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1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3922 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for defending certain suits in the United States courts by railroad companies, against the members and the clerk of the State corporation commission, involving important public interests, and for indemnity to the defendants in said suits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled: An act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of the convicts
An ACT to authorize Albemarle county to borrow and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $30,000, to pay off the floating debt for building the new county poor-house, as well as to build a new bridge over the Rivanna river at Rio Mills, and assist in securing under-grade crossings under the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and of the Southern Railway Company, respectively, in the county of Albemarle, and to re-imburse the amount for the building of the bridge over James river at Scottsville.
An ACT to amend and ‘re-enact an act of assembly entitled: An act to authorize the several school boards of the school districts in this State to borrow money belonging to the literary fund for certain purposes and to authorize the loan of said funds for each district, approved March 15, 1906, extending the same privileges to cities.
1910
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the making, changing and working of roads in the county of Rockingham
An ACT to empower the town of Chatham, in the county of Pittsylvania, to borrow money and issue bonds for public schools and street and road improvement.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled 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 regulate the conduct and equipment of hotels, to provide for the inspection thereof, and penalties for violation of the provisions hereof.
An ACT to authorize 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 one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of “gravity water bonds” and to authorize the issuance by said city of not more than $125,000 of said bonds, if a majority of those voting vote in favor of such issuance.
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 to levy a tax to keep same in proper repair, as amended by an act approved February 29, 1892, and February 2, 1894, and acts amendatory thereof, respectively, January 22, 1898, March 7, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1906.
An ACT to provide for the recordation of copies of certaiD papers from the records of the United States courts in bankruptcy preceedings, their effect as evidence, and the fees which may be charged by clerks for certain services in connection therewith.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 50 of article four of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and empower the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, Virginia, to sell and dispose of the lot of land situated on the west side of England street, in said city, known as a part of Ireland street, and to pass title to same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of roads and bridges of Dinwiddie county; to create a road board for Dinwiddie county, and prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, and to regulate his duties
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair of all public roads, bridges, causeways and wharves, in the several counties of this State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Radford, and
An ACT to allow the board of supervisors of Pulaski county, Virginia, to fix the compensation of the Pulaski road district commission for services in the construction of macadam roads.
An ACT to provide for public playgrounds in certain cities and towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended
An ACT to provide for the examination and testing of dairy cattle for controlling tuberculosis, and to appropriate money for expenses thereof.
An ACT to authorize any county in the State, in the discretion of its local read authorities, to use its apportionment of State money aid appropriated for the improvement of public roads in the construction of bridges, and providing how such money shall be expended.
An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds to establish water works to furnish a supply of water, and to create a board of commissioners to establish such system of water works.
An ACT to amend and re-enact 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, approved March 11, 1908, adding theerto sections 12%, 17% and 17a.
An ACT to allow compensation to the “Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls’ for caring for girls committed to its custody and control under a commitment of a court, judge or justice.
An ACT to repeal chapter 237 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May 14, 1903, acts 1902-1903-1904, entitled 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 amend section 9 of the charter of the town of Holland.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 101 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, as amended and re-enacted.
An ACT to establish the Virginia State epileptic colony.
An ACT to enable incorporated towns and cities to contribute to the building or improvement of public roads and bridges leading to such towns or cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of 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 amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges, and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, and repealing so much of the acts as affect the county of Augusta, approved February 26, 1884; February 19, 1886; February 28, 1890; March 3, 1894, and March 2, 1898, approved February 26, 1900, approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 2 of section 2 and subsections 2, 5, 6, 8 and 10 of section 20, and sections 1, 5, 7, 19, 24, 25 and 26 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities, and to ratify and confirm notices already given which conform to the requirements of this act.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds for grading, paving and other street improvements.
An ACT to appropriate $225.00 to monument fund of the immortal six hundred Confederate veterans.
An ACT to authorize the town of Eastville, in the county of Northampton, Virginia, to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of building macadamized or stone streets through the town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 7 and 10 of an act approved March 6, 1906, and amended by an act approved February 25, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled an act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; provided for an increase of the penitentiary guard, not to exceed forty-five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
An ACT to promote the public health, convenience and welfare by leveeing, ditching and draining the wet, swamp and overflowed lands of the State, and providing for the establishment of levee or drainage districts for the purpose of enlarging or changing any natural water courses, and for digging ditches, or canals, for securing better drainage, or providing better outlets for drainage, for building levees, or embankments, and installing tide gates, or pumping plants for the reclamation of overflowed lands, and prescribing a method for so doing; and providing for the assessment and collection of the cost and expense of the same, and issuing and selling bonds therefor: and for the care and maintenance of such improvements when constructed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the improvement and working of roads in the county of Henrico, and for the construction and repair of bridges therein, and to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1882, entitled an act for laying out and working roads in Henrico county, approved March 1, 1884, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the counties of the State.
An ACT to authorize the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to issue coupons or registered bonds of the city for the purpose of enabling the city to appropriate $20,000 cash toward the establishment at or near the city of a State normal and industrial school for women.
An ACT to refund to the Home for Needy Confederate Women taxes illegally paid upon its property.
An ACT to amend an re-enact an act approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and reenact sections seven and seventeen, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections seven, seventeen and eighteen of an act approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia, not funded.
An ACT to authorize turnpike companies and other corporations owning turnpikes to make changes in the alignment of turnpikes and to validate changes heretofore made.
An ACT to repeal chapter 259 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 25, 1886, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads in Russell county, approved February 25, 1884, and to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8 and 9 of chapter 56 of the acts of the general assembly of 1883-1884, in regard to the working of the roads in Russell county, Virginia, approved August 26, 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 107, section 108, and section 109 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1904, 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.
An ACT to license and regulate the sale and inspection of condi-tional stock and poultry foods and powders intended for domestic animals and poultry.
An ACT to revise, arrange, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to who are exempt from jury service.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to borrow the sum of $80,000, to be used in building a new courthouse and in building bridges in each of the magisterial districts of said county
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 441 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots, so as to provide for the assessment of standing timber for taxation.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Isle of Wight county to levy an additional capitation tax for the benefit of the public free schools.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 84 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 section 7 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning public corporations, requiring railroads to post notice of delayed trains, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 of an act entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 3, 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled a: 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 special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution approved April 16, 1903.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Charlotte to sell, convey and release to the State of Virginia the reversionary interest and all other rights of the said county in a certain tract of land conveyed by the said county to the State of Virginia on the 3d day of July, 1901, for the establishment of an agricultural experiment station thereon, and to authorize the State board of agriculture and immigration to purchase the reversionary interest and all other rights of the said county in the said tract of land, and to sell and convey the whole or any part thereof, if deemed by the said board unnecessary for its uses.
An ACT for the relief of the estate of James E. Phillips, deceased.
An ACT to authorize the district school board of Grafton school district, of York county, Virginia, to borrow the sum of $4,000, and to issue bonds therefor, for the building and equipment of a new high school building in said district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to add an independent section to be known as section 1463a to chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, authorizing a new school census to be taken whenever the boundaries of a district are changed
An ACT to repeal 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, approved March 15, 1904, and also to repeal the act amendatory of said act, approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 16 of an act entitled an act for working the roads in the county of Loudoun, approved February 16, 1880, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 2, 1894, and further amended by an act approved April 27, 1903.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to require railroads to provide suitable caboose cars on freight trains, and to impose a penalty for failure so to do.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 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 constitute a united agricultural board to co-ordinate the Virginia College of Agriculture and Polytechnic Institute and the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, the commissioner and State board of agriculture, and the State board of education, in co-operation with the United State Department of Agriculture for the betterment of agricultural, experimental and demonstration work, and generally to advance the agricultural interest of this State, and to authorize boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for experimental and demonstration work in their respective counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 37, 38 and 39 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, with reference to fees on charters of domestic corporations and fees on foreign corporations authorized to do business in this State, and to add a section thereto designated as section 38a.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of New London academy to lease said buildings to county superintendents of schools of Bedford and Campbell counties for school purposes, approved May 10, 1887, and authorizing the trustees of the New London academy to convey the real and personal property vested in them to the county school boards of Bedford and Campbell counties, and providing for the maintenance and management of the academy.
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 confer upon the board of supervisors of Loudoun county all the authority vested in the local road authorities under an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor for the improvement of public roads, approved February 25, 1908, except the power to levy taxes for road purposes and to prescribe certain duties of the road boards of said county.
An ACT to amend an re-enact an act entitled an act to empower the circuit court and board of supervisors of any county to authorize and permit the erection of a Confederate monument upon the public square at the county seat thereof
An ACT to establish a public free school on the grounds of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia in Hanover county, and to provide for the conduct and maintenance of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to add section 47 to chapter 106 of the acts of assembly of Virginia, 1904, entitled an act to provide the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and Keeping in repair of all public roads, bridges, causeways and wharves in the several counties of this State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 12, 1904.
An ACT to require the State treasurer, at the end of each fiscal year, to charge off the books of his office all checks drawn by him on State depositories which have not been presented for payment within five years from the date they were issued, and to require him to certify the fact to the auditor of public accounts and to the State depositories on which these checks were drawn.
An ACT to amend an act approved March 13, 1908, entitled an act to provide for the payment of a license tax for the exhibition of any automatic moving picture machine, phonograph, graphophone, or similar musical machine, when the price of admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum of ten cents.
An ACT to permit the boards of supervisors of counties and the councils of cities to provide help for destitute persons bitten by mad dogs.
An ACT to provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the county of Elizabeth City, or of portions thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act of the general assembly, entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Winchester, approved April 2, 1874, as amended by an act approved April 30, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 26, 1896, as amended in section 9 and section 11 thereof by an act approved March 5, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act approved May 7, 1887, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of West Point, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1892, entitled an act to repeal section 22 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of West Peint, Virginia, approved May 2, 1887, and as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1894, entitled an act amending and re-enacting sections 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12 amd 15 of an act approved May 2, 1887, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of West Point.
An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to issue bonds for school purposes.
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors in the several counties in this State to appropriate money for the establishment, equipment and maintenance of agricultural schools, and to ratify and confirm any appropriations already made to such schools by the board of supervisors in any of the counties in this State.
An ACT to authorize and empower the State corporation commission to close or discontinue any private dock or wharf affected with a public use or easement in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and reenact an act approved March 17, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 27 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as amended and re-enacted.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural dis- tricts, and to appropriate money therefor, approved March 14, 1908, so as to extend its provisions to the libraries of city schools.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 10 of 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 duties 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 65, 1888, entitled an act to provide a commissioner of agriculture of Virginia, and make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal sections 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789 and 1790 of the Code of Virginia, approved February 25, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1904, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Deep Creek magisterial district, No. 2, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor,
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 8, 1904, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1906, and as further amended by an act approved March 11, 1908, and to provide for the building and repair of bridges in said county.
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, by an act approved March 3, 1898, by an act approved March 1, 1900, by act approved March 14, 1902, by act approved May 5, 1903, and by act approved March 14, 1908; and to repeal the following sections of the Code of Virginia, and the following acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act; sections 2083, 2084, 2085, 2087, 2096, 2100, 2102; an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this Commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act, approved May 5, 1903; an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tidewater, approved May 16, 1887, as amended by act approved March 1, 1888; an act entitled an act to provide for setting apart and designating crabbing grounds in the waters of the Commonwealth, approved February 3, 1900; an act entitled an act to provide for clam- ming grounds in the waters of this State, approved March 8, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges, and to regulate the manner of opening new roads in the county of Montgomery,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3792 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fighting cocks, dogs, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 5, 1894, to require the board of supervisors of Warwick county to tax the sale of ardent spirits and malt liquors in Newport magisterial district in said county.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years
An ACT to repeal sections 2020, 2021 and 2022, and to amend and re-enact sections 2008, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2026, 2027 and 2036 of an act entitled an act creating a board of harbor commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and for the preservation of the harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth, approved March 3, 1882, as amended and re enacted by an act entitled an act amending and re-enacting sections 2008, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2023, and repealing sections 2028, 2029, 2030 and 2031 of chapter 92 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the duties of harbor commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth, approved February 26, 1890.
An ACT to allow the land assessors of the State further time in which to make their returns for the year 1910, and making certain provisions for the review, revision and correction of their assessments, under certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper, approved January 25, 1898, and as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1906, and as amended and approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 1, 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of 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 to amend and re-enact section 31 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, approved March 11, 1908, fixing the amount of license tax to be paid by each and every express company operating a mileage in this State.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission upon the reform and revision of the tax and assessment laws of Virginia; to define its duties; provide compensation for its members, and to make an appropriation therefor.