Transportation

1910
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 7 and 10 of an act approved March 6, 1906, and amended by an act approved February 25, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled 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; provided 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 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 submit to the voters of Stafford county the question of charging toll to others than residents of said county for traveling over the Falmouth Bridge over the Rappahannock river, which connects the counties of Stafford and Spotsylvania.
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 empower the county of Warwick to construct or aid in construction of a bridge across Deep creek between Bucher’s Landing and Menche’s Landing, and to authorize and empower said county to negotiate a loan and issue bonds for that purpose.
An ACT to authorize Albemarle county from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $30,000.00, for the purpose of uniting in the building, in the county of Albemarle, of State money aid roads, as well as roads where private individuals contribute one-half the cost thereof, and to assist in securing undergrade crossings under the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and the Southern Railway Company, respectively, in the county of Albemarle.
An ACT to confer upon the board of supervisors of Loudoun county all the authority vested in the local road authorities under an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor for the improvement of public roads, approved February 25, 1908, except the power to levy taxes for road purposes and to prescribe certain duties of the road boards of said county.
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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 of an act entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 3, 1884.
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 empower the town of Chatham, in the county of Pittsylvania, to borrow money and issue bonds for public schools and street and road improvement.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Franklin, Virginia, to sell or to make such contract as they may deem advisable for the transfer of the stock owned by the said county in the Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad Company, and to authorize the sale board to appoint proxies to represent the stock owned by the said county in said railroad company in any meeting or meetings of the stockholders of the said company authorizing the directors of the company to lease or sell the said road.
An ACT to require railroads to provide suitable caboose cars on freight trains, and to impose a penalty for failure so to do.
An ACT to enable incorporated towns and cities to contribute to the building or improvement of public roads and bridges leading to such towns or cities.

1912
An ACT to prohibit driving and riding on side-walks in unincorporated towns and villages.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, and repealing so much of the acts as affect the county of Augusta
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 15, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1906, entitled 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 to provide penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to establish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of roads and bridges in 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 as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitled ‘fan act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for 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 require the board of bridge commissioners of the Falmouth Bridge in the county of Stafford to let out the collecting of tolls and keeping of said bridge to the highest bidder.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain, approved January 18, 1904.
An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State.
An ACT to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $150,000 for the purpose of building public roads in the said county.
An ACT fixing the strength of bridges in county of Franklin
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 8, 1908, 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roads of the county of Tazewell, approved February 24, 1888, ete., and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads of the said county, approved February 29, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 27, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 17, 1901, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 8, 1910; and to provide for the distribution and disbursement of all funds, accrued under said act, as amended and re-enacted, which have not been expended for the purposes provided therein, and to provide for maintaining and improving the roads of Tazewell county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1906, entitled 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 to provide penalties, approved March 15th, 1910.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Accomac county to levy a license tax on all vehicles used or operated in said county, for the purpose of raising revenue for the construction, improvement and maintenance of public highways and bridges in said county.
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 amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1894, entitled “an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Nelson county,” as amended by an act approved February 26, 1896, and as further amended by an act approved March
An ACT to amend section thirty-seven of an act approved January cleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, Virginia, as further amended by an act approved March the third, nineteen hundred and six.
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the several counties and the councils of the several cities and towns of this commonwealth to exempt from local taxation, obligations issued by such counties, cities and towns.
An ACT to provide for a compromise and settlement of certain contentions and differences between the commonwealth and its political subdivisions, upon the one part, and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company, on the other part.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the act in effect February 17, 1900, regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases.
An ACT to reimburse W. C. Parks and others, district road commissioners for Washington county, for advancing certain funds for local public road improvements on account of a deficiency in the State convict road force fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17, 18 and 19 of an act entitled an act for working roads in the county of Loudoun
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19, 19-d, 26, 28, 29, 30, concerning the procedure necessary to recover and the liability on bonds given by municipal officers for the faithful discharge of their duties and creating an administrative board and defining their duties, and to amend and re-enact sections 31, 37, 47, 62, 68 and 64 of an act approved March 24, 1870, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to pro-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 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
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act entitled "an act to amend an act 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; approved March 14, 1908.
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of Isle of Wight county to appropriate money for the erection of a wharf on Chuckatuck creek
An ACT to authorize and direct work on the public roads of Goochland County by convicts at the State farm now located in Goochland county.
An ACT to authorize Buckingham county, from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $50,000.00, for the purpose of uniting in the building, in the county of Buckingham, of State money aid roads.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the counties of Essex and King William to sell and convey unto the Richmond, Washington and Chesapeake Bay Railway Company a right of way through the poor house farms in the said counties.
An ACT to amend an act approved January 25, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1906, and as further amended by an act approved February 21, 1908, so as to add a new section thereto to be known as section 151-2 providing for an election in said county on the question of borrowing money and issuing bonds therefor for improving the roads in Catalpa magisterial district in such county, including the town of Culpeper, and defining the effect thereof.
An ACT to authorize the several magisterial districts of Accomac county to borrow money and issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of building, improving, and maintaining the public roads of said districts in said county.
An ACT to provide reasonable compensation for the boards of road commissioners of the respective magisterial districts of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds issued by said county, for their services in directing or supervising the expenditure of the fund thus provided for permanent road or bridge improvement in their respective magisterial districts.
An ACT to provide for working roads in Stafford county.
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 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 authorize the county of Elizabeth City to expend certain money in the sinking fund of said county for the repair of Hampton bridge.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Madison, Virginia, to expend money for the construction, maintenance and improvement of the roads of said county.
An ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act for working and keeping in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy of taxes for that purpose, approved March 6, 1900, and amended by an act approved March 15, 1910.
An ACT in relation to the assessment for local taxation of the rolling stock of railroad corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 230 of an act entitled ‘“‘an act to provide for the establishing, altering and building the public roads and bridves in the county of Shenandoah, and for working and keeping the same in repair,’ approved February 8, 1898.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Isle of Wight county to build a bridge across Jones creek.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, to designate depositories for the proceeds arising from the sale of permanent road improvement bonds, and to make contracts for the payment of interest thereon by said depositories.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an-act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, and repealing so much of the acts as affect the county of Augusta
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the making and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Charlotte county, approved March 6th, 1896,
An ACT to authorize J. F. Smith, of York County Va. to erect a wharf on Cheeseman’s creek.
An ACT for the relief of the ferries company
An ACT authorizing the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of Town run improvement bonds, and to authorize the issuance by said city of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of said bonds, if a majority of those voting, shall vote in favor of such issuance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize cities to create, improve and develop harbors within the corporate limits, or within two miles thereof, approved March 16, 1910, and to authorize the issuance of bonds therefor, and to give jurisdiction over the same.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to issue bonds to raise money for the purpose of providing for and erecting and building certain bridges in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8&5 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 14 1908, relative to the duties and powers of the boards of supervisor of the several counties of the State, approved March 16, 1910.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county to expend the amount received from levy or tax on the railroad trackage and right of way in such magisterial district, or districts, as it may deem advisable, just and equitable.
An ACT to empower the council of the town of Chatham, in the county of Pittsylvania, to issue and sell bonds for the purpose of improving the streets, improving the water system and establishing a sewerage system in said town
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to authorize the Washington and Leesburg turnpike company, a corpor-ation incorporated under the laws of Virginia, to take possession of certain turnpikes abandoned as such and now used as county roads, in the counties of Loudoun, Fairfax and Alexandria; and also to take possession of a portion of a county road in Fairfax county, and to improve said abandoned turnpikes or county roads, and said portion of a county road, and to convert the same into a modern and high class turnpike for the public convenience, whereon toll may be charged to pay for the construction, operation and maintenance of the same," approved January 31, 1910.
An ACT to permit the establishment of a private bridge over the waters of Skiff’s creek, between the counties of Warwick and James City, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled 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 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 sections 4, 8 and 22, and to repeal sections 16, 17, 18, and 19 of an act entitled 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 the 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 to 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11, 1910.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county. In the State of Virginia, to establish toll gates for the purpose of maintaining the macadam roads in said county.
An ACT to amend section 11 of chapter 74, acts 1908, approved February 25, 1908, entitled 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 of Smyth county, approved February 6, 1890.
An ACT to authorize the town of Eastville, in Northampton county, to issue bonds and to borrow money for the purpose of paying the balance due for completing the work of macadamizing the roads or streets through the town.
An ACT concerning railroad companies in which, or in the stock or securities of which, the Commonwealth owns, or is entitled to, any proprietary rights or interest.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair of public roads in the counties of Alleghany, Bath and Highland
An ACT to authorize and direct the register of the land office
An ACT to authorize C. B. Woodward to establish a ferry across Powell’s river at Towell’s ford, in Lee county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State
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 of the general assembly, approved March 4, 1894, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order the public roads of the counties of Greene and Madison, as amended by act approved May 14, 1903, so far as the same applies to Madison county, so as to provide for the opening, constructing, maintaining and working the roads, and keeping in order the causeways and bridges of Madison and Greene counties, and creating the office of superintendent of roads, and prescribing his duties and compensation; and repeal any act in conflict herewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact 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 change the name of the wharf now called Whealton to Morattico, in the county of Lancaster, Virginia.
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 permit the directors of the Western State Hospital to sell and dispose of a right of way over a tract of land belonging to said hospital.
An ACT to amend an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled "An act providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Lunenburg, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in said county," by adding a new section (14-a) thereto, providing for submitting to the qualified voters of the several magisterial districts in Lunenburg county, the question as to the issuance of bonds by such magisterial districts for the construction and repair of the public roads in said magisterial districts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 16, 1910, entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 17, 1906, entitled '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, approved April 16, 1903, as amended and re-enacted.'
An ACT to provide for the working of certain long term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road construction, to the citizens of the State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1898, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, which latter act was further amended by an act approved March 16, 1910, which said amendment and the amendment herein contained being for the purpose of authorizing the board of supervisors of said county to work and improve the public roads of said county, expend any surplus money on the roads and bridges of said county and cues the erection of toll gates on certain roads in said county for the e of raising revenue to maintain and build, macadamize an ‘ot erwise permanently improve roads in said county.

1914
An ACT to amend an act to authorize the cities of Newport News and Hampton, and the counties of Warwick and Elizabeth City, to appropriate money and to issue bonds for drainage of any lands lying in the counties of Warwick or of Elizabeth City, and to add thereto the county of York, and to authorize the construction of a canal for drainage and transportation purposes through the said cities and counties.
An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth and the county of Norfolk, subject to certain specified conditions, to lease, or to acquire by purchase or condemnation proceedings, land or other property for additional ferry terminals or facilities.
An ACT to provide for the voluntary admission of insane persons in the State hospitals or other State institutions for the insane, and for their transportation and maintenance and treatment while in such hospitals or institutions, and their discharge from such hospitals or institutions.
An ACT to prohibit the speeding of automobiles on the road between Big Stone Gap and Appalachia, in Wise county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled 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 roads of Botetourt county, approved March 4, 1896, and an act amendatory thereof, approved February 14, 1901.
An ACT to amend section 1 of an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor for the improvement of public roads
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the 2 fiscal years
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the time and manner in which common carriers doing business in this State shall adjust and pay just freight charges, and claims for loss or damage to freight and claims for storage, demurrage and car service
An ACT to give the consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the reclaiming by the United States of America of certain submerged land lying in the Elizabeth river, adjacent to Craney island, in Norfolk county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of building and permanently improving roads in Kempsville magisterial district, in said county.