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1902/1904

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Chapter 306

An ACT to fix the times of holding regular sessions of the boards of supervisors of Warren, Page, Clarke, Shenandoah, and Frederick.
Public officers

Chapter 307

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

Chapter 308

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 4 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, 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."
Amendments, Transportation, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act
Amendments, Agriculture, Business

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code as amended by an act approved January 22, 1894, in relation to the number of commissioners of the revenue, so as to provide for one commissioner for each magisterial district of the county of Caroline.
Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 311

An ACT to fine or punish minors between the age of eighteen and twenty-one years for obtaining spirituous or malt liquors by false representations
Alcohol

Chapter 312

AN ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 70 of the Code of 1887 relating to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute and the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
Agriculture, Education, Public expenditures, Amendments, Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Judicial

Chapter 313

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 51 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
Amendments, Business, Taxation

Chapter 314

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial

Chapter 315

An ACT amending section 819 of Code in relation to the residence of county, district, and corporation officers.
Amendments, Public officers, Lawyers

Chapter 316

An ACT to authorize John D. Armstrong to erect a dock, pier, or watch-house upon his oyster ground in James River.
Agriculture, Fishing, Public spaces

Chapter 317

An ACT to provide for making enumerations to determine the population of a town or city, as provided for by section 116 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 318

An ACT to require the owners or proprietors of hotels, inns, houses of private entertainment, and other houses kept for the lodging and entertainment of the public, where gas is used for the purposes of illumination or heating, to post notices containing a warning and directions for the use of the same for the guidance of their guests.
Public spaces, Business

Chapter 319

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 85 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved July 28, 1902, making registrars conservators of the peace.
Amendments, Public officers, Voting, Law Enforcement

Chapter 320

An ACT to validate certain records of the county court of the county of Bedford.
Judicial

Chapter 321

An ACT to require clerks of circuit courts of counties and corporation or hustings courts of cities to send to the secretary of the Commonwealth certified lists of county, district, and city officers, and to provide a penalty for failure to do so.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 322

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 573 of the acts of 1891-1892, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as amended by an act passed March 2, 1892, as amended by an act passed January 25, 1898, as amended by an act passed February 28, 1898, as amended hy an act passed March 6, 1900, as amended by an act passed December 19, 1901, to increasing the rate per hour paid day laborers for work on the roads in Pulaski county.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation, Labor

Chapter 323

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 60 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved April 2, 1902, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 59 and 60 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved December 23, 1891, entitled an act amending sections 58, 59, and 60 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the reapportionment of representation in the general assembly,” and to amend and re-enact section 61 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Voting

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved April 27, 1903, entitled ‘an act to provide for holding elections in towns for the purpose of deciding upon the question of bond issue.’
Amendments, Bonds, Municipal charters, Voting

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 8, 9, and 17 of an act entitled an act to regulate the holding of city and ward primary elections in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, approved March 5, 1894, and to repeal section 4 of said act.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 326

An ACT to provide for the preservation of the permanent registration rolls, and for the transfer of voters on said rolls, and for copy to be used for all purposes with same effect as the original.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 327

An ACT to provide an appeal to any person denied registration.
Voting, Civil Rights, Judicial

Chapter 328

An ACT to provide for contesting local option elections.
Voting, Judicial

Chapter 329

An ACT to provide for the contraction of the corporate limits of cities and towns.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Voting, Property

Chapter 330

An ACT providing mileage to the members of the general assembly, clerks, officers, and pages of same, for attending the reconvening of the general assembly in the city of Richmond on the 10th day of November, 1903.
Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 331

An ACT to extend the time for the payment of taxes for 1903, without the addition of a penalty.
Taxation

Chapter 332

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 72, Code of 1887, as amended by act approved March 29, 1902, in regard to the management of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
Education, Civil Rights, Amendments, Public expenditures, Labor, Charity, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 333

An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 334

AN ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May 23, 1887, entitled “an act to provide a modified oath to be taken by persons elected or appointed to any post or office under the laws of the Commonwealth who are unable to take the oath required under the acts of assembly approved April 21, 1882.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 335

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 1140 of acts of assembly
Budget, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 336

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 588 and 591 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 593, 594, 595, 596, 597, 598, 599, 600, and 601 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Taxation, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 337

An ACT to repeal chapter 708, acts of assembly, session of 1899-1900, entitled “an act to provide for the better enforcement and collection of the tax now imposed by law upon shares of stock in corporations and joint stock companies by requiring sworn lists of the stockholders of said corporations or companies resident in this State to be filed with the auditor of public accounts, and to direct the disposition of said lists. and to prescribe penalties for the failure or refusal to file said lists or the furnishing of a false list,” approved March 3, 1900.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 338

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 380, acts of assembly, session 1895-6, entitled “an act to constitute capitation tax a lien upon real estate owned by the person at the time such capitation tax is assessed”
Taxation

Chapter 339

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection “sixteen” of section 5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to construction of the words “city,” “town,” and “council.”
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 340

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to commencement of statutes.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia relating to State depositories.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 342

An ACT to prescribe the manner in which a duly registered voter who has not been assessed with his State capitation tax may pay the same, and to prescribe penalties for a failure on the part of clerks and treasurers to observe the provisions of this act.
Voting, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 343

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 16 and 18 of an act entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Farmville magisterial district, in Prince Edward county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict. with this act so far as they apply to the said magisterial district
Alcohol, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 344

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Farmville magisterial district, in Prince Edward county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act so far as they apply to the said magisterial district, approved February 13, 1901, provided that the qualified voters of said magisterial district shall so elect.
Alcohol, Repeal of legislation, Voting

Chapter 345

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 22, 23, and 24, and sections 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Property

Chapter 346

An ACT to repeal sections 63 and 66, and to amend sections 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, and 85, as amended by act approved May 26, 1903, of chapter 8 of the Code of Virginia.
Voting, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 347

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 24 of acts of assembly, session 1889-90, entitled "an act authorizing the auditor of public accounts to issue duplicate warrants"
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 348

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 880, acts of assembly, session 1897-’98, entitled “an act to provide for the appointment of special prosecuting attorneys in proper cases.”
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 349

An ACT to ratify and confirm the sale and conveyance of certain property in the county of Alexandria made by the city council of Alexandria to the Washington Southern Railway Company.
Property, Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 350

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3376 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 351

An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled “an act to allow a remedy by motion for judgment in the county court, after ten days’ notice, whenever a person is entitled to recover money or specific personal property by action in the circuit court or by warrant before a justice of the peace, where the claim exceeds twenty dollars, and does not exceed one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest,” approved March 1, 1898.
Repeal of legislation, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 352

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 913 as heretofore amended, 917, and 922 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Business, Public officers, Property

Chapter 353

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Civil Rights, Property

Chapter 354

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3196 of chapter 154 of the Code, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 3195 and 3196 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3197 of same Code, in reference to disbarring attorneys at law.”
Lawyers, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 355

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3436 of chapter 168 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3436 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the jurisdiction of injunctions,” approved March 6, 1900.
Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 356

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 555 and 659 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to licenses.
Business, Alcohol, Amusement, Employment and labor

Chapter 357

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 890, 891, 896, and 912 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 358

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2044, 2051, 2055, and 2058 of the Code of Virginia.
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 359

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3029 and 3036 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 360

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1903, titled “an act to authorize municipal corporations to issue bonds for the redemption of outstanding bonds.”
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 361

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 581 and 585 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Alcohol, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 362

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 233, and 235 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 232 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 232, chapter 17, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of directors and surgeon of penitentiary, approved February 19, 1892," as amended by an act approved April 24, 1903, entitled "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, Judicial, Public officers, Prisons

Chapter 363

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 157, 158, 159, 160, and 161 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Voting

Chapter 364

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 168, 169, 170, 175, and 180 of chapter 13 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 365

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2063 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Business, Property, Public officers

Chapter 366

An ACT to amend and reenact sections 4 and 5 of an act approved February 12, 1894, entitled “an act to establish the law and equity court of the city of Richmond, and to define its jurisdiction and relation to the other courts of said city.”
Judicial, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 367

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2914 of the Code of Virginia in relation to 'where bond filed with justice to be returned.'
Bonds, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 368

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled “an act to provide a circuit court for the city of Bristol, Virginia,” and to authorize the clerk of said court to transfer to the corporation court for said city the cases pending in said circuit court.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 369

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2785 and 2786 of the Code of Virginia.
Property, Business

Chapter 370

An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to provide for making enumerations to determine the population of a town or city, as provided for by section 116 of the Constitution of Virginia,” which became a law without the governor’s signature May 21, 1903.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 371

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 28, 1903, in relation to representation of the wards of cities in the councils thereof and to the reapportionment of such representation.
Municipal charters

Chapter 372

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2117 and 2118 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 373

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3455 of the Code of Virginia in relation to petition for appeal, writ of error, or supersedeas, when prohibited, as amended by an act approved January 18, 1888.
Judicial

Chapter 374

An ACT to prohibit advertising of any offer to obtain divorces.
Divorce, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Marriage

Chapter 375

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2386 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 376

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2629 of the Code of Virginia.
Property, Noncitizens, Judicial

Chapter 377

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2961 as amended by an act approved March 2, 1896, 2962, and 2965 as amended by an act approved February 27, 1894, of the Code of Virginia.
Debt, Property, Judicial, Business

Chapter 378

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2636, 2637, 2639, 2640, 2642, 2645, and 2647 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2644 of said Code as amended and re-enacted by act approved February 12, 1892, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact. section 2644 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to the marriage of a female personal representative.
Marriage, Inheritance and succession, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 379

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2357 of the Code of Virginia.
Property, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 380

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2505 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and reenacted by an act approved March 3, 1890, and by an act approved March 25, 1902, in relation to the indexing of 'deeds and other writings admitted to record by the clerks of the courts of the Commonwealth.
Amendments, Property, Public officers

Chapter 381

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2999, 3000, and 3004 of the Code of Virginia.
Civil Rights, Property, Judicial

Chapter 382

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2463 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Marriage, Property

Chapter 383

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 791, 793, 796, 799, 801, S04, and 810 of the Code of Virginia.
Voting, Boundaries, Judicial, Public officers, Property

Chapter 384

An Act to amend and re-enact sections 3139, 3140, 3142, 3143, 3144, 3145, 3146, and 3147 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to jurors.
Judicial, Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers, Civil Rights, Voting

Chapter 385

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 718, 721, 723, 738, and 743, and to repeal sections 735 and 737 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 386

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3116, 3117, 3120, 3122, as amended by act approved February 29, 1892, and as further amended by act approved February 12, 1894, 3129, 3130, 3131, 3132, 3134, and 3135 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled “an act to prescribe what judges may practice law,” approved March 2, 1888, and to repeal section 3109 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Lawyers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 387

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 875, 882, and 883 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
Charity, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 388

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots.
Amendments, Taxation, Property, Public officers, Industry

Chapter 389

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4106 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact section 4106 of the Code of Virginia, touching the jurisdiction of police justices and justices of the peace as to the trial of offenders in certain cases.'
Judicial

Chapter 390

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3174, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3174 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to clerks of courts.”
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Bonds, Public officers, Property

Chapter 391

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4147 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 392

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 853, 855, 857, 858, 861, 862, 863, and 865 of the Code of Virginia.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 393

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4096 of chapter 200 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 394

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3231 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 395

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2485 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 2485 and 2486 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the lien of employees, etc., of transportation, mining, and manufacturing companies on franchises and property of said companies, and how the same may be perfected and enforced"
Employment and labor, Business, Transportation

Chapter 396

An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 1022 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to registrars and judges of election for the towns of this State,” approved March 2, 1903.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 397

An ACT to repeal an act entitled 'an act providing for the compensation and mileage of members, committees, officers, and employees of the general assembly, and for the payment of the same'
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 398

An ACT to repeal sections 4199 and 4200 of the Code of Virginia.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 399

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3316 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the legislature of Virginia, approved January 25, 1890, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3316 of the Code of 1887, in regard to the removal of causes,” and to repeal section 3315 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act of the general assembly, approved March 5, 1894.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 400

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 125, acts of assembly, session 1895-’96, entitled “an act to require sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this State to report to courts of their respective counties and cities the number of prisoners confined in their respective jails,”
Jails, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 401

An ACT vesting in the circuit courts of this Commonwealth, and in the judges thereof, the jurisdiction and powers now vested in and exercised by, and duties imposed upon, the county courts, or the judges thereof, under the laws of this State, or under any will or other instrument of writing.
Judicial

Chapter 402

An ACT to repeal an act entitled "an act prescribing the cases in which the governor shall have power to remit fines and penalties, the rules and regulations under which the same may be done, and how such judgments for fines, penalties, and costs may be marked satisfied upon judgment lien dockets"
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 403

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4050, 4051, and section 4052, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898; sections 4053, 4057, 4060, 4073, and section 4074, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1896, of chapter 198 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 404

An ACT to repeal chapter 692, acts of assembly, session 1897-98, entitled “an act to fix and regulate the time for holding elections or taking a vote to ascertain the sense of the qualified voters of a county or counties out of which a new county is sought to be created and established,” approved March 3, 1898.
Repeal of legislation, Voting

Chapter 405

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 8, 1902, entitled an act to authorize, empower, and direct the board of supervisors of Clarke county to build, construct, and maintain a toll-bridge at or near Castleman’s Ferry, in said county, and to build, construct, and maintain a toll-bridge at or near Berry’s Ferry, in said county of Clarke, over the Shenandoah river; to issue county bonds to the extent of forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of raising money for the construction of said bridges; to receive any subscriptions that may be made for said purpose; to provide for the collection, custody, and application of said tolls; and to validate an election held in the county of Clarke, November 4, 1902, approving an issue of the bonds of said county, to the amount of forty thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing the said toll-bridges,” so as to provide for the payment of the land damages and approaches out of the annual levy.
Amendments, Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation
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