Property

1902/1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 812. 813, 814, 815, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, and 824 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3559; section 3560, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 24, 1898; sections 3562 and 3563, chapter 174, of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the exchange of lots between the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the county of Albemarle.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Lancaster to acquire by purchase or condemnation for public purposes a lot of land not exceeding two acres, adjoining the lot on which the courthouse now stands.
An ACT to regulate the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the estates of decedents, and the appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators, committees by the clerks of circuit courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2386 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2179 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3454, 3455, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved January 18, 1888; sections 3457, 3459, 3460, 3465, 3466, 3467, 3469, 3471, 3474, 3485, 3488, and 3490 of chapter 170 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 3453, 3468, 3473, 3482, 3483, and 3487 of said chapter of said Code.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of chapter 577 of the acts of assembly of Virginia, session 1895-96, approved March 3, 1896, entitled "an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Waynesboro."
An Act to provide for the appointment every two years by the governor of three commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States, to define their duties, and to authorize the payment of their traveling expenses.
An ACT to provide for the issuance of $30,000 bonds by the city of Newport News for the payment of damage to property in the construction of the Twenty-eighth-street bridge.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2629 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2790 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to when and by whom distress made.
An ACT to provide a remedy for the correction and redress of erroneous assessments of property for taxation in cases not already provided for by law.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to locate and define the metes and bounds of the corporate property of the said county at Isle of Wight courthouse, and to purchase such additional property adjacent thereto as may be necessary for county purposes.
An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the Southwestern State Hospital to exchange certain land with the heirs of J. B. Rhea, deceased, and to execute and receive the necessary deeds for the purpose of carrying the same into effect.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 69, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the Virginia Military Institute, as amended by an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, and 14 of chapter 54 of the actes of the general assembly, extra session 1884, in relation to the appointment of a board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute,” approved May 18, 1887, and as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 1582 of chapter 22 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the government of the Virginia Military Institute,’ approved February 18, 1890, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2961 as amended by an act approved March 2, 1896, 2962, and 2965 as amended by an act approved February 27, 1894, of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2939, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1892; section 2956 and section 2957, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1894, of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled "an act to provide that if the plaintiff in a warrant upon a contract of such nature that an action of assumpsit would lie on same shall have served with the warrant a copy of this account, verified by affidavit, he shall have judgment for the amount of the said account, unless the defendant shall deny under oath that the account is due; and if the defendant deny only a part of the account he shall have judgment as to the residue, and the case be tried as to the part so denied," approved March 1, 1898; and also to repeal an act entitled "an act to provide how appeals from justice and warrants removed shall be tried, and how defects, omissions, and irregularities in the proceedings below may be corrected in the court to which the appeal is taken or the warrant removed," approved February 27, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2562 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1898, in relation to jurisdiction of partition of lands.
An ACT concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain.
An ACT to add an additional section to an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Courtland, in the county of Southampton
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of Blackstone, Nottoway county, Virginia, to appoint an assessor and have the real estate within the limits of said town assessed as a basis of taxation for State, county, and town purposes for the year 1903, and thereafter until the next regular assessment
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2636, 2637, 2639, 2640, 2642, 2645, and 2647 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2644 of said Code as amended and re-enacted by act approved February 12, 1892, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact. section 2644 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to the marriage of a female personal representative.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1894, and to amend and re-enact sections 2534 and 2538 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend section 2547 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1898, in relation to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3605, 3614, and 3615 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to repeal an act approved March 25, 1902, entitled an act to make the boundary lines of lots and tracts of land in Greenesville county a lawful fence.
An ACT to raise revenue for support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution.
An ACT to prevent the encroachment on or the changing of the lines or direction of any public road without permission of the court, and to prescribe a penalty therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2357 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2716, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2716 of the Code, in relation to unlawful detainer,” approved March 4, 1890, and sections 2717, 2718, 2719, and 2720 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3584 and 3599 of the Code of Virginia.

1904
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Pocahontas, Virginia, to sell a strip of eight feet on the east side of Centre street, from St. Clair to what is known as Philadelphia Row, in order to straighten said Centre street and make same of uniform width, and provide that the fund arising from same shall go to the benefit of the public school of the town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act in relation to fraudulent conversion of property held under trust deed”
An ACT to authorize the city of Roanoke to donate or sell real estate owned by it to any State institution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 637 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact section 637 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to clerks delivering to treasurers copy of list of delinquent real estate; treasurers to post the same with notice of sale of lands for taxes, levies, etc., attached,’”’
An ACT to amend and reenact section 443 of the Code of Virginia in relation to making copies of assessments and disposition of copies, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots, approved December 10, 1903, so as to provide additional time for returning assessments in cities having a population of over 50,000 by the last United States census.
An ACT to authorize the city of Charlottesville to close certain streets, to allow an overhead steel bridge over the lower end of Main street in said city, to permit the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company to erect a new passenger depot in said city, and to ascertain and pay damages, if any, resulting therefrom.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act to impose fine for trespass of swine and other stock in Rockfish district, Nelson county, approved February 9, 1900,” approved March 3, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3711 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, so as to repeal so much thereof as applies to the county of Dinwiddie.
An ACT to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Parksley, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 2, 1904, entitled “an act to provide for the release of contracts for sale of personal property, docketed under section 2462 of the Code of Virginia, approved 28th day of February, 1890.”
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, in the county of Roanoke, and repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 5, 1900, entitled an act to authorize and empower the State board of fisheries to employ a surveyor or surveyors, and making an appropriation for compensation of the same, approved March 28, 1902.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Narrows, in Giles county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 504 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 464 and 504 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the mode in which land and property books shall be made out
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2935 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by the acts of 1897-’98.
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, to borrow money by the issue of bonds for the construction and establishment of a system of water works in and for the use of said town; to construct and establish such works, and a sewerage system, if needed.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Madison Heights, in Amherst county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 458 of the Code of Virginia in relation to land books of commissioners of the revenue in the several cities and counties of this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4016 and 4018 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 2, 1904, concerning the trial of criminal cases and juries therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2967 of the Code of Virginia in relation to attachments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the Code of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1894, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1896, to provide punishment for maliciously or unlawfully removing or injuring any part of a canal or railroad, or any bridge or fixture thereof, or for maliciously or unlawfully obstructing, tampering with, or injuring any machinery, engine, car, or work thereof, or for maliciously or unlawfully opening, closing, displacing, tampering with, or injuring any switch, switch point or switch lever, or signal of any railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24a of the charter of the city of Richmond, as prescribed by an act approved February 20, 1886, entitled ‘an act giving authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control roads to the Reservoir and Soldiers’ Home,’ so as to give authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control a road running east from the corporate limits along P street to Thirty-fourth street extended; thence northwardly along Thirty-fourth street extended to Oakwood avenue; thence along Oakwood avenue to Oakwood Cemetery; and to amend section 105 of the charter of the city of Richmond providing for the election of a police justice, as prescribed in an act approved July 11, 1870, amending certain sections of the city charter, so as to fix the term of office of said police justice at four years.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-division “b” of section 8 of an act approved December 21, 1901, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia,’ as amended by an act approved March 29, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2981 of the Code, empowering judges of circuit and corporation courts to hear testimony and quash attachments in vacation upon reasonable notice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 444 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 10th, 1903, entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots.'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2942 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how and when warrant tried and judgment given, and in relation to how a justice may associate justices with him, and whose opinion to prevail.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to prescribe the jurisdiction of the several boards of supervisors of the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Page, and Shenandoah, on and after the first day of February, 1904, in matters pertaining to county roads, toll-roads, bridges, ferries, mills, fences, stock laws and apprentices, approved May 20, 1903, and to fix the times of meeting of the boards of supervisors of said counties."
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3340 and 3341 of the Code of Virginia so as to allow the contents of any paper which has been filed in any county, circuit, or corporation court or in the clerk’s office to be proved before a commissioner; and to authorize the judges of circuit and corporation courts to make such orders in vacation as may be necessary to secure to persons seeking to prove the contents of any will, deed, or other paper which has been filed in the clerk’s offices of said courts, or of the county courts, or recorded in a book therein, and which is lost or illegible, the benefits thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in reference to when and where writings admitted to record, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the Code as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 10, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the Code, in relation to certificates of acknowledgment.
An ACT appropriating the sum of $250,000 for the enlargement, restoration, and repair of the State capitol building, providing for the supervision of the expenditure thereof, and repealing so much of an act approved April 2, 1902, as appropriates $100,000 for restoring and repairing said building, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2716 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to authorize the board of Handley trustees to invest the money received by them in the purchase of debts which may be secured by lien on property in which the Handley fund may be in whole or in part invested, or to purchase the property itself, which it may be desirable that the Handley trustees should own for the purposes of their trust; to receive from the Handley executors the corpus of the residuum of said estate; to pay all expenses necessarily incident to the duties imposed upon said board by the act approved February 7, 1896, entitled 'an act to enable the city of Winchester to accept the bequest of John Handley, deceased, to validate the same and to provide for the administration thereof.' to construe said act as to the corporate powers given, and validate all acts of said board not done in accordance with the construction of said act herein given and give said board a corporate name.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed March 21, 1836, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in the county of Botetourt (now in Roanoke county), and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to lease the old Commonwealth attorney’s office building, on the public square, in the town of Fairfax.
An ACT to amend and re-énact section 907 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1888, in relation to the sale of mules, work oxen, and horses, when and where sold.

1906
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 2, 1898, entitled “an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to let to contract the public roads of that county and levy a tax to keep the same in repair,” as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1904.
An Act to empower the counties of Albemarle and Buckingham and the town of Scottsville to construct or aid in the construction of a bridge across James river at or near the town of Scottsville, and to authorize said counties and town to negotiate a loan or loans, and to issue bonds for that purpose.
An ACT to authorize the special board of directors of the Southwestern hospital to convey to the town of Marion a strip of land to be used as a public street.
An ACT to provide for establishing, working, and keeping in repair the roads and building and repairing the bridges in the county of Prince George.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1894, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex.
An ACT to validate the acknowledgment taken by mayors and members of councils who are ex-officio justices of the peace, and whose power to take such acknowledgments has been questioned.
An ACT to protect landlords against removal of crop by tenants
An ACT to create drainage districts of adjoining or adjacent owners of low lands, and to give jurisdiction to the circuit court in which said lands lie to enforce its provisions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of an act entitled ‘“‘an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution,
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a normal school at William and Mary college in connection with its collegiate course, approved March 5, 1888, and to transfer the ownership of the real estate and personal property of the said college to the State.
An ACT to provide for the expense of removing, supporting, and maintaining insane persons; how paid.
An ACT ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within the city of Fredericksburg, in this State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof.
An ACT empowering the special board of directors of the eastern State hospital at Williamsburg to sell certain lots now owned by said hospital, and reinvest the money in arable land.
An ACT authorizing and empowering the several cities of this Commonwealth to condemn property and conferring the power of eminent domain for the purpose of acquiring water sheds for the several cities and the necessary lands for laying water pipes, etc.
An ACT to ratify and confirm a contract of lease entered into between the special board of directors of the Southwestern State hospital and United States spruce lumber company.
An ACT to authorize the cities and towns of this Commonwealth to acquire, by purchase, gift, or condemnation, property adjoining parks, monuments, or other public property belonging to such cities or towns
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 631 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relative to the reimbursement of a fiduciary out of estate.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and reenact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved January 15, 1900; and as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and reenact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 8, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and reenact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved January 2, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2154 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, Virginia, to dispose of the jail lot with the buildings thereon in said city, and to pass title to same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2629 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 19, 1903.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Dublin, in Pulaski county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and reenact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessment of lands and lots as the same was amended and re-enacted by chapter 388 of the acts of assembly 1902-1903-1904, approved December 10, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid act of assembly.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Basic City to sell and convey the fee in a part of a certain street and alley.
An ACT to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30 of chapter 5, of an act entitled “an act concerning corporations,” which became a law on the 21st day of May, 1903.
An ACT to declare the effect of the death of the drawer of a check.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the acts and contracts of the authorities of Augusta county, which have been done in regard to certain real estate owned by said county.
An ACT to appropriate the further sum of five thousand dollars for the assessment of lands.
An ACT to provide for the purchase and distribution to certain officials copies of Waddey’s guide to magistrates, and to appropriate money for that purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 3, and section 9, chapter 3, of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to lien on crops for advances to farmers; nature of agreement therefor; where and in what manner docketed, and the effect thereof, and the clerk’s fee therefor,” approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to provide for the organization and government of incorporated communities which shall become cities of the second class under the provisions of section 1013b of the Code of Virginia.