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1902/1903

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Chapter 205

An ACT to establish Norton school district.
Education, Municipal charters

Chapter 206

An ACT to amend section 3 of an act amending the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county.
Municipal charters, Wards, Public officers

Chapter 207

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, Amendments, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 208

An ACT providing that all dogs in this State which have been assessed with a license tax pursuant to an act entitled "an act to amend and reenaet chapter 402 of the acts of assembly, — session PO 1-2 entitled an act. to protect sheep and other stock in the counties of the State, and to amend the title thereof so as to provide for imposing a lieense tax on dows," approved February 12, 1903, upon which said license tax is not delinquent, or which have been assessed with a Heense tax or other tax pursuant to any ordinance of any incorporated city or town of this State now or hereafter having municipal law providing for or imposing a license tax or other tax on dogs, or pursuant to any special dog tax law of any county, and upon which said license tax or other tax is not delinquent, shall be deemed personal property, and may be the subject of Jareeny and malicious or unlawful trespass: and repealing section 499 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 499 of the Code oF Virginia in relation to the listing of dogs for taxation." approved Mareh 7, 1900, and sections 500 and 501 of the Code of Vi irginia, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith,
Property, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 209

An ACT to fix the terms of the judges of the corporation courts for the cities of Bristol, Radford, and Buena Vista.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 210

An ACT to create a board of sinking fund commissioners for the town of Gladeville, in Wise county.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 211

An ACT to authorize the city of Petersburg to acquire land necessary to construct a channel for diverting the freshet water from the Appomattox river at Petersburg, Virginia, so as to improve the harbor and channel of said river.
Public officers, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 212

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved May 10, 1887, authorizing and making provision for the leasing and operating of the New London Academy as a public free school for the benefit of the counties of Bedford and Campbell.
Education, Public expenditures, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 213

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the per diem mileage and other expenses of the joint committee on final revision and adjustment of the statutes.
Budget

Chapter 214

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3960 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts 1895-’6, page 365, in relation to bail.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 215

An ACT to repeal an aet entitled an act to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Patrick county, approved March 7, 1900.
Repeal of legislation, Transportation

Chapter 216

An ACT to prevent the delivery within the limits of any local-option district in Warren, Tazewell, and Giles counties, having voted against the license or sale of intoxicating wines, malt ardent spirits, intoxicating liquors or drinks, unless the same be in sealed receptacle or package, and labeled at time of delivery within, and sale without, for delivery within such district.
Alcohol

Chapter 217

An ACT to provide for the special and separate assessment of taxes on mineral lands and on the improvements, fixtures, and machinery thereon.
Taxation, Industry, Property

Chapter 218

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act. to require city street railway companies to run vestibule fronts on all cars on their lines during the months of December, January, February, and March of each vear, approved February 1, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act in effect from and after December 24, 1899, so as to require said railway companies to run vestibule fronts on all motor cars on their lines during the months of November, December, January, February, March, and April of each vear.
Transportation

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35, chapter 4, of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 220

An ACT to provide for vesting in the circuit court of Albemarle county, or the judge thereof, on and after February 1, 1904, the jurisdiction and powers now by law vested in the county court of Albemarle county, or the judge thereof, in relation to the Miller Manual Labor School, of Albemarle county.
Education, Judicial

Chapter 221

An ACT to repeal chapter 153 of the acts of assembly of Virginia extra session 1901, approved February 14, 1901, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 554 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1899-1900 entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 65 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, approved February 27, 1900.
Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 222

An ACT to authorize and direct the auditor of public accounts to pay to James E. Phillips, his heirs, assigns, or personal representatives a sum of $5,000 out of any money in the treasury of the Commonwealth of Virginia, not otherwise appropriated, for material furnished and work done on the buildings at the University of Virginia.
Education, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 223

An ACT to authorize J. W. Massey and T. H. Massey to erect
Business, Public spaces, Transportation, Fishing

Chapter 224

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 136 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts, or parts of acts, or charters in conflict therewith
Judicial, Salaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 225

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Greenesville county to appropriate and contribute money to the Citizens’ Monument Association of Greenesville 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 226

An ACT to amend and re-enact title 10, chapter 19, sections 27 286, inclusive, as amended by an act approved May 23, 1887.
Unclassified

Chapter 227

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 95 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the preservation of certain useful birds and animals, and to prevent unlawful hunting, and to repeal sections 2075, 2076, 2077, 2081, and 2082 of the Code of Virginia, and an act entitled an act to prevent the extermination of partridges (or quails) in the State of Virginia, approved January 27, 1896, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled an act to prevent the extermination of partridges (or quails) in the State of Virginia, approved January 27, 1896, in force since December 15, 1897.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 228

An ACT to legalize a certain election held by the qualified voters Prince Edward county, Virginia, for the purpose of subscribing to the stock the Charlotte, Farmville and James River Valley Railway Company; to empower and direct the supervisors of said county to subscribe to the capital stock said railway company to an amount not exceeding $57,000 in the said county bonds, or $3,000 per mile in the said county’s bonds, par value, upon the term and conditions prescribed in the order of court under which said election was held.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 229

An ACT to legalize an election held in Charlotte county for the purpose of subscribing to the capital stock of the Charlotte, Farmville and James River Valley Railway Company.
Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 230

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to create a general road fund, and to provide for the permanent improvement of roads, approved April 2, 1902, and to create an advisory road board and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 231

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 573 of the acts 1891 and 1892, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as amended by an act passed March 2, 1892, as amended by an act passed January 25, 1898, as amended by an act passed February 28, 1898, as amended by an act passed March 6, 1900, as to the limit of the road levy in Pulaski county, and the distribution of the funds derived thereunder.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 232

An ACT to incorporate the town of Mayville, in Dumfries magisterial district, Prince William county.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Taxation, Public officers, Business

Chapter 233

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Manassas, in the county of Prince William, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquor therein, and in the event of a majority of those voting at said election vote for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter, within said town, or within one mile of its corporate limits, the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors, by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as provided herein.
Alcohol, Municipal charters, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend and re-enact the eighteenth subdivision of section 17 of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March 6, 1882.
Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 235

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 83 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,” approved April 16, 1903, relating to insurance brokers.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Pensions, Business

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 21, 26, and 40 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads of Greene and Madison
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 237

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 238

An ACT to establish a “good roads commission” for Culpeper county and to provide for the expenses thereof.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 239

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to keep in its clerk’s office a book showing the amount of money and notes under the control or subject to the order of said court, approved February 19, 1898,” so as to make said act apply also to the law and equity court of the city of Richmond.
Judicial, Public officers, Property, Budget

Chapter 240

An ACT to appropriate the moneys intended to be appropriated for the support of the work of the crop pest commission.
Agriculture

Chapter 241

An ACT to authorize the city of Bristol to make an additional issue of bonds for the purpose of further improving its water works system and refunding its floating indebtedness.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 242

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1104 and 1105 of the Code of Virginia, relative to incorporated companies, so as to provide for the licensing of foreign corporations, and to prescribe penalties against such corporations transacting business in the State without a license, and to provide for the enforcement of such penalties.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 243

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of the act to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in statuary hall at Washington, and to constitute a commission to contract for said statue and present the same.
Monuments and memorials, Civil Rights, Confederate

Chapter 244

An ACT to provide a road law for Appomattox county, and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 245

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to authorize the mayor and town council of West. Point to borrow money for public improve-ments
Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 246

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 4 1896, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the counties of Northumberland and Westmoreland.
Transportation

Chapter 247

An ACT authorizing mutual life insurance companies chartered in this State to re-incorporate as stock companies under their existing corporate names.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 248

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 21, and 29, and to repeal sections 9, 11, 19, and 24 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Big Stone Gap, and to legalize certain acts of the town council, approved February 28, 1890, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact. sections 4, 11, 15, and 17, and to repeal sections 12 and 13 of said original act, approved February 24, 1898.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Bonds, Budget, Property

Chapter 249

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Edenburg, in Shenandoah county, to acquire land for cemetery purposes, and to sell and convey lot or lots therefrom to purchasers,
Cemeteries

Chapter 250

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and macadamize the roads in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question, approved April 2, 1902.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 251

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Hampton to borrow $25,000, and issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 252

An ACT providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in Cumberland eounty.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Vagrancy, Labor

Chapter 253

An ACT to provide for the maintenance and management of the State library.
Libraries, Education, Judicial, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 254

An ACT to put into operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the composition and organization of the State Board of Education; the election and appointment of its members; their qualification; powers and duties of the board; expenses, etc.
Education, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Judicial

Chapter 255

An ACT to regulate the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the estates of decedents, and the appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators, committees by the clerks of circuit courts.
Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Property

Chapter 256

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 15, 1901, entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Jerusalem magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firme, or corporations, except manufacturers of apple and peach brandy, within said district, to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to said district.
Alcohol, Amendments, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 257

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Petsworth school district, in Gloucester county, to borrow money and to issue bonds therefor.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 258

An ACT prescribing the liability of common carriers, railroads, or transportation companies for any loss, damage, or injury to property caused by its negligence, or the negligence of any other common carrier, railroad, or transportation company to which such property may be delivered, or over whose lines such property may pass.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 73, Code of 1887, relating to general provisions as to colleges and academies and other institutions, of the Miller Manual Labor School and the Medical College of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 'an act requiring educational institutions receiving State appropriations to make annual reports to the board of education,' approved January 12, 1888, and an act entitled 'an act to provide for the expenses of the boards of visitors of the institutions of learning,' approved March 4, 1892.
Education, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 260

An ACT to require the State Corporation Commission to fix and pre- prescribe storage, demurrage, and car service charges which may be collected by railroad and other transportation companies on freight transported, or to be transported by them, and to be paid by them on freight delayed and cars not promptly furnished or placed by them, with rules and regulations governing same.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 261

An ACT to amend and reenact sections 242. 243, 244, 245, 246, 250, 252, and 267 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Education, Libraries

Chapter 262

An ACT to provide for the issuance of $30,000 bonds by the city of Newport News for the payment of damage to property in the construction of the Twenty-eighth-street bridge.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 263

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Caroline county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Labor

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 69, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the Virginia Military Institute, as amended by an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, and 14 of chapter 54 of the acts of the general assembly, extra session 1884, in relation to the appointment of a board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute,’ approved May 18, 1887, and as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 1582 of chapter 22 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the government of the Virginia Military Institute,” approved February 18, 1890, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
Armed forces, Education, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 265

An ACT providing for the appointment of a commission of three persons by the circuit court of Spotsylvania county, to be known as the board of public roads for Spotsylvania county, and for holding an election to take the sense of the qualified voters of said county upon the question of bonding same for an amount not exceeding $100,000 for the purpose of permanently improving the public roads thereof.
Transportation, Budget, Property

Chapter 266

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 74, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, as amended by an act entitled 'an act to provide for the reorganization of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled 'an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute at Staunton, Virginia,'' approved May 14, 1887, as amended by an act entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled 'an act to provide for the reorganization of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind,'' and to repeal chapter 74 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled 'an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute at Staunton, Virginia,' approved May 14, 1887, approved March 4, 1896, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
Education, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 267

An ACT permitting the town council of the town of Emporia to levy an additional capitation tax for street purposes.
Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 268

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 71, Code of 1887, in regard to the management of the State Female Normal School, and to conform the same to the Constitution.
Education, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 269

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887) in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled “an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns.”
Amendments, Boundaries, Business, Civil Rights, Judicial, Labor, Marriage, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities, Voting, Property, Healthcare, Education, Recreation, Taxation

Chapter 270

An ACT concerning corporations.
Business, Bonds, Budget, Public officers, Amendments, Property, Taxation, Public spaces, Utilities, Judicial

Chapter 271

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 50 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
Budget, Business, Taxation

Chapter 272

An ACT to allow a manufacturer of wines who shall have a manufactory in any county, district, or corporation which may vote or has voted against liquor license therein, to sell therein such wines, provided delivery thereof be made to a common carrier to be transported out of such county, district, or corporation.
Alcohol, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 273

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, and corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said district.
Amendments, Alcohol, Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 274

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact. an act entitled an aet to provide for a method of voting by ballot, approved March 6, 1894,” and to repeal section 20 of said act.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 275

An ACT to amend and re-enact. an act approved January 26, 1903, en- titled 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, allowing said board out of the county levy to maintain said read as a public road.
Transportation

Chapter 276

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 11 of an act. entitled an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 277

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.
Agriculture, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 278

An ACT appropriating the sum of $120 to pay the premiums on three certain policies of insurance upon the executive mansion and certain furniture therein, which expire April, 1903, and for which no appropriation has heretofore been made.
Public expenditures

Chapter 279

An ACT to prevent the encroachment on or the ehanging of the lines or direction of any public road without permission of the court, and to pre- scribe a penalty therefor.
Transportation

Chapter 280

An ACT to provide rooms for the accommodation of the State Corporation Commission, and to appropriate money for the rent of the same.
Budget, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 281

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of removing the remains of the wife and of the daughter of James Monroe from Oakhill, in Loudoun county, to Hollywood, in the city of Richmond.
Death and burial, Public expenditures, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 73 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved April 28, 1887, entitled an act to amend an act for working the public roads of Fairfax county
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 283

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Clarke county to issue bonds of the county to macadamize the public roads of the several magisterial districts of the county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 284

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 94 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and publie free schools, and to pay the interest on the publie debt and to provide a speeial tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
Amendments, Alcohol, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 285

An ACT to ratify and confirm the action of the authorities of Augusta county in acquiring title to a certain lot of land, and the acts of said authorities in conveying certain rights and interests in said lands.
Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 286

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 1 and 2 of section 2070c of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 95 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the preservation of certain useful birds and animals, and prevent unlawful hunting, and to repeal sections 2075, 2076, 2077, 2081, and 2082 of the Code of Virginia, and an act entitled an act to prevent the extermination of partridges (or quail) in the State of Virginia, approved January 27, 1896, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sectioni 1 and 4 of an act entitled an act to prevent the extermination of partridges (or quail) in the State of Virginia, approved January 27, 1896, in force since December 15, 1897, approved May 14, 1903.
Hunting

Chapter 287

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to borrow money for the construction of highway bridges in the Pulaski road district, in Pulaski county.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 288

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in the county of Essex, and providing what tax shall be used for keeping the same in order.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 289

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $5,000 to the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute.
Education, Budget

Chapter 290

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $5,000 to add to and improve the buildings at the State Female Normal School, at Farmville, and to increase the annual appropriation to said school from $15,000 to 825,000.
Education

Chapter 292

An ACT to increase the annual appropriation to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute from $25,000 to $40,000.
Agriculture, Budget, Education

Chapter 293

An ACT to provide for the support, maintenance, and instruction of the Virginia volunteers, and for their maintenance and pay when called into service in aid of the civil authorities or by the governor and commander-in-chief, and appropriating money therefor.
Armed forces, Budget, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 294

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia of 1887 in relation to elections of State, county, district, and city officers, and the terms of their offices, and filling vacancies.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 295

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.
Agriculture, Business, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 296

An ACT to amend and re-enact the title of an act entitled “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 hereafter establish any such hospital, or pest house, within one hundred and fifty yards of any public road, public park, or public cemetery, in any county of the Commonwealth,”
Healthcare, Public spaces

Chapter 297

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 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, approved March 16, 1903.
Divorce

Chapter 298

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $500, or so much thereof as may be needed, to be used by the secretary of the Commonwealth to prepare a list of charters in his office to be furnished to the State Corporation Commission.
Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 299

An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads and bridges in the county of Fluvanna.
Transportation

Chapter 300

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, approved February 2, 1898, relating to levying of taxes and an additional poll tax for the support of the town government.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 301

An ACT to authorize the couneil of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, Virginia, to cause to be issued the bonds of the said town to the amount of $10,000, and borrow money thereon for the purchase of a lot and the building of a public free school-house thereon,
Bonds, Budget, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 302

An ACT to provide for the permanent improvement of the public roads of Charlotte county, and to authorize the issue of bonds for that purpose.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 303

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to allow notaries or other officers who hold stock in companies to take acknowledgments to deeds or other writing which said companies execute, provided said notaries or other officer are in no otherwise interested,
Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement

Chapter 304

An ACT to prevent the fraudulent sale in bulk of merchandise, or any portion thereof, otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade.
Business, Debt

Chapter 305

An ACT to prescribe the jurisdiction of the several boards of supervisors of the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Page, and Shenandoah, on and after the first day of February, 1904, in matters pertaining to county roads, toll roads, bridges, ferries, mills, fences, stock laws, and apprentices.
Transportation, Amendments, Public officers
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