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1915

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Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1507 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to the approximate apportionment and disbursement of State school funds.

Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 102

An ACT to make incorporated towns which maintain their own roads free from expense to the magisterial district in which they are located, or which are exempt by the express provision of their charters, from the payment of district road taxes, separate road districts within the county or counties in which they are situated.

Incorporation, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 103

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 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

Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 104

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 10, 1915, entitled 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, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 105

An ACT to authorize and empower John Earle, W. B. Brown, R. Lee Sowers, A. J. Brown and M. C. Richardson, Jr., their successors and assigns, to construct, maintain and operate a public ferry across the Shenandoah river, at or near Morgan’s Ford in Cedarville magisterial district, in the county of Warren, Virginia.

Transportation

Chapter 106

An Act to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for the permanent road or bridge improvements in the counties of the State

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 108

An ACT for the relief of Henry Roach of Charlotte county.

Judicial, Public expenditures, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 109

An ACT to provide for the draining of the public highways of Accomac county through lands adjacent to said highways.

Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act authorizing cities and towns to impose taxes for their purposes at the respective rates now authorized to each of them by laws, 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, approved the 18th day of February, 1915, so as to add an additional section thereto providing an emergency clause.

Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 111

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1048 of chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.

Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 112

An ACT to amend and re-enact section &33 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 11, 1908, and other acts, in relation to the powers and duties of the board of supervisors at annual meetings, by changing the body of said section, and by an amendment in addition to the new section designated as section S33-a, which shall prescribe the powers and duties of boards of supervisors in relation to county and school levies

Amendments, Budget, Business, Education, Taxation

Chapter 113

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 63 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay 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.

Amendments, Alcohol, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 114

An ACT making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his child or children under the age of sixteen years; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provisions for the apprehension and punishment of persons convicted of non-support, and providing that persons convicted of non-support shall be sent to the convict road force in certain contingencies; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of said recognizances; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; and making chief of police and sheriff probation officers in certain contingencies.

Marriage, Custody of children, Divorce, Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor, Charity, Public officers

Chapter 115

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act entitled an act to define and classify industrial sick benefit companies.

Taxation, Business, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 116

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 reports of purchases by merchants and the review of the annual returns and assessments of intangible personal property, income and money by certain officials and fixing their compensation therefor, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, and to repeal an act entitled 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, approved February 16, 1915.

Taxation, Public expenditures, Budget, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 117

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, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended, and to repeal an act entitled 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, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended, approved February 18, 1915.

Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Pensions, Business

Chapter 118

An ACT to appropriate the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars to help defray the expenses of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues’ Battalion as escort to the governor of Virginia on Virginia Day at the Panama Pucific International Exposition at San Francisco, California.

Armed forces, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 119

An ACT to amend and re-enact 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 und to macadamize roads in said county, etc. and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to open by condemnation or otherwise alter, discontinue, work, and Keep in order and repair the public roads and bridges of said county, approved March 7, 1900, and all acts amendatory thereof.

Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Property, Transportation

Chapter 120

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

Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public spaces, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 121

An Act to repeal section 24 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county, approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county and directing the disbursement of the county road fund, approved February 8, 1908, as heretofore amended, and adding thereto a new section 24 in lieu of the section hereby repealed.

Amendments, Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 122

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Houston formerly Banister, in the county of Halifax

Amendments, Incorporation, Property, Taxation

Chapter 123

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Stafford county to issue bonds to raise the funds necessary to pay off certain bonds issued in 1886, known as Falmouth Bridge bonds.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 124

An ACT authorizing the common council of the city of Winchester, Virginia, to borrow the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) and issue the bonds of the city of Winchester therefor.

Bonds

Chapter 125

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 16, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to empower the council of the town of Rocky Mount to contribute from the revenues of the town to the support and maintenance of a graded school in Rocky Mount school district, approved February 16, 1901.

Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 126

An ACT to authorize Cumberland county, from time to time as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, in addition to the amount of twenty thousand dollars mentioned in the act approved March 25. 1914, pages 007 and 508 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1914, for the purpose of uniting in the building of roads in the said county of Cumberland upon the State aid plan.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 127

An ACT ratifying the proceedings authorizing an iysue of bonds by Lunenburg county for road improvement in Rehoboth magisterial district.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 128

An ACT to add an independent section to an act entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908, so as to provide for the rehearing of a petition for the sale of bonds for the purpose of building and improving the roads or bridges of any district in said county.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 129

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the school board of Jerusalem magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose to pay off school indebtedness in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $12,000 in amount

Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 130

An ACT to require the board of supervisors of Spotsylvania county to let the printing of the receipts and disbursements of taxes, levies, tolls, etc., and other printing and newspaper work to the lowest bidder.

Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 131

An ACT to validate certain coupon bonds issued by the town of South Boston under date of April 2, 1900, payable thirty-four years after their date, with interest at the rate of four and one-half per centum per annum, payable semi-annually aggregating twenty thousand dollars, said bonds being forty in number and of the denomination of five hundred dollars each.

Bonds

Chapter 132

An ACT to authorize the school board of Tanner’s Creek magisterial district number six of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding twenty thousand ,$20,000) dollars in amount.

Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 133

An ACT to direct and require the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to advertise, issue and sell the bonds authorized by 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, approved February 1, 1915.

Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 134

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the time for collecting taxes accounted for by the city and county treasurers and not returned delinquent

Taxation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 135

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, fixing a maximum town levy and a maximum capitation tax for said town.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 136

An ACT declaring who shall be entitled to vote in any special election upon the question of the removal of a courthouse.

Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 137

An ACT to appropriate a sum of money, not to exceed $600.00, for the relief of needy Confederate women of Virginia who are not upon the State pension rolls, and who are not inmates of any Confederate, independent or church home or charitable institution.

Charity, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 138

An ACT to declare certain cities to be parts of the 8th, 15th 17th, 18th, 20th and 28rd judicial circuits for certain purposes.

Judicial

Chapter 139

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1494 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the ages of persons admitted as pupils to the public free schools of the Commonwealth.

Education

Chapter 140

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, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1914.

Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 141

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34 and 35 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 of Virginia, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended, and to add a new section thereto hereby designated as section 2914, providing for a tax on express companies, refrigerator, oil, stock, fruit and other car loaning and other car companies operating upon the railroads in this State, except sleeping car, dining car, drawing-room car and palace car companies.

Taxation, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation, Business, Pensions, Education

Chapter 142

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 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, 1908, and acts amendatory thereof.

Amendments, Budget, Business, Taxation

Chapter 143

An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, State of Virginia, to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of establishing, installing, and maintaining a system of water works, a sewerage system, and electric light and power system in said city of Williamsburg, and to provide for submission of the question to the voters of said city, and to provide for the payment of such bonds and the interest to accrue thereon, and to authorize the board of directors of the Eastern State hospital to contract with the mayor and council of said city of Williamsburg for the sale and purchase of water, and connection with the water and sewerage systems of said Eastern State hospital, and to authorize the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia to contract with the mayor and council of said city for the sale and purchase of electric current for light and power, and for connection with the electric plant and system of the said the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 144

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties and councils of cities and towns to appropriate money at their discretion to defray the necessary expenses for the Confederate veterans of said counties, cities and towns to visit Richmond on June ist, 2nd, and 38rd, 1915, at the grand reunion of the United Confederate Veterans.

Confederate, Charity, Public expenditures, Civil Rights

Chapter 145

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of funds not otherwise appropriated, to provide for additional clerical and stenographic services in the office of the attorney general.

Budget, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 146

An ACT to validate the recordation of memoranda of sales or contracts for the sale of goods and chattels wherein the title thereto, or a lien thereon, is reserved or the transfer of title is made to depend on any condition, and possession is delivered to the vendee.

Business

Chapter 147

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 450, 451, 456, 458, 462, 464, 466, 468, 471, 486, 487, 489, 491, 494, 496, 497, 498, 503, 504, 511, 520, 527, 548, 550, 553, 555, 556, 561 and 578 of chapter 24 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and to repeal sections 465, 502, 518, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 521, and 544 of the same chapter of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, said chapter 24 having relation to the assessment of taxes on persons and property, licenses and so forth.

Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Judicial, Civil Rights, Property, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 148

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45, 46, 46%, 46% (a), 4614(b), 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51(a), 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 8&5, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 9214, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 97%, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 104, 105, 106, 106%4, 107, 108, 109, 10944, 110, 111, 11144, 112, 1138, 118%, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 118(a), 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 1380, 131, 18382. 133, 1384, 1385, 136, 137, 138, 140 and 141 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution

Business, Taxation, Public expenditures, Labor, Employment and labor, Agriculture, Healthcare, Education, Divorce, Marriage, Children -- Institutional care, Public spaces, Public officers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Pensions, Utilities, Property, Wards, Recreation, Slavery, Civil Rights, Charity