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1916

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 522

Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 26, 31 and 32 of an act approved March 17, 1910, entitled an act to revise, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs, and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act.
Fishing

Chapter 102

An ACT to invest in boards of supervisors of counties adjointing and abutting a city with a population of 125,000, or more inhabitants, as shown by United States census, the same powers and authority now vested or hereafter conferred upon common councils of cities and towns.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 103

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 32 of the Constitution of Virginia and providing for publishing the said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
Amendments, Voting, Equality before the law

Chapter 104

An ACT providing additional powers and duties of the State board of charities and corrections.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Healthcare, Noncitizens

Chapter 105

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 an electric lighting plant in said town
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 106

An Act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1912, entitled an act to establish on the farm of the Virginia State epileptic colony, the Virginia colony for the feeble-minded, and to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony.
Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Property, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 107

An ACT to authorize the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 1, of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $15,000 in amount.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 108

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 27, 36, 41, 45, 46 and 47 of an act approved March 12, 1908, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 27, 34, 36, 41, 45, 46, and 47 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, and March 15, 1902, and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk as extended by the several acts of the general assembly and 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 add an independent section thereto to be known as section 33-a; and to repeal an independent section of said act known as section 33-a.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 109

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond so as to amend and re-enact sections 9, 11, 12, 13, 28, 30-a, 30-c, 30-d, 30-h, 37, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92 as the same or any of them may have been heretofore amended, and so as to add to the said charter certain sections to be known as 13-a, 13-b, 18-a and 18-b, and to repeal sections 24-a, 24-b, 66-a, 66-b, 66-c, 66-d, and 66-e, as the same or any of them may have been heretofore amended.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget, Law Enforcement

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 111

An Act to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $150,000 for the purpose of building public roads in said county
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 112

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to borrow $90,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of making permanent improvements in certain public roads and bridges in Fincastle district of said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 113

An ACT to provide for the building of bridges in the county of Isle of Wight, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issuing of bonds, and to build bridges in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 114

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond so as to amend and re-enact sections 93-c and 93-m, as the same or either of them may have been heretofore amended, and so as to add to the said charter section 93-s, relating to the retirement of the members of the fire-and fire alarm departments.
Fire fighters, Municipal charters, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 115

An Act to authorize Hopewell, in the County of Prince George, after it shall become a city, to borrow money and issue bonds therefore.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 116

An ACT for the relief of S. M. Chiles, late treasurer of Frederick county, and to enable the board of supervisors of said county to pay to him such sums as may be found to be due to him from said county.
Public expenditures, Debt, Public officers

Chapter 117

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in Rockingham county.
Agriculture, Public expenditures, Education, Budget

Chapter 118

An ACT to prohibit the killing of deer in the county of Buckingham for the term of five years.
Hunting

Chapter 119

An ACT to prohibit the killing of deer in the nou of Cumberland for the term of three years.
Hunting

Chapter 120

An ACT to authorize the appointment of one additional commissioner in chancery for the circuit court of Warren county.
Judicial

Chapter 121

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of North Tazewell, in the county of Tazewell; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Business, Public officers, Public spaces, Debt, Utilities, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 122

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Bedford county to fix the district road levy for said county; how the same shall be collected and expended; treasurer to keep a separate account, and repealing section 12 of section 944-a of the Code of Virginia, so far as the same applies to Bedford county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 123

An Act to submit to the voters of Clarke county the question of discontinuance of toll gates over the bridges at Berry’s ferry and Castleman’s ferry
Transportation

Chapter 124

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Amherst county to offer and pay rewards, payable out of the treasury of said county, for the scalps of certain hawks killed in said county.
Agriculture, Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 125

An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to refund the amounts of certain taxes unlawfully and illegally collected from Sarah E. Ashby.
Taxation, Bonds, Civil Rights

Chapter 126

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of the county a sufficient amount to maintain the convict road force in said county for the years 1916 and 1917.
Transportation, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 127

An ACT to make the north fork of the Holston river in North Fork district of Washington county a lawful fence
Fence Laws, Agriculture, Property

Chapter 128

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town, now city, of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, approved May 23, 1887, by adding thereto section 18, authorizing the council of said city to prescribe by ordinance the limits within which no buildings shall be constructed except of brick, stone or other incombustible material, with fire proof roof; and to impose a penalty for violation thereof.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public spaces

Chapter 129

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of the charter of the former town, now city, of Hampton, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, approved May 23, 1887, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1914, in relation to the rate of taxation.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 130

An ACT to change the name of Burton’s wharf at Urbanna, in the county of Middlesex, on the Rappahannock river to Urbanna wharf.
Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 131

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Prince George to undertake the building of an improved road from the corporation line of the city of Petersburg to the village of City Point, in the said county, under the direction and in accordance with the plans and specifications of the State highway commission.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 132

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 5, 1900, entitled an act to provide for the establishment, alteration, discontinuance and working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Giles county, and to punish obstructions of the road commissioners in the discharge of their duties, and also to punish road officials of Giles county for any neglect of their official duties, approved March 14, 1904, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 133

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of King and Queen county to borrow, from time to time, the sum of $5,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to continue the improvement of the public roads of said county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 134

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of counties of Alleghany, Bath and Highland to appropriate money for the purchase, maintenance and operation of motor trucks to be used in building and keeping in repair roads in their respective counties.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 135

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Gloucester county to lease or rent out certain lands at Gloucester Point, and to validate certain leases heretofore made.
Property, Public officers, Municipal charters, Public spaces

Chapter 136

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act prohibiting the manufacture and sale of certain intoxicating liquors in certain counties of the Commonwealth
Alcohol

Chapter 137

An ACT to provide for the sale of property, real or personal held subject to a deed or deeds of trust, to secure the payment of money, or any evidence of debt, where there is no date fixed for the payment thereof, and for the investment of the proceeds of sale under decree of court subject to the terms of said deed or deeds of trust.
Property, Debt, Judicial, Bonds

Chapter 138

An ACT to authorize the town of Norton, in Wise county, on petition of a majority of the qualified voters in said town, to sell bonds heretofore legally voted by said town, and use the proceeds of the sale of the said bonds for public improvements in the said town, other than that for which the said bonds were voted.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Transportation, Budget

Chapter 139

An ACT to authorize the issuance of $30,000.00 of bonds by the city of Newport News for constructing and equipping an armory and convention hall in the city of Newport News.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 140

An ACT to authorize the issuance of $50,000.00 of bonds by the city of Newport News for street improvements.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 141

An ACT declaring abandoned so much of the Winchester and Berry’s ferry turnpike as lies within the county of Frederick; and providing that the Winchester and Berry’s ferry turnpike company shall continue to enjoy all of its rights and privileges under its charter to so much of its said road as lies within the county of Clarke.
Transportation, Amendments, Business

Chapter 142

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond so as to amend and re-enact sections 93-a and 93-b as the same have been heretofore amended, concerning the terms of the members of the board of fire commissioners and the number necessary to constitute a quorum thereof.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Fire fighters

Chapter 143

An ACT for the protection of deer and elk in Shenandoah
Hunting

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 8 of an act approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act for working and keeping in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy of taxes for that purpose.
Public expenditures, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 145

An ACT to regulate the hunting and shooting of squirrels in the counties of Spotsylvania, Caroline, New Kent, Warwick, Charles City, James City, Stafford and York.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 146

An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation for sale, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits as herein defined, except as provided herein; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to the sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
Alcohol, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Transportation, Business, Taxation

Chapter 147

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 50 of article IV. of the Constitution of Virginia.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 148

An ACT to define and regulate the practice of optometry, to provide for the establishment of a board of examiners in optometry, for the examination of practitioners of optometry, for registration and license of practitioners, to provide for a penalty for violations of this act, and for other purposes.
Healthcare, Business, Employment and labor, Education, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 149

An ACT to empower the school board of Battletown district, Clarke county, to borrow money to retire outstanding bonds.
Budget, Education, Bonds

Chapter 150

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Buckingham, and to levy a capitation tax in connection therewith
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation, Labor, Jails, Taxation

Chapter 151

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs and other shell fish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act
Fishing

Chapter 152

An ACT to create a State department of game and inland fisheries, and providing for the issuing of licenses to provide revenue for the support of such department, and imposing penalties for violation.
Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife, Public officers, Property

Chapter 153

An ACT to empower the road boards of the several magisterial districts of Loudoun county to erect, maintain and operate toll gates on certain roads in said districts.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1912, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 34 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 27, 34, 36, 41, 45, 46 and 47 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; and March 15, 1902, and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly and approved April 6, 1887; February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by order of the circuit court of Norfolk county which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906, and add an independent section thereto to be known as section 33-a.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 155

An ACT to prohibit the sale of any cider whatever or of any other drink, containing more than one-half of one per centum of alcohol, within the corporate limits of the town of Amherst, Virginia, or at any point within two miles of the corporate limits of said town.
Alcohol

Chapter 156

An ACT authorizing the city of Hampton, Virginia, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor to the amount of $75,000.00, for the purpose of extending and improving the present sewer system and of constructing a new sewer system and other permanent improvements.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Utilities, Public spaces

Chapter 157

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Front Royal, Warren county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public officers, Reformatories

Chapter 158

An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Victoria, in the county of Lunenburg, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 159

An ACT to provide for the organization and government of incorporated communities becoming cities of the second class by the increase of their population to the number of 5,000, or more, when they have been duly ascertained and declared to be cities in the manner provided by law.
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Budget, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 160

An ACT to prohibit the use of roller towels in public lavatories.
Public spaces

Chapter 161

An ACT to prohibit the hunting, shooting or trapping of ringed-necked pheasants in Shenandoah county, until after the first day of November, 1920.
Hunting

Chapter 162

An ACT to authorize the director of the legislative reference bureau to employ a sufficient number of clerical assistants to perform the work of the bureau and the stenographic and clerical work of the members of the general assembly during the present legislative session and to purchase codes, acts, journals, files and other books and equipment for the immediate use of said bureau; to appropriate money for such purposes and for the purpose of supplementing the former appropriation for salaries and expenses in connection with said bureau for the current fiscal year.
Budget, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 163

An ACT to provide for the granting of license for the manufacture and sale of ardent spirits for the period beginning May 1, 1916, and ending October 31, 1916, and prescribing the amount to be paid therefor.
Alcohol

Chapter 164

An ACT to authorize the supervisors of the county of Pow-hatan to prescribe collars and tags for dogs on which taxes have been
Taxation

Chapter 165

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2817 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interest on money.
Amendments, Debt, Business

Chapter 166

An ACT to prohibit the sale of any cider or of any other drink containing more than one-half of one per cent. of alcohol, within two miles of Seay’s chapel, a church located near Shores, in Fluvanna county.
Alcohol, Public spaces

Chapter 167

An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, to Designate Depositories for the Proceeds Arising from the Sale of Permanent Road Improvement Bonds in Bluestone Magisterial District
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 168

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate employment bureaus or agencies and to provide penalties for violation of same
Employment and labor

Chapter 169

An ACT to provide upon a petition of a majority of the patrons of any school in the State for placing a United States flag upon each public school house, or on the grounds thereof, in the State of Virginia, and authorizing the respective school authorities to make an appropriation to pay for same.
Education, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 170

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly, 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 an act approved May 14, 1903, so far as the same applies to Madison county, so as to provide for the opening, constructing, maintaining and working of 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 therewith, as amended by an act of the general assembly, approved March 24, 1914, entitled an act to add independent section ll-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 an 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 to repeal any act in conflict therewith.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 171

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers, Taxation, Utilities, Alcohol, Public spaces, Death and burial

Chapter 172

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of Alleghany county and of the incorporated towns of Covington and Iron Gate the question of whether or not the board of supervisors of said county shall borrow the sum of $100,000.00 to be used in the building of public roads in Alleghany county, Virginia; and to permanently improve the present roads in said county
Budget, Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 173

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act appointing trustees for the town of Christiansburg, in the county of Montgomery, and for other purposes, giving said town a charter
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Public expenditures, Utilities, Judicial, Recreation, Employment and labor, Healthcare

Chapter 174

An ACT for the relief of J. P. K. Walling, of Scott county, Virginia.
Lawyers, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 175

An ACT to prohibit the killing of deer in the county of Augusta for the term of three years.
Hunting

Chapter 176

An ACT to prohibit the hunting or shooting of rabbits in Mathews and Middlesex counties.
Hunting

Chapter 177

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 925 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 178

An ACT to provide for jurors in cities that have been incorporated less than two years.
Judicial, Public officers, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 179

An ACT to provide for keeping open and unobstructed by fixed fishing devices continuous passages or ways to permit fish from the ocean and the waters of the Chesapeake bay to ascend the rivers of the State to the localities in which shad deposit their spawn; to provide for designating, defining or marking the said passages or ways and the said spawning localities; to prohibit the use of fixed fishing devices in said passages or ways and of haul seines in the said spawning localities; defining violations of the act and fixing penalties therefor.
Fishing

Chapter 180

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2992 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to judgment debtors about to quit the Hn 56.
Debt, Judicial, Jails, Property

Chapter 181

An ACT authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans at any time during the years 1916 and 1917.
Education, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 182

An ACT to provide a special road law for the county of Loudoun; to provide for the construction, improvement and maintenance of the public roads in said county and to create separate road districts in each of the several magisterial districts thereof; to provide for the care and protection of the property of the several district road boards; and to repeal an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working the roads of the county of Loudoun, passed eighteen hundred and fifty-six.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget, Utilities

Chapter 183

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 21, 1914, entitled an act to authorize Albemarle county, from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $40,000, for the purpose of uniting in the building, in the county of Albemarle, of State money aid or convict labor plan roads, as well as roads where private individuals contribute one-half the cost thereof, and to assist in securing undergrade crossings under the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company and, the Southern railway company, respectively, in the county of Albemarle.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 184

An Act to authorize Albemarle county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $30,000; to refund the bonds issued under act approved February 20, 1908.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 185

An ACT to amend section 37 of an act approved January 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, Virginia, as further amended by an act approved March 13, 1912.
Legislative Amendments, Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 186

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 16, 22, 35, 60 and 63 of an act approved March 14, 1906, and 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, Business, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Education

Chapter 187

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 252 of acts of the general assembly of 1906, entitled an act to authorize the several school boards of the school districts in this State to borrow money belonging to the literary fund for certain purposes, and to authorize the loan of said funds to each district, as amended by chapter 82 of the acts of 1908 and chapter 359 of the acts of 1914.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 188

An ACT to repeal an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Farmville magisterial district in Prince Edward county, Virginia, approved February 138, 1901; also to repeal an act for the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Leigh magisterial district, at Meherrin, Prince Edward county, Virginia, approved December 12, 1903; and also to repeal an act providing a conditional repeal of the said acts for the establishment of the said dispensaries, approved March 24, 1914, and to provide that no license shall be hereafter granted in the county of Prince Edward.
Alcohol

Chapter 189

An ACT to authorize the school board of Plymouth magisterial district, Lunenburg county, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose to pay off school indebtedness in said district, and to execute bond therefor not exceeding $3,500.00
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 190

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county, Virginia, to levy a special tax of fifteen cents on the hundred dollars in Plymouth magisterial district of said county, for the purpose of raising an amount not to exceed thirty-five hundred dollars, to pay indebtedness of school board of said district.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 191

An ACT to make it unlawful to hunt, kill, or trap deer in the county of Chesterfield, from the first day of January to the first day of November, in each year.
Hunting

Chapter 192

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 of an act providing for the appointment of a State board of health and local boards of health, defining their duties and powers, and prescribing penalties for noncompliance.
Healthcare

Chapter 193

An ACT to provide compensation for judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in their retirement from the bench after a service of twelve consecutive years and after attaining the age of seventy years
Judicial, Pensions, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 194

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, in Tazewell county, Virginia, approved January 27, 1912, to authorize the town council of said town to issue bonds of said town not exceeding $6,000.00 for permanent improvement of streets and sidewalks in said town.
Municipal charters, Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 195

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the city of Portsmouth to contract with any person, firm, private, or public service corporation for a water supply for itself and inhabitants, in connection therewith, and to dispose of all the property, rights, and privileges which were acquired by the board of water commissioners, created by an act approved March 2, 1910.
Utilities, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 196

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, of chapter VIII of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, relating to temporary loans, the borrowing of money, the limit of outstanding indebtedness, the issuing of certain bonds in serial form to be made payable in annual installments, to the right of the city council to create debts and to the maintenance of a sinking fund for certain bonds of said city; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 1, 1901, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 8, 1902, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 12, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved on the 5th day of February, 1916.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 197

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1506 of Code of Virginia, approved March 25, 1914, as amended by an act entitled 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, approved March 12, 1908. (S. B. 165)
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 198

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4051 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in regard to suspending sentence, or execution thereof, and to provide for bail pending suspension of sentence, or execution thereof, after conviction, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1910, and to provide for bail after writ of error has been granted to a convicted person pending such writ of error and appeal.
Amendments, Judicial, Prisons

Chapter 199

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a special joint committee on publications
Education, Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Public spaces

Chapter 200

An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia, taken by commissioners of eeds appointed by governors of States other than the governor of the State of Virginia.
Property, Legislative Amendments, Repeal of legislation
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