Public expenditures

1920
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3918 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to borrow money by the issuance of bonds for a sum not to exceed $300,000.00 for the purpose of the building and permanent improvement of the roads and bridges in said county; prescribing how such bonds may be issued and disposed of; to create a county road board for the county of Carroll and to prescribe its powers and duties; also to provide how the funds realized from the sale of said bonds shall be disposed of.
An ACT to amend sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, and 103 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, and to repeal sections 2 and 93 of said act and to add thereto sections 14a, 55a, 99a, 116a, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, and 132, which deal with and provide for vacancies in the council; the initiative and referendum; the general powers and duties of the department of public welfare; the division of the city into school districts and the election of trustees therefor; the creation of a civil service commission and its rules and regulations; the jurisdiction of courts to enforce ordinances; rules and regulations upon city owned property outside of the city; continuance of present officers in office until January 1, 1921, and the vacating of certain offices at that time; the penalties for violation of certain sections; the working of prisoners; the appointment of boards and the creation of pension funds.
An ACT to appropriate seven hundred and eleven dollars and twelve cents to reimburse Louis A. Heindl, Herbert W. Harris and Pembroke W. Taylor for expenditures made and bills incurred by them in the organization and recruiting of the Thirteenth company, Virginia coast artillery, between the time of its organization and muster into the Federal service, on May 1, 1918.
An ACT to amend section 615 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, Virginia, and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 48 and 63 of an act entitled an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved July 9, 1870, and to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 21, 1877, and to amend and re-enact an act approved February 17, 1890, and to re-enact an act, approved January 29, 1894, relating to the charter of the town of Harrisonburg, approved March 3, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 2, 1888, providing for the making, changing, and working of roads in the county of Rockingham
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 3, 1900, and in force from its passage, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith; and also to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to authorize the circuit court of Prince George county, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint a special police force for said county, and to provide for the compensation of persons appointed as such special police force.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act appropriating the proceeds of the Glebe lands, and other property, belonging to the parishes of Abingdon, Ware, and, Petsworth, in the county of Gloucester, and for other purposes, passed January 25, 1814.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 107 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 heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of an act entitled an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks; providing how they may be sold; regulating the sale of toilet antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 19, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto, in effect January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section 23.
An ACT to authorize the county of Albemarle to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars
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 of said county; to authorize the erection of toll gates and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads therein; and making certain provisions for the construction, working, maintenance, etc., of said roads, and to levy a tax for said purposes in said county and in the several magisterial districts 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.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of forty thousand dollars for the erection of a fire-proof building in the Capitol square, at Richmond, for the safekeeping of State archives.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia-of the Laurel Industrial School, its property, real and personal, located in the county of Henrico and the State of Virginia; that the State will assume the control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the charter of the said association, approved March 16, 1918.
An ACT to provide for the issuing of bonds of Fauquier county for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the said county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Halifax county to borrow money and issue notes therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 26, 29,30, 31, 32, 38, 39, 42, 48, 53, 55, 57, 68, and 75 of an act entitled 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 methads 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, which became a law March 21, 1918.
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 amend and re-enact sections 2430 and 2431 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of an act entitled an act ‘to provide a new charter for the town of Gretna, Pittsylvania county, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act, approved March 17, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 853 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 926, 927, 928, 929 and 930 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the marking of boats engaged in the taking of fish, oysters, clams and crabs in the tidal waters of this State; for the marking of all pound nets, fike nets, purse nets, haul seines and other devices for the taking of fish in the tidal waters of this State; and to provide penalties for the violation thereof.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Drewryville school dis- trict, of the county of Southampton, Virginia, to issue bonds of the school district, for the purpose of erecting a public high school building at Drewryville, Virginia, for the said district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and four 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 the public roads of Amherst county
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 1, 1915, entitled an act to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a cottage at Catawba sanatorium for tubercular teachers, approved March 14.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate annually from the general county levy fund a sufficient amount of money for the construction and maintenance of public roads, in any and all the districts of said county, and to borrow money at any time not to exceed $25,000.00 annually, for the construction and maintenance of said roads.
An ACT to authorize and empower the town council of the town of Shenandoah, in Page county, to borrow not to exceed the sum of forty thousand dollars for the purpose of liquidating the indebtedness of said town on account of the construction and completion of the hydro-electric dam and fixtures, by the issue and sale of bonds of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of an act entitled an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offer- ing for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeal of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, proving how they may be sold, regulationg the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; exeinpting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916, and all
An ACT providing that any newspaper published in a city adjoining or wholly or partly within the geographical limits of any county shall be deemed to be published in such county or counties as well as in eo
An ACT to validate certain allowances made to petit jurors by the circuit court of Washington county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 10 and 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Hill, Mesienburg Ses Virginia, approved February 16, 1901, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of the road law of Montgomery county, as approved March 24, 1910.
An ACT to provide for public health nursing, health examinations and physical education of school children, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for public health nursing and medical inspection and health inspection of school children, approved March 15, 1918.
An ACT to regulate the sale of bakery products; and fixing penal-
An ACT to provide for a special election in the town of Boykins, upon the question of issuing bonds for the purpose of improving the streets of said town, and installing a water and sewerage system in said town, and install lights in said town,
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Floyd county to borrow the sum of $215,000.00 and to issue bonds therefor for the repair, improvement and construction of certain roads and bridges in the magisterial districts of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fairfax, in the county of Fairfax
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4211 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend section 669 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Cobham district, No. 4, of the county of Surry, to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of erecting and furnishing one or more school houses, and to purchase sites therefor, and to provide for the payment of such bonds and the interest to accrue thereon.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1921, and the 28th day of February, 1922.
An ACT enabling county boards of supervisors in certain counties to order and pay for certain public improvements through levy of special assessments.
An ACT to provide for a portrait of the late Senator Thomas S. Martin, and to make appropriation therefor out of the public Emde
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3 and 4 of an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1906, entitled an act to amend an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county, approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county, and directing the disbursement of the county road fund, approved March 4, 1914.
An ACT to provide for the protection of the wild life in the county of Clarke.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Madison magisterial district, No. 1, of the county of Orange, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor not to exceed the sum of $20,000.00 in amount.
An ACT to authorize Amelia county to issue bonds for the purpose of raising money to build a court-house.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 17 of an act entitle an act to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto, in effect January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the limits of, and provide for electing trustees for, the town of Marion, in the county of Smyth, and vesting them with certain corporate powers, passed March 15, 1849, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 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, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of Warren county to issue bonds of the said county not in excess of fifteen thousand dollars ($15 00000) to bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum; to pay for the completion of the road leading from Browntown to Bentonville, in South River district in said county; and to levy a tax on the taxable property of said district to pay the interest on said bonds and provide a sinking fund for their redemption.
An ACT to amend section 741 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate the additional sum of $100,000 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay criminal charges, the appropriations heretofore made being insufficient.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Dickenson, Virginia, to lay a special county levy to raise money for the purpose of providing for the construction of a county memorial, industrial and high school building, to be built in the town of Clintwood in Dickenson county, Virginia, and providing for the securing of land upon which to erect said building, and to erect and equip said building, and to authorize and empower the said board of supervisors of said county to lay a special district levy in the Clintwood magisterial district in said county to raise money for the purpose of supplementing said special county levy, and also to authorize and empower the town council of the said town of Clintwood to lay a special town levy in the said town to raise money for the purpose of also supplementing said special county levy.
An ACT to amend section 759 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2543 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2591 and 2601 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the settlement of the public debt, and to authorize the board of sinking fund commissioners to fund certain bonds of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, of the face value of $6,500.00.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg to sell and make conveyance of certain lots of land owned by the said city.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Greene county to issue bonds and raise money for the purpose of purchasing a county road team and building bridges.
An ACT to permit children over the age of twelve years to work
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of lee county to borrow money and issue bonds of said county, or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $30,000.00, for the purpose of rebuilding, repairing, improving and maintaining 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 town of Front Royal to issue bonds in the sum of $36,000.00, and expend the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, or so much as may be necessary for the construction, erection and maintenance of a sewerage system for the said town, and to provide by proper tax levy or appropriation for the payment of interest on the bonds so issued and to create a sinking fund to retire said bonds at maturity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the acceptance of the conditions of the Federal act commonly called the Smith-Hughes bill (Public No. 347, 64th congress), and authorizing the State board of education to act as a State board of vocational education for the Commonwealth, and authorizing the treasurer of the State of Virginia to act as custodian of such funds as may be received from the Federal government, and to pay the same out on warrant drawn by the State board of education, and authorizing the State board of education to establish ; department of vocational education, and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT to erect a library building and auditorium as a memorial to the soldiers, sailors, marines and women who served in the world war, and to appropriate money therefor; to dedicate as and for public streets and highways upon certain conditions a strip of land fifteen feet in width lying on the southern side of the Capitol square in the city of Richmond,
An ACT to expedite the collection of taxes and levies on lands and lots, which have not been paid prior to the report of delinquents for any year, by county and city treasurers; defining certain duties of such treasurers and making compensation therefor.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pittsylvania county to borrow the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars to be used for general county purposes, including public schools and public roads and to issue notes or bonds therefor.
An ACT to provide for an election by the qualified voters of Grafton magisterial district, in the county of York, State of Virginia.
An ACT to anticipate by counties, or otherwise, the construction of the State highway system.
An ACT to make an appropriation for the purpose of making such changes in the Confederate memorial institute as will be necessary to provide for housing the paintings presented to the State of Virginia by Honorable John Barton Payne.
An ACT to provide for the organization or admission and the regulation and taxation of incorporated mutual insurance companies other than life, providing a penalty for any violation hereof and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, State of Virginia, to borrow money, issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of completing a public school building, and providing for submission of the issuance of bonds for this purpose to the qualified voters of the said city.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Madison county to borrow the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and issue bonds therefor, for the permanent improvement and construction of roads and bridges in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled 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 authorize the school board of Winningham school district, of the county of Nottoway, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of erecting a high school building at Crewe in said district, and to issue bonds therefor not to exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars in amount.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Floyd magisterial district, of the county of Scott, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of erecting a school building in Dungannon, in the said district, in said county of Scott, and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $50,000.00
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3468 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled 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 authorize the school board of Butts road magisteria district, No. 4, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpos of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $50,000.00 in amount.
An ACT to authorize payment of State taxes and local levies for the year 1919 in the district of any commissioner of the revenue where the assessment of taxes and levies, which he was required by law to make, were not made upon the land, personal property and income books as required by law on or before December 31, 1919, where such commissioner of the revenue retired from office on that date; and to authorize payment of State taxes and levies within the period of sixty days after same has been duly assessed without payment of penalty.
An ACT to authorize and empower the town council of the town of Farmville, Virginia, to negotiate a loan for the purpose of paying off and discharging the floating debt of said town, caused by urgent and needful repairs to the streets and public utilties owned by the town, said debt being incurred by war times and extraordinary high cost of labor and materials; to issue bonds for said loan to provide for payment of interest and principal thereof and to provide a sinking fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield. Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 3, 1884, as heretofore amended, insofar as the said section relates to the county of Powhatan.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 54 and 70 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, approved March 3, 1892, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize, empower and require the board of supervisors of Grayson county to borrow the sum of $90,000.00 and to issue bonds therefor for the repair, improvement and construction of certain roads and bridges in Wilson, Elk Creek and Old Town magisterial districts of said county; to provide for the expenditure of the funds raised by such bond issue; to authorize the purchase of machinery and tools necessary therefor; to authorize the employment of civil engineers, road builders and labor; to specify the roads and parts thereof to be constructed and the amounts to be expended thereon; to provide for imposing a tax on all property, county and district, including property in any incorporated town situated within the above named districts, for the purpose of paying the interest and principal of such debt; to do all things necessary, needful or incidental to the main purposes of this act; and to declare an emergency.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3885 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing the procedure and conditions under which a public service corporation, if it becomes necessary in the construction of its work, or in changing its grade, or in double tracking the same, may cross any State or county road.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 8 and 15 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Banister in the county of Halifax, epproved May 16, 1887, as heretofore amended and to repeal section 10 of said act.
An ACT to provide for the payment of the general and the contingent and incidental expenses of the general assembly and to appropriate money for the same.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the town of Woodstock, in the county of Shenandoah, State of Virginia, to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of acquiring water, constructing and improving the water system of said town of Woodstock, and providing for the submission of the issuance of bonds for these purposes to the qualified voters of said town.
An ACT to validate the issuance by the board of supervisors of the county of Cumberland of bonds in the sum of sixty-four thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and twelve cents ($64,193.12) for building and permanent improvement of certain public roads in Hamilton district of said county, pursuant to an election by the duly qualified voters of said district held on the twenty-fourth day of September, nineteen hundred and nineteen, by virtue of an order of the circuit court of said county entered on the twenty-fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and nineteen.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits.
An ACT to authorize the State highway commissioner to sell the houses and lands appurtenant thereto on the Valley turnpike conveyed to the Commonwealth of Virginia under the act approved March 20, ae .
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county, Virginia, to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose ef completing the Nortk Landing road in Kempsville magisterial dis- trict from the village of Kempsville to Salem church.
An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to issue twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) of bonds for the purpose of acquiring the necessary land in erecting and constructing buildings for fire stations thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2958 of the Code of Virginia in relation to annexation of territory by cities or towns.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to borrow ten thousand dollars for the purpose of retiring certain outstanding bonds of Catalpa road district in said county.
An ACT to ratify, confirm and validate all elections, proceedings, acts or things heretofore held, done and performed in the city of Norfolk in reference to authorizing and issuing by the city of Norfolk, pursuant to chapter 122 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, of thirty-year, five per cent bonds of the city of Norfolk for the aggregate principal amount of six million dollars, for the purpose of enlarging and improving the water supply system of the city of Norfolk.