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1914

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 362

Chapter 201

An ACT to amend section 79 and section 100 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and provide a charter therefor.
Municipal charters, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 202

An ACT to amend an act approved February 17, 1890, entitle: an act to incorporate the city of Danville by amending and re-enacting section 30, under chapter 6, for the purpose of prescribing the manner of election of a city constable, a collector of city taxes, a city attorney, and empowering the city council to prescribe the duties of the aforesaii officers, fix their salaries or compensation, and also permit the city cour- cil to appoint a clerk of the market, inspector of buildings, and such other employees as it may deem necessary and proper, and to define their term of office, powers, dutics and compensation, and providing for bonds for said officers, and the abolishment of any office appointive by the city council for good cause.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 203

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 138, 1912, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county, in the State of Virginia, to establish toll gates for the purpose of maintaining the macadam roads in said county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 204

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Vir.
Amendments, Public officers, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 205

An ACT to prohibit the killing of sora in the marshes of the Mattaponi river at night with lights.
Hunting

Chapter 206

An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to establish a dispen-
Alcohol, Voting, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 207

An ACT to extend the time for collecting taxes accounted for by the city and county treasurer, and not returned delinquent.
Taxation

Chapter 208

An ACT to add independent section 1l-a to an act approved March 12, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly, approved March 4, 1894, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order the public roads of the counties of Greene and Madison, as amended by act approved May 14, 1903, so far as the same applies to Madison county, so as to provide for the opening, construction, maintaining and working the roads, and keeping in order the causeways and bridges of Madison and Greene counties, and creating the office of superintendent of roads, and prescribing his duties and compensation, and repeal any act in conflict herewith.
Transportation

Chapter 209

An ACT to provide a road commission for Capeville magisterial district, in Northampton county, and to repeal previous acts.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 210

An ACT to authorize the county of Elizabeth City to create a special or sinking fund to rebuild Hampton bridge, spanning Hampton river, in said county.
Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Basic City
Education, Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 212

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a joint committee on tax revision to consider and report on all questions pertaining to the assessment and collection of taxes, and the method of appropriating and expending the revenue of the State, and to provide compensation to be paid said committee and such clerks, stenographers and experts as may be employed by said committee, and other necessary expenses.
Taxation, Budget, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 213

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order all the public roads and bridges in the county of Hanover, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of a road commissioner in each magisterial district in Hanover county and to define his duties and powers, approved February 25, 1892, (H. B. 486.)
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 214

An ACT defining the effect as constructive notice territorially
Judicial, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 215

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to borrow $20,000 for the purpose of building bridges across James river at Glen Wilton, and across Catawba creek on or near the Sweet Springs turnpike, in said county, and for the purpose of completing the permanent improvement of the public roads from Fincastle to Troutville and Daleville, in said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 216

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not to exceed $150,000, for the purpose of building public roads in said county, approved March 14, 1912.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 217

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 9, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualification, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing section 7 of chapter 2 of said city charter, approved March 12, 1912.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Property, Civil Rights

Chapter 218

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of The Plains, in Fauquier county, Virginia, granted by the circuit court of Fauquier county by an order entered on the 26th day of April, 1910, pursuant to an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to provide for the incorporation by the courts of towns of more than 200 and less than 5,000 inhabitants, and conferring upon said towns, when incorporated, certain powers of taxation.
Amendments, Incorporation, Property, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, by inserting clause number 43, to prevent the obstruction of public roads in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, and to provide for the erection of toll gates.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Round Hill, in the county of Loudoun.
Amendments, Business, Taxation, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 221

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Honaker, in Russell county
Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers

Chapter 222

An ACT to protect sheep and other stock in the county of Loudoun.
Agriculture, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 223

An ACT to protect mink, muskrat and otter in the county of Nansemond.
Wildlife, Hunting, Jails

Chapter 224

An ACT to appropriate the sum of sixteen dollars and fifteen cents ($16.15) to pay C. C. Cochran, deputy United States clerk, for fees due him for services rendered in the case of the Commonwealth against Wick Ison.
Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 225

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Roanoke county to erect and maintain toll gates on the macadamized roads of said county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 226

An ACT for the relief of M. F. Swann, treasurer of Powhatan
Property, Budget

Chapter 227

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 18, 1908, entitled an act to provide for the payment of a license tax for the exhibition of any 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910.
Amusement, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 228

An ACT making it a misdemeanor for any person over the age of 18 years to cause or encourage any child under the age of 18 year to commit any misdemeanor; to send a child under 18 to certain places: or in any way to contribute to or cause a child under 18 to be guilty of vicious or immoral conduct, and providing punishment therefor.
Children -- Institutional care, Gambling, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 5 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, and acts amendatory thereof.
Amendments, Business, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Healthcare, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 230

An ACT to clearly define the exemption of building and loan associations or companies from the payment of any State franchise tax
Business, Taxation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 231

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 139 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 for a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1912.
Amendments, Business, Taxation, Gambling

Chapter 232

An ACT to prohibit the making, buying, selling, or giving away, of duplicate switch lock keys belonging to, or in use by, railroad companies, except when authorized by said companies, and providing a penalty therefor.
Transportation

Chapter 233

An ACT to permit the Gorham Manufacturing Company, of Providence, Rhode Island, to make further copies and reproductions of the Houdon statue of George Washington from the moulds now in possession of the said Gorham manufacturing company, belonging to the State of Virginia.
Monuments and memorials, Education, Public officers

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1420, chapter 65, of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the validity of gifts, devices, et cetera, for purposes of education.
Amendments, Education, Charity, Civil Rights

Chapter 235

An ACT to authorize and require the auditor of public accounts to pay to the commission of fisheries the fines of $100.00 each imposed by the circuit court for the county of Accomac upon Edward A. George and John R. Middleton, which were improperly paid over to the said auditor and by him carried into the literary fund.
Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 236

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Gordonsville, Virginia, in Orange county, to issue and sell bonds to the amount of and not exceeding $5,600, for the purpose of borrowing money to repair and extend the water works system of the said town.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 237

An ACT for relief of R. W. Patton.
Debt, Public expenditures, Armed forces

Chapter 238

An ACT for the relief of J. W. Gordon, of Augusta county, Virginia, who was convicted of a felony in the courts of the Commonwealth.
Civil Rights, Judicial, Debt, Prisons, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 239

An ACT to dedicate as and for a public street or highway, upon certain conditions, a strip of land composing the southeast corner of the capitol square, not exceeding 11 feet 4 inches at the point of its greatest width.
Public spaces, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3663 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Death and burial, Jails, Law Enforcement

Chapter 241

An ACT to define the business of keeping a hote! and to impose a license tax upon the same
Business, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 242

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 243

An ACT to prohibit fishing within 500 yards of the mill dam across Clinch river, at Speer’s Ferry, Scott county, Virginia, and to cause the supervisors of said county to have fish ladders put on said dam, as directed by an act approved March 13, 1912.
Fishing

Chapter 244

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887; April 28, 1887; May 14, 1887; February 14, 1900; February 21, 1900; February 26, 1900; February 2, 1901; February 15, 1901; March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887; February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.
Amendments, Judicial, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers

Chapter 245

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 246

An ACT to amend and reenact section 276 of the Code, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1912.
Budget, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 247

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 132 of an act approved April 16, 1903, 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1904, entitled an act to amend and reenact sections 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act approved April 16, 1903, 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 for a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution.
Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 248

An ACT to provide for the voluntary admission of insane persons in the State hospitals or other State institutions for the insane, and for their transportation and maintenance and treatment while in such hospitals or institutions, and their discharge from such hospitals or institutions.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 249

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1871, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Strasburg, in Shenandoah county, approved March 19, 1884.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 250

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the time and manner in which common carriers doing business in this State shall adjust and pay just freight charges, and claims for loss or damage to freight and claims for storage, demurrage and car service
Business, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 251

An ACT to provide additional remedies for the collection of taxes, State, county and municipal.
Taxation

Chapter 252

An ACT empowering the council of the town of Clarksville, in the county of Mecklenburg, to issue and sell bonds for the purpose of establishing and maintaining an electric lighting plant in said town, provided the question of such bond issue for the purposes named be first submitted to the qualified voters of the said town; and to authorize the said council of the said town to call a special election for the submission of same to the voters of said town.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 86 of the Code of 1887.
Voting, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 10 of an act entitled an act concerning public service corporations, approved January 18, 1904, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act concerning corporations, approved January 18, 1904, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act concerning public corporations, approved January 18, 1904, and providing for the continuance of annual tolls on turnpikes.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Industry, Amendments

Chapter 255

An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of Powhatan county, by and with the approval of a majority of the quali-
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 256

An ACT providing for the opening, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Caroline county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 257

An ACT for the relief of Richard Snow, an o'd Confederate soldier, and to compensate him for services rendered in purging the pension rolls of Greene county, Virginia, of persons illegally enrolled and drawing pensions from the State.
Confederate, Pensions, Public expenditures

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend and reenact an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, (H. B. 486.)
Amendments, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Property, Public officers, Public spaces, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 2, 1894, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Singers’ Glen, in Rockingham county; also empowering the council of said town to issue bonds.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Bonds, Public expenditures, Alcohol

Chapter 260

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to protect and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers, and the guarantee and condition upon which they are to be sold, and fixing penalties incurred for violation of same, approved February 24, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 8, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1896, as amended by an act approved December 22, 1897, as amended by an act approved December 28, 1899, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1908.
Agriculture, Business, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 261

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the town of Monterey, at the seat of justice for the county of Highland, passed March 29, 1848, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend an act passed March 29, 1848, entitled an act to establish the town of Monterey, at the seat of justice for the county of Highland, approved March 17, 1876, and as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled an act to amend an act passed March 29, 1848, entitled an act to establish the town of Monterey as the seat of justice for Highland county, approved March 17, 1876, approved February 19, 1898; and to provide a new charter for the said town of Monterey.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Cemeteries, Healthcare

Chapter 262

An ACT to authorize supervisors of the county of Amherst to prescribe collars for dogs on which taxes have been paid.
Taxation

Chapter 263

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1506 of Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to what school funds shall consist of
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 264

An ACT to re-enact and amend clause 3 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to establish a court of law and chancery for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, which was approved March 10, 1910.
Judicial, Taxation, Alcohol, Voting

Chapter 265

An ACT to authorize the school boards of Sulphur Springs school district, Piper Gap school district, and Fancy Gap school district, in Carroll county, to purchase and hold certain real estate.
Education, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 266

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bedford county to borrow money to build or improve the courthouse and clerk’s office, and to issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 267

An ACT to submit to the qualified electors of the city of Charlottesville, as to the abolition of the corporation court of said city, as provided in section 98 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Voting

Chapter 268

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act to define the power and limitations of building and loan associations
Business, Property, Taxation

Chapter 269

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 6 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13. 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact subsections 2, 6, 11, 12, and 15 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Fishing

Chapter 270

An ACT to require dispensaries in this State to settle their annual accounts before the commissioner of accounts, and to require said commissioner to make report to the court, and to require the court, when the report has been approved by the court, to order certified copy be sent the auditor of public accounts by the clerk of the court.
Alcohol, Budget, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 271

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 461 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 459 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and to amend and re-enact section 461 of the Code of Virginia, 1887
Amendments, Public officers, Property, Taxation

Chapter 272

An ACT to amend and reenact section 608 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act approved March 17, 1910, entitled 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, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 273

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3535 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 274

An ACT to impose a license tax on any person, firm, company or corporation selling newspapers, periodicals, magazines, candies, fruits, et cetera, on railroad trains in this State.
Business, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 275

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3525 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 11, 1904, entitled an act to repeal so much of an act approved December 31, 1903, as repeals section 3525 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 3525 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 276

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3. 1898. entitled an act to provide for ascertaining and publishing a statement of the annual receipts and disbursements of the counties and cities of the Commonwealth.
Budget

Chapter 277

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4025 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved March 11, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4025 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, with reference to when jury not to be kept together; when so kept to be boarded; rate of board; how paid.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 278

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4049 of the Code, as amended and re-enacted by act approved January 18, 1888, known as chapter 15, acts of assembly, 1887-’88.
Judicial, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 279

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 508 of the Code of Virginia
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 280

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 in relation to tax on wills and administrations; to amend and re-enact section 45 in relation to merchants; to amend and re-enact section 46 in relation to merchant’s licenses; to amend and re-enact section 49 in relation to commission merchant’s license; to amend and re-enact section 50 in relation to sale by peddlers, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 271, acts of assembly, 1902-3-4; to amend and re-enact section 51, in relation to peddler’s license as amended and re-enacted by chapter 99, acts of assembly, 1908; to repeal section 68 in relation to license to retailers of tobacco and to require them to be licensed as merchants; to amend and re-enact section 88 in relation to undertaker’s license, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 20, acts of 1904; to amend and re-enact section 130 in relation to persons operating laundries, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 20, acts of assembly, 1904; of an-act approved April 16, 1903, 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.
Taxation, Business, Pensions

Chapter 281

An ACT to provide that a party to any action at law or suit in equity shall not ba held as waiving his rights to object and except to the ruling of the court where a demurrer to his pleading has been sustained, and he has amended, as the result of such ruling.
Judicial

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3530 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 26, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, relative to the fees of justices in criminal cases, payable out of the treasury of the Commonwealth.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Salaries, Public expenditures

Chapter 283

An ACT authorizing the register of the land office of Virginia to correct certain irregularities and supply omissions in the recordation of various papers of record in hig office, and making certified copies of such records when so corrected competent evidence in the courts of this Commonwealth.
Property

Chapter 284

An ACT to authorize and empower the boards of supervisors of counties and councils of cities and towns in the State to appropriate money for advertising their resources.
Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 285

An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of confederate soldiers or sailors.
Cemeteries, Charity, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 286

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 14, of acts 1910, en- titled an act in relation to certain proper sanitary arrangements to be provided in factories, workshops, mercantile establishments or offices, and imposing penalties for failure to provide such arrangements
Employment and labor, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Business, Judicial

Chapter 287

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1526 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the jurisdiction and powers of the school board in cities, and to the clerks of said board and ex- tending its provisions to towns, constituting separate school districts.
Education, Public officers

Chapter 288

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3729 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Monuments and memorials, Property, Boundaries

Chapter 289

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section F of section 2, chapter three of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law May 21, 1903.
Business, Property, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 290

An ACT to authorize the conveyance of the reversionary interest of the Commonwealth in a lot of land in Alexandria county, of which James Hilton died seized and which had escheated to the Commonwealth and was by the act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 19, 1880, conveyed to the county of Alexandria for poorhouse purposes.
Property, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 291

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of chapter 5 of the act concerning corporations which became a law May 21, 1903, with reference to the voting of stock by fiduciaries.
Amendments, Business, Voting

Chapter 292

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1600 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 70 of the Code of 1887 as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1892, relating to appointment of visitors, and by an act approved February 23, 1894, giving the assent of Virginia to certain endowments provided by act of congress, and by act approved March 5, 1896, amending sections 1586 and 1592 of the Code in relation to the payment of interest and declaring the board of visitors a corporation under control of general assembly and by act approved February 18, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1900, providing for the protection of domestic animals and authorizing the establishment of live stock quarantine lines, rules, regulations, etc., approved May 20, 1903.
Amendments, Agriculture, Education, Public officers

Chapter 293

An ACT to provide for celebration of a century of peace among the English speaking peoples.
Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 294

An ACT to appropriate $30,000.00, the unexpended appropriation heretofore made by the general assemby to provide for the working of certain long term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road con-struction to the citizens of the State, so as to make this amount avail.
Budget, Agriculture, Public expenditures, Labor, Transportation

Chapter 295

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act providing for working public roads in Prince Edward county, approved March the 3rd and March the 4th, 1896.
Repeal of legislation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 296

An ACT to empower the council of the town of Clarksville, in the county of Mecklenburg, to issue and sell bonds for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a water system, and for establishing and maintaining a sewerage system, in said town, provided that the question of such bond issue, for the purposes named, be first submitted to the qualified voters of said town and to authorize such council to call a special election for the submission of the same to the voters thereof.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 297

An ACT to amend and reenact section 11 of an act approved March 18, 1912, entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia, in conflict with the provisions thereof, especially an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 22, 1894, and sections 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751 and 1752 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, and all amendments thereto.
Healthcare, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 298

An ACT to amend and reenact section 246 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the custody, disposal and sale of published reports of the decisions of the supreme court of appeals.
Judicial, Education, Public officers

Chapter 299

An ACT to authorize Cumberland county, from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $20,000.00 for the purpose of uniting in the building of roads in the county of Cumberland upon the State money aid plan.
Budget, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 300

An ACT to amend and reenact an act of the general assembly of Virginia in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved respectively, April 6, 1887, April 28, 1887, May 14, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21, 1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, March 15, 1902, and to define the boundaries of the city of Norfolk as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887, February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906, and to empower the common council of the city of Norfolk to provide and maintain an employment bureau.
Amendments, Business, Employment and labor, Municipal charters, Property
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