| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 239 and 240 of the Code |
| 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 making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1912, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 10, relating to the initiative, referendum and recall. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 852 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to create a general road fund, and to provide for the permanent improvement of roads, approved April 2, 1902, and to create an advisory road board and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 14, 1903, and to authorize the said board of supervisors to create a general maintenance road fund. |
| 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 authorize the sale and conveyance of a lot of not exceeding fifteen acres of land, part of the State penitentiary farm. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to prescribe the mode in which clerks of courts shall Keep a record of all taxes and other public moneys collected by them, and to require them to pay the same into the treasury, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914: and to require the clerk in connection therewith, to keep a reeord of fees received. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 11, 18, 18a, 18b, 19g, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 88, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89. 90, 91, 92, 98, 94, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107 and 108, of chapter 101 of the acts of the general assembly, approved May 24, 1870, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended; to add to said charter, as a part of the charter of the city of Richmond, sections to be Kngwn as sections 18c, 18d, 18e, 27a, 27b, 27¢c, 27d, 28a, and Slu, and to repeal sections 13b, 30u, 30b, 30c, 30d, 30e, 30f, 30g, 30h, 301, 30j, 93a, 93b, 93c, 938d, 98e, 93f, 938g, 93h, 931, 93), 93k, 931, 93m, 93n, 9380, 9383p, 93q, B8r, 938s and 109 of said charter, the general object of which amendments, added sections and repeal of sections is to require claimants for damages occurring by reason of the negligence of the city to give notice of such claim; to limit the time in which suit shall be brought to recover land opened to and used by the public as a street or alley; to divide the government of the city of Richmond into six departments; to provide for the appointment, qualification and duties of the head of each of said departinents; to enlarge the powers and duties of the mayor; to create a bvard to be known as the advisory board of the city of Richmond, and define their powers and duties; to provide for the better assessment, collection and levy of taxes: to authorize the council of the city of Richmond to pass ordinances deemed necessary to cure defects in the making of such levies and assessments of taxes; to abolish the board known as the administrative board of city of Richmond; to abolish the board known as the board of fire commissioners of the city of Richmond, and to provide for the holding of an election by the people to finally determine whether or not the said amendments shall become effective as a part of the charter of the city of Richmond. |
| 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, approved March 17, 1884, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, and as amended March 20, 1916. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide in cities containing forty thousand inhabitants or more for the appointment of matron for the jails, and to fix their compensation and provide how the same shall be paid |
| 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 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 sections 61, 79, 80, 97 and 100 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick and to provide a charter therefor, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 185 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte to provide annual allowance for the sheriff of said county |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to commissioners of revenue. |
| An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment taken by notaries public in foreign countries. |
| A RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 32 of article 2 of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact section 1 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 constables and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commissioners, to fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers |
| An ACT to appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars to reimburse the civil contingent fund for extraordinary expenses incurred in the rental and improvement of building used for offices for State officials, and to declare an emergency. |
| An ACT to provide for the appointment of staff officers in the national guard. |
| An ACT to require clerks of courts to keep telephones in their offices. |
| A RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 117 of article S of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing seventy thousand 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1910, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1912, by (1) increasing the salary limit of said civil justice; (2) providing for interrogatories under executions issued by said civil justice, and (4) giving said civil justice certain powers in matters of contempt; (5) by enlarging the jurisdiction of said civil justice in interpleader proceedings and otherwise, approved March 10, 1914. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Orange county to provide annual allowances for the clerk, sheriff and Commonwealth attorney of said county. |
| An ACT for the appointment of trustees for the town of York. |
| An ACT authorizing the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia to offer one hundred and nineteen State scholarships to students from Virginia, which shall entitle the holder to tuition in the college, room rent, light, heat and attendance free of charge. |
| A RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 133 of article 9 of the Constitution of Virginia. |
| 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 regulate the running at large of dogs in the county |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 5, 1915. |
| An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors to supplement the compensation of justices of the peace in certain cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code, as hereto- |
| An ACT to make and declare the county courthouse building and the lot appurtenant thereto, located in Harrisonburg, a part of Central magisterial district in Rockingham county, for certain purposes. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 3401 of the acts of 1908, regulating the employment of children in certain employments, approved March 13, 1908, as amended by chapter 339 of the acts of 1914, approved March 27, 1914. |
| An ACT to authorize cities in this Commonwealth of fifty thousand inhabitants or more, according to the last census of the United States, to increase the salary of the civil justice of said city to an amount not to exceed four thousand dollars per annum, during the term of office of said civil justice. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 8 of chapter 159 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of the session of 1916, relating to the organization and government of cities of the second Class. |
| An ACT authorizing the payment of fees earned by certain attorneys for the Commonwealth. |
| An ACT to enact and re-enact sections 2, 5, 6, 19 and 21 of 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, approved March 2, 1888, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 5, 1890, as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 25, 1892, as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 26, 1896, approved March 15, 1904, as further amended by an act approved March 10, 1910, approved March 20, 1916. |
| An ACT to incorporate the town of Dungannon, in Scott county, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 279 of an act of the general assembly, approved March 16, 1910, entitled an act to require the State treasurer 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 not to pay same. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 9, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualification, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing section 7 of chapter 2 of said charter, approved March 12, 1912. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled in act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for creating, working and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county and defining the boundaries of the same |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15 and 17 of the charter of the town of Mimnassas |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 852 of the Code of 1887, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908, relating to compensation to clerks of boards of supervisors. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of an act entitled an act to amend sections 16, 27, 25, 26, and 28 of the charter of Suffolk |
| 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 amend and re-enact section 614 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 614 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 614 of the Code of Virginian 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1916. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 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 |
| An ACT to authorize Greene and Madison counties to erect, build and construct a bridge across Rapidan river. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1656-a of the Code of Virginia. |
| 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. |
| An ACT providing for the election of the members of the State corporation commission by the qualified voters of the State and providing for their terms and commission. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to ratify and confirm a certain contract made between the bridge commissioners of the county of Stafford, a corporation, duly chartered by the general assembly of Virginia by an act approved February 20, 1886, and Gari Melchers and Corinne Lawton Melchers, of the county of Stafford, Va. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3630 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to homestead exemption. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18, 19 and 20 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and the public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt. and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof, and to segregate to localities the tax upon shares of stock of banks, banking associations, trust and security companies. |
| An ACT to give consent of the State of Virginia to the purchase or acquisition by the United States of America, of certain real estate in the city of Portsmouth. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for change in the form of government of cities having a population of less than 100,000, and of towns, and to provide in what manner such cities and towns may adopt such form of government |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia of 1904 as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1908, as amended and re-enacted March 17, 1910, as amended and re-enacted February 18, 1915, in relation to qualifications of disability of persons holding office under United States so as to allow rural carriers of United States government to be appointed and act as notary public. |
| 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 compensation of said officers, approved March 27, 1914, in reference to the county of Prince George, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1916. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15, 18 and 20 of an act to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the State of Virginia, by means of certificates of births and deaths, and burial or removal permits; to require prompt returns to the bureau of vital statistics at the capital of the State, as required to be established by the State board of health; to insure the thorough organization and efficiency of the registration of vital statistics throughout the State; to provide certain penalties; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 12, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 13, 1914. |
| An ACT to make available for general purposes an appropriation heretofore made for the legislative reference bureau, for certain specific purposes |
| An ACT authorizing the councils of cities in this Commonwealth having, by the last United States census, a population in excess of 65,000 inhabitants and less than 100,000, to increase, during their respective terms, the salaries of captains and sergeants of the police force and assistant chief or chiefs of the fire department, and other city officials. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 9, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 90 of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and the acts amendatory thereof. |
| An ACT to provide for the training and licensing of attendants for the sick under certain conditions. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact section 24-a of an act approved March 20, 1914, printed as chapter 805, acts of assembly of Virginia, session 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish and regulate the holding of primary elections, to pay expenses of same; to secure the regularity and purity of the same, and to prevent and punish any corrupt practices in connection therewith, approved March 14, 1912. |
| An ACT to appropriate money to supplement certain appropriations heretofore made for Salaries and expenses of the said bureau. |
