Public officers

1923es
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to provide for opening new roads, and building bridges, and working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Rockbridge county,” approved March 8, 1894, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize the governor of Virginia to convey to the government of the United States, in the name and on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a certain parcel of ground, not exceeding one-half acre, which is a part of a tract now owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the county of Princess Anne, together with an easement or right of way leading from said parcel of ground to the county road.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act of the general assembly, entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Winchester, approved April 2, 1874, as amended by an act approved April 30, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 26, 1896, as amended in section 9 and section 11 thereof by an act approved March 5, 1900, as amended in section 9 thereof by an act approved March 9, 1910.
An ACT to establish highway construction camps.
An ACT to provide for the designation by the board of super- visors of Henrico county, under certain conditions, of a depository or depositories for public funds other than State, now in or coming into the hands of the treasurer of said county, and to authorize and re- quire the county treasurer to deposit such funds therein pending their disbursement according to law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 20, 1920, and March 10, 1922.
An ACT authorizing the city of Richmond to establish a system of pensions for injured, retired or superanuated public school officers, public school teachers, and other public school employees in said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a population of fifty thousand or more, approved March 2, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4722 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the operation of automobiles, engines, etc., while intoxicated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 89 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2252 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 15, 1920, March 19, 1920, and March 24, 1922.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts, when in his judgment it is just and proper, to accept interest at the rate of six per centum per annum upon any judgment heretofore or hereafter recovered by the Commonwealth of Virginia against the treasurer of a city or county which bears a greater rate of interest than six per centum per annum.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Louisa to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, and to use the proceeds of such bond issue to pay off the indebtedness of the said county incurred in pursuance of an act approved March 16, 1920, which act is printed as chapter 213 of the acts of assembly of 1920.
An ACT to authorize the establishment of a county hospital by the counties of Prince Edward and Cumberland, or either of them, and any contiguous county or counties, should the regular qualified voters of each such county so elect, and to provide for the submission of such question to the voters of the respective counties, and authorizing the issuance of bonds by the counties so electing for such purpose, upon the vote of the people so directing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 786 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5189 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved September 5, 1919, and as further amended by an act approved March 19, 1920, and as further amended by an act approved February 18, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five thousand nine hundred and fifty-six of the Code of Virginia, relating to the court of law and chancery of the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia, relating to the clerk of the circuit court of the city of Roanoke.
An Act to approve the grants and conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia of a lot of land with improvements thereon, located in the city of Richmond and the State of Virginia, which said lot of land was not enumerated as a part of the property of the said association in an act approved February 21, 1920, and to declare the grant and conveyance by the said association to the Commonwealth of all its property, wherever located, valid in all respects.
An ACT to create a commission of roads and bridges of the county of Princess Anne, Virginia, for Lynnhaven magisterial district, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said magisterial district of said county, and for acquiring establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein, and for obtaining and applying any and all State aid now and hereafter available for said purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of chapter five of an act approved March 13, 1918, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg.”
An ACT making the provision of the act entitled "An act ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within this State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof," approved the 16th day of March, A. D., nineteen hundred and eighteen and as amended by an act approved March 24, 1922, applicable to the old Cape Charles Lighthouses Reservation, on Smith Island, in the county of Northampton.

1924
An ACT to authorize the college of William and Mary in Virginia to sell and convey a certain strip of land from a tract owned by it, not used by it, and containing four-fifths of an acre more or less.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, approved March 16, 1920.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia
An ACT to preserve racial integrity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 129 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1923, relating to the clerk of the circuit court of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act ‘to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30; 1875, as heretofore amended
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 38, 39, and 47 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 at , 1900.
An ACT to provide for the working of the roads of the county of Louisa.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2233 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 437 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, approved September 176
An ACT to raise revenue to provide increased facilities for the valuation of the properties of certain classes of public service companies for rate making purposes, and for the performance of other functions of the State corporation commission and to appropriate the revenues provided by this act for carrying out the purposes of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2726 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 10, 1920, entitled an act to amend section 2726 of the Code of Virginia, and as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter III of an act entitled An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17 and 18 of an act entitled 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, approved March 13, 1918, and to add to the said charter as a part thereof a section to be known as section 39-a on the subject of a town attorney.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for the recordation by clerks of courts of honorable discharges of Virginians who served in the military or naval forces of the United States or its associates during the late World War; to direct the Virginia war history commission to prepare and furnish to such clerks books suitable for such recordations, and to appropriate money to carry out the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1250 and 1251 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2698 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 23-a, empowering the council of the city of Portsmouth to prescribe rules and regulations concerning the rivers in said city, and authorizing the appointment of a harbor master.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 939, 940, 942, 943, 945 and 946 of the Code of Virginia of 1919.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Cambria, in Montgomery county, approved Me's 10 1906.
An ACT to declare the court house of Arlington county, Virginia, a part of each of the several magisterial districts of said county, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of said county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 340 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an jact 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, approved February 1, 1915, by adding thereto a new section numbered 7-b, and to amend and re-enact section 4 of the said act, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair public roads and bridges of Page county, and for opening new roads, and changing the location of existing roads
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Mathews to appoint each member of the board of supervisors as supervisor of roads for his magisterial district; to provide for their compensation, and to prescribe their duties and powers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5944 of the Code of virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1625, 1626, 1629, 1630, i. and 1632 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk; and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1738, 1739, 1744, 1752, 1753, 1764, 1771, 1775 and 1778 of the Code of Virginia relating to drain districts,
An ACT to create the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election, and compensation; and to transfer from the secretary of the Commonwealth to such commissioner all powers and duties heretofore conferred or imposed upon the former by the laws concerning motor vehicles and the taxes on motor vehicle fuels, and to invest the commissioner and his assistants with the powers of a sheriff for the purpose of enforcing EE ni
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Virginia Beach, in the county of Princess Anne, Virginia; and to define the boundaries of the said town of Virginia Beach, as set forth in the said act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, and in an order of the circuit court of Princess Anne county, Virginia, entered on the 28th day of May, 1923.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to invest in boards of supervisors of counties adjoining 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, approved March 4, 1920.
An ACT to provide uniform office hours for all State officers, boards, bureaus, commissions, and institutions required by law to maintain regular business quarters at the seat of government, with certain qualifications, and to limit the vacation period of employees in such offices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2702 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2417 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five of an act entitled an act to provide for building and permanently improving the public roads and bridges in the magisterial districts of Washington county, Virginia, or any magisterial district therein; to authorize the board of supervisors of Washington county to issue bonds for permanent road and bridge improvement or construction in any or all of the magisterial districts in said county, on a petition signed by a majority of the qualified voters in such district or districts; and to provide a sinking fund for the redemption of the bonds; and a levy for maintenance of the sinking fund and maintenance and upkeep of said roads, and to provide for the construction or improvement of such roads and bridges approved March 4, 1922, in so far as the roads of the Glade Spring magisterial district are concerned.
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Wise, formerly Gladeville, in the county of Wise, to borrow not in excess of $125,000.00, and to issue bonds of the town therefor, for the purpose of installing and maintaining water works and sewerage systems, providing adequate fire protection, and refunding existing indebtedness, or for either or all of said purposes;
An ACT to regulate the duties of the board of supervisors of Southampton county, Virginia, and directing them to publish amount of funds received and expended by them and fixing a penalty for their failure to do so.
An ACT to provide that when next a vacancy shall occur in the office of register of the land office, from then henceforth the superintendent of the State office building shall be superintendent of grounds and buildings, and the secretary of the Commonwealth shall perform the duties now required of the register of the land office.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to regulate the duties of the board of supervisors of Scott county, Virginia, and directing them to publish amount of funds received and expended by them and fixing a penalty for their failure todo so.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of the public roads and bridges of Giles county, other than such as are included in the State highway system, and to provide for the issuing of county bonds for the construction, reconstruction and permanent improvement of the roads and bridges embraced in the county highway system, approved February 10 1920.
An ACT to amend sections 20 and 23 and to repeal section 123 of an act amending certain sections of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2773 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1920, relating to compensation to clerks of boards of supervisors.
An ACT to create local boards of equalization of assessments of real estate for purposes of taxation in each county and city of the Commonwealth; to define the powers and duties of such boards; to fix the compensation of their members; to create a State tax commission; to define its powers and duties; to fix the compensation of its members; to appropriate money to carry out the provisions of this act; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and to repeal sections 2213, 2214, 2215 and 2216 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 666 of the Code of Virginia relating to appeals from school boards.
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties of Isle of Wight and Southampton to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges, in said counties, and for the protection of lives and property of persons using such roads, ways and bridges.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of road superintendents in the county of Elizabeth City; to define their terms of office and their duties, which became a law January 14 1904, without governor’s signature.
An ACT concerning weights and measures; and to repeal sections 1464 to 1470, both inclusive, and sections 1472 to 1485, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to define vinegar; to prohibit the manufacture or sale of adulterated or misbranded vinegar; and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3171 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1845, 1847, 1872, 1876, 1879, 1882 and 1887 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved January 29, 1920, and March 20, 1920, as relates to Roanoke City, and the city of Petersburg and the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 30 and 33 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act 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 the working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 890, 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, approved February 1, 1915, as amended by act approved March 19, 1920, and February 25, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the compensation of supervisors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 203 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 15, 1920, and March 28, 1922, and sections 205 to 210, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922.
An ACT to provide for the inspection and to regulate the distribution of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, and other liquids and fluids used, or intended to be used, for power purposes; and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2050 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the regulation, operation and management of the ferries across the Elizabeth river and branches thereof.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Smyth county to make annual allowances, as salaries, to two deputy sheriffs
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1636 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to create boards of finance in and for the counties of Tazewell, Dickenson and Wise, State of Virginia, and to prescribe their powers and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2995, 2998 and 2999 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4896 and 5999 of the ER
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 864 of the Code of VSB ta
An ACT to provide for a special police force in the county of Roanoke, prescribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for their compensation, and defining their powers and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five of an act approved November twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, in the county of Southampton, and amended and re-enacted by an act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and one, and amended by an act approved December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, and amended by an act approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and amended and re-enacted by an act approved March twenty-fourth nineteen hundred and twenty.
An ACT to declare the courthouse square, on which is located the courthouse, clerk’s office, jail and other public buildings of Gloucester county in the village of Gloucester, Virginia, a part of each of the several magisterial districts of the county of Gloucester, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of Gloucester county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 148 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4797 and 4800 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are contained in chapter 189 of the said Code, on preventing the commission of crimes.
An ACT to prescribe the size of type in writings to be docketed or recorded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 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 provide how the incorporation of towns in Fauquier county heretofore incorporated by a court may be annulled.
An ACT to permit the chairman of the board of supervisors of Stafford county to receive compensation in addition to that now provider By by law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1822 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 22 and 25 of an act entitled,‘‘An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town (now the city) of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, approved March 24 1920,’’ approved March 4, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1492 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to establish Jonesville high school district, in Lee county, Virginia, providing the mode of appointing trustees, levying tax for district school purposes therein, and authorizing the trustees to apply the money collected for district school purposes to the payment of teachers’ salaries, the purchasing, renting or building of school houses, apparatus, furniture, appliances, etc., approved May 5, 1903; to abolish the said district; to provide for the vesting of the title to property of the Jonesville high school district, in the county school board of Lee county; and to authorize the said board to assume both the assets and liabilities of the Jonesville high school district.