Agriculture

1901es
An ACT to prevent hogs running at large in Orange county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2136 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2136 of the Code of Virginia as to right of owners in any creek, etc., within his survey
An ACT to define a lawful fence in Orange county.
An ACT to define a lawful fence for Washington county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to borrow money for the purpose of purchasing real estate and building a bridge, and to issue bonds and provide for the payment of the same.

1902/1903
An ACT to repeal an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to authorize the Board of Fisheries to declare certain land within the limits of the Baylor survey, on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac county, to be barren area and open for planting oysters thereon, and to authorize the assignment of the same for planting purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts
An ACT to amend and re-enact independent section 11 of an act approved February 25, 1892, in relation to oysters, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1896, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1900, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900.
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
An ACT to appropriate the moneys intended to be appropriated for the support of the work of the crop pest commission.
An ACT to amend section 2 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to lay off, designate, and survey the natural rocks, beds, and shoals in Nomini and Currioman bays, in the county of Westmoreland, and to include the same in the original geodetic survey of the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to increase the annual appropriation to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute from $25,000 to $40,000.
An ACT defining the powers and duties of the board of agriculture and immigration, and providing for an election of a commissioner of agriculture and immigration, and for repealing all acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 70 of the Code of 1887 as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, as amended by act approved March 1, 1892, relating to appointment of visitors, and by act approved February 23, 1894, giving the assent of Virginia to certain endowments provided by act of congress, and by act approved March 5, 1896, amending sections 1586 and 1592 of the Code in relation to payment of interest and declaring the board of visitors.
An ACT to authorize John D. Armstrong to erect a dock, pier, or watch-house upon his oyster ground in James river.
An ACT to provide for an industrial and commercial exhibit: by the Commonwealth of Virginia at the Louisiana purchase exposition, and to appropriate money for the same
An ACT to amend and re-enact chanter 402 of the acts of assembly, session POT 2, entitled an act to pretect sheep and other stock in the counties of this State
An ACT appropriating the sum of two thousand dollars to the Department of Agriculture, to be used in the enforcement of the law prohibiting the sale of adulterated and unbranded food.

1902/1904
An ACT to increase the annual appropriation to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute from $25,000 to $40,000.
An ACT defining the powers and duties of the board of agriculture and immigration, and providing for an election of a commissioner of agriculture and immigration, and for repealing all acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act
AN ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 70 of the Code of 1887 relating to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute and the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
An ACT to authorize John D. Armstrong to erect a dock, pier, or watch-house upon his oyster ground in James River.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2044, 2051, 2055, and 2058 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for an industrial and commercial exhibit by the Commonwealth of Virginia at the Louisiana purchase exposition, and to appropriate money for the same.
An ACT to permit the commissioner of agriculture to collect specimens of natural history.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1591 and 1595 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled 'an act defining the powers and duties of the board of agriculture and immigration, and providing for an election of a commissioner of agriculture and immigration, and for repealing all acts in conflict with this act'
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1347 and 1360 of chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3. 4, and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginian penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts
An act to impose a license tax on dogs for the protection of sheep and other stock in this State.
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
An ACT appropriating the sum of two thousand dollars to the Department of Agriculture, to be used in the enforcement of the law prohibiting the sale of adulterated and unbranded food.
An ACT to authorize J. W. Massey and T. H. Massey to erect a pier in the James river off Warwick county.
An ACT to appropriate the moneys intended to be appropriated for the support of the work of the crop pest commission.
An ACT to amend section 2 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to lay off, designate, and survey the natural rocks, beds, and shoals in Nomini and Currioman bays, in the county of Westmoreland, and to include the same in the original geodetic survey of the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals of the Commonwealth.

1904
An ACT making an appropriation for the benefit of the Virginia State horticultural society.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 536, acts of assembly 1902-703-04, approved December 31, 1903, entitled an act to authorize parties planting oysters on grounds rented from the State to erect piers, docks, or watch-houses on the same.
An ACT to have plats of oyster-planting grounds endorsed “abandoned” under certain conditions, and to authorize the renting of such ground.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2197, chapter 99, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to burial of hogs that died from disease, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 30, 1890, and by an act approved February 14, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing the penalties for violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved March 5, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled "an act to provide for the taxation of dogs in the county of Rappahannock, and the protection of sheep therein."
An ACT to amend and re-énact section 907 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1888, in relation to the sale of mules, work oxen, and horses, when and where sold.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue
An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act to impose fine for trespass of swine and other stock in Rockfish district, Nelson county, approved February 9, 1900,” approved March 3, 1900.

1906
An ACT to provide for an annual appropriation for the Virginia State agricultural experiment station, and regulating the expenditure thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to lien on crops for advances to farmers; nature of agreement therefor; where and in what manner docketed, and the effect thereof, and the clerk’s fee therefor,” approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled 'an act authorizing the circuit judge of Bath, Highland, Rockbridge, and Alleghany to appoint inspectors of all outdoor platform scales and weights used in weighing live stock, farm products, or other things in said counties, and providing compensation therefor.'
An ACT to protect landlords against removal of crop by tenants
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal year ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1907, and the 29th day of February, 1908.
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the several counties of this Commonwealth to appropriate county funds to secure historical and physical descriptions of their respective counties, and to edit and publish the same, for distribution at the Jamestown tercentennial exposition and elsewhere, and to select and prepare exhibits of the industrial, agricultural, mineral, and commercial resources of their respective counties, to be exhibited at the Jamestown tercentennial exposition.
AN ACT to make further appropriations of the public revenues for the two fiscal years ending February 28, 1907, and February 29, 1908
An ACT to define what is pure apple cider within the meaning of section 141 of chapter 20 of acts of 1904, approved February 19, 1904.
An ACT to create drainage districts of adjoining or adjacent owners of low lands, and to give jurisdiction to the circuit court in which said lands lie to enforce its provisions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the thirteenth article of section 183 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances
An ACT appropriating $10,000 to the State board of agriculture and immigration, to be expended in promoting and encouraging immigration into this State.
An ACT to authorize the purchase of linoleum for the floors of the museum and basement rooms in the capitol building, and furniture floor coverings, and metal file cases for the register of the land office, the superintendent of public instruction, and the State library, offices of the commissioner of agriculture, and to appropriate a sum sufficient to pay therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend and combine chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, as to section 277, of said chapter, by an act approved January 15, 1890, and by an act approved January 16, 1892, and further amended by act approved May 15. 1903, and chapter 377 of the acts of assembly, extra session, 1887, entitled ‘an act to amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the public printing and binding, and defining the duties of the superintendent of public printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the acts of assembly, 1879-1880,' approved May 23, 1887, as amended, as to section ten of said act by act approved March 5, 1888, and by act approved February 5, 1892, and as amended as to section 11 of said act, by act approved February 24, 1890, and by act approved February 9, 1894, and to consolidate and re-enact the same into chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved December 31, 1903, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 273 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the superintendent of public printing, approved March 15, 1904.

1908
An ACT concerning the appointment of a dairy and food commissioner within the department of agriculture and immigration, and imposing penalties for its violation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 18, 1896, entitled an act to provide for the protection of domestic animals, and to authorize and empower the board of control of the experiment station of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College at Blacksburg to establish live stock quarantine lines, rules and regulations and to prescribe penalties for violating the same, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1900, and as further amended by an act approved May 20, 1903, and to repeal sections 2214 and 2215 of the Code of Virginia and section 1599-a of the act approved May 20, 1908, which deal with the same subject.
An ACT to establish a School of Mines as a deparment of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, and to make an appropriation for the same.
An ACT to accept the certain grants of money as made by the congress of the United States, March 16, 1906, as appropriations for the use of the agricultural experiment stations of the several States and territories of the United States.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2154 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, in relation to stealing of oysters.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending respectively on the 28th day of February, 1909, and the 28th day of February, 1910.
An ACT to regulate the statistics of leaf tobacco sold upon the floors of the leaf tobacco warehouses or sold by any tobacco association in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to prevent the manufacture or sale of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous, or deleterious foods or liquors and to repeal an act to prevent the sale of adulterated and misbranded foods in the State of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled: An act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of the convicts
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 27, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act, approved February 28, 1898, entitled an act to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 27, 1896.
An ACT to appropriate money to pay certain expenses incurred in protecting the oyster industry, for which the chairman and secretary of the board of fisheries have given their personal obligation to provide means for continued protection till March 1, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act amending and re-enacting sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 of 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 the penalties incurred for violation of the 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved May 20, 1903, as heretofore amended, entitled: An act defining the duties and powers of the board of agriculture and immigration, so as to prescribe the powers and auties of said board and said commissioner, and to repeal an act approved February 29, 1888, entitled: An act to further define the duties and enlarge the powers of the commissioner of agriculture, and an act approved March 5, 1888, entitled: An act to provide a Commissioner of Agriculture of Virginia and making an appropriation therefor and to repeal sections 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, and 1790 of the Code of Virginia.

1910
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Culpeper, in their discretion, to contribute and expend annually, out of the general county levy of the said county, a sum of money for the purpose of promoting agriculture in said county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county in this State, in their discretion, to contribute and expend annually, out of the general county levy of the said county, a sum of money for the, purpose of promoting agriculture in said county.
An ACT to protect and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of agricultural lime and the guarantee and condition upon which it is to be sold, and fixing the penalty incurred for violation of the same.
An ACT to provide for the examination and testing of dairy cattle for controlling tuberculosis, and to appropriate money for expenses thereof.
An ACT to prevent the manufacture or sale of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous or deleterious stock and cattle feeds, and to repeal section 15 and subsections a, b, c, d, e, f and g of said section 15, chapter 188, acts of assembly, 1908, approved March 11, 1908, and to repeal all other laws in conflict with this act, in so far only as they may be in conflict with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to revise, arrange, 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act in force March 2, 1892, entitled an act for the protection of stock breeders and owners of licensed stallions, and to extend the breeders’ lien twelve months from the delivery of a live colt, or until the price agreed upon for the season by the owner of the stallion or jackass and the owner of the mare or jennet be paid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to liens on crops for advances to farmers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2191 of the Code of Virginia in relation to restraint of unaltered horses and bulls.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Charlotte to sell, convey and release to the State of Virginia the reversionary interest and all other rights of the said county in a certain tract of land conveyed by the said county to the State of Virginia on the 3d day of July, 1901, for the establishment of an agricultural experiment station thereon, and to authorize the State board of agriculture and immigration to purchase the reversionary interest and all other rights of the said county in the said tract of land, and to sell and convey the whole or any part thereof, if deemed by the said board unnecessary for its uses.
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors in the several counties in this State to appropriate money for the establishment, equipment and maintenance of agricultural schools, and to ratify and confirm any appropriations already made to such schools by the board of supervisors in any of the counties in this State.
An ACT to constitute a united agricultural board to co-ordinate the Virginia College of Agriculture and Polytechnic Institute and the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, the commissioner and State board of agriculture, and the State board of education, in co-operation with the United State Department of Agriculture for the betterment of agricultural, experimental and demonstration work, and generally to advance the agricultural interest of this State, and to authorize boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for experimental and demonstration work in their respective counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend an re-enact an act entitled an act amending and re-enact- ing sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 of 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 the penalties incurred for violation of the safe, 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 10 of an act to amend and re-enact an act approved May 20, 1903, as heretofore amended, entitled an act defining the duties and powers of the board of agriculture and immigration, so as to prescribe the powers and duties of said board and said commissioner, and to repeal an act approved February 29, 1888, entitled an act to further define the duties and enlarge the powers of the commissioner of agriculture, and an act approved March 65, 1888, entitled an act to provide a commissioner of agriculture of Virginia, and make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal sections 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789 and 1790 of the Code of Virginia, approved February 25, 1908.
An ACT to provide for instruction in agriculture, domestic art and sciences, and manual training in public high schools.
An ACT to repeal an act passed to provide for making or repairing division fences between coterminous landowners in the county Russell
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 107, section 108, and section 109 of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1904, entitled an act to amend and 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.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years
An ACT to regulate the sale of agricultural seeds, to provide a standard of purity for such seeds, to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act, and vesting the execution and enforcement of this act in the commissioner of agriculture.
An ACT to require the State board of agriculture to provide for the manufacture and distribution of serum for the prevention and treatment of hog cholera.
An ACT to require license taxes to be paid by all traveling circuses and carnivals exhibiting or giving performances or shows outside of the enclosures of all agricultural fair associations and within the limits of the county or city in which any annual fair is being held or within one week before or after the week in which such fair is to be held, or being held.
An ACT to promote the public health, convenience and welfare by leveeing, ditching and draining the wet, swamp and overflowed lands of the State, and providing for the establishment of levee or drainage districts for the purpose of enlarging or changing any natural water courses, and for digging ditches, or canals, for securing better drainage, or providing better outlets for drainage, for building levees, or embankments, and installing tide gates, or pumping plants for the reclamation of overflowed lands, and prescribing a method for so doing; and providing for the assessment and collection of the cost and expense of the same, and issuing and selling bonds therefor: and for the care and maintenance of such improvements when constructed.
An ACT to license and regulate the sale and inspection of condi-tional stock and poultry foods and powders intended for domestic animals and poultry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled a: act to raise revenue for support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution approved April 16, 1903.

1912
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2048 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended by an act of the general assembly, approved December 31, 1903, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2048 of the Code of 1887, as amended by act of the general assembly, approved February 26, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900, so as to provide how the present existing fence law in any county, magisterial district, or selected portion of any county, other than such as now have no fence law, may be changed by the board of supervisors of such county.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to license and regulate the sale and inspection of condimental stock and poultry foods and powders intended for domestic animals and poultry,”
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to sell or rent a farm containing five hundred acres, situated at Saxe, in Bacon magisterial district, Charlotte county, Virginia, and directing the disposition of the proceeds thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 12 of 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, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to protect sheep and other stock in the counties of this State"
An ACT to remove the obstructions across and in Sandy creek, between the old ford, in Halifax county, below the bridge across said creek at Henrvy’s mill, and the source of said stream in Pittsylvnaia county.