Segregation
| JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the President of the United States to employ forces of the United States to assist the civil officers of this Commonwealth in enforcing the legal writs of the civil courts in certain counties. |
| An ACT to Authorize the Governor to Hire out the Convicts |
| An ACT Providing a Charter for the City of Norfolk |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Third Clause of the Fourteenth Section, the Ninth Clause of Fourteenth Section, the Forty-first and Forty-seventh Sections, and to Repeal the Fifty-fifth Section of an Act entitled an Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact second section of an Act entitled an Act to amend the Charter of the Town of Chatham, in Pittsylvania County. |
| An ACT to authorize the Trustees of the Jacksonville Male Academy to Transfer said Academy to the School Trustees of Floyd County. |
| An ACT authorizing the Division of School Districts into Sub-Districts, and to provide for the Management uf the Public Schools therein. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to prevent the further burial of convicts within the corporate limits of the city of Richmond |
| An ACT to amend section fifty-eight of chapter seventy-eight of the Code of 1873, in regard to admission to the public free schools. |
| An ACT to provide for the division of school districts into sub-districts, and for the appointment of school directors. |
| An ACT to purchase a burial place for convicts in the penitentiary, outside of the corporate limits of Richmond. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 26th, 1877, entitled an act to amend section fifty-eight of chapter seventy-eight of the Code of 1873, in regard to admission to the public free schools. |
| An ACT to amend an act to amend the Charter of the City of Alexandria |
| An ACT to repeal section four, chapter 340 of Acts of 1883-84, entitled an act providing for an eight weeks’ course of instruction for the colored teachers in the State. |
| An ACT to amend section 256 of the code relating to historical works and relics, and to repeal sections 257 and 258 of said code. |
| An ACT to authorize the sale of certain public school property in Salem, Virginia. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Rosemary library. |
| An ACT to authorize the sale of certain church property in the county of Russell. |
| An ACT to require railroad companies to provide separate cars for white and colored passengers. |
| An ACT to provide for the separate accommodation of white and colored passengers in the sitting, sleeping, and eating apartments of steamboats plying in the waters within the jurisdiction of the common-wealth, and to provide certain police powers for captains, pursers, and other officers in command to enforce such regulations and to prevent and suppress disorderly conduct on said boats. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1492, code of Virginia, 1887 in relation to the attendance of children in public schools. |
| An ACT requiring the Richmond and Petersburg Electric Railway Company to provide separate accommodations for the white and colored passengers upon its line between Hull street, in the city of Manchester, and Old street, in the city of Petersburg, and conferring upon its conductors and motormen powers of conservators of the peace and policemen upon its cars and right of way. |
| An ACT to permit the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company to use curtains for partitions to separate white and colored passengers on the nine miles of railroad owned and operated by said company in the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower corporations or persons operating electric railroads or railways in the city of Alexandria and from the city of Alexandria to any point in the county of Alexandria, and from the city of Alexandria to any point in the county of Fairfax, to provide for the separation of white and colored passengers traveling upon cars and coaches upon their respective lines of railroad or railway, and to require passengers to obey the instructions and directions of the conductors or managers of such cars or coaches. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to require railroad companies to provide separate cars for white and colored passengers, approved January 30, 1900, relating to the persons to whom the act shall not apply. |
| An ACT to require the Richmond Passenger and Power Company to provide separate accommodations for the white and colored passengers upon its line between Twenty-ninth and P streets, in the city of Richmond, and Seven Pines, in the county of Henrico. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the separate accommodation of white and colored passengers in the sitting, sleeping, and eating apartments of steamboats plying in the waters within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth, and to provide certain police powers for captains, pursers, and other officers in command to enforce such regulations and to prevent and suppress disorderly conduct on said boats |
| An ACT to carry into effect an ordinance of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia, which assembled at Richmond on the 12th of June, 1901, entitled “an ordinance to provide for the registration of voters under this Constitution and prior to 1904,” so far as legislative action may be necessary, and to make it applicable to towns. |
| An ACT to require the owner or owners of steamboat wharves to provide thereat suitable accommodations for the patrons of steamboats using the same. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 504 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 464 and 504 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the mode in which land and property books shall be made out |
| An ACT to empower any corporation, its agents, conductors, or employees, operating in this State sleeping, dining, palace, parlor, chair, or compartment cars on the railroads in this State, to reject and refuse admittance to any and all persons to enter into and to ride in such sleeping, dining, palace, parlor, chair, or compartment cars, when in the discretion of such corporation, its agents and conductors, it may be advisable to do so. |
| An ACT to allow compensation to the ‘Virginia home and industrial school for girls” for caring for girls committed to its custody and control under the commitment of a court, judge, or justice. |
| 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 subsection 2, of an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact section 1470 of the Code of Virginia relating to the division of school districts and subdistricts, so as to provide for such division; for the government and administration of such subdistricts; for additional school tax therein; for appointment of school directors, providing for their terms of office, powers, duties, for adoption of this act by the counties of the State, and for relief from such adoption |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1492 and 1493 of the Code as heretofore amended, in relation to persons who shall be admitted to public schools. |
| An ACT to establish the Virginia State epileptic colony. |
| An ACT to promote order and the comfort of passengers on the conveyances and at the stopping places of carriers of passengers. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 49 of the Code of Virginia, 1887. |
| An ACT to provide for designation by cities and towns of segregation districts for residence of white and colored persons; for the adoption of this act by such cities and towns, and for penalties for the violation of its terms. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1492 and 1493 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘act to amend and re-enact chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia relating to public free schools of counties and to the literary fund, approved December 28, 1903,” as also amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 1492 and 1493 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to persons who shall be admitted to public schools, approved March 16, 1908,” in relation to persons admitted to public schools. |
| An ACT authorizing the State board of charities and corrections to continue the investigation of the weak-minded, other than insane and epileptic; to report to the general assembly of 1916 a scheme for training, segregation and prevention of procreation of mental defectives; authorizing the employment of experts; and appropriating the sum of $3,000 annually for expenses. |
| 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 11 of an act approved March 12, 1912, and entitled an act to provide for designation by cities and towns of segregation districts for residence of white and colored persons; for the adoption of this act by such cities and towns, and for penalties for the violation of its terms; and to ratify and confirm certain ordinances relating to the segregation of races heretofore passed by certain cities and towns of this Commonwealth. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3716 of the Code of Virginia. |
| 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 section 719 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to effect the separation of the schools for the deaf and the blind at Staunton, and to provide for a commission to make recommendations concerning the establishment of a separate school for the education of the white blind children of Virginia, and appropriating one thousand dollars for the expenses of said commission. |
| An ACT to preserve racial integrity. |
| An ACT requiring the separation of white and colored persons in public halls, theatres, opera houses, motion picture shows and places of public entertainment and public assemblages; and to provide a penalty for violation of the provisions thereof. |
| AN ACT to validate an issue of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) bonds of the town of Lexington, in the county of Rockbridge, for the purpose of erecting additional school buildings and equipment therefor, for the white and colored schools of said town, and providing for the levy of taxes for the payment thereof. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 4302-a, on the subject of fraternal beneficiary associations, companies, orders and societies. |
| An ACT to provide for the separation of white and colored passengers in passenger motor vehicle carriers within the State; to constitute the drivers of said motor vehicles special policemen, with’the same powers given to conductors and motormen of electric railways by general law. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 67 of the Code of Virginia defining colored persons and American Indians and tribal Indians. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4546 of the Code of Virginia, relating to marriages of white persons to colored persons. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1077 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1092 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the establishment of the Petersburg State Colony. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the title of Chapter 41 of the Code of Virginia; and to amend and re-enact Sections 939, 942 and 943 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide a new Charter for the Town of McKenney, in the County of Dinwiddie, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to provide for the control, management, maintenance and operation of the DeJarnette State Sanatorium; to provide how patients may be received therein; to prescribe the purposes for which the revenues derived therefrom shall be used; to appropriate the same for such purposes; and to repeal Chapter 360 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 29, 1934, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act. |
| An ACT to amend Chapter 217, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 14, 1918, and being the charter of the city of Clifton Forge, by adding a section numbered 23-a authorizing purchase or condemnation by council of land within or without the city for certain purposes and under certain conditions. |
| An Act to prohibit the wearing of masks in certain places except under certain circumstances; to prohibit the placing of certain exhibits on the property of another, except under certain conditions, and to prohibit the placing of certain exhibits for certain purposes, within the State. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 3 of Chapter 194 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 27, 1984, which provided a new charter for the town of Lawrenceville, Virginia, so as to change the power of the town to tax real and personal estate. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 19-202 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the commitment before trial of certain persons when question of sanity is raised. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-866, 68-868 and 68-869 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain industrial schools. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 24-120, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, requiring treasurer to file with the court a list of persons who have paid State poll taxes within a certain time. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 1-14 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the definition of colored persons and Indians, so as to change the definition of tribal Indians. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-867, 68-868 and 68-869, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain industrial schools and corrective institutions. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 28-85.9 of the Code of Virginia, relating to annual nursing scholarships awarded by the State Board of Health. |
| An Act to promote interracial harmony and tranquility and to that end |
| An Act |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 2-86.1, providing that the Attorney General shall render certain services to local school boards, and to appropriate funds. |
| An Act to establish the responsibility of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the control of certain public schools under certain conditions; to that end to state the conditions which must exist in relation to such schools in order for the Commonwealth to assume such responsibility; to vest in the Commonwealth control of certain schools under stated conditions, and to confer powers and impose duties upon the Commonwealth to be exercised by the Governor of Virginia; to provide the conditions under which such powers shall be designated; to empower the Governor to act in certain cases; to confer immunity from legal proceedings upon the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Governor; to refuse the consent of the Commonwealth to certain legal proceedings; to provide for the payment of certain educational grants; and to provide for the appropriation and expenditure of funds necessary under this act. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 58-790 and 58-804 of the Code of Virginia, relating to general reassessment of real estate and preparation of land books. |
| An Act to promote interracial harmony and tranquility |
| An act to provide that no child shall be required to attend integrated schools. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 2-86.1, providing that the Attorney General shall render certain services to local school boards, and to appropriate funds. |
| An Act to establish the responsibility of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the control of certain public schools under certain conditions |
| An Act to revise, rearrange, amend and recodify the general laws of Virginia relating to crimes and offenses generally; to that end to repeal Title 18 of the Code of Virginia, which title includes Chapters 1 to 11 and §§ 18-1 to 18-366, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, as amended, which title relates to crimes and offenses generally; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto in lieu of the foregoing title, chapters and sections of the Code repealed by this act a new title numbered 18.1, which title includes eight new chapters numbered 1 to 8, both inclusive, and new sections numbered §§ 18.1-1 to 18.1-429, both inclusive, relating to crimes and offenses generally; to prescribe when such revision and recodification shall become effective; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 22-207 of the Code of Virginia, relating to written contracts with public school teachers. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 28-35.9, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the value of nursing scholarships. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2.04, 4.08, 6.07, 7.05, 9.09, 9.11, 9.12, 10.02, 13.03, 14.038 and 15.10, as severally amended, of Chapter 586 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, as amended, which chapter provided the charter for the city of Alexandria, the sections relating to powers of the City Board of Review of real estate assessments, appropriation and tax ordinances, form of bonds, zoning powers, duties of city planning commission concerning zoning, powers of council in relation to zoning, vacancies on council, alternative condemnation procedures, powers and duties of city collector, and school board; and to further amend chapter 586 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, by adding a section numbered 5.28 providing for a deputy city treasurer. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2.04, 4.08, 6.07, 7.05, 9.11, 9.12, 10.02, 13.03, 14.03 and 15.10, as severally amended, of Chapter 536 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, as amended, which Chapter provided the charter for the city of Alexandria, the sections relating to powers of the City Board of Review of real estate assessments, appropriation and tax ordinances, form of bonds, duties of city planning commission concerning zoning, powers of council in relation to zoning, vacancies on council, alternative condemnation procedures, powers and duties of city collector, and school board; and to further amend Chap 536 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, by adding a section numbered 5.28 providing for a deputy city treasurer. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the 4th section of chapter 1a) of the Code of Virginia for 1860, in relation to Ofleneves against the Sovereignty of the State. |
| An ACT to regulate Contracts for Labor between White and Colored Persons, and to impose a Fine on Persons enticing Laborers from the service of their Employers under such Contracts. |
| An Act to designate certain existing and proposed highways and portions of highways as the ‘“‘Woodrow Wilson Parkway”, and provide for the marking thereof. |
| An Act to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 105, Code of 1873, in reference to granting divorces. |
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