Property

1910
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges, and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, and repealing so much of the acts as affect the county of Augusta, approved February 26, 1884; February 19, 1886; February 28, 1890; March 3, 1894, and March 2, 1898, approved February 26, 1900, approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of roads and bridges of Dinwiddie county; to create a road board for Dinwiddie county, and prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, and to regulate his duties
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3584 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to revise, arrange, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to provide, with certain conditions, a site for the erection of a Confederate memorial institute on a portion of the land in the western section of the city of Richmond, now the property of the State, and known as the Soldiers’ Home property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 2 of section 2 and subsections 2, 5, 6, 8 and 10 of section 20, and sections 1, 5, 7, 19, 24, 25 and 26 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities, and to ratify and confirm notices already given which conform to the requirements of this act.
An ACT to authorize cities and towns to permit, under certain conditions, awnings, fire escapes, shutters, and so forth, to overhang streets.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to liens on crops for advances to farmers.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to borrow the sum of $80,000, to be used in building a new courthouse and in building bridges in each of the magisterial districts of said county
An ACT to provide for compromise, settlement and release of State and county taxes and levies, in certain cases, and to provide a method and remedy therefor where grants of land have been made by this State, or by colonial governors of Virginia prior to the organization of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and subsequent grants were made which are contained partly or wholly within the boundaries of such
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an acc to provide for authorizing county or city school boards to sell or exchange public school property
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Charlotte to sell, convey and release to the State of Virginia the reversionary interest and all other rights of the said county in a certain tract of land conveyed by the said county to the State of Virginia on the 3d day of July, 1901, for the establishment of an agricultural experiment station thereon, and to authorize the State board of agriculture and immigration to purchase the reversionary interest and all other rights of the said county in the said tract of land, and to sell and convey the whole or any part thereof, if deemed by the said board unnecessary for its uses.
An ACT to provide that the book of entries and surveys of the several counties of the State shall be kept In the clerk’s office or other safe place, and providing penalties for failure to do so.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 441 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots, so as to provide for the assessment of standing timber for taxation.
An ACT to authorize and empower the State corporation commission to close or discontinue any private dock or wharf affected with a public use or easement in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 14 of chapter 1, sections 1 and 6 of chapter 2, section 1 of chapter 3, sections 2 and 7 of chapter 4, and section 7 of chapter 5 of the act concerning corporations,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 470 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2719 of the Code of Virginia, 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State, approved February 25, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, relating to the appointment of trustees, as amended by an act approved February 7, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1898, as amended by an act approved December 10, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3419, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, in reference to the powers of a personal representative of a dead trustee, approved February 7, 1890, and by an act approved March 7, 1898, and section 3426, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders, approved February 12, 1894, and by an act approved January 27, 1896, and by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 459 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and to amend and re-enact section 461 of the Code of Virginia, 1887.
An ACT to make the failure to pay for or refusal to return goods, wares and merchandise sold for cash on delivery larceny in certain cases.
An ACT to allow the land assessors of the State further time in which to make their returns for the year 1910, and making certain provisions for the review, revision and correction of their assessments, under certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair of all public roads, bridges, causeways and wharves, in the several counties of this State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 655 of chapter 28 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, entitled when deed to be made to purchaser: clerk to make it; what to contain; fee of clerk.
An ACT to provide that it shall be unlawful to hunt or trap birds or animals in the county of Rappahannock without obtaining written permit from the landowner or landowners, and to provide penalty therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2357 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to how owner may correct mistakes and obtain an inclusive grant for lands.
An ACT to permit the board of visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to sell and convey a small lot of land belonging to the said school.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 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 amend and re-enact section 1041a of the Code of Virginia, 1904, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1041la of the Code of Virginia, 1904, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authoriz-
An ACT to authorize recitals in deeds of conveyance executed prior to April, 1865, that the deed from the patentee of the land conveyed to or from his vendees was admitted to record in the general court at Richmond, Virginia, or Frankfort, Kentucky, and authenticated copies of such original deeds to be received as prima facie evidence of the execution of the said deed in suits and actions where the title to the land purported to be conveyed is involved.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section ninety of an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section ninety of an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, in relation to justices of the peace In said city, as amended by an act approved March sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled-an act to amend and re-enact section ninety of an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, in relation to justices of the peace in said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 12 of an act entitled an act to annex additional territory to the city of Norfolk, and provide for the government of said annexed territory, approved March 14, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437a of chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, relating to assessments of lands, lots and interests therein, and improvements thereon, as the same has been heretofore amended by chapter 319, Acts of 1906.

1912
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively on the 28th day of February, 1913, and the 28th day of February, 1914
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3397 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to special commissioners of sale.
An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 117 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 525 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to make valid and effective the recordation of deeds of corporations conveying property real or personal, heretofore or hereafter executed, and heretofore or hereafter recorded, in pursuance of resolutions of the boards of directors of such corporations authorizing such execution by their presidents and secretaries, when executed by such officers signing the corporate names and affixing and attesting the corporate seals respectively or jointly, and when such deeds have been or may be recorded upon the certificates of acknowledgment of the presidents only.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia
An ACT providing the manner in which cities and towns of this commonwealth may obtain leave to erect a dam in or across a water course, and prescribing the procedure to be had in connection therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 484 of the Code of Virginia, 1904, to authorize commissioners of the revenue to reduce the assessment of buildings when injured or destroyed, and to reduce the assessment of timber lands when the same is decreased in value by the removal of timber therefrom.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 38, 42, 45, 47, 53, 54, 55, 60, 79, 80, 81, 82, 87, 88, 99, 101, of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled an aet to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Kenbridge, in the county of Lunenburg, and to repeal an act approved March 14, 1908, incorporating the town of Kenbridge, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to sell or rent a farm containing five hundred acres, situated at Saxe, in Bacon magisterial district, Charlotte county, Virginia, and directing the disposition of the proceeds thereof.
An ACT to prescribe the effect as evidence to be given to deeds recorded prior to the year 1865.
An ACT to provide for the indexing of deeds and other records in ledgerized general index books.
An ACT to authorize the ascertainment of taxes due upon real estate.
An ACT to validate and hold firm and binding the receipt, recordation and verification of deeds, orders of probate, fiduciary accounts, and other papers and writings received into the clerk’s offices of the courts of this Commonwealth by the clerks thereof, and transcribed upon the record books in said offices, though the receipt, recordation and verification certificates attached thereto have not received the attesting signatures of the said clerks, and to provide for the attesting and verification of the same.
An ACT to amend section thirty-seven of an act approved January cleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, Virginia, as further amended by an act approved March the third, nineteen hundred and six.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19, 19-d, 26, 28, 29, 30, concerning the procedure necessary to recover and the liability on bonds given by municipal officers for the faithful discharge of their duties and creating an administrative board and defining their duties, and to amend and re-enact sections 31, 37, 47, 62, 68 and 64 of an act approved March 24, 1870, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for and authorize the purchase of at least one half of the property in the city of Richmond known as the Ford's hotel block, for the purpose of erecting a modern fire-proof building for the State library rooms, for the supreme court of appeals of Virginia, and for other buildings for the departments and agencies of the state.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county," approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act entitled '"an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, approved March the 9th, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereof," approved February the 29th, 1892, as further amended by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county, approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, approved March 9, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereof, approved February 29, 1892, and to add an independent section and power in the town council of said town to negotiate a loan not to exceed $5,000.00," approved March 5, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 22, 1871, to incorporate the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, and to provide a new charter for same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2920 of the Code of Virginia in reference to limitations of personal actions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 71-a of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing seventy thousand inhabitants: or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1910.
An ACT to authorize the ascertainment and designation of the boundary line of real estate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to promote the public health, convenience and welfare by leveeing, ditching, and draining the wet, swamp and overflowed lands of the State, and providing for the establishment of levee or drainage districts for the purpose of enlarging or changing any natural water courses, and for digging ditches, or canals, for securing better drainage, or providing better outlets for drainage, for building levees or embankments, and installing tide gates or pumping plants for the reclamation of overflowed lands, and prescribing a method for so doing; and providing for the assessment and collection of the cost and expense of the same, and issuing and selling bonds therefor; and for the care and maintenance of such improvements when constructed," approved March 17, 1910.
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of Isle of Wight county to appropriate money for the erection of a wharf on Chuckatuck creek
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections, 1168, 1169, 1170f and 1171 of an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 1164, 1168, 1169 and 1170 and 1171 of the Code of Virginia, and to add ‘independent sections thereto, so as to provide for the examination of banks and other similar institutions in this State, and to make certain general provisions and for the conduct of the business of banking, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof"
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1103-b of the Code of Virginia, to enable certain mining and manufacturing corporations of other States or countries to conduct operations in this State.
An ACT to facilitate the development of the resources of the State by providing ways of ingress and egress for mining, manufacturing and timber cutting, and to authorize proper passways, tram-roads, haulroads and other means of transportation over the lands of another or others.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled ‘tan act to provide the mode of ascertainment of damages in favor of abutting owners where any city or town shall cause injury to property by reason of the grading of any street, alley or other public place belonging to such city or town, and to give to any assessment so made against the city or town the effect of a judgment.
An ACT to make vahd and effective deeds of corporations
An ACT to provide reasonable compensation for the boards of road commissioners of the respective magisterial districts of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds issued by said county, for their services in directing or supervising the expenditure of the fund thus provided for permanent road or bridge improvement in their respective magisterial districts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 365 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1910, entitled ‘an act to authorize recitals in deedg of conveyance executed prior to April, 1865, that the deed from the patentee of the land conveyed to or from his vendees was admitted to record in the general couet at Richmond, Virginia, or Frankfort, Kentucky, and authenticated copies of such original deeds to be received as prima facie evidence of the execution of the said deed in suits and actions where the title to the land purported to be conveyed is involved.
An ACT to authorize the county of Louisa, Virginia, to borrow temporarily not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to pro-
An ACT to authorize and direct the register of the land office
An ACT to remove the obstructions across and in Sandy creek, between the old ford, in Halifax county, below the bridge across said creek at Henrvy’s mill, and the source of said stream in Pittsylvnaia county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Montgomery, in their discretion, to contribute and expend annually, out of the general county levy of the said county, a sum of money for the purpose of promoting agriculture and stock raising in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of New London academy to lease said buildings to county superintendents of schools of Bedford and Campbell counties for school purposes, approved May 10, 1887, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1910, authorizing the trustees of the New London academy to convey the real and personal property vested in them to the county school boards of Bedford and Campbell counties, and providing for the maintenance and management of the academy; and to enlarge the powers of the said board of managers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 541 of the acts-of the general assembly, session 1897.8, relating to the lot in the city of Richmond belonging to Henrico county, on which the courthouse of said county is situated.
An ACT to authorize the cities of Newport News and Hampton, and the counties of Warwick and Elizabeth City, to appropriate money and to issue bonds for drainage of any lands lying in the counties of Warwick or Elizabeth City.
An ACT to authorize the county school board of the county of James City to convey what is known as the Hickory Neck academy lot, with the building thereon, to the duly appointed trustees for the congregation of Hickory Neck Protestant Episcopal church of Blissland-parish, in James City county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend section 437a of an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessments of land and lots approved December 10, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act to amend and re-enact section 437a of an act approved December 10th, 1903, amending and re-enacting chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to assessment of lands and lots so that the said section shall apply to and provide for the assessment of standing timber trees and to make the same retrospective as to certain assessments approved February 21st, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessment of lands and lots as the same was amended and reenacted by chapter 388 of Acts of assembly 1902-34, approved December 10th, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid act of assembly approved March 17th, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act to amend and re-enact section 437a of an act entitled 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 reenacted by chapter 388 of the acts of assembly of 1902-3-4, approved December 10, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid acts of assembly approved March 17th, 1906, so that said section shall apply to and provide for the assessment of standing timber trees, approved March 12th, 1908, as amended and reenacted by an act to amend and reenact section 437a of chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia relating to assessment of lands, lots and interest therein and improvements thereon as the same has been heretofore amended by chapter 319 acts of 1906, approved February 19th, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to provide a new charter for the town of Liberty, to extend its limits and change the name to Bedford City, approved March 38, 1890; and to change the name of the town to Bedford."
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 16, 1910, entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 17, 1906, entitled '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, approved April 16, 1903, as amended and re-enacted.'
An ACT to require taxes levied upon dogs to be put upon the same tax bill with taxes levied on personal property, and to give the same remedies for collecting such taxes in certain cases.
An ACT relative to payment and custody of deposits in two or more names.
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 3 of an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain, approved January 18, 1904.
An ACT to provide for payment to the assessors of real estate for the city of Roanoke for work done by them in consequence of the death of one of said assessors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within this State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 7 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, ds amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, by an act approved March 3, 1898, by an act approved March 1, 1900, by an act approved March 14, 1902, by an act approved May 5, 1903, and by an act approved March 14, 1908; and to repeal the following sections of the Code of Virginia, and the following acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act; sections 2083, 2084, 2085, 2087, 2096, 2100, 2102; an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act, approved May 5, 1903; an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tide water, approved May 16, 1887, as amended by act approved March 1, 1888; an act entitled an act to provide for setting apart and designating crab-</p>
An ACT providing for remedy by motion after thirty days’ notice for any tort; when notice to be returned to clerk’s office; provision to prevent discontinuance of the motion.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 655 of chapter 28 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, entitled “when deed to be made to purchaser; clerk to make it; what to contain; fee of clerk,” as amended by an act approved March 16, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to change the name of the town of East Big Stone Gap, in Wise county, to East Stone Gap, and to amend and re-enact an act approved March 5, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the town of East Big Stone Gap, in Wise county, Virginia, approved March 8, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘“‘an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county in this State, in their discretion, to contribute and expend annually, out of the general county levy of the said county, a sum of money for the purpose of promoting agriculture in said county,” approved March 17, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 136 of an act of assembly of 1904, approved March 12, 1904, entitled 'an act to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, in the county of Roanoke, Virginia,' and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled, “An act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Henrico county to require osage orange hedges bordering on public roads of said county to be trimmed by owners of such hedges and to impose a fine for failure to comply,” which became a law December 20, 1897, by enlarging the powers of the said Board of Supervisors.
An ACT to authorize and empower the present clerk of Goochland county to copy and transmit to the treasurer of said county lists of lands delinquent for taxes for certain years which the previous clerk of said county failed to transmit to the treasurer of said county as required by law, and to authorize the treasurer of said county to make sale of such lands, and to authorize the judge of the circuit court of said county to allow said clerk of the circuit court of Goochland county suitable compensation for making lists aforesaid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 34 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 27, 34, 36, 41, 45, 46 and 47 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887, April 28, 1887, May 14, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21, 1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, and March 15, 1902, and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk as extended by the several acts of the general assembly and approved April 6, 1887, February 22, 1890 and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906, and add an independent section thereto to be known as section 33-a.
An ACT to authorize J. F. Smith, of York County Va. to erect a wharf on Cheeseman’s creek.
An ACT to prevent obstructing the waters of Pigg river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subdivision 25 of an act entitled "An act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain"