Prisons
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3510 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by chapter 354 of the acts of the general assembly ct 1920, page 529, relating to pay of jailers for feeding prisoners, and to provide that no such payments be made until approved by the commissioner of public welfare; and to provide that the commissioner of public welfare may transfer prisoners from a jail to a hospital, clinic, State, city or county farm, road camp, et cetera. |
| An ACT providing for the relief of Amelia Anne Cox. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2094 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1920, in relation to jail prisoners on road or quarry force and the credit to be allowed them for good behavior. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2095 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5337 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to guardians ad litem. |
| An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to issue bonds to the maximum amount of $300,000.00 to be used for the following purposes : |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1903-a providing for the disposition and care of expectant mothers who are prisoners in any penal institution in this State and for the care of such children born of such prisoners. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4909 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relative to committal, for observation of persons charged with crime whose mental condition is questioned. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of chapter 214 of the acts of assembly of 1926, entitled 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, approved March 19, 1926, and to enlarge the same to include any other misdemeanants, and felons. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees for sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables. |
| An ACT to establish an industrial farm for women; to provide for the removal of female prisoners from the Virginia penitentiary thereto; to provide for the removal of female prisoners from the county, town and city jails thereto; to provide for the location, construction, equipment and government thereof; to provide for the use of certain funds therefor; to authorize the payment of the jail per diem thereto; to provide for the commitment thereto of female delinquents by justices, courts and the transfer thereto from certain institutions and agencies as provided by law. |
| An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections One, Three and Five of an Act Entitled 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 6218 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to securing the attendance of witnesses. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled “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, with prison labor at the penitentiary; to authorize the purchase of the necessary equipment and materials and the employment of the necessary foremen and all things necessary or incident to the manufacture of said license plates, markers and kindred articles,” approved March 28, 1928, and to authorize the board of directors of the State penitentiary to retain possession and control of the equipment purchased under the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5017 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to record to be kept of conduct of convicts; to have credit for good conduct; record of punishment, etc., of convicts; inspection of same. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 2096-b relating to authorizing the State prison board to enter into agreements with counties, towns, and State departments to construct and maintain roads and streets and to do other public work, and for such purposes establishing and providing for supervision, regulation, and maintenance of convict camps; and appropriating money for such purposes. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1933, and the thirtieth day of June, 1934. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5337 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Williamsburg, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4960 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation for officers for services in certain cases where no other compensation is provided, and to amend and re-enact section 2860 of the Code of Virginia, relating to records to be kept by jailors; how time deducted or added. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2095 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to prisoners on the State convict road force. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5007 of the Code of Virginia, relating to male prisoners in the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to authorize the State Prison Board to expend certain funds heretofore appropriated for per diem allowance to prisoners for the purpose of purchasing certain equipment and machinery and to provide for the repayment thereof. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 2073-a and 2073-b, all pertaining to the State convict road force, the employment of convicts and misdemeanants, and the purchase of articles produced and manufactured thereby. |
| An ACT to amend sections 4, 5, 11, 14, 17, 20, 27, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 38 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk, approved March 20, 1924, and to further amend said act by adding thereto two new sections numbered ll-a and 24-a. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4786 of the Code of Virginia, relating to terms of imprisonment. |
| An ACT to prohibit the sale or exchange on the open market, within this State, of goods, wares and merchandise prepared or manufactured by convicts or prisoners of other states; and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent therewith. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1935, and the thirtieth day of June, 1936. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4997-a, providing for the taking of fingerprints, photographs and descriptions of convicts received in the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2095 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to prisoners on the State convict road force, so as to make the same applicable to prisoners in chain gangs, at the State Farm, and at the State Industrial Farm for Women, and so as to provide for certain credits against unpaid fines and costs. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4951 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the hiring of persons sentenced to confinement in jail for failure to pay a fine and costs of prosecution, or confined in jail under a capias pro fine, so as to provide for the relief of the hirer and the release of the fine and costs. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4942 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the transfer of certain persons to the penitentiary, how death sentence shall be executed and who shall be present and the duties of the superintendent of the penitentiary relating thereto. |
| An ACT to prohibit any and all institutions owned and operated by the State of Virginia from selling or exchanging seed corn to be used for agricultural purposes in the State of Virginia, unless to such institution or institutions as may be entirely owned and operated by the State of Virginia and entirely supported by State funds. |
| An ACT to provide for the establishment, maintenance and operation of a tannery at the State Penitentiary Farm, and to provide funds therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, so as to provide for working certain prisoners confined in jail. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6218 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to securing attendance of certain witnesses. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5019 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to confinement in jails and in the penitentiary, so as to allow credit for certain time spent in the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 395 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to delinquent State taxes. |
| An ACT to authorize the Governor of Virginia to convey to the City of Richmond for the purpose of widening Belvidere Street, a certain strip or parcel of land adjacent thereto, now being a part of the State Penitentiary property, in return or exchange for two other parcels of land contiguous to the Penitentiary property, to be conveyed to the Commonwealth, and to authorize the State Prison Board to use and utilize said last mentioned two parcels in connection with the Penitentiary and remove from the first mentioned strip or parcel of land all buildings, structures, and walls now situated thereon and reconstruct same. |
| An ACT to authorize the superintendent ot the state penitentiary, upon certain conditions and in his discretion, to deliver to the custody of officers of other States, of the United States and of the District of Columbia, prisoners in his custody, for transportation to such other States or the District of Columbia for trial or as witnesses in criminal cases in the courts thereof; and to authorize said superintendent and his deputies to receive and retain in custody for trial or as witnesses in criminal cases in Virginia prisoners of said District, of other States, or of the United States, delivered to him by the officers thereof; and to provide for the custody of all such or similar prisoners while in transit in or through Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers coroners and constables. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2872 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to jails and accounts of jailers. |
| An ACT to provide that the State of Virginia may enter into a compact with any of the United States for mutual helpfulness in relation |
| An ACT to amend:and:re-enact Section 4447 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to personal property that has been distrainec or levied on. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, Coroners and constables. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4960 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the compensation of sheriffs or other persons in certain criminal cases and the compensation allowed hospitals for the treatment of prisoners. |
| An ACT to prescribe the compensation of clerks of courts, and city sergeants, in cities of this Commonwealth having a population of over sixty-five thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States census; to provide for the payment of such compensation and the expenses of office of such officers; to impose certain duties on the State Compensation Board; to provide for the appointment and compensation of jailors in such cities; to prescribe the powers and duties of such jailor, and to confer certain powers on the city manager in such cities in relation to the jail and jailor; and to repeal chapter 302 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 24, 1932, and all other acts and parts of acts in-consistent herewith to the extent of such inconsistency. |
| An Act to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1941, and the thirtieth day of June, 1942, to prescribe the provisos, terms, conditions and provisions with respect to the items of appropriation, and their payment, and to repeal all acts wholly in conflict with this act, and all parts of all acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Hillsville, situated in Carroll County, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act, when this act shall become effective. |
| An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the board of directors of the State Penitentiary to convey to the city of Richmond a small strip of the land occupied by said Penitentiary. |
| An ACT to provide for receiving and maintaining in State Hospitals Federal prisoners whose sanity is in doubt for detention and diagnosis. |
| An ACT to provide for the administration, control and supervision of the penal system of the Commonwealth and of the political subdivisions thereof, to that end to establish a Department of Corrections to consist of a State Board of Corrections, a Commissioner of Corrections, and the officers, agents and employees of the Board and the Commissioner, and to prescribe the functions, powers and duties thereof and of certain other officers and of the subdivisions of the State with reference to the foregoing matters. |
| An ACT to provide for and make effective a system of probation and parole in Virginia; to that end to provide for a Parole Board, Director of Parole, probation and parole officers, and officers, agents and employees to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and to prescribe and provide for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, functions, powers, and duties of the said Board, of the said Director, of the said probation and parole officers, and of the other said officers, agents and employees; and to prescribe the powers, and duties of certain other boards and officers with reference to the ree |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n 14 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the department of law enforcement in counties having the county executive form of government. |
| An ACT to transfer certain appropriations to the State Board of Corrections, and to appropriate to the State Board of Corrections certain funds in addition thereto, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of certain acts providing for and relating to the Department of Corrections, and the State Board of Corrections, and to provide for the payment and disbursement of such funds. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4960 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the compensation of sheriffs and other persons for services in certain criminal cases and of witnesses from without the State compelled to attend a court in this State, so as to provide more specifically the compensation of sheriffs and other persons for such services, and to limit such compensation to amounts due for services rendered within the State of Virginia and to provide the compensation allowed hospitals for treatment of prisoners. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3 and 10 of Chapter 386 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 2, 1942, relating to the compensation and expenses of sheriffs and sergeants and the cities to which the chapter is applicable, so as to bring the city of Martinsville within the provisions of the chapter. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 4, 11 and 13, as amended, of Chapter 214 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 19, 1926, relating to the State Farm for Defective Misdemeanants and other State farms, so as to permit persons confined in local jails to be transferred to and maintained at such farm or farms, to provide a per diem allowance for certain prisoners confined at State farms, and to prescribe the daily per capita allowance for maintaining prisoners at the State Farm for Defective Misdemeanants and other State farms. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5017 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the record to be kept of conduct of convicts and the credit to be allowed convicts for good conduct; and to repeal Section 7 of Chapter 218 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 13, 1942, relating to abolition of time off for good behavior. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2096 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the use of certain misdemeanants on the State convict road force, so as to provide for a per diem allowance to such misdemeanants. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 217 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 13, 1942, relating to regional jail farms, so as to limit such farms to male prisoners, to provide that prisoners may be required to work at such farms, and to prescribe how such prisoners may work out certain fines and costs. |
| An ACT to provide for the allowance of certain credits upon the terms of confinement of prisoners under the control of the State Board of Corrections in cases of injuries to or extraordinary services performed by them. |
| An ACT to provide for payment of certain per diem compensation and expenses to certain members of the Virginia Parole Board for a certain period, and declaring an emergency. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 4, 5 and 6 of Chapter 218, Acts of 1942, approved March 13, 1942, relating to probation and parole in Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 6, 8 and 9 of Chapter 386 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 2, 1942, relating to the compensation and expenses of sheriffs and sergeants, the feeding and care of jail prisoners and the payment of the costs thereof, the method of keeping and certifying accounts covering such costs, the furnishing of unusual medical, hospital and dental service to prisoners, and prohibiting the use of prisoners in certain instances. |
| An ACT to authorize the Commissioner of Corrections to furnish prison labor for farm work in certain emergencies. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5021, 5043, and 5045 of the Cade of Virginia, relating to allowances and transportation to prisoners on discharge, payment of rewards for apprehension of convicts, and compensation and bonus which may be paid certain prisoners; to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5045-a, authorizing certain prisoners’ funds to be invested in bonds of the United States; and to repeal Section 5044 of the Code of Virginia relating to rewards for apprehension of convicts. |
| An ACT for the relief of J. M. Arrington. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5016-a, to prohibit punishment of any prisoner by whipping, or other similar corporal punishment. |
| An ACT to provide for the prevention of escape of prisoners confined in the major penal system of the Commonwealth. |
| An ACT to amend Chapter 23 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved February 15, 1944, relating to authority of Commissioner of Corrections to furnish prison labor for farm work under certain conditions by adding a new section numbered 7, providing for a different termination of en TD ae |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5017 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the record to be kept of conduct of convicts and the credit to be allowed convicts for good conduct. |
| An ACT to provide for the development, use and maintenance of a war memorial in the county of Arlington, Virginia, and to that end to authorize and empower the county of Arlington, Virginia, and the school board of such county to contract with each other and with certain associations in relation to a stadium and an athletic field or other recreational facilities as a memorial; to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and obligations of the parties to, and under, such contract; to authorize contributions and donations to be made to, and accepted for, such memorial and to prescribe how same shall be disposed of; and to authorize the county to provide for the use of such memorial. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 5017 of the Code of Virginia as amended, relating to the record to be kept of conduct of convicts and the credit to be allowed convicts for good conduct. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section thereto numbered 5058-a providing for the appointment of attorneys to defend convicts charged with the commission of felonies and the payment of compensation to such attorneys for such defense. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Chapter 143 of the Acts of Assembly of 1908, approved March 5, 1908, and being the charter of the town of Haymarket by setting out an accurate description of its boundaries. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 5054 of the Code of Virginia, relating to additional terms of confinement of convicts who have previously confined in penitentiary. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 1, 1-a and 8 and to repeal Sections 2 and 13 of Chapter 301 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 16, 1918, regulating the treatment, handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-116 of the Code of 1950 relating to costs charged for certain services. |
| AN ACT to add a new section to the 1950 Code of Virginia, designated as § 8-140.1, to provide for the operation of a lime grinding plant in Bland County, Virginia, by the Director of the Department of Welfare and Institutions to employ convicts; to sell lime and by-products; and to retain the proceeds therefrom for the operation of the plant. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 18-161 of the Code of 1950, relating to penalty for burglary under certain circumstances. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-184 of the Code of 1950, relating to employment of physician to care for prisoners in jail. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 18-160 of the Code of 1950, relating to burglary and punishment therefor. |
| AN ACT for the relief of O. R. Williams. |
| AN ACT to validate a lease entered into by the Director of the Department of Welfare and Institutions with Junius D. Updyke on the 22nd day of August, 1949. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 53-109 of the 1950 Code, relating to the use of convict road force in construction and maintenance of highways; acquisition, preparation and disposition of road material; and providing for payment for such convict labor when employed on State highways by State Highway Commission. |
| AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 19-94.1, relating to when bail may be granted in certain cases. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 53-61 of the Code of Virginia, relating to |
| An Act to provide a charter for the consolidated City of Newport News, to provide, under certain conditions, for the holding of a referendum to determine whether the same shall be adopted; and to provide the effect of such charter if adopted. |
| An Act to permit the giving of evidence by certain prisoners and to prescribe the conditions thereof. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 58-185.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the transfer of certain jail inmates and to provide for parole of such inmates. |
| An Act to provide a new charter for the City of Danville, Virginia; and to repeal Chapter 262 of the Acts of Assembly of 1889-90, approved February 17, 1890, which provided a charter for said city, and amendments thereof. |
| An Act to provide a charter for the town of Stuart, in the county of Patrick, and to repeal Chapter 60 of the Acts of Assembly of 1884, approved November 22, 1884, as amended, providing a charter for the town of Stuart, in Patrick county. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 18-158 of the Code of Virginia, relating to burning or otherwise destroying certain buildings or aii |
| An Act for the relief of McKinley Manns. |
| An Act for the relief of Mrs. Rosa Crawley Richardson. |
| SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 51 Proposing an amendment to Sec. 115a of the Constitution of Virginia. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 53-211 and 58-213 of the Code of Virginia, relating to good conduct allowances for convicts. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 53-220 of the Code of Virginia, relating to credits allowed prisoners under certain conditions, so as to prescribe additional credits for certain blood donations. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 58-11 and 58-18 of the Code of Virginia, relating to furnishing prison labor for farm work under certain conditions. |
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