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1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create a road board for the county of Fauquier, and to provide for the working of the roads of said county, approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and amended by act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of King William county to build, construct and maintain a bridge over the Pamunkey river near Hanover town, between King William and Hanover counties.
An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental ex-
An ACT to incorporate the town of Kenbridge, in the county of Lunenburg, Virginia.
An ACT to validate the acts of the councils of such of the towns in the State of Virginia as may be invalid by reason of the failure to conform to the general law in the election of town officers.
1910
An ACT to establish a court of law and chancery for the city of Roanoke, Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Radford, and
An ACT to prescribe the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of Norfolk to secure the State revenue, and to require weekly settlements of such treasurer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 814 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 10, 1903, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 17, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 446 of the Code, as here- tofore amended, in reference to the compensation of land assessors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1875, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1879, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30, 1875, and as further amended by an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to amend section 7 of chapter 316 of the Acts of Assembly, session of 1874-1875, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, and as further amended by an act approved March 2, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 875 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT concerning the charter and transactions of the General Alumni Association of the University of Virginia, and accepting the provisions of a certain deed of trust made by said association for the use and benefit of the University of Virginia.
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 provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the county of Elizabeth City, or of portions thereof.
An ACT providing for the condemnation, by cities and towns, of abandoned or unused and neglected burying grounds wholly or partly within the limits of such cities and towns, and making disposition of the remains interred in such burying grounds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1908, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1923 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to require the State treasurer, at the end of each fiscal year, to charge off the books of his office all checks drawn by him on State depositories which have not been presented for payment within five years from the date they were issued, and to require him to certify the fact to the auditor of public accounts and to the State depositories on which these checks were drawn.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 70 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the compensation of members of the electoral board.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Graham, in the county of Tazewell, approved February 29, 1892
An ACT to provide for the examination of the books of land assessors by the clerk of court; assessor to assist in examination; how errors corrected; compensation to clerks.
An ACT to regulate the sale of agricultural seeds, to provide a standard of purity for such seeds, to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act, and vesting the execution and enforcement of this act in the commissioner of agriculture.
An ACT to authorize Albemarle county from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $30,000.00, for the purpose of uniting in the building, in the county of Albemarle, of State money aid 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 provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville and to repeal its present charter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the making, changing and working of roads in the county of Rockingham
An ACT to refund out of the treasury of the Commonwealth the sum of $7.50 to Thomas L. Moore, district attorney for the United States district court for the western district of Virginia.
An ACT providing for detention or commitment of minors under seventeen years of age for certain offenses not in jails or penitentiaries; placing them in suitable homes and institutions under certain circumstances; when they can and cannot be sent to jail; allowing them to be released on probation; the approval of the State board of charities and corrections under certain contingencies; penalties for removing any child committed hereunder or violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals: appointment of probation officers and outlining their duties; and declaring an emergency.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the improvement and working of roads in the county of Henrico, and for the construction and repair of bridges therein, and to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1882, entitled an act for laying out and working roads in Henrico county, approved March 1, 1884, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Gordonsville, approved July 9, 1870, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, as amended by an act approved February 7, 1894, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1898, adding an additional section thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 2 of section 2 and subsections 2, 5, 6, 8 and 10 of section 20, and sections 1, 5, 7, 19, 24, 25 and 26 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities, and to ratify and confirm notices already given which conform to the requirements of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3938 of the Code of Virginia, relative to duties of a coroner.
An ACT to define and classify industrial sick benefit companies
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1164, 1168, 1169 and 1170 and 1171 of the Code of Virginia, and to add independent sections thereto, so as to provide for the examination of banks and other similar institutions in this State, and to make certain general provisions and for the conduct of the business of banking, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof.
An ACT to authorize cities of this State to make additional allowance or compensation to commissioners of the revenue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield, and to grant a new charter to the said town, which took effect February 17, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act of assembly approved February 4, 1890, and by an act approved February 24, 1890, and by an act approved February 24, 1892, and by an act approved January 29, 1894, and by an act approved February 27, 1894, and by an act approved February 12, 1898, and by an act approved February 15, 1901, and by an act approved March 15, 1904, and by an act approved February 29, 1908, in relation to appointment of commissioners in chancery.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1898, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, so as to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to work and improve the public roads of said county, expend any surplus money on the roads and bridges of said county, and authorize the erection of toll gates on certain roads for the purpose of raising revenue to maintain and build macadam roads in said county.
An ACT making it a misdemeanor for parents or guardians to refuse or neglect to support their children under fourteen years of age, or to subject children under seventeen years of age to vicious or immoral influence, encourage any child to commit a misdemeanor, or to send a child under seventeen years of age to certain places; punishment therefor, and declaring an emergency.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437 of the Code of Virginia having reference to the periodical appointment of assessors to assess lands and lots, as amended by subsequent acts.
An AGT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incor-porate the town of Stuart, in the county of Patrick
An ACT to have the treasurer of Princess Anne county sit regularly at the county seat.
An ACT to amend section 8 of the charter of the town of Lawrenceville.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Charlotte to sell, convey and release to the State of Virginia the reversionary interest and all other rights of the said county in a certain tract of land conveyed by the said county to the State of Virginia on the 3d day of July, 1901, for the establishment of an agricultural experiment station thereon, and to authorize the State board of agriculture and immigration to purchase the reversionary interest and all other rights of the said county in the said tract of land, and to sell and convey the whole or any part thereof, if deemed by the said board unnecessary for its uses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 30 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission upon the reform and revision of the tax and assessment laws of Virginia; to define its duties; provide compensation for its members, and to make an appropriation therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the governor’s staff approved January 11, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 14 of chapter 1, sections 1 and 6 of chapter 2, section 1 of chapter 3, sections 2 and 7 of chapter 4, and section 7 of chapter 5 of the act concerning corporations,
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1900, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 84 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.
An ACT to establish a uniform system of bookkeeping and accounting and for the appointment of a State accountant, and defining his duties, and to provide for the examination of the books of all officers entrusted with the collection and receipt, custody and disbursement of the revenues of the State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an acc to provide for authorizing county or city school boards to sell or exchange public school property
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment of section 110 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to permit the boards of supervisors of counties and the councils of cities to provide help for destitute persons bitten by mad dogs.
An ACT to provide for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the city of Roanoke, Virginia.
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 establish a State board of accountancy and prescribe its duties and powers; to provide for the granting of certificates to accountants who qualify under the provisions of this act, and to provide a penalty for violation of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to add section 47 to chapter 106 of the acts of assembly of Virginia, 1904, entitled an act to provide the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and Keeping in repair of all public roads, bridges, causeways and wharves in the several counties of this State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 12, 1904.
An ACT to 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 amend and re-enact section 35 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 890 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted as follows.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section sixteen hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the proceedings before a commission to ascertain insanity.
An ACT to punish as a misdemeanor a person who shall curse, abuse or use vulgar, profane or indecent language over any telephone in this State and provide punishment therefor.
An ACT to provide for the organization and government of incor-porated communities which shall beecome hereafter cities of the second class, as provided by law.
An ACT to provide for the assessment and payment of omitted capitation taxes and of capitation taxes of persons who become of age after the first of February in any year, and to repeal chapter 342 of acts of assembly of 1902-1903-1904, entitled an act to prescribe the manner in which a duly registered voter who has not been assessed with his State capitation tax may pay the same, and to prescribe penalties for failure on the part of clerks and treasurers to observe the provisions of this act, and to repeal chapter 26 of acts of assembly, 1906, entitled an act authorizing and directing the auditor of public accounts to accept from the county and city treasurers of the Commonwealth all money collected by such treasurers as poll taxes under orders of courts since the first day of July, 1903.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment of sections 119 and 120 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to provide that the book of entries and surveys of the several counties of the State shall be kept In the clerk’s office or other safe place, and providing penalties for failure to do so.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the compensation of supervisors.
An ACT to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of the same and to provide penalties for the violation of the provision of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Page county, and for opening new roads and changing the location of existing roads.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of an act approved November 24, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, in the county of Southampton, and amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 6, 1896, and amended by an act approved February 14, 1901, and amended by an act approved December 19, 1901.
An ACT to amend an re-enact section 925 of chapter 42 of the Code of the Virginia, as amended by act approved March 5, 1908.
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 the county of Tazewell, approved February 24, 1888, etc., and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in the 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, 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 to provide for the distribution and disbursement of all funds, accrued under said act, as amended and re-enacted, which have not been expended for the purposes provided therein, and to provide for maintaining and improving the roads of Tazewell county.
An ACT to provide for submission to the people for approval and ratification the proposed amendments to section 46 of article 4, section 50 of article 4, sections 110, 119 and 120 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section ninety of an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section ninety of an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, in relation to justices of the peace In said city, as amended by an act approved March sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled-an act to amend and re-enact section ninety of an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, in relation to justices of the peace in said city.
An ACT to permit rules for the government of jails and the reduction of sentences of prisoners therein confined to be prescribed by the circuit and corporation judges and the boards of supervisors and councils of the respective counties and cities of the State, and to provide for the enforcement of the same.
An ACT to repeal sections 2020, 2021 and 2022, and to amend and re-enact sections 2008, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2026, 2027 and 2036 of an act entitled an act creating a board of harbor commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and for the preservation of the harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth, approved March 3, 1882, as amended and re enacted by an act entitled an act amending and re-enacting sections 2008, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2023, and repealing sections 2028, 2029, 2030 and 2031 of chapter 92 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the duties of harbor commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth, approved February 26, 1890.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Salem.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a retirement fund for public school teachers
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 614 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1908 entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 613 and 614 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 1 and section 10 of chapter 2 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 sections 4, 7 and 10 of an act approved March 6, 1906, and amended by an act approved February 25, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled an act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; provided for an increase of the penitentiary guard, not to exceed forty-five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of Banister district, in-cluding the towns of South Boston and Houston, in Halifax county, Vir-ginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the estab-lishment at South Boston and Houston, each, of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein, and in the event that a majority of those voting at said election vote for said dispensaries, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of same, and to prohibit thereafter within said district and towns the sale, barter or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms or corporations, except as herein provided, and to provide for future elections on the question of abolishing such dispensaries, and defining the effect of all elections held hereunder.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to who are exempt from jury service.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 11, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia as amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to define and regulate the sale, distribution, rectifying, manufacture and distilling of intoxicating liquors and malt beverages, and to impose license taxes thereon, and to prohibit the drinking of ardent spirits on railroad trains, and to repeal sections 141 and 142 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved February 19, 1904, and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 815 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 10, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 812, 813, 814, 815, 817, 818, 819, &20, 821, 822 and S24 of the Code of Virginia, so far as the same relates to the bond of the treasurer of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia, as previously amended, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 11, 14 and 17 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities.
1912
An ACT concerning railroad companies in which, or in the stock or securities of which, the Commonwealth owns, or is entitled to, any proprietary rights or interest.
An ACT to authorize and empower the present clerk of Goochland county to copy and transmit to the treasurer of said county lists of lands delinquent for taxes for certain years which the previous clerk of said county failed to transmit to the treasurer of said county as required by law, and to authorize the treasurer of said county to make sale of such lands, and to authorize the judge of the circuit court of said county to allow said clerk of the circuit court of Goochland county suitable compensation for making lists aforesaid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section fifteen hundred and seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘fan act to amend and re-enact section fifteen hundred and seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight.
An ACT to provide for the resubmission to the people for approval and ratification of the proposed amendments to section 119 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia, in relation to commissioners of the revenue in the cities, and section 120 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia, in relation to treasurers in the cities, in order that there may be a separate vote of the people on each of said proposed amendments.
An ACT to change the time of holding the town election of the town of Branchville in Southampton county, Virginia, and extending the term of office of the present officers of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections four, twelve, the first sub-section of section twenty-three, sections fifty-three and seventy-six of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and eight, in reference to the time of election of councilmen, the number of councilmen, the power to establish and enlarge water works, printing of ordinances, the pay of councilmen and other city officers, and to add to the said charter a new section, to be known as section thirty-two-a, in reference to the issue of bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 113 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1904.
An ACT to require the licensing and adequate inspection and supervision of persons and corporations conducting maternity hospitals and lying-in asylums, and of persons receiving, boarding and keeping children, not relatives; prescribing rules for placing out and for reports; penalty.
An ACT to provide for the payment to the Richmond Press of the balance due them for printing the Index to enrolled bills.
An ACT concerning coal mines and safety of employees, creating a department and inspector of mines under the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to establish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of roads and bridges in Dinwiddie county, to create a road board for Dinwiddie county, and to prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, and to regulate his duties,” approved March 8, 1904 as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1910.