Monuments and memorials
| An ACT to amend section 3 of an act approved March 3, 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 R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans, to the Commonwealth of Virginia, dated March 24, 1892, shall pass from the grantor to the grantee in said deed; and to further extend the time when the possession and control of said property shall pass from the grantor to the grantee in said deed. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Dickenson, Virginia, to lay a special county levy to raise money for the purpose of providing for the construction of a county memorial, industrial and high school building, to be built in the town of Clintwood in Dickenson county, Virginia, and providing for the securing of land upon which to erect said building, and to erect and equip said building, and to authorize and empower the said board of supervisors of said county to lay a special district levy in the Clintwood magisterial district in said county to raise money for the purpose of supplementing said special county levy, and also to authorize and empower the town council of the said town of Clintwood to lay a special town levy in the said town to raise money for the purpose of also supplementing said special county levy. |
| An ACT endorsing the erection of a statute of brotherhood, at Fort Wool, otherwise called the “Rip Raps” in Hampton Roads. |
| An ACT to provide for a portrait of the late Senator Thomas S. Martin, and to make appropriation therefor out of the public Emde |
| An ACT to make an appropriation for the purpose of making such changes in the Confederate memorial institute as will be necessary to provide for housing the paintings presented to the State of Virginia by Honorable John Barton Payne. |
| An ACT to amend section 582 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to appropriate $10,000.00 to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, to be used solely for the restoration and preservation of grounds and buildings at Jamestown island. |
| An ACT to appropriate $10,000.00 to the Matthew Fontaine Maury Association for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a monument, to request the governor to designate Matthew Fontaine Maury monument day and to provide for calling on the people of Virginia for contributions. |
| An ACT to authorize the appointment of a board composed of one representative from each the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Daughters of 1812, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy; and to confer upon such board, if and when appointed, authority to place suitable monuments or markers on, at or in places of historical interest located in the Commonwealth. |
| An ACT authorizing boards of supervisors of counties, and councils, or other governing bodies, of cities, or incorporated towns to make appropriations for memorials to soldiers, sailors and marines who lost their lives in the late war between the United States and Germany and her allies. |
| An ACT to appropriate $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Matthew Fontaine Maury Association for the purpose of placing a marker and tablet to the memory of Matthew Fontaine Maury in Goshen Pass, Rockbridge county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1920, entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Dickenson, Virginia, to lay a special county levy to raise money for the purpose of providing for the construction of a county memorial, industrial and high school building, to be built in the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county, Virginia, and providing for th~ securing of land upon which to erect said building, and to erect and equip said building, and to authorize and empower the said board of supervisors of said county to lay a special district levy in the Clintwood district in said county to raise money for the purpose of supplementing said special county levy, and also to authorize and empower the town council of the said town of Clintwood, to lay a special town levy in said town to raise money for the purpose of also supplementing said special county levy. |
| An ACT to create a war memorial commission; to prescribe the powers and duties of the commission; to provide tor the erection of a memorial of a monumental or non-utilitarian type to the patriotism and valor of the soldiers, sailors, marines, and women from Virginia who served in the World War; and to appropriate moneys to carry out the provisions of this SB 03 |
| An ACT designating that part of the State highway system from Old Point, through Newport News and Williamsburg, to Richmond, as the ‘Pocahontas Trail.’ |
| An ACT designating that part of route number 12 of the State highway system from Portsmouth to North Carolina line as ‘‘George Washington highway.”’ |
| An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors of the several counties and councils of the several cities and towns to make appropriations to the Manassas Battlefield Confederate Park, Incorporated. |
| An ACT to continue in force the War Memorial Commission, created by, and duly appointed pursuant to, an act approved March 20, 1924, for the erection of a memorial to the patriotism and valor of the soldiers, sailors, marines, and women from Virginia who served in the World War, committing the Commonwealth of Virginia to the carillon and directing the commission to do certain things and to provide that said memorial shall be of the form of a carillon, or singing tower; to ratify all action of said commission heretofore taken, except the selection by said commission of the character or design of said memorial; to provide for the payment of all legal obligations heretofore incurred by said commission, and to repeal so much of said act of March 20, 1924, as is in conflict or inconsistent with this act |
| An ACT to provide, with certain conditions and restrictions, a site on a portion of the land in the western section of the city of Richmond known as the Soldiers’ Home property, for the establishment and conduct thereon by the Home for Needy Confederate Women, a corporation existing under the laws of Virginia, of a home for the needy widows, wives, sisters and daughters of Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines, such home to be a memorial to the women of the Southern Confederacy. |
| An ACT to permit the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy to place in one of the vacant niches in the rotunda of the capitol, a suitable bust of Robert Edward Lee. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 24 and 26 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the State highway system, approved January 31, 1918, and to establish a perpetual memorial to Robert Edward Lee, approved March 20, 1922. |
| An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Williamsburg to donate and convey to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities certain real estate in the city of Williamsburg. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tazewell county to convey, with or without consideration, certain real estate in the town of Tazewell and owned by the said county, to the American Legion, Sidney Coulling Post, No. 133. |
| An ACT to accept the grant to the Commonwealth of the site of the Matthew Fontaine Maury 'Marker' or memorial in Goshen Pass, Rockbridge county, Virginia, made by the Schaghticoke realty company. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide with certain conditions and restrictions, a site on a portion of the land in the western section of the city of Richmond known as the Soldiers’ Home property, for the establishment and conduct thereon by the Home for Needy Confederate Women, a corporation existing under the laws of Virginia, of a home for the needy widows, wives, sisters and daughters of Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines, such home to be a memorial to the women of the Southern Confederacy, approved January 28, 1926. |
| An ACT to authorize the execution of an oil painting of Samuel H. Newberry, of Bland county; Peyton G. Hale, of Grayson county; A. M. Lybrook, of Patrick county, and B. F. Williams, of Nottoway county (known as the “big four’), and John E. Massey and to have the same placed in the State Capitol. |
| An ACT to empower the State library board to make such disposition as it may see fit, involving surrender of title, of a portrait labelled as that of Robert Brooke, governor of Virginia, now hanging in the governor's mansion, some disposition thereof being called for on the petition of Dr. T. V. Brooke, of Pittsylvania county, and his sisters. |
| An ACT to continue the war memorial commission created by an act approved March 20, 1924, and continued by an act approved March 24, 1926; to provide for the erection of a memorial in the form of a carillon to the patriotism and valor of the soldiers, sailors, marines and women from Virginia who served in the world war; and to appropriate moneys to carry out the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT designating a part of the State highway system of Virginia as the George Washington memorial highway. |
| An ACT establishing a commission to formulate, and to carry into effect, plans for the observance of the 150th anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781. |
| An ACT to name a portion of the State highway system of Virginia as the "J. E. B. Stuart highway." |
| An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Tazewell mn the county of Tazewell, to borrow money not in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), and to issue its bonds therefor, for the purpose of making a gift or contribution thereof to American Legion, Sidney Coulling Post, No. 133, to partially defray the cost, charges and expenses of erecting a memorial building on that lot of land located in the town of Tazewell, Tazewell county, Virginia, and mentioned in chapter No. 64 of the acts of the general assembly, enacted in 1926, and to provide for the payment of the interest on |
| An ACT designating that part of the State highway system from Old Saint Johns Church, in Richmond, passing through Amelia, Burkeville, Keys-ville, Charlotte Court House, Phenix and Brookneal, as the “Patrick Henry highway.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 14 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the State high-<br />way system, approved January 31, 1918, and to establish a perpetual memorial<br />to Robert E. Lee, approved March 20, 1922. [H B 179] |
| An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties of Gloucester and Mathews to appropriate funds for the purpose of contributing toward placing markers upon the graves of Confederate soldiers buried in such counties. |
| An ACT to authorize the governor to solicit subscriptions for a fund to provide for the erection of a statue of General Robert Edward Lee in the State capitol, to contract with a sculptor to create the same, to expend the funds collected and to do all things necessary or proper to secure the erection of such statue, and to report his actions hereunder to the general assembly. |
| An ACT to provide a portrait of former Governor Andrew Jackson Montague to be placed in the State library. |
| An ACT to provide for the erection of a monument to commemorate the distinguished service of the Major General Fitzhugh Lee to the United States, the Confederate States, the Republic of Cuba and the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to create the “Cape Henry memorial commission.” and define its powers. |
| An ACT to allow the council of the town of Hillsville, county of Carroll, to remove the Confederate monument off the State highway route number 15 (now United States route number 121) in said town to the courthouse yard, at the expense of the said town. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 295 of the acts of assembly of 1928, entitled an act to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties of Gloucester, Mathews and King William to appropriate funds for the purpose of contributing towards placing markers upon the graves of Confederate soldiers buried in such counties. |
| An ACT prohibiting the posting or erection of historic markers, monuments, signs, or notices, on public property or on public roads, unless and until a certificate of approval of the terms of the legend, inscription or notice thereon, shall have been issued by the division of archaeology and history of the State commission on conservation and development. |
| 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 and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to said soldiers and sailors. |
| AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 2742 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, in relation to how the circuit court and board of supervisors of any county may authorize and permit the erection of a Confederate or World War monument at the county seat thereof. |
| An ACT to authorize the governor of Virginia to lend to Williamsburg, Incorporated, the old speaker’s chair and the “warming machine” which were, before the removal of the State capitol to Richmond, a part of the furniture of the capitol at Williamsburg, upon the complete restoration of the old capitol building, at Williamsburg. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Appomattox county to donate and convey to the United States government the old courthouse lot containing one acre, more or less, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of providing a suitable place for the erection of a suitable monument commemorating the termination of the War between the States. |
| An ACT providing for filling the niches in the rotunda of the capitol with busts of the presidents of the United States, succeeding Washington, born in Virginia. |
| 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 chapter 336 of the acts of assembly of 1926, entitled, “An act to create a commission to represent the State in arranging and carrying out a program for the celebration of the bi-centennial of the birth of George Washington, and to define the powers and duties of the commission.” |
| An ACT to approve and accept a deed of gift dated February 25, 1932, of the estate known as “Gunston Hall,’ formerly owned by George Mason, the author of the Virginia declaration of rights, to the Commonwealth of Virginia from Louis Hertle, subject to a life estate reserved unto the grantor, said estate to be managed and supervised according to the terms and conditions therein set forth. |
| An ACT to authorize the governor under certain conditions to receive gifts of busts or other memorials of certain great Virginians to be placed in the old hall of the house of delegates in the capitol, in such a manner as not to interfere with the utility of said hall as a place of meeting. |
| An ACT to name the bridge across the Rivanna river, at Palmyra, on route 32 of the State highway system, the “Pembroke Pettit bridge.” |
| An ACT authorizing the State commission on conservation and de- |
| An ACT to give the consent of the State of Virginia for the acquisi-tion by the State of New Jersey of certain lands in Virginia, subject to certain limitations and conditions. |
| 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 and sailors, and:in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to said soldiers and sailors. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the attorney general to convey, as and when the same may be accepted, to the United States of America, a certain bar in Hampton Roads, known as Hampton bar, for national park purposes. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the governor of Virginia to lend to Williamsburg, incorporated, the old speaker’s chair and the “warming machine” which were before the removal of the State capitol to Richmond, a part of the furniture of the old capitol at Williamsburg, upon the complete restoration of the capitol building at Williamsburg |
| An ACT to name the bridge across Powell river, in the town of Big Stone Gap, on route 23 of the State highway system, the “Hugh Williams memorial bridge.” |
| An ACT to authorize the War Memorial Commission to apply $1,600.00 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the General Assembly of 1932 for the erection of a carrilon, to the payment of the balance due on the purchase price of the bells for said carrilon. |
| An ACT to authorize the Governor to accept gifts of statues or busts of the President and Vice-President of the Confederate States of America, and setting apart niches in the old hall of the House of Delegates to receive the same. |
| 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 and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to said soldiers and sailors. |
| An ACT to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development to transfer and convey to the United States of America any and all right, title and interest which the said commission and the Commonwealth of Virginia has or may hereafter acquire in and to lands known as and constituting Richmond battlefield parks. |
| An ACT to provide, with certain restrictions, a site for the establishment of a Confederate memorial park to be known as the R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park; to provide for the establishment, management, control, maintenance and operation of said park, and to provide for the disposition of any revenues derived from said park. |
| An ACT to authorize the city of Petersburg to acquire a tract of land in Prince George County, known as the “Crater Farm” and the land adjacent thereto, together with the museum thereon and the contents of such museum, and thereafter to use or dispose of the same for the best interest of the said city. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of this State, having in charge, and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to said soldiers and sailors. |
| An ACT to authorize the commission on Conservation and Development to expend, not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars, under the direction of the Manassas Battlefield Park Association, Incorporated, to pay expenses of the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Manassas. |
| An ACT to abolish the Virginia War Memorial Commission, to transfer the custody, control and supervision of the Virginia War Memorial Carillon to the State Commission on Conservation and Development, and to appropriate funds for the maintenance, upkeep and operation of the said carillon. |
| An ACT to appropriate $1,000.00 to the State Commission on Conservation and Development, to be used on a matched money basis for the erection of a monument to General J. E. B. Stuart, on which the Confederate veterans of Patrick county may be memorialized, said monument to be erected at Stuart, Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Hanover county to appropriate a sum not to exceed $5,000.00 to the Patrick Henry Bi-Centennial, Incorporated, for the purpose of aiding in the celebration of the bi-centennial of the birth of Patrick Henry; and to declare an emergency. |
| An ACT to name that portion of Route Five of the State Highway System between Richmond and Williamsburg “The John Tyler Memorial Highway.” |
| An ACT to name and designate the bridge over the Seaboard Air Line railroad company’s tracks at the southern limits of Petersburg and in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, on route 1 of the State highway system as the Charles T. Lassiter Memorial Bridge. |
| An ACT to name and designate the bridge across the Nansemond river, in the county of Nansemond, Virginia, on route 460 of the State highway system as the “Robert W. Withers Memorial Bridge.” |
| An ACT to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development to transfer and convey to the United States of America any and all right, title and interest which the said commission and the Commonwealth of Virginia has in and to lands known as and constituting Richmond Battlefield Parks, and to repeal chapter 285 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Roanoke county, the council of the city of Roanoke, the council of the town of Salem in Roanoke county, and the council of the town of Vinton in Roanoke county to severally appropriate sums not in excess of $5,000.00 for each such political sub-division, to be used for the purpose of commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the establishment of Roanoke county. |
| An ACT to name the bridge over New river, in Grayson county, on United States Route 21, the “R. A. Doughton Memorial Bridge”. |
| An ACT to name the bridge across Rohoic Creek on State Highway Route No. 1, the “Spanish-American War Veterans Memorial Bridge’. |
| An ACT to name the bridge across the James river at Bremo Bluff on State Highway Route Number 15 the “John H. Cocke Memorial Bridge” |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000.00 toward the purchase of the birthplace of James Monroe, by the Monroe Birthplace Monument Association. |
| An ACT to appropriate $250.00 for the erection of a monument or tablet to the late Winston H. Edmunds. |
| An ACT to name and designate the bridge across the Mattaponi river at or near the town of West Point, heretofore known as the Gresham Bridge, the “Lord Delaware Bridge’. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money in aid of certain Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of this State, to be used in caring for the graves of and cemeteries wherein are buried Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors. |
| An ACT to name the bridge across Elk Creek, near Elk Creek high school, in Grayson County, on United States Highway No. 21, the Rev. J. W. Rader Memorial Bridge. |
| An ACT to name the bridge across Pigg River, near Rocky Mount, in Franklin county, on State Highway 220, the Peter Saunders Memorial Bridge. |
| An ACT to name the concrete bridge across Clinch River, at St. Paul, Virginia, on State Highway No. 64, the Charles Bickley Memorial Bridge |
| An ACT to add to the primary system of State Highways, Chesapeake Avenue, from LaSalle Avenue to Pear Avenue, in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, being a part of Route No. 1510, and to name said highway the Merrimac-Monitor Memorial Highway. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money in aid of certain Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia, to be used in caring for the graves of and cemeteries wherein are buried Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors. |
| An ACT to name the bridge across the Norfolk and Western Railroad near the town of Abingdon in Washington County, on the State highway designated United States Highway No. 11, the ‘General John H. Morgan Memorial Bridge’ |
| An ACT to name the bridge across Big Reed Island Creek near the town of Hillsville in Carroll County, on the State Highway designated United States Highway No. 221, the ‘Wm. D. Tompkins Memorial Bridge’. |
| An ACT to name the bridge across Little Reed Island Creek near the town of Hillsville in Carroll County, on the State highway designated United States Highway No. 52, the “Col. Ira B. Coltrane Memorial Bridge’ |
| An ACT to name the bridge across Chestnut Creek, in the town of Galax, on State Highway 58, the “Taylor G. Vaughan Memorial Bridge.” |
| An ACT to name the bridge across Powell River, between Jonesville and Blackwater, in the county of Lee, on State Highway Route 70, the D. C. Sewell, Sr. Memorial Bridge. |
| An ACT to name the bridge across the Holston River, in the town of Marion, on State Highway Route 11, the “Shugart Memorial Bridge.” |
| An ACT to create the Negro Memorial Commission and prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the appointment of the members of such commission; to authorize the said commission to erect a suitable memorial of the landing of the first permanent group of African Negroes in Virginia; and to appropriate funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money in aid of certain Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia, to be used in caring for the graves of and cemeteries wherein are buried Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors. |
| An ACT to name the bridge across Blackwater Creek, near Blackwater Postoffice, in the county of Lee, on State Highway Route 70, the Samuel R. Robinette Memorial Bridge. |
| An ACT to name the bridge across New River, at Bluff City, in the county of Giles, on State Highway Route 8, the Anderson E. Shumate Memorial Bridge. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to authorize the Governor of Virginia to lend to Williamsburg, Incorporated, the old speaker’s chair and the ‘warming machine’ which were, before the removal of the State capitol to Richmond, a part of the furniture of the capitol at Williamsburg, upon the complete restoration of the old capitol building, at Williamsburg.” |
| An ACT to name the bridge over the Banister River near Chatham, in Pittsylvania County, on U. S. Route No. 29 the “Rawley White Martin Memorial Bridge.” |
| An ACT to name the concrete bridge across Beaver Creek, near Bristol |
| An ACT to name the bridge across the North Fork of Holston River, near Holston in Washington county, on State Highway 19, “The Colonel Thomas McCulloch Memorial Bridge.” |
| An ACT to name the bridge across New River, between the towns of |
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