Transportation

1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 2, 1898, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to let to contract public roads of that county, and levy tax to keep the same in repair, and to amend section 3 of said act as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act providing for the making, changing, and working of roads in the county of Rockingham," approved March 2, 1888, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 5, 1890; as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 25, 1892; as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 26, 1896.
An ACT to authorize the judge of the circuit court of Goochland county to appoint a board of county road commissioners for Goochland county, and to define their duties in connection with warking the public roads of said county, and to increase the county road levy necessary therefor.
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 authorize the councils of towns, villages, or where there are no such councils, the board of supervisors of any county in which there may be any town, village, or other point in this State not having adequate police protection, to prohibit the transportation by railroad companies of excursions or picnic parties, and to make it unlawful for railroad companies to transport excursions or picnic parties to such towns, villages, or other points in this State under certain conditions.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in the county of Louisa, approved February 29, 1892, as amended by an act to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in the county of Louisa, approved March 4, 1896, as amended by an act to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act approved February 29, 1892, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads in the county of Louisa, approved February 26, 1900.

1906
An ACT requiring the chairmen of the boards of supervisors and presidents of city councils to check over and compare the assessments made by the corporation commission of public works in each county and city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the opening, altering, changing, and working the public roads in the county of Warren, approved February 18, 1886, to provide for the working, repairing, opening, altering, changing, and building of the public roads, bridges, ferries, and landings in Warren county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to establish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of the roads and the bridges of Dinwiddie county; to create a road board for Dinwiddie county, and to prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, and to regulate his duties,” approved March 8, 1904.
An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 598 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 3, 1894, entitled 'an act in relation to working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in Alexandria county, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1895, and as amended by an act approved February 11, 1898.'
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 empower the counties of Albemarle and Buckingham and the town of Scottsville to construct or aid in the construction of a bridge across James river at or near the town of Scottsville, and to authorize said counties and town to negotiate a loan or loans, and to issue bonds for that purpose.
An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds to continue its sewerage and for street improvement.
An ACT authorizing the town of Emporia to issue bonds and borrow money to aid in establishing a system of water works for said town.
An ACT to repeal an act approved February 14, 1898, entitled an act providing for working and keeping in order, building, and maintaining the public roads and bridges in the counties of Scott and Lee, the opening and establishing of new roads, and to provide funds therefor, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 2 of an act entitled ‘‘an act concerning corporations”
AN ACT to provide for and to validate court proceedings in certain cases concerning roads.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Northumberland county to establish a public ferry across Lodge creek.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of an act entitled act to put into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment, and organization of the ‘State corporation commission,’ its jurisdiction, powers, functions, and duties; the qualifications of the members and officers thereof, their appointment, and salaries; the location of its offices, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders, findings, and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings, and judgments, and its expenses,” etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 9 of chapter 10 of chapter 609 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1902-’03-’04, relating to turnpike companies.
An ACT to amend, revive, and re-enact section 1295 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in relation to the liability of common carriers for loss or injury to goods.
An ACT to repeal an act approved March 14, 1904, in relation to working the public roads of Goochland county.
An ACT to amend paragraph 4, chapter X, of chapter 609, of the acts of the general assembly, sessions 1902-03-04, approved January 18, 1904, entitled “an act concerning public service corporations.”
An ACT to require railroad companies under certain conditions to maintain telephones in their public offices.
An ACT to establish a State highway commission, to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commissioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 2, 1898, entitled “an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to let to contract the public roads of that county and levy a tax to keep the same in repair,” as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1904.
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 regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State, to provide for the registration of the same, to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules.
An ACT to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed forty-five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Northumberland county to establish a public ferry across the Little Wicomico river, in said county.
An ACT to require the State corporation commission to fix and prescribe rates for passenger travel by transportation companies or corporations in this State, and making it unlawful for such transportation companies or corporations operated by them, to charge an excess sum over and above certain rates, until rates are prescribed by the State corporation commission, and providing a penalty for violation of this act.
An ACT to provide for the discontinuance of gates on public roads
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904 entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county,” approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county, and directing the disbursement of the county road fund.
An ACT to provide for establishing, working, and keeping in repair the roads and building and repairing the bridges in the county of Prince George.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to authorize the councils of towns, villages, or where there are no such councils, the boards of supervisors of any county in which there may be any town, village, or other point in this State not having adequate police protection, to prohibit the transportation by railroad companies of excursions or picnic parties, and to make it unlawful for railroad companies to transport excursions or picnic parties to such towns, villages, or other points in this State under certain conditions
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of an act entitled ‘“‘an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution,
An ACT to repeal an act approved March 2, 1904, entitled “an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in the counties of Sussex and Greenesville, and providing what tax shall be used for keeping the same in order.
An ACT to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the operating and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper,” approved January 25, 1898.
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 require common carriers doing business in this State to receive and receipt for all freights delivered to them, and to provide a penalty for neglect or refusal therefor.
An ACT to constitute the district road boards of the several magisterial districts in the county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, a body corporate, with power to sue, be sued, plead and be impleaded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 18, 1903, entitled “an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Patrick.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 2, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 20, 1903, providing for the working and keeping in repair the roads, and the building and keeping in repair the bridges in the county of Essex, and providing what tax shall be used for keeping the same in order.
An ACT upon the subject of county roads, causeways, and bridges, etc., and providing for the further division of counties into road sub-districts; for additional road tax therein; for election and appointment of officers of same, providing for their terms of office, powers, duties, etc., and duties of the State engineer in connection with the carrying into effect of this act.
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 an act entitled ‘‘an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the roads of said county, and to levy a tax to keep the same in proper repair,” as amended by an act approved February 29, 1894, and February 2, 1892, and acts amendatory thereof, respectively, January 22, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Botetourt county, and to repeal an act entitled 'an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt county'
AN ACT to create a harbor board for the waters adjacent to the site of the Jamestown exposition, and to amend and re-enact section 2010 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 26, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 6, and 9, and to repeal sections 8 and 12 of the act approved February 16, 1901, which is chapter 331 of the acts of the special session of 1901, concerning the roads in Montgomery county.
An ACT to repeal an act approved March 1, 1892, entitled “an act to amend the special road laws in the counties of Scott and Lee, and to provide for the working of roads in the counties of Scott, Lee, and Wise, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1894.”
An ACT to repeal an act entitled ‘‘an act to provide for the working and repairing of the public roads and bridges of Isle of Wight county.
An ACT to relieve the south and western railway company from any possible forfeiture of its charter.
An ACT to repeal an act approved March 29, 1902, entitled “an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to divide equally for road purposes, among all the magisterial districts of said county, the district road tax on and collected from the Southern railway company in and for Stevensburg, Catalpa, and Cedar Mountain districts, in said county.”
An ACT to incorporate the town of Dublin, in Pulaski county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and macadamize the roads in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question, approved April 2, 1902, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 15, 1903.
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 provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State.
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 repeal an act entitled “an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in Craig county,” approved January 8, 1898.
An ACT to regulate the erection of toll gates on turnpikes in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for creating, working, and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county, and defining the boundaries of the same
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘an act to create a road board for the county of Fauquier, and to provide for the working of the roads of said county,” approved March 8, 1904.
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”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act entitled “an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution.”
An ACT to authorize the county of Norfolk to acquire the toll roads and toll bridges in said county, and to issue bonds for that purpose.
AN ACT to add section 47 to chapter 106 of the acts of assembly of Virginia, 1904, entitled an act to provide the establishment, proper construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in repairs of all public roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves in the several counties of this State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 12, 1904.
An ACT to authorize the governor and the attorney-general to secure the services of associate counsel to assist the attorney-general in representing the interests of the Commonwealth in certain litigation affecting the classification of freight and the schedules of transportation rates recently formulated by the State corporation commission, and to provide compensation for such counsel.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 11, and 12 of an act entitled “an act to provide the establishment, proper construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair of all public roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves in the several counties of this State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia,” approved March 12, 1904.

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to allow the street mileage in the town of Chase City, county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, to be included in mileage of county public roads and to receive its proratable share of county road levies
An ACT allowing the board of supervisors of Caroline, Frederick, Mecklenburg, Princess Anne, Orange, Goochland, Isle of Wight, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Halifax, Lancaster, Stafford, King George and Richmond counties to adopt any road law of any county now or Hereafter in force in this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 2, 1904, entitled "an act to provide for the opening, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Caroline county."
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 15, 1906.
An ACT to repeal, so far as the county of Amelia is concerned, an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled: An act providing for the working, opening’ and keeping in repair the roads in the counties of Brunswick, Nottoway and Amelia, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges of said counties
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3. 4, 5 and 9 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled: An act to incorporate the Manchester and Richmond Free Bridge Company, and granting certain powers to said company, and the city councils of the cities of Richmond and Manchester for public purposes.
An ACT to authorize the town of Gate City to borrow ten thousand
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Page, Virginia, to borrow the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or such part thereof as they may determine, with which to construct one or two bridges, as may be agreed upon by said board, over the Shenandoah river in said county and to issue the bonds of the county therefor.
An ACT to allow the board of supervisors of the county of Camp- bell to purchase or otherwise acquire the Lynchburg and Concord turnpike in the said county, and to operate the same as a turnpike or in its discretion convert it into a public road.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 7 of an act entitled an act to create the State convict road force, etc.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for working roads in Northampton county
An ACT to amend and re-enact-an act approved March 7, 1906, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county,” approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county, and directing the disbursement of the county road fund.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands situated at Sewell’s Point in Tannar’s Creek magisterial district, Norfolk county, Virginia, including all or a portion of the land comprised in the site of the Jamestown Ter-centennial exposition and the improvements thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county,” approved February 21, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county
An ACT to authorize any railroad company, with the consent of the State corporation commission, to construct, purchase or take a lease of any railroad not exceeding twenty-five miles in length, which will furnish a cut-off or connecting line for the more efficient and economical transporta-tion of traffic.
An ACT to authorize any railroad corporation chartered by the general assembly of the State of Virginia to surrender its entire legislative charter, and to take a new charter under the present Constitution and general laws of the State, relinquishing special privileges and special disabilities, and providing the manner for so doing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for creating, working and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county and defining the boundaries of the same, approved March 14, 1904, approved March 8, 1906
An ACT to establish the sufficiency of certain evidence as proof of the existence of a public road.
An ACT to repeal.an act entitled an act to provide for the working, keeping in repair and letting out the public roads, bridges and ferries in Nansemond county, approved February 11, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 of an act entitled: An act to submit to qualified voters of the town of Emporia, Virginia, at the next general election in June, 1906, for the election of mayor and councilmen, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the said town, and further to provide for the conduct of the said dispensary, and to prohibit thereafter within said town, or within the county of Greenesville, Virginia, the making, sale, barter or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms or corporations, except as provided herein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 515 of acts of the assembly of 1902-3, entitled an act to work and keep in repair roads and bridges in the county Stafford.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, approved March 2, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 27, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 25, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 6, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 14, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Richmond county,” approved January 22, 1898.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the repair and maintenance of public roads in Princess Anne county
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of King William county to build, construct and maintain a bridge over the Pamunkey river near Hanover town, between King William and Hanover counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the act approved March 14, 1904, entitled an act to provide a road law for Appomattox county, and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to vest in railroad companies an insurable interest in property upon the route of any railroad operated by them.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia, as amended.
An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of Mecklenburg county the question of bond issue for permanent road improvement, and to give to board of supervisors authority in disbursing the same.
An ACT giving to cities and towns upon leasing or purchasing gas, electric and water companies operating in territory contiguous to its corporate limits the right to continue to operate, maintain and extend same.