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1918
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 Tazewell county, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in 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, and 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 as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1912, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1914, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 16, 1916, and to provide for the working, repairing, maintaining and improving the roads in Tazewell county.
An ACT to require railway companies, operating by electric power or steam, and their employees, to clear from their rights-of-way, brush and trees at public grade crossings along their line.
An ACT to provide for clearing trees and underbrush from the sides of public roads.
An ACT to give consent of the State of Virginia to the purchase or acquisition by the United States of America, of certain real estate in the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to acquire rock quarries.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of said county a sufficient amount of money to maintain the convict road force in said county, and for the construction of other permanent improved roads in said county, and to borrow money at any time not exceedingly $20,000, for the purpose of maintaining said convict road force and for the construction of other permanent improved roads as aforesaid.
An ACT to allow the board of supervisors of Culpeper county, to create a special sinking fund.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to create for the county of Princess Anne a commission for roads, bridges and wharves; and for keeping in repair roads, bridges and wharves of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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, approved March 14, 1912, so as to make the requirements thereunder more specific.
An ACT to authorize and empower the bourd of supervisors of Culpeper county, Virginia, to pay off certain bonds heretofore issued for macadamizing certain road in Catalpa magisterial district, in Culpeper county, Virginia, out of road district sinking fund.
An ACT to authorize and empower boards of supervisors to remit certain classes of local taxes upon certain steam railways operating at a loss.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved February 17, 1910, entitled an act to enable incorporated towns and cities to contribute to the building or improvement of public roads and bridges leading to such town or cities, as amended by an act, approved February 17, 1916; so as to enable incorporated towns and cities to construct bridges across streams beyond or within their corporate limits, to borrow money and issue their municipal bonds therefor, for the purchase or construction of such bridges, and to validate municipal bonds heretofore issued!
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magisterial districts thereof; to authorize the erection of toll gates and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads therein, and making certain provisions for the enforcement and collection of said tolls and the protection of the said roads, and the property of said district road boards, and providing certain penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal all special acts heretofore enacted in reference to the public roads of said county, and to validate the official acts of certain officers under laws heretofore in effect in said county, and to prescribe a penalty for the violation thereof; and to add an independent section thereto, numbered 1514, so as to require the owners or occupants of land abutting on any public road to keep the same free from certain obstructions, approved February 2, 1915, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1916.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to levy a special district road tax for Boiling Springs and Clifton districts.

1919es
An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial district of the counties of the State, and repealing all acts in so far as the same are in conflict herewith.
An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the county of Princess Anne
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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, approved March 6, 1906; to provide for the appointment of a commission, and fixing their term of office; to give to said commission the power of eminent domain: the power to make and enforce rules and regulations governing the traffic on and use of the State Highway System, not in conflict with the laws of this State, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations.
An ACT to provide a road commission for Franktown magisterial district, in Northampton county and to repeal preview acts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3B, 3C, 5, and 23
An ACT to provide for improving the public roads and bridges of Floyd magisterial district in the county of Scott and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges, grade and macadamize the roads in Flore Se
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to purchase and provide for the payment therefor of the Rawley springs and Harrisonburg turnpike, and the Harrisonburg and Franklin turnpike, or either of them.
An ACT to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for the purpose of building, improving and maintaining the public roads and bridges of Franktown magisterial district in Said county.
An ACT to compensate commissioners of the revenue for additional services made necessary because of change in State tax rate to provide funds to meet appropriation by the United States government for the construction of public highways in Virginia and to appropriate out of the State treasury the sum sufficient.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county, approved February 21, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 138, 1914, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1918.
An ACT to authorize the State highway commissioner to sell, in his discretion, houses formerly used as toll houses on the Valley turnpike, conveyed to the Commonwealth of Virginia under an act approved March 20, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act 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; 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, approved March 6, 1906, as amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 12 of an act, approved March 19, 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact so far as the county of Powhatan is concerned an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 13, 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the road law of Montgomery county, as approved March 14, 1910, which is chapter 173 of the acts of the general assembly of 1910.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, State of Virginia, to borrow money, issue warrants and bonds therefor, for the purpose of erecting a public school building, building a concrete street from the corporate limits on York street to the corporate limits on Richmond avenue, and to complete the water and sewer systems of the said city, and providing for submission of the issuance of bonds for these purposes to the qualified voters of the said city.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled 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, as amended by an act approved March 18, 1908.
An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm bonds heretofore and hereafter issued on elections heretofore held authorizing the issuance of such bonds by any county of the State for the purpose of macadamizing or otherwise improving public roads or bridges of magisterial districts of said county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Warren county to borrow certain sums of money not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and issue bonds therefor, for the permanent improvement and construction of certain roads in Front Royal, Cedarville, and Fork magisterial districts of said county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to borrow the sum of $50,000.00 to be used for the construction and permanent improvement of roads and bridges in said county under the supervision of the State highway commissioner or the board of supervisors of said county and to provide for the payment of same and to provide for the retirement of any notes or bonds which may have been issued by said board pursuant to acts of the general assembly, approved March 9, 1918, and March 14, 1918, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT to authorize the Chincoteague Toll Road and Bridge Company, Incorporated, to cross, maintain and operate a public toll bridge and road across certain lowlands, marshes and meadows in the county of Accomac.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $800,000 to supplement any appropriation heretofore or hereafter made to carry out the provisions of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor, for the improvement of public roads, approved February 25, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 25, 1910, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1916, approved March 27, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 301 of acts of the general assembly of 1889-1890, entitled an act to provide for the drainage of low lands in Northampton and Accomac counties.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to borrow money and issue bonds of the Gladeville magisterial district thereof for a sum not exceeding $80,000.00 for the purpose of constructing and improving a public road and the necessary bridges on and along same, in the said Gladeville magisterial district along the Roaring Fork of Powell’s river and the Pot Camp Fork of said Roaring Fork, beginning at the Richmond magisterial district line at the northern end of the said district public road leading from the State highway between Appalachia and Norton, thence up and near Roaring Fork and Pot Camp Fork through the villages of Roaring Fork and Dunbar to the village of Pardee in said Gladeville magisterial district, and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund for the payment of such bonds at maturity.
An ACT to create for the county of Appomattox a road board and to prescribe the powers and duties of such board and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing, working and keeping in repair ‘the public roads and bridges within said county and to empower and authorize the levy of taxes for road and bridge purposes in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro-
An ACT to permit the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Company, Inc., to surrender to Fairfax county the section of its road from Fairfax to Centreville in Fairfax county, and to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to issue to said company for said section of road the notes or bonds of Fairfax county for $8,000 00, payable out of county levy.
An ACT to provide for the recordation of titles to motor vehicles and the identification of the same; to regulate the purchase sale, storage and repair of motor vehicles; declaring the theft of motor vehicles to be a felony and to prescribe penalties for eB ieT
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 2, 1888, entitled an act to provide for making, changing and working roads in the county of Rockingham, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to permit the board of supervisors of Prince William county to pay over to the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Company, Inc., the sum of $2,000.00 to be used in the improvement of that part of the road of said company between Bull Run and Gainesville in said county.
An ACT to authorize the military board to pay out of the military fund, the sum of $7,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the transportation expenses of the officers and cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in attending the unveiling of a statue of General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson.
An ACT to permit the county of Fauquier to issue bonds for Cedar Run magisterial district, of Fauquier county, for the purpose of permanent improvement of roads and bridges in said district, not exceeding twenty per cent of assessed value of taxable property in said district and to levy a tax not exceeding $1.80 on the $100.00 as-assessed valuation of the taxable property in said district subject to county and district taxation, to provide for payment of interest on said bonds and a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said bonds, and for the upkeep of said roads so constructed, and the other roads in said district.
An ACT requiring superintendent of roads to keep roads, foot and other bridges in repair, prescribing how materials for roads and bridges are to be procured, how compensation for same shall be fixed and damages ascertained, and what is not to be interfered
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act providing for the protection of turnpikes that have improved surface or have been treated with bitumen or other artificial binder from injury by traction engines, tractors or motor trucks, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof
An ACT to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in the “State Highway System.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor for the improvement of public roads

1920
An ACT to anticipate by counties, or otherwise, the construction of the State highway system.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3 and 4 of an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1906, entitled an act to amend 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, approved March 4, 1914.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Madison county to borrow the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and issue bonds therefor, for the permanent improvement and construction of roads and bridges in said county.
An ACT to authorize the county of Greene to borrow money an-issue bonds for a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the town of Clarksville, in the county of Mecklenburg, to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of constructing, improving and maintaining the roads and streets of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 10, 1902, entitled an act prescribing the manner of working and keeping in repair the public roads, and the manner of opening and constructing new roads and bridges and discontinuing public roads in Alleghany county, Virginia.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the open-
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of Prince George and Surry counties to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges of the said counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2052 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to prescribe conditions under which county roads, not part of the State highway system, may be built and maintained from funds derived exclusively from local bonds or taxes provided for such purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvements and upkeep and maintenance in the magisterial districts of the county of Scott
An ACT to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magisterial districts of said county; to authorize the erection of toll gates and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads therein; and making certain provisions for the construction, working, maintenance, etc., of said roads, and to levy a tax for said purposes in said county and in the several magisterial districts thereof; and to repeal all special acts heretofore enacted in reference to the public roads of said county; and to validate the official acts of certain officers under laws heretofore in effect in said county.
An ACT to provide for the issuing of bonds of Fauquier county for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act entitled an act to provide for the building and improvement of public roads in the county of Surry, and prescribing the powers and duties of road boards in the several magisterial districts of said county
An ACT to provide for a preliminary survey of the State highway system of roads, and certain other surveys.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend’and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as heretofore amended, in relation to the compensation of supervisors
An ACT to provide for the construction, improvement, care and maintenance of the public roads and bridges in the county of Wythe, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the locating and opening of new roads, for the altering and discontinuing of any of the existing roads, for the working, improving and keeping the same in repair; and to provide for the erection and maintenance of bridges in the county of Wythe; and to provide a penalty for obstructing or injuring the roads and bridges in said county, and for repealing all former special road laws for the said county of Wythe, approved March 14, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 1, 1915, entitled an act to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pittsylvania county to borrow the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars to be used for general county purposes, including public schools and public roads and to issue notes or bonds therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and require the board of supervisors of Warren county to issue bonds of the said county not in excess of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) to bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum; to pay for the completion of the road leading from Browntown to Bentonville, in South river district in said county; and to levy a tax on the taxable property of said district to pay the interest on said bonds and provide a sinking fund for their redemption
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Roanoke county to erect and maintain toll gates on the macadamized roads of said county, approved March 24, 1914.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2039 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the county of Rockbridge and the town of Lexington to purchase a lot to be used for the parking of automobiles and to collect a fee for such parking.
An ACT requiring railroads to furnish water to live stock awaiting shipments under certain conditions.
An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to issue one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000.00) of bonds for re-building, repairing and redecking bridges over railway tracks in said a
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to borrow forty thousand dollars for the purpose of re-surfacing and otherwise improving the macadam roads in Catalpa and Stevensburg magisterial districts in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of the road law of Montgomery county, as approved March 24, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2039 of the Code of Virginia, authorizing the boards of supervisors of counties to appoint road supervisors for magisterial districts, and to fix their compensation.
An ACT to authorize and empower the counties of Hanover, Henrico, King William, and the city of Richmond, or any one or more of them, to acquire by purchase or otherwise, or to contribute to the purchase of the toll road running from the city of Richmond to Mechanicsville in Hanover county, and known as the New Mechanicsville turnpike.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bath county to condemn land and material in Highland county, under certain conditions, for road purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact 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, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Norfolk, in its discretion, to borrow the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars and issue bonds therefor, for road and bridge purposes.
An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of Carroll and Grayson counties to enter into a contract in relation to the erection and maintenance of a certain bridge in Grayson county, 2nd authorizing the board of supervisors of Carroll county to appropriate money for the erection and maintenance of such bridge.
An ACT to provide for the marking of boats engaged in the taking of fish, oysters, clams and crabs in the tidal waters of this State; for the marking of all pound nets, fike nets, purse nets, haul seines and other devices for the taking of fish in the tidal waters of this State; and to provide penalties for the violation thereof.
An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to borrow money by the issuance of bonds for a sum not to exceed $300,000.00 for the purpose of the building and permanent improvement of the roads and bridges in said county; prescribing how such bonds may be issued and disposed of; to create a county road board for the county of Carroll and to prescribe its powers and duties; also to provide how the funds realized from the sale of said bonds shall be disposed of.
An ACT to provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of the public roads and bridges in Giles county, other than such as are included in the State highway system, and to provide for the issuing of county bonds for the construction, reconstruction and permanent improvement of the roads and bridges embraced in the county highway system.
An ACT to authorize the county of Albemarle to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding three hundred eel a 87
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2137 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3716 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2110 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the county of Albemarle to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars
An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of Warren county to issue bonds of the said county not in excess of fifteen thousand dollars ($15 00000) to bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum; to pay for the completion of the road leading from Browntown to Bentonville, in South River district in said county; and to levy a tax on the taxable property of said district to pay the interest on said bonds and provide a sinking fund for their redemption.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to issue bonds for an amount not exceeding $60,000.00 for a period of not exceeding four years.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3857 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3885 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing the procedure and conditions under which a public service corporation, if it becomes necessary in the construction of its work, or in changing its grade, or in double tracking the same, may cross any State or county road.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 9 of an act entitled an act to provide for the recordation of title to motor vehicles and the identification of the same; to regulate the purchase, sale, storage and repair of motor vehicles; declaring the theft of motor vehicles to be a felony and to prescribe penalties for violations of the act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and four of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county
An ACT to erect a library building and auditorium as a memorial to the soldiers, sailors, marines and women who served in the world war, and to appropriate money therefor; to dedicate as and for public streets and highways upon certain conditions a strip of land fifteen feet in width lying on the southern side of the Capitol square in the city of Richmond,
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Halifax county to borrow money and issue notes therefor.
An ACT to authorize the county of Louisa to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00)
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 13 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of Charlotte, for the creation of district road boards in said county, and for the repeal of all acts in conflict therewith