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Public expenditures

1916
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Nansemond county to borrow money and issue notes therefor.
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
An ACT to authorize the town of Norton, in Wise county, on petition of a majority of the qualified voters in said town, to sell bonds heretofore legally voted by said town, and use the proceeds of the sale of the said bonds for public improvements in the said town, other than that for which the said bonds were voted.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act appointing trustees for the town of Christiansburg, in the county of Montgomery, and for other purposes, giving said town a charter
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 27, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 17, 1901, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 8, 1910, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1912, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1914, and to provide for the working, repairing, maintaining and improving the roads in Tazewell county.
An ACT to amend sections 1, 7, 9, 10 and 11 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Fauquier to borrow money not exceeding $25,000.00 to extend the improvement of the public roads in Scott and Marshall magisterial districts, and to issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State
An ACT to provide for improving the public roads and bridges of Estilville magisterial district in the county of Scott, to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and to macadamize roads in said district.
An ACT to authorize and empower the school boards of the several school districts of Nansemond county to send students in high school grades in such districts, to the agricultural high school of the second congressional district, known as the Driver school, and pay the cost of the board and lodging of the said students out of the respective district fund of said county.
An ACT allowing (under certain conditions) district ao: county school boards to provide free school books for children attending the public schools and instructing boards of supervisors and city councils to provide the necessary revenue.
An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds heretofore and hereafter issued by the town of Orange, Virginia, and an election held on the thirty-first day of August, 1915, authorizing the issuing of the said bonds for water and street improvement of the said town.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of New Market in Shenandoah county, to levy a tax on all dogs kept in said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 104 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and provide a charter therefor
An Act to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $150,000 for the purpose of building public roads in said county
An ACT to authorize the issuance of $30,000.00 of bonds by the city of Newport News for constructing and equipping an armory and convention hall in the city of Newport News.
An ACT to provide a special road law for the county of Loudoun; to provide for the construction, improvement and maintenance of the public roads in said county and to create separate road districts in each of the several magisterial districts thereof; to provide for the care and protection of the property of the several district road boards; and to repeal an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working the roads of the county of Loudoun, passed eighteen hundred and fifty-six.
An ACT to provide for the purchase, or construction, and maintenance of a free highway bridge over New river at Radford, Virginia, by the city of Radford and county of Pulaski.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 450 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to erect and maintain toll gates on macadam roads now or hereafter built in said county, and to demand and collect tolls for the use of such roads.
An Act to provide for the issuing of bonds by the town of Gate City in Scott county, Virginia, for the purpose of erecting a public free school building and equipping the same, of calling an election therefor and of providing for the levy of taxes to reduce the bonds.
An ACT to provide a permanent road commission for each of the several magisterial districts in the county of Pulaski, and to prescribe the appointment, duties and compensation of the same.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of school trustees of Slate River magisterial district of Buckingham county to borrow money for the purpose of completing school houses.
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 to require certified copies of the orders, of boards of supervisors, fixing levies sent to the State advisory board of taxation, the compilation and printing of a table from said orders, and the tables, so compiled and printed, furnished upon application.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 5, 1915, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 443 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the returns to be made by land assessors and the penalty for their failure to comply with the requirements of the law as amended by act approved March 17, 1906, and by an act approved March 13, 1908, so as to provide for an extension of time.
An ACT providing when the defense of death by suicide can be made in any action, motion, or suit on life insurance policies.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to borrow $90,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of making permanent improvements in certain public roads and bridges in Fincastle district of said county.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, to issue bonds not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of building and maintaining a sewerage system, high school building, street paving and filtration plant.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 21, 1914, entitled 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 to require the county road board of Charlotte county, Virginia to render a full account of funds expended.
An ACT to authorize the issuance of $130,000.00 of bonds by the city of Newport News, for school purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 8, 11, 12 and 14 of an 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 ah 17,
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Henrico county to sell and convey the poor-house farm, belonging to the said county, or any part thereof, and to employ land agents to make sale of the said farm.
An ACT to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of Charlotte, for the creation of district road boards in said county, and for the repeal of all acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to provide a road commission for Capeville magisterial district, in Northampton county, and to repeal preview acts.
An ACT to exempt from taxation, State and local, public wharves, docks and terminals of any city, where such public wharves, docks and terminals are located in any county, city or town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-division 25 of an act entitled an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain
An ACT to create the city of Hopewell, in the county of Prince George; to provide temporary and permanent officers for its organization and management and to authorize the assessment and collection of revenue necessary for the permanent improvement and government of said city.
An ACT to provide for the building of bridges in the county of Isle of Wight, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issuing of bonds, and to build bridges in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question.
An ACT to authorize the issuance of $50,000.00 of bonds by the city of Newport News for street improvements.
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 to provide for the appointment of a commission on economy and efficiency to make a survey of the State and local governments of the Commonwealth of Virginia and to submit a report to the next general assembly of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to establish and maintain toll gates on the macadam roads of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109% of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government, 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 19, 1915
An ACT to authorize the school board of Washington magisterial district, No. 5, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the DEE pore of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $45,000.00 in amount.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Parksley, in the county of Accomac, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Parksley, Virginia,
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to sell and convey certain property heretofore used in connection with the toll roads in said county, and to provide for the disposition of the proceeds of such sale.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 24 1914 (chapter 251, acts 1914), entitled an act to provide additional remedies for the collection of taxes, State, county and municipal.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and the public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions.
An ACT to provide for a temporary adequate administration and government of the local affairs of the unincorporated community known as Hopewell and adjacent territory, now a portion of the Bland magisterial district, in the county of Prince George, until such time as it becomes a city.
1918
An ACT to authorize the common council of Winchester to issue $50,000 of refunding improvement bonds in the sum of $50,000 and prescribing the terms and conditions of said issue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of Charlotte, for the creation of district road boards in said county, and for the repeal of all acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Parksley, in the county of Accomac, to borrow money and issue bonds for the purchase, construction, repair and improvement of the water and lighting systems of said town.
An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, to convey a part of its real estate.
An ACT authorizing the city of Fredericksburg to issue bonds to redeem what are known as gas and bridge bonds, and to issue bonds to pay for the construction and equipment of a high school building for the city on such site as the city may select.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair of public roads in the counties of Alleghany, Bath and Highland
An ACT to appropriate $810.25 to compensate A. Wingfield Baker
An ACT authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18, 19 and 20 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and the 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, and acts amendatory thereof, and to segregate to localities the tax upon shares of stock of banks, banking associations, trust and security companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 of an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles, and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, approved March 17, 1910; and further, to provide for licensing dealers and garages and for running motor vehicles for hire, and to prescribe penalties for violations or this act; and to further provide for the payment of fees collected under this act into the State treasury, and the expenditure of same in the maintenance and construction of State aid roads and bridges, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 24, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and direct work on the public roads of Goochland county by convicts at the State farm, now located in Goochland county, approved March 14, 1912, so as to make the requirements thereunder more specific.
An ACT to authorize the use, so far as practicable, of the convict road force in the construction and maintenance of “The State Highway System.”
An ACT to provide for the payment of compensation to the court stenographer employed on behalf of the State of Virginia by the attorney general to stenograph the evidence and transcribe a record in the case of Commonwealth of Virginia v. J. Frederick Kernochan, committee of Marie Marshall, in the circuit court of James City county, and the city of Williamsburg, on the 11th day of October, 1917.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15 and 17 of the charter of the town of Mimnassas
An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds
An ACT to provide for the locating and opening of new roads, for the altering and discontinuing of any of the existing roads, for the working, improving and keeping the same in repair; and to provide for the erection and maintenance of bridges, in the county of Wythe; and to provide a penalty for obstructing or injuring the roads and bridges in said county, and for repealing all former special road laws for the said county of Wythe.
An ACT to provide for taking a special school census in Newport magisterial district of Warwick county, and for basing the apportionment of school funds upon such census.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 280 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended and re-enacted.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 4 of an act entitled an act concerning the appointment of a dairy and food commissioner within the department of agriculture and immigration, and imposing penalties for its violation, approved March 11, 1908S, and to repeal section 15-a of an act entitled an act to prevent the manufacture or sale of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous or deleterious stock and cattle feeds, and to repeal section 15 and sub-sections a, b, c, d, e, f, and g of said section 15, chapter 188, acts of assembly, 1908, approved March 11, 1908, and to repeal all other laws in conflict with this act, in so far as they may be in conflict with the provisions of this act, approved March 14, 1910.
An ACT to authorize the councils of the several cities or towns of the State to issue bonds for a supply of water or other specific under-taking from which the city or town may derive a revenue, pursuant to section one twenty-seven (127) B of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate, upon certain conditions, the sum of $630.00 for the installation of three automatic flue cleaners (one for each boiler) for the Virginia State power plant, Richmond, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the sume; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to borrow money and to issue bonds for the purpose of securing national and State aid in the building of roads.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 104 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896, as amended.
An ACT to permit the councils, or other governing bodies, of cities of the first class, to appropriate money to aid in the support of dependent children of members of the police and fire departments of such cities who may have lost their lives through injuries received or disease incurred while in the performance of their duties as members of such departments.
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Chilhowie, in the county of Smyth, to borrow money and issue bonds for equipment of the fire department, and for the construction and improvement of water and sewerage systems of the said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections four and seven of section thirty-nine of the charter of the city of Norfolk, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1916.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars to reimburse the civil contingent fund for extraordinary expenses incurred in the rental and improvement of building used for offices for State officials, and to declare an emergency.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and the composition, branding, possession, dispensing and sale of drugs, poison and narcotics, and to repeal certain existing acts in relation thereto
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to empower boards of supervisors to enact special und local legislation to protect the public roads and bridges from obstruction, encroachment and injury, to make violations of such enactment a misdemeanor, and to provided penalties, approved March 15, 1910.
An ACT to restrict the trading in second-hand grate baskets, electric lights or gas fixtures, locks or other builders’ hardware, plumbing fixtures, bells and bell fixtures, lead or brass water pipes, or any part of such fixtures or pipes, any wire, cable, lead, solder, copper, iron or brass used by or belonging to a railroad, telephone, telegraph, gas or electric light company.
An ACT to regulate the taking of fish from the streams in Scott county, and providing penalties for the violation of same and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to permit the transfer of the Valley Turnpike to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to fix the terms and conditions of such transfer and to provide for the maintenance of said turnpike.
An ACT for the prevention of blindness from opthalmia neonatorum, designating certain powers and duties and otherwise providing for the enforcement of this act ,and making appropriation to carry it into effect.
An ACT to provide for the preparation and review of estimates for expenditures and revenue, and to establish a budget system for all State departments, bureaus, divisions, officers, boards, commissions, institutions, and other agencies and undertakings receiving or asking financial aid from the State of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to, from time to time, borrow money not exceeding $200,000 on short-term notes.
An ACT authorizing cities, containing by the last or any sub-sequent United States census, a population of not less than fifty thousand nor more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, to appropriate to standard guage steam railroad companies such sum or sums as may be necessary, not to exceed two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars in any one case, to induce such standard guage steam railroad companies to extend their lines into the corporate limits of such cities, and ratifying and confirming any such appropriation, not exceeding two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars, made by any such city heretofore for said purpose.
An ACT to repeal section 141 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, as heretofore amended, and to prohibit gypsies and other strolling companies of persons pretending to tell fortunes and practice magic arts for money.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to borrow money and issue bonds of said county, or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $30,000, for the purpose of repairing damage done by flood to the public roads and bridges of said county, and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund for the payment of such bonds at maturity.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Warren county to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars, and issue bonds therefor, for the permanent improvement and construction of certain roads in Front Royal and South River magisterial districts of said county.
An ACT appropriating the sum of $6,500.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary for rebuilding causeway and bridge at Jamestown Island.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Russell county, Virginia, to establish and maintain toll gates upon the several improved roads in the several magisterial districts of said county, fix the rate of toll thereof and collect the same.
An ACT appropriating the sum of $43,000.00 for the purchase of tract of land in Powhatan county, Virginia.
An ACT authorizing the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia to offer one hundred and nineteen State scholarships to students from Virginia, which shall entitle the holder to tuition in the college, room rent, light, heat and attendance free of charge.
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 an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to prescribe the mode in which clerks of courts shall Keep a record of all taxes and other public moneys collected by them, and to require them to pay the same into the treasury, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914: and to require the clerk in connection therewith, to keep a reeord of fees received.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars to the State farm to meet the deficit in maintenance for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1918.
An ACT to provide for the issuance of $150,000 of bonds by the city of Newport News, for the repayment of funds borrowed and expended in the construction of the concrete roadway on certain streets and avenues.
An ACT to require the auditor of public accounts to turn over to the State bureau of vital statistics certain marriage, birth and death records.