1910

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Chapter 302

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the roads of said county, and to levy a tax to keep same in proper repair, as amended by an act approved February 29, 1892, and February 2, 1894, and acts amendatory thereof, respectively, January 22, 1898, March 7, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1906.

Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 303

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended

Amendments, Armed forces, Charity, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Utilities

Chapter 304

An ACT to provide for the assessment and payment of omitted capitation taxes and of capitation taxes of persons who become of age after the first of February in any year, and to repeal chapter 342 of acts of assembly of 1902-1903-1904, entitled 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 failure on the part of clerks and treasurers to observe the provisions of this act, and to repeal chapter 26 of acts of assembly, 1906, entitled an act authorizing and directing the auditor of public accounts to accept from the county and city treasurers of the Commonwealth all money collected by such treasurers as poll taxes under orders of courts since the first day of July, 1903.

Taxation, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 305

An ACT to require the State board of agriculture to provide for the manufacture and distribution of serum for the prevention and treatment of hog cholera.

Agriculture

Chapter 306

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to legalize the adoption of minor children by adult persons

Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Marriage

Chapter 307

An ACT to require the reporting of cases of infectious, contagious, communicable and dangerous disease to boards of health.

Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 308

An ACT to require license taxes to be paid by all traveling circuses and carnivals exhibiting or giving performances or shows outside of the enclosures of all agricultural fair associations and within the limits of the county or city in which any annual fair is being held or within one week before or after the week in which such fair is to be held, or being held.

Amusement, Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of an act approved November 24, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, in the county of Southampton, and amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 6, 1896, and amended by an act approved February 14, 1901, and amended by an act approved December 19, 1901.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3801 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the loading, unloading, running and transportation of railroad trains on Sunday

Transportation, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 311

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 2526 of the Code of Virginia.

Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 312

An ACT to promote the public health, convenience and welfare by leveeing, ditching and draining the wet, swamp and overflowed lands of the State, and providing for the establishment of levee or drainage districts for the purpose of enlarging or changing any natural water courses, and for digging ditches, or canals, for securing better drainage, or providing better outlets for drainage, for building levees, or embankments, and installing tide gates, or pumping plants for the reclamation of overflowed lands, and prescribing a method for so doing; and providing for the assessment and collection of the cost and expense of the same, and issuing and selling bonds therefor: and for the care and maintenance of such improvements when constructed.

Agriculture, Property, Utilities, Public expenditures, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 313

An ACT to license and regulate the sale and inspection of condi-tional stock and poultry foods and powders intended for domestic animals and poultry.

Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 314

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled a: 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 special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution approved April 16, 1903.

Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 315

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 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, Taxation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 316

An ACT to amend an act approved March 13, 1908, entitled an act to provide for the payment of a license tax for the exhibition of any automatic moving picture machine, phonograph, graphophone, or similar musical machine, when the price of admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum of ten cents.

Amusement, Charity, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 317

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural dis- tricts, and to appropriate money therefor, approved March 14, 1908, so as to extend its provisions to the libraries of city schools.

Education, Libraries, Public expenditures

Chapter 318

An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of bargain and sale heretofore made and certified by an officer having the authority to take such acknowledgments, who is named as trustee in a deed of trust securing the deferred purchase money.

Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 319

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1660 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to hospitals for the insane, so as to provide proper and separate custody of insane convicts and certain other insane persons.

Healthcare, Judicial, Reformatories, Death and burial, Custody of children

Chapter 320

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1682 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the admission to the State hospitals of insane persons charged with or indicted for crime; and insane convicts in the penitentiary and other penal institutions of the State.

Judicial, Prisons, Civil Rights, Reformatories

Chapter 321

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1687 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the disposition of insane persons charged with crime, when restored to sanity, etc.

Amendments, Healthcare, Judicial

Chapter 322

An ACT to repeal sections 2020, 2021 and 2022, and to amend and re-enact sections 2008, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2026, 2027 and 2036 of an act entitled an act creating a board of harbor commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and for the preservation of the harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth, approved March 3, 1882, as amended and re enacted by an act entitled an act amending and re-enacting sections 2008, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2023, and repealing sections 2028, 2029, 2030 and 2031 of chapter 92 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the duties of harbor commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth, approved February 26, 1890.

Amendments, Business, Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 323

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of Banister district, in-cluding the towns of South Boston and Houston, in Halifax county, Vir-ginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the estab-lishment at South Boston and Houston, each, of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein, and in the event that a majority of those voting at said election vote for said dispensaries, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of same, and to prohibit thereafter within said district and towns the sale, barter or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms or corporations, except as herein provided, and to provide for future elections on the question of abolishing such dispensaries, and defining the effect of all elections held hereunder.

Alcohol, Business, Voting, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 324

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county in this State, in their discretion, to contribute and expend annually, out of the general county levy of the said county, a sum of money for the, purpose of promoting agriculture in said county.

Agriculture

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia, as previously amended, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908.

Amendments, Employment and labor, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 326

An ACT to license and regulate the running of automobiles, loco- mobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same, to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations, and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, loco- mobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same, to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules,

Transportation, Legislative Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement

Chapter 327

An ACT to provide within what time and by whom the writ tax shall be paid in case of removal or appeal from a justice, and how judgment shall be entered against a surety where appeal is dismissed.

Judicial

Chapter 328

An ACT to provide for the payment of $50.00 to the Confederate Memorial Association of Gordonsville, Virginia, for which the auditor was instructed to draw his warrants upon the treasurer of the State for the year 1907, pursuant to act of the general assembly, 1906, but which was not received by the said memorial association.

Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 329

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1483 of the Code, as here- tofore amended, in reference to donations for schools, so as to extend its provisions to devises and bequests, and to make it apply also to city schools.

Education, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 330

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 of chapter 1 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, to amend and re-enact chapters 2, 3 and 5 of said act, as amended by subsequent acts, and to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5, and to repeal section 7 of chapter 6 of said act.

Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial, Public expenditures, Cemeteries, Healthcare, Transportation, Voting, Property

Chapter 331

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1465 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the pay of the clerks of district school boards

Education, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 332

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 70 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the compensation of members of the electoral board.

Amendments, Public officers, Voting, Public expenditures

Chapter 333

An ACT to authorize Albemarle county from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $30,000.00, for the purpose of uniting in the building, in the county of Albemarle, of State money aid roads, as well as roads where private individuals contribute one-half the cost thereof, and to assist in securing undergrade crossings under the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and the Southern Railway Company, respectively, in the county of Albemarle.

Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 334

An ACT to provide for the recordation of copies of certaiD papers from the records of the United States courts in bankruptcy preceedings, their effect as evidence, and the fees which may be charged by clerks for certain services in connection therewith.

Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 335

An ACT to provide for the examination and testing of dairy cattle for controlling tuberculosis, and to appropriate money for expenses thereof.

Agriculture, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 336

An ACT to make an appropriation for a replica of the Houdoun statue of George Washington, and to provide for the appointment of a commission to present the same to the republic of France.

Monuments and memorials

Chapter 337

An ACT to promote order and the comfort of passengers on the conveyances and at the stopping places of carriers of passengers.

Transportation, Civil Rights, Segregation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 338

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1466 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to public free schools for counties and the literary fund.

Education

Chapter 339

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4051 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in regard to suspending sentence, or execution thereof, and to provide for bail pending suspension of sentence, or execution thereof, after conviction.

Judicial, Prisons, Civil Rights

Chapter 340

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6 and 7 of an act entitled an act providing for the appointment of a State board of health and of local boards, defining the duties and powers and compensation thereof, and of their members, officers and agents in connection with the preservation of public health, and prosecuting penalties against witnesses failing to obey subpoenas issued by said State board of health, or any authorized member thereof, for refusing to testify or otherwise acting in contempt of said board or its duly authorized members, approved March 7, 1900, and as amended by an act approved February 27, 1904, and providing how county boards of health constituted and appointed, and when State board of health may perform duties of local boards

Healthcare

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the improvement and working of roads in the county of Henrico, and for the construction and repair of bridges therein, and to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1882, entitled an act for laying out and working roads in Henrico county, approved March 1, 1884, as heretofore amended.

Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 342

An ACT to amend section six of an act entitled an act to provide a charter incorporating the town of Eastville, in Northampton county, approved February 6, 1896.

Amendments, Business, Alcohol, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 343

An ACT to revise, arrange, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act.

Agriculture, Fishing, Industry, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities, Taxation

Chapter 344

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Nansemond, Isle of Wight, Surry, Caroline, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Russell, Greenesville, Highland, Scott, Lunenburg, Carroll, Lee, Amherst and Wythe counties, in their discretion, to impose a license tax on dogs, and to provide for the method for collecting same, and providing penalties and mode of enforcing same.

Taxation

Chapter 345

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to liens on crops for advances to farmers.

Agriculture, Business, Property

Chapter 346

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1164, 1168, 1169 and 1170 and 1171 of the Code of Virginia, and to add independent sections thereto, so as to provide for the examination of banks and other similar institutions in this State, and to make certain general provisions and for the conduct of the business of banking, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof.

Business, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 347

An ACT making it a misdemeanor for parents or guardians to refuse or neglect to support their children under fourteen years of age, or to subject children under seventeen years of age to vicious or immoral influence, encourage any child to commit a misdemeanor, or to send a child under seventeen years of age to certain places; punishment therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Divorce, Gambling, Public officers

Chapter 348

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to establish a permanent place in the State penitentiary, at Richmond, Virginia, for the execution of felons upon whom the death penalty is to be imposed, and to change the mode of execution so that the death sentence shall be by electricity, and to provide an appropriation therefor

Amendments, Death and burial, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 349

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Charlotte to sell, convey and release to the State of Virginia the reversionary interest and all other rights of the said county in a certain tract of land conveyed by the said county to the State of Virginia on the 3d day of July, 1901, for the establishment of an agricultural experiment station thereon, and to authorize the State board of agriculture and immigration to purchase the reversionary interest and all other rights of the said county in the said tract of land, and to sell and convey the whole or any part thereof, if deemed by the said board unnecessary for its uses.

Agriculture, Property, Business, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 350

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2219 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to how a minister is authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15, 1908.

Marriage, Religious Institutions, Judicial

Chapter 351

An ACT to constitute a united agricultural board to co-ordinate the Virginia College of Agriculture and Polytechnic Institute and the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, the commissioner and State board of agriculture, and the State board of education, in co-operation with the United State Department of Agriculture for the betterment of agricultural, experimental and demonstration work, and generally to advance the agricultural interest of this State, and to authorize boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for experimental and demonstration work in their respective counties.

Agriculture, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 352

An ACT to permit the boards of supervisors of counties and the councils of cities to provide help for destitute persons bitten by mad dogs.

Healthcare, Public expenditures, Charity, Public officers

Chapter 353

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 608 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 10, 1904, which is chapter 94 of the acts of session 1904, in relation to lists of property, and so forth, delinquent for taxes.

Taxation

Chapter 354

An ACT to authorize the judge of any court, police justice or justice of the peace in cities of forty thousand inhabitants and over to continue the case and admit to bail any person brought before him charged with being an habitual drunkard, with failing to support his wife or children, with being a vagrant or an idler able to work, and who is liable to become a charge upon the corporation, and to commit such person to the supervision of an officer to be known as a probation officer; to provide for the appointment and compensation of such probation officer, and to invest him with full police power while in the discharge of his duties.

Alcohol, Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Vagrancy, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 355

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, relating to the appointment of trustees, as amended by an act approved February 7, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1898, as amended by an act approved December 10, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3419, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, in reference to the powers of a personal representative of a dead trustee, approved February 7, 1890, and by an act approved March 7, 1898, and section 3426, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders, approved February 12, 1894, and by an act approved January 27, 1896, and by an act approved March 3, 1898.

Amendments, Dead bodies (Law), Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Property

Chapter 356

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of chapter 5 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law without the governor’s signature May 21, 1903.

Business, Incorporation, Judicial

Chapter 357

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 49 of the Code of Virginia, 1887.

Amendments, Civil Rights, Indigenous peoples, Segregation

Chapter 358

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 10 of an act to amend and re-enact an act approved May 20, 1903, as heretofore amended, entitled an act defining the duties and powers of the board of agriculture and immigration, so as to prescribe the powers and duties of said board and said commissioner, and to repeal an act approved February 29, 1888, entitled an act to further define the duties and enlarge the powers of the commissioner of agriculture, and an act approved March 65, 1888, entitled an act to provide a commissioner of agriculture of Virginia, and make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal sections 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789 and 1790 of the Code of Virginia, approved February 25, 1908.

Agriculture, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 359

An ACT to allow the land assessors of the State further time in which to make their returns for the year 1910, and making certain provisions for the review, revision and correction of their assessments, under certain conditions.

Property, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 360

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 563 of the Code of Virginia

Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 361

An ACT to provide that it shall be unlawful to hunt or trap birds or animals in the county of Rappahannock without obtaining written permit from the landowner or landowners, and to provide penalty therefor.

Hunting, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 362

An ACT to provide for the assessment and payment of omitted capitation taxes and of capitation taxes of persons who become of age after the first of February in any year, and to repeal chapter 342 of acts of assembly of 1902-1903-1904, entitled an act to prescribe the manner in which a duly registered voter who has not been assessed with his State capitation tax may pay same, and to prescribe penalties for failure on the part of clerks and treasurers to observe the provisions of this act, and to repeal chapter 26 of the acts of assembly of 1906, entitled an act authorizing and directing the auditor of public accounts to accept from the county and city treasurers of the Commonwealth all money collected by such treasurers as poll taxes under orders of courts since the first day of July, 1903.

Taxation, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 363

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto.

Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities, Public spaces, Healthcare, Property, Vagrancy, Alcohol, Public officers

Chapter 364

An ACT to empower the board of visitors of Lee Camp Soldiers’ Home to take into its possession the money and personal effects found tn said home belonging to any inmate thereof who has died intestate, and to dispose of the same where no claim is made therefor within one year by any person entitled thereto.

Death and burial, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 365

An ACT to authorize recitals in deeds of conveyance executed prior to April, 1865, that the deed from the patentee of the land conveyed to or from his vendees was admitted to record in the general court at Richmond, Virginia, or Frankfort, Kentucky, and authenticated copies of such original deeds to be received as prima facie evidence of the execution of the said deed in suits and actions where the title to the land purported to be conveyed is involved.

Property, Judicial, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 366

An ACT in relation to discharge and retirement of commissioned officers of the Virginia volunteers.

Armed forces, Judicial, Employment and labor, Amendments

Chapter 367

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved January 15, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 3, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved January 2, 1904.

Cemeteries, Judicial