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1916
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.
An ACT to invest in boards of supervisors of counties adjointing and abutting a city with a population of 125,000, or more inhabitants, as shown by United States census, the same powers and authority now vested or hereafter conferred upon common councils of cities and towns.
An ACT to authorize the director of the legislative reference bureau to employ a sufficient number of clerical assistants to perform the work of the bureau and the stenographic and clerical work of the members of the general assembly during the present legislative session and to purchase codes, acts, journals, files and other books and equipment for the immediate use of said bureau; to appropriate money for such purposes and for the purpose of supplementing the former appropriation for salaries and expenses in connection with said bureau for the current fiscal year.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1871, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Strasburg, in Shenandoah county, approved March 19, 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create the office of State forester under the direction and control of the State geological commission, and defining his duties, approved March 21, 1914, and to make provision for the prevention of fires.
An ACT to extend the time for collecting taxes accounted for by city, county and town treasurers, and not returned delinquent.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled an act to provide for lists of all persons who have paid their State poll taxes, and for posting the same; and providing compensation therefor, approved March 3, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 6 of an act to provide a better assessment of personal property under the control of the fiduciaries and the several courts of the Commonwealth
Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to section 117 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia
An Act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1912, entitled an act to establish on the farm of the Virginia State epileptic colony, the Virginia colony for the feeble-minded, and to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony.
An ACT to provide upon a petition of a majority of the patrons of any school in the State for placing a United States flag upon each public school house, or on the grounds thereof, in the State of Virginia, and authorizing the respective school authorities to make an appropriation to pay for same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, approved March 12, 1912. (H. B. 278.)
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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Botetourt county, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt county approved March 4, 1896, and an act amendatory thereof approved February 14, 1901, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT relating to liability of common carriers, whose motive power is steam and engaged in intrastate commerce, for injuries to, or death of, their employees, and provide for the pleading thereof; provided that the provisions of this act shall not apply to electric railways or roads that are in part electric, operated wholly within this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1408 of the Code of Virginia relating to quantity of land benevolent associations may hold.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth article of section one hundred and eighty-three (183) of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December eighteen (18), nineteen hundred and three (1908), entitled an act to amend and re-enact the fourth article of section 183 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances, approved February 7, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 27, 36, 41, 45, 46 and 47 of an act approved March 12, 1908, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 27, 34, 36, 41, 45, 46, and 47 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled, an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled, an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887, April 28, 1887, May 14, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21, 1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, and March 15, 1902, and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk as extended by the several acts of the general assembly and approved April 6, 1887, February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county which was entered on the 9th day of January. 1906, and add an independent section thereto to be known as section 33-a; and to repeal an independent section of said act known as section 33-a.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 7, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887; April 28, 1887; May 14, 1887; February 14, 1900; February 21, 1900; February 26, 1900; February 2, 1901; February 15, 1901; March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887; February 22, 1890 and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, 11, 24, 54, 56, 60, and 61 and to repeal 62 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896, as amended, and to provide for the adoption by the qualified voters of the change in form of government and for a special primary election for mayor and councilmen.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3182 of the Sar of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1433 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 28, 1903, as amended by an act approved March 11, 1904, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1906, as amended by an act approved March 14 1908, amending sections 1438, 1437 and 1438 of the Code of Virginia. in relation to the duties of the State board of education and of division superintendents of schools, to the composition of school divisions, and the salaries of division superintendents.
An ACT providing how the cities of this Commonwealth having a population in excess of one hundred thousand inhabitants may request of the general assembly of Virginia to grant to any such city a special form of government.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond so as to amend and re-enact sections 9, 11, 12, 13, 28, 30-a, 30-c, 30-d, 30-h, 37, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92 as the same or any of them may have been heretofore amended, and so as to add to the said charter certain sections to be known as 13-a, 13-b, 18-a and 18-b, and to repeal sections 24-a, 24-b, 66-a, 66-b, 66-c, 66-d, and 66-e, as the same or any of them may have been heretofore amended.
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 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 amend and re-enact an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk and prescribing rules for actions against the city for damages.
An ACT to amend section 122a and 122b of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 10 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to general and special elections; when and where to be held; regulation for their conduct and government; compensation for services in election
An ACT requiring sheriffs and sergeants to keep a record of persons confined in jails; stating what said record shall contain; requiring reports to be made to the State board of charities and corrections; prescribing penalty.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1898, entitled, an act to create the board of fisheries of Virginia, and define its duties and fix the salary of its members, as amended by acts approved February 21, 1900, February 15, 1901, and Mareh 12, 1908, respectively, so as to change the position of secretary of the commission of fisheries to that of shellfish commissioner, to define the duties and powers of the commission, to fix salaries and provide a fund for carrying out the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3526 of the Code of Virginia in relation to fees of attorneys for the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond so as to amend and re-enact sections 93-c and 93-m, as the same or either of them may have been heretofore amended, and so as to add to the said charter section 93-s, relating to the retirement of the members of the fire-and fire alarm departments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 925 of the Code of Virginia
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide for the Working of Certain Long Term or Desperate Convicts by the Superintendent of the Penitentiary, the Governor and the Commissioner of Agriculture, for the Manufacture of Ground Limestone and Oyster Shells, and Incidentally for the Disposition of Same, and the By-Products Suitable for Road Construction, to the Citizens of the State, Adding the Manufacture of Ground Marl.
An ACT making the Norfolk county courthouse and the Norfolk county jail, in the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, a part of the several magisterial districts of the county of Norfolk, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of Norfolk county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 38, 39 and 53 of an act approved March 14, 1906, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 20, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the removal of persons holding any office of trust or profit under and by virtue of any of the laws of the State of Virginia, either State, county or municipal, except such officers as are by the Constitution removable only and exclusively by methods other than those provided by this act, who shall knowingly or wilfully misconduct himself in office, or who shall knowingly or wilfully neglect to perform any duty enjoined upon such officer by any law of the State of Virginia, or who shall in any public place be in a state of intoxication produced by ardent spirits voluntarily taken, or who shall engage in any form of gambling or who shall commit any act constituting a violation of any penal statute involving moral turpitude; and providing a procedure therefor; and for the appearance of the commissioner of prohibition, or some one representing his office, in certain cases arising hereunder.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 2 of an act concerning corporations which became a law May 21, 1903, relating to the decrease of the outstanding stock of corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3560 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT for the relief of S. M. Chiles, late treasurer of Frederick county, and to enable the board of supervisors of said county to pay to him such sums as may be found to be due to him from said county.
An ACT to provide for jurors in cities that have been incorporated less than two years.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 450 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide compensation of the district school trustees in the counties of Fairfax and Loudoun, Southampton, Cumberland, Buckingham and Lunenburg
An ACT to incorporate the town of Newbern, in the county of Pulaski, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Newbern, in the county of Pulaski, approved March 4, 1872.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 78 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the duties and compensation of registrars.
An ACT to regulate the selling, offering or exposing for sale of agricultural seeds; and to repeal an act entitled 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, approved March 16, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887) in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled, an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns, approved May 20, 1903, by amending section 1015-a so as to reduce the minimum number of members of the board of aldermen and of the common council in cities.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of North Tazewell, in the county of Tazewell; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans at any time during the years 1916 and 1917.
An ACT for the relief of P. H. Carper.
An ACT to allow E. W. Mouring to build a wharf in the York river, upon a site leased by him from the county of Gloucester.
An ACT to provide a road commission for Capeville magisterial district, in Northampton county, and to repeal preview acts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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, 1908, a a De- cember 17, 1903, approved March 27, 1914.
An ACT to amend section 3530 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, in relation to the fees of justices of the peace.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of article 2, and section 1 of article 3, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Gloucester county to lease or rent out certain lands at Gloucester Point, and to validate certain leases heretofore made.
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 amend the charter of the city of Richmond, so as to amend and re-enact section 106 as the same has been heretofore amended, concerning the election, qualification and duties of justices of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 9 and 48 of an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter of the city of Williamsburg
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 amend and re-enact an act entitled an act requiring the several county and district school boards of Virginia to make and publish annually a statement of receipts and disbursements, amErOTGing a penalty for failure to do so
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Medical College of Virginia, approved February 25, 1854, as amended by an act approved January 22, 1879, and also by an act approved February 2, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 8 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg
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 sections 5, 16, 22, 35, 60 and 63 of an act approved March 14, 1906, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887, April 28, 1887, May 14, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21, 1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887, February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.
An ACT concerning the enforcement of the laws governing the manufacture, storage, preparation for sale, and sale of articles used as food or condiment for human beings or animals, and prescribing the duties and compensation of Commonwealth’s attorneys in connection with the enforcement of such laws.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 923 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of notaries public.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4130 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section seven hundred and fifty-three of the Code of Virginia, in relation to State depositories.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 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 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, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 18, 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 public roads, bridges causeways and wharves and so forth, approved March 7, 1906, as amended by an act approved March 13, 1908, as amended as to section 5 thereof by an act approved March 14, 1910, as amended as to section 47 thereof by an act approved March 16, 1910.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond so as to amend and re-enact sections 93-a and 93-b as the same have been heretofore amended, concerning the terms of the members of the board of fire commissioners and the number necessary to constitute a quorum thereof.
An ACT to provide for the Sport nent of a police justice for the city of Alexandria and his jurisdiction.
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 incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section F of section 3059 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and also to amend and re-enact section 3059 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, 3067, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060 and 3062 of the Code, as heretofore amended, and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, as to the times for holding regular terms of the courts in the several circuits and giving jurisdiction to courts during recess, whether adjourned for the purpose of opening or holding another term, or part or portion there or otherwise, which the judges of the circuit courts now have in vacation, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1912, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 27, 1914, relating to the terms of the circuit court for the sixth circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to create a commission to consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constable, and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commissioner to fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of the same, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and to repeal an act entitled an act to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of same, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, approved March 14, 1910, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914.
An ACT to create a State department of game and inland fisheries, and providing for the issuing of licenses to provide revenue for the support of such department, and imposing penalties for violation.
An ACT permitting the creation of the office of public defender in cities having a population of fifty thousand, or more, and providing for their appointment and defining their powers and duties.
An ACT to repeal section 3509 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 3508, as amended by an act approved December 31, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13 1908, a relation to the fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
An ACT to require the supervisors of Middlesex county to superintend the repairing of public roads in their respective districts and to provide compensation for such services.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3603 of the Code of Virginia, relative to interrogatories.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10, 11, 46, 47, 68 and 118% 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, and to add three new sections thereto designated respectively, section 86% providing for a license tax on collection agencies, and sections 86% and 36% providing for the taxation of water, heat, light and power companies.
An ACT to amend chapter 333 of the acts of 1914, in relation to the ventilation of found ies, by adding an independ2nt section thereto, providing for adequate toilets and wash rooms.
1918
An ACT to establish 'The State Highway System.'
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 allow public officials in Virginia, both State and local, to deposit records in the Virginia State Library.
An ACT to organize home guard companies.
An ACT providing for expenses of the members of the general assembly in attending the extended session, beginning on March 18, 1918.
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 place mutual fire insurance companies under the supervision and control of the bureau of Insurance.
An act to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter EE. of an act, approved March 11, 2875, entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Newbern in the county of Pulaski, and to amend and re-enact an act approved March 20, 1916, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Newbern, in the county of Pulaski, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Newbern, in the county of Pulaski, approved March 4, 1872.
An ACT to allow the supervisors of Amelia county to increase the salary of the county clerk of said county.
An ACT to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain 'securities' herein defined by requiring an inspection thereof, providing for such inspection, supervision and regulation of the business of any person, association, partnership, or corporation, engaged or intending to engage, whether as principal, broker or agent, in the sale of any such securities in the State of Virginia as may be necessary to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of said securities, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
An ACT to authorize the county treasurer of Surry county to pay certain warrants drawn by the board of supervisors of said county, payable out of the county levy, in favor of Dr. S. B. Barham, late chairman of said board, for his salary as a member thereof, which warrants are barred by the statute of limitations.
An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Bedford.
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.