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1902/1903

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT providing for the compensation and mileage of members, committees, officers, and employees of the general assembly, and for the payment of the same.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 2

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact. section 2083 of the Code of 1887, in relation to fishing with pound nets in the waters of the eastern side of Chesapeake bay
Fishing

Chapter 3

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Luray, Virginia, to appropriate certain money to construct a bridge across the Hawksbill creek, in said town.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 4

An ACT to give the consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the acquisition of real estate in the city of Fredericksburg for a site for the Mercer monument, and authorizing the city to grant and condemn land therefor.
Monuments and memorials, Public spaces, Municipal charters, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 5

An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider within one mile of the courthouse of Appomattox county.
Alcohol, Judicial, Public spaces

Chapter 6

An ACT to authorize and empower the town council of the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, to borrow money by the issue of bonds for the construction and establishment of a system of water works in and for the use of said town; to construct and establish such works, and a sewerage system if needed.
Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 7

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 4 of an act entitled “an act to appoint a board of trustees for the Virginia Female Institute at Staunton, and to provide for the future government of said institute,” approved March 14, 1874, as amended by an act approved January 18, 1896.
Education, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 8

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code, 1887, in reference to who liable to serve as jurors.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Voting

Chapter 9

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to lease to the National Bank of Fairfax the old clerk's office building on the public square in the town of Fairfax.
Business, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 10

An ACT to carry into effect an ordinance of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia, which assembled at Richmond on the 12th of June, 1901, entitled “an ordinance to provide for the registration of voters under this Constitution and prior to 1904,” so far as legislative action may be necessary, and to make it applicable to towns.
Voting, Civil Rights, Segregation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 125 and 129 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to receiving and canvassing ballots and names of voters entered on poll-books.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled "an act to provide a method of voting by ballot"
Voting, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 13

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 85 of the Code of Virginia: 1887, making registrars conservators of the peace.
Law Enforcement, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 67 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 5, 1900, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 67 and 71 of the Code of 1887, in relation to the appointment of registrars and the registration of voters.
Amendments, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 15

An ACT to prevent disturbance of registrars in the discharge of their duties, and to define the punishment therefor.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 16

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.
Agriculture, Fishing, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 17

An ACT to repeal an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to authorize the Board of Fisheries to readjust the Baylor survey, on the ocean side of the counties of Accomac and Northampton, and include therein any omitted natural rocks.
Fishing

Chapter 18

An ACT to pay to certain guards at the penitentiary certain sums of money due them and never paid.
Employment and labor, Public officers, Pensions

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2847 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1892.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Judicial, Taxation

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, and as to when bills, notes, etc., otherwise presentable on any such holidays are to be presentable, as amended and re-enacted by acts of the general assembly approved February 28, 1890, February 5, 1892, February 19, 1896, and April 2, 1902, and to establish the entire day of every Saturday as a public holiday and a non-secular and non-business day as regards negotiable instruments, and to relieve all persons of the duty of presenting, protesting, collecting, or giving notice of the non-acceptance, non-payment, or dishonor of any instrument whatever made after this act shall take effect on any publie holiday, Saturday or Sunday, but permitting all such notices to be given on said days.
Amendments

Chapter 21

An ACT to validate all acts done under chapter 453 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1901- 1902, approved April 2, 1902, providing pensions for soldiers, sailors, and marines of Virginia who were wounded or disabled in the war between the States, and for widows of soldiers, sailors, and marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service, or by reason of wounds received or disease contracted therein.
Pensions, Armed forces, Death and burial

Chapter 22

An ACT to provide a rule of evidence in prosecutions under sections
Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 23

An ACT to provide for the appointinent of registrars for the several towns in the Commonwealth.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 24

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4079 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to medical attendance, medicines, and clothing for indigent prisoners in jail, and analyses in poison cases,
Healthcare, Jails, Prisons

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3976 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3976, 3974, and 3984 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to grand jurors,
Judicial

Chapter 26

An ACT to repeal section 83 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appeals from registrar; how case made up and heard.
Legislative Amendments, Voting

Chapter 27

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of Blackstone, Nottoway county, Virginia, to appoint an assessor and have the real estate within the limits of said town assessed as a basis of taxation for State, county, and town purposes for the year 1903, and thereafter until the next regular assessment: provided, the aggregate amount of the said assessment shall not be less than the aggregate amount of the last assessment.
Taxation, Property, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 28

An ACT to designate and establish certain days as public holidays, and to establish and declare Saturday after 12 0’clock noon a half-holiday as regards the transaction of business generally, with exceptions specified in this act.
Labor, Recreation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 29

An ACT to provide for the payment of pensioners under pension act of March 7, 1900, whose claims were not approved under provisions of act of April 2, 1902, and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior to September 1, 1902.
Pensions

Chapter 30

An ACT to provide for the payment of pensioners under the pension act of April 2. 1902. whose claims were not approved and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior to September 1, 1902.
Pensions

Chapter 31

An ACT for relief of the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Baltimore
Fire fighters, Bonds, Public officers

Chapter 32

An ACT to pay certain officers of the Virginia penitentiary certain salaries due them and not paid.
Prisons, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 33

An ACT to authorize, empower, and direct the board of supervisors of Clarke county to build, construct, and maintain a toll-bridge at or near Castleman’s ferry, in said county, and to build, construct, and maintain a toll-bridge at or near Berry's ferry, in said county of Clarke, over the Shenandoah river; to issue county bonds to the extent of forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of raising money for the construction of said bridges; to receive any subscriptions that may be made for said purpose; to provide for the collection, custody, and application of said tolls; and to validate an election held in the county of Clarke, November 4, 1902, approving an issue of the bonds of said county, to the amount of forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of constructing the said toll-bridges.
Budget, Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 34

An ACT providing mileage to the members of the general assembly, clerks, officers, and pages of same for attending the reconvening of the general assembly in the city of Richmond on the 12th day of November, 1902.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 35

An ACT for the relief of any county or city treasurer who has lost the school warrant issued to any county or city treasurer, and to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit the said treasurer with the amount of such lost school warrant.
Public expenditures, Education, Budget

Chapter 36

An ACT to appropriate $5,000 to the State Female Normal School for improvements.
Education

Chapter 37

An ACT to amend and re-enact the act approved November 20, 1902, entitled “an act to provide for the payment of pensioners under the pension act of April 2, 1902. whose claims were not approved and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior to September 1, 1902.”
Pensions

Chapter 38

An ACT to authorize the Home for Needy Confederate Women to use for the purpose of enlarging the present buildings at Richmond, or for purchasing land or for erecting new buildings on a new site, the sum of $5,000, which was appropriated to it by act approved April 2, 1902, entitled "an act appropriating the public revenues for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on September 30, 1902, and September 30, 1903."
Charity, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 39

An ACT to ascertain and fix the term of office of the judges in the twenty-four judicial circuits of the State, respectively, at the first election by the general assembly under the Constitution which came into effect at noon on the 10th day of July, 1902.
Judicial

Chapter 40

An ACT to provide for defending certain suits, involving the validity of the Constitution, or Article Il. thereof, brought against members of the constitutional convention, the governor, and other officers.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 41

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
Industry, Agriculture, Public expenditures, Budget, Business

Chapter 42

An ACT to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles, and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, and motor bicycles and tricycles, along or over the public highways of the State and the avenues, streets, and alleys of the cities.
Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 43

An ACT to facilitate the committees of the general assembly in their work of adjusting the genera! statutes to the new Constitution by providing for the collection, classification, and placing in convenient form for each committee such general statutes as pertain to the subjects assigned to it.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 44

An ACT to allow the board of supervisors of the county of Campbell to purchase the Lynchburg and Campbell courthouse turnpike, and to operate the same as a turnpike, or in its discretion convert it into a public road.
Transportation

Chapter 45

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Luray to borrow money and increase levy for street and road purposes.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 46

An ACT authorizing Fairfiel€ school district to issue bonds for the purchase of property to be used for school purposes
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 47

An ACT to provide for telephone service in the office ef the secretary of the Commonwealth and to appropriate money for that purpose.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 48

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7, chapter 4. of the revised charter of the city of Lynchburg, relating to the bonds of the city officials.
Bonds, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 49

An ACT providing for the erection of a fence around Lee monument
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 50

An ACT to validate certain records of the county court of the county of Powhatan.
Judicial

Chapter 51

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved November 20, 1902, entitled an act to provide for the payment of pensions under pension act of March 7, 1900, whose claims were not approved under provisions of act of April 2, 1902, and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior to September 1, 1902.
Pensions

Chapter 52

An ACT to authorize the council of the city-of Portsmouth to issue bonds for the paving and grading of the streets of the city.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 53

An ACT to provide for the issue of bonds for the payment of the balance of the contract price for paving Washington avenue and Twenty-fifth street, Newport News.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 54

An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to use the money derived from the sale of bonds, and appropriated for the establishment of a crematory, In paying for street improvements
Bonds, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 56

An ACT to declare the powers and jurisdiction of the county and corporation courts in the exercise of the jurisdiction created by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 666 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to sale of delinquent lands purchased in the name of the auditor," which act was approved March 6, 1900, and to prescribe when the same shall be in force.
Property, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 57

An ACT to compensate the heirs of J. J. Moran for services rendered
Amendments, Business, Debt, Death and burial, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures

Chapter 58

An ACT to empower the county court of King William county to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected upon the public square at the county seat thereof,
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 59

An ACT to authorize the school board of the city of Manchester to borrow money and issue bonds.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 60

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Salem, in Roanoke county, to retire and refund certain bonds of said town.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 61

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of King William county to appropriate and contribute money to the Confederate Monument Association of King William county, for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 62

An ACT to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances.
Salaries, Public officers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Employment and labor

Chapter 63

An ACT to provide for the payment of certain officers and employees of the senate and house of delegates between the Ist day of January, 1903, and the 6th day of February, 1903, inclusive.
Public officers, Salaries, Budget, Employment and labor

Chapter 64

An ACT to proluibit the auditor of publie aeeounts from paving to certain olicers and emplovees of the general assembly any warrant for compen- sation from the time between the 28th of July, 1902, and l2th of November, 1902.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Budget, Employment and labor

Chapter 65

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
Agriculture, Business, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 66

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Franklin, Southampton county. Virginia, approved March To. VS76, as amended by an act approved December 19, T8891, and to amend and re-enact section TP? of the charter of the said town, as amended by an act approved February 19, 180, and to create a sinking fund.
Municipal charters, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 67

An ACT to provide for the prosecution of criminal cases removed from the State to the Federal courts under section 643 of the revised statutes of the United States, and for the payment of the costs thereof.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 68

An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.
Budget

Chapter 69

An ACT to amend sections 2864, 2805, 2871, as amended, and section 2875 of the Code of Virginia in relation to Limited partnerships
Business

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1022 of the Code of Virginia in relation to registrars and judges of election for the towns of this State.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 71

An ACT appropriating the sum of five thousand dollars to the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to meet current expenses.
Children -- Institutional care, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 72

An ACT appropriating the sum of 816.302.46 to be used to meet the deficit in the appropriation for the benefit of the Western State Hospital.
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 73

An ACT to provide for the payment of the cost and expenses of prosecuting a certain criminal case removed from the county court of Patrick county, and of a certain criminal case removed from the county court of Wythe county, to the circuit court of the United States for the Western district of Virginia, under section 643 of the revised statutes of the United States.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 74

An ACT appropriating the sum of 820.000 to be used to meet the deficit in the appropriation for the Eastern State Hospital, to complete payments of new building and equipment of same, to provide new boilers, for the support of additional patients, and other necessary expenditures.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Reformatories

Chapter 75

An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of William and Mary College to use the appropriation of 35.000 heretofore made to said college for an electric ight plant for that or such other svstem of lighting as the said board mity deem expedient.
Education, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 76

An ACT to repeal an act approved Mareh 25, 1902, entitled an act to make the boundary lines of lots and tracts of land in Greenesville county a lawful fence.
Boundaries, Property, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 77

An ACT to appropriate the stm of $1,200 for payment of the steno-
Public expenditures, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 78

An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 1759 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the practice of pharmacy, as amended and re-enacted by an act
Amendments, Business, Healthcare

Chapter 79

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to transfer to the eountyw of Shenandoah the State’s interest in the Mt. Jackson and Howard Lick Turnpike Company.
Transportation, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 80

An ACT to incorporate the General Alumni Association of the University of Virginia, with authority to issue certificates of membership to local associations and individuals composing said General Alumni Association.
Education, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how a chancery cause submitted for decision in vacation, how the decree certified and entered, its effect,” approved January 27, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia,” as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘‘an act to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how a chancery cause submitted for decision in vacation, how the decree certified and entered, its effect,” approved January 27, 1896, so as to permit the court, when not advised of its judgment, without consent of parties, to direct a chancery cause to be submitted for decision and decree in vacation, and also to direct decrees and orders acted upon in term to be entered in vacation, and to provide for the hearing of matters of law, or fact, requiring argument in open court, so far as practicable, approved March 3, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact. section 3427 of the Code of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, in relation to how a chancery cause, motion, action at law, or matter of law, or fact, arising therein may be submitted for decision in vacation; the powers of the judge thereinunder; how the decree, judgment, or order, is to be certified and entered, and the effect thereof; and how causes are to be heard.
Judicial

Chapter 82

An ACT providing for payment of State tax by party on whose motion the estate of a decedent is committed to the sheriff of any county or corporation, or the sergeant of the corporation.
Death and burial, Taxation

Chapter 83

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Amelia county to contribute such an amount as it shall deem proper towards the erection of a Confederate monument in the courthouse square of said county.
Confederate

Chapter 84

An ACT to authorize municipal corporations to issue bonds for the redemption of outstanding bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 85

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Clintwood school district, in Dickenson county, to issue bonds and use the proceeds to purchase a site and erect thereon and furnish a school-house for said school district, and to authorize said trustees to sell the present school-house lot, and invest the proceeds in another school-house lot.
Education, Bonds, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 86

An ACT to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in the National Statuary Hall, in the Capitol of the United States, at Washington, District of Columbia.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 87

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.
Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 88

An ACT to authorize the taking of a census in the city of Manchester.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 89

An ACT prescribing the cases in which the governor shall have power to remit fines and penalties, the rules and regulations under which the same may be done, and how such judgments for fines, penalties, and costs may be marked satisfied upon judgment lien dockets.
Judicial

Chapter 90

An ACT to authorize the supreme court of appeals of Virginia to direct the clerk of the court to destroy manuscript records in cases where the records are printed, and to require the binding of the records with briefs of counsel in each case.
Judicial

Chapter 91

An ACT to provide for the substitution of the State corporation commission in the place and stead of the board of public works in all proceedings at law or in equity, to which the said board of public works was a party when it ceased to exist.
Business, Public officers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 92

An ACT to prohibit the establishment and location of small-pox hospitals or pest-houses within fifty yards of any street, public road, public park, or public cemetery in any city, town, or county of the Commonwealth, or to thereafter establish any such hospital or pest-house within one hundred and fifty yards of any public road, public park, or cemetery, in any county of the Commonwealth.
Healthcare, Public spaces, Public officers

Chapter 93

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, 10, and 14 of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to establish a State board of embalming; to provide for the better protection of life and health; to prevent the spread of contagious diseases; to regulate the practice of embalming, and the care and disposition of the dead; and to add additional section 15 thereto
Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law), Healthcare, Coroner

Chapter 94

An ACT to validate the acts of certain commissioners in chancery in the Commonwealth.
Judicial, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 95

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 17, 1896, relating to divorces.
Divorce

Chapter 96

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Gloucester county to borrow money.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Healthcare

Chapter 97

An ACT authorizing and directing the auditor of public accounts to accept from county and city treasurers of the Commonwealth, or their securities, against whom there are judgments in favor of the Commonwealth for taxes and money due the Commonwealth as such treasurers, the amount so due, together with the costs of suit, and interest at six per centum per annum from the time the same became due, in full satisfaction and discharge of said judgments, provided the same is fully paid by the first day of July, 1903.
Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 98

An ACT to promote pure elections, primaries, and conventions, and to prevent corrupt practices or bribery in same; to limit the expenses of candidates, to prescribe the duties of candidates, and providing penalties and remedies for violations of this act, and declaring void under certain conditions elections in which the provisions of this act, or any of them, have been violated.
Voting

Chapter 99

An ACT limiting the time in which witnesses can be paid out of the treasury.
Judicial

Chapter 100

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Page county, Virginia, to issue bonds for the purpose of retiring outstanding bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 101

An ACT to provide for the commitment to private hospitals or sani-
Healthcare, Judicial, Public officers
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