Prisons
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3 and 4 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 the convicts |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the charter of the town of Chatham. |
| An ACT to provide for a reduction of four days per month for good behavior from the time for which they were sentenced to jail of all jail prisoners working on the convict road or quarry force, and requiring the superintendent of the penitentiary to keep a record of the conduct of such jail prisoners. |
| An ACT to repeal an act to authorize and empower the county court of Cumberland county, and the judge thereof in vacation, to take charge and control of the clerk’s office, courthouse, public square and jail, and lot around the jail of said county. |
| An ACT to permit rules for the government of jails and the reduction of sentences of prisoners therein confined to be prescribed by the circuit and corporation judges and the boards of supervisors and councils of the respective counties and cities of the State, and to provide for the enforcement of the same. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 7 and 10 of an act approved March 6, 1906, and amended by an act approved February 25, nineteen hundred and eight, 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; provided 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 appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1682 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the admission to the State hospitals of insane persons charged with or indicted for crime; and insane convicts in the penitentiary and other penal institutions of the State. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4051 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in regard to suspending sentence, or execution thereof, and to provide for bail pending suspension of sentence, or execution thereof, after conviction. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to establish a permanent place in the State penitentiary, at Richmond, Virginia, for the execution of felons upon whom the death penalty is to be imposed, and to change the mode of execution so that the death sentence shall be by electricity, and to provide an appropriation therefor |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3737 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to “forgery, uttering, etc., and how punished.” |
| An ACT to reimburse W. C. Parks and others, district road commissioners for Washington county, for advancing certain funds for local public road improvements on account of a deficiency in the State convict road force fund. |
| An ACT to authorize and direct work on the public roads of Goochland County by convicts at the State farm now located in Goochland county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitled ‘fan act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for 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 amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1906, 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,” as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled 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 approved February 27, 1906. |
| An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, in Tazewell county, Virginia. |
| An ACT for the relief of J. W. Gordon, of Augusta county, Virginia, who was convicted of a felony in the courts of the Commonwealth. |
| An ACT to provide for the payment of compensation to the counsel employed on behalf of the State by the governor and attorney general to prosecute Floyd Allen and others, charged with the murder of the judge of the circuit court of Carroll county, Virginia, and of certain officers and a juror in attendance upon said court, on the 14th day of March 1912, and for the payment of compensation to counsel employed by the judge presiding at the trials to defend certain of the prisoners unable to employ counsel. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working of certain long-term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor, and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road construction, to the citizens of the State, approved March 14, 1912, adding the manufacture of ground marl. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1682 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 7, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910, in relation to the admission to the State hospitals of insane persons charged with or indicted for crime, etc., etc., and providing for examination into the sanity of the defendant by experts in insanity by order of the court, etc., ete. |
| An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State, jointly or severally, to establish county or city farms, and providing for the Joint use of the same, and for the government and support of persons confined therein. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorpo- |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $55,000.00 to reimburse the superintendent of the penitentiary and to be used for the establishment and maintenance of the convict road force as provided by an act approved March 6, 1906, known as the Lassiter, Withers act. |
| An ACT to provide when a person convicted of a misdemeanor may be sentenced to the State convict road force. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3905 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary once before sentenced in the United States to a like punishment. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4144 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to giving credit to convicts for good conduct. |
| An ACT making the Norfolk county courthouse and the Norfolk county jail, in the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, a part of the several magisterial districts of the county of Norfolk, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of Norfolk county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4130 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT providing for deduction from the term of service of persons sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary, of the number of days such person may have been held in a jail because of quarantine regulations. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1906, 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, as heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, made by the act approved February 29, 1912, chapter 59, acts of assembly, session 1912, pages 101 and 102. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 36 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto. |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $25,000 for the administration of the affairs of that part of Bland magisterial district, Prince George county, Virginia, known as Hopewell, and its suburbs; to prescribe the method whereby the said appropriation shall be expended, and to provide for the payment thereof to the State treasury. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of the county a sufficient amount to maintain the convict road force in said county for the years 1916 and 1917. |
| An ACT to authorize the State highway commissioner to establish a convict camp at Catawba sanatorium for the purpose of constructing necessary roads, walks and such other improvements as may be agreed upon by the State highway commissioner and the State health commissioner, and prescribing the manner in which the expenses of such force shall be paid. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4051 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in regard to suspending sentence, or execution thereof, and to provide for bail pending suspension of sentence, or execution thereof, after conviction, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1910, and to provide for bail after writ of error has been granted to a convicted person pending such writ of error and appeal. |
| An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide for the Working of Certain Long Term or Desperate Convicts by the Superintendent of the Penitentiary, the Governor and the Commissioner of Agriculture, for the Manufacture of Ground Limestone and Oyster Shells, and Incidentally for the Disposition of Same, and the By-Products Suitable for Road Construction, to the Citizens of the State, Adding the Manufacture of Ground Marl. |
| An ACT to allow a credit to persons, convicted of any crime or misdemeanor and sentenced to a term in jail or the penitentiary, of all time spent by such person in jail awaiting a trial or pending an appeal, or awaiting removal to the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to repeal section 3509 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 3508, as amended by an act approved December 31, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13 1908, a relation to the fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3906 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts twice before sentenced in the United States to confinement in the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to regulate the treatment, handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary and to appropriate funds therefor. |
| An ACT for the relief of James R. Elam, of Danville, Va. |
| An ACT to authorize the sale and conveyance of a lot of not exceeding fifteen acres of land, part of the State penitentiary farm. |
| An ACT to provided for the conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia of the Laurel Industrial School, its property, real and personal, located in the county of Henrico, to the State of Virginia; that the State will assume control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the charter of the said association. |
| An ACT to provide for the payment out of the State treasury of the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the counties and cities of the State, certain fees in felony and misdemeanor cases, and to fix the maximum amount that the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the respective counties and cities of the State shall be paid in fees out of the State treasury, and to fix for them and to provide for the taxing and payment of certain fees in scire facias and other proceedings upon forfeited recognizances, and to amend und re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528S of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3527, 3580 and 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to fees of justices of the peace, attorney for the Commonwealth, clerks, sheriffs, sergeants, jailors, coronors, criers, constables, ete. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to establish a public free school on the grounds of the Prison Association of Virginia, at Laurel, Henrico county, and to make an appropriation for erection and equipment of the schoolhouse, and to provide for the conduct and maintenance of the same, approved March 16, 1908. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and direct work on the public roads of Goochland county by convicts at the State farm, now located in Goochland county, approved March 14, 1912, so as to make the requirements thereunder more specific. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of said county a sufficient amount of money to maintain the convict road force in said county, and for the construction of other permanent improved roads in said county, and to borrow money at any time not exceeding $20,000, for the purpose of maintaining said convict road force and for the construction of other permanent improved roads as aforesaid. |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars to the State farm to meet the deficit in maintenance for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1918. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3532 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, as to the fees of jailers, for feeding prisoners. |
| An ACT to authorize the use, so far as practicable, of the convict road force in the construction and maintenance of “The State Highway System.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 4 of section 20 of the charter of the city of Norfolk, as amended by an act approved March 17, 1916. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of said county a sufficient amount of money to maintain the convict road force in said county, and for the construction of other permanent improved roads in said county, and to borrow money at any time not exceedingly $20,000, for the purpose of maintaining said convict road force and for the construction of other permanent improved roads as aforesaid. |
| An ACT to provide for the commitment by any court having jurisdiction of such persons convicted therein of a misdemeanor or the violation of a city ordinance to any county or city farm; to provide for the commitment by the several courts and police justices of this State of juveniles that might be committed under the terms of an act approved March 27th, to any county or city farm; and to provide for the necessary expense of removing and delivering any person to said farm; and to provide the expense for the maintenance and support during the period of his or her confinement upon such farm. |
| 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, as heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, as amended by acts approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and sixteen. |
| An ACT to provide for the disposition of infants of convict mothers. |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars to the Virginia penitentiary to meet the deficit in maintenance for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1918 |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $21,113.54 to the Virginia penitentiary to supplement an appropriation made by an act entitled an act to regulate the treatment, handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary, and to appropriate funds therefor |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of $15,000 to the convict lime board to-enable it to pay for machinery and equipment. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 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 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, approved March 6, 1906, as amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, concerning fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, and constables. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia-of the Laurel Industrial School, its property, real and personal, located in the county of Henrico and the State of Virginia; that the State will assume the control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the charter of the said association, approved March 16, 1918. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4930 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize the exchange and conveyance of a lot not exceeding eleven acres of land, part of State penitentiary. farm. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5019 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT: to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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, as heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, as amended by acts approved February 29, 1912, and March 22, 1916, approved March 15, 1918. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3510 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, as to the fees of jailers, for feeding prisoners |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 17 of an act entitle an act to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto, in effect January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to require the examination for venereal disease of all persons admitted to the State penitentiary, State penitentiary farm, or to any branch prison, to any of the reformatories of the State, or to any of the hospitals for the insane or colonies for the epileptic and feeble-minded, and the proper treatment of those found so affected. |
| An ACT to prescribe how a new day for the execution of the sentence of death shall be fixed, and dispensing with the presence of the person to be executed. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4930 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 10, 1920. |
| An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State to establish county or city farms, and providing for the use of the same, and for the government and support of persons confined therein. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4439 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1920. |
| An ACT authorizing and directing the payment out of the treasury of the sum of $2,093.80 to Ivakota Association, incorporated. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. [H B 6] |
| An Act making appropriations for the support of the government of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the year ending February 29, 1924. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, as amended by an act approved March 11, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston in the county of Halifax. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2872 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894, approved February 1, 1915, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact section twenty-eight hundred and seventy-two of the Code of Virginia,” approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. |
| An Act to approve the grants and conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia of a lot of land with improvements thereon, located in the city of Richmond and the State of Virginia, which said lot of land was not enumerated as a part of the property of the said association in an act approved February 21, 1920, and to declare the grant and conveyance by the said association to the Commonwealth of all its property, wherever located, valid in all respects. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5019 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. |
| An ACT to declare the courthouse square, on which is located the courthouse, clerk’s office, jail and other public buildings of Gloucester county in the village of Gloucester, Virginia, a part of each of the several magisterial districts of the county of Gloucester, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of Gloucester county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the use, so far as practicable, of the convict road force in the construction and maintenance of the State highway system |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920, and by an act approved February 11, 1922. |
| An ACT to establish a State farm for defective misdemeanants on the Powhatan side of the State prison farm or other place; to define the classes of defective misdemeanants to be transferred thereto; to provide for the location, construction, government thereof; to provide for the allowance and anticipation of the per diem costs of jail inmates and for the transportation of prisoners there. |
| An ACT for the relief of George P. Hening |
| An ACT to amend subsections 3 and 28 of section 5888 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in order to transfer the county of Surry from the Third to the Twenty-eighth judicial circuit. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3061 of the Code of Virginia, 1924, in reference to the establishment of chain gangs. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1922, and Section 2003 of the Code of Virginia, in respect to the working of prisoners on the public roads. |
| An ACT to repeal sections 1954 to 1959, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. in relation to the former prison association of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1731 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the disposition of certain dead bodies. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 273 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5017 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 6 of chapter 301 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, entitled an act to regulate the treatment, handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary, and to appropriate funds therefor |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter .301 of the acts of 1918, entitled an act to regulate the treatment, handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary, and to appropriate funds therefor |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5019, 5048 and 2091 of the Code of Virginia, the former as heretofore amended, and to repeal section 5036 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to authorize the manufacture of motor vehicle license plates, road signs and kindred articles for the use of the State or to be sold. |
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