1904

Displaying 201 - 261 of 261

Chapter 202

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to prescribe the jurisdiction of the several boards of supervisors of the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Page, and Shenandoah, on and after the first day of February, 1904, in matters pertaining to county roads, toll-roads, bridges, ferries, mills, fences, stock laws and apprentices, approved May 20, 1903, and to fix the times of meeting of the boards of supervisors of said counties."

Amendments, Transportation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 203

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1271 of the Code of Virginia.

Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 204

An ACT to validate and legalize the issue of certain bonds of Bristol, Virginia, of date June 1, 1903, and known as refunding and water works bonds.

Bonds

Chapter 205

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in reference to when and where writings admitted to record, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the Code as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 10, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the Code, in relation to certificates of acknowledgment.

Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Property

Chapter 206

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3214 of the Code of Virginia

Judicial, Business, Public officers, Education

Chapter 207

An ACT to secure the better enforcement of the local option laws of the State, and to define the jurisdiction of the courts of the counties of this State as to water courses lying between counties and opposite counties or magisterial districts in which local option prevails.

Alcohol

Chapter 208

An ACT to validate certain records and proceedings of the circuit court of Chesterfield county.

Judicial

Chapter 209

An ACT to amend section 1406, as amended, in relation to proceed-

Religious Institutions

Chapter 210

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act requiring suitable fish ladders upon the dam across Goose creek, at Leesville, Campbell county.

Fishing

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2716 of the Code of Virginia

Property, Judicial

Chapter 212

An ACT to change the name of “Tanner’s creek” to the “northern branch of the Elizabeth river.”

Boundaries

Chapter 213

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 95 of the Code of Virginia,

Amendments, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 214

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 273 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the superintendent of public printing.

Public expenditures, Business, Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 215

An ACT to authorize the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to issue coupon or registered bonds of the city for the purpose of improving and enlarging the city water works, and for improving the city gas works.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 216

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the Warrenton and Fauquier White Sulphur Springs Turnpike Company

Incorporation

Chapter 217

An ACT to authorize the governor of Virginia to lease such rooms and offices as may be necessary for the transaction of the public business by the governor, secretary of the Commonwealth, register of the land office, the public printer, the commissioner of labor, the clerk of the house of delegates, and keeper of the rolls, and any other official having offices in the capitol building, or any of them, and for the storage of public property and records, so far as such rooms or offices may be necessary during the time occupied in the enlargement, renovation and repair of the State capitol building, and appropriating money to pay the rentals thereof.

Public expenditures, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 218

An ACT to provide for the construction of permanent roads in Charlotte county and to authorize the issuance and sale of the bonds of the county for that purpose.

Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 219

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county to issue a duplicate bond.

Bonds, Business, Public officers

Chapter 220

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to lease the old Commonwealth attorney’s office building, on the public square, in the town of Fairfax.

Municipal charters, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 221

An ACT to protect certain fish in the bays, creeks, inlets and streams tributary to the Potomac river, in the State of Virginia.

Fishing

Chapter 222

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Middlesex county to borrow money for the purpose of rebuilding the jail and repairing the clerk’s office of said county and to issue bonds therefor.

Bonds, Jails, Public expenditures

Chapter 223

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act in relation to fraudulent conversion of property held under trust deed”

Property

Chapter 224

An ACT to provide for the removal of the Houdon statue of Washington from the capitol to the library building, or to some other place.

Monuments and memorials, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 225

An ACT for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Buckingham, and to levy a capitation tax in connection therewith.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 226

An ACT to require the State corporation commission to recall assessments made, and not to further assess building and loan associations or companies with State franchise tax for the year 1904.

Business

Chapter 227

An ACT to amend and reenact section 443 of the Code of Virginia in relation to making copies of assessments and disposition of copies, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots, approved December 10, 1903, so as to provide additional time for returning assessments in cities having a population of over 50,000 by the last United States census.

Amendments, Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend section 3049 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, as further amended by an act approved May 20, 1903, and by an act approved December 12, 1903, and as further amended by an act approved January 12, 1904.

Judicial, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059 of the Code, as amended by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled ‘an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, and 3067 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060, and 3062 of the Code as heretofore amended,” and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, in so far as the same applies to the Fifth, Seventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first judicial circuits.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 230

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 723 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 10, 1903.

Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 231

An ACT for the relief of corporations from excessive or erroneous taxation.

Taxation, Business

Chapter 232

An ACT to authorize the use of convicts confined in the penitentiary in digging the foundation of the proposed additions to the State capitol, and in digging the foundation of the heat, light, and power plant proposed for the State capitol and other buildings, and in grading or moving property incident to either of said undertakings, and to require the board of directors of the penitentiary to furnish, under guard, such convicts as are called for by the capitol building committee.

Labor, Prisons, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 233

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3711 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, so as to repeal so much thereof as applies to the county of Dinwiddie.

Amendments, Property

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact article 10 of an act to incorporate the town of Phebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900," as amended by an act approved April 1902.

Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Education, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 235

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Tazewell to borrow money.

Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 236

An ACT to empower the council of the town of Berryville to submit, at a special election, to the qualified voters of said town whether or not said town shall buy the plant and franchise of the Battletown Gas Company, and to borrow money to pay for same or to issue bonds therefor, provided the same can be secured for $5,500.

Utilities, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 237

An ACT to provide for opening, working, and changing the public roads in Rappahannock county and building and repairing bridges therein.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 238

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Abingdon school district, in Gloucester county, to borrow money and to issue bonds therefor.

Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 239

An ACT authorizing prison association of Virginia to expend in certain improvements and in the installation, equipment, and conduct of its Sloyd manual training school the sum of $7,223.48 in its possession, being balance of $9,100 appropriated to it under act approved April 2, 1902, appropriating the public revenues for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on September 30, 1902, and September 30, 1903.

Prisons, Public expenditures, Education, Employment and labor

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1670 of the Code of Virginia, 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 7, 1903.

Healthcare, Judicial, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 241

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled “an act to provide for the appointment of police justices, and their jurisdiction in cities of a population of ten thousand and over, in which, by the terms of their charters, no provision is made for the election or appointment of police justices,”

Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 242

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 453, acts of assembly 1901-2, approved April 2, 1902, entitled “an act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States, while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war, or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service, or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act.”

Amendments, Armed forces, Civil Rights, Confederate, Pensions, Public expenditures, Reformatories, Slavery

Chapter 243

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 28, 1902, entitled “an act to amend and ‘re-enact an act entitled an act to declare Clinch river and Clinch mountain, in Russell county, a lawful fence,” approved January. 22, 1900.

Fence Laws

Chapter 244

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 2, 1904, entitled “an act to provide for the release of contracts for sale of personal property, docketed under section 2462 of the Code of Virginia, approved 28th day of February, 1890.”

Business, Property, Debt, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 245

An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to issue bonds for the payment of the balance of the contract price for paving Washington avenue and Twenty-fifth street, in said city, and to repeal all of the acts heretofore attempting to give this authority to said city.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 246

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1898; and to repeal an act approved March 14, 1902, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to expend surplus money on roads and bridges.

Taxation

Chapter 247

An ACT to provide for the establishing of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Rocky Mount, Franklin county, Virginia.

Alcohol, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 248

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act providing for the making, changing, and working of roads in the county of Rockingham," approved March 2, 1888, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 5, 1890; as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 25, 1892; as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 26, 1896.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 249

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3804 of the Code of Virginia

Alcohol, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 250

An Act to repeal sections twelve hundred and ninety-five, twelve hundred and ninety-six, and twelve hundred and ninety-seven of the Code of Virginia.

Repeal of legislation, Judicial, Business

Chapter 251

An ACT to repeal sections 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, and 1291; section 1292, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1900; sections 1293 and 1294 of the Code of Virginia.

Repeal of legislation

Chapter 252

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2197, chapter 99, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to burial of hogs that died from disease, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 30, 1890, and by an act approved February 14, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing the penalties for violation thereof.

Agriculture, Dead bodies (Law), Death and burial, Public expenditures, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 253

An ACT to repeal chapter 630 of the acts of the general assembly of!

Repeal of legislation, Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 254

An ACT to repeal sections 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109, 1110, 1111, 1112, 1118, 1114, 1115, 1116, 1117, 1118, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1122, and 1123; section 1124, as amended by an act approved February 13, 1890; sections 1125, 1126, 1127, 1128, 1129, 1130, 1131, 1132, 1133, and 1134; section 1135, as amended by an act approved January 9, 1896; sections 1136, 1137, 1138, 1139, 1140, 1141, 1142, 1143, and 1144; section 1145, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1892, and by an act approved January 17, 1896, and by an act approved April 2, 1902; sections 1146 and 1147; section 1148, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1890; sections 1149, 1150, 1151, 1152, and 1153 of chapter 47 of the Code of Virginia.