, clerk, architects, and contractor under whose supervision the work of remodeling the building was done. |
| An ACT to provide measures to protect the battle flags |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Washington county to appropriate money for the purpose of the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers at Abingdon, Va. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to donate the sum of $300 for the completion of payment of contract for the erection of Confederate monument at Princess Anne Court-ouse. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Amherst county to permit the erection on the courthouse square of that county a Confederate hall or other memorial of the soldiers of the Confederate States army. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved May 15, 1903, entitled “an act to appropriate the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of the act to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in statuary hall in Washington, and to constitute a commission to contract for said statue and present the same.” |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Buckingham county to assist in the erection of a Confederate soldiers’ monument by donation of land and appropriation of money. |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $850, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of regilding frame, restoring and backing paintings of the battle of Yorktown and Thomas Jefferson, property of the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Surry county, Virginia, to contribute to the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead of Surry county. |
| An ACT to provide for the purchase of a silver service to be presented to the battleship Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize board of supervisors of New Kent county to appropriate money for the erection of a monument to Confederate soldiers. |
| An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of Dinwiddie, Richmond county, Halifax and Essex counties to appropriate money to Confederate monuments. |
| An ACT to make an appropriation to the Johnson’s Island Confederate cemetery commission of Ohio to aid said Confederate cemetery commission in its noble work of caring for the graves of Virginia soldiers buried at Johnson’s Island and Camp Chase. |
| An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Warwick county to appropriate funds to erect a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT to make an appropriation for a replica or modified copy of the Houdon statue of George Washington to be presented along with the statue of Robert Edward Lee to the national statuary hall in the capitol of the United States at Washington, District of Columbia. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of King and Queen county to appropriate and contribute money to the Confederate Monument Association of King and Queen county, for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Warwick county to appropriate county funds to erect a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Appomattox county to appropriate money to Confederate monument. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county to appropriate money to Confederate monument. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mathews county to appropriate funds to erect a monument to the Confederate soldiers of the said county. |
| 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. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Prince George county to appropriate money to the Confederate monument. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Augusta county to appropriate a sum not exceeding $5000 for the purpose of erecting a Confederate monument. |
| An ACT providing for the appropriation of the sum of $1,000.00 for the purpose of purchasing a marble bust of the late General Fitzhugh Lee, to be place in the rotunda of the State capitol. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: an act to empower the board of supervisors and judge of the county court of Giles to authorize the Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a monument on the court-house square, at. Pearisburg, Virginia, to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of said county, and in their discretion to appropriate money to aid in the erection of said monument |
| 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 make an appropriation to provide for the erection of a tablet to Patrick Henry. |
| 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 appropriate $225.00 to monument fund of the immortal six hundred Confederate veterans. |
| An ACT to provide for the payment of $50.00 to the Confederate Memorial Association of Gordonsville, Virginia, for which the auditor was instructed to draw his warrants upon the treasurer of the State for the year 1907, pursuant to act of the general assembly, 1906, but which was not received by the said memorial association. |
| An ACT to make an appropriation for a replica of the Houdoun statue of George Washington, and to provide for the appointment of a commission to present the same to the republic of France. |
| 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 and re-enact an act entitled “an act to continue in force and 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 grant permission to the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia to have a bronze statue cast of Houdon's statue of Washington in the rotunda of the capitol. |
| An ACT to amend section 3 of an act approved March 38, 1892, entitled “An act making an annual appropriation to the Confederate soldiers’ home, and in consideration therefor accepting a conveyance from R. E. Lee camp No. 1, Confederate veterans, of the property owned by it and now used for said home, so as to extend the time when the possession and control of the property conveyed in the deed from said R. E. Lee camp No. 1, Confederate veterans, to the Commonwealth of Virginia, duted March 24, 1892, shall pass from the grantor to the grantee in said deed. |
| An ACT to allow the erection of a fountain in the city of Alexandria, by the Mount Vernon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and to authorize the city council of Alexandria, to grant permission for such erection. |
| An ACT to provide for the removal of the remains of General Henry Lee from the State of Georgia, and re-inter the same at some appropriate place in Virginia, and to appropriate funds for the purpose. |
| An ACT to permit the Gorham Manufacturing Company, of Providence, Rhode Island, to make further copies and reproductions of the Houdon statue of George Washington from the moulds now in possession of the said Gorham manufacturing company, belonging to the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3729 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to appropriate money by the board of supervisors and councils of cities to defray expenses to unveiling of statue at Gettysburg. |
| An ACT to appropriate $19,954.24, the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made by the general assembly for the erection of a monument on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the services of Virginia troops in the battle on that field, so as to make this amount available for that purpose and not lapse into the treasury under the constitutional provision respecting appropriations. |
| An ACT to reappropriate twelve hundred and fifty-six dollars and twenty-six cents ($1,256.26), the unexpended balance of four thousand dollars ($4,000) appropriated to provide walkway around the Confederate soldiers home, and curb and gutter around the battle abbey |
| An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the cities and towns of this Commonwealth to acquire, by purchase, gift, or condemnation, property adjoining parks, monuments or other public property belonging to such cities or towns, or property in the vicinity of such parks, monuments, or other public property, which is used and maintained in such a manner as to impair the beauty, usefulness, efficiency, or convenience of said parks, monuments, or public property, and to dispose of the same, with proper limitations as to the future use thereof |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Powhatan county to appropriate money to the Powhatan chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy as part payment for a monument to Confederate soldiers at Huguenot Springs in said county. |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of marking the graves of the Confederate soldiers killed on the battle-field near Williamsburg. |
| An ACT to establish an art commission for the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county to appropriate money to Confederate monument |
| An ACT appropriating the sum of $6,500.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary for rebuilding causeway and bridge at Jamestown Island. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors |
| An ACT to appropriate $500.00 to erect a memorial tablet in |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Luray, in the county of Page, to convey certain land to the Confederate memorial association of said county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county to appropriate money to a Confederate monument |
| An ACT to authorize the military board to pay out of the military fund, the sum of $7,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the transportation expenses of the officers and cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in attending the unveiling of a statue of General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson. |
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