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1915

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the extra session of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.
Budget

Chapter 2

An ACT to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 3

An ACT to incorporate the town of Brodnax, in Brunswick and Mecklenburg counties, Virginia.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Alcohol, Public expenditures, Property, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 4

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize any railroad company, with the consent of the State corporation commission, to construct, purchase or take a lease of any railroad not exceeding twenty-five miles in length, which will furnish a cut-off or connecting line for the more efficient and economical transportation of traffic
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 5

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to borrow a sum not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of purchasing and improving roads and bridges in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by deed of trust or other lien on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; to provide for the payment of said bonds, to create and authorize a commission to dispense the funds so obtained, and authorize the circuit court of said county, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint the members of said commission.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 6

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to erect toll gates, and to demand and collect tolls on the macadamized roads of the county of Rockbridge, and to provide how such tolls are to be expended.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 7

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Stuart, in the county of Patrick, approved November 22, 1884, which was approved March 11, 1910.
Municipal charters, Budget, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 8

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

Chapter 9

An ACT to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magisterial districts thereof; to authorize the erection of toll gates and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads therein, and making certain provisions for the enforcement and correction of said tolls and the protection of the said roads, and the property of said district road boards, and providing certain penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal all special acts heretofore enacted in reference to the public roads of said county, and to validate the official acts of certain officers under laws heretofore in effect in said county.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 10

An ACT authorizing the construction of a viaduct across James river at Lynchburg, together with the approaches, inclines and other appurtenances thereto, and the closing of the present bridge across James river at the foot of Ninth street, in the city of Lynchburg, and the sale of the present bridge with all its appurtenances and all the property acquired therewith, and now owned by the city of Lynchburg and the county of Ambherst, under an act of the general assembly approved January 14, 1882.
Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter V of an act approved January 29, 1896, entitled an act to consolidate in one act all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to create a new charter for said city.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Brunswick to issue bonds of the said county to an amount not exceeding $57,000.00 in exchange for and to raise funds to pay off the outstanding bonds of said county, issued by it in payment of its subscription to the capital stock of the Atlantic and Danville Railway Company, approved January 30, 1914; to ratify the action of the said board of supervisors to the extent that it has issued bonds of the county pursuant to said act; to authorize the said board of supervisors to issue coupon bonds, or registered bonds as provided in said act, in exchange for and to raise funds to pay off the balance of the outstanding bonds of said county issued by it in payment of its subscription to the capital stock of the said Atlantic and Danville Railway Company ; and to authorize the said board of supervisors, in its discretion, to issue coupon bonds authorized by this act in exchange for the registered bonds of the said county heretofore issued pursuant to said act approved
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 13

An ACT to establish a ferry across Coan river in Northumberland county at or near Coan wharf.
Transportation

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 443 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the returns to be made by land assessors and the penalty for their failure to comply with the requirements of the law, as amended by an act approved March 17, 1906, and by an act approved March 138, 1908, so as to provide for an extension of time.
Amendments, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 25, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act in regard to the notice by publication of the codification of the ordinances of the city of Norfolk, approved March 10, 1902.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 16

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for creating, working and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county and defining the boundaries of the same
Transportation

Chapter 17

An ACT to provide a road board for Capeville magisterial district in Northampton county, to authorize the board of supervisors of Northampton county, to borrow money for road purposes in Capeville district and to repeal previous acts.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Debt, Municipal charters

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the revision, codification and indexing with suitable marginal citations and references, of the statute law of Virginia; for the printing, publication and disposition thereof; to appoint commissioners therefor and fix their compensation; to provide for the necessary clerical assistants to said commissioners; and to appropriate the necessary funds for said work.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Public expenditures, Education, Public officers, Utilities, Budget

Chapter 19

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Rappahannock county to erect toll gates, and to demand and collect tolls on the macadamized roads of the county of Rappahannock, and to provide how such tolls are to be expended, and to empower the board of supervisors of Frederick county to erect toll gates on the road in said county known as the Wardensville Grade, and demand and collect tolls thereon, and to provide how such tolls are to be expended.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact section sixteen of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the working of roads of Loudoun county, approved February 16, 1880, as heretofore amended.
Budget, Transportation

Chapter 21

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Spotsylvania county to give rebates or refunds on tolls collected from those traveling the improved roads of said county who have made or shall hereafter make private subscriptions to the building of roads or bridges in said county and to those residing four miles or less from any toll gate and habitually using four miles or less of improved road and limiting the a. Bei
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 22

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section four of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds and to build bridges and macadamize the roads of said county and to authorize the qualified voters of the said county to vote on the question as amended
Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Judicial

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 24, 1914, and entitled, 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.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers, Boundaries

Chapter 24

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 33 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, approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1908.
Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 25

An ACT relating to the issuance of fire insurance policies through an underwrighters’ agency, and providing a penalty for its violation.
Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 26

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30 of chapter 1, and section 13 of chapter 2 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
Business, Public officers, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 27

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Boydton, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, and within one mile of the corporate limits of the said town, approved February 14, 1901.
Alcohol

Chapter 28

An ACT to empower the council of the town of Brookneal in the county of Campbell to issue and sell bonds for the purpose of building, repairing and maintaining streets, sidewalks and water mains, 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, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Voting

Chapter 29

An ACT to extend to national banks the rights, powers, privileges and immunities conferred upon trust companies under an act entitled an act to provide how trust companies may be incorporated, and to provide for general powers for the purpose of doing a trust business in this State, in addition to a general banking business.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 30

An ACT to amend and re-enact section forty-six of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia, approved April 30, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 31, 1912.
Municipal charters, Bonds, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 31

An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of Essex county to pay to the town of Tappahannock the amount of the road tax assessed and collected for the year 1914, by the county of Essex
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 32

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1906, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 33

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved January 30, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to authorize supervisors of each county and the council of each city to make a special levy for the support and maintenance of the maimed and disabled Confederate soldiers, or the needy and indigent widows of Confederate soldiers in their respective counties and cities.
Amendments, Confederate, Pensions

Chapter 34

An ACT to authorize and empower George N. Wise and Sterling Nottingham, their associates, successors and assigns, to build, construct, maintain and operate a toll bridge or private bridge across and over the northwest prong. of Back river, some times known as Wythe creek, lying between the counties of York and Elizabeth City, Virginia, under certain conditions.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact, so far as the county of Powhatan is concerned, an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 3, 1884, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1914.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 36

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 15, 1910 entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to define and regulate the sale, distribution, rectifying, manufacture and distilling of intoxicating liquors and malt beverages, and to impose license taxes thereon, and to prohibit the drinking of ardent spirits on railroad trains, and to repeal sections 141 and 142 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact 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 a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved February 19, 1904, and to prescribe penalties.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 37

An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 38

An ACT to provide extra compensation for the three firemen for the electric light and power plant for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1915, and the 29th day of February, 1916.
Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 39

An ACT to appropriate the sum of sixty thousand dollars to pay the per diem, mileage, etc., of members, officers, employees, etc., of the general assembly of Virginia, now in extraordinary session.
Budget, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 40

An ACT to appropriate the sum of ninety thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the amount authorized by law to be paid in connection with the assessment of real estate throughout the Commonwealth, required by law to be made during the year 1915, and to appropriate the sum of twenty-seven hundred dollars as well as any other sum that may be necessary to pay the compensation of the retired judge or any retiring judges of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia, in pursuance of the provisions of an act to provide compensation for judges of the supreme court of appeals on their retirement from the bench after a service of twelve consecutive years and upon attaining the age of seventy years.
Budget, Judicial, Public expenditures, Salaries

Chapter 41

An ACT to authorize the county of Spotsylvania to purchase lands delinquent for taxes and levies or other lands for the purpose of maintaining the historic landmarks on the great battlefields of that county or for forest preserves.
Property

Chapter 42

An ACT to appropriate the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of preventing the spread of infection of foot and mouth disease among live stock in this State.
Agriculture

Chapter 43

An ACT to authorize the appointment of three additional commissioners in chancery for the circuit court of Wise county.
Judicial

Chapter 44

An ACT to provide for the rearrangement of voting precincts and to change the names of the same whenever, by annexation proceedings, portions of a county have been taken within a city, and providing how such proceedings shall be paid for.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 45

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide in cities containing 10,000 inhabitants and less than 45,000 inhabitants, fur the election of a special justice of the peace to be known as the civil and police justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties, to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil and police justice, and to abolish the office of police justice in said cities and towns and transfer the jurisdiction of such justices in said cities to such civil and police justices, approved March 20, 1914.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers, Civil Rights, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 46

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $55,000.00 to reimburse the superintendent of the penitentiary and to be used for the establishment and maintenance of the convict road force as provided by an act approved March 6, 1906, known as the Lassiter, Withers act.
Prisons, Budget, Labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 47

An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to guarantee any bonds that may be issued by the supervisors of said county pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to borrow a sum not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of purchasing and improving roads and bridges in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by deed of trust or other lien on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; to provide for the payment of said bonds, to create and authorize a commission to dispense the funds so obtained, and authorize the circuit court of said county, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint the members of said commission.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 48

An ACT to reappropriate twelve hundred and fifty-six dollars and twenty-six cents ($1,256.26), the unexpended balance of four thousand dollars ($4,000) appropriated to provide walkway around the Confederate soldiers home, and curb and gutter around the battle abbey
Confederate, Public expenditures, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 49

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Waynesboro to call a special election of the qualified voters of said town, to determine whether or not all live stock shall be prohibited from running at large within the corporate limits of the town of Waynesboro, Virginia.
Agriculture, Property, Municipal charters, Voting

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-two of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Property

Chapter 51

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield and to grant a new charter to the said town, which took effect February 17, 1900.
Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Education, Municipal charters

Chapter 52

An ACT to appropriate the sum of twenty-one thousand dollars to the State normal and industrial school for women at Radford.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact section sixteen of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the working of roads of Loudoun county, approved February 16, 1880, as heretofore amended.
Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 1 of section 1913-b of the Code of Virginia (1904), with reference to the size of barrels used for shipment of agricultural products, commonly called truck.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 55

An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider containing over one-half of one per cent. alcohol within 144 miles of the public school building in the town of Strasburg, Shenandoah county, Virginia.
Alcohol, Education, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 59 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
Amendments, Budget, Business, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 57

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to protect pheasants in the county of Middlesex and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof
Hunting

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 16 of the charter of the city of Suffolk, as heretofore amended, approved March 4, 1912.
Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Education

Chapter 59

An ACT to provide for a special election in the town of Franklin upon the question of issuing bonds for the purpose of improving the streets of the said town; to allow the council of the said town to issue said bonds, if the same shall be authorized by a majority of the qualified voters thereof at such special election, and by a majority of the registered voters of said town, and to levy and collect taxes sufficient to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund for the redemption of the said bonds upon their maturity.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 60

An ACT prescribing the manner in which cities in this Commonwealth having a population in excess of 75,000 inhabitants and less than 100,000 inhabitants may request the general assembly to grant a special form of government for any such city under section 117 of the Constitution, providing for the holding of special elections in relation thereto, and to repeal, so far as it may be in conflict therewith, section 14 of an act of the general assembly approved March 138, 1914, and entitled an act to provide for a change in the form of government of cities having a population of less than 100,000 and of towns, and to provide in what manner such cities and towns may adopt such form of government.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Voting

Chapter 61

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 446 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in reference to the compensation of land assessors.
Budget, Public officers, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 62

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Gladeville, in Wise county, to issue bonds to liquidate and pay off the indebtedness of said town.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 63

An ACT to segregate, for the purposes of taxation, pursuant to section 169 of the Constitution of Virginia, the several kinds and classes of property so as to specify and determine upon what subjects State taxes, and upon what subjects local taxes may be levied, and to provide for the continuance for the year 1915, of the present State school tax of ten cents on every one hundred dollars of the assessed value of real estate and tangible personal property.
Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1169-b of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 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

Chapter 65

An ACT to make an appropriation of ten thousand dollars, to be used by committee of R. E. Lee, camp, No. 1, Confederate veterans, viz.: general J. Thompson Brown, capt. John Lamb, and capt. E. D. Taylor, to aid in entertaining the united Confederate veterans in Richmond, on June 2, 3, 4, 1915, who will assemble in Richmond at this date.
Confederate, Civil Rights, Public expenditures

Chapter 66

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia in relation to State depositories.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 67

An ACT to provide for the segregation of the tax upon the rolling stock of corporations operating railroads by steam; to make such rolling stock liable to taxation by the State alone; to fix the rate of such taxation; and to provide for the assessment of the said eed stock.
Taxation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 68

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 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, approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904, as amended by an act approved January 31, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1914, defining incomes and tax on incomes.
Taxation, Budget, Pensions, Public expenditures, Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 69

An ACT to create a State Advisory Board on Taxation and county and city boards of review of assessments; to define the powers and duties of such boards; to fix the compensation of their members and to appropriate money to carry out the provisions of this act; to provide for the review of assessments on intangible personal property, income and money, by certain officials and fixing their compensation therefor and to provide penalties for the violation of this act.
Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 9 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, Budget, Debt, Pensions, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 71

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 525 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended
Amendments, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 72

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 459, 460 and 461 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Property, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Armed forces, Healthcare

Chapter 74

An ACT making valid the recordation of deeds and other writings of corporations, heretofore executed or recorded, upon certain certificates
Business, Property, Public officers

Chapter 75

An ACT authorizing cities and towns to impose taxes for their purposes at the respective rates now authorized to each of them by law, plus an additional rate of twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed value of such property as they are not prohibited from taxing by general law and except upon property upon which a maximum rate for local purposes is fixed by a general law.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 76

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the act entitled an act imposing public duties on heat, light, power, water, and telephone companies, and providing for the control and regulation of such companies by the State corporation Commission, approved March 27, 1914, providing for the expense incurred in the execution of said act, and making appropriations therefor.
Utilities

Chapter 77

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 23, 24 and 26 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, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Pensions, Business

Chapter 78

An ACT providing mileage to the members, clerks, officers and pages of the general assembly for attending the reconvening of the general assembly on March 8, 1915.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 79

An ACT relating to contracts for text books adopted for use in the public free schools of the Commonwealth.
Education, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the segregation of the tax upon the rolling stock of corporations operating railroads by steam, to make such rolling stock liable to taxation by the State alone, to fix the rate of such taxation, and to provide for the assessment of said rolling stock, approved February 16, a. 101
Taxation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 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, approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904, as amended by an act approved January 31, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1914, defining incomes and tax on incomes, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 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, approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904, as amended by an act approved January 31, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1914, defining incomes and tax on incomes, approved February 16, 1915.
Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Pensions, Business

Chapter 82

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17, in reference to tax on banks and trust and security companies
Taxation, Pensions

Chapter 83

An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia
Property, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 84

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, as amended and re-enacted: by an act approved March 24, 1914.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Gambling, Taxation

Chapter 85

An ACT to segregate, for the purposes of taxation, pursuant to section 169 of the Constitution of Virginia, the several kinds and classes of property so as to specify and determine upon what subjects State taxes, and upon what subjects local taxes may be levied, and to provide for the continuance for the year 1915, and until otherwise provided by law, of the present State school tax of ten cents on every one hundred dollars of the assessed value of real estate and tangible personal property; and to repeal an act entitled an act to segregate for the purposes of taxation, pursuant to section 169 of the Constitution of Virginia, the several kinds and classes of property so as to specify and determine upon what subjects State taxes, and upon what subjects local taxes may be levied, and to provide for the continuance for the year 1915, of the present State school tax of ten cents on every one hundred dollars of the assessed value of real estate and tangible personal property, approved February 16, 1915.
Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 86

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 12 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 18 and 14 of the act approved March 12, 1904, relating to the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair all roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves, and so forth, approved March 17, 1906, and as approved March 18, 1908.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Property

Chapter 87

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 444 and 445 of the Code of Virginia.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 88

An ACT to fix the situs for taxation of the rolling stock of electric railway corporations, and provide for the assessment thereof.
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 89

An ACT providing for the expenses of the members of the general assembly in attending the extended session beginning on March 8, 1915.
Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 90

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the prevention and eradication of the foot and mouth disease among the live stock of this State: and to confer upon the governor, the chairman of the State live stock sanitary board and the State veterinarian certain powers in relation thereto; and to appropriate the further sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of employing assistant veterinarians and for other necessary expenses in the protection of live stock in this State from infectious, contagious and communicable diseases: and to require a detailed report of the expenditure of said funds.
Agriculture, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 and section 16 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for creating, working and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county, and defining the boundaries of the same, approved March 14, 1904; approved March 8, 1906; approved March 14, 1908; approved March 11, 1912.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 92

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Clinchport, in Scott county, approved March 2, 1894.
Amendments, Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 93

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to purchase or acquire certain toll roads and toll bridges in said county.
Transportation

Chapter 94

An ACT to create a road board for Haytokah magisterial district of Nottoway county, and to provide for the working and repairing of roads in such district.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 95

An ACT to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the purpose of building, improving and maintaining the public roads of Eastville magisterial district in said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 96

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Washington, in the county of Rappahannock, approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1898, by adding thereto an additional section, to be known as section 16.
Incorporation, Public officers, Taxation, Budget

Chapter 97

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act approved March 16, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 12 of an act entitled an act to annex additional territory to the city of Norfolk, and provide for the government of said annexed territory, approved March 14, 1902.
Amendments, Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 98

An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to issue bonds to refund certain certificates of debt.
Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 99

An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of counties and councils of cities and towns to adopt the classification of the several subjects of taxation as the same are now or hereafter may be classified for the purposes of taxation by the State, and, in their discretion, to impose different rates upon one or more of such classes of property when levying taxes for their purposes.
Taxation

Chapter 100

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 15, 1915, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 446 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in reference to the compensation of land assessors and assistant assessors.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Property
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