Public expenditures

1914

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 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 8 of an act approved March 13, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roads of Tazewell county, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in said county, approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to repeal all acts heretofore approved to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, except section 12 of an act approved February 9, 1910, 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, etc., and to re-enact said section 12.
An ACT to authorize and empower W. F. Mench, J. D. Parker, J. E. Burcher, I. D. Hertzler, H. A. Campbell and J. C. Curtis, their associates, successors and assigns to build, construct, maintain and operate a toll bridge across and over Warwick river in the county of Warwick, Virginia, under certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved April 15, 1903, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the several counties of the State to retire outstanding bonds and to issue new bonds at the same or a lower rate of interest; and to validate all bonds heretofore issued by any county of the State under said act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act for working the roads of Amherst county, approved February 20, 1912.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to borrow $20,000 for the purpose of building bridges across James river at Glen Wilton, and across Catawba creek on or near the Sweet Springs turnpike, in said county, and for the purpose of completing the permanent improvement of the public roads from Fincastle to Troutville and Daleville, in said county.
An ACT empowering the council of the town of Clarksville, in the county of Mecklenburg, to issue and sell bonds for the purpose of establishing and maintaining an electric lighting plant in said town, provided the question of such bond issue for the purposes named be first submitted to the qualified voters of the said town; and to authorize the said council of the said town to call a special election for the submission of same to the voters of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 508 of the Code of Virginia
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 authorize the city council of the city of Charlottesville to grant aid to a woman’s co-ordinate college of the university of Virginia.
An ACT to compensate R. Gordon Finney, trial justice for Alexandria county, Va., for services rendered as such trial justice under the act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 28, 1912.
An ACT to permit counties having a population greater than 300 inhabitants per square mile, as shown by the United States census, to bond for 18 per cent. of the assessed value of real estate in such county.
An ACT to repeal chapter 272 of the acts of the general assembly, 1910, entitled an act to empower the county of Warwick to construct or aid in construction of a bridge across Deep creek, between Bucher’s (Burcher’s) landing and Menche’s landing and to authorize and empower said county to negotiate a loan and issue bonds for that purpose
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 515 of the acts of assembly of 1902-3 entitled an act to work and keep in repair roads and bridges in the county of Stafford, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 246 of the acts of 1908.
An ACT to provide for the revision, codification and indexing, with suitable marginal citations and references, of the statute law of Virginia; for the printing, publication and disposition thereof; to appoint commissioners therefor and fix their compensation; to provide for the necessary clerical assistants to said commissioners; and to appropriate the necessary funds for said work.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not to exceed $150,000, for the purpose of building public roads in said county, approved March 14, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 10 of an act entitled an act concerning public service corporations, approved January 18, 1904, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act concerning corporations, approved January 18, 1904, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act concerning public corporations, approved January 18, 1904, and providing for the continuance of annual tolls on turnpikes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of the charter of the former town, now city, of Hampton, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia. approved May 28, 1887, in relation to taxation. (H. B. 52.)
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1682 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 7, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910, in relation to the admission to the State hospitals of insane persons charged with or indicted for crime, etc., etc., and providing for examination into the sanity of the defendant by experts in insanity by order of the court, etc., ete.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorpo-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act to amend and
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county, approved February 21, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county, approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to amend an act to authorize the cities of Newport News and Hampton, and the counties of Warwick and Elizabeth City, to appropriate money and to issue bonds for drainage of any lands lying in the counties of Warwick or of Elizabeth City, and to add thereto the county of York, and to authorize the construction of a canal for drainage and transportation purposes through the said cities and counties.
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
An ACT for the creation and maintenance of a legislative reference bureau.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, by inserting clause number 43, to prevent the obstruction of public roads in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, and to provide for the erection of toll gates.
An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of Powhatan county, by and with the approval of a majority of the quali-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3530 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 26, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, relative to the fees of justices in criminal cases, payable out of the treasury of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to authorize and direct the auditor of public accounts to prescribe and furnish forms of accounts for claims against the Commonwealth which are allowed from time to time by the several corporation and circuit courts in this State.
An ACT to provide for participation by the State of Virginia in the Panama exposition at San Francisco, to appoint a commission, and to appropriate money for that purpose.
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac, to levy an additional tax on all prorerty, real and personal, in the corporate limits of said town, for such town purposes as the council of said town shall determine.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Botetourt county, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair, the roads of Botetourt county, approved March 4, 1896, and an act amendatory thereof, approved February 14, 1901.
An ACT to amend section 1 of 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 sections 117 and 118 of an act approved April 16, 1908, 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 section 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 create the office of State forester under the direction and control of the State geological commission, and defining his duties.
An ACT to protect sheep and other stock in the county of Loudoun.
An ACT providing for the opening, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Caroline county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the boards of supervisors of counties and councils of cities and towns in the State to appropriate money for advertising their resources.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishing, altering, and building of public roads and bridges in the county of Shenandoah, and for the working and keeping the same in repair, approved February 8th, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1906, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight, in its discretion, to contribute and expend annually, out of the general county levy, a sum of money for the conduct of an educational and agricultural fair, to be held in said county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of building and permanently improving roads in Kempsville magisterial district, in said county.
An ACT providing for an election upon the question of a dispensary in the town of Gretna, in the county of Pittsylvania.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 11, 1908, entitled 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, et cetera, and variously amended January 31, 1894, January 23, 1896, January 25, 1898, February 3, 1900, February 16, 1901, April 2, 1902, March 10, 1906, March 11, 1908, March 14, 1910, and March 12, 1912, which last named act authorized the adjudication of the claims of the holders of certain bonds and coupons which have been guaranteed by the Commonwealth and the funding of the same when so adjudicated.
An ACT to lega‘ize the donation of the sum of $1,500 by the council of the town of Claiksville, Virginia, to the district school board of Clarksville magisterial district, for the purpose of aiding in the con-struction of a public high school bui.ding in said town and district.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of sixteen dollars and fifteen cents ($16.15) to pay C. C. Cochran, deputy United States clerk, for fees due him for services rendered in the case of the Commonwealth against Wick Ison.
An ACT for the relief of Richard Snow, an o'd Confederate soldier, and to compensate him for services rendered in purging the pension rolls of Greene county, Virginia, of persons illegally enrolled and drawing pensions from the State.
An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of confederate soldiers or sailors.
An ACT for the relief of James F. Bonewell, of the county of Warwick, and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT to authorize Albemarle and Buckingham counties to erect, build, and construct a bridge across James river, at Warren, Virginia, either at the point where a ferry is now being operated or within one mile thereof, and to maintain and operate the same as a free bridge, and to issue bonds for that purpose
An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of Norfolk county, subject to certain specified conditions, to borrow a sum not exceeding $250,000.00 for the purpose of building, macadamizing or otherwise permanently improving public roads and bridges, and acquiring toll roads and toll bridges, in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by a deed of trust on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; and to provide for the expenditure and application of the proceeds of said bond issue, and for the payment of said bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Waverly, approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to provide for instruction in the public schools, for preventing accidents.
An ACT to authorize A. W. Harman, Jr., treasurer, to restore and pay over to various parties the special fund of $4,790.60, reported to be in his hands, under the heading of “Special Primary Election Fund on Deposit Planters National Bank, Richmond,” in the report of the said treasurer for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1913.
An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth and the county of Norfolk, subject to certain specified conditions, to lease, or to acquire by purchase or condemnation proceedings, land or other property for additional ferry terminals or facilities.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Roanoke county to erect and maintain toll gates on the macadamized roads of said county.
An ACT to amend and reenact an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 14, 1908, 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, (H. B. 486.)
An ACT to amend section 11 of an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission, to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary, and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commissioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to State depositories.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 45 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Emporia to aid the county school board of Greenville county in the construction of a school building in the said town.
An ACT to authorize the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Com- pany, Incorporated, to take possession of the turnpike leading from near Warrenton to Fairfax courthouse, and prescribing the terms and limitations of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 54 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887; April 28, 1887; May 14, 1887; February 14, 1900; February 21, 1900; February 26, 1900; February 2, 1901; February 15, 1901; March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887; February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court, of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January 1906, approved March 14, 1906.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Frederick county to borrow money for the purpose of improving the courthouse and clerk’s office of said county.
An ACT to provide for the payment to each confederate veteran who is an inmate of R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, confederate veterans soldiers’ home, the sum of $1.00 per month for incidental peisonal expenses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 18, 1908, entitled an act to provide for the payment of a license tax for the exhibition of any 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 2, 1894, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Singers’ Glen, in Rockingham county; also empowering the council of said town to issue bonds.
An ACT to authorize the conveyance of the reversionary interest of the Commonwealth in a lot of land in Alexandria county, of which James Hilton died seized and which had escheated to the Commonwealth and was by the act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 19, 1880, conveyed to the county of Alexandria for poorhouse purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1912, in relation to when certain officers not to be paid, fees in criminal cases.
An ACT; to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1910, entitled 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 the State board of agriculture and the State board of education, in co-operation with the United States department of agriculture, for the betterment of agricultural experimental and demonstration work, and generally to advance the agricultural interests of this State, and to authorize the boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for experimental and demonstration work in their respective counties, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1912, and enacting certain provisions in lieu thereof, and making appropriations to the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute for demonstration work, and to authorize boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for demonstration work in their respective counties, in co-operation with the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute and the United States department of agriculture, and providing for co-ordination of certain agricultural activities within the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 23, 1906, entitled an act to authorize the sale of lots purchased by the Commonwealth for delinquent taxes, and not redeemed within four years or more.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Sussex county to lay a special levy of not exceeding ten cents on the one hundred dollars’ worth of property in Wakefield magisterial district, in said county, for the purpose of providing for the final liquidation of the bonded indebtedness of said district.
An ACT to provide for the payment and collection of tolls on the Apple Ridge Road in Frederick county, and for the improvement, repair and maintenance thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact, so far as the county of Powhatan is concerned, an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 3d, 1884.
An ACT to provide unon the conveyance by the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls, of its property, real and personal, lo- cated in the county of Chesterfield, to the State of Virginia, that the State will assume control, operation and management of the said home in accordance with the charter of the said corporation, and to assume any indebtedness of the said home existing on the 1st day of March, 1914, not in excess of $1.500.00.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the 2 fiscal years
An ACT to clearly define the exemption of building and loan associations or companies from the payment of any State franchise tax
An ACT to amend and re-enact 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 penalties incurred for violation of 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, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1908.
An ACT to appropriate $30,000.00, the unexpended appropriation heretofore made by the general assemby to provide for the working of certain long term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road con-struction to the citizens of the State, so as to make this amount avail.
An ACT for the protection of oysters and clams in the Lynnhaven river, Princess Anne county, Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate money from the treasury for the relief of B. W. Andrews for acting as guide in the capitol for four years.
An ACT to appropriate money by the board of supervisors and councils of cities to defray expenses to unveiling of statue at Gettysburg.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Greensville county to issue bonds of the county to be exchanged for or used in paying off the bonds of said county issued in payment for the stock of the Atlantic and Danville Railway Company, payable in 1914, providing a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Powhatan district No. 2, of the county of James City, and the school board of Stonehouse district No. 3, of the county of James City, of the State of Virginia, to borrow money, and to issue bonds for the purpose of paying off and discharging the present indebtedness upon the Toano high school, owned jointly by said school districts, and making such further improvements to said high school, and any other purpose deemed pertinent by said school board, and to provide for the payment of such bonds and the interest to accrue thereon.
An ACT to authorize Albemarle county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $30,000, to refund the bonds issued under act approved February 20, 1908.
An ACT empowering the school boards of 2 adjacent districts to establish joint schools for the use of both districts, and to purchase, take, hold, lease and convey school property for the joint use of the districts.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $40,000.00 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay criminal charges, the appropriation made for the year ending February 28, 1914, having become exhausted.
An ACT to authorize and require the auditor of public accounts to pay to the commission of fisheries the fines of $100.00 each imposed by the circuit court for the county of Accomac upon Edward A. George and John R. Middleton, which were improperly paid over to the said auditor and by him carried into the literary fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the town of Monterey, at the seat of justice for the county of Highland, passed March 29, 1848, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend an act passed March 29, 1848, entitled an act to establish the town of Monterey, at the seat of justice for the county of Highland, approved March 17, 1876, and as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled an act to amend an act passed March 29, 1848, entitled an act to establish the town of Monterey as the seat of justice for Highland county, approved March 17, 1876, approved February 19, 1898; and to provide a new charter for the said town of Monterey.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act providing for working public roads in Prince Edward county, approved March the 3rd and March the 4th, 1896.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 and section 8 of 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 25, 1908.
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 17, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 of chapter 1 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, to amend and re-enact chapters 2, 3 and 5 of said act as amended by subsequent acts, and to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5, and to repeal section 7 of chapter 6 of said act.
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 districts, and to appropriate money therefor, approved March 14, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 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 districts and to appropriate money therefore, approved March 17, 1910.
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Franklin to impose a capitation tax upon the residents of Franklin county, not to exceed $1.00 per annum for roads, or such other county purposes as the board may determine.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1041-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 13, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1041-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1041-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1041l-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1908, 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 1089 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, entitled an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns.
An ACT to authorize Albemarle county, from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $40,000, for the purpose of uniting in the building, in the county of Albemarle, of State money aid or convict labor plan roads, as well as roads where private individuals contribute one-half the cost thereof, and to assist in securing undergrade crossings under the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company and the Southern railway company, respectively, in the county of Albemarle.
An ACT providing for the protection of turnpikes that have been treated with bitumen or other artificial binder from injury by traction engines, tractors or motor trucks, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.