Public expenditures

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 of chapter 3, and sections 37 and 38 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter for the city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900.
An ACT authorizing the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than ten thousand dollars of public school improvement bonds, and to authorize the issuance by said city of not more than ten thousand dollars of said bonds if a majority of those voting vote in favor of such issuance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled: An act to incorporate the town of Crewe, in the county of Nottoway
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 17, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7, 17 and 18 of an act approved February 20, 1892, entitled an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia not funded, etc., approved February 3, 1900, and a similar amendment approved February 16, 1901, as again amended by an act approved April 2, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1506 of Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to what school funds shall consist of.
An ACT to establish a School of Mines as a deparment of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, and to make an appropriation for the same.
An ACT to establish a board of charities and corrections to define its duties and to fix the compensation of said board and subordinates and to provide for the manner in which they shall be appointed to said offices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act requiring the several county and district school boards of Virginia to make and publish annually a statement of receipts and disbursements, and providing a penalty for failing to do so
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 43 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and 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 by an act approved March 14, 1904.
An ACT to amend and-re-enact sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled: An act providing for the appointment of a State board of health and of local board of health, defining the duties and powers and compensation thereof, and of their members, officers and agents in connection with the preservation of public health; and prescribing penalties against witnesses failing to obey subpenas issued by said State board of health, or any authorized member thereof, for refusing to testify or otherwise acting in contempt of said State board or its duly authorized members.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1447 of chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 28, 1903, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906, in relation to "public free schools for counties and of the literary fund, section 1447. Powers and duties of the board."
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act amending and re-enacting sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 of an act entitled: An act to protect and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers and the guarantee and condition upon which they are to be sold, and fixing the penalties incurred for violation of the same, approved February 24, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 8, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1896, as amended by an act approved December 22, 1897, as amended by an act approved December 28, 1899.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 206 of the Code of Virginia relative to the duties of the clerk of the house of delegates.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 of an act entitled: An act to submit to qualified voters of the town of Emporia, Virginia, at the next general election in June, 1906, for the election of mayor and councilmen, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the said town, and further to provide for the conduct of the said dispensary, and to prohibit thereafter within said town, or within the county of Greenesville, Virginia, the making, sale, barter or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms or corporations, except as provided herein.
An ACT for the purpose of regulating the construction of public school buildings in order that the health, sight, and comfort of all pupils may be properly protected.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8, section 17, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 12, 1903, and section 18 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.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of King William county to build, construct and maintain a bridge over the Pamunkey river near Hanover town, between King William and Hanover counties.
An ACT to authorize the town of Bridgewater in the county of Rockingham, Va., to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of establishing water works, ete.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to require the debt due the Commonwealth by the insolvent Planters and Mechanics bank of Petersburg, Virginia, to be charged off the accounts kept by the auditor of public accounts and the treasurer, respectively, which show the amounts of money from time to time in the treasury to the credit of the Commonwealth, and to transfer said item to the account of suspended debts.
An ACT to provide (in certain cases) for the compulsory attend-ance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia, and providing penalty for failure, and designating the manner of collecting such penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the charter of the town of Chatham.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 184 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1890, entitled "an act to provide for the working of and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Smyth."
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Chase City
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 29, and 30 of an act entitled: An act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay 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.
An ACT concerning the appointment of a dairy and food commissioner within the department of agriculture and immigration, and imposing penalties for its violation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 32 and 33 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.
An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of Mecklenburg county the question of bond issue for permanent road improvement, and to give to board of supervisors authority in disbursing the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly approved March 4, 1894, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order the public roads in the counties of Greene and Madison, as amended by acts approved May 14, 1903, so far as the same applies to Madison county, so as to provide for the opening, constructing, maintaining and keeping in order the roads, causeways and bridges of Madison county and creating the office of superintendent of roads and prescribing his duties and compensation; and to repeal any act in conflict herewith.
An ACT to provide the commissions that shall be allowed county treasurers upon funds handled by them, that are raised by the issuance and sale of county bonds and of school district bonds.
An ACT to authorize the supervisors of each county and the council of each city to make a special levy for the support and maintenance of maimed and disabled Confederate soldiers, or the needy and indigent widows of Confederate soldiers, in their respective counties and cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 526 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to establish a public free school on the grounds of the prison association of Virginia at Laurel, Henrico county, and to make an appropriation for erection and equipment of the school house, and to provide for the conduct and maintenance of the same.
An ACT to establish a State geological survey and to make provision for the preparation and publication of reports and maps to illustrate the natural resources of the State, together with the necessary investigation preparatory thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 3 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, and an act approved March 15, 1906.
An ACT to authorize the Virginia commission to the Jamestown exposition to sell and convey certain property belonging to the State, to pay certain debts, to make certain investments, and to pay any residue therefrom into the public treasury.
An ACT to define and regulate the sale, distribution, rectifying, manufacture and distilling of intoxicating liquors and malt beverages, and to impose license taxes thereon, and to prohibit the drinking of ardent spirits on railroad trains, and to repeal sections 141 and 142 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act approved April 16, 1903, 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 February 19, 1904, and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to validate and confirm certain bonds issued by the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 1, of the county of Norfolk, under an act entitled: “an act to authorize the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 6, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor not exceeding $50,000 in amount,” approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and six; and to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to guarantee the payment of said bonds.
An ACT to require officers collecting taxes to furnish dated tax ticket or receipt therefor and providing punishment for failure so to do.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony
An ACT to provide a retirement fund for public school teachers.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to pay certain claims due the sheriff of Elizabeth City county by the State, which were stolen in 1892, and recovered in 1906, and therefore debarred by the statute of limitation.
An ACT to authorize the town of Cape Charles, in Northampton county, to issue bonds and borrow money thereon, for the purpose of erecting and equipping a publie school building in and for the said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to authorize the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia to pay money to infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases, without the intervention of a guardian, approved April 2, 1902, in respect to the amount of money that may be paid to the infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases.
An ACT to provide for State money aid, in addition to convict labor, for the improvement of public roads.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 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 by an act approved February 19, 1904.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mathews county to appropriate funds to erect a monument to the Confederate soldiers of the said county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Prince George county to appropriate money to the Confederate monument.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act providing for the appoint-ment of a commission of three persons by the circuit court of Spotsylvania county, to be known as the board of public roads for Spotsylvania county, etc.
An ACT permitting owners and operators of permanent parks for public amusement which shall be open for the public for at least three months during each year to pay a specific license in lieu of the licenses provided for in sections 98, 99, 105, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 122, 139 of the tax law entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and pay the interest on the public debt, and provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and further amended by an act, approved February 19, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for making, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of the act approved March 12, 1904, relating to the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for’ building and keeping in good order and repair all roads, bridges, causeways and wharves and so forth, approved March 17, 1906.
An ACT to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural districts, and to appropriate money therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3527 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3527 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to payment of fees to officers out of the treasury in criminal cases
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Cape Charles, in Northampton county, to issue bonds, and borrow money thereon, for the purpose of increasing the water supply and sewerage system of the said town, and retiring, in whole or part, its existing bonded indebtedness for money borrowed with which to install its present system.
An ACT to make an appropriation for a replica or modified copy of the Houdon statue of George Washington to be presented along with the statue of Robert Edward Lee to the national statuary hall in the capitol of the United States at Washington, District of Columbia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled: An act authorizing the auditor of public accounts to issue duplicates
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Appomattox county to appropriate money to Confederate monument.
An ACT to regulate the taking of seed oysters in a certain part of the Potomac river, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2095 of the Code of Virginia, to prevent non-residents from being concerned or interested in fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth for the purpose of manufacturing the same into oil, fish scrap or manure, or in such manufacture.
An ACT to provide for the improvement of public roads in Charlotte county, to authorize the issuance of county bonds for the purpose and to apportion the proceeds of said bonds among the several magisterial districts and to provide for the authorization of the issue of bonds by an election.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 121 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, and approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Hill, Mecklenburg county, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and macadamize the roads in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question, approved April 2, 1902, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 15, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906.
Joint resolution proposing amendment to section 50 of article 4 of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment, and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to provide for the opening, working and changing the public roads in Rappahannock county and building and repairing bridges therein
An ACT to appropriate the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars annually to the sinking fund for the purpose of extinguishing the public debt of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 23, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 20, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906, providing for the working and keeping in repair the roads, and building and keeping in repair bridges in the county of Essex, and providing what tax shall be used for the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled: 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 qualifications of the members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its officers, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders, findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and judgments, and its expenses, etc
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to allow the street mileage in the town of Chase City, county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, to be included in mileage of county public roads and to receive its proratable share of county road levies
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for establishing, working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in the county of Rockbridge.
An ACT to authorize the county school board of the county of James City to use the funds known as the “Hickory Neck Academy Fund” in the purchasing of a lot and construction of a high school building at Toano, in said county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of York county to levy an additional capitation tax for the benefit of the public free schools.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Chincoteague, Accomac county.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending respectively on the 28th day of February, 1909, and the 28th day of February, 1910.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands situated at Sewell’s Point in Tannar’s Creek magisterial district, Norfolk county, Virginia, including all or a portion of the land comprised in the site of the Jamestown Ter-centennial exposition and the improvements thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 5, 1900, entitled an act to provide for the establishment, alteration, discontinuance and working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Giles county, and to punish obstructions of the road commissioners in the discharge of their duties, and also to punish road officials of Giles county for any neglect of their official duties, approved March 14, 1904.
An ACT to authorize the sinking fund commissioners of the State of Virginia to convert the stock and dividend obligations of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company into stocks of said company under any new charter or amendment of its charter which said company may hereafter acquire.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $4,100 to meet certain expenses for the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, Staunton.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Shenandoah Valley Academy to contract a debt and secure the same by deed of trust on real estate held by them.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19 and 74, of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1878, and as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1900.
An ACT to authorize Essex county to borrow money, and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $2,500, in order to build a new bridge over Piscataway creek.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create a road board for the county of Fauquier, and to provide for the working of the roads of said county, approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and amended by act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act authorizing boards of supervisors to contract loans for the erection of courthouses, clerk’s offices and jails, approved February 20, 1894, as amended as to section 2 of said act by act approved April 2, 1902, so as to include poor-houses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1898, entitled: An act to create the board of fisheries of Virginia, and define its duties and fix the salary of its members, as amended by acts approved February 21, 1900, and February 15, 1901, respectively, so as to change the name of said board, to increase salaries, define duties and provide a fund for carrying out the provisions of this act.
An ACT providing the method by which cities and towns in this Commonwealth may vote upon the issuance of bonds contemplated by clause “B,” of section 127, of the Constitution.
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 to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for creating, working and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county and defining the boundaries of the same, approved March 14, 1904, approved March 8, 1906
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1038 of an act entitled chapter 269, an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia, 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, approved May 20, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906.
An ACT to make an appropriation to the Johnson’s Island Confederate cemetery commission of Ohio to aid said Confederate cemetery commission in its noble work of caring for the graves of Virginia soldiers buried at Johnson’s Island and Camp Chase.
An ACT to appropriate money to pay certain expenses incurred in protecting the oyster industry, for which the chairman and secretary of the board of fisheries have given their personal obligation to provide means for continued protection till March 1, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved May 20, 1903, as heretofore amended, entitled: An act defining the duties and powers of the board of agriculture and immigration, so as to prescribe the powers and auties of said board and said commissioner, and to repeal an act approved February 29, 1888, entitled: An act to further define the duties and enlarge the powers of the commissioner of agriculture, and an act approved March 5, 1888, entitled: An act to provide a Commissioner of Agriculture of Virginia and making an appropriation therefor and to repeal sections 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, and 1790 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to issue coupon or registered bonds of the city, for the purpose of erecting a public school building for said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3. 4, 5 and 9 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled: An act to incorporate the Manchester and Richmond Free Bridge Company, and granting certain powers to said company, and the city councils of the cities of Richmond and Manchester for public purposes.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to borrow a sum not exceeding $200,000, for the purpose of permanent road improvements in said county, and to issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 3, 1898, and April 2, 1902, in relation to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers and constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: 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 court-house 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 prescribe a form of tax bill to be used by the treasurer of the county of Frederick.
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.