Public expenditures

1918
An ACT to prescribe who may administer an oath or affidavit to the purchaser of fuel, provisions, or other thing, and the effect of such oath or affidavit.
An ACT to relieve Marshall McCormick, by the payment to him of certain warrants which he paid off in 1877, 1878 and 1879, but which have not been repaid to him.
An ACT to authorize the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester, Virginia, of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than $75,000 of sanitary sewage extension bonds; and authorize the issuance by said city of not more than $75,000 of said bonds, the proceeds whereof shall be used for the extension by said city of its existing sanitary system of sewers and sewage disposal plant if a majority of those voting vote in favor of such issuance.
An ACT to cause all deposits or accounts in the several banks and banking corporations or associations in this Commonwealth, whereof the depositor is unknown, or the person or persons, to whom such account or deposit belongs, or belong, is, or are unknown, and against which deposit or account there has been no check, draft or order for a period of twenty-one years, by one entitled to check thereon, to escheat to the Commonwealth; and to direct the manner of reporting same, and the final disposition thereof.
An ACT authorizing the board of directors of any public service corporation operating a gas, electric or water plant within the limits of any city or town, or within territory contiguous thereto, to sell or lease to said city or town the entire plant of said corporation, or any part thereof, including its franchises and easements, provided said action of the board of directors be authorized or ratified by an affirmative vote of a majority in interest of the stock issued and outstanding, unless a larger interest is provided by the charter or by-laws of said corporation.
An ACT to appropriate $100.00 for payment of account due by commission on efficiency and economy for stenographic work.
An ACT to provide for clearing trees and underbrush from the sides of public roads.
An ACT to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled 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 schoolhouse, and to provide for the conduct and maintenance of the same, approved March 16, 1908.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, State of Virginia, to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of building, repairing and maintaining streets, sidewalks, and bridges, and extending water and sewer mains, provided that the question of such bond issue, for the purposes named, be first submitted to the qualified voters of said city, and to authorize such council to call a special election for the submission of the same to the voters thereof.
An ACT to authorize the issuance of $350,000 of bonds by the city of Newport News, for the construction of permanent municipal improvements.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds to build schoolhouses and for other school purposes
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3532 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, as to the fees of jailers, for feeding prisoners.
An ACT to prohibit the issuing of bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement, under an election held in 1916 for this purpose, in Lunenburg county, for Pleasant Grove magisterial district of said county.
An ACT for the relief of Smith-Courtney company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 24 and 25 of an act entitled an act to provide the establishment, proper construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair all public roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves in the several counties of the State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia approved March 12, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1908, and entitled an act giving to cities and towns upon leasing or purchasing gas, electric and water companies operating in territory contiguous to its corporate limits the right to continue to operate, maintain and extend same.
An ACT to relieve horses and vehicles from toll on any roads of the State when the same are conveying pupils or students to or from immediate attendance upon schools, colleges, and other educational institutions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 24, 1914, as amended by an act approved March 21, 1916 (chapter 425, acts 1916), entitled an act to provide additional remedies for the collection of taxes, State, county and municipal.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to provide for the protection of sheep and other live stock by a license tax on dogs, the enforcement thereof, and the reimbursement of the owners of such animals, killed or injured by dogs, out of the proceeds of such tax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact 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 section 32-n of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March 13, 1912, as heretofore amended, in reference to the issue of bonds.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of Charlotte to lend out the money belonging to the county arising from the sale of the test farm, and secure the payment of the same by taking a deed of trust on real estate belonging to the lender.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lee county to borrow money and to issue bonds of said county, or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $50,000.00, 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 appropriate $780.65 to reimburse Marshall M. Milton for expenditures made and bills incurred by him in the organization and recruiting of the fifth company, Virginia coast artillery, between the time of its muster Into State service, July 2, 1917, and its muster into federal service July 25, 1917.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section third of an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to borrow a sum not to exceed $250,000, for the purpose of purchasing and improving roads and bridges in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by deed of trust or other lien on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; to provide for the payment of said bonds, to create and authorize a commission to dispense the funds so obtained.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 50S of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and to appropriate sums collected hereunder for the payment of pensions and for the support of the public free schools of the primary and grammar grades.
An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of the Virginia Poly-technic Institute. to sell and convey a certain parcel of land not needed for the purposes of said institution.
An ACT allowing James A. Fenwick to erect a wharf in King George county.
An ACT to encourage the production of food fish.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 10 of chapter 609 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1902-3-4, relating to turnpike companies
An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the board of super-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county
An ACT authorizing and directing the road authorities of Totars magisterial district, in Brunswick county, Virginia, and the board of supervisors of the said county, to expend any surplus, now in the hands of said authorities, arising from the sale of road bonds of said district.
An ACT to authorize the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester, Virginia, of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than $75,000 of water improvement bonds and to authorize the issuance by said city of not more than $75,000 of said bonds, the proceeds whereof shall be used for improvement, enlargement and extension by the said city of its existing system of water works if a majority of those voting vote In favor of such issuance.
An ACT to amend the special road law for Rockbridge county
An ACT to provide a cottage at Catawba sanatorium for tubercular teachers.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Clifton Forge,
An ACT in relation to Virginia council of defense, and county and city councils of defense, appropriating money for the expenses of the same, and authorizing and empowering the boards of supervisors of counties and the governing bodies of cities, to contribute to the expenses of said county and city councils.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3160 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend the provisions of an act approved February 25, 1596, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, as approved by chapter 56 of the laws of Virginia, 1912, relating to the issuance of certificates of indebtedness and bonds and validating bonds issued and to be issued under proceedings heretofore had.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 238 of the Code of Virginia providing for the examination of accounts and the payments of amounts appropriated for contingent expenses.
An ACT to provide for the examination and punishment of persons convicted of prostitution, or of keeping houses of ill-fame or assignation, and for commitment of such persons to city farms or hospitals.
An ACT to appropriate money to the convict lime board to remove deficit in the funds available for use at the State lime grinding plants at Staunton and Irvington.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 20, 1916, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to invest, use and apply any part of the sinking fund created and set apart for the purpose of redeeming the principal of the $700,000 issue of thirty-year Wise county road bonds, dated February 1, 1911, in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of the $130,000 issue of thirty-year Wise county road bonds issued for the Richmond magisterial district, dated March 1, 1913; and in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of the $130,000 issue of Wise county road bonds issued for the Gladeville magisterial district, dated March 1, 1913, and to grant to the board of supervisors of said county the additional authority to invest, use and apply any part of said sinking fund, and any part of any sinking fund now or hereafter created and set apart for the purpose of redeeming the principal of any road bonds of said county now or hereafter issued for the said county, or for any of the magisterial districts thereof, in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of such county or district road bonds, now or hereafter issued, and in and to the purchase and holding of any school bonds now or hereafter issued by any school district of said county.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Washington magisterial district No. 5, of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $14,000 in amount.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2700a of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow executors and other fiduciaries to invest in Virginia three per centum bonds issued by virtue of an act approved February 14, 1882, approved February 9, 1898, approved March 22, 1916, in relation to fiduciary investments.
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 Greene and Madison counties to erect, build and construct a bridge across Rapidan river.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county, Virginia, to issue bond to raise money for the purpose of providing for the building and completion of certain roads in Catalpa magisterial district in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to regulate the time and manner in which common carriers doing business in this State shall adjust and pay just freight charges and claims for loss or damage to freight, and claims for storage, demurrage, and car service
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of York county to borrow money for the purpose of bridging Felgates creek, Kings creek and Queens creek, in the county of York, to borrow money for said purpose and to issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to create for the county of Princess Anne a commission for roads, bridges and wharves; and for keeping in repair roads, bridges and wharves of said county.
An ACT providing for expenses of the members of the general assembly in attending the extended session, beginning on March 18, 1918.
A RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 184 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $170,687 to the State hospitals for the insane and the Virginia colony for epileptics, and the State colony for the feeble-minded, to meet the deficits In maintenance of these institutions for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1918
An ACT to amend section 37 of an act approved January 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, Virginia, as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1906, and as further amended by an act approved March 13, 1912, and as further amended by an act approved March 16, 1916.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 1, of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $50,000 in amount.
An ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of any two or more counties in this State, or the board of supervisors of any one or more of the counties in this State and the council or councils of any one or more of the several cities in this State, to establish a home for the care and maintenance of the poor; to authorize the sale and conveyance of certain rental and personal property belonging to such cities and counties as may adopt the provisions of this act; to authorize the authorities of such counties and cities to purchase farms of suitable size, fertility and location; to authorize such authorities to erect suitable buildings to be called district homes, to which all of the counties and cities composing such district must send its poor, and care for same; providing for the appointment of boards of control, superintendents, physicians and necessary employees; and to abolish county and city poor houses in the several counties and cities which adopt the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 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, and acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to require the equipment of grinding, polishing and buffing wheels with suitable devices for the protection of operators and other persons from dust and refuse thrown off from such wheels; making non-compliance a misdemeanor and providing penalty.
An ACT to authorize the school board of the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $30,000 to meet notes for money borrowed by trustees for the purpose of erecting the graded school building in said town, and to complete the said building.
An ACT to appoint a commission to provide and arrange for a celebration of the 300th anniversary of the first meeting of the general assembly of Virginia, on July 30, 1919, and to provide sufficient funds therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magisterial districts thereof; to authorize the erection of toll gates and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads therein, and making certain provisions for the enforcement and collection of said tolls and the protection of the said roads, and the property of said district road boards, and providing certain penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal all special acts heretofore enacted in reference to the public roads of said county, and to validate the official acts of certain officers under laws heretofore in effect in said county, and to prescribe a penalty for the violation thereof; and to add an independent section thereto, numbered 1514, so as to require the owners or occupants of land abutting on any public road to keep the same free from certain obstructions, approved February 2, 1915, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act imposing public duties on heat, light, power, water and telephone companies, and providing for the control and regulation of such companies by the State corporation commission
A RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 136 of article 9 of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next session of the general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county to appropriate money to a Confederate monument
An ACT to establish 'The State Highway System.'
An ACT to authorize Albemarle and Buckingham counties to erect, build and construct a bridge across James river at Hatton, 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 the school board of Tanner’s creek magisterial district, No. 6, of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $75,000 in amount.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to retire certain bonds issued for the improvement of roads in Stevensburg district in said county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county, Virginia, to appropriate sufficient funds out of the county fund for the purpose of converting one of the floors of the old schoolhouse in the town of Culpeper, Virginia, into a public auditorium.
An ACT to provide for a commission to study educational conditions in Virginia and elsewhere, and to report to the next general assembly its findings, together with recommendations for a revision of the school laws and amendments to article IX of the Constitution, and authorizing the State board of education to meet the expenses thereof.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars to the Virginia penitentiary to meet the deficit in maintenance for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1918
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1671 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to commissions of lunacy and their fees
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Warren county to erect toll gates, and to demand and collect tolls on the macadamized roads and bridges across the Shenandoah river or either branch thereof, of the county of Warren, and to provide how such tolls are to be expended
An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Lawrenceville, Brunswick county, Virginia, to issue and sell bonds to the amount of and not exceeding $25,000.00 for the purpose of borrowing money to repair and extend the water works system of the said town.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 30 of chapter 5, of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law on the 21st day of May, 1903, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for the aeceptance of the terms and provisions of an act of congress, approved July 11, 1916, entitled an act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section § 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, 1908, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of said county a sufficient amount of money to maintain the convict road force in said county, and for the construction of other permanent improved roads in said county, and to borrow money at any time not exceeding $20,000, for the purpose of maintaining said convict road force and for the construction of other permanent improved roads as aforesaid.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to enlarge or build an addition to the vault of the courthouse of said county, and make other improvements to said courthouse and additions thereto, and arrange plants to furnish heat, light, and water for the same; and to provide for issuing county warrants on levies for future years to pay the expenses thereof.
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 as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 16, 1916, and to provide for the working, repairing, maintaining and improving the roads in Tazewell county.
An ACT to allow public officials in Virginia, both State and local, to deposit records in the Virginia State Library.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1359 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, with reference to grain to be ground in turn; amount of toll; penalty for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 20, 1896, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties, as amended by act approved February 9, 1916, so as to provide how the board of supervisors of Buchanan county may establish, change and relocate roads in that county and contract for the construction of same, on terms and conditions.
An ACT to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city
An ACT to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in ‘the State highway system,” and to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades, from the first to the seventh, inclusive, and to provide for the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis among the people of this State, and to extend the work of the State board of health.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1919, and the 29th day of February, 1920.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the town of Upperville in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45 and 54 of an aet to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to acquire rock quarries.
An ACT to amend the sixth sub-section of section twenty of the charter of the city of Norfolk, as amended by an act approved March 17, 1916
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of said county a sufficient amount of money to maintain the convict road force in said county, and for the construction of other permanent improved roads in said county, and to borrow money at any time not exceedingly $20,000, for the purpose of maintaining said convict road force and for the construction of other permanent improved roads as aforesaid.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 2 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act imposing public duties on heat, light, power, water and telephone companies and providing for the control and regulation of such companies by the State corporation commission, which was approved March 27, 1914.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sub-sections 2, 6, 9, 10, and 13, of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 22, 1916.
An ACT authorizing the council of the town of Gretna in the county of Pittsylvania to use and dispose of the net profits derived from the dispensary in said town.
An ACT to validate certain obligations of the city of Norfolk and authorizing the said city to refund or renew the same by issuing, renewal or other obligations.