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1902/1904

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 602

Chapter 105

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 623 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to collection of taxes and levies and distraining therefor.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 106

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Lancaster to acquire by purchase or condemnation for public purposes a lot of land not exceeding two acres, adjoining the lot on which the courthouse now stands.
Property

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2260 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relating to proceedings for divorce.
Divorce, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 108

An ACT dedicating a site on the Capitol grounds for an equestrian statue of General J. E. B. Stuart, and providing for an appropriation of $10,000 therefor.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 109

An Act to provide for the appointment every two years by the governor of three commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States, to define their duties, and to authorize the payment of their traveling expenses.
Legislative Amendments, Marriage, Divorce, Property

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1681 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900, in relation to commitment certain persons to insane hospitals.
Amendments, Healthcare, Gambling, Law Enforcement

Chapter 112

An ACT to provide for changing the boundaries of wards in cities, and for increasing or diminishing the number thereof.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Voting

Chapter 113

An ACT to provide for the representation of the several wards of cities in the councils thereof, and for the reapportionment of such representation.
Municipal charters, Voting, Boundaries

Chapter 114

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors and judge of the county court of Giles to authorize the Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a monument on the courthouse square, at Pearisburg, Virginia, to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of said county, and in their discretion to appropriate money to aid in the erection of said monument.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 115

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lancaster county to effect a loan for county road purposes, and to disburse the same.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 116

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bedford county to contribute such an amount as it shall deem proper towards the erection of a Confederate monument in the courthouse square of said county.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 117

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Campbell county to appropriate and contribute money to the Citizens’ Association of Campbell county, for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county.
Monuments and memorials, Confederate, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 118

An ACT to empower the county court of Campbell county to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected upon the public square, at the county seat thereof.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces

Chapter 119

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 120

An ACT to provide for the election of commissioners of the revenue for the counties of the State.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 121

An ACT to provide for the election of commissioners of the revenue for the cities of the State.
Public officers, Budget

Chapter 122

An Act to Provide for the Repair, Construction, and Permanent Improvement of the Public Roads and Bridges of Newport Magisterial District, in the County of Warwick
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 123

An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the Southwestern State Hospital to exchange certain land with the heirs of J. B. Rhea, deceased, and to execute and receive the necessary deeds for the purpose of carrying the same into effect.
Property, Municipal charters, Healthcare

Chapter 124

An ACT to amend and reenact section 1 of an act entitled "an act requiring suitable fish ladders upon the dam at Goose creek, at Leesville, Campbell county"
Fishing

Chapter 125

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate High Point Academy, in Grayson county.
Incorporation, Education, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 126

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act incorporating the ‘Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute,” and to provide for the support of the same,” approved May 20, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 29, 1902.
Education, Budget, Public officers, Business

Chapter 127

An ACT to authorize and empower the town of Smithfield, in Isle of Wight county, to borrow money for street improvement.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 128

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to appropriate a sum of money to aid in the erection of a monument at Princess Anne courthouse to the memory of the Confederate soldiers from said county.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 129

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to appropriate and contribute money for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 130

An ACT to empower the county court of Botetourt county to authorize and permit the erection of a Confederate monument upon the public square, at the county seat thereof.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces

Chapter 131

An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Warren county to borrow $12,000, to be used in the building of a bridge and approaches thereto over the south branch of the Shenandoah river at or near Carson’s ford, in said county.
Budget, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 132

An ACT to amend an act approved March 29, 1902, to authorize the board of supervisors of Smyth county to issue bonds and borrow money for the building and repairing of the roads in said county, and to direct and to authorize the judge of the county court to order an election to ascertain the sense of the qualified voters of said county on the question.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 133

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to issue and sell bonds to an amount not exceeding the sum of $50,000 in the aggregate, the proceeds to be used for the repair and maintenance of the public roads and bridges of said county, and appointing commissioners to disburse such moneys.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 134

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3972 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to how a justice may associate justices with him; if they disagree, whose opinion to prevail.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 135

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1546 and 1551 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia, the salaries of professors, etc.
Education, Salaries

Chapter 136

An ACT to add an additional section to an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Courtland, in the county of Southampton
Cemeteries, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 137

An ACT to authorize and appoint a special joint committee of the house and senate to investigate leasing out barren area and exhausted oyster bottom within the Baylor survey.
Business, Legislative Amendments, Fishing

Chapter 138

An ACT regulating the grant of franchise, et cetera, by cities and towns, and providing for the advertisement thereof and the public reception of bids therefor, and providing for the enforcement of the obligations of the grantees, grantors or owners of franchises, and providing penalties for the usurpation of or violation of the terms and provisions of franchises.
Business, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 139

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1662, 1663, 1664, 1665, 1666, 1669, 1670, 1672, 1673, 1674, 1675, 1677, 1679, 1680, 1682, 1684, 1685, 1688, 1697, 1702, 1707, and 1710 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1660 to 1712, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia in relation to State hospitals for the insane, and the commitment of insane persons, approved March 7, 1900.
Healthcare, Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 140

An ACT to authorize the city of Charlottesville to close a street in said city known as Fifth street.
Municipal charters, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 141

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of the charter of the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 142

An ACT to repeal the charter of the town of Bowling Green, in the county of Caroline.
Municipal charters

Chapter 143

An ACT to prohibit the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors
Alcohol, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 144

An ACT incorporating the town of Bowling Green, in the county of Caroline.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 145

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the several counties to retire outstanding bonds and to issue new bonds at the same or a lower rate of interest.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 146

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the garnishment of and levy of execution on wages and salaries of the State officials, clerks, and employees
Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 147

An 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 qualification 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, ana its expenses, ete.
Business, Judicial, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 148

An ACT to raise revenue for 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.
Budget, Taxation, Pensions, Public expenditures, Property, Business, Education, Debt, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 149

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Giles county to sell to the trustees of the Baptist church a lot or parcel of land off the county farm near Ripplemead, Virginia, for the purpose of erecting a church thereon and to provide for the conveyance of same.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 150

An ACT to incorporate the town of Drakes Branch, in the county of Charlotte.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers

Chapter 151

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 587 as to licenses revoked by local option elections.
Alcohol

Chapter 152

An ACT to apportion the obligation and costs of maintaining, keeping in repair and rebuilding certain bridges over Blackwater river, the dividing line between the counties of Isle of Wight and Southampton, between the said counties.
Transportation

Chapter 153

AN ACT to allow the auditor of public accounts to pay officers and employees of the State at stated periods.
Budget, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to borrow $9,000 for the purpose of building a bridge across James river in that county, approved March 29, 1902, so as to authorize the said board to borrow $12,000 for the purpose aforesaid, and to issue bonds of the said county therefor.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 155

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 931 of the Code of Virginia.
Jails, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 156

An ACT making it a misdemeanor to employ children under the age of twelve years in manufacturing, mechanical and mining operations, and to regulate the hours of employment of children between the ages of twelve and fourteen, and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of said act.
Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 157

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3090 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by the act of the general assembly approved January 18, 1888, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, so as to place the county of Craig with those counties west of the Blue Ridge, whose causes in the court of appeals are heard in Staunton.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Boundaries

Chapter 158

An ACT to confer upon all the city and municipal corporations additional and full power to regulate and control the sale of wine, malt liquors, ardent spirits, and all intoxicant liquors.
Alcohol, Business, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 159

An ACT to provide for the raising and training of bloodhounds for police purposes.
Law Enforcement

Chapter 160

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county in the State to adjust and settle judgments in favor of any county against any treasurer, or ex-treasurer thereof, and his sureties.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 161

An ACT to provide for an election in Orange county for the purpose of taking the sense of the qualified voters upon the question of issuing bonds to build macadamized public roads; to appoint road commissioners, prescribe their powers and duties, and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to issue and negotiate said bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 162

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 1, of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, so as to include in one act the entire description of the corporate lines of the said city, and to thus present the said lines as a whole; to render accurate some ambiguities in the courses of the lines of the town of Neapolis, annexed to the city of Danville, by an act entitled an act to extend the limits of the city of Danville, approved 2d day of March, 1896, and to include the description set forth in an act entitled an act to extend the limits of the town of Danville, approved 28th January, 1867, and the description set forth in said act, approved 2d March, 1896.
Municipal charters

Chapter 163

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 22 of the charter of the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax.
Amendments, Incorporation, Public officers, Property, Taxation, Voting

Chapter 164

An ACT to provide for the settlement of any controversy or uncertainty as to the existence, or as to the limits and boundaries, of any public road in Alexandria county, and for recording a plat of said road and marking its boundaries, and for limiting the time in which the existence or boundaries of any such road may be drawn in question.
Boundaries

Chapter 165

An ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of Back bay and its tributaries.
Fishing

Chapter 166

An ACT to empower the several road boards of Clarke county to purchase rock crushers for their respective districts, and to make provision for the payment thereof.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 167

An ACT for the issuing of $100,000 of bonds, to purchase land, and to build and erect thereon a market-house, armory, council chamber, and city offices, or otherwise acquire the same, and to provide a circuit court-room in the present courthouse building, and provide a fire-proof vault for the records of the corporation and circuit courts, and for the furnishing and equipping of the said new buildings in the city of Newport News.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 168

An Act to amend and re-enact section 1747 of the Code of Virginia, regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in Virginia
Healthcare, Legislative Amendments, Employment and labor

Chapter 169

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1750 of the Code of Virginia, regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Judicial

Chapter 170

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2148 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1901, and by previous acts, in relation to the time for taking oysters, and to prohibit the use of patent tongs.
Fishing, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 171

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3. 4, and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginian penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts
Amendments, Prisons, Employment and labor, Agriculture

Chapter 172

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of directors of the penitentiary to employ assistant clerks when needed, or to apportion the clerical work of the penitentiary among those now employed, and to apportion their compensation therefor
Amendments, Prisons, Public officers, Salaries, Public expenditures

Chapter 173

An ACT to amend and re-enact independent section 11 of an act approved February 25, 1892, in relation to oysters
Amendments, Fishing

Chapter 174

An ACT to provide for the improvement of public roads in Shenandoah county, etc.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 175

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 232 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, in relation to the appointment of directors and surgeon of the penitentiary.
Amendments, Prisons, Public officers

Chapter 176

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act approved February 25, 1892, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Colonial Beach, in the county of Westmoreland.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Voting, Alcohol

Chapter 177

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 7 of section 7 of chapter 6 of an act entitled “an act to consolidate in one act all acts creating and amend- ing the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to create a new charter for said city,” approved January 29, 1896, so as to provide for the acquisition and maintenance of a new water supply for said city.
Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 178

An ACT extending the terms of the various officials of the several incorporated towns of this Commonwealth to conform to the Constitution.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 179

An ACT to allow county, city, and town treasurers further time to collect certain taxes and levies uncollected but accounted for by them.
Taxation

Chapter 180

An ACT authorizing the assignment of life insurance policies.
Business

Chapter 181

An ACT to provide for the extension, through the State Corporation Commission, of charters of corporations which have complied with the provisions of the ordinance adopted by the Constitutional Convention on the 26th day of June, 1902.
Incorporation

Chapter 182

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the Code of Virginia, providing when a judge of a county or corporation court fails to hold same what judge may do so; when governor to designate judge to do so; his pay and mileage.
Judicial

Chapter 183

An Act to Amend Road Tax Levy in Loudoun County
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 184

An ACT to provide for holding elections in towns for the purpose of deciding upon the question of bond issue.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Voting, Public expenditures

Chapter 185

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke,” so as to consolidate the offices of city clerk and city auditor, and to prescribe the duties of the city clerk.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 186

An ACT to prevent the sale or gift of toy firearms to persons under twelve years of age, and to provide a penalty therefor.
Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 187

An ACT to protect persons, firms, corporations, associations, or unions of workingmen in the use of their labels, trade marks, terms, designs, devices, and forms of advertisements, and to provide for the registry thereof.
Business, Employment and labor, Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 188

An ACT appropriating the sum of $200,000 to the Jamestown Exposition Company.
Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 189

An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Utilities, Public spaces, Healthcare, Pensions, Amendments

Chapter 190

An ACT to empower the boards of supervisors of the counties of Halifax, Charlotte, Prince Edward, Cumberland, and Powhatan to declare streams in their counties public highways, to provide rules and regulations for keeping the banks and channels of the same free from obstructions, and to provide penalties for failures to comply therewith.
Transportation, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 191

An ACT to regulate the professional nursing of the sick in the State
Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 192

An Act to Amend and Re-Enact the Act Authorizing the Governor to Grant Conditional Pardons to Persons Confined in the Penitentiary
Prisons, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 193

An ACT to establish Jonesville high school district, in Lee county, Virginia, providing the mode of appointing trustees, levying tax for district school purposes therein, and authorizing the trustees to apply the money collected for district school purposes to the payment of teachers’ salaries, the purchasing, renting, or building of school-houses, apparatus, furniture, appliances,
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 194

An ACT to authorize the improvement of the public roads in Frederick county, and to provide funds to pay for the same.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 195

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act approved July 28, 1902, in relation to who liable to serve as jurors.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 196

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 16, 17, and 20 of an act approved March 15, 1902, entitled an act to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, Virginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein.
Alcohol, Budget, Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 197

AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 5, and 11 of an act approved March 4, 1898, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Buchanan, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the towns of Buchanan and Pattonsburg, in the county of Botetourt, approved January 19, 1882, and acts amendatory thereof, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to enlarge the powers of the town of Buchanan, in the county of Botetourt, approved March 3, 1890, approved February 25, 1892.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Property, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 198

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a bail commissioner for the several counties.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 199

An ACT to provide fuel, light, and ice for the capitol and library buildings and the governor’s mansion, and to appropriate money therefor.
Budget

Chapter 200

An ACT to prescribe the manner in which a county or city treasurer may, after the expiration of his term, secure a final discharge from his liability as such treasurer.
Public officers

Chapter 201

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4110, 4113, 4114, 4115, 4143, 4164, 4155, 4156, 4167, 4168, 4172, 4173 of the Code of Virginia, and sections 4123, 4124, 4159, 4162, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4123, 4124, 4152, 4159, 4160, 4161, 4162, 4163, 4164, 4167, and 4173 of chapter 202, Code of Virginia, in relation to rules governing the management of the penitentiary, approved February 19, 1892, and sections 4133, 4160, and 4167, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 4130, 4132, 4133, and 4136 of the Code of Virginia, and sections 4137 and 4138 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, and sections 4160 and 4167 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, relating to rules governing the penitentiary, approved March 18, 1892, of title 55 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the organization, government, and discipline of the penitentiary.
Prisons, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 202

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide for defending certain suits involving the validity of the Constitution, or article second thereof, brought against members of the Constitutional Convention, the governor, and other officers.”
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 203

An ACT to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this Commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act.
Fishing

Chapter 204

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, in relation to fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth; to provide for levying a license tax on fishing devices, and for the collection thereof, and to extend the provisions of said act to all the waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1900, and as amended by an act approved March 14, 1902.
Fishing, Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 205

An ACT to establish Norton school district, in Wise county.
Education, Budget, Property
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