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1922

Laws in Volume
Displaying 301 - 400 of 515

Chapter 307

An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to establish underground drainage in a thirty-foot canal extending from Smith’s creek to Yarmouth street, to close the said canal and use it for park and highway purposes, and to vest the city of Norfolk with the title of the State of Virginia therein.
Municipal charters, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 308

An ACT to provide for the building and maintaining the public roads and bridges of Fauquier county, and further establishing the county as the road unit, and repeal any and all laws heretofore enacted for Fauquier county.
Transportation

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the town of Waynesboro.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Public expenditures, Taxation, Education, Healthcare, Death and burial, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to provide for the preparation and review of estimates for expenditures and revenue, and to establish a budget system for all State departments, bureaus, divisions, officers, boards, commissions, institutions, and other agencies and undertakings receiving or asking financial aid from the State of Virginia, approved February 19, 1918.
Budget

Chapter 311

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Buchanan county to borrow money and issue bonds of the said county for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing and maintaining the public roads and bridges of said county, and providing how the proceeds of said bonds shall be expended; also authorizing the said board to levy taxes to pay the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund for their payment at maturity, and refund the same.
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 312

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3481 and 3507 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1920.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Civil Rights

Chapter 313

An ACT to appropriate $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Matthew Fontaine Maury Association for the purpose of placing a marker and tablet to the memory of Matthew Fontaine Maury in Goshen Pass, Rockbridge county, Virginia.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 314

An ACT to make an appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars, to be used by committee of R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans, viz.: E. D. Taylor, W. B. Freeman and W. McK. Evans, to aid in entertaining the United Confederate Veterans who will assemble on June 20, 21, 22, 1922, and to appropriate three thousand dollars to aid in entertaining Confederate Veterans of Virginia at the unveiling of the statute of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville.
Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 315

An ACT to require the examination for venereal disease of all persons admitted to the State penitentiary, State penitentiary farm, or to any branch prison, to any of the reformatories of the State, or to any of the hospitals for the insane or colonies for the epileptic and feeble-minded, and the proper treatment of those found so affected.
Healthcare, Prisons, Reformatories

Chapter 316

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the State highway system, approved January 31, 1918, and to establish a perpetual memorial to Robert Edward Lee.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 317

An ACT conferring upon the council of the city of Portsmouth
Utilities, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 318

An ACT to require industrial sick benefit companies to insert in policies of industrial sick benefit insurance hereafter issued by them a provision permitting the cancellation of the sick benefit portion of the policy under certain conditions.
Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 319

An ACT to make it unlawful for any person to knowingly or wilfully make any false or fraudulent statement or representation of any material fact in or with reference to any application for insurance or as to the death or disability of a policy or certificate holder in, or for the purpose of procuring or attempting to procure the payment of any false or fraudulent claim against, or for the purpose of obtaining or attempting to obtain any money from or benefit in any industrial sick benefit company licensed, or which may be licensed to do business in this State, and to provide penalties for its violation.
Employment and labor

Chapter 320

An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of Accomac and Northampton counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the thirty-first judicial circuit.
Budget, Judicial

Chapter 321

An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of Alleghany, Botetourt, Bath and Craig counties and the council of the city of Clifton Forge to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the nineteenth judicial circuit.
Budget, Judicial, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 322

An ACT requiring county and city treasurers to account for interest received upon funds of the State, or of any political subdivision thereof, and providing penalty for violation.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 323

An ACT to permit Harwood Bristow, of the county of Accomac, to build a bridge across Warrington branch of Onancock creek in said county.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 324

An ACT to require persons sixteen years of age, or over, of sufficient earning capacity or income, to support their parents who are in destitute or necessitous circumstances; and to repeal an act entitled an act to require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their parents in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more
Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Employment and labor

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4902 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 326

An ACT to authorize the postponement of the payment of the sum of $16,000.00 and interest due by the school board of Ettrick sub-school district, of Chesterfield county, to the literary fund.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 327

An ACT to prescribe how a new day for the execution of the sentence of death shall be fixed, and dispensing with the presence of the person to be executed.
Death and burial, Judicial, Prisons

Chapter 328

An ACT validating certain holographic wills admitted to probate
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 329

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the payment out of the State treasury of the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the counties and cities of the State certain fees in felony and misdemeanor cases, and to fix the maximum amount that the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the respective counties and cities of the State shall be paid in fees out of the State treasury, and to fix for them and to provide for the taxing and payment of certain fees in scire facias and other proceedings upon forfeited recognizances, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 22, 1916, and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 16, 1918.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 330

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4042, contained in chapter 159 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to telegraph and telephone companies.
Business, Public officers

Chapter 331

An ACT authorizing the governor to issue annually a proclamation calling upon the officials and people of the State to display flags on the second Sunday in May, known as Mother’s Day.
Public spaces

Chapter 332

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 the 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.
Amendments, Taxation, Public expenditures, Pensions, Business

Chapter 333

An ACT to prevent the maintenance of suits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes.
Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 334

An ACT to effect the separation of the schools for the deaf and the blind at Staunton, and to provide for a commission to make recommendations concerning the establishment of a separate school for the education of the white blind children of Virginia, and appropriating one thousand dollars for the expenses of said commission.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Segregation, Public expenditures

Chapter 335

An ACT to require every person driving any vehicles on a public highway, on approaching certain railway grade crossings, to stop before passing thereover, and to require railway companies to erect and maintain danger signs at such crossings; and providing penalties therefor.
Transportation

Chapter 336

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3873 of the Code of Virginia.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 337

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4100, 4104, 4105, 4109, 4116, 4117 and 4118 of the Code of Virginia, of 1919.
Business, Amendments, Property, Public officers

Chapter 338

An ACT to authorize and empower the governor, with the advice of the attorney general, to employ special counsel or attorneys for the State of Virginia to prosecute and recover any claims that may be due this State from the United States of America, on account of putting the public school system of the State of Virginia on an equal basis with other States of the Union that have received public lands from the United States of America for the maintenance of their public school system.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 339

An ACT to prescribe the number of witnesses to be paid for out of the treasury of Virginia in criminal cases.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 340

An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the board of supervisors of the county of Princess Anne to borrow money by the issue of bonds in the aggregate sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), for the purpose of purchasing, building and improving roads and bridges in Scaboard magisterial district in said county; to sell the said bonds; to provide for the payment of interest thereon and principal thereof and to authorize the commission of roads and bridges of Princess Anne county, for Scaboard magisterial district, to dispense the funds so obtained.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3547 of the Code of Virginia.
Boundaries, Agriculture

Chapter 342

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6474 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 343

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4804 and 4805 of the Code of Virginia.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers, Education, Business

Chapter 344

An ACT prescribing standard barrels for lime, and regulations for containers of cement, and providing penalties for violations of it act.
Business, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 345

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 14, 2134, 27, 32, 35, 41, 95, 57, 63, 73 of an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; 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 prosecution 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 a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; 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 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 chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 19, 1918, as heretofore amended, and to add to said act the following new sections, to be numbered sections 5%, 51%, 5%, 21%, 32%, 35%, 55-f, 57%4, 57%4-a, 70%4, 77, 78, respectively, and to be properly inserted serially as numbered in said act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Transportation, Vagrancy

Chapter 346

An ACT requiring every power of attorney to confess judgment to be signed and acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds.
Judicial, Pensions, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 347

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5105 of the Code of Virginia.
Divorce, Marriage, Judicial

Chapter 348

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5867 and 5869 of the Code
Judicial, Business

Chapter 349

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create and maintain a State board of crop pest commissioners. and to define its duties and powers
Agriculture

Chapter 350

An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of Princess Anne and Isle of Wight counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the twenty-eighth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 351

An ACT providing an additional regular term of court for Giles county, and prescribing the times for holding the regular terms of court in the twenty-second judicial circuit.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Public officers

Chapter 352

An ACT to prohibit members of the governing boards of institu-
Education, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 353

An ACT making it a misdemeanor knowingly and wilfully to give false and untrue information concerning any person or corporation to publishers, or employees of publishers, with intent that the same shall be published.
Civil Rights, Judicial, Public officers, Unclassified

Chapter 354

An ACT to prohibit the printing, stamping or impressing of words, figures, designs, pictures, emblems or advertisements on newspapers after the same shall have been issued for circulation, without first obtaining consent of the publisher so to do; to prohibit the circulation, distribution or Sale of a newspaper so printed, stamped or impressed; and to prescribe fines and penalties for the violation hereof.
Business, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 355

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6270 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 356

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6062 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Business

Chapter 357

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4930 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 10, 1920.
Judicial, Prisons, Death and burial, Amendments

Chapter 358

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Surry county to contract a loan and to issue bonds of said county for the purpose of providing a portion of the money necessary for rebuilding the courthouse of said county and furnishing the same, and for making needful and necessary improvements to the county jail.
Bonds, Budget, Jails, Property

Chapter 359

An ACT authorizing the district school board of Sussex Court House school district, in Sussex county, to borrow money for the purpose of paying the existing indebtedness of said board; and to require the board of supervisors to levy a tax to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Budget, Public expenditures, Education, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 360

An ACT to require persons or corporations doing business under an assumed or fictitious name, and persons doing business as copartners to sign, acknowledge, and file a certificate; to designate what the certificate shall contain; to provide for recordation of such certificate, to fix fees of the clerk, and to provide a penalty for violation of this act.
Business

Chapter 361

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6358 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 362

An ACT prescribing the time of holding the regular terms of court in the twentieth judicial circuit
Judicial

Chapter 363

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Nelson county to use the balance of the proceeds of a bond issue, authorized by chapter 96 of acts of assembly of 1920, for the purpose of building a bridge across Hat creek on the east branch road, in the neighborhood of Roseland, and for painting various bridges over Tye river in the Massie’s Mill magisterial district of said county.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 364

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2146 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 422 of the acts of 1918.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Property, Public officers

Chapter 365

An ACT for the appropriation of $500.00 out of the treasury for the payment of J. Taylor Thompson for legal services rendered the State in the matter of contest over the will of Emmett D. Gallion (deceased)
Inheritance and succession, Property, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 366

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2780 of the Code of Virginia.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 367

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

Chapter 368

An ACT providing for a commission on mental health.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 369

An ACT to create the Virginia commission for the blind, to define its duties, and to make appropriation for its maintenance.
Healthcare, Education, Charity, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 370

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4083 of the Code of Virginia.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 371

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6296 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3418 of the Code of Virginia in regard to the appointment of commissioners to execute deeds, approved March 16, 1918.
Amendments, Property, Judicial

Chapter 372

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act approved February 11, 1896, entitled an act to constitute the town of Leesburg and adjoining territory a separate school district, and to authorize the council of said town to appoint or elect school trustees of said district; and to repeal sections 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the aforesaid act; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts relating to the school district for the town of Leesburg, inconsistent with the present general law,
Education, Amendments

Chapter 373

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1799, 1802, 1807, 1817, 1822 and 1830 and to repeal sections 1831 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Labor, Children -- Institutional care, Public officers

Chapter 374

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6063 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 375

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 23 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the roads of said county and levy a tax to keep the same in proper repair, as amended by an act, approved February 29, 1892, and February 2, 1894, and acts amendatory thereto, respectively, January 22, 1898, March 7, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, and as amended by an act approved March 15, 1910, and to appoint a county road superintendent; his salary, duties, etc.; the purchase of road machinery, implements, tools, etc.; pay of supervisors, road superintendent, clerk and duties of each; prescribing penalties, etc., and to repeal all special acts in conflict herewith, approved March 24, 1920.
Amendments, Budget, Transportation, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 376

An ACT to create a commission of roads and bridges of the county of Princess Anne, Virginia, for Seaboard magisterial district, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission and to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said magisterial district of said county and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein and for obtaining and applying necessary funds for said purpose, including the application of the proceeds of sale of any bonds issued by said county for said purpose and the payment of the interest and principal of said bonds and for obtaining and applying any and all State aid now and hereafter available for said purpose and for the levy and application of taxes for said purpose.
Transportation, Taxation, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 377

An ACT to create the Hampton Roads port commission, define its duties and powers and to provide funds for carrying on its work.
Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 378

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4163 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 379

An ACT to prevent the sale of inferior and worthless vegetable seed in the State of Virginia.
Agriculture

Chapter 380

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3780, as heretofore amended, 3781, 3786, 3788, 3810, as heretofore amended, 3820, 3822, 3851, 3854, 3872 and 3876, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Public officers, Property, Taxation

Chapter 381

An ACT to provide for the compulsory education of children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide (in certain cases) for the compulsory attendance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide (in certain cases) for the compulsory attendance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia, and providing penalties for failure, and designating the manner of collecting such penalties, approved March 14, 1908, approved March 27, 1918.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 382

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2252 of the Code of
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 383

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1053 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 384

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5379 of the Code of Virginia.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 385

An ACT to authorize the governor, by and with the advice of the attorney general, to institute and prosecute actions, suits, motions and other proceedings, in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in all cases not provided for by existing law.
Judicial

Chapter 386

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1245, 1246, 1247 and 1248 of the Code of Virginia.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 387

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1173 of the Code of Virginia.
Agriculture, Business, Healthcare

Chapter 388

An ACT to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining one or more cities having a population of thirty thousand or more in the aggregate; to prescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers, Voting, Equality before the law, Employment and labor

Chapter 389

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3408 to 3422, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, section 3408 of which was amended by an act approved February 21, 1920, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and
Lawyers, Judicial, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 390

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within the State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof and interest therein, and repealing all prior acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act
Amendments, Armed forces, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 391

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 417 of the Code of Virginia.
Property

Chapter 392

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2942 of the Code of 1919, as amended by chapter 367 of the acts of the General Assembly of 1920.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 393

An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of Wise county to borrow one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars for the purpose of grading, macadamizing or otherwise permanently improving what is known as Appalachia-Lynch highway in Richmond magisterial district.
Budget, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 394

An ACT authorizing and requiring the board of supervisors of the county of Elizabeth City, under certain conditions to establish and equip a fire department for Wythe magisterial district therein, and to provide a water supply for fire fighting purposes.
Fire fighters, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 395

An ACT authorizing a school census in Bland school district of Prince George county, and the Fieldale district in Henry county, Virginia, to be in lieu of the regular quinquennial census taken in said district in 1920.
Education

Chapter 396

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pearisburg, Virginia, and to repeal all acts in conflict
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 397

An ACT to authorize and empower cities which have, by the latest United States census, over one hundred thousand inhabitants, to provide for the collection and payment into their treasury of fees for certain services rendered by their police justices either in criminal cases or in cases of violation of ordinances.
Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Salaries, Judicial

Chapter 398

An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State to establish county or city farms, and providing for the use of the same, and for the government and support of persons confined therein.
Employment and labor, Jails, Prisons, Agriculture, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 399

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 19 of an act entitled an act to, incorporate the town of Manassas, approved April 2, 1873, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Business, Public officers, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Law Enforcement

Chapter 400

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 37 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Liberty, to extend its limits and change its name to Bedford City, Virginia, approved March 3, 1890; and to change the name of the town of Bedford, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1912.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Utilities, Charity, Taxation, Public spaces, Education

Chapter 401

An ACT to authorize the town of Front Royal to issue bonds in a sum not exceeding $25,000.00, and expend the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, or so much as may be necessary for the enlargement, improvement, repair and maintenance of the electric lighting plant and water system now owned by said town; and to provide by proper tax levy or appropriation for the payment of interest -on the bonds so issued and to create a sinking fund to retire said bonds at maturity.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 402

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the school board of Bellefonte school district, of the county of Nottoway, Virginia to borrow money for the purpose of erecting a high school building at Blackstone in said district, and to issue bonds therefor not to exceed the sum of forty thousand dollars in amount, approved March 19, 1920, and to increase the amount of bonds authorized by said act to sixty thousand dollars.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 403

An ACT to create a State highway commission; to provide for a chairman thereof; and to prescribe the powers, duties and the compensation of the commission and chairman; and to provide for a State highway commissioner; to create road construction districts; to provide for the apportionment among them of road construction funds, and to provide for road construction, improvement, maintenance and preservation, also to repeal sections 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974 and 1975 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission; to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commission to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1906; to provide for the appointment of a commission, and fixing their term of office; to give to said commission the power of eminent domain, the power to make and enforce rules and regulations governing the traffic and use of the State highway system, not in conflict with the laws of this State, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations, approved September 5, 1919, and to repeal all other sections of the Code and acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities, Budget

Chapter 404

An ACT to provide for a special police force in certain counties, prescribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for their compensation and defining their powers and duties.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 405

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4439 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Property

Chapter 406

An ACT to require State departments, officers, boards and commissions now required to make annual reports, to make bi-ennial reports in lieu thereof.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments
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