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1906
An ACT to empower boards of supervisors to enact special and local legislation to protect the public roads and bridges from obstruction, encroachment, and injury, to make violations of such enactments a misdemeanor, and providing penalties.
An ACT to authorize the purchase of linoleum for the floors of the museum and basement rooms in the capitol building, and furniture floor coverings, and metal file cases for the register of the land office, the superintendent of public instruction, and the State library, offices of the commissioner of agriculture, and to appropriate a sum sufficient to pay therefor.
An ACT to make guards at the Jamestown exposition conservators of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 3, and section 9, chapter 3, of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1038 of an act entitled 'chapter 269, 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section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled 'an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns,' approved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.'
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of an act entitled an act to provide for the 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 incorporate the town of Dendron, in the county of Surry, Virginia.
An ACT prohibiting expectorating or spitting in public places, buildings, theatres, steamboats, railways, and street cars, and other public conveyances, and requiring a sufficient number of spittoons or cuspidors to be provided in smoking compartments and smoking cars when so requested, and also requiring the posting of copies of this act.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Amherst county to permit the erection on the courthouse square of that county a Confederate hall or other memorial of the soldiers of the Confederate States army.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, and 14 of the 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 soforth.
An ACT to authorize the special board of directors of the Southwestern hospital to convey to the town of Marion a strip of land to be used as a public street.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to incor-porate the town of Manassas, as approved April 2, 1873; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1884; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1894; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1902."
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 24, 1874, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the third section of an act entitled an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 31, 1875.
AN ACT to make further appropriations of the public revenues for the two fiscal years ending February 28, 1907, and February 29, 1908
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.

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond as heretofore amended, in relation to the powers of the city council; and to amend and re-enact section 64 of the said charter in relation to the duties of the city engineer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 3 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, and an act approved March 15, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 925 of chapter 42 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT for the purpose of regulating the construction of public school buildings in order that the health, sight, and comfort of all pupils may be properly protected.
An ACT to provide for the improvement of public roads in Charlotte county, to authorize the issuance of county bonds for the purpose and to apportion the proceeds of said bonds among the several magisterial districts and to provide for the authorization of the issue of bonds by an election.
An ACT to authorize the town of Gate City to borrow ten thousand
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 3, 1900, and in force from its passage, entitled: An act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1904, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Narrows, in Giles county, Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to provide for authorizing county or city school boards to sell or exchange public school property, approved May 21, 1887, extending the same provisions to district school boards.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Pureelville, in the county of Loudoun.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19 and 74, of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1878, and as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 402, of the acts of 1897 and 1898, annulling and re-enacting section 2088 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 532 of the acts of assembly of 1895-96, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2088 of the Code of Virginia in relation to hauling seines or setting traps in the waters of Accomac and Northampton

1910
An ACT to regulate the conduct and equipment of hotels, to provide for the inspection thereof, and penalties for violation of the provisions hereof.
An ACT to authorize cities and towns to permit, under certain conditions, awnings, fire escapes, shutters, and so forth, to overhang streets.
An ACT to provide for public playgrounds in certain cities and towns.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 2 of section 2070a, and section 2079 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 14, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 95 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the preservation of certain birds and animals, and to prevent unlawful hunting, and to repeal certain sections of the Code, et cetera, as further amended and re-enacted as to subsection 2 of section 2070a by an act approved March 14, 1904, as further amended and re-enacted as to section 2070a by an act approved March 15, 1906, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11, 1908, as far as the same applies to the counties of Brunswick, Sussex and Greenesville, and making carrying a gun under certain conditions a misdemeanor.
An ACT to provide that it shall be unlawful to hunt or trap birds or animals in the county of Rappahannock without obtaining written permit from the landowner or landowners, and to provide penalty therefor.
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 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 the charter of the town of Salem.
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 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.
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 an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Basic City, approved December 19, 1891.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the trustees of the Belfield Academy, in the town of Belfield, and county of Greenesville
An ACT to dedicate as and for a public street or highway, upon certain conditions, a strip of the land composing the southwest corner of the Capitol Square not exceeding fifteen feet at the point of its greatest depth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend an act approved March 5, 1872, etc., declaring certain streams in Charlotte county to be highways, approved February 27, 1896, adding Big Horsepen creek, in Bacon magisterial district, to Hst of creeks named in that section.

1912
An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider and other drinks containing over one-half of one per centum alcohol within one mile of Elon Baptist church, in the town of Pamplin City, Appomattox county.
An ACT to remove the obstructions across and in Sandy creek, between the old ford, in Halifax county, below the bridge across said creek at Henrvy’s mill, and the source of said stream in Pittsylvnaia county.
An ACT to provide for and authorize the purchase of at least one half of the property in the city of Richmond known as the Ford's hotel block, for the purpose of erecting a modern fire-proof building for the State library rooms, for the supreme court of appeals of Virginia, and for other buildings for the departments and agencies of the state.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 7 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, ds amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, by an act approved March 3, 1898, by an act approved March 1, 1900, by an act approved March 14, 1902, by an act approved May 5, 1903, and by an act approved March 14, 1908; and to repeal the following sections of the Code of Virginia, and the following acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act; sections 2083, 2084, 2085, 2087, 2096, 2100, 2102; an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act, approved May 5, 1903; an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tide water, approved May 16, 1887, as amended by act approved March 1, 1888; an act entitled an act to provide for setting apart and designating crab-</p>
An ACT to prevent obstructing the waters of Pigg river.
An ACT to protect villages and unincorporated communities having within defined boundaries a population of three hundred or more against the running at large of horses, mules, ponies, asses, cattle, hogs, sheep and goats within said boundaries, and to authorize the circuit court of the county in which such village or community is located to fix the boundaries thereof for the purpose aforesaid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair and provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper, approved January 25, 1898, and as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1906, and as amended and approved February 21, 1908.
An ACT to prohibit the opening, repairing or maintaining of any street or alley through, on or over any lands within any of the cities or towns of this Commonwealth, which belongs to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to the Confederate Memorial Association, or any agency of the State.
An ACT to facilitate the development of the resources of the State by providing ways of ingress and egress for mining, manufacturing and timber cutting, and to authorize proper passways, tram-roads, haulroads and other means of transportation over the lands of another or others.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Nottoway to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to continue the improvement of the public roads of the said county.
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 an act approved February 7, 1835, providing a charter for the town of Bridgewater, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1884, and as amended by an act approved August 26, 1884, and as further amended by an act approved February 16, 1901, and all other acts heretofore passed amendatory of said charter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled, “An act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Henrico county to require osage orange hedges bordering on public roads of said county to be trimmed by owners of such hedges and to impose a fine for failure to comply,” which became a law December 20, 1897, by enlarging the powers of the said Board of Supervisors.
An ACT to prohibit driving and riding on side-walks in unincorporated towns and villages.
An ACT to allow the erection of a fountain in the city of Alexandria, by the Mount Vernon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and to authorize the city council of Alexandria, to grant permission for such erection.
An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Warrenton, in the county of Fauquier, at a special election to be held therefor, when the town council so directs, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Warrenton, and in the event of a majority of those voting at said election for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter within said town, or within one mile of its limits, the sale, barter or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms or corporations, except as provided herein.

1914
An ACT authorizing the circuit court to order an election to be had by the cualified voters of Charlotte county to determine whether or not the county shall undertake the supervision of certain streams in the said county, and providing for the appointment of overseers of the said streams and the removal of obstructions from the same by the poard of supervisors; amending and re-enacting an act approved March 25, 1872, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1878, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1879, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1910, declaring certain streams in the county of Charlotte to be public highways, and providing for the cleaning out of obstructions therein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 3 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910, entitled 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 prohibit the manufacture of cider in Loudoun county, Virginia, within 1 mile of a public high school building, by the owner of a cider mill, for other than himself.
An ACT to provide for a public park, or public playgrounds, in the town of Waverly.
An ACT to provide for the use of district schoolhouses out of
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24 or an act approved July 11, 1870, providing a charter for the town of West Point, in King William county, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1872, and as amended by an act approved March 1, 1884, and as amended by an act approved May 2, 1887, and as amended by an act approved March 1, 1892, and as amended by acts approved March 3, 1894, and by an act approved March 14, 1910, and to add additional sections thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 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, approved March 14, 1908.
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.
An ACT to permit Richard T. Ames, of the county of Accomac, to build a bridge across a branch of Onancock creek, in said county.
An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to close the Cove street canal from the west side of Hampton court to the east side of Arlington place.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boydton, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved March 16, 1874, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 4 of the charter of the town of Boydton, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved February 22, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8, chapter 6, of an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, so that the council of said city shall have power and authority to construct, own, maintain and operate railway yards, tracks, depots and terminals, to purchase and condemn lands for said purposes and to lease and let the same.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider, and other drinks containing over one-half of 1 per cent. alcohol within 1 mile of the public school building, in the village of Capron, Southampton county, Virginia.
An ACT to protect sheep and other stock in the county of Loudoun.
An ACT to dedicate as and for a public street or highway, upon certain conditions, a strip of land composing the southeast corner of the capitol square, not exceeding 11 feet 4 inches at the point of its greatest width.
An ACT to make designated portion of Hughes’ river, in Madison county, a lawful fence.
An ACT to define the business of keeping a hote! and to impose a license tax upon the same
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, of an act approved April 29, 1874, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lawrenceville, in the county of Brunswick, in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and reenact an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, (H. B. 486.)
An ACT to dedicate as and for a public street and highway upon certain conditions, a strip of land composing the northwest corner of the capitol aquare, not exceeding 15 feet at the point of its greatest depth.
An ACT to authorize the school boards of Sulphur Springs school district, Piper Gap school district, and Fancy Gap school district, in Carroll county, to purchase and hold certain real estate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 54 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 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, approved March 14, 1906.
An ACT to provide for celebration of a century of peace among the English speaking peoples.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider containing over one-half of 1 per cent, alcohol within 1 mile of any church in the town of Front Royal, Warren county, and to provide a penalty for violation thereof.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10, sub-section 3 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Blackstone, in the county of Nottoway, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.

1915
An ACT authorizing the construction of a viaduct across James river at Lynchburg, together with the approaches, inclines and other appurtenances thereto, and the closing of the present bridge across James river at the foot of Ninth street, in the city of Lynchburg, and the sale of the present bridge with all its appurtenances and all the property acquired therewith, and now owned by the city of Lynchburg and the county of Ambherst, under an act of the general assembly approved January 14, 1882.
An ACT to authorize and empower the several magisterial districts of Cumberland county to levy a license tax on all vehicles used or operated in said districts, for the purpose of raising revenue for the construction, improvement and maintenance of the public highways and bridges of said districts in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45, 46, 46%, 46% (a), 4614(b), 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51(a), 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 8&5, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 9214, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 97%, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 104, 105, 106, 106%4, 107, 108, 109, 10944, 110, 111, 11144, 112, 1138, 118%, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 118(a), 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 1380, 131, 18382. 133, 1384, 1385, 136, 137, 138, 140 and 141 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider containing over one-half of one per cent. alcohol within 144 miles of the public school building in the town of Strasburg, Shenandoah county, Virginia.

1916
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 provide for improving the public roads and bridges of Estilville magisterial district in the county of Scott, to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and to macadamize roads in said district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 925 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of Accomac to grant permission for erection of small houses wharves at the several public landings in the said county.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a special joint committee on publications
An ACT to prohibit discrimination by common carrier, innkeeper, proprietor, or lessee of any place of public amusement, or any agent or representative of such, against persons lawfully wearing the uniform of the military service of the State or United States, and providing penalties therefor.
An ACT to provide for the purchase, or construction, and maintenance of a free highway bridge over New river at Radford, Virginia, by the city of Radford and county of Pulaski.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3799 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended and re-enacted in relation to violation of the Sabbath; how punished, and providing that the delivery of ice cream on the Sabbath day, where said ice cream has been manufactured on some day other than the Sabbath day shall be construed to be a work of necessity.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gretna, Pittsylvania county, and to repeal all other acts ee with this
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend 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 March 14, 1912, by stating and declaring more clearly the meaning of the term “purchase,” as used