Reformatories
| JOINT RESOLUTION Petitioning Congress to Remove the Disabilities of Citizens of Virginia. |
| An ACT to Authorize the Governor to Hire out the Convicts |
| An ACT to authorize the Governor to hive out the Convicts in the Penitentiary to learn stone eutting or other mechanical trades |
| An ACT to amend the act passed Merch 18, 1861. entitled an act to amend the Charter of the City of Richmond, as amended by the act passed February 24, 1866. entitled an act to amend the act passed March 18, 1861, rutitied an act to amend the Charter of the City of Richmond. |
| An ACT to Repeal Section 2 of an Act to Provide Artificial Legs for Citizens of the Commonwealth who Lost their Legs during the late War. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Southern Historical Society |
| An ACT to incorporate the State Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria, No. 6, of the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to revive and re-enact the act to Incorporate the Female Orphan Asylum of Fredericksburg. |
| An ACT to relieve the political disabilities of Harrison Southworth, John S. Williamson and others. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 7, 10, 12, and 14 of chapter 102 of the Code of 1878, in reference to diseased cattle, and the appointment of inspectors thereof. |
| An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Richmond, to establish and maintain a house of reformation and work-house. |
| An ACT to make Blackwater river from Brooks’ mill, in Franklin county, to the point at which it empties into Stanton river, a lawful fence. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled ‘‘an act to incorporate the Prison association of Virginia,” |
| An ACT for the protection of game in the county of Hanover. |
| An ACT for the relief of Henderson L. Lee, of the county of Lunenburg. |
| An ACT to authorize the Prison association of Virginia to condemn for its purposes certain real estate in the county of Henrico. |
| An ACT for the rehef of Elijah D. Via, a disabled Confederate soldier. |
| An ACT for the relief of Samuel MeDaniel, a wounded Confederate soldier |
| An ACT for the relief of John J. Goin, a disabled Confederate soldier. |
| AN ACT appropriating the sum of $2,000.00 to the prison association of Virginia, and the sum of $1,000.00 to the negro reformatory association of Virginia for the fiscal year 1900. |
| An ACT in relation to the government of the negro reformatory association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment, and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the commonwealth for caring for such minors. |
| An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said magisterial district. |
| An ACT in relation to the commitment of minors to the custody of the prison association and their detention and discharge by said association. |
| An ACT for the relief of George W. Bledsoe, of Madison county, Virginia. |
| An ACT prescribing certain additional duties to be performed by the superintendent of the poor in Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Clarke, and Fauquier counties. |
| An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to make rules concerning the working of criminals sentenced to work on the public roads or farms, or other public works of said counties, and to provide suitable buildings for the care and custody of said criminals. |
| An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Farmville magisterial district, Prince Edward county, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said magisterial district. |
| An ACT appropriating the sum of 820.000 to be used to meet the deficit in the appropriation for the Eastern State Hospital, to complete payments of new building and equipment of same, to provide new boilers, for the support of additional patients, and other necessary expenditures. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to prescribe a penalty for persons who, under the provisions of sections 3932 and 3934 of the Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in chain-gangs and escape, or attempt to escape, from the person in whose custody they lawfully are.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 453, acts of assembly 1901-2, approved April 2, 1902, entitled “an act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States, while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war, or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service, or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2434 and 2618 of the Code of Virginia. |
| 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 section 3725 of the Code of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1894, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1896, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1904, in regard to obstructing or injuring any part or work of any canal, railroad, and soforth. and prescribing punishment therefor. |
| An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide Places of Abode and for the Safe Custody and Proper Guardianship of Children |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47, chapter 4, of an “act concerning public service corporations,” approved January 18, 1904, so as to require a separation of white and colored passengers on cars operated by electricity. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2, as amended by act of general assembly approved March 15, 1904, and sections 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 20 of an act entitled: An act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors or marines of Virginia and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors or marines of Virginia who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act as amended by previous acts and by subsequent acts and by the act approved March 10, 1906. |
| An ACT to require all eleemosynary institutions, hospitals, colleges, universities, prisons and reformatories to report monthly to the auditor of public accounts in detail the manner in which all funds received by said institutions from the Commonwealth are disbursed. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardianship of children who are vicious, or depraved, or without proper places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian or other custodian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 7 of an act entitled: An act in relation to the government of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the Commonwealth, for the caring for such minors |
| An ACT to establish a public free school on the grounds of the prison association of Virginia at Laurel, Henrico county, and to make an appropriation for erection and equipment of the school house, and to provide for the conduct and maintenance of the same. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 184 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1890, entitled "an act to provide for the working of and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Smyth." |
| An ACT to establish a public free school on the grounds of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia in Hanover county, and to provide for the conduct and maintenance of the same. |
| An ACT to permit rules for the government of jails and the reduction of sentences of prisoners therein confined to be prescribed by the circuit and corporation judges and the boards of supervisors and councils of the respective counties and cities of the State, and to provide for the enforcement of the same. |
| An ACT providing for detention or commitment of minors under seventeen years of age for certain offenses not in jails or penitentiaries; placing them in suitable homes and institutions under certain circumstances; when they can and cannot be sent to jail; allowing them to be released on probation; the approval of the State board of charities and corrections under certain contingencies; penalties for removing any child committed hereunder or violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals: appointment of probation officers and outlining their duties; and declaring an emergency. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1660 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to hospitals for the insane, so as to provide proper and separate custody of insane convicts and certain other insane persons. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1682 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the admission to the State hospitals of insane persons charged with or indicted for crime; and insane convicts in the penitentiary and other penal institutions of the State. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardianship of children who are vicious or depraved, or without proper places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian or other custodian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively on the 28th day of February, 1913, and the 28th day of February, 1914 |
| 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 require the inspection and supervision of the State board of charities and corrections of persons or corporations placing children in family homes; said persons or corporations to furnish information; the State board of charities and corrections to visit and report upon the children placed in homes; authorizing the courts to commit destitute and delinquent children to the State board of charities and corrections, and said board to place said children in homes or reformatories to report to the court under certain contingencies; penalties prescribed. |
| An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establishments where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives, approved March 4, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912, so as to embrace mercantile establishments on Saturdays, and laundries, and adding an independent section thereto prohibiting the employment of males under twenty-one years of age, and females in places where intoxicating liquors are manufactured, bought, sold, packed, or shipped. |
| An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State, jointly or severally, to establish county or city farms, and providing for the Joint use of the same, and for the government and support of persons confined therein. |
| An ACT to provide for the commitment of delinquent, dependent, or neglected children to the State board of charities and corrections, and to certain societies, associations, or reformatories, and authorizing such organizations to place said children in suitable homes and institutions; defining the terms “delinquent,” “dependent,” and “neglected” child: when children under eighteen years of age may or may not be sent to jail, workhouse, police station or penitentiary; requiring parents in certain contingencies to pay for support of delinquent, dependent or neglected children, providing for physical and mental examination of children, and for placing them in hospitals when necessary; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; allowing delinquent children to be released on probation; prescribing the procedure in the hearing of children’s cases; penalties for removing or interfering with any child committed hereunder, or for violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals; and providing for the supervision and inspection of societies and associations by the State board of charities and corrections. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fisca! years ending respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1917, and the 28th day of February, 1918. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Front Royal, Warren county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish on the land of the Central State Hospital, in the county of Dinwiddie, Virginia, the Central State Colony for the Feeble-minded, to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony and for the examination and furloughing of such persons. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act in relation to the government of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the Commonwealth for the caring for such minors |
| 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 provide for the examination and punishment of persons convicted of prostitution, or of keeping houses of ill-fame or assignation, and for commitment of such persons to city farms or hospitals. |
| An ACT to provide for the conveyance by the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia of its property, real and personal, located in the county of Hanover, to the State of Virginia, that the State may assume control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the provisions of the charter of said association. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia-of the Laurel Industrial School, its property, real and personal, located in the county of Henrico and the State of Virginia; that the State will assume the control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the charter of the said association, approved March 16, 1918. |
| An ACT to require the examination for venereal disease of all persons admitted to the State penitentiary, State penitentiary farm, or to any branch prison, to any of the reformatories of the State, or to any of the hospitals for the insane or colonies for the epileptic and feeble-minded, and the proper treatment of those found so affected. |
| An ACT to provide how the incorporation of towns in Fauquier county heretofore incorporated by a court may be annulled. |
| An ACT to authorize and direct the auditor of public accounts and the clerk of the circuit court of Henrico county to mark off the tax books of said county certain unpaid taxes charged against the estate of A. P. Russell deceased. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia |
| An ACT to make applicable to certain waters of the Dan river and its tributaries the general laws of the State with respect to German carp. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 6 of an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3061 of the Code of Virginia, 1924, in reference to the establishment of chain gangs. |
| An ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of Tazewell county. |
| An ACT to repeal chapter 388 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, of 1926, entitled an act for the protection of foxes or other fur-bearing or hair-bearing animals in Amelia, Nottoway, Lunenburg, Brunswick, Charlotte, Franklin, Tazewell, Washington and Chesterfield counties, and to provide punishment for the violation thereof, and an amendment thereto, approved April 18, 1927, in so far as the counties of Lunenburg and Franklin are affected thereby. |
| An ACT relating to and defining the duties of certain officers with reference to aliens committed for violation of law or as public charges. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5337 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to guardians ad litem. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 109-a thereof fifty-six new sections numbered 2773-n 1 to 2773-n 56, both inclusive, relating to the organization and government of counties, and providing for complete forms of county organization and government different from that provided for in article VII of the Constitution of Virginia, sections 110 to 115, both inclusive thereof, to become effective in any county in Virginia when submitted to the qualified voters thereof in an election held for such purpose and approved by a majority of those voting thereon, as is authorized by section 110 of the Constitution. |
| An ACT to make it unlawful to intentionally remove, deface, alter, change, destroy or obliterate, or cause to be removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed or obliterated, any identification mark on any article or device; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal chapter 298 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 24, 1926. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5337 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of an act entitled an act to reorganize the administration of the State government in order to secure better service, and through co-ordination and consolidation, to promote economy and efficiency in the work of the government; to create and establish or continue certain departments, divisions, offices, officers, and other agencies, and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, commissions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency, approved April 18, 1927, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1935, and the thirtieth day of June, 1936. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Altavista, Campbell county, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1005 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the boards of directors of the State hospitals and the colony for epileptics and feeble-minded, so as to abolish the present general and special boards of directors of said institutions; to provide for a single board of directors to be known as the State Hospital Board, and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the appointment, suspension and removal of the members of such board and to provide for the expenses of the members of the said board and its secretary. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of an act entitled “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 provide for and make effective a system of probation and parole in Virginia; to that end to provide for a Parole Board, Director of Parole, probation and parole officers, and officers, agents and employees to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and to prescribe and provide for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, functions, powers, and duties of the said Board, of the said Director, of the said probation and parole officers, and of the other said officers, agents and employees; and to prescribe the powers, and duties of certain other boards and officers with reference to the ree |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section thereto to be numbered 5058-a relating to the transfer of inmates of the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls to the State Industrial Farm for Women. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Chatham, in the County of Pittsylvania; to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present governing body and council while in office, not inconsistent with this new charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of Chapter 31 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved February 17, 1944, relating to the recordation by clerks of courts of certain information with respect to persons inducted into the armed forces of the United States. |
| An ACT to provide for the expenditure or application of certain funds, within the appropriation for such purpose, in aid of libraries and library systems particularly in rural communities, and to prescribe the powers, and duties of the State Library Board and others with respect thereto; and to repeal Chapter 350, Acts of 1942, approved March 31, 1942, and Chapter 315, Acts 1944, approved March 29, 1944, both relating to the same subject, and all inconsistent provisions of law to the extent of such inconsistency. |
| An ACT to provide for the termination of employment of employees of State and local governments and governmental agencies by reason of certain acts of omission or commission intended to obstruct or suspend activities or functions of State and local governments, and to render such offending employees ineligible for re-employment in any such service during certain period of time thereafter. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5017 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the record to be kept of conduct of convicts and the credit to be allowed convicts for good conduct. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 5017 of the Code of Virginia as amended, relating to the record to be kept of conduct of convicts and the credit to be allowed convicts for good conduct. |
| An ACT to provide for the study of the problems of alcoholism, the treatment and rehabilitation of persons addicted to the excessive use of alcoholic beverages; and for other purposes; and to this end to create in the Department of Health a Division of Alcohol Studies and Rehabilitation subject to the State Board of Health; to provide for a Director of the Division of Alcoholic Studies and Rehabilitation and to confer upon the Board, the Director and the Division, respectively, certain powers, duties and functions; to provide for the establishment and operation of certain hospital and clinic facilities for the study, treatment and rehabilitation of persons addicted to the excessive use of alcoholic beverages; to authorize the receipt and expenditure of certain grants and gifts; to authorize the entry into certain cooperative undertakings ; and to make an appropriation. |
| AN ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Martinsville, Virginia; and to repeal Chapter 69 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved February 25, 1942, which provided a charter for such city. |
| AN ACT to amend § 46-418 so as not to require the revocation of a driver's license of a person discharged or released from an institution within thirty days after admission or commitment to the same. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-12 of the Code of 1950 to provide that property of the Virginia Association of Workers for the Blind, Inc., shall be exempt from taxation, State and local, including inheritance taxes. |
| An Act to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 15-222.4, providing that a charter provided by Act of Assembly for a consolidated city composed of certain counties, cities, and towns may be used in lieu of a consolidation agreement as a basis for consolidation of such counties, cities and towns, and to amend and reenact §§ 15-222.8 and 15-224 of the Code of 1950 relating to provisions of consolidation agreements and plans and to order for election. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 63-28 of the Code of 1950 relating to duty of Board of Welfare and Institutions to visit certain institutions. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 58-12 of the Code of Virginia as amended, relating to what property exempt from taxation. |
| An Act to repeal 8§ 68-872 and 68-878, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to transfer of wards of certain schools to other places of confinement under certain conditions, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 68-878.1, providing for certain criminal proceedings against certain persons in the custody of the State Department of Welfare and Institutions under certain circumstances. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 37-231, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sexual sterilization of certain mentally ill, mentally deficient and epileptic persons, and to amend the Code by adding a section numbered § 37-231.1 relating to the same matters. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 53-220 of the Code of Virginia, relating to credits allowed prisoners under certain conditions, so as to prescribe additional credits for certain blood donations. |
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