Property

1918
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Luray, in the county of Page, to convey certain land to the Confederate memorial association of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for State money aid, in addition to convict labor, for the improvement of public roads
An ACT to make and declare the county courthouse building and the lot appurtenant thereto, located in Harrisonburg, a part of Central magisterial district in Rockingham county, for certain purposes.
An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, to convey a part of its real estate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow executors and other fiduciaries to invest in Virginia three per centum bonds issued by virtue of an act approved February 14, 1882, as amended by an act approved February 9, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1916.
An ACT to provide for the recordation of certain maps and plats, and validating certain maps and plats already recorded.
A RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 117 of article S of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
An ACT to uuthorize the town council of the town of Altavista to sell and convey certain lands belonging to said town.
An ACT to regulate the running at large of dogs in the county
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to commissioners of revenue.
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 amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code, as hereto-
An ACT to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to ratify and confirm certain acts of Henry C. Stuart, former governor of Virginia, in relation to the securing of options in the name of the State of Virginia, on certain lands to be used for military purposes, situated in Prince George county, Virginia, and to authorize the proper officers of the State of Virginia to assign such options to the United States Camp, Inc.
An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of the Virginia Poly-technic Institute. to sell and convey a certain parcel of land not needed for the purposes of said institution.
An ACT to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 10, 1904, entitled an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments and other erections and authorizing cemetery companies and trustees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 20, 1906.
An ACT to validate a conveyance by the trustees of the town of Louisa to W. O. Smith of a lot in said town.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Dungannon, in Scott county,
An ACT to provide for the sale or partition of personal property of greater value than twenty dollars where it is owned by two or more persons jointly who cannot agree upon a sale or division of the same.
An ACT concerning the exercise of the right of the power of eminent domain by the government of the United States.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Augusta county to issue time warrants to carry the present floating debt of Augusta county and to levy a tax to pay the interest upon said debt, and to establish a sinking fund to pay off said debt.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of Charlotte, for the creation of district road boards in said county, and for the repeal of all acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Clifton Forge,
An ACT to allow personal representatives and guardians of estates of $100.00 or less, in the discretion of the court, to qualify by giving bond without surety, and to provide that upon the qualification of a personal representative of an estate of a decedent, of $100.00 or less in value, no tax or court cost shall be charged upon such qualification.
An ACT to prohibit stealing and taking away sand and gravel
An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia, taken before certain officials in foreign countries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act appropriating the proceeds of the Glebe lands, and other property, belonging to the parishes of Abingdon, Ware, and Petsworth, in the county of Gloucester, and for other purposes
An ACT to ratify and confirm a certain contract made between the bridge commissioners of the county of Stafford, a corporation, duly chartered by the general assembly of Virginia by an act approved February 20, 1886, and Gari Melchers and Corinne Lawton Melchers, of the county of Stafford, Va.
An ACT to make the north fork of the Holston river in Saltville district of Washington county, a lawful fence.
An ACT to make uniform the law relating to partnerships.
An ACT to give consent of the State of Virginia to the purchase or acquisition by the United States of America, of certain real estate in the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to create the office of State forester, under the direction and control of the State geological commission, and defining his duties, approved March 21, 1914, and to make provision for the prevention of fires, approved March 20, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1402 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 28, 1902, in relation to suits by and against trustees.
An ACT to provide for the protection of game in the counties of Amelia and Nottoway.
An ACT to provide for clearing trees and underbrush from the sides of public roads.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1912, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 10, relating to the initiative, referendum and recall.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2700a of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow executors and other fiduciaries to invest in Virginia three per centum bonds issued by virtue of an act approved February 14, 1882, approved February 9, 1898, approved March 22, 1916, in relation to fiduciary investments.
An ACT for the relief of all taxpayers in the State of Virginia
An ACP to authorize the clerk of the eirecut court of Wise county to receive and keep on file due his office a delinquent hand book of delinquent town lots and acreage located within the boundaries of the corporation of Norton
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 8 of chapter 159 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of the session of 1916, relating to the organization and government of cities of the second Class.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 20, 1916, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to invest, use and apply any part of the sinking fund created and set apart for the purpose of redeeming the principal of the $700,000 issue of thirty-year Wise county road bonds, dated February 1, 1911, in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of the $130,000 issue of thirty-year Wise county road bonds issued for the Richmond magisterial district, dated March 1, 1913; and in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of the $130,000 issue of Wise county road bonds issued for the Gladeville magisterial district, dated March 1, 1913, and to grant to the board of supervisors of said county the additional authority to invest, use and apply any part of said sinking fund, and any part of any sinking fund now or hereafter created and set apart for the purpose of redeeming the principal of any road bonds of said county now or hereafter issued for the said county, or for any of the magisterial districts thereof, in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of such county or district road bonds, now or hereafter issued, and in and to the purchase and holding of any school bonds now or hereafter issued by any school district of said county.
An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Waynesboro, to call a special election of the qualified voters of the said town, to determine whether or not all live stock shall be prohibited from running at large within, the corporate limits of the town of Waynesboro, Virginia
An ACT relating to the filing of answers in suits for the sale of infants’ interest in real estate.
An ACT to dispose of certain moneys in the hands of the treas-urer.
An ACT to provide under certain conditions for the conveyance of real property occupied by a church.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of water by one city to the inhabitants, firms, corporations or industries of another city; and the right to occupy and use the streets, lanes, parks or other public places in the latter city without the consent of the council of said city.

1919es
An ACT requiring superintendent of roads to keep roads, foot and other bridges in repair, prescribing how materials for roads and bridges are to be procured, how compensation for same shall be fixed and damages ascertained, and what is not to be interfered
An ACT to amend section 5189 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to authorize the town of Potomac, in the county of Alexandria, Virginia, to issue bonds not exceeding $60,000.00 for the purpose of building and maintaining a sewerage system; to allow the council of said town to issue said bonds if the same shall be authorized by a majority of the qualified voters, being freeholders thereof; and to levy and collect a special tax to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund for the redemption of the said bonds upon their maturity.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, State of Virginia, to borrow money, issue warrants and bonds therefor, for the purpose of erecting a public school building, building a concrete street from the corporate limits on York street to the corporate limits on Richmond avenue, and to complete the water and sewer systems of the said city, and providing for submission of the issuance of bonds for these purposes to the qualified voters of the said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled "an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March 12, 1908, March 14, 1908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 18, 1914, March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, February 5, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk," approved February 7, 1918.
An ACT to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for the purpose of building, improving and maintaining the public roads and bridges of Franktown magisterial district in Said county.
An ACT requiring permits to be obtained for the construction, repair or improvement of buildings or structures in the on of Norfolk.
An ACT to authorize the city of Bristol to lease or sell the Gauthier property in said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to cause all depositions or accounts in the several banks and banking corporations or associations in this Commonwealth, whereof the depositor is unknown, or the person or persons, to whom such account of deposit belongs, or belong, is, or are unknown, and against which deposit or account there has been no check, draft or order for a period of twenty-one years, by one entitled to check thereon, to escheat to the Commonwealth; and to direct the manner of reporting same, and the final disposition thereof
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 301 of acts of the general assembly of 1889-1890, entitled an act to provide for the drainage of low lands in Northampton and Accomac counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 2, 1888, entitled an act to provide for making, changing and working roads in the county of Rockingham, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk.

1920
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2274 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to repeal an act to authorize the city of Bristol to lease or sell the Gauthier property in said city
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3173 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Bedford, being chapter 165 of the acts of the assembly, 1912, approved March 12, 1912, so as to expressly authorize sales and conveyances of certain lands owned by the towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 59 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 10, 1904, entitled an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments and other erections and authorizing. cemetery companies and trutsees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift.
An ACT to provide for the issuing of bonds of Fauquier county for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the said county.
An ACT concerning depositories for the funds of Culpeper county and the interest on such funds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6239 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to borrow four thousand dollars for the purpose of completing the Eldorado road in Salem magisterial district.
An ACT to expedite the collection of taxes and levies on lands and lots, which have not been paid prior to the report of delinquents for any year, by county and city treasurers; defining certain duties of such treasurers and making compensation therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 89 of an act entitled an act to provide for the settlement, registration, transfer, and assurance of titles to land, and to establish courts of land registration with jurisdiction for said purposes, and to make uniform the laws of the states enacting the same
An ACT to prohibit the removal and carrying away of sand or gravel from the fast land, beach or bluff abutting upon any of the rivers, streams or other waters within the jurisdiction of ‘this Commonwealth or from the beds of any such waters, or from land lying between high and low water-mark of any such waters, and to repeal an act entitled an act to punish stealing and taking away sand within this Commonwealth, on the banks of the Potomac river, approved March 8, 1894.
An ACT to provide for submission to the people for approval and ratification the proposed amendments to section 32 of article 2, section 117 of article 8, section 133 of article 9, section 136 of article 9, section 138, and section 184 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new’charter for the town of Narrows and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the Provisions of
An ACT to provide for the drainage of lands in the county of Prince Edward.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 3, 1900, and in force from its passage, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith; and also to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6437 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the limits of, and provide for electing trustees for, the town of Marion, in the county of Smyth, and vesting them with certain corporate powers, passed March 15, 1849, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize and empower the judge of the circuit court of the county of Prince Edward, to have conveyed to the Rice Local Union, No. 63, of the Prince Edward County Branch of the Farmers’ Educational and Co-Operative Union of America, or any other farmers’ organization, certain land at Rice, in the county of Prince Edward.
An ACT to provide for the contraction of the corporate limits of towns located partially in one county and partially in another.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Louisa, in Louisa county, approved March 8, 1873.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved November 24, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, in the county of Southampton, and amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1901, and amended by an act approved December 19, 1901, and amended by an act approved March 16, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3394 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3393 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6310 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to prohibit the obstructing of Pole Cat creek, Caroline county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2449 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, formerly the town of Hampton, approved May 23, 1887, and the several acts amendatory thereof...
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 8 and 15 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Banister in the county of Halifax, epproved May 16, 1887, as heretofore amended and to repeal section 10 of said act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the roads of said county and levy a tax to keep the same in proper repair.
An ACT to provide how a charter of a town granted by a court may be annulled and repealed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6452 of the Code of Virginia, 1919.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5431 of the Code of Virginia in relation to investments by fiduciaries, 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 allow executors and fiduciaries to invest in Virginia three per centum bonds, issued by virtue of an act approved February 14, 1882, as amended by an act approved February 9, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1916, approved March 16, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 5 of article 2 and section 1 of article 3, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 2, 1914, and by an act approved March 1, 1916.
An ACT to amend section 3 of an act approved March 3, 1892, entitled an act making an annual appropriation to the Confederate Soldiers’ Home, and in consideration therefor accepting a conveyance from R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans, of the property owned by it and now used for said home, so as to extend the time when the possession and control of the property conveyed in the deed from R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans, to the Commonwealth of Virginia, dated March 24, 1892, shall pass from the grantor to the grantee in said deed; and to further extend the time when the possession and control of said property shall pass from the grantor to the grantee in said deed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2389 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors to fell, or fell and remove, trees along public highways, and to keep the lands along such highways cleared of growing trees; also providing for procedure under, this act.
An ACT to amend sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, and 103 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, and to repeal sections 2 and 93 of said act and to add thereto sections 14a, 55a, 99a, 116a, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, and 132, which deal with and provide for vacancies in the council; the initiative and referendum; the general powers and duties of the department of public welfare; the division of the city into school districts and the election of trustees therefor; the creation of a civil service commission and its rules and regulations; the jurisdiction of courts to enforce ordinances; rules and regulations upon city owned property outside of the city; continuance of present officers in office until January 1, 1921, and the vacating of certain offices at that time; the penalties for violation of certain sections; the working of prisoners; the appointment of boards and the creation of pension funds.
An ACT to provide for an election by the qualified voters of Grafton magisterial district, in the county of York, State of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Washington county to build bridges, and to lay tax levies to pay therefor, and to issue certificates of indebtedness in anticipation of such tax collections.