Property

1934
An ACT to validate certain conveyances of county real estate, made
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Staunton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3392 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to recording writings and other instruments.
An ACT to authorize and empower the mayor and council of the town of Vienna, in the county of Fairfax, to compromise with Katrina Hine Echols its claim to the real estate and the proceeds of the sale of portions thereof, formerly owned by the late Charles DeLano Hine, and to authorize either of the parties to bring suit against the other, in the circuit court of Fairfax, for the partition of said real estate in the event the said parties cannot voluntarily agree as to the division thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5936 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the court of law and chancery of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to validate conveyances of real estate by executors given power of sale under wills admitted to probate in other jurisdictions and to declare valid and effectual conveyances made hereafter under similar conditions; and to repeal an act entitled an act to validate conveyances of real estate by executors given power of sale under wills admitted to probate in other jurisdictions, approved March 14, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 378 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to the collection of taxes and levies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to divorces and dissolution of marriages, maintenance of parties, care, custody and maintenance of children, and property rights.
An ACT to authorize the town of South Hill, in Mecklenburg county, to abandon a portion of Lunenburg avenue and convey the same to G. L. Smith and the heirs of Nannie R. Smith, deceased, in exchange for a certain strip of land to be added to the said Lunenburg avenue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act authorizing the State Commission on Conservation and Development to acquire by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in condemnation proceedings or by gift, devise, purchase or any other lawful means for the transfer of title, the lands described therein, for public parks or for public park purposes, approved March 23, 1932, so as to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development under certain conditions to transfer said lands or a part thereof to the United States of America.
An ACT making it unlawful for any person to go upon or remain upon the lands or premises of another, except for certain purposes, after having been forbidden to do so by the owner or other person in possession or in charge thereof, and prescribing penalties.
An ACT to define the rights of riparian owners, their lessees and licensees, in tiie counties of Westmoreland, Richmond, Lancaster, Northumberland and Prince George in the matter of the selection of positions for blinds from which to shoot ducks, to provide for the protection of such rights; to prescribe the distances at which such blinds may, and may not, be located from the shore line in the different waters of the Commonwealth and from the property line of other persons, the depth of water in which such blinds may be located, and the distances between blinds; to make it unlawful to erect or maintain blinds at certain places in certain waters; to provide for the issuing of licenses to erect and maintain such blinds, and to prescribe the fees to be paid therefor; and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 6457-a, providing that bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness secured by deeds of trust, mortgages, or other liens, shall have no priority, one over the other, by priority of assignment or otherwise, unless the instrument creating the lien so provides.
An ACT authorizing the councils or other governing bodies of cities and incorporated towns to provide for municipal planning; providing for the creation, organization and powers of municipal planning commissions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6299 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the substitution of trustees in place of trustees who have died, resigned, removed or declined the trust, so as to validate decrees or orders of substitution heretofore made by courts of competent jurisdiction.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6457 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to assignees of debts secured by mortgages, deeds of trust, vendor’s or mechanic’s liens.
An ACT to make it unlawful for any person, in the county of Halifax, to knowingly or intentionally go, or allow his dogs to go, upon any other person’s private gamne preserve, containing more than 5,000 acres, while hunting or chasing any fox or deer, without permission, and to prescribe penal- ties for violations thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 288 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to fixing of county and district levies.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville, approved March 24, 1922, as amended by an act approved March 21, 1928, by amending and re-enacting sections 23 and 24.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19-f, 19-h, 57 and 105 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6552 of the Code of Virginia, relating to articles which a householder may hold exempt from levy or distress.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 4326-a, requiring certain liability insurance policies issued or delivered in this State to contain certain provisions; and to repeal chapter 339 of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, approved March 20, 1924.

1936
An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to acquire, by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, scenic easements, or in lieu thereof parcels of land, on either side or both sides of the roadway or highway from a point at or near Jarmen’s Gap and extending generally in a southwesterly direction to the North Carolina line, which roadway or highway the State Highway Commissioner has been heretofore authorized to convey to the United States, and which has been set apart and designated by the United States as the proposed Shenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains National Parkway; and to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to transfer, assign and convey to the United States said scenic easements, or land, so acquired.
An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to convey the interest of the Commonwealth in certain property in Henrico county, which is no longer needed for highway purposes, to Anna E. Wagner, in exchange for a parcel of property now owned by Anna E. Wagner, which is needed for highway purposes.
An ACT to permit the setting of steel traps in Ambherst county at any time.
An ACT to provide that, in any city having a population of not less than sixty-five thousand nor more than one hundred thousand according to the last preceding United States census, all lists of real estate returned delinquent for non-payment of local levies thereon, shall be recorded by the treasurer in delinquent land books to be kept in his office; that no such delinquent list, nor any report of sale of delinquent real estate, by the treasurer shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of any court of such city; that all payments in redemption of any such delinquent real estate shall be made to the treasurer, or the delinquent tax collector; to transfer to, vest in, and impose upon such treasurers all other authority and duties vested by law in, and imposed upon, clerks of courts of such cities, concerning delinquent real estate, except in the matter of making deeds to purchasers thereof, and to provide for the payment of certain fees and compensation to such treasurer; and the payment of the same into their respective city treasuries; to provide for the appointment of delinquent tax collectors and for fixing their salaries, or compensation.
An ACT to provide for a determination and survey of the natural rocks, beds and shoals in the waters of Princess Anne county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6268 of the Code of Virginia, relating to proceedings to subject real estate to the payment of debts and providing for the sale of real estate for other purposes.
An ACT to ratify, confirm and validate a deed of correction from A. W. Ward and wife to the Commonwealth of Virginia, dated August 30, 1935, and duly of record in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of Albemarle county in deed book 229, page 7.
An ACT authorizing the appointment by the board of supervisors of any county, county planning commission for said county, defining the duties of said planning commission and authorizing the appropriation of county funds for the purpose of carrying on the work of said commission.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-eight hundred and twenty-a of the Code of Virginia relating to the sale, conveyance and transfer by corporations, with certain exceptions, of the whole of their property, including good will, to any person, or corporation authorized to acquire the same, save that a corporation organized to conduct the business of banks, savings banks and/or trust companies, can only sell, convey or transfer such property, including good will, to another domestic corporation organized for the purpose of carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank and/or trust company.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Independence, in the county of Grayson, approved March 27, 1934, by adding thereto a new section numbered 7-a, providing how persons convicted of violating town ordinances may be required to work on the streets and roads in said town.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of counties having a density of population of more than five hundred per square mile according to the last United States census, to divide the area of said counties into one or more districts, and in such districts to regulate the use of land and of buildings or other structures and the height thereof, and also to establish building lines and to regulate and restrict the construction and location of buildings and other structures in said counties; to authorize such boards of supervisors to adopt all necessary regulations for carrying into effect the purposes of this act; to provide for zoning commissioners and boards of zoning appeals in such counties, their powers and duties; to provide for appeals from such zoning commissioners and boards of appeals and the effect thereof; to authorize such boards of supervisors to appoint administrative officers; to prescribe the powers and duties of such administrative officers; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violations thereof, approved April 11, 1927, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto a new section numbered 6-a, prescribing the conditions upon which zoning regulations, restrictions and boundaries may be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed in event 7 pre
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2454 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the lien on real estate for taxes and levies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6552 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to articles which may be held exempt from levy or distress.
An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to convey to W. M. Nieswander, certain real estate in Linville Magisterial District, Rockingham county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5904-b, 5904-c and 5904-e, of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to county courts, so as to provide for jurisdiction and procedure in actions in detinue, attachments and garnishments, and to provide for the disposition of fees collected by, and for the expenses of, the clerk of such court.
An ACT to prescribe the method of ascertainment of principal and income and the apportionment of receipts and expenses among tenants and remaindermen, and to make uniform the law with reference thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2757 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to powers of boards of supervisors to establish and maintain public sewers.
An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to convey to the Building and Loan Company of Manchester, Incorporated, a certain parcel of real estate in Chesterfield county no longer needed for State highway purposes, in exchange for a parcel of land now owned by the Building and Loan Company of Manchester, Incorporated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 63 and 64 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, Virginia, as amended by act approved March 24, 1920, as amended by act approved March 10, 1928, and to add thereto a new section to be known as section 64-a.
An ACT to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development to transfer and convey to the United States of America, or a department, institution or agency thereof, subject to certain conditions, restrictions and reservations, all rights, title and interest which the said commission and the State of Virginia has or may hereafter acquire in and to certain lands in Princess Anne county known and designated as the Virginia Sea Shore State Park.
An ACT to validate certain deeds heretofore executed by corporations which were subsequently dissolved, to which deeds the corporate seal was either not affixed or not attested, or where there were certain imperfections in the certificates of acknowledgment.
An ACT to ratify certain acts of the State Highway Commission and the State Highway Commissioner relating to additions heretofore made to the State Highway System, and the conveyance of certain sections thereof to the United States as parts of the Shenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains National Parkway; to authorize and prescribe future similar conveyances of remaining parts thereof and the acquisition of the lands so conveyed or to be conveyed; to cede to the United States certain jurisdictional powers over said lands in said parkway and to reserve to the Commonwealth of Virginia all other powers and jurisdiction over same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 16, 19, 21, 22 and 28 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter for said city, formerly the town of Hampton, approved May 23, 1887, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved, respectively, February 29, 1892; February 24, 1896; March 3, 1898; January 13, 1900; January 30, 1900; February 23, 1901; the two acts of May 15, 1903; March 2, 1914; March 9, 1916, and the act of December 26, 1903, which became a law without the Governor’s signature; and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Hampton, approved March 16, 1920, as heretofore amended; to repeal section 23 of the said act; and to provide for the effect of said repeal; and to prescribe the conditions upon which the said amendments and the said repeal shall become effective.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1771 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to assessment tax roll and amount to be assessed; collection of assessments and sale of lands to pay delinquent assessments in drainage districts.

An ACT to authorize the Special Board of Directors of the Southwestern State Hospital, at Marion, to convey certain real estate belonging to said hospital to the Chamber of Commerce of Marion, Incorporated.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary to sell and convey a certain parcel of land in the city of Williamsburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2495 of the Code of Virginia in relation to how lands sold for delinquent taxes and purchased in the name of the Auditor or the Comptroller, may be purchased by other persons.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4981l-a, requiring the docketing of judgments obtained by the Commonwealth in courts of record on forfeited recognizances and bonds, and providing for the payment of the fees for such recordation.
An ACT to authorize the Special Board of Directors of the Eastern State Hospital to convey to the city of Williamsburg for cemetery purposes not exceeding one and one-quarter acres of the lands of such hospital.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 18 and 19 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the acquisition of lands by the United States of America, so as to prescribe the rights, powers and jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States of America over and with respect to such lands, and persons and property thereon, and transactions, matters and things arising thereon, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 19-a and 19-b, giving the conditional consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to the acquisition by the United States of America of certain lands in Virginia, and prescribing the limitations imposed upon and the reservations incident to any transfer of such lands; and prescribing the respective jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of Virginia and of the United States of America over such lands, over persons and property thereon, and over any transactions, matters and things arising thereon; and to repeal certain acts pertaining to the same subject.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4214 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the lien of policyholders on deposits of insurance companies with the State Treasurer and the enforcement thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 8 and 17, as heretofore amended, of Chapter 4 of an act entitled “an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg,” approved March 11, 1875, in relation to lien on real estate for taxes, and the collection of taxes on real estate.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 6437-a and 6437-b, in relation to, and providing a method for, obtaining the release of mechanics liens and other similar liens by the payment of money into court, or by filing bond with security.
An ACT to authorize and empower the Governor of Virginia to grant, transfer and convey, to the United States of America two certain tracts or parcels of submerged land in Mill Creek, Elizabeth City county, lying adjacent to the Fort Monroe military reservation and containing approximately 36.2 acres, deed to define the jurisdiction of the State and the United States over said lands.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3394 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to general and daily indexes in clerk’s offices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 267 and 268 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to preparing and furnishing lists of deeds, judgments and decrees for partition of lands and lands devised by will by clerks of courts in which such deeds and wills are recorded and such judgments and decrees are rendered in cities containing more than one hundred seventy-five thousand inhabitants.
An ACT authorizing the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia to sell and convey certain lands.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of South Hill, in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Hill, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, approved February 16, 1901, and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 32 of an act entitled 'an act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to banks and banking, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia Banking Act, and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for the violations thereof'
An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of trust taken by persons authorized by law to take acknowledgments and who are trustees in
An ACT to authorize, under certain conditions and under the direc-tion and control of certain courts, assignments by certain persons of salary, wages and income to trustees for the benefit of creditors; defining the power and duties of such trustees and fixing their compensation; and prescribing the effect of such assignments as to creditors of the parties so assigning.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4436 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to wilful burning of property with intent to injure insurer, and how punished. H B 170
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 14 and Section 20 of an act entitled "An act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to building and loan associations, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia building and loan association act, and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for violations thereof," approved March 5, 1932, as heretofore amended, so as to include the shares of Federal Savings and Loan Associations within the provisions of Section 14 of the Act, and so as to enlarge and extend the powers of Trustees under deeds of trust on real estate securing loans of such associations.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Haysi, in Dickenson County, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and empower the State Board of Education to sell, transfer and convey certain real estate, together with buildings thereon, situated in the city of Petersburg, and to provide for the disposition of proceeds derived from the sale of such property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled "An act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to building and loan associations, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia building and loan association act, and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for violations thereof," approved March 5, 1932, as heretofore amended, so as to enlarge the powers of building and loan associations to make loans and to authorize such associations to have indebtedness secured by mortgages and deeds of trust, and shares, certificates and deposit accounts of such associations insured under the provisions of the National housing act, and to further amend the said Virginia building and loan association act, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto two new sections, numbered 23-b and 23-c, providing for the conversion of State building and loan associations into Federal savings and loan associations and Federal savings and loan associations into State building and loan associations, prescribing the procedure to be followed, and setting forth the rights, powers, duties, obligations and liabilities of such associations upon conversion.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2460 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the sale of delinquent real estate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper,” approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to permit persons, associations, partnerships, or corporations of the State of Virginia to borrow funds from production credit associations, regional agricultural credit corporation, banks for cooperatives, or the government of the United States or any department, agency or officer thereof, federal intermediate credit banks or any institution which has made arrangements to discount therewith or to procure funds therefrom on the security of the obligation of the borrower and providing a means of securing said loans
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections (f), (i), (j) and (k) of section 29 of chapter 64 of the acts of 1922, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Suffolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Suffolk
An ACT to authorize the Special board of directors of the Southwestern State Hospital, at Marion, to convey certain tracts of real estate to the Commission of Game and Inland fisheries as a site for a fish hatchery and to lease certain water rights to said commission for use in connection with said hatchery.
An ACT to provide that upon the sale of any lands belonging to the Commonwealth of Virginia or of any products of such lands, there shall be paid to the United States a certain portion of any profit derived by the Commonwealth as the result of any work on said land sold, or on lands the products of which are sold, done or to be done under a project carried on pursuant to an act of the Congress of The United States entitled, “an act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of public work, and for other purposes,” approved March 31, 1933, and to appropriate a sum sufficient for such purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees for sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3780 and 3792 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to amendments of charters of corporations after organization, and powers to create two or more kinds of stock of corporations, and increase or decrease the stock and providing for redemption of stock or dividends thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4440 of the Code of Virginia, relating to larceny.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 414 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to the correction of erroneous assessments.
An ACT to provide for the assessment of real estate in cities con-
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 242 and 243 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to general reassessments of real estate.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Altavista, Campbell county, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 172 thereof a new section numbered 4325-a, defining “title insurance”; and providing for the organization, regulation, supervision and control of title insurance companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2158 and 2162 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to public moneys and State depositories.
An ACT to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development to transfer and convey to the United States of America, or to a department, institution, or agency thereof, or to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, subject to certain conditions, restrictions and reservations, all right, title and interest which the said commission and the Commonwealth has or may hereafter acquire in and to certain lands in Fairfax county, Virginia, and known as Washington’s Old Mill.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3813-c, authorizing purchasers of real estate, and their successors in title, purchased from certain dissolved corporations, to maintain suits to quiet title to such real estate and to remove clouds therefrom, prescribing the jurisdiction of such suits, authorizing the appointment of receivers, directing the defense of such suits by such receivers, and providing that no stockholders, officers or directors of such dissolved corporations formerly owning said real estate, need be defendants thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled “An act authorizing cities containing not less than one hundred and twenty-five thousand nor more than one hundred and fifty thousand population, according to the last preceding United States census, to provide for the annual assessment and equalization of assessments of real estate approved March 24, 1932, in relation to reassessment of real estate, so as to prescribe the compensation of the assessors
An ACT to validate the action of the town of Culpeper, acting through its properly constituted authorities, in the sale of certain property belonging to the town of Culpeper to V. Von Gemmingen, who was town manager of the town of Culpeper, by deed dated February 11, 1932.

1936/1937es
An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to convey to the Chester Realty Development Corporation a certain parcel of real estate in Chesterfield county, no longer needed for public use, in exchange for a parcel of land now owned by the Chester Realty Development Corporation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith,
An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner of Virginia to convey to K. E. Harman and Laura J. Harman a certain parcel of real estate in Pulaski county no longer needed for highway purposes.
An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner of Virginia to convey to Gertrude C. Rubin a certain parcel of real estate in Albemarle county no longer needed for highway purposes.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 1/9 thereof thirteen new sections numbered 2726-m to 2726-y, both inclusive, vesting in boards of supervisors power to cause county buildings to be insured, to provide suitable rooms for county purposes and to determine what allowances payable out of county treasuries shall be made to sheriffs and clerks, and to repeal sections 2726 and 2726-a to 2726-l, both inclusive relating to the same matters.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Upperville, in Fauquier county, Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Norton, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and all former charters and amendments thereof, of said town.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Front Royal, Virginia, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of "An act entitled an act to regulate investments of domestic life insurance companies"
An ACT to authorize and ratify a conveyance by the State Highway Commissioner of the interest of the Commonwealth in a certain strip or parcel of land in Albemarle county, Virginia, which is no longer needed for highway purposes, to the Albemarle Oil and Gas Company, Incorporated, in exchange for a parcel of land which has been conveyed by the Albemarle Oil and Gas Company, Incorporated, to the Commonwealth of Virginia and which is needed for highway purposes.

1938
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4385 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the condemnation of property in certain cases.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Manassas, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Manassas, in Prince William county’