Agriculture

1912
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘“‘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,” approved March 17, 1900.
An ACT to prevent the spread of blight to chestnut trees in this State and to appropriate money therefor.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Clinton Grange, No. 220, an order of farmers in the county of Cumberland, to make sale of the property held by them and divide the proceeds among the members of said order.
An ACT regulating the sale of seed cotton and prohibiting the sale thereof at night.
An ACT to prescribe a fence law for Fork Magisterial District of Warren county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Montgomery, 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 and stock raising in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2197 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 1, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing penalties for violation thereof, approved March 15, 1904, making the act apply to animals or fowls dying from any disease.
An ACT to provide for the working of certain long term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road construction, to the citizens of the State.
An ACT to make it a misdemeanor to borrow money from sales tobacco warehousemen upon a written promise or pledge to sell tobacco with said sales tobacco warehousemen, and thereafter fail to comply with such written promise or pledge.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for instruction in agriculture, domestic arts and sciences and manual training in public high schools
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively on the 28th day of February, 1913, and the 28th day of February, 1914
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 10 of an act to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 10 of an act to amend and re-enact an act approved May 20, 19038, 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 5, 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 amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1910, entitled “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 States 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 chapter 324 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1910, 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 provide for the examination and testing of dairy cattle for controlling tuberculosis, and to appropriate money for expenses thereof.
An ACT to protect villages and unincorporated communities having within defined boundaries a population of three hundred or more against the running at large of horses, mules, ponies, asses, cattle, hogs, sheep and goats within said boundaries, and to authorize the circuit court of the county in which such village or community is located to fix the boundaries thereof for the purpose aforesaid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "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," approved March 17, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1913 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the standard of cord measure and of agricultural products.

1914
An ACT to make a portion of the Robertson river, in Madison county, a lawful fence.
An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State, jointly or severally, to establish county or city farms, and providing for the Joint use of the same, and for the government and support of persons confined therein.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Spotsylvania county to pay for turkeys killed by dogs out of any excess in the dog tax fund after paying all loss or damage occasioned sheep or other stock by dogs.
An ACT to amend and reenact an act entitled 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 expenses of the same, and issuing and selling bonds therefor, and for the care and maintenance of such improvements when constructed,
An ACT to provide for the use of district schoolhouses out of
An ACT to provide for participation by the State of Virginia in the Panama exposition at San Francisco, to appoint a commission, and to appropriate money for that purpose.
An ACT to provide for the cleansing of cans and other receptacles used as containers of milk, cream and ice cream, and fixing penalties for violation of the act.
An ACT; to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1910, entitled 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 the State board of agriculture and the State board of education, in co-operation with the United States department of agriculture, for the betterment of agricultural experimental and demonstration work, and generally to advance the agricultural interests of this State, and to authorize the boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for experimental and demonstration work in their respective counties, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1912, and enacting certain provisions in lieu thereof, and making appropriations to the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute for demonstration work, and to authorize boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for demonstration work in their respective counties, in co-operation with the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute and the United States department of agriculture, and providing for co-ordination of certain agricultural activities within the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
An ACT providing for the control and eradication of the plant disease, commonly known as “orange” or “cedar rust,” in the magisterial districts and counties of this State where said disease is prevalent.
An ACT to create the office of State forester under the direction and control of the State geological commission, and defining his duties.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight, in its discretion, to contribute and expend annually, out of the general county levy, a sum of money for the conduct of an educational and agricultural fair, to be held in said county.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the 2 fiscal years
An ACT to provide for the encouragement, maintenance and supervision of industrial, agricultural, household arts and commercial education.
An ACT providing for the protection of turnpikes that have been treated with bitumen or other artificial binder from injury by traction engines, tractors or motor trucks, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Round Hill, in the county of Loudoun.
An ACT to protect sheep and other stock in the county of Loudoun.
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 amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to protect and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers, and the guarantee and condition upon which they are to be sold, and fixing penalties incurred for violation of same, approved February 24, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 8, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1896, as amended by an act approved December 22, 1897, as amended by an act approved December 28, 1899, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1600 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled 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 an act approved March 1, 1892, relating to appointment of visitors, and by an 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 the payment of interest and declaring the board of visitors a corporation under control of general assembly and by act approved February 18, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1900, providing for the protection of domestic animals and authorizing the establishment of live stock quarantine lines, rules, regulations, etc., approved May 20, 1903.
An ACT to appropriate $30,000.00, the unexpended appropriation heretofore made by the general assemby to provide for the working of certain long term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road con-struction to the citizens of the State, so as to make this amount avail.
An ACT for the relief of James F. Bonewell, of the county of Warwick, and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT relating to and providing for the incorporation of co-operative associations.

1915
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to protect and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers, and the guarantee and condition upon which they are to be sold, and fixing penalties incurred for violation of same, approved February 24, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 8, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1896, as amended by an act approved December 22, 1897, as amended by an act approved December 28, 1899, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1914.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45, 46, 46%, 46% (a), 4614(b), 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51(a), 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 8&5, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 9214, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 97%, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 104, 105, 106, 106%4, 107, 108, 109, 10944, 110, 111, 11144, 112, 1138, 118%, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 118(a), 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 1380, 131, 18382. 133, 1384, 1385, 136, 137, 138, 140 and 141 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
An ACT to appropriate the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of preventing the spread of infection of foot and mouth disease among live stock in this State.
An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Waynesboro to call a special election of the qualified voters of said town, to determine whether or not all live stock shall be prohibited from running at large within the corporate limits of the town of Waynesboro, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 1 of section 1913-b of the Code of Virginia (1904), with reference to the size of barrels used for shipment of agricultural products, commonly called truck.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the prevention and eradication of the foot and mouth disease among the live stock of this State: and to confer upon the governor, the chairman of the State live stock sanitary board and the State veterinarian certain powers in relation thereto; and to appropriate the further sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of employing assistant veterinarians and for other necessary expenses in the protection of live stock in this State from infectious, contagious and communicable diseases: and to require a detailed report of the expenditure of said funds.

1916
An ACT to provide for analysis of food stuffs for cattle, stock and other domestic animals in certain cases by the chemical department of the State agricultural department.
An ACT in relation to the sale of farm produce on commission, defining the terms 'farm produce' and 'commission merchant,' and regulating commission merchants and providing for their registration and bonding, and the issuing of a certificate of such registration by the commissioner of agriculture and immigration; also empowering the commissioner of agriculture and immigration, upon complaint, and in certain cases, to investigate the acts of commission merchants, and to revoke or refuse certificate of registration and prescribing regulations and offenses under this act, and providing penalties for violations of such regulations and of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 15 1902, entitled an act to allow the voters of a certain portion of Augusta county to vote on the stock law, and to provide for putting the same into operation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in Rockingham county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the school boards of the several school districts of Nansemond county to send students in high school grades in such districts, to the agricultural high school of the second congressional district, known as the Driver school, and pay the cost of the board and lodging of the said students out of the respective district fund of said county.
An ACT to prevent the transportation or storage of food products under insanitary conditions, and fixing penalties for the violation of the act.
An Act to establish a division of markets for agricultural products within the department of agriculture and immigration, providing for the administration of the said division and defining the duties and powers of same.
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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2197 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 1, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing penalties for violation thereof, approved March 15, 1904, making the act apply to animals or fowls dving from any disease, as amended by an act approved January 30, 1912.
An ACT to make the north fork of the Holston river in North Fork district of Washington county a lawful fence
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,
An ACT to make it larceny to receive money or other thing of value with intent to injure or defraud, from any person engaged in the cultivation of the soil, under a contract of employment for personal service, and fraudulently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund such money or other thing of value so received.
An ACT to regulate the use of utensils for testing the composition or value of milk and cream, providing standards and providing for its enforcement, prohibiting false andate or over-reading or under-reading of milk and cream tests, defining violations of the act and fixing penalties therefor.
An ACT to prevent fraud and deception in the storage and sale of oleomargarine, process and renovated butter; regulating the storage and sale of such products; defining violations of the act, and fixing penalties therefor.
An ACT to amend section 5 of an act entitled an act to prevent deception in the sale of ice cream and to establish standards for the same; defining condensed milk and providing for its sale
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 81 of the acts of the general assembly of 1874 for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick and Charlotte.
An ACT to provide for the examination of the oyster and clam beds and waters of Virginia; to provide for the marking of polluted areas and to prohibit the taking of oysters and clams from polluted areas; defining violations of the act and fixing penalties therefor.
An ACT to prevent hogs from running at large in the town of Grundy in the county of Buchanan.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 10, 1914, entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight in its discretion, to contribute and expend, annually, out of the general county levy, a sum of money for the conduct of an educational and agricultural fair, to be held in said county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Hanover county to appropriate a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars in any one year for the purpose of aiding district and county fairs.
An ACT providing for the sanitation of slaughter houses, abattoirs, packing houses, sausage factories, rendering plants and other places where animals are slaughtered for sale for human food or where animal carcasses, or parts thereof are prepared for human food; providing for the licensing of such establishments; defining violations of the act and fixing penalties therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 61 of an act approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1915, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay interest on the public debt and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, classifying auctioneers, and to add sub-divisions 67-a and 67-b, defining live-stock auctioneers and the license tax to be paid by them.
An ACT to regulate the selling, offering or exposing for sale of agricultural seeds; and to repeal an act entitled 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, approved March 16, 1910.
An ACT concerning the enforcement of the laws governing the manufacture, storage, preparation for sale, and sale of articles used as food or condiment for human beings or animals, and prescribing the duties and compensation of Commonwealth’s attorneys in connection with the enforcement of such laws.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 amend and re-enact section 109% of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government, and to pay the interest on the public debt and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1915
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fisca! years ending respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1917, and the 28th day of February, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create the office of State forester under the direction and control of the State geological commission, and defining his duties, approved March 21, 1914, and to make provision for the prevention of fires.
An ACT to prohibit the manufacture and sale of adulterated, misbranded or deleterious stock, cattle and poultry feeds; fixing penalties for viclations of the act; providing for the enforcement of the act and to repeal all Jaws and parts of 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 promote the breeding of pure bred "CH stock.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Loudoun county to offer and pay rewards, payable out of the treasury of said county, for the scalps of certain hawks, killed in said county.

1918
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 5, 1916, entitled an act to make it larceny to receive money or other thing of value with intent to injure or defraud, from any person engaged in the cultivation of the soil, under a contract of employment for personal service, and fraudulently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund such money or other thing of value so received.
An ACT to provide for the acceptance of the conditions of the federal act commonly called the Smith-Hughes bill (public No. 347, 64th congress), and authorizing the State board of education to act as a State board of vocational education for the Commonwealth, and authorizing the treasurer of the State of Virginian to act as custodian of such funds as may be received from the federal government, and to pay the same out on warrant drawn by the State board of education, and authorizing the State board of education to establish a department of vocational education. and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick and Charlotte, approved March 6, 1874, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in Rockingham county, approved January 30, 1804, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1916,
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to give rewards for crow scalps.
An ACT for the rellef of oyster planters, from their rent of oyster planting grounds in the waters of the Commonwealth on account of “green gill” in the oysters.
An ACT to require the clerks of courts to keep a separate book to be known as the Federal farm loan mortgage book and to provide how farm loan mortgages shall be recorded.
An ACT to license persons to breed game, game fish and fur bearing animals for sale, prescribing regulations for such business and providing penalties for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1359 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, with reference to grain to be ground in turn; amount of toll; penalty for violations.
An ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act providing for the sanitation of slaughter houses, abattoirs, packing houses, sausage factories, rendering plants and other places where animals are slaughtered for sale for human food, or where animal carcasses or parts thereof are prepared for human food; providing for the licensing of such establishments: defining violations of the act, and fixing penalties therefor.
An ACT to make the north fork of the Holston river in Saltville district of Washington county, a lawful fence.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 4 of an act entitled an act concerning the appointment of a dairy and food commissioner within the department of agriculture and immigration, and imposing penalties for its violation, approved March 11, 1908S, and to repeal section 15-a of an act entitled an act to prevent the manufacture or sale of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous or deleterious stock and cattle feeds, and to repeal section 15 and sub-sections 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 as they may be in conflict with the provisions of this act, approved March 14, 1910.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Fauquier county to give rewards for hawk scalps.
An ACT to encourage the production of food fish.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to provide for the protection of sheep and other live stock by a license tax on dogs, the enforcement thereof, and the reimbursement of the owners of such animals, killed or injured by dogs, out of the proceeds of such tax.
An ACT to prohibit the shooting, for sale, of rabbits in Madison county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act in relation to the sale of farm produce on commission; defining the terms “farm produce” and “commission merchant,” and regulating commission merchants and providing for their registration and bonding, and the issuing of a certificate of such registration by the commissioner of agriculture and immigration; also empowering the commissioner of agriculture and immigration, upon complaint, and in certain cases, to investigate the acts of commission merchants, and to revoke or refuse certificate of registration, and prescribing regulations and offenses under this act, and providing penalties for violations of such regulations and of this act
An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Waynesboro, to call a special election of the qualified voters of the said town, to determine whether or not all live stock shall be prohibited from running at large within, the corporate limits of the town of Waynesboro, Virginia
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1919, and the 29th day of February, 1920.
An ACT to add three sections to an act entitled 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 amend and re-enact sub-section 13 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.

1919es
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 8 of an act in relation to the sale of farm produce on commission; defining the term “farm produce” and “commission merchant,” and regulating commission merchants and providing for their registration and bonding, and the issuing of a certificate of such registration by the commissioner of agriculture and immigration; also empowering the commissioner of agriculture and immigration, upon complaint, and in certain cases, to investigate the acts of commission merchants, and to revoke or refuse certificate of registration, and prescribing regulations and offenses under this act, and providing penalties for violations of such regulations and of this act.