Public expenditures

1902/1904
AN ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 70 of the Code of 1887 relating to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute and the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled 'an act providing for the compensation and mileage of members, committees, officers, and employees of the general assembly, and for the payment of the same'
An ACT authorizing Fairfield school district to issue bonds for the purchase of property to be used for school purposes.
An ACT to authorize the improvement of the roads of Frederick county, and to provide funds to pay the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 1015b, 1015g, 1033, 1033b, 1033f, 1042a, and 1048 of section 1, and section 2 of 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1043 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled ‘an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns.’
An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of William and Mary College to use the appropriation of 35.000 heretofore made to said college for an electric light plant for that or such other system of lighting as the said board may deem expedient.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $8,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to defray the expenses of the State board of health.
An ACT to put into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment and organization of the “State Corporation Commission,” its jurisdiction, powers, functions and duties; the qualification of the members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its offices, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders, findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and judgments, ana its expenses, ete.
An ACT to authorize the improvement of the public roads in Frederick county, and to provide funds to pay for the same.
An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Manassas, in the county of Prince William, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Petaworth school district, in Gloucester county, to borrow money and to issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 73 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved April 28, 1887, entitled an act to amend an act for working the public roads of Fairfax county
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 573 of the acts of 1891-1892, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as amended by an act passed March 2, 1892, as amended by an act passed January 25, 1898, as amended by an act passed February 28, 1898, as amended hy an act passed March 6, 1900, as amended by an act passed December 19, 1901, to increasing the rate per hour paid day laborers for work on the roads in Pulaski county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 8, 1902, entitled an act to authorize, empower, and direct the board of supervisors of Clarke county to build, construct, and maintain a toll-bridge at or near Castleman’s Ferry, in said county, and to build, construct, and maintain a toll-bridge at or near Berry’s Ferry, in said county of Clarke, over the Shenandoah river; to issue county bonds to the extent of forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of raising money for the construction of said bridges; to receive any subscriptions that may be made for said purpose; to provide for the collection, custody, and application of said tolls; and to validate an election held in the county of Clarke, November 4, 1902, approving an issue of the bonds of said county, to the amount of forty thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing the said toll-bridges,” so as to provide for the payment of the land damages and approaches out of the annual levy.
An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating hquors in Waverly magisterial district, Sussex county, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, or corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to said magisterial district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3498, 3500, 3505, 3506, and 3508 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3515 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1896, and section 3519 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 18, 1896, and section 3528, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, and also to repeal section 3524 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1900, and section 3525 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and empower the councils of cities and towns and the boards of supervisors of counties to levy special taxes or levies for the purpose of paying the interest on and providing a sinking fund for bonds issued by virtue of any act of the general assembly enacted.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $1,200 for payment of the stenographer employed in the Campbell investigation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 11 of an act to amend and re-enact chapter 256 of the acts of assembly of 1855-’56, as amended by chapter 123 of the acts of assembly of 1883-’84, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Orange, and to enable the said town to borrow money
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 amend and re-enact section 16 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 16, 17, and 20 of an act approved March 15, 1902, entitled an act to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, Virginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the eighteenth subdivision of section 17 of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March 6, 1882.
An ACT prescribing the liability of common carriers, railroads, or transportation companies for any loss, damage, or injury to property caused by its negligence, or the negligence of any other common carrier, railroad, or transportation company to which such property may be delivered, or over whose lines such property may pass.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Clarke county to issue bonds of the county to macadamize the public roads of the several magisterial districts of the county.
An ACT providing mileage to the members of the general assembly, clerks, officers, and pages of same, for attending the reconvening of the general assembly in the city of Richmond on the 10th day of November, 1903.
An ACT to provide for an industrial and commercial exhibit by the Commonwealth of Virginia at the Louisiana purchase exposition, and to appropriate money for the same.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county to appropriate and contribute out of the county funds an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars to L. A. Armstead Camp Confederate Veterans, No. 26, of Virginia, for the purpose of aiding said camp in the completion of the monument upon the public square of said county, at the county seat thereof.
An ACT to repeal section 10 of an act entitled 'an act to authorize and empower the town 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 declare the powers and jurisdiction of the county and corporation courts in the exercise of the jurisdiction created by an act entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact section 666 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to sale of delinquent lands purchased in the name of the auditor'
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to transfer to the county of Shenandoah the State's interest in the Mt. Jackson and Howard Lick Turnpike Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 623 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to collection of taxes and levies and distraining therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to borrow $9,000 for the purpose of building a bridge across James river in that county, approved March 29, 1902, so as to authorize the said board to borrow $12,000 for the purpose aforesaid, and to issue bonds of the said county therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4110, 4113, 4114, 4115, 4143, 4164, 4155, 4156, 4167, 4168, 4172, 4173 of the Code of Virginia, and sections 4123, 4124, 4159, 4162, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4123, 4124, 4152, 4159, 4160, 4161, 4162, 4163, 4164, 4167, and 4173 of chapter 202, Code of Virginia, in relation to rules governing the management of the penitentiary, approved February 19, 1892, and sections 4133, 4160, and 4167, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4130, 4132, 4133, and 4136 of the Code of Virginia, and sections 4137 and 4138 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, and sections 4160 and 4167 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, relating to rules governing the penitentiary, approved March 18, 1892, of title 55 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the organization, government, and discipline of the penitentiary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 83 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, relating to insurance brokers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 73, Code of 1887, relating to general provisions as to colleges and academies and other institutions, of the Miller Manual Labor School and the Medical College of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act requiring educational institutions receiving State appropriations to make annual reports to the board of education,” approved January 12, 1888, and an act entitled “an act to provide for the expenses of the boards of visitors of the institutions of learning,” approved March 4, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 94 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 chapter 72, Code of 1887, as amended by act approved March 29, 1902, in regard to the management of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Warren county to borrow $15,000, to be used in the building of a bridge and approaches thereto over the south branch of the Shenandoah river at or near Carson’s ford, in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act authorizing the qualified voters of Prince Edward county to vote upon the question of issuing the bonds of said county to secure money for the purpose of purchasing road machinery and improving the public roads of said county, and authorizing the board of supervisors to issue the bonds of the county for said purpose, if the vote shall be in favor thereof
An ACT to provide for the additional wards to the University Virginia Hospital.
An ACT to authorize the school board of the city of Charlottesville to borrow money and to execute its bonds for said loan.
An ACT to incorporate the General Alumni Association of the University of Virginia, with authority to issue certificates of membership to local associations and individuals composing said General Alumni Association.
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors and judge of the county court of Giles to authorize the Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a monument on the courthouse square, at Pearisburg, Virginia, to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of said county, and in their discretion to appropriate money to aid in the erection of said monument.
An ACT to provide for an election in Orange county for the purpose of taking the sense of the qualified voters upon the question of issuing bonds to build macadamized public roads; to appoint road commissioners, prescribe their powers and duties, and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to issue and negotiate said bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, in relation to fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth; to provide for levying a license tax on fishing devices, and for the collection thereof, and to extend the provisions of said act to all the waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1900, and as amended by an act approved March 14, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 21, 26, and 40 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads of Greene and Madison, approved March 5, 1894.
An ACT to require the State Corporation Commission to fix and prescribe storage, demurrage, and car service charges which may be collected by railroad and other transportation companies on freight transported, or to be transported by them, and to be paid by them on freight delayed and cars not promptly furnished or placed by them, with rules and regulations governing same.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to borrow money for the construction of highway bridges in the Pulaski road district, in Pulaski county.
An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 as materiel by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved January 22, 1894, and by an act approved May 20, 1903; section 457 as amended by an act approved January 22, 1894; section 459 as amended by an act approved February 9, 1898; section 492 as amended by an act approved February 24, 1898; section 498 as amended by an act approved January 8, 1898; sections 460, 462, 487, 488, 491, 503, 521, 524, 527, 528, and 532, and to repeal section 472 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Patrick county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact: an act entitled “an act providing for an additional appropriation for the erection of a fence around the Lee monu-ment in Richmond, Virginia.”
An ACT to compensate the heirs of J. J. Moran for services rendered by him as agent of the State of Virginia in prosecuting the claim of the State for the recovery of the direct tax levied by the federal government under act of congress approved August 5, 1861, and acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to authorize municipal corporations to issue bonds for the redemption of outstanding bonds.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lancaster county to effect a loan for county road purposes, and to disburse the same.
An ACT to empower the several road boards of Clarke county to purchase rock crushers for their respective districts, and to make provision for the payment thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create and maintain a State board of crop pest commissioners and to define its duties and powers
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose, approved February 21, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1903.
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 provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in the county of Essex, and providing what tax shall be used for keeping the same in order.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 588 and 591 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 593, 594, 595, 596, 597, 598, 599, 600, and 601 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to limit the time in which warrants drawn by boards of supervisors, district school boards, and circuit courts shall be paid, and to repeal an act entitled “an act limiting the time in which warrants drawn by the supervisors, school boards, and county boards shall be paid,” approved January 20, 1898.
An ACT to provide for telephone service in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth and to appropriate money for that purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public free schools for counties and to the literary fund.
An ACT to confirm the proceedings of the common council of the city of Newport News relating to the issue and sale of $56,000 bonds of the city for paving purposes.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Clintwood school district, in Dickenson county, to issue bonds and use the proceeds to purchase a site and erect thereon and furnish a school-house for said school district, and to authorize said trustees to sell the present school-house lot, and invest the proceeds in another school-house lot.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bedford county to contribute such an amount as it shall deem proper towards the erection of a Confederate monument in the courthouse square of said county.
An ACT for the issuing of $100,000 of bonds, to purchase land, and to build and erect thereon a market-house, armory, council chamber, and city offices, or otherwise acquire the same, and to provide a circuit court-room in the present courthouse building, and provide a fire-proof vault for the records of the corporation and circuit courts, and for the furnishing and equipping of the said new buildings in the city of Newport News.
An ACT to create a board of sinking fund commissioners for the town of Gladeville, in Wise county.
An ACT to establish a “good roads commission” for Culpeper county, and to provide for the expenses thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Caroline county.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $5,000 to the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute.
An ACT providing mileage to the members of the general assembly, clerks, officers, and pages of same for attending the reconvening of the general assembly in the city of Richmond on the 12th day of November, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 305, acts of assembly 1897-’8, entitled “an act to require the clerks of the county and corporation courts of this State to report to their respective courts a list of all fines reported by justices of the peace under section 718 of the Code of Virginia, what lists shall contain, and to require the auditor of public accounts to furnish blank forms upon which such lists shall be made.”
An ACT to provide for the collection, classification, and publication of the general statutes of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved November 20, 1902, entitled an act to provide for the payment of pensions under pension act of March 7, 1900, whose claims were not approved under provisions of act of April 2, 1902, and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior to September 1, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 143 of an act entitled ‘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 authorize the board of supervisors of Gloucester county to borrow money.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Campbell county to appropriate and contribute money to the Citizens’ Association of Campbell county, for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2148 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1901, and by previous acts, in relation to the time for taking oysters, and to prohibit the use of patent tongs.
An ACT to authorize the city of Petersburg to acquire land necessary to construct a channel for diverting the freshet water from the Appomattox river at Petersburg, Virginia, so as to improve the harbor and channel of said river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to keep in its clerk’s office a book showing the amount of money and notes under the control or subject to the order of said court, approved February 19, 1898," so as to make said act apply also to the law and equity court of the city of Richmond.
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 increase the annual appropriation to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute from $25,000 to $40,000.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia relating to State depositories.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2179 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled “an act to provide fire-escapes from buildings of over three stories.”
An ACT to repeal an act entitled ‘an act to impose a tax on corporations chartered and organized as social clubs desiring to keep liquors at their club house or other place of meeting, to be sold or given away to the members of the corporation for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to prescribe the mode of paying such tax and penalty for its non-payment; to define the privileges of such clubs, and to prescribe in what cases their charters may be revoked.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 60, chapter 7, of the charter of the city of Portsmouth in relation to city officers.
An ACT authorizing and directing the auditor of public accounts to accept from county and city treasurers of the Commonwealth, or their securities, against whom there are judgments in favor of the Commonwealth for taxes and money due the Commonwealth as such treasurers, the amount so due, together with the costs of suit, and interest at six per centum per annum from the time the same became due, in full satisfaction and discharge of said judgments, provided the same is fully paid by the first day of July, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of directors of the penitentiary to employ assistant clerks when needed, or to apportion the clerical work of the penitentiary among those now employed, and to apportion their compensation therefor
An ACT to repeal an aet entitled an act to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Patrick county
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4079 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to medical attendance, medicines, and clothing for indigent prisoners in jail, and analyses in poison cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 74, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind
An ACT to provide for the support, maintenance, and instruction of the Virginia volunteers, and for their maintenance and pay when called into service in aid of the civil authorities or by the governor and commander-in-chief, and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 16 and 18 of an act entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Farmville magisterial district, in Prince Edward county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict. with this act so far as they apply to the said magisterial district
An ACT to facilitate the committees of the general assembly in their work of adjusting the general statutes to the new Constitution by providing for the collection, classification, and placing in convenient form for each committee such general statutes as pertain to the subjects assigned to it.
An ACT providing for the appropriation of $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the cost of the completion of a fire-proof shell building, including heating, plumbing, etc., at the penitentiary.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds for the paving and grading of the streets of the city.