Prisons
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize certain persons when arrested or convicted to be committed to the custody of the Prison association of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3820 of the code of Virginia, in relation to a keeper ofan ordinary, house of entertainment, or bar-room, per- miting unlawful gaming at his house, &e., and how punished. |
| An ACT to authorize the governor to grant a conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution. |
| An ACT for the protection of game and to prohibit the discharge of firearms between the hours of sunset and sunrise upon the waters of the commonwealth in the counties of Chesterfield, Prince George and Charles City. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Virginia sugar refining company and to prescribe the powers, rights and privileges, and to encourage the sugar-beet industry of the state of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the code of Virginia in relation to fees of the sheriff, sergeant, coroner, crier, or constable. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 573, Acts of 1891-92, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski County and to amend and re-enact chapter 494, Acts of 1895-06, entitled an act to amend the 3d, 15th, and 19th sections, and to repeal and re-enact sections J. and 17 of an act passed March 2, 1802, entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county. |
| An ACT to modify the existing statutes defining and establishing the criminal jurisdiction of the corporation court of the city of Winchester, of the county court of the county of Frederick, and of the several Justices of the city of Winchester and of the county of Frederick. |
| An ACT to empower the boards of supervisors of Giles, Pulaski, Craig, Lee, Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan and Scott counties to require old fines and costs to be worked out upon the public roads and streets of the towns of said counties, and providing rules and regulations therefor. |
| An ACT making it lawful for the county courts and justices of the peace in Giles, Pulaski, Craig, Lee, Wise, Buchanan, Dickenson, Montgomery and Shenandoah counties to sentence certain criminals to work. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4107 of the code of Virginia in relation to the right of appeal to court from the judgments of police justices and justices of the peace in criminal cases, to provide for the disposition of the accused unless let to bail; the issue of a new warrant or the amendment of the original warrant by the county, corporation or hustings court, and to fix the rule of procedure on these Warrants in the said county, hustings or corporation court. |
| AN ACT appropriating the sum of $2,000.00 to the prison association of Virginia, and the sum of $1,000.00 to the negro reformatory association of Virginia for the fiscal year 1900. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the penitentiary to employ assistant clerks when needed or to apportion the clerical work of the penitentiary among those now employed, and to apportion their compensation therefor. |
| An ACT to provide that a convict in the penitentiary of Virginia Whose term expires on Sunday shall be discharged by the superintendent on the preceding day. |
| An ACT in relation to the government of the negro reformatory association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment, and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the commonwealth for caring for such minors. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3752 and 3753 of the code of Virginia in relation to how officers suffering prisoners to escape shall be punished. |
| An ACT to refund to Byrd Willis $104, illegally withheld from him by superintendent of penitentiary. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts, approved January 22, 1894, so as to provide for an increase in the compensation of the guards at said farm. |
| An ACT to provide a vacation for the guards of the Virginia penitentiary and state farm. |
| An ACT in relation to the commitment of minors to the custody of the prison association and their detention and discharge by said association. |
| An ACT to refund to Thomas J. Thornton $17.50 erroneously charged to him by the superintendent of penitentiary. |
| An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to make rules concerning the working of criminals sentenced to work on the public roads or farms, or other public works of said counties, and to provide suitable buildings for the care and custody of said criminals. |
| An ACT to require sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this state to report to the courts of their respective counties and cities the number of prisoners confined in their respective jails. |
| An ACT to provide a quarantine for convicts in the penitentiary and prisoners in the jails of the commonwealth, in case of any contagious or infectious diseases, breaking out among convicts and prisoners dangerous to the public health. |
| An ACT to provide for the transportation of convicts to the penitentiary and to repeal sections 4065, 4066, 4067, 4068, 4069, and 4070 of the code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4144 of the code of Virginia, entitled record to be kept of conduct of convicts; to have credit for good conduct. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3705 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3705 of the code of Virginia—entering dwelling-house or other house, vessel or car, in the night, &c., with intent to commit murder, rape or robbery, &c. |
| An ACT in relation to commitment of minors to Prison association of Virginia and their custody. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 16 and 21 of an act approved February 12, 1892, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act passed March 21, 1836, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in Botetourt county (now in Roanoke county), and all acts amendatory thereto.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled "an act to authorize certain persons, when arrested or convicted, to be committed to the custody of the Prison association of Virginia" |
| An ACT authorizing board of supervisors of Accomac county to levy a tax on real and personal property in Island district, for the erection of a lock-up on Chincoteague island, Accomac county. |
| An ACT providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the counties of Brunswick, Nottoway, and Amelia, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in said counties. |
| An ACT providing for working public roads in Prince Edward |
| JOINT RESOLUTION calling upon the superintendent of the penitentiary for information concerning guards employed at that institution. |
| An ACT requiring superintendent of penitentiary to keep account of all expenses incurred in delivering convicts to the penitentiary. |
| An ACT making it lawful for the county courts and justices in Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Southampton, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to sentence certain criminals to work upon the roads, farms, or other public works in said counties, or on the streets of any town in said counties, and prescribing penalty for persons thus sentenced who escape or attempt to escape. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the tenth sub-division of section 183, chapter 14, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the salaries of the superintendent of the penitentiary, surgeon, assistant keepers and clerks |
| An ACT for the relief of the county of Bedford from further penalties |
| An ACT to fix salaries of guards and substitute guards and their officers, other than superintendent and assistant superintendent, at the State penitentiary. |
| An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on September 30, 1902, and September 30, 1903. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3706 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the punishment for house-breaking. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 270 of an act approved February 3, 1900, entitled an act to provide that a convict in the penitentiary of Virginia whose term expires on Sunday shall be discharged by the superintendent on the preceding day, so as to provide for their discharge on the day before legal holidays. |
| An ACT to prescribe a penalty for persons who, under the provisions of sections 3932 and 3934 of the Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in chain-gangs and escape, or attempt to escape, from the person in whose custody they lawfully are. |
| An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Margaret A. White, widow of W. T. White, formerly an officer at the penitentiary. |
| An ACT making it lawful for the county court and any justice of the peace of the county of Caroline, or any mayor of any town of said county, to sentence criminals to work upon the public roads or other public works or on the streets or other public works of the towns in said county, and prescribing a penalty for persons thus sentenced who escape or attempt to escape. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 790 of an act entitled an act to authorize the superintendent of the penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm and erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts, approved March 5, 1900, so as to provide for board for the surgeon and his horse, and an increase in the compensation of the manager and provide board for himself and family at said farm. |
| An ACT to provide for the erection of suitable buildings upon the grounds of the State penitentiary for the better care and safety of the convicts confined in said penitentiary. |
| An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, Tazewell county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to suspend collection from Bedford county, Virginia, for penalties for certain escaped convicts working on its roads. |
| A JOINT RESOLUTION providing for a commission to investigate certain matters in relation to the penitentiary. |
| An ACT requiring the superintendent of the state penitentiary to give certain information relating to bids and bidders for supplies for said institution. |
| An ACT as to working inmates of Norfolk city jai. |
| An ACT to provide for the raising and training of bloodhounds for police purposes. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 232 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, in relation to the appointment of directors and surgeon of the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the governor to grant a conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4110, 4113, 4114, 4115, 4143, 4154, 4155, 4156, 4157, 4168, 4172, 4173 of the Code of Virginia, and section: 4123, 4124, 4159, 4162, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4123, 4124, 4152, 4159, 4160, 4161, 4162, 4163, 4164, 4167, and 4173 of chapter 202, Code of Virginia, in relation to rules governing the management of the penitentiary, approved February 19, 1892, and section: 4133, 4160, and 4167, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4130, 4132, 4133, and 4136 of the Code of Virginia and sections 4137 and 4138 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, and sections 4160 and 4167 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, relating to rules governing the penitentiary, approved March 18, 1892, of title 55 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the organization, government, and discipline of the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4079 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to medical attendance, medicines, and clothing for indigent prisoners in jail, and analyses in poison cases, |
| An ACT to pay certain officers of the Virginia penitentiary certain salaries due them and not paid. |
| An Act to Amend and Re-Enact the Act Authorizing the Governor to Grant Conditional Pardons to Persons Confined in the Penitentiary |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4110, 4113, 4114, 4115, 4143, 4164, 4155, 4156, 4167, 4168, 4172, 4173 of the Code of Virginia, and sections 4123, 4124, 4159, 4162, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4123, 4124, 4152, 4159, 4160, 4161, 4162, 4163, 4164, 4167, and 4173 of chapter 202, Code of Virginia, in relation to rules governing the management of the penitentiary, approved February 19, 1892, and sections 4133, 4160, and 4167, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4130, 4132, 4133, and 4136 of the Code of Virginia, and sections 4137 and 4138 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, and sections 4160 and 4167 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, relating to rules governing the penitentiary, approved March 18, 1892, of title 55 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the organization, government, and discipline of the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to pay certain officers of the Virginia penitentiary certain salaries due them and not paid. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 233, and 235 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 232 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 232, chapter 17, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of directors and surgeon of penitentiary, approved February 19, 1892," as amended by an act approved April 24, 1903, entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 232 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, in relation to the appointment of directors and surgeon of the penitentiary." |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4147 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4162 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, and as further amended by an act approved May 5, 1903, and to repeal section 4163 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4179 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT providing for the appropriation of $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the cost of the completion of a fire-proof shell building, including heating, plumbing, etc., at the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact: sections 3916, 3918, 3922, 3929, 35. and 3933 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3888, as amended by an act approved January 15, 1894; 3902, 3903, 3904, 3909, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898, and 3911, and to repeal section 3910 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to prescribe a penalty for persons who, under the provisions of sections 3932 and 3934 of the Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in chain-gangs and escape, or attempt to escape, from the person in whose custody they lawfully are.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3676 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to kidnapping and the punishment therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3. 4, and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginian penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of directors of the penitentiary to employ assistant clerks when needed, or to apportion the clerical work of the penitentiary among those now employed, and to apportion their compensation therefor |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 232 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, in relation to the appointment of directors and surgeon of the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to pay to certain guards at the penitentiary certain sums of money due them and never paid. |
| An ACT appropriating the public revenue |
| An ACT to authorize the use of convicts confined in the penitentiary in digging the foundation of the proposed additions to the State capitol, and in digging the foundation of the heat, light, and power plant proposed for the State capitol and other buildings, and in grading or moving property incident to either of said undertakings, and to require the board of directors of the penitentiary to furnish, under guard, such convicts as are called for by the capitol building committee. |
| An ACT authorizing prison association of Virginia to expend in certain improvements and in the installation, equipment, and conduct of its Sloyd manual training school the sum of $7,223.48 in its possession, being balance of $9,100 appropriated to it under act approved April 2, 1902, appropriating the public revenues for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on September 30, 1902, and September 30, 1903. |
| An ACT to provide for the payment out of the State treasury of the sum of $66,604.56 for the completion of certain buildings of the State penitentiary provided for by an act approved April 2, 1902, said sum being the balance of the appropriation of $180,000 made by the said act. |
| An ACT in relation to the commitment of minors to the Prison Association of Virginia, their custody therein, the compensation for, and expenses of, such custody, and their discharge therefrom. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to authorize the governor to grant conditional pardon to persons confined in the peniten- tiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution" |
| An ACT to punish the wilful or malicious taking or removing of the waste or packing from out any journal box or boxes of any locomotive, engine, tender, carriage, coach, car, caboose, or truck used or operated upon any rail-road, whether the same be operated by steam or electricity. |
| An ACT to authorize the sale of the penitentiary spring lot, a Richmond. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3695 of chapter 181 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled “an act to authorize the governor to grant conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution” |
| An ACT to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony. |
| An ACT to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed forty-five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect. |
| 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 for the prevention of Tuberculosis. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled: An act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed 45 men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 7 of an act entitled an act to create the State convict road force, etc. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact secton 3532 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by acts approved February 24. 1890, and March 4, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3532 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fees of a jailor, |
| An ACT to require all eleemosynary institutions, hospitals, colleges, universities, prisons and reformatories to report monthly to the auditor of public accounts in detail the manner in which all funds received by said institutions from the Commonwealth are disbursed. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3932 of the Code of Virginia in relation to chain-gangs, as amended by an act approved December 24, 1903, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact sections 3916, 3918, 3922, 3929, 3932 and 3933 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 928 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 2, 1904, entitled "an act to provide for the opening, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Caroline county." |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4121 of the Code of Virginia, providing when and how real estate of a convict may be leased, exchanged, encumbered or sold. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3508 of the fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables. |
| An ACT providing for the shortening of the period of labor required of persons sentenced to work on public roads, and fixing maximum period for which they shall be required to so labor, for non-payment of fines and costs, |
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