1912

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Chapter 301

An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-eight 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 one hundred and eighty-nine of the constitution, approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, with reference to fees on charters of domestic corporations, as amended by the act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and ten.

Amendments, Business, Charity, Public expenditures, Pensions, Taxation

Chapter 302

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 7 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, ds amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, by an act approved March 3, 1898, by an act approved March 1, 1900, by an act approved March 14, 1902, by an act approved May 5, 1903, and by an act approved March 14, 1908; and to repeal the following sections of the Code of Virginia, and the following acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act; sections 2083, 2084, 2085, 2087, 2096, 2100, 2102; an act entitled 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, approved May 5, 1903; an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tide water, approved May 16, 1887, as amended by act approved March 1, 1888; an act entitled an act to provide for setting apart and designating crab-</p>

Fishing, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 303

An ACT to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $150,000 for the purpose of building public roads in the said county.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Budget

Chapter 304

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 136 of an act of assembly of 1904, approved March 12, 1904, entitled 'an act to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, in the county of Roanoke, Virginia,' and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the same.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Fire fighters, Utilities

Chapter 305

An ACT to provide for the pension, maintenance and support of disabled firemen’s associations in cities having a population of one hundred thousand and over.

Pensions, Fire fighters, Public officers

Chapter 306

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 854 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 14, 1908, approved March 16, 1910.

Amendments, Budget, Charity, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 307

An ACT to establish and regulate the holding of primary elections; to pay expenses of same; to secure the regularity and purity of the same, and to prevent and punish any corrupt practices in connection therewith.

Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 308

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Accomac county to levy a license tax on all vehicles used or operated in said county, for the purpose of raising revenue for the construction, improvement and maintenance of public highways and bridges in said county.

Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 309

An ACT to require the inspection and supervision of the State board of charities and corrections of persons or corporations placing children in family homes; said persons or corporations to furnish information; the State board of charities and corrections to visit and report upon the children placed in homes; authorizing the courts to commit destitute and delinquent children to the State board of charities and corrections, and said board to place said children in homes or reformatories to report to the court under certain contingencies; penalties prescribed.

Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Custody of children, Reformatories, Public officers

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend certain sections, repeal certain sections of and to add certain new sections to, chapter 21, Code of Virginia, being sections 300 to 382, inclusive, providing for the public defense

Amendments, Armed forces, Judicial, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 311

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1166 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact chapter 48 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1165 and 1166 of chapter 48 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing qualifications of bank directors, approved February 29, 1888, and by an act entitled an act to repeal section 1168 of chapter 48 of the Code of 1887, fixing a limitation on banking associations in discounting accommodation paper to one-tenth part of the capital stock of such association actually paid in, approved March 2, 1888, and by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1163 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to banks holding real estate, approved February 15, 1894, and by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1170 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to statements made by banks, approved January 22, 1898,” approved January 4, 1904, so as to prescribe a penalty for failure of directors of banks to file oath with the State corporation commission.

Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 312

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of the charter of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, approved February 20, 1871, as subsequently amended.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Business

Chapter 313

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of chapter III of an act entitled ‘‘an act concerning corporations,’ which became a law May 21, 1908.

Amendments, Business, Utilities, Incorporation

Chapter 314

An ACT to require cities and towns in the State, institutions of learning, and eleemosvnary and other institutions to deposit two copies of each of their publications in the Virginia State library.

Libraries

Chapter 315

Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 316

An ACT to provide for a compromise and settlement of certain contentions and differences between the commonwealth and its political subdivisions, upon the one part, and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company, on the other part.

Business, Transportation, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 317

An ACT conferring upon the respective councils of the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth the power to acquire by purchase, condemnation, lease or otherwise the property in whole or in part of any private or public service corporation operating a water-works system, or chartered for the purpose of acquiring or operating such a system; and providing for condemnation proceedings in regard thereto.

Municipal charters

Chapter 318

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 10 of an act to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 10 of an act to amend and re-enact an act approved May 20, 19038, 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 5, 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, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 319

An ACT to prevent obstructing the waters of Pigg river.

Public spaces, Property

Chapter 320

An ACT adding new sections to the Code of Virginia providing for the regulation of State banks and fixing certain penalties for the violation thereof.

Business

Chapter 321

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1492 and 1493 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘act to amend and re-enact chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia relating to public free schools of counties and to the literary fund, approved December 28, 1903,” as also amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 1492 and 1493 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to persons who shall be admitted to public schools, approved March 16, 1908,” in relation to persons admitted to public schools.

Education, Civil Rights, Segregation, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 322

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act providing for detention or commitment of minors under seventeen years of age for certain offenses not in jails or penitentiaries, placing them in suitable homes and institutions under certain circumstances; when they can and cannot be sent to jail; allowing them to be released on probation; the approval of the State board of charities and corrections under certain contingencies; penalties for removing any child committed hereunder or violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals; appointment of probation officers and outlining their duties; and declaring an emergency

Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Public officers, Charity

Chapter 323

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, providing for recovery by motion after fifteen days’ notice on contracts to recover money or to recover damages: when notice to be returned to clerk’s office; provision to prevent discontinuance of motion.

Amendments, Judicial, Debt, Business

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 70 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910,

Voting, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 325

An ACT to pay J. A. Walker one hundred dollars, being the amount due him as land assessor for the county of Nottoway for work done by him as said assessor.

Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 326

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of the several counties of the State of Virginia to appropriate money to defray the expenses of such indigent Confederate veterans of the counties of the State desiring to attend the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, to be held at Gettysburg, Pa., on the Ist, 2nd and 3rd of July, 1913.

Confederate, Charity, Amendments

Chapter 327

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 324 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1910, 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, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 328

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of chapter 8 of an act entitled ‘an act concerning the bureau of insurance and insurance, guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, security, and fraternal benefit companies, associations, societies, and orders, and imposing penalties for its violation,’ approved March 9, 1906, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1908, and further to provide for the recognition of instruments revoking the powers of agents of surety, guaranty, fidelity or security companies who have been authorized by power of attorney to act for such companies.

Amendments, Bonds, Business, Law Enforcement

Chapter 329

An ACT to provide how persons who have been placed on the "retired teachers’ list" may retire or be removed therefrom under certain circumstances and may cease to receive the pension provided for in the act providing a retirement fund for public school teachers, approved March 9, 1910.

Education, Pensions, Employment and labor

Chapter 330

An ACT in relation to the hustings court, part two, of the city of Richmond.

Judicial, Municipal charters, Civil Rights

Chapter 331

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, and to repeal section 3526 of the Code of Virginia in relation to fees of attorneys for the commonwealth.

Amendments, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 332

An ACT to provide for submission to the people for approval and ratification the proposed amendment to section 117 of article 8 of the constitution of Virginia.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 333

An ACT to amend section 7 of an act to require all water companies, heat, light and power companies and gas companies to pay a franchise tax, a property tax, and to furnish certain reports to the State corporation commission

Taxation, Business, Utilities, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 334

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to pro-

Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Civil Rights

Chapter 335

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7538 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved Maren 15, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enect section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to State depositories, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1910.

Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 336

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1908, entitled ‘“‘an act providing the method by which cities and towns in this commonwealth may vote upon the issuance of bonds contem- plated by clause ‘B’ of section 127 of the constitution.”

Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 337

An ACT to grant permission to the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia to have a bronze statue cast of Houdon's statue of Washington in the rotunda of the capitol.

Monuments and memorials

Chapter 338

An ACT to amend section 17 of the charter of Suffolk.

Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 339

An ACT to authorize Buckingham county, from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $50,000.00, for the purpose of uniting in the building, in the county of Buckingham, of State money aid roads.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 340

An ACT to provide for working roads in Stafford county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 341

An ACT to regulate the taking of fish from streams west of the Blue Ridge mountains.

Fishing

Chapter 342

An ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act for working and keeping in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy of taxes for that purpose, approved March 6, 1900, and amended by an act approved March 15, 1910.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 343

An ACT to protect villages and unincorporated communities having within defined boundaries a population of three hundred or more against the running at large of horses, mules, ponies, asses, cattle, hogs, sheep and goats within said boundaries, and to authorize the circuit court of the county in which such village or community is located to fix the boundaries thereof for the purpose aforesaid.

Agriculture, Boundaries, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 344

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1169 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.

Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 345

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, to designate depositories for the proceeds arising from the sale of permanent road improvement bonds, and to make contracts for the payment of interest thereon by said depositories.

Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 346

An ACT for the relief of the ferries company

Taxation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 347

An ACT to provide a trial justice in all counties having a population in excess of 300 persons per square mile as shown by United States census, to prescribe his jurisdiction in both civil and criminal matters, and to fix his compensation.

Judicial, Law Enforcement, Salaries

Chapter 348

An ACT to construe and make plain how treasurers’ commissions are to be paid under section 613 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13th, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 613 and 614 of the Code of Virginia, and under section 614 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10th, 1910, and under section 1515 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11th, 1904.