Chap. 609.—An ACT coneerning public service corporations.
Approved January 18, 1904.
CuHapter I.
Definition of Terms.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, as follows: As
used in this act, the words “public service corporation,” or “public ser-
vice corporations,” shall include transportation and transmission com-
panies, turnpike, and other internal improvement companies, and gas.
pipe line, electric light, heat, power, and water supply companies, and all
persons, firms, partnerships, associations, or corporations authorized to
exercise the right of eminent domain, or to use or occupy any street, al-
ley, or public highway, whether along, over, or under the same, in a man-
ner not permitted to the general public, and shall exclude all municipal
ecrporations and public institutions owned or controlled by the State.

2. As used in this act, the words “transportation company,” or “trans-
portation companies,” shall include any company, trustce, or other person
owning, leasing, or operating, for hire, a railroad, street railway, canal,
steamboat, or steamship line; and also any freight car company, car as-
sociation, car service association, or car trust, express company, or com-
pany, trustee, or person in any way engaged in business as a common
carrier, over a route acquired in whole or in part under the right of
eminent domain.

3. As used in this act, the words “transmission company,” or “trans-
mission companies,” shall include any company owning, leasing, or op-
erating, for hire, any telegraph or telephone line.

4. As used in this act, the word “railroad,” or “railroads,” shall in-
clude all railroad or railway lines, whether operated by steam, electricity,
or other motive power, except when otherwise specifically designated ; and
the words “railroad company,” or “railroad companies,” shall include
any company, trustee, or other persons owning, leasing, or operating a
railroad or railroads, railway or railways, whether operated by steam,
electricity, or other motive power, except when otherwise specifically
designated.

Craprer IT.
Gencral Provisions.

1. No public service corporation, cold storage, compressed air, via-
duct, conduit, or bridge company, nor any corporation, association, per-
son, or partnership, engaged in these or like enterprises, shall use, cross,
or occupy with its works the streets or alleys, public or private, or the
public grounds, of any incorporated city or town, whether along, over
or under the same, without the consent of the corporate authorities
thereof; and in case any person shall be damaged in his property by any
such use, occupation, or crossing, such corporation, association, person,
or partnership shall, before using, crossing, or occupying such streets, al-
leys, or public grounds, make compensation therefor to the person so
damaged. Said compensation, if the parties cannot agree upon the same,
shall be ascertained in the mode prescribed in the laws regulating the
exercise of the right of eminent domain.

2. It shall be the duty of every railroad, canal, or other public ser-
vice corporation, whose road, canal, or works passes through the lands of
any person in this State, to provide proper and suitable wagon ways
across said road, canal, or other works, from one part of said land to the
other, and to keep sucly ways in good repair. Such ways shall be con-
structed on the request of the land owncr, in writing, made to any sec-
tion master, agent, or employee of such company, having charge and su-
pervision of the railroad, canal, or other works at that “point, “and shall
designate the points at whieh the wagon ways are desired; and if there
be no section master, agent, or emplovee of such company, having charge
or supervision of the railroad, canal, or other works, at such point, then
on the request of the land owncr, in writing, made to the company, or
any officer or director thereof. If the company fail or refuse for ten days
after such request to construct wagon ways of a convenient and proper
character at the places designated, then the owner, having given ten days’
notice in writing, as aforesaid, may apply to the cireuit court of the
county or the corporation or hustings court of the city wherein the said
land is located for the appointment “of three disinterested persons whose
lands do not abut on the said railroad, canal, or other works, who shall
constitute a board of commissioners, whose duty it shall be to go upon
the land and determine whether the wagon ways i asked for should. be con-

structed. Their decision shall be in writing, and if favorable to the land
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owner, it shall set forth the points at which the wagon ways should be
constructed, giving also a description of what should be done by the com-
pany to make a suitable and convenient way. The decision of the eom-
missioners shall be returned to and filed in the clerk’s office of such court,
and when called up at the next or any succeeding term of said court, it
shall be confirmed, unless good cause is shown against it by the company,
either party to have the right of appeal to the supreme court of appeals
from the judgment of the said court. If the company shall fail, within a
reasonable time to be fixed by the court at the time of the confirmation
of a report favorable to the land owner, to make the wagon ways therein
referred to, of a suitable and proper character, then, thereafter, it shall
pay the land owner five dollars for each and every day of sue “ failure,

which may be recovered on motion by the land owner against the said
company, in the court of the county or city wherein the said land is lo-
cated, having jurisdiction to try the same. The commissioners shall each
receive for their services the sum of two dollars per day, to be taxed as a
part of the costs of the proceeding.

3. If any railroad, canal, turnpike, or other public service corporation
deems it necessary in the construction of its works to cross any other rail-
road, canal, turnpike, or works of any other public service corporation, or
any county road, it may do so: provided, such crossing shall be so located,
constructed, and operated as not to impair, impede, or obstruct, in any
material degree, the works and operations of the railroad, canal, turn-
pike, or other works, to be crossed: and provided, such crossing shall be
supported by such permanent and proper structures and fixtures, and
shall be controlled by such customary and approved appliances, methods,
and regulations as will best secure the safe passage and transportation of
persons and property along such crossing, and will not be injurious to the
works of the company to be crossed. The cost of such crossings, their
appliances and apparatus, and of the repair and operation of the same,
shall be borne by the party desiring to make the crossing. Before the
work is commenced upon the crossing, the president or general managing
officer of the company which proposes to cross the works of another com-
pany shall submit plans, specifications, appliances, and methods of opera-
tion to the president or other general officer of the latter company; and
if the said plans and specifications are not accepted within thirty days
after the same have been delivered to the president, or any general Officer
of the company whose works are to be crossed, the president or general
managing officer of the first named company may then proceed with the
construction and operation of the said crossing, under the plans and
specifications, and with the appliances and methods, so submitted: pro-
vided, however, the president or general managing officer of the company
whose works are to be crossed may, within fifteen days from the date of
the service of such notice, apply to the State corporation commission to
inquire into the necessity for such crossing, and the propriety of the pro-
posed location, and all matters pertaining to its construction and opera-
tion; and thereupon, within thirty days from the date of the service of
the first notice aforesaid, the State corporation commission in its discre-
tion may, by notice served upon both companies, suspend work on said
crossing for such reasonable time, prescribed in said notice, as it may
deem necessary to make such inquiry. The said State corporation com-
mission may, in its discretion, where railroads or canals are to be crossed
by other railroads or canals, employ expert engineers, at a cost not exceed-
ing five hundred dollars, to be paid equally by both companies, who shall,
with the State corporation commission, or some member thereof, or such
person as the said commission may designate, examine the location, plans,
specifications, appliances, and methods proposed to be employed, and
shall hear any objections and consider any modifications that the com-
pany whose line is to be crossed desires to offer, and within such time as
the State corporation may fix shall reject, approve, or modify the said
plans and specifications, which shall, unless an appeal be taken to the
supreme court of appeals within thirty days from the date of the final
order of said commission, be final and binding on both companies. If
any such company desires that the course of any other railroad, turnpike,
canal, or other works shall be changed to avoid the necessity of any cross-
ing, or frequent crossings of the same, the change may be made in such
manner and on such terms as may be agreed on by the company desiring
the change, and the company, person, or county owning or having charge
of the works to be affected by such change. If any such crossing or
change as is provided in this section cause damage to the works of any
company, or of any county, or to the owner or occupant of any lands, the
company exercising the privileges herein granted shall make proper com-
pensation for such damage. Upon the failure of the company desiring to
make the crossing to receive notice of the acceptance of the said plans
and specifications within thirty days from giving the notice aforesaid, or
upon the adoption of the plans, appliances, and methods by the State cor-
poration commission, or if an appeal be taken as aforesaid, upon the adop-
tion by the supreme court of appeals of the plans, appliances, and
methods, and the payment of the proper compensation for damages by
the company desiring to cross the works of another company, such dam-
ages to be ascertained according to the laws regulating the exercise of the
right of eminent domain, work may be commenced immediately, and no
order shall be made, and no injunction awarded, by any court or judge
to stay the proceedings or prosecution of the work; but any county road,
or stream, or water course, may be altered by any such company for the
purposes aforesaid whenever it shall have made an equally convenient
road or waterway in lieu thereof, the said company having first obtained
the consent of the board of supervisors of the county to the alteration of
any roed or highway.

4. The general assembly reserves the right to provide for connecting
any work of a railroad, canal, or turnpike company, or other public ser-
vice corporation, with any other work of companies of the like character,
at such point as may seem to it proper.

5. It shall be the duty of every corporation, association, person, or
partnership erecting or maintaining any wires over or across any such
works to support the same by, and to maintain all proper and needful
structures, fixtures, and approved appliances as to afford the utmost pro-
tection to the employees of any railroad, canal, turnpike, or other public
service corporation, and to all persons traveling upon or using the same.

6. No sale of any railroad, canal, turnpike, or other work of internal
improvement in which the State is a stockholder, or otherwise interested,
shall take place, whether by virtue of mortgage, deed of trust, judgment,
decree, or other lien, without nincty days’ notice in one or more news-
papers published in the city of Richmond, and in a newspaper, if any,
published in the county wherein such railroad, canal, turnpike, or other
work of internal improvement is situated; and further, without ninety
days’ notice served on the State corporation commission by the person
authorized to make the same.

%. Every railroad, canal, turnpike, or other internal improvement com-
pany, to the stock of which a subscription has been made on behalf of the
State, shall, upon declaring a dividend of the profits of such company,
cause information thereof to be given to the State corporation commis-
sion. And when the proportions of the private stockholders of such divi-
dend are payable, the proportion of the State shall be paid into the public
treasury to the credit of the commissioners of the sinking fund. If sixty
days elapse after the time for the payment without such payment being
made, the company shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

8. The charter of every public service corporation heretofore or here-
after incorporated, may be repealed by any future legislature; except,
that no law shall be passed for taking from a company its works or pro-
perty without making to it just compensation.

9. Every railroad, canal, turnpike, or other internal improvement com-
pany, to the stock of which there has been a subscription on behalf of the
State, shall, on or before the first day of September in each year, make a
report to the State corporation commission, setting forth the condition
of the work; the expenditures for such year, and receipts for the same
time; and how much from each source of revenue. The report shall be
accompanied by a list of the stockholders in the company at the time of
making the same, and shall give such other information respecting the
affairs under the management of those making it as said commission may,
previous to the first day of September, have requested.

10. All persons having the management or superintendence of any
work on any turnpike or other internal improvement, made on the State
account, or of work undertaken partly on the State account and partly by
others in the State (except such roads or turnpikes as have been trans-
ferred to the courts of the respective counties through which they pass),
shall annually, before the first day of September, make a report similar
to that required by the preceding section, so far as the same is applicable.

11. Any person who shall wilfully destroy, injure, or obstruct any of
the works or property of a public service corporation, shall be liable to
such corporation for three times the amount of the actual damage
thereby sustained: provided, however, that this section shall not be con-
strued to relieve such person of any liability to criminal prosecution for
such offense, or of any fine or imprisonment imposed by law therefor.

12. If a sale be made under a deed of trust or mortgage, executed by a
public service corporation, on all its works and property, and there be a
conveyance pursuant thereto, such sale and conveyance shall pass to the
purchaser at the sale not only the works and property of the company as
they were at the time of making the deed of trust or mortgage, but any
works which the company may, after that time and before the sale, have
constructed, and all other property of which it may be possessed at the
time of the sale other than debts due to it. Upon such conveyance to the
purchaser, the said company shall ipso facto be dissolved, and the said
purchaser shall become a corporation by any name which may be set
forth in the said conveyance, upon complying with the provisions of sec-
tion thirty-six, chapter five, of the act entitled “an act concerning cor-
Poraitong,” which became a law May twenty-first, nineteen hundred and
three.

13. The corporation created by or in consequence of such sale and
conveyance, shall succeed to all such franchises, rights, and privileges,
and perform all such duties as would have been had or should have been
performed by the first company but for such sale and conveyance, includ-
ing in the case of a railroad corporation the duty of maintaining and
operating any branch or lateral road which may have been constructed
and operated before the sale, and of transporting freight and passengers
thereon ; save only, that the corporation so created shall not be entitled
to the debts due to the first company, and shall not be liable for any
debts of, or claims against, the said first company, which may not be ex-
pressly assumed in the contract of purchase, and the whole profits of the
business to be done by such corporation shall belong to the said pur-
chaser or his assigns. His interest in the corporation shall be personal
estate, and he or his assigns may create so many shares of stock therein
as he or they may think proper, not excceding together the amount of
stock in the first company at the time of the sale, except in pursuance of
an amendment to the charter obtained according to law, and may assign
the same in a book to be kept for that purpose. The said shares shall
thereupon be on the footing of shares in corporations generally, except
only that the first mecting of the stockholders shall be held on such day
and at such place as shall be fixed by the said purchaser, of which notice
shall be published for two successive weeks in a newspaper.

14. The debts due to and by, and claims against, the corporation whose
works and property are so sold, shall be subject to the provisions con-
tained in section seventeen of this chapter, and the said company, not-
withstanding its dissolution, shall, as to said debts and claims, have the
power and perform the duties prescribed by that section and be served
with process as therein provided.

15. The works and property of a public service corporation sold under
a decree of a court having competent jurisdiction, shall be held by the
purchaser thereof, subject to all the provisions of the three preceding
sections, so far as the same may be applicable to such sale.

16. When any public service corporation shall expire or be dissolved,
or its corporate rights and privileges shall have ceascd, all its works and
property, and debts due to it, shall be subject to the payment of debts
due by it, and then to distribution among the members or stockholders,
according to their respective interests ; such corporation may sue and be
sued as before for the purpose of collecting debts due to it, prosecuting
rights under previous contracts with it, and enforcing its liability, and
distributing the procceds of its works, properly, and debts among those
entitled thereto. Notice to or proccss against such company, if necessary
in any suit or civil proceeding, shall be gyfficiently served by publication
thereof once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper pub-
lished in the county or corporation wherein the suit or proceeding is; or,
if there be no newspaper published in said county or corporation, in a
newspaper published in some neighboring county or corporation in this
State, to be designated by the clerk of the court in which said suit or
proceeding is.

17. Every public service corporation heretofore or hereafter incorpo-
rated and authorized to construct, maintain, or operate, in this State,
any work or works of public service, and any association, person, or part-
nership constructing, maintaining, or operating any such work or works,
shall be governed by the provisions of this chapter, and of the act en-
titled “an act concerning corporations,” which became a law May twenty-
first, nineteen hundred and three, so far as they apply to and are legally
binding on such corporations, associations, persons, and partnerships, as
well as by any laws that may hereafter be enacted relating to such cor-
porations.

18. The expenses incurred prior to the organization of any public ser-
vice corporation, for preliminary surveys, or for stationery or advertising,
or other necessary matter or thing, may, if deemed reasonable by the
president and directors, be paid by their order.

19. Any person or corporation aggrieved by anything done or omitted
in violation of any of the provisions of this act, by any public service cor-
poration chartered or doing business in this State, shall have the right to
make complaint of the grievance and seek relicf by petition against such
public service corporation before the State corporation commission, sit-
ting as a court of record. If the grievance complained of be established,
the State corporation commission, sitting as a court of record, shall have
jurisdiction, by injunction, to restrain such public service corporation
from continuing the same, and to enjoin obedience to the requirements
of this act, and the said commission, sitting as a court of record, shall
also have jurisdiction, by mandamus, to compel any public service corpo-
ration to observe and perform any public duty imposed upon public ser-
vice corporations by the laws of this Commonwealth, subject as to any
matter arising under this section to the right of appeal to the supreme
court of appeals bv either party as of right in the mode prescribed by law,
but nothing in this section shall be construed to confer any power upon
the State corporation commission which is forbidden to the courts by sec-
tion twelve of chapter four of this act.

20. Nothing in this act contained shall in any way abridge or alter
the remedies at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this act
are in addition to such remedies: provided, that no pending litigation
shall in any way be affected by this act.

Cuapter III.

Transportation Companies.

1. It shall be unlawful for any transportation company doing business
in this State to take, charge, or receive any greater compensation in the
aggregate for the transportation of passengers of the same class or pro-
perty along the same line in the same direction for a shorter than for a
longer distance, the shorter being included within the longer distance.
But this section shall not be construed as authorizing any such company
to charge and receive as great compensation for a shorter as for a longer
distance: provided, however, that upon application to the State corpora-
tion commission any such company may, in special cases, after investiga-
tion by the said commission, be authorized to charge less for longer than
for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers or property, and.
the said commission may, from time to time, subject to the provisions of
the Constitution, prescribe the extent to which such designated company
may be relieved from the operation of this section: provided, that noth-
ing in this chapter contained shall be taken as in any manner abridging
or controlling the rates of freight charged by any transportation company
in this State for conveying freight which comes from, or goes beyond, the
boundaries of the State, and on which freight less than local rates on any
transportation line carrying the same are charged by such company, but
said company shall possess the same power and right to charge such rates
for carrying such freight as they possessed before the passage of this act:
provided, further, however, that upon the complaint of any person or per-
sons, corporation or corporations, to said commission of any unjust dis-
crimination in carrying freight which comes from, or goes beyond, the
boundaries of the State by any transportation company, whether organ-
ized under the laws of this State or organized under the laws of another
State, and doing business in this State, the said commission may, in its
discretion, and if it shall be of opinion that the public welfare requires
it, investigate said complaint, and if the same be sustained, it shall be
the duty of said commission to bring said complaint before the interstate
commerce commission for redress in accordance with the provisions of the
act of congress establishing said interstate commerce commission, in
which cases they shall receive, upon application, the services of the attor-
ney-gencral of the State, and he shall represent them before the inter-
state commerce commission: provided, further, that nothing in this chap-
ter shall prohibit railroad or steamboat companies from making special
passenger rates with excursion or other parties; also rates on such
freights as are necessary for the comfort of such parties, subject to the
approval of the State corporation commission.

2. If any transportation company shall, directly or indirectly, by any
special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect,
or receive from any corporation, person, or persons, a greater or Jess com-
pensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered in the transporta-
tion of passengers or property, subject to the provisions of this chapter,
than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any other corpora-
tion, person, or persons for doing for him or them alike and contempo-
rancous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under sub-
stantially similar circumstances and conditions, such company shall be
deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and
dcclared to be unlawful.

3. It shall be unlawful for any transportation company to make or
to give any unduc or unreasonable preference or advantage.to any par-
ticular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or to any par-
ticular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever, or to subject any
particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any par-
ticular description of traffic, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or
disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.

4. All transportation companies shall, according to their respective
powers, and with due regard to the exigencies of their other traffic, af-
ford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of
traffic between their respective lines, and for receiving, forwarding, and
delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines,
and those connecting therewith, and shall not discriminate in their rates
and charges between such connecting lines; but this shall not be con-
strued as requiring any such company to establish or maintain unre-
munerative train service, or to give the use of its track or terminal fa-
cilities to another company engaged in a like business.

5. Every transportation company shall print and keep open to public
inepection schedules showing the rates and fares and charges for the
transportation of passengers and property which have been established
and which are in force at the time upon its route. The schedules printed
as aforesaid by any such company shall plainly state the places upon its
route between which property and passengers will be carried, and shall
contain the classification of freight in force, and shall also state separately
the terminal charges, and any rules and regulations which in any wise
change, affect, or determine any part, or the aggregate of such aforesaid
rates and fares and charges. Such schedules shall be plainly printed in
large type, and copies for the use of the public shall be posted or exhi-
bited in two public and conspicuous places in every depot, station, or
office of such company where passengers or freight, respectively, are re-
ceived for transportation, in such form that they shall be accessible to
the public, and can be conveniently inspected.

6. No advance shall be made in the rates, fares, and charges which
have been established and published as aforesaid, until the same are
submitted to and approved by the State corporation commission; and
when so advanced ten days’ public notice thereof shall be given, which
shall plainly state the changes made in the schedule then.in force, and
the time when the increased rates and fares and charges will go into ef-
fect; and the proposed changes shall be shown by printing new schedules,
or shall be plainly indicated upon the schedules in force at the time, and
kept open to public inspection.

Y. And when the State corporation commission shall have either au-
thorized or prescribed and published any such rates, fares, and charges,
it shall be unlawful for any such company to charge, demand, collect’, or
receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation for the
transportation of passengers or property, or for any services in connec-
tion therewith, than is specified in such published schedule of rates, fares,
and charges, so authorized, or prescribed and published by said commis-
sion, unless or until changed by the State corporation commission.

8. Every transportation company shall submit to the State corpora-
tion commission all of its schedules of rates, fares, and charges, and of
all changes made in the same.

9. Any transportation company, or officer or agent thereof, or any
person acting for or employed by the same, who, by means of false bill-
ing, false classification, false weighing, or false report of weight, or by
any other device or means, shall knowingly and wilfully assist, or shall
willingly suffer or permit any person or persons to obtain transporta-
tion for property at less than the regular rates then established and in
force on the line of transportation of such company, shall be fined not
less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

10. Any person, or any officer of any corporation or company, who
shall deliver property for transportation to any transportation company,
or for whom as consignor or consignee any such transportation company
or line, shall transport property, who shall knowingly and wilfully, by
false billing, false classification, false weighing, false representation of
the contents of the package, or false report of weight, or by any other
fraudulent device or means, whether with or without the consent or con-
nivance of the carricr, its agent or agents, obtain transportation for such
property at less than the regular rates then established and in force on
the Hine of transportation, shall be fined not less than one hundred dol-
lars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense.

11. If any person, or any officer or agent of any corporation or com-
pany shall, by the payment of money or other things of value, solicita-
tion, or otherwise, fraudulently induce any transportation company or any
of its officers or agents, to unjustly discriminate in his, its, or their favor
as against any other consignor or consignee in the transportation of prop-
crty, or shall aid or abet any transportation company in any such un-
just discrimination, such person or such officer or agent of such corpora-
tion or company shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor
more than five hundred dollars for each offense.

12. All transportation companies in this State shall, on demand, issuc
duplicate freight receipts to shippers in which shall be stated the class
or classes of freights shipped, the freight charges over the line, giving
the receipt, and so far as practicable shall state the aggregate freight
charges to point of destination over the line or lines that carry such
freight. When the consignee presents such recipt to the agent of the
company that delivers such freight, such agent shall deliver the articles
shipped, if the same have arrived, upon payment of the freight bill at
the rate charged for the class of freight mentioned in the receipt. If
any transportation company shall violate the provisions of this section,
it shall incur a penalty of one hundred dollars for each violation, to be
recovered by the party injured.

13. It shall be the duty of every transportation company, or carrier,
upon the arrival of freight shipped to any of its depots or stations, to
notify the consignee by mail or otherwise when such freight is ready for
delivery, and give a reasonable time for the removal of the same, mak-
ing due allowance for its class and for bad weather and holidays.

14. Every transportation company or line, doing business in this State,
shall, at the time when such company delivers any article shipped or
transported over its line, furnish to the owner or consignee thereof, or
to his agent, a bill, plainly stating the class of freight to which said ar-
ticles belong, the weight thereof, and the rate charged for transporting

the same.
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15. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the carriage, storage, or
handling of property free or at reduced rates, when such rates have been
authorized or prescribed by the State corporation commission for the
United States, State or municipal governments, or for charitable pur-
poses, or to or from fairs and expositions for exhibition thereat, or the
free carriage of homeless and destitute persons, and the necessary agents
employed in such transportation, or to mileage, excursion, or commuta-
tion passenger tickets, or to persons in charge of live stock being shipped
from the point of shipment to the point of destination and return.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any transportation
company from giving reduced rates to ministers of religion, or to indi-
gent persons, or to inmates of the Confederate homes or State homes for
disabled soldiers and sailors, or to disabled soldiers and sailors, including
those about to enter, and those returning home after discharge, or carry-
ing the same free; nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent
transportation companies from giving free carriage to their own officers,
employees, and members of their families, or to any other person or per-
sons to whom the giving of such free carriage is not prohibited by the
Constitution of this State, or to prevent the principal officers of any
transportation company from exchanging passes or tickets with other
transportation companies for their officers, employees, and members of
their families. ‘

16. All contracts and agreements hereafter made and entered into be-
tween transportation companies doing business in this State, as to rates
or freight and passenger tariffs shall be submitted to the State corpora-
tion commission for inspection, that it may be seen whether or not they
are in violation of law or of the rules and regulations of said commission ;
and all arrangements and agreements whatever as to the division of earn-
ings of any kind by competing transportation companies doing business
in this State shall be submitted to said commission for inspection in so
far as they affect the rules and regulations made by said commission -to
secure to all persons doing business with said companies just and reason-
able rates of freight and passenger tariffs, and any such agreements dis-
approved by virtue of which rates shall be charged exceeding the rates
fixed for freight and passengers shall be deemed, held, and taken to be
violations of the provisions of this chapter, and shall be illegal and void.

17. The reasonablencss, justness, and validity of any rate, charge,
classification of traffic, regulation or requirement, theretofore prescribed
by the State corporation commission, within the scope of its authority
and then in force, shall not be questioned in suits brought by any person
in the ordinary courts of justice, against any transportation company
wherein is involved the charges of any such company for the transporta-
tion of any passenger or freight, or cars, or unjust discrimination in rela-
tion thereto, but in all courts of this State shall be conclusively presumed
to be reasonable, just, and valid; and said commission shall, from time
to time, and as often as circumstances may require, prescribe, change, and
revise, or cause to be changed and revised, the schedules of rates, charges,
and classification of traffic of transportation companies. All such
schedules shall be received and held in all such suits as prima facie the
schedules of the State corporation commission, without further proof
than the production of the schedules desired to be used as evidence, with
a certificate of the clerk of the commission that the same is a true copy
of the schedule prepared or approved by said commission for the trans-
portation company therein named.

19. All lawful transportation companies shall obey all rules and regu-
lations made by the State corporation commission relating to trackage in
cases where the public necessity for such trackage exists. Any violation
of the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less
than one hundred dollars, or exceeding one thousand dollars, for each
and every offense.

20. No transportation company shall, knowingly, transport within
the territorial limits of this Commonwealth, or knowingly transport into
such limits for sale, storage, or use therein, any explosive compound in
quantities exceeding the amounts hereinafter provided for, in any ve-
hicle containing passengers, or in any vehicle attached to any railroad
train or vehicle containing passengers, or in any case, unless the said
explosive compounds be plainly and legibly marked with the names of
such compounds and the words “explosive,” “dangerous.” It shall be the
duty of the State corporation commission, from time to time, to make
rules fixing the maximum amounts of various explosive compounds which
may be so carried in any public vehicle attached to such train, or in any
car or public vehicle, whether freight or passenger, and the method of
packing; and said rules, subscribed by the clerk of said commission, shall
be published for the period of four weeks in a daily paper published in
the city of Richmond, and a copy of said rules, certified by the clerk of
said commission, and a like certificate of the fact of their due publica-
tion, shall in all cases be legal and conclusive proof of said rules and of
the proper publication thereof.

21. Any transportation company that shall knowingly transport any
explosive contrary to the rules prescribed as aforesaid by the State cor-
poration commission, after they shall have been published as in section
twenty-one required, or who shall send or receive such explosive com-
pound not marked as aforesaid, or who shall send such explosive com-
pound not packed as required by said rules; or any conductor of a train
of cars on any railroad, or captain of a steamboat, or person in charge of
any public vehicle engaged in transporting passengers or freight, who
shall knowingly fail to observe said rules in transporting an explosive
compound after the same shall have been published as aforesaid, shall be
fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

22. Every officer, agent, or employee of any transportation company
who shall wilfully neglect or refuse to make and furnish any report law-
fully required by the State corporation commission for the purposes of
this act, or who shall wilfully or unlawfully hinder, delay, or obstruct
the said commission in the discharge of the dutics imposed upon it by
the Constitution, or by law, connected with the objects and purposes of
this act, shall be fined five hundred dollars for each offense.

23. Any transportation company or corporation which violates any of
the provisions of this chapter, or refuses to conform to or obey any lawful
rule, order, or regulation of the State corporation commission relating to
the provisions of this chapter, may, when not otherwise provided in this
chapter, be fined by the State corporation commission, in its discretion,
in sum not exceeding five hundred dollars for each offense, and each day
such company or corporation continues to violate any provision of this
chapter, or continues to refuse to obey or perform any lawful rule, order,
or regulation prescribed by the State corporation commission, shall be a
separate offense.

24, Whenever any property is received by a common carrier to be trans-
ferred from one place to another, within or without this State, or when
a railroad or other transportation company issues its receipt or bills of
lading in this State, the common carrier, railroad or transportation com-
pany issuing such bill of Jading shall be liable for any loss or damage or
injury to such property caused by its negligence or the negligence of any
common carrier, railroad or transportation company operating within
any territory or State of the United States to which such property may
be delivered, or over whose lines such property may pass; and the fact of
loss or damage in such case shall itself be prima facie evidence of negli-
gence, and the common carrier, railroad or transportation company issu-
ing any such receipt or bill of lading shall be entitled to recover in a
proper action the amount of any loss, damage, or injury it may be re-
quired to pay to the owner of such property from the common carrier,
railroad or transportation company aforesaid through whose negligence
the loss, damage, or injury may be sustained. No contract, receipt, rule,
or regulation shall exempt any such common carrier, railroad or trans-
portation company from the lability of a common carrier which would
exist had no contract been made or entered into.

The receipt of goods destined to a point beyond the line or route of the
initial carrier or the acceptanee of through freight on same, shall be
deemed to be a contract for carriage to ultimate destination and delivery
of such property at that point. And unless the common carrier, railroad
cr transportation company first receiving such property shall, within a
reasonable time after loss or damage thereto, pay to the consignor, his
agent or assignee the amount of damage sustained thereby, then such
consignor, his agent or assignee may by proper action recover of such
common carrier, railroad, or transportation company first receiving such
property the amount of such loss or damage.

25. No agreemynt made by a transportation company for exemption
from liability for injury or loss occasioned by its own neglect or miscon-
duet as a common carrier shall be valid.

26. Where transportation lines are owned or operated by persons, or
partnerships, or associations, not incorporated, any one or more of them
may be sued by his or their name or names only, to recover damages for
loss or injury to any person, parcel, or package, and such suit shall not
abate for want of joining any of his co-partners or co-proprietors.

27. If any railroad, or other transportation company, when directed
by a valid order of the State corporation commission, refuses or fails to
make neecssary repairs or additions to its rolling stock, or addition or
improvement to its equipment, or any enlargement of or improvement
in its stations, station houses, wharves, or landings, or any change in the
mode of operating its road or transportation line, or in conducting its
business, which the said commission deems reasonable and expedient in
order to promote the security, convenience, and accommodation of the
public, such company shall, in the discretion of the said commission,
be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.

28. Any express, railroad, or other company engaged in the express
business, or in any way in the transportation of articles of any kind, as
freight or baggage, and having an office or place of business in this State.
having any unclaimed articles, not perishable, in its possession for a pe-
riod of sixty days, at least, may, at the expiration of that time, proceed
to sell the same at public auction, and out of the procceds may retain
the charges of transportation and storage of such articles, which expense
and charges shall be a lien upon such article: provided, that said com-
pany shall first give public notice of such sale, in one or more newspa-
pers, once a week for four successive wecks, published nearest the place of
sale, which notice shall set forth the time and place of sale, a description
of each unclaimed package, and the name of the person, if known, to
whom it is directed. °

29. Such company shall make an entry of the balance of the proceeds
cf sale of each article directed to the same person, as near as can be as-
certained, and at any time within three years thereafter, shall refund any
surplus so retained to the owner, or his personal representative, upon
satisfactory proof of such ownership; and shall, if no claim be made for
such balance, supported by satisfactory proof within three years, pay the
same into the treasury of the State, accompanied with a correct list of
all the articles sold by said company, from which such surplus was de-
rived, with the names, if known, of the persons to whom said packages
originally belonged. The treasurer shall receipt to the company for the
same, keep a correct account thereof, and the money so paid in shall be
applied to the support of public schools.

Cuapter IV.
Railroads and Railroad Companies.

1. In every city or town of this Commonwealth where two or more
railroads do now, or shall hereafter terminate, and said railroad com-
pany or companies shall make application to the corporate authorities
thereof for permission to connect their roads within the corporate limits
of said city or town, subject to the municipal regulations thereof, if the
permission shall be refused, it shall be lawful for said railroad company
or companies to make such connection outside of the limits of such city
or town, by the most direct and practicable route, and acquire land neces-
sary for the purpose in the mode prescribed in the laws regulating the
exercise of the right of eminent domain.

2. So soon as any portion of a railroad may be ready for transporta-
tion, the railroad company may, by its officers and agents, or by contrac-
tors, transport persons and property on the same, for which purpose there
shall be kept in good order such locomotives, cars, and other things as
taay be proper. The company shall have exclusive right of transporta-
tion on its road, and shall, upon the payment or tender of the lawful
rates of toll or charge, transport to anq deliver at any depot or other
regular stopping place indicated by the owner, such articles as shall be
delivered or offered at any depot or other receiving place, in proper con-
Cition, to be transported. The property of all persons shall, as far as
practicable, be transported in the order of time in which it shall be de-
livered or offered, and the tolls or charges paid or tendered.

3. If the railroad company shall, after payment or tender of the law-
ful tolls or charges, fail, or refuse to receive or to transport, or to de-
liver in a reasonable time, any property so delivered or offered, or fail
to take up or set down any passenger at such depot or other regular stop-
ping place of a train schedule to stop at such depot or place, as he may
desire, or if the said company shall demand and receive more than is
lawful, it shall forfeit to the injured party a sum, to be recovered by
motion or action, of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hun-
dred dollars.

4. It shall not be lawful for any railroad company, or its agent, to
charge or receive any fee or commission other than the regular transpor-
tation fees, storage, and other charges authorized by law, for manifesting,
receiving, or shipping any goods or other articles for transportation on
such railroads. Any railroad company, or its agent, violating this sec-
tion, shall be fined one hundred dollars. Nothing in this section shall
be construed to prevent any transportation company from charging such
fees and commissions, other than the regular transportation fees, for
manifesting, receiving, or shipping goods, or other articles, for trans-
portation on such roads at intermediate points thereon, between what
are known as the regular depots, as may be agreed on between the ship-
per and such company.

6. All railroad companies shall keep their ticket offices open for the
sale of tickets at least thirty minutes immediately preceding the schedule
time of departure of all passenger trains from every regular passenger
depot from which such trains start, or at which they regularly stop; and
shall open the waiting-room for passengers at least one hour preceding
the schedule time of the departure of such trains, and keep it open, and
comfortably warm in cold weather, until the train departs; and shall
cause to be announced twice within each passenger car, except sleeping
cars, of every passenger train, within a reasonable time before its ar-
rival at a station at which, from notice given, it is to stop, the name of
such station; and at junctions, crossings, and points where trains leave
at or near the same time in different directions, shall cause to be an-
nounced in each passenger car the direction in which such car is to go.
Any railroad company refusing or failing to comply with the prrovisions
of this section shall be fined ten dollars for each offense.

%. When the arrival of a passenger train at any depot, where a tele-
graph office is required by law to be kept, is delayed beyond the time
fixed by the schedule, it shall be the duty of the company, at least thirty
minutes prior to such schedule time, if the same be known, to have posted
in some conspicuous place at or near the depot, a notice of such delay
and of the time of the expected arrival of such train. Every company
failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be fined ten
dollars for each offense: provided, that this section shall not be so con-
strued as to render such company liable for any erroneous statement con-
tained in such notice unless wilfully made.

8. In times of war, invasion, or insurrection, troops or persons in the
military or naval service of this State, or of the United States, with their
arms, munitions, and baggage, shall be promptly transported on a rail-
road in preference to other persons and property. And when troops or
persons in such service pass on a railroad the tolls on them shall not ex-
ceed one-half of the rates on other persons.

9. Any railroad company may construct and maintain along the line
of its improvement an electric telegraph or telephone for its own use and
that of the public, and may make reasonable charges on messages and
intelligence conveyed thereby.

10. The president or any other executive officer of any railroad com-
pany incorporated by this State may, with the approbation of the circuit
court of any county, or the corporation or hustings court of any corpora-
tion through which the road passes, appoint one or more police agents,
who shall have authority upon the road and at other places within this
State belonging to such company to exercise all the powers which can
lawfully be exercised by any constable for the preservation of the peace,
the arrest of offenders and disorderly persons, and for the enforcement
of the laws against crimes, and such president or any other executive
officer may remove any such agent at his pleasure: provided, that any
court giving such consent may at any time revoke it. Conductors of rail-
road trains and station or depot agents shall be conservators of the peace,
and they, and each of them, shall have the same power to make arrests
that justices have, except that the conductors shall only have such power
on board their respective trains and on the property of their company
while on duty, and the agents at their respective places of business; and
the said conductors and agents may cause any person so arrested by them
to be detained and delivered to the proper authorities for trial as soon as
practicable.

11. Every railroad company doing business in this State shall estab-
lish and maintain along its line, at depots or stations not more than ten
miles apart, telegraphic or telephonic offices to be operated by competent
persons in the employ of such company: provided, however, that the
State corporation commission may grant such company, in any special
case, permission to have its telegraphic or telephonic offices at a greater
distance from each other than ten, but not more than fifteen, miles; but
in case of narrow-gauge roads the State corporation commission may ex-
tend the limit beyond fifteen miles. It shall be the duty of every opera-
tor to telegraph or telephone the arrival and departure of every train, so
soon as it shall leave the depot or station, to the train dispatcher or other
person regulating the running of trains, and if there be no such person,
then to the nearest telegraph or telephone office in the direction in which
such train is going. The person receiving the message shall forthwith
give such order or notification by telegram, telephone, or by such proper
signals as may be necessary to prevent any collision of trains. Every
railroad company failing to establish and maintain such offices shall, in
the discretion of the State corporation commission, be fined not less than
one hundred nor more than one thousang dollars for each offense, and
any such failure for three months shall be deemed a separate offense;
and any operator or train dispatcher failing to comply with the require-
ments of this section shall be liable to a like fine, in the discretion of the
court or jury.

12. Every railroad company shall cause to be erected along its line
and on both sides of its road-bed lawful fences, as defined by the laws of
this State, which may be made of timber or wire, or both, and shall keep
the same in proper repair, and with which the owners of adjoining lands
may connect their fences at such places as they may deem proper. In
erecting these fences the company shall, at the termini of those portions
of the road-bed which it is required to fence, and on each side of all pub-
lic and private crossings, construct across its road-bed and keep in good
repair cattle-guards reasonably sufficient to turn all kinds of stock, with
which its fences shall be connected. Such cattle-guards at private cross-
ings may, with the consent of the owners of said crossings, be dispensed
with, but in such case, in lieu of cattle-guards, the company shall erect
and keep in good order sufficient gates; and may erect gates or bars in
addition to the cattle-guards required by this act, if, in the judgment of
said company, the hazard to trains at such crossings requires gates or
bars as an additional safeguard to life and property on the trains. But
no court of this Commonwealth shall have jurisdiction by writ of man-
damus or otherwise to compel the erection of such fence, or building of
such cattle-guards: provided, that through lands or lots actually enclosed
mandamus may lie to require such company to erect and maintain such
fences and cattle-guards.

13. The preceding section, so far as it relates to fencing, shall not
apply to any part of a railroad located within the corporate limits of a
city or town, or between the terminals of switches, or spur tracks, not
exceeding three hundred and fifty yards from the depot, either way, nor
to any part of a railroad at a place where there is a cut or embankment
with sides sufficiently steep to prevent the passage of stock at such place;
nor shall it apply to a company which has compensated the owner for
making and keeping in repair the necessary fencing, but the burden of
proving such compensation shal] be on the company, and no report of any
commissioners shall be received as proof thereof, unless it shall plainly
appear on the face of the report, or from other evidence in connection
therewith, that an estimate was made by such commissioners for the
fencing, and the expense for the same entered into, and constituted a
part of the damages reported and actually paid.

14. No railroad company shall be liable for any injury to any person
or property on such part of its track as may be enclosed according to the
provisions of this chapter, unlcss it be made to appear that the person or
property was thereon by express permission of the company, or through
the negligence of its employecs, agents, or servants, or unless the injury
be wilful or the result of gross negligence on the part of the company, its
servants, agents, or employces.

15. In any action or suit against a railroad company for an injury to
any property on any part of its track not enclosed according to the pr~
visions of this chapter, it shall not be necessary for the claimant to show
that the injury was caused by the negligence of the company, its em-
ployces, agents, or servants.

16. It shall be the duty of every railroad company, whose road passes
through any enclosed lands in this State, to construct and keep in good
order cattle-guards reasonably sufficient to prevent the passage of stock
of every kind over such land, at any point where a fence may be necessary
or proper, whether it be a division fence between contiguous farms or
between different parcels or tracts belonging to the same person, or a
fence along a public highway. Such cattle-guards shall be constructed
on the request of the land owner, in writing, made to any section master
or employee of the company having charge or supervision of the road at
that point. If the company refuse or fail, for ten days after such re-
quest, to construct the cattle-guards at the place designated, the owner
having given ten days’ notice in writing to such section master or em-
ployee, may apply, until February first, nineteen hundred and four, to the
county court, and on and after February first, nineteen hundred and
four, to the circuit court of such county for the appointment of three
disinterested freeholders, whose duty it shall be to go on the land and
determine whether the proposed cattle-guard shall be constructed. Their
decision shall be in writing, and shall be forthwith returned to and filed
in the office of the clerk of such county. If such decision be that the
cattle-guard ought to be constructed, the company shall, within thirty
days thereafter, construct the same. Upon its failure so to do, it shall
pay to the land owner five dollars for every day of such failure. Any
style of cattle-guard approved by the State corporation commission shall,
if properly established and maintained, be deemed a sufficient cattle-
guard within the meaning of this chapter.

17. Every railroad company, after erecting the fences mentioned in
section fifteen, may discontinue all cattle-guards enclosed by such fences,
except such as are provided for at public or private crossings, and in lieu
thereof the owners of contiguous lands may connect their fences with
those of the company at such place or places as they may desire.

18. No railroad company doing business in this State shall run on its
road any locomotive not having an approved spark arrester. Every com-
pany violating the provisions of this section shall be fined ten dollars for
each offense, and each day of running such locomotive shall be deemed a
separate offense.
~ 19. No railroad company now or hereafter chartered in this State, and
having the right to construct its road through any mountain pass or nar-
row defile of any creek or river valley, shall have the right to the exclu-
sive occupancy of such pass or defile, and this provision shall apply as
well to those railroad companies whose charters contain no such limita-
tion as aforesaid, as to those whose charters already contain such, or any
similar limitation: provided, however, that whenever any railroad com-
pany shall locate its line through a mountain pass or defile in accordance
with the provisions of this act, “and shall be actually engaged in grading,
building, or operating its line ‘of railroad through such mountain pass or
defile, no other railroad company shall locate and build its line through
such mountain pass or defile in such manger that its grading, building,
or ppenation will prevent or obstruct. the grading. building, or operation

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of said railroad first occupying suclr pass, and actually and bona fide
under the terms of its charter engaged in so grading, building, or ope-
rating the same; but such other railroad: may, whenever its line cannot be
located or built without obstructing or preventing the grading, building,
or operation of the railroad first occupying such pass, use the line, road-
bed, tracks, and other works or property of the last-mentioned railroad,
so far as such use may be necessary to give ingress, egress, and passage
through such mountain pass or defile to such other railroad or railroads:
provided, however, that the terms and conditions, rules, and regulations,
governing such use, and the compensation to be paid therefor, shall, un-
less agreed upon by the railroads interested, be prescribed by the State
corporation commission, subject to appeal as in other cases.

20. In all suits brought before a justice of the peace against railroad
companies to recover penalties for failure to construct cattle-guards as
required by law, either party shall have the right of appeal, until Febru-
ary first, ninctcen hundred and four, to the county court, and on and
after February first, nineteen hundred and four, to the circuit court of
the county where such suit is brought, from the judgment of the justice,
without regard to the amount in controversy.

21. Whenever any corporation chartered or existing by, under, or in
pursuance of the laws of any State or country other than the State of
Virginia, shall assume the operation and control of any railroad in this
State as purchaser or lessee, or in pursuance of a consolidation or merger
of rights, property, franchises, and interest, or otherwise, such corpora-
tion shall, before assuming the operation, management, or control of any
such railroad, be chartered under the laws of this State, and shall as such
be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State, and in all re-
spects be governed and, so far as located in this State, shall be controlled
by the laws of this State.

22. All railroad companies in this State shall, upon three days’ notice,
provide transportation for all farm produce delivered at a depot of such
company, or shall have at such depot safe storage for same, and said com-
pany shall be responsible for damage resulting from failure to provide for
transportation or storage.

23. Any railroad company created under the laws of, or operated in
the State of Virginia, having a terminus on navigable waters, may, for
the purpose of procuring steamboat or vessel property to be employed in
connection with the business of said railroad, enter into contracts with
the company or companice building or owning such steamboat or steam-
boats, or other vessel property, for guaranteeing the payment of the prin-
cipal and interest of bonds issued for the purpose of paying for the pur-
chase or building of the same, and all guarantecs of bonds for such pur-

es heretofore given by any such railroad company are hereby vali-
dated and confirmed, with the same effect as if made and entered into
subsequent to the passage of this act.

24. Every railroad company, whose line is operated by steam, shall pro-
vide cach locomotive engine passing upon its road with a bell of ordinary
size, and steam whistle, and such whistle shall be sharply sounded outside
of incorporated cities and towns at least twice at a distance of not less
than three hundred yards nor more than six hundred yards from the
place where the railroad crosses upon the same level any highway or
crossing, and such bell shall be rung or whistle sounded continuously or
alternately until the engine has reached such highway crossing, and shall
give such signals in cities and towns as the legislative authorities thereof
may require. And the said company shall be liable for damages which
shall be sustained by any person by reason of such neglect.

25. Every officer or employee of any railway company, whose duty it
shall be to carry out any of the provisions of the next preceding section
and shall fail to do so, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dol-
lars for each offense.

26. Any railroad company which is authorized to acquire, unite with,
use, or lease any line of any other railroad or transportation company, or
with which it shall lawfully have established connection, shall have the
authority to acquire and hold, by condemnation or otherwise, at any point
or points upon or near any such line so acquired, united with, used,
leased, or connected with, or at or within five miles of any terminus
thereof, so much real estate as may be necessary and proper for the al
poses of said company.

27. All urban, inter-urban, and suburban electric railway companies
shall use vestibuled fronts on all motor cars run, operated, or transported
by them on their lines during the months of November, December, Jan-
uary, February, March, and April of. each year: provided, that such ves-
tibuled fronts need not be used on open summer cars run, operated, or
transported by them, during the months of November and April: and
provided, that said companies shall not be required to close the sides of
said vestibules, and any such company refusing or failing to comply with
said requirement shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

28. All railroad companies or corporations, person or persons, run-
ning or operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track
within this State, and all railroad companies, person or persons doing
business in this State. whether upon lines of railroad owned in part or
whole, or leascd by lines that may herealver be granted in this State, and
all foreign corporations, companies, person or persons organized under
charters granted, or that may be hereafter granted, by any other State,
who may be now, or may hereafter be, engaged in running or operating
any of the railroads of this State, either in part or whole, either in their
own name or that of others, are hereby required to furnish separate cars
or coaches for the travel or transportation of the white and colored pas-
sengers on their respective lines of railroad. Each compartment of a
coach divided by a good and substantial partition, with a door therein,
shall be deemed: a separate coach within the meaning of this section, and
cach separate coach or compartment shall bear in some conspicuous place
appropriate words in plain letters, indicating the race for which it is set
apart.

29. Such railroad companies, person or persons shall make no differ-
ence or discrimination in the quality, convenience, or accommodation in
the cars or coaches or partitions set apart for white and colored passcn-

gers.
30. Any such railroad company or companies, person or persons, that
shall fail, refuse, or neglect to comply with the provisions of the two sec-
tions next preceding of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon indictment and conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than three hundred nor more than one thousand dollars for each
offense.

31. The conductors or managers on all such railroads shall have power,
and are hereby required, to assign to each white or colored passenger
his or her respective car, coach, or compartment, the conductor or man-
agers acting in good faith, being for the purposes of this act the judge
of the race of each passenger, and such passenger has refused to disclose
his race; and should any passenger refuse to occupy the car, coach, or
compartment to which he or she may be assigned by the conductor or
manager, said conductor or manager shall have the right to refuse to
carry such passenger on his train, and may put such passenger off his
train. And for such refusal and putting off of the train, neither the
manager, conductor, nor railroad company shall be liable for damages
in any court.

32. Any conductor or manager on any such railroad who shall fail
or refuse to carry out the provisions of section thirty-one of this chapter
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and
conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than
fifty dollars for each offense.

33. When any coach or compartment of a car for either race shall be
completely filled, where no extra coaches or cars can be had, und the in-
creased number of passengers could not be foreseen, the conductor in
charge of such train is hcreby authorized to assign and set apart a por-
tion of the car or compartment assigned to passengers of one race to pas-
sengers of another race.

34, The provisions of sections twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-
one, and thirty-two shall not apply to employees on railroads, or to per-
sons employed as nurses, or to officers in charge of prisoners, lunatics,
whether the said prisoners or lunatics are white or colored, or both white
and colored, or to prisoners or lunaties in his custody, nor shall the same
apply to the transportation of passengers in any caboose car attached to
a freight train, nor to Pullman cars, nor to through or express trains
that do no local business.

35. Until the first day of February, nineteen hundred and four, the
county courts, and after the first day of February, nineteen hundred and
four, the circuit courts, of the counties in which such railroads are op-
crated shall have jurisdiction over offenses committed within the limits
of their respective counties in violation of sections twenty-seven, twenty-
eight, twenty-nine, thirty, and thirty-three of this chapter, and the cor-
poration courts of the citics in which such railroads are operated shall
have jurisdiction of all offenses in violation of said! sections committed
within the corporate limits of such cities.

36. Where any railroad track passes under any bridge, tunnel, or
structure, not sufficiently high to admit of the safe passage of cars upon
such railroad: tracks, with the servants and employees standing at their
posts of duty on said cars, the person or persons, firm, or corporation,
operating said railroad and running its trains thereon, shall erect and
maintain, at proper distances on each side of such bridge, tunnel, or
structure, warning signals of approved design, and in gencral use, to
warn the servants and employees, or those operating such railroads, of
the approach to such bridge, tunnel, or structure, and the failure to erect
and maintain such danger signals shall make those operating such rail-
roads liable in damages for the death or injury of any employee or ser-
vant resulting from the insufficient height of such bridge, tunnel, or
structure, and no contract, expressed or implied, and no plea of, or de-
fense based upon, the contributory negligence of the servant or employee
shall relieve those operating such railroads of the liability imposed
hereby. The State corporation commission is hereby authorized, by
general or especial regulations or order, to determine or approve the char-
acter and location of any danger signal which may be erected and main-
tained to comply with the provisions of this act, and any and every
danger signal constructed and located as the said commission shall deter-
mine and approve shall be deemed within the meaning of this act to be
an approved danger signal and erected at the proper distance on each
side of such bridge, tunnel, or structure.

37. Any railroad company heretofore, or that may hereafter, be incor-
porated, and authorized to construct a railroad within the jurisdiction of
this State, shall, when such railroad is constructed to any other railroad
track, or the right of way of any other railroad being operated under the
laws of this State, have the right to connect: with such railroad in any
county of this State at its own cost, at any suitable point that may be
agreed upon between the chief engineers of the two railroad companies,

-and if the said engineers shall fail to agree, the State corporation com-
mission may, after hearing evidence, decide the question in dispute and
enter the proper order. But such connection, if made, and all costs and
expenses of such operation and maintenance of such connection, includ-
ing signals and other things deemed necessary by the company with
which said connection is made, for the proper opcration and protection
thereof, shall be borne and paid by the company making such connection.

38. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this State that all crossings
of one railroad by another, or of a county road or highway by a railroad,
or of a railroad by a county road or highway, shall, wherever reasonably
practicable, pass above or below the existing structure. . And every rail-
road hereafter constructed across another railroad or across a county
road or highway, and every county road or highway hereafter constructed
across a railroad, shall, wherever it is reasonably practicable, and does not
involve an unreasonable expense, all the circumstances of the case consid-
ered, pass above or beneath the existing structure at a sufficient clevation
or depression, as the case may be, with easy grades, so as to admit of safe
and speedy travel over each. The provisions of this section shall not
apply to crossings in cities or towns, nor to electric railways within or
without cities and towns.

39. At every existing crossing, such as is mentioned in the preceding
section, the grade of the work last constructed. to the full width of the
road crossing, shall be made sufficiently gyooth and level to admit of
safe and speedy travel over such crossing, yyhen such improvement is to
be made in a railroad it shall be made by the corporation, company, or
person operating the same. When it is to be made in a county road,
street, or other highway, it shall be made by the corporation whose track
is to be crossed, and the expense shall be borne equally by said corpora-
tion and by county, city, or town having control of such county road,
street, or other highway. When the crossing is at an elevation the ap-
proaches and structures shall be safe, permanent, and substantial, and
when the crossing is underneath the road to be crossed, the road, street,
or highway and all necessary drains and ditches shall be put in good,
permanent condition, and the structure supporting the road shall be safe,
substantial, and permanent. Whenever the character of the work to be
done on the structures, roads, streets, or highways, drains and ditches
cannot be agreed to by the corporation and the county, city, or town bear-
ing the expense of the crossing, the same shall be fixed and determined
by the State corporation commission. After said crossing has been con-
structed the corporation whose track or work is crossed shall maintain
the same.

40. No passenger car on any railroad shall be lighted by naphtha, or by
illuminating oil or fluid made in parts of naphtha, or any oil or fluid which
will ignite at a temperature of less than one hundred and fifty degrees
Fahrenheit.

41. All companics or corporations, person or persons, running or ope-
rating trains, cars, or coaches by electricity, on any railroad line or track
within this State; and all railroads, traction, or power companies, per-
son or persons, running or operating trains, cars, or coaches by electricity
in this State, whether upon lines of railroad owned, in part or in whole,
or leased, or lines that may hereafter be granted or constructed ; and all
foreign corporations organized under charters now granted, or that may
be hereafter granted, by any other State, or person or persons who may
now, or may hereafter, be engaged in running or operating any electric
railroad or railway within this State, either in part or in whole, either in
their own name or in the name of others, be, and are hereby, authorized
and empowered in all such cars and coaches to separate the white and
colored passengers, and to set apart and designate in each car or coach
a portion thereof, or certain seats therein, to be occupied by white pas-
sengers, and a portion thereof, or certain seats therein, to be occupied by
colored passengers.

42. The said companies, corporations, or persons so operating trains,
cars, or coaches upon such lines of railroad or railway, shall make no dif-
ference or discrimination in the quality and convenience of the accom-
modations provided for the two races under the provisions of section
forty: and it is further provided, that said companies, corporations, or
persons so operating trains, coaches, or cars upon such lines of railroad
or railway shall in cold weather reasonably heat the several apartments
of all cars carrying passengers therein.

43. The conductor, manager, or other person in charge of any car or
coach so operated upon any such line of railroad or railway shall have the
right at any time, when, in his judgment, it may be necessary or proper
for the comfort and convenience of the passengers so to do, to change
the designation so as to increase or decrease the amount of space or seats
set apart for either race, or he may require any passenger to change his
or her seat when and as often as he may deem neccessary or proper.

44, All persons who shall fail to take and occupy the seats assigned to
them as heretofore, by sections forty and forty-two provided, or fail to
obey the instructions and directions of the conductor or manager of such
car or coach as to the seat or space to be occupied by such passenger, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall
be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars. And
any person or persons failing to take and occupy the seat or seats assigned
to him, her, or them, or failing to obey the instructions and directions as
herein, by sections forty and forty-two provided for, may be ejected from
said car and from the right of way of said company by any conductor,
motorman, or manager of said company; and in case such passenger
ejected shall have paid his fare upon said car, he shall not be entitled to
a return of any part of said fare.

45. Each conductor and motorman in the employ of said company,
upon the cars of said company, shall be a special policeman, and have all
the powers of conservators of the peace while upon the cars and right of
way of said company in the enforcement of the provisions of this act, and
in the discharge of his duty as special policeman in the enforcement of
order upon said cars and said right of way.

46. No company, corporation, person, conductor, manager, or motor-
man shall in any case be liable for damage to any one for any lawful act
done in the enforcement of the provisions of sections forty-one, forty-
three, forty-four, and forty-five of this chapter.

47. The provisions of sections forty-one, forty-three, and forty-four
shall not apply to employees engaged in conducting, managing, or ope-
rating said trains, cars, or coaches, nor to persons cmploved as nurses, nor
officers in charge of prisoners or lunatics: provided, that the provisions of
sections forty-one to forty-seven, inclusive, shall not be construed to alter,
amend, or repeal any act now in force regulating the separation of the
races on street or electric railway lines.

48. Any railroad company that has established and maintained
throughout the year, for five consecutive years, a passenger station at a
point on its road, shall not abandon such station without the written con-
sent of the State corporation commission, and if any station used by a
company is burned or otherwise destroyed or becomes unfit for the ac-
commodation of the public, unless the same is rebuilt, repaired, or reno-
vated within a reasonable time, the State corporation commission shall
require the company owning or using such station to rebuild, repair, or
renovate the same, as the case may be, and such company shall, within
ninety days after notice, comply with the said requirements; and every
company operating a railroad in this State shall provide a convenient and
suitable waiting-room and‘water closet or privies at all depots in cities
and towns, and at such other stations as the State corporation commis-
sion may require, on its lines, and keep and maintain the same in decent
order and repair: provided, that so much of this section as relates to the
abandonment of stations shall not apply in cases where stations have
been abandoned because of a change in {he location of the line of any
such railroad.
49. Every railroad company shall cause signal boards, well supported
by posts or otherwise, at such heights as to be easily seen by travelers,
and not obstructing travel, containing on each side, in capital letters, at
least five inches high, the following inscription: “Railroad crossing,” to
be placed, and constantly maintained, at cach public highway where it
is crossed by the railroad at the same level; but such board need not be
put up in cities or towns, unless required by the local authorities thereof.

50. Whenever, in fhe opinion of the State corporation commission,
after giving notice and hearing as prescribed by law, the public interest
requires that a gate be erected or maintained, or a flagman stationed at
any highway crossing within two miles of the corporate limits of any in-
corporated city or town of this Commonwealth, it shall give the super-
intendent or manager of the railroad written notice that the same is
required ; and the company shall, within the time prescribed by the com-
mission, erect and maintain at much crossing the character of gate di-
rected by the commission, and keep a man in charge of the same during
such hours as the commission may designate, or keep a flagman at such
crossings during such hours as they may require. And the said com-
mission may authorize the discontinuance of such gate or flagman when-
ever, in their judgment, the public interest no longer requires ‘the same.

51. Whenever railroads cross cach other on the same grade in this
State, the trains shall be brought to a full stop at least fifty feet before
getting to the crossing: provided, however, that the provisions of this
act shall not be applicable where the crossings of such roads are regu-
lated by derailing switches, or other safety appliances, which prevent col-
lision at crossings, nor where a flagman or watchman is stationed, or
signal tower is located, and signals that the trains may cross in safety.

52. Notice of every accident which occurs, attended with loss of life
or injury to person, shall he given within five days thereafter by the
company operating the railroad on which the accident occurred to the
State corporation commission, and such company shall furnish the com-
mission all information requested by it concerning the cause of the ac-
cident.

53. No regular or other passenger train, on any railroad operated by
steam, shall be run without an air brake, or some equally effective ap-
pliance for controlling the sped of trains, which may be applied by the
engineer to each car composing the train, and which shall, at all times,
be kept in good condition and ready for use at the discretion of the en-
ginecr. The State corporation commission may require all other trains
to be equipped with like appliances whenever, in its opinion, the public
interests require it. The said commission may also require any company
operating any such railroad to establish and maintain the block system
or some other equally efficient system to regulate the movement of its
trains, in order to prevent collisions.

54. Motormen and conductors operating street cars or electric cars in
the counties of this State are vested with the powers of special police on
their respective cars, and are authorized: to carry arms, hid from com-
mon observation while on duty, and while going to and returning from
their place of work.
54. Every railroad company shall furnish sufficient accommodation
for the transportation of all such passengers and property as shall, within
a reasonable time previous to the departure of its trains offer, or be of-
fered, for transportation, at placcs established for receiving and dis-
charging passengers and freight, and: shall, when requested, subject to
reasonable rules and regulations as the company may establish, which
rules and regulations may be changed from time to time by the State
corporation commission, check every parcel of baggage taken for trans-
portation, if such parcel is in reasonably good condition, and if there
is a handle, loop, or fixture, so that the same can be attached, and shall
give to the person delivering such baggage a check for the same.

55. Every railroad company shall keep its right of way clear and free
from weeds, high grass, and decayed timber, which, from their nature
and condition, are combustible material, liable to take and communicate
fire from passing trains to abutting or adjacent property.

56. Every person or corporation now operating, or that may hereafter
operate, a railroad in this State under a contract or lease, shall have the
same filed in the office of the State corporation commission, within thirty
days after the contract or lease is executed; or, if heretofore made, within
thirty days after this law goes into effect.

5%. Whenever any horses, cattle, or other stock may be killed or in-
jured, or other property damaged, by the cars or locomotives upon any
railroad, it shall be lawful for the owner thereof or for the railroad com-
pany to have the property examined and the damages assessed by a board
of appraisers in the following manner: Either party, his agent or attor-
ney, may appoint a disinterested freeholder of the county or city wherein
the injury occurred as the appraiser in his behalf, and notify the other
party; such notice, when intended for the railroad company, shall be
sufficient if given to the nearest section foreman or station agent of the
company, and thereupon the party so notified shall appoint a like ap-
praiser on his behalf, and the two appraisers so selected shall select a
third person of like qualifications, who, after being duly sworn, shall
constitute a board of appraisers to examine and appraise the property
so injured or damaged, and shall examine the horses or other stock so
killed or injured, or the other property so damaged, and affix a value
upon the same if killed, or asscss the damages to the same if injured,
and make a written report, carefully describing the horses, cattle, or
other stock or property, stating whether killed or injured, and also sct-
ting out the valuation or assessment of damages made by them; which
report shall be returned to the office of the county clerk, or of the clerk
of the corporation court of the city, who shall file and preserve the same.

58. If the railroad company shall fail, for sixty days after such re-
port is so returned to said clerk, to pay to the owner the full amount as-
sessed by said board of appraisers, and the cost attending the assess-
ment, the owner shall have the right to institute suit on the original cause
of action. If, upon the trial, he recovers a verdict for an amount equal
to, or greater than, the amount assessed in his favor by said board of ap-
praisers, it shall be the duty of the court to render judgment in his favor
for the amount of said verdict, and costs of suit and of said appraise-
ment, and ten per centum damages in adqQjtion thereto: provided, that if
the owner shall, in such case, recover less than the amount so assessed,
judgment shall be rendered in his favor for the amount of the verdict
and costs of suit and appraisement; but if the company has offered to
pay the award, and’ the owner has refused to accept the same, and he re-
cover a verdict for an amount less than said assessment, judgment shall
be rendered in his favor for the amount of his recovery, but the cost of
the appraisement and action shall be taxed against him.

59. The appraisers shall receive for their services each the sum of one
dollar, and the said clerk for his services, fifty cents.

60. The provisions of the last three preceding sections shall not apply
to any railroad company which has its line of road enclosed with fences
and cattle-guards, as required by law.

61. Whenever, in the opinion of the council of any city or incorporated
town, the public interest requires that a gate be crected' and maintained,
or a flagman stationed and kept at the place where any highway or street
is crossed, within the corporate limits of such town or city, by any rail-
road herctofore or hereafter constructed, it shall give the superintendent
or manager of the railroad written notice that the same is required, and
the corporation shall, within the time prescribed in such notice, erect and
maintain at such crossing the style of gate directed in said notice, and
keep a man in charge of the same during such hours as the said’ council
may designate, or keep a flagman: at such crossing during such hours as
it may require. And the said council may authorize the discontinuance
of such gate or flagman whenever, in its judgment, the public interest
no longer requires the same.

62. Any railroad corporation created under the laws of this State,
which shall have fully located the route of its railway, shall have power
in the construction of its said railway on such route to cross any canal,
navigable stream, or water course between its termini, but in such man-
ner as not unreasonably to impede the navigation and use thereof; and
shall also have power to cross any railway or railroad intervening, in the
manner and upon the terms prescribed by section three of chapter two of
this act.

63. Any person, association, copartnership, or corporation engaged in
operating a mine within ten miles of any navigable stream or railroad
may, for the purpose of transporting material to and from such stream
or railroad and such mine, construct and operate a line of railroad from
such mine to the most convenient and accessible point on such stream or
road, and may acquire and hold such land, or such interest or estate
therein, as may be necessary, not exceeding fifty feet in width for each
track necessarily constructed, and not exceeding two acres of land at such
railroad or stream for the purpose of necessary buildings. The owner or
operator of such road shall be governed and controlled by the laws re-
lating to other railroads, so far as applicable, and shall have the same
rights and privileges (except the power to condemn land or other pro-
perty) granted to corporations owning and operating lines of railroad.

68. If any railroad, when directed by a valid order of the State cor-
poration commission, shall refuse or fail to remove the cause of com-
plaint of the authorities of any incorporated city or town in which such
railroad is located, as to the physical condition or operation of such rail-
road, it shall, in the discretion of the said commission, be fined not less
than ten dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.

69. Every railroad company or person operating a railroad in this
State shall, at all times, on request, furnish to the State corporation com-
mission any information required by it, concerning the physical condi-
tion, management, or operation of its road, and particularly with copies
of all of its time tables upon its road and other roads with which its busi-
mess is connected; and any railroad refusing or failing to furnish any
such information to the State corporation commission shall, in the dis-
cretion of the.said commission, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars.

70. Any railroad company failing to comply with, or violating, or
permitting any of its agents or employees to violate, any of the provisions
of this chapter, or any valid order, rule, or regulation of the State corpo-
ration commission, relating to the provisions of this chapter, if not other-
wise provided in this chapter, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor
more than five hundred dollars for each offense.

71. Every railroad company conducting an express business shall open
and maintain at each station where it has a station agent along its line
an office, and appoint and keep an agent at each of said stations to re-
ceive and deliver all express matter.

72. When any car or cars shall be delivered by any railroad company
to any other railroad company to be hauled to any freight station on the
line of the latter, or when any railway company shall receive an order for
cars to be furnished at any point on its line, such receiving company shall
afford all reasonably proper and equal facilities for forwarding such car
or cars along its line or lines to the point of destination without dis-
crimination in favor of or against any locality or person.

73. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed as a regulation
of interstate commerce.

CHAPTER V.
Canals and Canal Companies.

1. A collector of tolls for any canal company may refuse to let any
person or thing pass on the company’s work until the toll be paid; and
the collector or other authorized officer of any canal company may exam-
ine, upon oath, any person having charge of any vessel, merchandise, or
thing subject to tolls or compensation, for the purpose of ascertaining
the quantity or amount thereof, for which purpose such collector or other
officer may administer an oath; and any person answering falsely upon
such examination shall be liable to prosecution and punishment for per-
jury, as provided by law. If any person or thing pass the toll gate, or
other proper place of payment, without the toll being paid or tendered,
such person, or the owner or person in possession of such thing, shall] for-
feit to the company ten dollars. Any such collector, knowing of a viola-
tion of this section, shall immediately make it known to the president or
one of the directors. If he fail to do so, he shall forfeit to the company
twenty dollars, which may, if so much of his compensation remain un-
paid, be deducted therefrom.
2. If any such collector receives for tolls more than is lawful, the com-
pany or persons in whose service he is as such collector shall pay to the
party aggrieved thereby the amount unlawfully received, and ten dollars
besides, which sum may be recovered on motion before the court of the
city or county wherein the unlawful tolls were received, after ten days’
notice, which may be served by leaving a copy of the same with the col-
lector so unlawfully receiving said tolls, or with any member of his
family over sixteen years of age, and giving information of its purport
to said member of his family, or, in the absence of said collector and all
such members of his family, by posting the said copy at the front door of
his abode.

CuapTer VI.

Stcamshtps and Steamboats.

1. It shall be the duty of the captain, purser, or other officer in com-
mand of any steamboat carrying passengers and plying in the waters
within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, to assign white and col-
ored passengers on said boats to the respective location they are to occupy
as passengers while on said boats; and it shall be the duty of said cap-
tain, purser, or other officer in command to separate the white and col-
ored passengers on said boats in the sitting, sleeping, and eating apart-
ments: provided, however, that no discrimination shall be made in the
quality and convenience of accommodation afforded passengers in said
locations: and provided, that this section shall not apply to nurses or at-
tendants traveling with their employers, nor to officers in charge of pris-
oners or lunatics.

2. Any captain, purser, or other officer in command of said boat who
shall fail or refuse to carry out the provisions of section one of this chap-
ter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be proceeded
against according to law, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each
offense.

3. Any passenger or passengers traveling on any steamboat plying in
the waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, who shall wil-
fully refuse to occupy the location, whether of sitting, sleeping, or eating,
set apart or assigned by the captain, purser, or other officer in command
of such boat, or behaves in a riotous or disorderly manner, he, she, or
they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or
confined in jail not less than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the
court; and such persons may be ejected from said boat by the officers
thereof at any landing place of said boat; and, if necessary, such assist-
ance may be invoked by such person in charge of such boats as they may
require to eject such passenger: and provided, that in cases of ejection
neither the captain or other officer in charge of such boat, nor the steam-
boat company owning or operating the same, nor other person, shall be
liable in damages therefor.

4. The president or general manager of any steamship or steamboat
company, whose boats ply in the waters within the jurisdiction of this
State, may, with the approbation of the circuit court of any county, or
the corporation court of any corporation, where the said steamship or
steamboat company has a wharf or landing, appoint one or more police
agents, who shall have authority upon the said wharf or landing, and at
other places within this State belonging to such company, to exercise all
the powers which can lawfully be exercised by any constable for the pre-
servation of the peace, the arrest of offenders and disorderly persons, and
for the enforcement of the laws against crime; and such president or
general manager may remove any such agent at his pleasure: provided,
that any circuit or corporation court giving such consent may at any time
revoke it. Masters of steamships or steamboats, and wharf or landing
agents, shall be conservators of the peace, and they, and each of them,
shall have the same power to make arrests that justices have, except that
the masters of steamships and steamboats shall only have such power on
board their respective vessels, and the agents at their respective places of
business; and the said masters and agents may cause any person so ar-
rested by them to be detained and delivered to the proper authorities for
trial as soon as practicable.

Cuapter VII.
Express and Express Conipanies.

1. If any corporation, company, or association not incorporated by or
formed in this State, or any person or partnership not a resident thereof,
shall obtain from a railroad, steamship, or steamboat company of this
Commonwealth the right or privilege to carry any articles or things by
or upon the trains, ships, or cars of such company for the purpose of re-
ceiving compensation for the same, such corporation, company, associa-
tion, partnership, or person shall not be permitted to carry such articles
or things on such trains, steamships, or steamboats without having an
agent in this State, as prescribed in sections three and four of this chap-
ter. It shall further be the duty of such corporation, association, part-
nership, or person, before exercising any such right or privilege of car-
riage, as aforesaid, to deposit with the treasurer of the State bonds of the
State of Virginia, or of the United States, or of the cities of Richmond,
Norfolk, Roanoke, Newport News, Petersburg, Lynchburg, Alexandria,
or Danville, the cash value of which shall not, at any time, be less than
fifty thousand dollars, and no single bond so deposited shall exceed in
amount the sum of ten thousand dollars. The treasurer shall require
any such corporation, company, association, partnership, or person, to
make good any depreciation or reduction in the value of said securities,
and he shall, in the month of December, of every year, examine all the
securities so deposited with him, for the purpose of ascertaining whether
any of them have depreciated, or been reduced in value. If the bonds de-
posited with the treasurer as aforesaid are registered bonds, the corpora-
tion, association, partnership, or person depositing the same shall, at the
time of deposit, deliver to the treasurer a power of attorney, authorizing
him to transfer the said bonds, or any part of them, for the purpose of
paying any of the liabilities herein provided for. The treasurer, at the
time of receiving the bonds, shall give tm the depositor authority to draw
the interest thereon as the same may beegme due and payable, which au-
thority shall continue in force until said depositor shall fail to pay any
of the liabilities incurred in carrying articles as aforesaid, for any citizen
or inhabitant of this State, in which case the party charged with the pay-
ment of such interest shall be forthwith notified of such failure, and
thereafter such interest shall be payable to the said treasurer, to be ap-
plied, if necessary, to the payment of such liabilities. If any depositor
fail to pay any of said liabilities to any citizen or resident of this State,
when the same shall have been ascertained in any mode agreed upon by
the parties, or by the judgment, decree, or order of a court having juris-
diction thereof, the treasurer shall, upon the application of the party to
whom the liability is due, proceed to sell at auction such an amount of
said bonds as, with the interest in his hands, will pay the amount due
and the expense of sale: provided, that the party making the application
‘shall give to the said depositor, or his agent, so residing in this State, ten
days’ notice of his intention to make such application. If any corpora-
tion, company, association, partnership, or person, having deposi
bonds as aforesaid with the treasurer of this State, shall cease the busi-
ness of carrying articles in and upon such trains, steamboats, and steam-
ships, and shall have satisfied all liabilities, fixed and contingent, in-
curred in such business, to the citizens and inhabitants of this State, then
the said treasurer shal] deliver to said corporation, company, association,
partnership, or person the bonds deposited as aforesaid. Nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to require any additional deposit with
the said treasurer, when such right or privilege, as is herein provided for,
shall be obtained from more than one railroad, steamboat, or steamship
company of the Commonwealth.

2. Every such corporation, company, association, person, or partner-
ship shall, by a written power of attorney, appoint some person residing
in this State its agent, upon whom may be served all lawful process
against such corporation, company, association, person, or partnership,
and who shall be authorized to enter an appearance in its or his behalf.
A copy of such power of authority, duly certified and authenticated, shall
be filed with the State corporation commission, and copies thereof, duly
certified by the clerk of the said commission, shall be received as evi-
dence in all courts of this State. ,

3. If any such agent shall be removed, resign, die, become insane, or
otherwise incapable of acting, it shall be the duty of such corporation,
company, association, person, or partnership, to appoint another agent
in his place, as prescribed by the preceding section. And until such ap-
pointment is made, or during the absence of such agent of any such cor-
poration, company, association, person, or partnership, from the State,
or if no such agent be appointed as prescribed by the preceding section,
service of process may be upon the chairman of the State corporation
commission, with like effect as upon the agent appointed by the com-
pany. The officer serving such process upon the chairman of the State
corporation commission shall immediately transmit a copy thereof, by
mail, to such corporation, company, association, person, or partnership,
and state such fact in his return.

4. Whenever any such corporation, company, association, person, or
partnership, as hereinbefore in this chapter mentioned, shall obtain from
a railroad, steamship, or steamboat company the right or privilege of
carrying articles upon the trains, steamships, or steamboats of such rail-
road, steamship, or steamboat company, and shall comply with the pro-
visions of the preceding section, such railroad, steamship, or steamboat
company shall not in any manner be liable as a common carrier for any
articles thereafter delivered to such corporation, company, association,
person, or partnership, for carriage, as aforesaid.

5. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to permit
any railroad company in this Commonwealth, by contract or otherwise,
to rent, let, or farm: out, in any manner whatever, any part of its ton-
nage business by freight trains; but every such company shall remain as
fully bound to transport and carry all descriptions of freight offered
them for transportation by freight trains, and under the provisions of
the laws of this State and the terms of their charters, as though this
chapter had not been enacted.

6. Whenever any corporation, company, association, or person, or
partnership shall obtain from a railroad, steamship, or steamboat com-
pany of this State the right or privilege of transporting, carrying, or
conveying in or upon any train run upon or over the railroad of such
company, or on any steamship or steamboat traversing waters within the
jurisdiction of this Commonwealth, any articles or things for the pur-
pose of receiving compensation for the same, the said corporation, as-
sociation, or person shall receive any articles or things at a place without
the limits of this State to be transported, carried, or conveyed to a place
within the said limits, or shall receive said articles or things at a place
within the limits of this State to be transported, carried, or conveyed to
a place without said limits, the amount of compensation demanded by
such corporation, company, association, person, or partnership, shall be
regarded as a uniform rate of charge per pound and per package per
mile conveyed throughout the whole distance within and without the
limits of the State, for which such articles or things were so transported,
carried, or conveyed, unless at the time otherwise appears by sufficient
evidence.

7. Whenever any corporation, company, association, or person, or part-
nership shall obtain from a railroad, steamship, or steamboat company
of this State the right or privilege of transporting, carrying, or convey-
ing in or upon any train run upon or over the railroad of such company,
or any steamship or steamboat traversing waters within the jurisdiction
of this Commonwealth, any articles or things for the purpose of receiving
compensation for the same, the said corporation, association, or person
shall receive and deliver any and all such articles and things offered: for
transportation as are contemplated by and embraced in such contract, at
any and all landings and stations on the line or route covered by such
contract at which such railroad, steamship, or steamboat company keeps
an agent, and receives and discharges freight and passengers.

8. Any corporation, association, or person, or any agent or employee
of either, or any other person, who shall violate any of the provisions of
this chapter shall, upon conviction, be fined for each violation not less
than one hundred dollars.
1. Mvery telegraph and every telephone company incorporated by this
or any other State, or by the United States, may construct, maintain, and
operate its line along and parallel to any of the railroads of the State,
and shall have authority to occupy and use the public parks, roads, works,
turnpikes, streets, avenucs, and alleys in any of the counties, with the
consent of the board of supervisors thereof, or in any incorporated city
or town, with the consent of the council thereof, and the water-ways
within this State, for the erection of poles and wires, or cables, or the
laying of underground conduits, portions of which they may lease, rent,
or hire to other like companies: provided, however, that such poles, wires,
cables, and conduits shall not in any wise obstruct or interfere with pub-
lic travel, or the ordinary use of such railroads, parks, roads, works, turn-
pikes, streets, avenues, alleys, or waters, or damage private property with-
out compensation therefor: and provided, also, that any such company,
not incorporated by the State of Virginia, or the laws thereof, shall, as
a condition precedent to the enjoyment of any right or privilege granted
by this chapter, first obtain from the State corporation commission a
license to do business in this State, and pay the fees and taxes imposed by
law for such license: and provided, also, that any such conduits shall be
laid at such distance below the surface of any public park, road, turn-
pike, street, avenue, or alley, and at euch distance from the outside of
any gas or water main, or other conduit, already laid, under the said
public park, road, turnpike, strect, avenue, or alley as may be prescribed
by the proper municipal or county authorities: and provided, further,
that the said poles, wires, or cables shall not in any way obstruct the
navigation of any stream, or impair or endanger the use thereof by the
public, or by any person or corporation entitled to the use of the same:
and provided, also, that the consent of the board of supervisors of the
county or the corporate authorities of the city or town, wherein it is pro-
posed to erect such poles, wires, or cables, or to lay such conduits upon or
beneath any such public park, road, turnpike, street, avenue, or alley,
shall first, and as a condition precedent, be obtained before any such pub-
lie park, road, turnpike, street, avenue, or alley shall be occupied or used
for the works of any such company, or be disturbed, opened, or dug up
for its purposes; the consent of such corporate authorities shall be by
ordinance regularly adopted by the council or other governing body of
such city or town, and the consent of such board of supervisors shall be
by resolution regularly adopted and spread upon the minutes of the said
board; that such use of the public parks, roads, turnpikes, streets, ave-
nues, and alleys in any of the cities or towns, or counties of this State
shall be subject to such terms, regulations, and restrictions as may be
imposed by the corporate authorities of any such city or town, or the
hoard of supervisors of any such county, and the portions of the surface
of the parks, roads, turnpikes, streets, avenues, or alleys, or of any pave-
ments, opened up or disturbed in erecting, repairing, or replacing such
poles, wires, or cables, or in laying or repairing such conduits, shall be
immediately restored to and maintained in good condition by such com-
pany; and in case of failure on the part of the company to restore and
maintain the same, the corporate authorities of any such city or town, or
the board of supervisors of any such county, may properly restore and
maintain the same, and the costs thereof may be recovered by the city
or town, or county, from the company, in any court of competent juris-
diction: and provided, also, that all posts or poles which shall be erected
by any authority in this section conferred, shall be so located as in no
way to interfere with the safety and convenience of persons traveling
through, on, or over said public parks, roads, turnpikes, streets, avenues,
alleys, railroads, or waters: and provided, further, that all wires fastened
upon posts or poles erected as aforesaid, shall be placed at the height of
not less than twenty feet above all road crossings, and twenty-three feet
above railroad crossings, and that no conduits shall be laid, nor posts or
poles erected upon the soil or property of any person without first ob-
taining the consent of the owner thereof, nor shall any such wires or
cables be strung across the soil, property, or premises of any person, or
attached to or connected with any shade or ornamental tree, or any pri-
vate building without the consent of the owner thereof: and provided,
further; that no incorporated city or town shall grant to any such cor-
poration the right to erect its poles, wires, or cables, or to lay its con-
duits upon or beneath its parks, streets, avenues, or alleys, until it shall
have first obtained, in the manner prescribed by the Constitution and
laws of this State, the franchise to occupy the same: and provided, fur-
ther, that notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, the corporate
authorities of any city or town may impose upon any such corporation
such ‘terms and conditions, inconsistent therewith or supplemental
thereto, as to the occupation and use of its parks, streets, avenues, and
alleys, and as to the construction and maintenance of its works along,
over, or under the same, as the corporate authorities may deem expedient
and proper.

2. Every such company may contract with any person or corporation,
the owner of lands, for any interest, franchise, privilege, or easement
therein or in respect thereto, over which such line is proposed to be con-
structed, for the right of way for erecting, repairing, and preserving its
poles and other structures necessary for operating its line, and for suffi-
cient land for the erection and occupation of offices at suitable distances
along its line for the public accommodation.

3. If the company and such owner cannot agree on the terms of such
contract, the company may acquire such right of way in the manner pro-
vided by the laws of this State for the exercise of the right of eminent
domain. The title which may be acquired by a telegraph or telephone
company under this section shall be only to a right of way for the pur-
pose stated in the preceding section; and no right of way acquired by any
such company under this or the preceding section shall be to the exclu-
sion of other like companies from having or acquiring a like right of way
over the same lands.

4. The three preceding sections shall be subject to repeal, alteration,
or modification, and the rights and Privileges acquired thereunder shall
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be subject to revocation or modification by the general assembly at its
pleasure.

5. It shall be the duty of every telegraph company and of every tele-
phone company doing the business of transmitting and receiving mes-
sages, for compensation, in this State to receive dispatches and messages
from and for other telegraph and telephone companies or lines doing the
business of receiving and transmitting messages for compensation, and
from and for any person; and upon the payment of the established
charges therefor, to transmit the same, faithfully and impartially, and
as promptly as practicable, and in the order of delivery to the said com-
pany. For every failure to transmit a dispatch or message faithfully and
impartially, and for every failure to transmit a dispatch or message as
promptly as practicable, or in the order of its delivery to the company,
the company shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars to the person
sending, or wishing to send, such dispatch or message. But nothing
herein shall prevent any such company from giving preference to dis-
patches or messages on official business, from or to officers of the United
States, or the State of Virginia, or from making arrangements with pro-
prietors or publishers of newspapers for the transmission to them, for
publication, of intelligence, of general and public interest, out of its
regular order.

6. It shall be the duty of every telephone company, doing the business
of receiving and transmitting messages for compensation, upon the ar-
rival of a dispatch or message at the point to which it is to be transmitted
by said company, to deliver it promptly to the person to whom it is ad-
dressed, where the regulations of the company require such delivery, or
to forward it promptly as directed where the same is to be forwardéd.

It shall be the duty of every telegraph company, upon the arrival of a
dispatch or message at the point to which it is to be transmitted, to cause
the same to be forwarded by a messenger to the person to whom the same
ig addressed or his agent, and upon the payment of any charges due on
this dispatch or message to deliver it: provided, such person or agent
reside within the city or incorporated town in which such station is, or
that at such point the regulations of the company require such delivery.

Tt shall also be the duty of such company to forward a dispatch or
message promptly, as directed, where the same is to be forwarded. For
every failure to deliver or forward a dispatch or message as promptly as
practicable the company shall forfeit one hundred dollars to the person
sending the dispatch or message or the person to whom it was addressed.

7. Every person, firm, association, or company doing the business of
telegraphing or telephoning telegrams or messages for the public in this
State, whether incorporated or not, shall be subject to the provisions of
the two preceding sections.

8. Whoever shall hereafter erect, string, or maintain wires for anv
telephone or telegraph lines, over or across the works, in this State, of
any company chartered as a work of internal improvement in any manner
so as to endanger the lives or limbs of the employees of such company, or
other person, shall, for each offense, be fined not less than one hundred
nor more than five hundred dollars.

9. No company doing business as a telephone or telegraph company
in the State of Virginia shall have the right, by contract or otherwise, to
limit, evade, or restrict in any manner whatsoever its liability for negli-
gence in sending, receiving, or delivering any dispatch or message deliv-
ered to it in the regular course of business.

10. All telegraph companies and telephone companies doing the busi-
ness of transmitting and receiving messages for compensation in this
State shall be liable for special damages occasioned by the negligent fail-
ure of their operators or servants in receiving, copying, transmitting, or
delivering dispatches or messages, or for the disclosure of the contents of
any private dispatch or message, to any person other than to him to whom
it is addressed, or his agent, the amount of these damages to be deter-
mined by the jury upon the facts in each case. Grief and mental an-
guish occasioned to the plaintiff by the aforesaid negligent failure may be
considered by the jury in the determination of the quantum of damages.

Special damages recoverable under this act shall not be barred by regu-
lations of the company concerning the repeating of dispatches or mes-
sages, or by any special undertaking to relieve the company from the con-
“sequences of its own negligence.

CuHaprer IX.

Heat, Power, Inghi, Electric Railway, Cold Storage, Viaduct, Conduit,
Bridge, Gas, and Water Companies.

1. Every corporation organized for the purpose of producing, distribu-
ting, and selling steam, heat, or power, or compressed air, or for the pur-
pose of producing, distributing, and selling gas made of coal or other
materials, or for the purpose of furnishing and distributing a water sup-
ply to any city or town, or for the purpose of establishing and maintain-
ing a cold storage plant, or furnishing cold air, or for the purpose of con-
structing and maintaining any viaduct, bridge, or conduit, or for the

of establishing and maintaining these or like enterprises, shall,
in addition to the powers conferred upon corporations generally, subject
to the provisions of this chapter, have authority to use the public roads
and highways of the counties, and the public parks, streets, avenues, and
alleys of the cities and towns in this State, and to construct and main-
tain its works along, over, or under the same, and to lay the necessary
pipes and conduits beneath such public roads, highways, parks, streets,
avenues, and alleys: provided, however, that any such pipes and conduits
shall be laid at such distance below the surface of any public road, high-
way, park, street, avenue, or alley as may be prescribed by the proper
municipal or county authorities, and shall not in any wise unnecessarily
obstruct or interfere with public travel or the ordinary use of the same,
or damage private property, without compensation therefor: and pro-
vided, also, that the consent of the board of supervisors of the county, or
the corporate authorities of the city or town, as the case may be, wherein
it is proposed to use any public road, highway, park, street, avenue, or
alley for the works of any such company, or to lay pipes and conduits be-
neath the same, shall first, and as a condition precedent, be obtained be-
fore any such public road, highway, park, street, avenue, or alley shall be
occupied with the works of any such company, or disturbed, opened, or
dug up for any of its purposes. ‘The consent of such cornorate authorities
shall be by ordinance regularly adopted by the council or other governing
body of any such city or town, and the consent of the board of super-
visors of any such county shall be by resolution regularly adopted and
spread upon the minutes of the said board; that such use of the public
roads, highways, parks, streets, avenues, and alleys in any of the cities,
towns, or counties of this State shall be subject to such terms, regula-
tions, and restrictions as may be imposed by the corporate authorities of
such city or town, or the board of supervisors of such county, and the
portions of the surface of the roads, highways, parks, streets, avenues, or
alleys, or pavements disturbed in constructing, repairing, or replacing the
works of any such company, or disturbed or dug up in laying or relaying
pipes and conduits, shall be immediately restored to and maintained in
good condition by such company, and in case of failure on the part of the
company to so restore and maintain the same, the corporate authorities of
any such city or town, or the board of supervisors of any such county,
may properly restore and maintain the same, and the costs thereof may
be recovered by the city or town, or county, from the corporation so occu-
pying and using any such public road, highway, park, street, avenue, or
alley, in any court of competent jurisdiction: provided, however, that no
incorporated city or town shall grant to any corporation the right to use
or occupy its streets, avenues, or alleys with its works, or to lay its pipes
or conduits beneath the same, until it shall have first obtained, in the
manner prescribed by the Constitution and laws of this State, the fran-
chise to occupy the same: and provided, also, that, notwithstanding the
provisions of this chapter, the corporate authorities of any city or town
may impose upon any such corporation such terms and conditions, incon-
sistent therewith or supplemental thereto, as to the occupation and use
of its parks, streets, avenues, and alleys, and as to the construction and
maintenance of its works along, over, and under the same, as the said
corporate authorities may deem expedient and proper.

2. It shall be the duty of every corporation organized for any of the
purposes enumerated in the preceding section, in laying any pipe or con-
duit in any of the public roads or highways of the counties, or in any
of the public parks, streets, avenues, or alleys in the cities or towns of
this State, to he used for the purposes of such company, to lay the same
at a distance of not less than three feet, if possible, from the outside of
any water or gas pipe, or other pipe or conduit, already laid, except in
cases where it shall be necessary that said pipes or conduits shall cross
any water or gas pipe, or other pipe or conduit, and there such pipes or
conduits shall be at least twelve inches distant from the outside of any
water or gas pipe, or other pipe or conduit, already laid.

3. Every corporation organized for the purpose of constructing, main-
taining, and operating an electric railway, or works, for the supply and
distribution of electricity for light, heat, or power, shall, in addition to
the powers conferred upon corporations generally, have full power to use,
subject to the provisions of this chapter, the public roads and highways
of the counties, and public parks, streets, avenues, and alleys of the cities
in this State, for the purpose of laying conduits, pipes, or tracks, or of
erecting posts or poles along, over, or under the same, to sustain the
necessary wires and fixtures: provided, however, that such works, con-
duits, pipes, tracks, posts, poles, wires, or fixtures shall not, in any wise,
unnecessarily obstruct or interfere with the use of the same, or public
travel over the same, or damage private property, without compensation
therefor: and provided, also, that any conduit or pipe so laid shall be laid
at least three feet below the surface of any public road, highway, park,
street, avenue, or alley, and at a distance of not less than three feet, if
possible, from the outside of any water or gas pipe, or other pipe or con-
duit, already laid, except in cases where it shall be necessary that said
conduit or pipe shall cross any such water or gas pipe, or other pipe or
conduit, and there such pipe or conduit shall be at least twelve inches
distant from the outside of any water or gas pipe, or other pipe or con-
duit, already laid: and provided, also, that the consent of the board of
supervisors of the county, or the corporate authorities of the city or town,
where it is proposed {o lay such pipes, conduits, or tracks, or to erect such
posts or poles, and to string or place thereon such wircs or fixtures, shall
first, and as a condition precedent, be obtained before any such public
road, highway, park, street, avenue, or alley shall be used or occupied
with the works of any such company, or disturbed, opened, or dug up, or
any such conduit, pipe, or track laid, or any such posts or poles placed
thereon, or wires or fixtures strung or placed upon such posts or poles.
The consent of such corporate authorities shall be by ordinance regularly
adopted by the council or other governing body of such city or town, and
the consent of such board of supervisors shall be by resolution regularly
adopted and spread upon the minutcs of the said board; that such use
of the public roads and highways of the counties, and of the parks,
streets, avenues, or alleys of the cities and towns of this State, shall be
subject to such terms, regulations, and restrictions, as may be imposed
by the corporate authorities of any such city or town, or of the board of
supervisors of any such county, and the portions of the surface of the
public roads and highways of the counties, and of the parks, streets, ave-
nues, alleys, or pavements of the cities, disturbed in constructing, repair-
ing, or replacing the works of any such company, along, over, or under
the same, shall be immediately restored to and maintained in good con-
dition ; and in the case of failure on the part of any such company to so
restore and maintain the same, the corporate authorities of any such
city or town, or the board of supervisors of any such county, may pro-
perly restore and maintain the same, but the costs thereof may be recov-
ered by the city, or town, or county, from the said corporation, in any
court of competent jurisdiction: provided, however, that. the laying of
such pipes and placing wires therein, or the erecting of such posts or
poles and stringing wires or fixtures thereon, shall not in any way dam-
age any shade or ornamental tree in-front of any private residence or
public building, nor in any way be attached to or connected with any
such shade or ornamental tree, or any public or private building, without
the consent of the owner: and provided, further, that no incorporated
city or town shall grant to any corporation the right to use its street, or
to construct its works along, over, or under the same, or to lay its con-
duits, pipes, or tracks, or to erect its posts or poles, or to string thereon
its wires or fixtures, until it shall have first obtained, in the manner pre-
scribed by the Constitution and laws of this State, the franchise to oc-
cupy the same: and provided, also, that, notwithstanding the provisions
of this chapter, the corporate authorities of any city or town may impose
upon any such corporation such terms and conditions, inconsistent there-
with or supplemental thereto, as to the occupation and use of its parks,
streets, avenues, and alleys, and as to the construction and maintenance
of its works along, over, or under the same, as the said corporate authori-
ties may deem expedient and proper.

4. The corporations mentioned in this chapter may contract with any
person or corporation, the owner of lands, for any interest, franchise,
privilege, or easement therein, over, under, or through which any such
line is to be constructed, for the right of way for its line and works, and
for sufficient land for its necessary offices, plant, or plants, works, sta-
tions, and structures.

5. If the company and such owner cannot agree on the terms of such
contract, the company may acquire such right of way in the manner pro-
vided by the laws of this State for the exercise of the right of eminent
domain; and in case any person is damaged in his property along the
line of any such public road, highway, park, street, avenue, or alley by
any such use or occupation of the same, by any company enumerated in
the first and third sections of this chapter, such corporation shall, be-
fore using or occupying with its works such public roads, highways,
parks, streets, avenues, or alleys, make compensation therefor to the per-
son so damaged ; said compensation, if the parties cannot agree upon the
same, to be ascertained in the mode prescribed by the law for the exer-
cise of the right of eminent domain.

CHAPTER X.
Turnpikes and Turnpike Companies.

1. Whenever any turnpike company shall have abandoned its road, or
a part thereof, the circuit court of the county in which such road lies
shall have jurisdiction to place the.-same under the control of the board
of supervisors of the county, who shall take charge of the same, and cause
it to be worked and kept in good order in the same manner as the pub-
lic roads in such county.

2. Every road shall be of the width and its works constructed in the
manner prescribed by the charter or articles of incorporation or associa-
tion. Bridges shall be made where necessary; and all works of the com-
pany kept in good order.

3. The company shall place along its work milestones or posts, whereon
the distance from or to some well-known point, or from or to the begin-
ning or end of the work, shal] be correctly and plainly denoted by letters
and figures.

4. As often as a section of five miles of a turnpike road shall be com-
pleted, the circuit court of the county wherein the section, or the greater
part thereof, lies, shall, on the application of the turnpike company, ap-
point three disinterested frecholders to report in writing the condition of
the section. On such report no order shall be taken, except in the pres-
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ence of the Commonwealth’s attorney for the county, or of some other
attorney acting in his stead. If, on the report, and such other evidence
as may be offered, the court shall be satisfied that the section is not com-
pleted according to law, judgment shall be rendered against the company
for all costs, including a fee to the attorney of ten dollars. If it shall be
satisfied that the section is so completed, it shall enter of record an order
declaring that fact. After the completion of all the full sections, if there
remain any fractional part of a section, the like proceedings shall be had
as to such part. When such declaration shall have been entered as to any
section, or part of a section, the company may erect a toll-gate therefor,
and demand and receive the lawful tolls. If any turnpike company shall
not complete its road within five years from the date of its charter, all
rights acquired thereunder shall be forfeited unless a longer time for the
completion shall have been, or may hereafter be, expressly allowed by
law, and it shall be the duty of the circuit court of the counties, respec-
tively, in which the road lies to open it to the public.

5. Any person or persons alleging that a turnpike road, or any section
thereof, is out of repair, may apply by petition in writing to the circuit
court of any county, or to the judge thereof in vacation, in which said
road may lie, for a summons to three freeholders not living on said road
to meet on said section at a day specified and examine the same; five
days’ notice of such application to be given to the president or one of the
directors of said company; or, if it be a State road, to the superintend-
ent thereof, and the said court shall forthwith appoint such viewers of
said road, if, upon the hearing of said petition, the same shall appear
reasonable and proper; and it shall be the duty of the judge of the cir-
cuit court of any county in which there may be a turnpike road upon
which tolls are charged, three times a year, in term or vacation, in the
months of April, August, and December, to appoint three such viewers
for each of such turnpike roads in his county, who shall, at a time to be
specified in the order, examine the same, and shall be paid for their ser-
vices by the company. All proceedings under said appointment of the
court shall be as provided by sections six, seven, eight, and nine of this
chapter; except that in the case of any turnpike road in which the State
has an interest a copy of the report of the viewers, if against the road,
shall be certified by them to the State corporation commission, and the
facts certified by them to the court, and the cost thereof shall be paid as
the court may direct; and except, also, that on such last-mentioned report,
and on any report made by viewers under this section, if made against
the turnpike company, of which report the turnpike company shall be
forthwith notified by the clerk of the court, the said company may appeal
to said circuit court, and said court may, on such appeal, confirm, set
aside, or recommit said report for further proceedings, as it may deem
advisable.

6. The said freeholders shall mect pursuant to the summons, and take
an oath faithfully to perform their duty, and make a report of the con-
dition of the said section to said court.

% The report of the frecholders shall be annexed to the summons,
and shall be to the following effect: “We, oo... . 0 cece cece e eee eee ;
freeholders named in the summons hereto annexed, certify that we have,
pursuant thereto, examined the section therein mentioned, and our de-
cision is that the same is (or is not) in good repair in every part thereof.

8. The report shall be forthwith returned to the clerk’s office of the
circuit court, to be there preserved and recorded. The fees for such
record, and for summoning the freeholders, shall be paid by the com-
pany, where the decision is against it, otherwise by the informer.

9. All tolls upon any section of the road of any turnpike company so
pronounced not to be in good repair shall be suspended from the time of
the filing of the report of the viewers in the clerk’s office until the said
section shall be put in good repair and ascertained so to be, as follows:
On the application of the president, or one of the directors of the com-
pany, a justice shall issue his warrant for summoning the same free-
holders; or, in case of a vacancy or vacancies, enough other disinter-
ested freeholders to fill such vacancy or vacancies, to be named in the war-
rants, to mect on the said section at a certain specified time, which shall
be as soon as convenient, and ascertain whether the said section is in
good repair or not; and the proceedings upon such warrants shall be the
same as are prescribed in the preceding sections; the fees of the officers
and viewers shall be paid by the company. But nothing contained in the
preceding five sections shall be construed to refer to any turnpike placed
under the exclusive control of the State corporation commission by the
general assembly.

10. When different rates are not prescribed by law, the following tolls
may be received on a section of five miles of a turnpike which has been
completed, to-wit: Six and a quarter cents for twenty sheep or hogs, and
twelve and a half cents for twenty cattle, and so in proportion for a less
or greater number; threc cents for a horse, mare, mule, or gelding; five
cents for a two-wheeled riding carriage; ten cents for a four-wheeled
riding carriage; and for a cart or wagon, six and a quarter cents for each
animal drawing it; and for every engine, machine, wagon, or other ve-
hicle, moved or drawn, in whole or in part, by steam or other motive
power, six and a quarter cents for each wheel of every such engine, ma-
chine, wagon, or other vehicle moving on the ground. For a fractional
part of a section, tolls may be received, bearing the same proportion to
the tolls for a full section that the said fractional part bears to such full
section: provided, however, that the following rates of tolls shall be
charged on the Valley turnpike, to-wit: Five cents for twenty sheep or
hogs, and ten cents for twenty cattle, and so in proportion for a greater
or less number; three cents for a horse, mare, mule, or gelding; five
cents for a two-wheeled riding carriage: ten cents for a four-wheeled
riding carriage, drawn by two horses: six cents for a four-wheeled riding
carriage drawn by one horse: and for a cart or wagon drawn by one horse,
five cents ; for a wagon drawn by two horses, ten cents; for a wagon drawn
by four horses, eighteen cents; and for every additional horse, three
cents; and for every engine, machine, wagon, or other vehicle moved or
drawn, in whole or in part, by steam or other motive power, six and a
quarter cents for cach wheel of every such engine, machine, wagon, or
cther vehicle moving on the ground. For a fractional part of a ‘section
only such tolls may be receiv ‘ed as bear the same proportion to tolls for
a full section that the said fractional part bears to such full section: and
provided, further, that the present system of giving annual tolls for
travel to residents along the Valley turnpike shall be continued, and no
greater charge shall be made than is now charged by turnpike companies
for similar travel.

11. Every turnpike company shall, from time to time, cause a list of
its rates of toll to be printed, and have such rates posted where they can
readily be seen by persons using its work. When the rates of a turnpike
company are not posted at its toll-gate, no tolls shall be received thereat.

12. A collector of tolls for any turnpike company may refuse to let
any person or thing pass on the company’s work until the toll be paid.
If any person or thing pass the toll-gate, or other proper place for pay-
ment, without the toll being paid or tendered, such person or the owner
or person in possession of such thing, shall forfeit to the company ten
dollars, and the like forfeiture shall be incurred where any person or
thing, subject to the toll of a turnpike company, is passed through any
private gate, bars, or fence, or by any other way, for the purpose of evad-
ing the payment of the toll. And the like forfeiture shall be incurred
where any person or thing, subject to the toll of a turnpike company,
upon approaching a toll-gate, be left standing or hitched at or near such
gate to avoid passing such gate, for the purpose of evading the payment
of the toll. Any such collector knowing of a violation of this section
shall immediately make it known to the president or one of the directors ;
if he fail so to do, he shall forfeit to the company twenty dollars, which
may, if so much of his compensation remain unpaid, be deducted there-

Tom.

13. If any collector receive for tolls more than is lawful, the com-
pany, or person in whose service he is as such collector, shall pay to the
party aggrieved thereby the amount unlawfully received, and ten dol-
lars besides, which sum may be recovered on motion before the circuit
court of the county wherein the unlawful tolls were received, after ten
days’ notice, which may be served by leaving a copy of the same with the
collector so unlawfully receiving said tolls, or with any member of his
family over sixteen years of age, and giving information of its purport
to said member of his family; or, in the absence of said collector, and
all such members of his family, by posting the said copy at the front
door of his abode.

14. The private stockholders in any turnpike or plank road in which
the State’s interest has been transferred by virtue of section fifty-nine
of the act entitled “an act to put into effective operation the provisions
of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment, and organiza-
tion of the State corporation commission, etc,” approved April fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and three, with the consent of the board of supervisors
of the county or countics in which said road lies, may likewise, in lawful
meeting of said stockholders, transfer and convey the interest of the
stockholders therein to the county or counties aforesaid.

15. This act shall be in force from its passage.
TIMES FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF TH
REGULAR TERMS OF THE CIRCUIT
COURTS OF VIRGINIA.

Frmst Crrcurr.

Norfolk County—The first Monday in January, February, March, April, Ma
June, July, October, November, and December.

Princess Anne County—The third Monday in January, March, May, July, Septer
ber, and November.

Portsmouth City—The fourth Monday in March and September.

SEconp Circulr.

Isle of Wight—On the first Monday in March, June, October, and December.
Nansemond—On the second Monday in January, March, May, July, and Octobe
Southampton—On the third Monday in January, March, May, July, and Octobe
City of Norfolk—On the second Monday in April and November.

THirp Crecurr.

Prince George County—Third Tuesday in January, March, May, September, N
vember, and July sixth.

Surry County—Fourth Tuesday in January, March, May, September, Novembe
and July twelfth.

Sussex County—First Tuesday in January, March, May, September, Novembe
and July first.

Greenesville County—First Tuesday in February, April, June, October, Decemb
eighteenth of July.

Brunswick County—Third Tuesday in February, April, June, and October.

FourtH Circuit.

Amelia—Fourth Thursday in January, March, May, August, October, and Dece:
ber.

Chesterfield—Second Monday in February, April, June, September, and Novemb

Dinwiddie County—Third Monday in January, March, May, August, October, a:
December.

Nottoway Oounty—First Thursday in January, March, May, August, October, a1
December.

Powhatan County—First Monday in February, April, June, September, and N
vember.

City of Petersburg—June the fifth and December the fifth.
Appomattox County—First Monday in February, April, June, and October.

Buckingham County—Tuesday after the second Monday in February, April, June,
and October.

Charlotte Cownty—First Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and
November.

Cumberland County—Tuesday after fourth Monday in January, April, June, and
November.

Prince Edward County—Third Monday in March, May, September, and November.

SrxtH Circuit.

Lunenburg County—Second Monday in April, June, October, and December.

Mecklenburg County—Third Monday in February, April, June, August, October,
and December.

Halifax County—Fourth Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and

November.

Campbell County—Second Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and
November.

City of Lynchburg—Third Monday in January, March, May, September, and No-
vember. :

SEVENTH CIRCUIT.

Pittsylvania County—Third Monday in January, March, May, July, September,
and November.

Franklin County—March tenth and first Monday in May, September, and Decem-
ber.

Henry County—Second Monday in January, April, June, and October.

Patrick County—Tuesday after the fourth Monday in January, March, June, and
October.

City of Danville—January fifth and April twenty-ninth.

EicntH Circuit.

Amherst County—Third Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and

December.

Nelson County—Fourth Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and
November.

Albemarle County—First Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and
December.

Fluvanna County—Fourth Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and
December.
Goochland County—Third Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and
November.
NintuH Crecvult.

Rappahannock—Second Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and
December.

Culpeper—Third Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and Novem-
ber.
Madison—First Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and December.
(ircene—Third Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and December.
Orange—Fourth Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and Novem-
ber.
Louisa—Second Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and Novem-
ber.
TenTH CIRCUIT.

Henrico—First Monday in January, April, July, and October.
City of Richmond—First Monday in February, May, and November.

ELevENTH Cixcvlt.

Accomac—First Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and Novem-
ber.

Northampton—Second Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and
November.

Elizabeth City—Third Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and
November.

City of Newport News—First Monday in February, April, June, August, October,
and December.

TWELFTH CIRCUIT.

Richmond County—First Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and
November.

Northumberland—Second Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and
December.

Lancaster—Third Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and No-
vember.

Westmoreland—Fourth Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and
December.

Essexr—Third Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and December.

THIRTEENTH CIRCUIT.

Gloucester—First Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and Novem-
ber.

Mathews—Third Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and Novem-
ber.

King and Queen—Second Tuesday in February, April, June, August, October, and
December.

King William—First Tuesday in February, April, June, August, October, and
December.

Middleser—Fourth Wednesday in January, March, May, July, September, and
November.

FOURTEENTH Circuit.

New Kent—Second Thursday in January, March, May, July, September, and No-
vember.

Charles Oity—Third Thursday in February, April, June, August, October, and
December.
1014 TERMS OF CIRCUIT COURTS.

York—First Tuesday in February, April, June, August, October, and December.

Warwick—Second Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and Nc
vember. j

James City—Second Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and De
eember.

City of Williamsburg—First day of May and November.

FIFTEENTH CIRculr.

King George—First Thursday in January, March, May, July, September, an
November.

Stafford—Fourth Wednesday in January, March, May, July, September, and No
vember.

Spotsylvanta—First Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and De
cember.

Caroline—Third Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and Decem
ber.

Hanover—Third Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and Novem
ber.

SIXTEENTH CIRcuIr.

Fauquier—Fourth Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and Novem
ber.

Loudoun—Second Monday in February, April, June; third Monday in August
second Monday in October and December.

Prince William—First Monday in February, April, June, August, October, anc
December.

Fairfaw—Third Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and November

Alezandria—Fourth Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and De
cember.

City of Alecandria—First Monday in May and November.

SEVENTEENTH CIRCUIT.

Frederick—First Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and Decem.
ber.

Clarke—Fourth Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and Novem-
ber. .

Warren—First Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and November.

Page—Third Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and December.

Shenandoah—Second Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and
November.

EIGHTEENTH CIRcUIT.

Rockingham—Third Monday in January, March, May, July, September, and No-
vember.

Rockbridge—Second Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and De-
cember.

Augusta—Fourth Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and De
cember.
Alleghany—February first, April first, June fifteenth, September f
* eember fifteenth.

Bath—Twentieth day of March, May, July, and November.

Botetourt—March first, June first, August twenty-fifth, December fir

Craig—Twentieth of February and tenth of May and October.

Highland—Fourth Tuesday in April, July tenth, November tenth.

TWENTIETH CIRCUIT.

Bedford—First day of March, September, and December, and tenth da
City of Roanoke—Fifteenth day of March, May, September, and Dec
Montgomery—February fifteenth and first day of May, July, and Oct
Roanoke—January first, April first, June first, November fifteenth.

Floyd—The first day of February, sixteenth day of April, July, and

TWENTY-FIRST CIRCUIT

Wythe—First Monday in January, April, August, first Monday in Ni

Pulaski—Second Monday in February, first Monday in May and Sept
Monday in November.

Carroll—First Monday in March, third Monday in May and Septembe
day in December.

Grayson—Tuesday after third Monday in March, Tuesday after first
June, Tuesday after second Monday in October, Tuesday after sec
in December.

TWENTY-SECOND CIRCUIT.

Giles—First Monday in February, second Monday in May, fourth Mo)
tember.
Bland—Second Monday in March, July, and third Monday in October
Tazewell—Third Monday in February, fourth Monday in May, Aug
vember.
The judge may designate one of the terms of the court for Tazewe
which only criminal cases shall be tried.
Buchanan—Tuesday after fourth Monday in March, July, and Ti
second Monday in December.

TWENTY-THIRD CIRCUIT.

Washington—Fourth Monday in January, March, May, November, th
in September.

Russell—Tuesday after the first Monday in January, March, May, Sey
November.

Smyth—Third Monday in February, April, August, October, and Dece

TWENTY-FouRTH Crrculr.

Scott—First Monday in February, May, September, fourth Monday it
Lee—Third Monday in February, May, September, second Monday in |
Wise—First Monday in January, April, August, and November.

Dickenson—Third Monday in March, July, October, fourth Monday in
ACES AT WHICH SEPARATE POLLS HAVE BEEN ESTAB-
LISHED IN EACH COUNTY AND OF THE
WARDS IN THE SEVERAL CITIES.

coMACK—Chincoteague Islands, Greenbackville, New Church, Temperanceville,
Hall's Store, Saxes, Nappsville, Bloxom, Newstown, Parksley, Courthouse,
Onancock, Tangier Island, Pungoteague, Wachapreague, Hawk’s Nest, Belle
Haven.

BEMARLE—Batesville, Blackwells, Courthouse, Carter’s Bridge, Covesville,
Earlysville, Free Union, Howardsville, Hillsborn, Ivy, Keswick, Lindsay’s,
Monticello, Mctton, North Garden, Owensville, Proffit, Porter's, Stony Point,
Scottsville, Wingficlds, White Hall, Alberene.

EXANDRIA—Ballston, Four-Mile Run, Carne School.

LEGHANY—Clifton Forge, Jackson River, Longdale, Iron Gate, Rechpatch,
Peter's Switch, West. Clifton Forge, Covington, Dunlap, Griffith’s, Aritt’s,
Clift, Damrons.

ELIA—Amelia Courthouse, Wilkerson’s Shop, Chula, Deatonsville, Paineville,
Jetersville, Mannboro, Namozine, Bridgforth’s Mill.

HERST—Courthouse, Riverville, Hicks, Temperance, Fancy Hill, New Glasgow,
Pedlar Mills, Naola, l’urnace, Chestnut, Allwood, Oronoca, Elon, Magruder’s,
Madison, Wright’s Shop, Monrve.

POMATTOX—Courthouse, Chop, Cheatwood, Clover Hill, Walker's Church,
Pamplins, Stonewall, Oakville, Agee’s.

austa—Sandy Hollow, Peaco’s Mill, Bolivar, Folly Mills, Arbor Hill, Burnett,
Mount Solon, Sangersville, Parnassus, Spring Hill, Centerville, Roman, New
Hope, Mt. Sidney, Mt. Meridian, Verona, Crimora, Burks’ Mill, Hermitage,
Laurel Hill, Harriston, Waynesboro, Basie City, Fishersville, Stuart's Draft,
Sherando, Greenville, Middlebrook, Spotswood, Newport, Buffalo Gap, Deer-
field, Craigsville, Kershner’s Mill, Churchville, Pond Gap.

EXANDRIA—Courthouse, Friendship.

TH—Warm Springs, Mountain Grove, Hickman’s School-House, Cleek’s Mills,
Healing Springs, Cedar Creek, Glover’s Mills, Crawford’s Mill, Carpenter's
School-House, Cloverdale, Fair View, Millboro Springs, Sitlington.

pFORD—North Liberty, South Liberty, Bunker Ifill, Blount, Peaksville, Thax-
ton, Patterson’s Mill, Hall’s Mill, Bufordsville, Hogan’s Store, Chamblissburg,
Stewartsville, Goodview, Emaus, Cedar Hill, Bourd’s Store, Fancy Grove,
Valley Mills, White Rock, Lone Gum, Franklin Store, Otter Hill, Pollard’s
Store, Everett's Store, Goode, Forest Depot, Perrowville, Bigbie’s Shop, Cove,
Big Island, Charlemont, Curtis.

anD—Boglis School-House, Bishop's, Rocky Gap, Davis, Mechanicsburg, Point
Pleasant, Ceres, Sharon, Seldon.

rETOURT—Courthouse, Oriskany, Eagle Rock, Gala, Lick Run, Glen Wilton,
Town Hall, Asburry, Vandegrift’s Shop, Amsterdam, Cloverdale, Troutville,
Brugh’s Mill, Glade Creek, Coyner’s, Rocky Branch, Buchanan, Lithia, Arch
Mills, Springwood, Jenning’s Creek, Roaring Run.

TNsWiIcK—Lawrenceville, Poarech and Ross, Smoky Ordinary, Sturgeonville,
Trotter’s Store, Edmund's Store, Elmore’s Store, Brodnax, Tillman’s, Rock
Store, Phipp’s, Drumgoole’s, Butler's.
‘CHANAN—Grundy, State, Prater, Contrary, Hurricane, Whitt Place, |
Lick, Knox.

CKINGHAM—Maysville, Wright’s, Spencer’s Store, Glenmore, New Store, C1
ville, White Hiall, Red Mills, New Canton, Gold Hill, Damson’s, Well W

ry OF Bristor—Bristol City.

ry or Buena VistA—First Ward, Second Ward.

MPBELL—Courthouse, Concord, Mt. Zion, Brookneal, Hat Creek, Morgan’s |
Mike, Pigeon Run, Marysville, Castle Craig, Lynch’s, Leesville, New Lon
Evington, Rolling Mill, Black Water, Flynus Kings, West Lynchburg.

ROLINE—Bowling Green, Shermansville, Sparta, White’s, Gouldman’s,
Royal, Moss Neck, Guiney’s, Madison, Cedar Fork, Balty, Reedy Ch
Bowers.

RROLL—Courthouse, Little Vine,, Lindsey’s, Quesenberry’s, Courthouse (Le
Fork District), Fermont, Snake Creek, Nester’s, Turner’s, Smith’s |]
Strickland’s, Wisler’s, Hawk’s, Courthouse (Piper’s Gap District), Beam
Woodlawn, Castle Hill, Hank’s, Courthouse (Sulphur Springs District),
Zion, Hebron, Blair, Springs, McGee’s Mill.

ARLOTTE—Scott’s Store, Aspinwall, Priddy’s Store, Keysville, Courth<
Clements, Wyllinburg, Red Oak, Smith Tavern, Harvey’s Store, Midway.

ARLES Ciry—Harrison, Tyler, Chickahomony.

ESTERFIELD—Swansboro, Oak Grove, Pulliam’s Store, Bon Air, Midlotl
Homer’s Store, Winterpock, Skinquarter, Winfrey’s Store, Matoaca, Ettr
Chester, Eyler’s Store, Courthouse.

ARKE—White Post, Lindsay’s Millwood, Morgan’s Mill, Shenandoah, Ba
town, Mt. Airy, Russell’s, Pierce’s.

41c—Courthouse, Barber’s Creek, Paint Bank, McGuire’s Store, Marsh
Store, Ammendale, Healing Springs, Givens & Reynolds’ Store, Forks, Jo
Creek.

LPEPER—East, West, Jeffersontin, Rixeyville, Mitchell’s, Brown’s Store, E
rado, Brandy, Stevensburg, Lignum, Richardsville.

MBERLAND—Brown’s Church, Courthouse, Flippen’s Mill, Bush Park, FI:
gan’s Mill.

Y OF CHARLOTTESVILLE—First, Second, Third, and Fourth.

‘wippie—Brookland, Cherry Hill, Church Road, Dinwiddie Courthouse, |
vills, Malone’s, Monk’s Neck, New Hope, Oak’s Grove, Ritcheville, Rea

Rocky Run, Sutherland, White Oak, Westboro.

NVILLE Ciry—Six wards.

ZABETH City—Fox Hill, East End, Phebus, Wythe, Hampton.

sex—Loretta, Lloyd’s, Enterprise, Tappahannock, Howerton’s, Centre Cros

.NKLIN—Rocky Mount, Snow Creek, Sydnorsville, Calloway, Helms, Bo
Mill, Long Branch, Providence, Young Store, Glade Hill, Pen Hook, Dic
son, Union Hall, Taylor’s Store, Hatcher’s, Brook’s Mill, Lynville, Laug!
Bowman’s.

RFAx—Centreville, Clifton, Swetnam’s, Well’s Store, Burke’s, Baylis, W
yards, Accotink, Pulman’s, Gum Spring, Moore’s, Falls Church, West I
Anandale, Fairfax Courthouse, Langley, Vienna, The Lick, Pranesville, H
don, Forestville, Thompson’s, Thornton’s.

JQuIER—Orlean, Feery Run, Marshall, Hume, Paris, Upperville, Rectorto

Landmark, The Plains, New Baltimore, Warrenton, Morrisville, Beale

Remington, Auburn, Catlett’s, Culverton, Bristersburg, White Ridge.
orp—Copper Hill, Weaver’s, Locust Grove, Harman’s, Furtle Rock, Courthouse.
Booth’s Mill, Stuart’s School-House, Indian Valley, Barringer, Hylton.

UVANNA—Palmyra, Centre Hill, Wilmington, Kent’s Store, Columbia, Fork
Union, Bramhams, Cunningham, Kidd’s Store, Tutwiler’s Store, Goodson’s.

EDERICK—Neffstown, Brucetown, White Hall, Gainesboro, Baker’s Mill, Dolans,
Ashton’s, Yeakley’s, Gore, Lamps, Russell’s, Dry Run, Middletown, Old Forge,
Newtown, Canter’s, Kernstown, Carper’s Valley, Greenwood.

EDERICKSBURG Crry—Upper, Lower.

AYSON—Independence, Elk Creek, Comer’s Rock, Old Town, X-Roads, Fair-
view, Cherry Grove, Fries, Bridle Creek, Mouth of Wilson, Pugh Place, White
Top, Trout Dale, North Corner, Potato.

EENE—Monroe, Stanardsville, McMullan, Ruckersville.

EENESVILLE—Belfield, Trotter’s Store, Hicksford, Ryland’s, Moss, Taylor’s Mill.

ES—Pearisburg, Narrows, Burton’s Mills, Glen Lyn, Eggleston, Poplar Hill,
White Gate, Sugar Run, Staffordsville, Pembroke, Hatfield, New River, New-
port.

OUCESTER—Glenn’s, Wood’s X-Roads, Hornet’s Nest, Sassafras, Trevilian’s,
Tabb’s Store, Courthouse, Bel Roi, Hicory Fork, Hayes’ Store, Achilles, Stone-
wall.

XCHLAND—Bowles’ Store, Ford’s Store, Deitrick’s Store, Goochland Courthouse,
Rockets, Three Square, Watkinsville, Caladonia, Snead’s Store, Trice’s Store,
Tabscott.

NOVER—Creed Harbor, Rural Point, Clay, Ashland, Rockville, Blunt’s, Hall’s
Shops, Higgason.

LirAx—Courthouse, South Boston, Clay’s Mill, Scotsburg, Mt. Laurel, Cross-
Roads, Clover, Dryburg, Mt. Carmel, Brandon, Black Walnut, Hyco, Mayo,
Vernon Hill, News Ferry, Brooklyn, Whitlock, Birch, Pace’s, Red Bank,
Omega, Midway, Republican Grove, Barksdale, Bryan, Martin’s Store, Mead-
ville, Locust Level.

NRICO—Whitlock’s, Town Hall, Carter’s, Baker’s, Seven Pines, Hardin’s Shop,
Howard’s Grove, Jones, Chestnut Hill, Bruns, Hungary, Shoemaker’s, West-
hampton, Ridge Church, Short Pump, Barton Heights.

NRY—Martinsville, Mayo, Spencer, Gunville, Horse Pasture, Scott's, Ridgeway,
Oak Level, Bassett, Ironside, Figsboro, Axton, Leatherwood, Mount Valley,
Irisburg.

}HLAND—Ruckman’s School-House, Hevener’s, New Hampden, Courthouse, Wil-
son’s Mill, Bethlehem, Pullin’s School-House, Stuart’s Mill.

—E oF WicHt—Baker’s Store, Burwell’s Bay, Courthouse, Zuni, Carrollton,
Longview, Orbit, Smithfield, Carrsville, Mount Carmel, Windsor.

‘ES Ciry—Jamestown No. 1, Jamestown No. 2, Stone House, Chickahominy.

‘@¢ AND QUEEN—Buena Vista, Little Plymouth, Stevensville, Curlton Store,
Clark’s, Newton.

ig GEorGcE—Courthouse, Passapatonky, Hampstead, Shiloh.

i@ WILLIAM—Mangohick, Beulahville, Manquin, Courthouse, Lanesville, West
Point.

{CASTER—Kilmarnock, Irvington, Weem’s, White Store, Little Bay, Litwalton,
Corrolomon, Lancaster.

—Bale’s Mill, Bale’s Forge, Blackwater, Bishop’s Store,, Dryden, Dixie, Hunt-
er’s Gap, Hurst Store, Jonesville, Morgan’s Store, Pennington Gap, Stickley-
ville, Salem, Sulphur Springs, Turkey Cove.
‘TSYLVANIA—Byant’s, Gile’s Store, Galveston, Spring Garden, Weal, Elba, Dry
Fork, Chatham, Museville, Sandy River, Banister, Swansonville, Catlands,
Hollywood, Grasty’s Store, Riceville, Cedar Hill, Peytonsburg, Shockhoe,
Laurel Grove, Keeling, Beavers, Ringgold, Statesville, Kentucky, Ajax,
Brights, Menla, Farmers, Toshes, Pullens, Whites, Brutus, Straight Store,
Hurt, Chalk Level, Level Run, Renan, Sycamore, Hill Grove, McDowel’s Mill,
Stokesland, Cascade, Design, Whitmell, Brosville, Bachelor’s Hall, Mount
Cross.

WHATAN—Ballsville, Smith’s Cross-Roads, Powhatan Courthouse, Pineville,
Powhatan Station, Sublett’s.

[NCE Epwarp—Farmville, Prospect, Spring Creek, Worsham, Briery, Green
Bay, Rice.

INCE GEORGE—Lee’s Mill, Rives, Bland, Blackwater, Brandon.

INCESS ANNE—Blackwater, Creed’s Bridge, Capp’s Shop, Wash Woods, Court-
house, London Bridge, Kempsville.

INCE WILLIAM—Manassas, Wellington, Haymarket, Hickory Grove, Waterford,
Brentsville, Greenwich, Nokesville, Independent Hill, Horton’s, Token, Dum-
fries, Potomac, Occoquon Hoadley.

LASKI—Allisonia, Max Creek, Reed Island, River View, Snowville, Church-
wood, Dublin, New River, East Pulaski, Hunter’s, West Pulaski, Harmony,
Ingles,. Newbern, Oak Grove.

'y OF PETERSBURG—First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Wards.

‘y OF PortsMOoUTH—First Ward, Second Ward, Third Ward, Fourth Ward, and
Fifth Ward.

PPAHANNOCK—Flint Hill, Amissville, Hamlin, Sperryville, Washington, Wood-
ville.

‘HMOND—Fiarnham, Warsaw, Newland, Emmerton.

ANOKE—John’s Shop, Brand’s Store, Botetourt Springs, Glenver, North Salem,
South Salem, West Salem, Bonsacks, Edington’s Shop, Norwich, Tinker Creek,
Vinton, Bent Mountain, Cave Spring, Poage’s Mill, Red Hill.

IKBRIDGE—Lexington, Hartsook’s Shop, Glasgow, Glenwood, Oak Bank, Natu-
ral Bridge, Broad Creek, Hamilton’s School-House, Collierstown, Montgomery,
Big Spring, Smith’s Mill, Rockbridge Baths, Brownsburg, Fleemen, Goshen,
Kennedy’s Mill, Timber Ridge, Riverside, Fairfield, Raphine, Campbell’s Mill.

cKINGHAM—Swift Run, Elkton, Furnace Number Two, McGaheysville, Port
Republic, Meyerhoffen Store, Cross Keys, Pleasant Valley, Mt. Crawford,
Bridgewater, Dayton, Ottovine, Keezeltown, East Harrisonburg, West Har-
risonburg, Mount Clinton, Mountain Valley, Melrose, Edom, Singer’s Glen,
Oak Grove, Tenth Legion, Timberville, Broadway, Carter’s Store, Wittig’s
Store.

SSELL—Lebanon, Cleveland, Honaker, Sword’s Creek, Cook’s Mills, Johnson’s,
Baylor’s, Hawkin’s Mill, Fugate’s, Wampler, Dorton, Carterton, Grigsby’s,
Banner.

Y OF Raprorp—East Ward, West Ward.

‘HMOND Crry—Marshall Ward, Jefferson Ward, Madison Ward, Monroe Ward,
Clay Ward, Lee Ward, Jackson Ward.

ANOKE Ciry—First Ward, Second Ward, Third Ward, Fourth Ward, Fifth
Ward. .

IT—Addington, Clinchport, Duffield, Estillville, Rollers, Frances, Hoge’s Store,
Hilton’s, Jenning’s, Nickelsville, Osborn’s Ford, Powers, Peters, Pattonsville,
Rye Cove, Stoney Creek, Sony Point, Smith’s, Wininger's.
SNANDOAH—New Market, Quicksburg, Forestville, Jno. D. Miller’s, Mount
Jackson, Hudson’s Cross-Roads, Cleveland, Jerome, Calvin Hill, Hamburg,
Edinburg, Lantz’s Mills, Columbia Furnace, Liberty Furnace, Pine Hill
School-House, Dry Run School-House, Tom’s Brook, Tom Hall, Courthouse,
St. Luke, Central School-House, Bonton, Sannisville, Mount Olive, Fisher’s
Hill, Lebanon Church, Orando, Strasburg.

ytTH—Atkins, Bonhams, North Marion, South Marion, Seven-Mile Ford, Broad
Ford, Chathain Hill, Olympia, Saltville, Blue Spring, Holstein Mills, St. Clair
Bottom, Williams.

3SEx—Courthouse, Yale, Henry, Stony Creek, Little Mill, Newville, Littleton,
Waverly, Wakefield.

wRY—Wall’s Bridge, Surry Courthouse, Baconi Castle, Claremont, Ona
Spring Grove.

UNTON—First Ward, Second Ward.

FFORD—Brooke, Stafford Courthouse, Griffis, Roseville, Stafford Store, Har-
wood, Hartwood, Falmouth, White Oak.

ITHAMPTON—Adams’ Grove, Drewryville, Boykins, Pope, Newsoms, Sunbeam,
Courtland, Black, Creek, Franklin, Berlin, Ivor.

TSYLVANIA—Partlow, Thornsburg, Travelers’ Rest, Courthouse, Brent’s Mill,
Summit, Chancellorsville, Todd’s Lawn, Parker’s, Belmont, Brokenburg, Faul-
coner’s.

-EWELL—Bluestone, Burk’s Garden, Cave Creek, Graham, Fall’s Mills, Poca-
hontas, Gratton, Abb’s Valley, Tip Top, Benbow, Crocket’s Cave, Dry Fork,
Gap Store, Freestone, Jeffersonville, North Tazewell, Thompson Valley, Cedar
Bluff, Lockhart Chappel, Liberty Hill, Midway, Pounding Mill, Poor Valley,
Richlands.

RREN—Front Royal, Linden, Cedarville, Kellers, Milldale, Bowmans, Browns-

wn, Bentonville, Riverton, Fork Union, Water Lick.

RWICK—Ivy Avenue, Morrison, Denbigh, Stanley.

SHINGTON—North Abingdon, South Abingdon, Bethel, Greenwood, Friendship,
Damascus, Oak Hill, Green Cove, Meadow View, Glade Spring, Mahanaim,
Fullen’s School-House, Hayton’s Mill, Hyler’s Gap, White’s Mill, Greendale,
Holston, Brunley Gap, Peters, Phillips, Ketrons, Mendota, Haxwells, Wyn-
dale, Watermans, Three Springs, Oak Grove, Shakesville.

sE—Gladeville, Comepdtch, Indian, Norton, Kelly, Round Top, Calburn, Clay
House, Bond’s Mill, Pound, Big Stone Gap, East Stone Gap, Stonega, Gilly.

STMORELAND—Oldhams, Kinsale, Hogue, Montross, Warrensville, Oak Grove,
Baynesville, Colonial Beach.

THE—Boyds, Pine Ridge, Pepper's Ferry, Reed Creek, Crockitts, Royal Oak,
Rural Retreat, Zion, Henley’s, Porter’s Cross-Road, Austinville, Foster’s
Falls, Patterson, Graham Forge, Max Meadow, Repass Mill.

LLIAMSBURG CiTy—Williamsburg.

NCHESTERE—Ward No. I, Ward No. 2, Ward No. 3, Ward No. 4.

RK—Courthouse, Cockeltown, Fort Magruder, Tabernacle Church.
ACCOUNT OF THE STATE’S INDEBTEDNESS, TAKEN FROM
THE REPORT OF SECOND AUDITOR, FISCAL
YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1903.

GENERAL STATEMENT.
PUBLIC DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST IS BEING PAID, SepremBer 30, 1903.

DEBT UNDER ACT OF FEBRUARY 14, 1882.
PRINCIPAL.

The amount of bonds and certificates issued under acts of Febru-

ary 14, 1882, and November 29, 1884, bearing three per cent.

per annum interest, is............ 0. cece eens $ 9,289,862 01
Of which there has been received in settlement of indebtedness to

the State and cancelled :
From the Richmond and Danville Railroad Com-

PANY onc cee ce cw eines eee SB beds ewes ed be es $438,899 45
From the Upper Appomattox Company........... 10,864 26
From defaulting officers and their sureties......... 152,967 64
Amount cancelled .......... 0... cece eee cee eens 602,731 25
Teaving «sass ssew eis me ss enw es wees mie as war es we $ 8,687,130 76

The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund held $2,357,576.60 of
these bonds, but under requirement of the Century Act (Feb-
ruary 20, 1892) they were cancelled, and are no longer a part

of the debt, and therefore deducted.............. 0... c ee ee 2,357,576 60
Leaving total amount outstanding................ $ 6,329,554 16

Of which there is held by the Literary Fund................... 1,506,827 28
And there is held by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund..... 324,000 00
And there is in the hands of the general public................. 4,498,726 88

$ 6,329,554 16
The amount of each class outstanding October 1, 1903, is as fol-

lows:
Registered bonds .......... 0. cece cece een eee teen eee enes $ 4,167,800 00
Coupon bonds ......... 0. cece cece eee eee t eee eees 2,160,500 00
Fractional certificates 2.0... 00... cece eee eee eee cette een ene 1,254 16

Total saee ss saw es vows tame es aew ie sae same e dee ee $ 6,329,554 16
Under acts of both February 14, 1882, and February 20, 1892, reg-
istered and coupon bonds are interchangeable at the pleasure
of the holders on the payment of a fee of fifty cents for each
new bond so issued.
Bonds and certificates issued under act of February 20, 1892, and
' amendments thereto began to bear three per cent. per annum

on July 1, 1901, and amount to........ ccc eee eens $18,050,415 12
Of which there has been received from defaulting officers and their
sureties, and cancelled ........... 0... ce eee cee eee eee eee 3,357 26
Leaving guess sci awe ss ee ce sme es ewes owe es a ear $18,047,057 86
Of which there is held by the Literary Fund........ $276,900 00
And there is held by the Commissioners of the Sink-
Ginge Bund: go ccese ce case yo eine ey eee ee ete as tere eae 787,500 00
1,064,400 00
Leaving in the hands of the public................ 16,982,657. 86
Wotal soe <a were ¢ & wep «+ rome o x win os weeny gy were 0 5 anergy gg etre $18,047,057 86
Amount of each class outstanding October 1, 1903:
Registered bonds ...........0. 0c eee cece eee nee $10,761,500 00
Coupon bonds ......... 2... cece cece eee 7,283,000 00
Fractional certificates ......... 2.0.0 cece eee eee 2,657 86

$18,047,057 86
DEBT UNDER ACT OF FEBRUARY 23, 1892.
Schools and College bonds.......... 0... 0c cece cece eee eens $ 2,466,455 85

STATEMENT OF THE ENTIRE DEBT
OF VIRGINIA ON WHICIL INTEREST IS BEING PAID OCTOBER 1, 1903.

Principal. Interest.
$18,047,057 86 Century bonds bearing 3 per cent............... $541,411 73
6,329,554 16 Riddleberger bonds bearing 3 per cent........... 189,886 62
2,383,655 85 Schools and Colleges bearing 6 per cent.......... 143,019 35
82,800 00 Schools and Colleges bearing 4 per cent.......... 3,312 00
$26,843,067 87 $877,629 70

EXCHANGE OF BONDS.

During the fiscal year ending September 30, 1903, the following exchanges
were made:

Bonds under Acts of 1882 and 1892 are interchangeable in their respective
classes from coupon to registered and vice rersa, at the pleasure of the holders, on
the payment of a fee of fifty cents for each new bond so issued.

A comparison of the relative changes in the amounts of registered and coupon
bonds shows an increase in favor of registered, which evidences a growing desire
for permanent investments, as that class offers the greater security to holders,
such as restoration in case of loss by fire, theft, &e.

During the fiscal year ending October 1, 1902, the Century Bonds outstanding,
as reported by the Second Auditor, were:
nsurance Companies—Tax on licenses (see Table No.
sO

Tax on premiums (see Table

No. L)) sacs swew ss eee s sees

Tax’ to pay cost of publishing

their reports (see Table No.

LL) agin wer ess em ets ee as eee

nterest—From State depositaries (see Table No. 12) .
ands—Sales of unappropriated lands ..............
sibrary Fund—Receipts for use of Library (see Table
Noy 13) ces ese ss wees waw os ore 3 ware ps ore es See ao
jicenses—Licenses other than liquor and sewing
Machines ....... 0... eee eee

Liquor licenses .......... 0... cece ee eee eee
Licenses to appear before committees of the

General Assembly (see Table No. 14)....

Licenses to mercantile agencies (see Table

No: 16): wars ss wace ¢ 2 sees oo ew ss wee a re es

Licenses for sale of sewing machines (see

Table No. 16) ........ cece eee eee enone

verpayments Refunded—Payments back into the
treasury (see Table No. 17) ........ 0. cece eee e eens
yster Tax—Receipts from (see Table No. 18).......
artnership Associations—Fees on ..............60.
ensions Returned—Warrants issued for pensions not
used and paid back into the treasury (see Table No.
TD) eyes saw os mew 2 wie os ew eB ee OR eas ee ome
rinted Records—Paid into the treasury by clerks of

Supreme Court of Appeals (see Table No. 20)......
enitentiary—Hire of convicts ...........-6-- eee
ersonal Property Tax—Tax for support of govern-
ment, 1901 .......-....06.

Tax for support of schools,

WOOL wise ge waceg s sesee ss eres

Tax for support of govern-

ment, 1902 ...............

Tax for support of schools,

1902 sem ess mmm ss ome ys gous

Railroad Companins“Tax to pay salary of Railroad

PG i a gi 7 es Pe oe \ oe

27,401 10

80,115 19

478,096 50
401,834 20

2,640 00

1,539 92
513 02
292,891 85

97,633 98
ASSESSMENT OF TAXES.

Act providing for payment of
State tax by party on whose
motion estate of decedent is

committed to sheriff, ete., 78
Act to raise revenue for support

of government and public free

schools and for pensions, 155-228
Tax on lands and lots, ground

rents and rent charge, 155
Tax on persons, 156
Tangible personal property, 156-7
Personal property and choses in

action, 158-9
Tax on incomes, 160

Tax on wills and administrations, 161

Tax on deeds, 161
Tax on suits, 161
Tax on seals, 162
Tax on banks and trust and secu-
rity companies, 163
Tax on insurance companies, 165
Railway and canal corporations,
167-169
Express companies, 171
Tax on express companies, 173
License tax on express companies, 173
Sleeping car, parlor company, and
dining car companies, 174
Tax on capital of sleeping cars,
etc., 175
Telegraph and telephone, 175
Tax on telegraph and telephone
companies, 177
License tax on telegraph and tele-
phone companies, 178
Fees on charters, 178
Fees for registration, 180
Annual State franchise tax, 182
Tax on collateral inheritance, 182
LICENSES.
Merchants, 183
Oyster packers, 185
Railroad and incorporated com-
panies, which sell mineral pro-
ducts, ete., 186
Commission merchants, 186-187
Sale by peddlers, 187
Peddlers’ license, 187
Sale or barter of patent rights, 188
Land agents, 188
Book agents, 189
Auction sales, who may sell with-
out license, 190
Auctioneers’ account of sales, 190
What auctioneers may do, 190
Auctioneers’ license, 191
Real estate auctioneers, 191

Tobacco auctioneers, 192
Retailers of tobacco, 192
Junk dealers, canvassers, etc., 192
Common criers, 193-194
Ship brokers, 194
Stock brokers, 194-195
Bankers or brokers dealing in fu-
tures, 195
Private bankers, 195
Pawnbrokers, 196-198
Merchandise broker, 198
Building and loan associations, 199
Insurance brokers, 200
Mercantile agencies, 200
Undertakers, 201
Barbers 201
Contractors, 201-202
Architects, 202
House of private entertainment,
202-203
Eating house, 203
Bowling saloon, 204
Billiard saloon, 204
Bagatelle saloon, 204-5
Theatres, public performances, ex-
hibitions, etc., 205
Hobby horses, merry-go-rounds,
etc., 206
Public rooms, 207
Attorneys, physicians, and den-
tists, 207
Attorneys, 208
Physicians, surgeons, and den-
tists, 208
Veterinayy surgeons, 209

Vendors of medicines, salves, etc., 209
Daguerrean and photograph ar-

tists, 209-210
Stallions and Jackasses, 210
Bulls, 210
Agents for renting houses, 211
Labor agents, 211
Laundries, 212
Storage and impounding, 212
Livery stables, 212-213
Sewing machines, 213
Manufactured implements, etce.,

other than sewing machines, 215
Peddlers of manufactured im-

plements, etc., 216
Slot machines, 216
Pistols, dirks, or bowie knives, 217
Liquor license, 217-226
Social clubs, 226
General provisions, 227
School taxes to be separately

assessed, 228

Act amending section 587 as to
licenses revoked by local option
elections, 229
Act for assessment of taxes on
mineral lands,

Amending section 83 of act in
reference to insurance brokers, 352

Act amending section 50 of act to
raise revenue for support of
government, etc., in relation to
peddlers,

Amending section 94 of act in
reference to,

Amending section 51 of revenue
law in reference to peddlers, 533

Amending sections 555 and 559 in
relation to licenses,

Amending section 17 as to tax on
banks and trust and security
companies,

Amending section 69 of act to
raise revenue, etc., so as to al-
low foundrymen to buy old
castings, ete.,

Amending section 144 of act to
raise revenue, etc., in reference
to social clubs,

\mending section 143 of act to
raise revenue, etc., in relation to
liquor licenses, 910-919

484

495

572

669

738

832

ATTACHMENTS.
mending sections 2961, 2962, and
2965 as to, 592
ATTEMPTS.
mending section 3888 as to how
punished, 784
ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
mending sections 3203 and 3204
in relation to duties of, 642
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
mending section 3196 in relation
to disbarring,
ct allowing persons over nineteen
years of age to take State bar
examinations,

571

686

TTORNEYS FOR THE COMMON-
WEALTH.
mending section 819 in relation

to residence of, 535
mending act for appointment of
special prosecuting attorneys, 567

UDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

uthorized to credit treasurers

with last school warrant, etc, 29

320 |

Act directing, to accept princips
and interest at 6 per cent. fo
judgment against treasurer
and securities,

Act allowing, to pay officers an
employees at stated periods,
Amending act authorizing, to issu

duplicate warrants,

Amending sections 223, 224, 228
226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 23
in reference to,

Amending sections 754, 765, 76§
and 774 in relation to duties ot
touching public funds,

Authorized to refund money i:
certain cases,

AUGUSTA COUNTY.

Act confirming action of au
thorities in the purchase an
sale of certain land,

AUTOMOBILES, LOCOMOBII
ETC

Act regulating running of, alon;
highways and in streets,

BACK BAY.
For protection of fish in water:
of
, BAIL.
Amending section 3960 in rela
tion to,

BAIL COMMISSIONER.

Act to provide for appointment
of,

BALLAST MASTERS.

Amending section 1991 in relatior
to appointment of,

BANKS AND BANKING ASSO
TIONS.

Act providing for collection of al
taxes in arrears on, etc.,

BANKS OF DISCOUNT AND
POSIT.

Amending sections 1154 to 1173.

inclusive, in relation to, 90:

BARTON HEIGHTS.

Conferring certain authority as to
cemeteries adjoining town of,
Repealing provisions of section
1414 as amended in reference tc

cemeteries adjoining,
BAYLOR SURVEY.

et appointing special committee
in reference to leasing out bar-

ren area in, 118
BEDFORD COUNTY.

\ct to authorize supervisors of,

to contribute to Confederate

monument, 103

ct validating certain records of

county court of, 538

SENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE
ORDER OF ELKS.

uthorizing exchange of lots be-

tween, and county of Albemarle, 902

BIG STONE GAP.

\mending charter of town of, 368

BILL OF EXCEPTIONS.

ct amending section 4050 in re-

lation to, in criminal cases, 627

BILI.S OF EXCEPTION.
‘mending section 3385 in rela-
tion,

BIRDS AND ANIMALS.

\mending sections 2070, 2071,
2072, 2073, 2074, 2078, 2079,
and 2080 of the Code in rela-
tion to preservation of, 331-338
\mending subsections 1 and 2
of section 2070c of act for
preservation of,

BLACKSTONE.

\uthorizing council of town of,
to appoint an assessor, etc.,

864

496

23

BLACKWATER RIVER.

\ct apportioning cost of building
bridge across, between South-

ampton and Isle of Wight, 230

BLOODHOUNDS.

‘et. to provide for raising and
training, 235

BLUE FISH.
ict to prohibit catching of, by
non-residents,

BOARD OF FISHERIES.
tet repealing act authorizing, to
declare certain land in Acco-
mae to be harren area,

302

16

Repealing act authorizing, to ad-
just Baylor Survey in Accomac

and Northampton, 16
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Authorized to retire outstanding
bonds and to issue new bonds in
their stead, 136

Act autnorizing, to settle judg-
ments against treasurer, etc., 235

Amending sections 826, 831, 832,
833, 834, 835, 836, 838, 840, 841,
846, 847, 849, and 850, and re-
pealing section 839 in relation
to board of supervisors, 855-861

Authorizing, to levy special taxes
to pay interest on bonds and
create sinking fund, s92

Authorized to levy tax to pay in-
terest and principal on bonds
issued by school trustees, ete., 949

BONDS.

Amending sections 225 to 228 in
reference to bonds of certain
officers, 579-580

Amending section 180 as to how
sued on, 586

Amending section 814 in relation
to, 723

BOTETOURT COUNTY.

Authorizing supervisors of, to
contribute to Confederate mon-
ument, lll

Authorizing county court of, to
permit monument to be erected
on public square of, 112

Act authorizing supervisors to
borrow $12,000 to build bridge
across James river, 232

BOWLING GREEN.
Repealing charter of town of, 131
Act incorporating town of, 132

BOYDTON.

Amending section 16 of act to es-

tablish dispensary in, 687
BRIBERY.

Act to provide rule of evidence
in prosecution for, 20

Amending sections 3744 and 3745
in relation to. 823

Amending section 3853 in relation
to, at elections, 880
Act fixing term of judge of corpo-
ration court of,
Amending section 136 of charter

313

of, 325
Authorized to issue additional
bonds for water-works,
Act repealing act providing circuit:
court for, etc.,

BROOKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Authorized to borrow $10,000 for
building school-house at Barton

359

587

Heights, 867
BUCHANAN.
Amending certain sections of
charter of town of, 290
BUENA VISTA.
Act fixing term of judge of cor-
poration court of, 313

CAMPBELL,. C. J.

Act appropriating $1,200 for
stenographer employed in in-
vestigation of charges against, 71

CAMPBELL COUNTY.

Act allowing supervisors of, to
purchase Lynchburg and Camp-
bell courthouse turnpike,

Act to authorize supervisors to
contribute to Confederate mon-
ument,

Act to authorize county court to
permit Confederate monument
to be erected on public square,

Amending act authorizing super-
visors of, to purchase Lynch-
burg and Campbell courthouse
turnpike,

CAPIAS PRO FINE.

Amending section 4074, when
judge may release person from
jail under,

35

103

104

487

628

CAPITATION TAX.

Amending act constituting, lien
on real estate,

Act prescribing manner in which
voter who has not been assessed
with, may pay same,

555

559
CAPITOL AND LIBRARY BUILD-
INGS.

Act to provide fuel,. light, and

ice for, 292

NA SAAU SSN ES WII AN

Act for working roads of,
Amending section 448 of Code

reference to commissioners
revenue of,

mae

CARSON.
Act prohibiting manufacture :
sale of intoxicating liqu

within two miles of,

CARSON’S FORD.
Supervisors of Warren county

thorized to borrow money
build bridge at,

CEMETERIES.

Amending section 1414 in relat
to,

CHAIN-GANGS.
Amending sections 3932 and 3
in relation to,
Amending act prescribing pena
on those who escape or atter
to escape from,

CHANCERY CAUSES
Act amending section 3427, }
submitted for decision in
cation, etce.,

CHARLOTTE COUNT!
Empowering supervisors of, to
clare streams highways in,
Legalizing election in, for s
scribing to stock of Charlo
Farmville, and James Ri
Valley Railway Company,
Act for improvement of roads.

CHARLOTTE, FARMVILLE
JAMES RIVER VALLEY
WAY CO.

Legalizing election in Prince
ward county for subscribing
stock of,

Legalizing election in Charl
county for subscribing to st
of,

CHARLOTTESVILLE.
City of, authorized to close Fi
street in,
School board of, authorized
borrow money,
SRLS EE he Ee

-roviding for extension of,
through State Corporation
Commission, 256
Appropriation for secretary of
the Commonwealth to furnish
list of, to State Corporation
Commission, 512
see Corporations.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.

‘mending act authorizing super-
visors to provide for improve-
ment of roads, etc., 243

CHILDREN.

ict making it unlawful to em-
ploy children under twelve
years in manufacturing opera-
tions, etc., 233
tepealing act for incorporation of
societies for prevention of cruel-
ty to, 899

CHILD LABOR ACT.
ee Children.

CHURCH PROPERTY.

‘mending section 1401 as to how
held, 687

CIDER.
ict. prohibiting sale of, within
one mile of Appomattox court-
house, 6

CIRCUIT COURTS.

ct vesting in, powers, ete., vested

in county courts, 626

ct repealing sections -3063, 3065,

3066, and 3067, and amending

sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059,

3060, and 3062 in relation to,
764-772

roviding for transfer to, of all

causes in county courts, 830

mending act requiring judges to

set criminal cases for trial, 862

mending section 3049 as to des-

ignation by governor of judge

to hold, ete., 945

CITIES.

et for changing boundaries of
wards in, and for increasing or
diminishing number, 101
et to provide for the representa-
tion of the several wards of,
ete., - 102

avy sue ———— ee WBS UBS S COU ENED Serta wuwv
Repealing act to provide for the
representation of the several

wards of, 589
Act authorizing, to have legal
enumeration, 746

Repealing act for changing boun-
daries of wards in, and for in-
creasing or diminishing num-

Tr, 902

Providing for election of justices
of the peace in, where no pro-
vision is made by their charters, 904

See Cities and Towns.

CITIES AND TOWNS.
Act regulating granting of fran-

chises by, 119
Act to confer upon, power to regu-
late sale of liquors, 234

Amending sections 1013 to 1048

inclusive in reference to, 412-437
Definition of terms, 412
Enumeration of population, 413

Survey and plans to be recorded, 414
Wards of cities, how changed,

etc., 414
Of what councils to consist, 414
Council to reapportion represen-

tation, ete., 415
Mandamus to lie in case of fail-

ure, 416
Ineligibility of members of coun-

cils, 416
Vacancies, how filled, 416

Presiding officers, duties, ete, 416
Rules and officers, investigations,

ete., 417
Rules as to quorums and passage

of certain ordinances, 417
Charter officers of cities, 418

Duties, pay, ete. of clerks and
attorneys for Commonwealth, 418

Police force, duties, etc., 418
City sergeant, 419
Allowances to, 419
Accepting certain offices vacates
office of justice, 419
Election of mayor and council-
men, 419
Appointment of registrars and
judges of election, 419
Opening polls, etc., 420
Who may vote, 420
Returns of elections, 420
Voting places, notice of election,
ete., 420
Penalty on sheriff, 420

When town officers to qualify, 420
Extending terms. of various offi-
cials, 420
Oaths of mayor and councilmen, 421
Council to be judge of members, 421
Suspension or removal of town
officers, 421
Jurisdiction of corporate au-
thorities, 422
Clerks of city courts, 422
Commonwealth’s attorneys for
cities, 422
Officers, how chosen, 422
Mayor and councilmen to have
powers of justice, appeals from
decision, etc., 423
Mayor and other officers, when
terms begin, etc., 423
Veto power of mayor, etc., as to
streets, 425
Restrictions on granting fran-
chises, 425
Regulating granting of fran-
chises, ete., by, 426
Regulating issuing of bonds by, 428
Assessment of property for taxa-
tion, 429
Sergeants of, powers and duties, 429
Proceedings of councils, who to
preside, 429
How council of town convened, 429
General and enumerated powers
of councils of, 429 |
Taxation of shares of stock issued i
by banks in, 431-432

Penalty for non-payment of levies, 432

Providing for local assessments
for certain improvements,

Licenses,

Prohibited from imposing tax on
persons selling products raised
by them,

Authorized to establish free libra- +
Ties,

Authorized to make levies,

Collector may distrain for levies,

Delinquent lists,

How examined and allowed,

Disbursement of moneys,

Effect of this chapter on charters
of,

Act for making enumerations in,

Act providing for the contraction
of corporate limits of,

Amending section 1015b of act in
relation to, and repealing sec-
tions 1039, 1040, and 1043, and
also repealing act approved
March 7, 1900, for local assess-
ments in,

432
433

Amending subsections 1015b,
1015g, 1033, 1033b, 1033f, 1042a,
and 1048 of act approved May
20, 1903, and to repeal sections
1039, 1040, and 1043 in relation
to, 886-

Repealing act approved March 7,
1900, in relation to local assess-
ments in, 886-

Authorizing councils of, to levy
special taxes to pay interest on
bonds and create sinking fund,

Repealing act regulating grant of
franchises by,

CLARKE COUNTY.

Act authorizing supervisors of, to
build bridges at Castleman’s
and Berry’s ferries,

Empowering road boards to pur-
chase rock crushers,

Supervisors authorized to
bonds to macadamize roads,

Act prescribing jurisdiction of
supervisors in certain cases,

Fixing time for holding sessions
of supervisors of,

Amending act authorizing syper-
visors of, to build bridges at
Castleman’s and Berry’s ferries,

Repealing act for fixing time for
holding sessions of supervisors
of,

issu

CLARKSVILLE.

Authorized to build bridge across
Roanoke river,

CLERKS OF COURTS.

Act requiring, to send lists of offi-
cers to secretary of the Com-
monwealth,

Amending act authorizing suspen-
sion of,

Amending sections 3174, 3175,
3176, 3182, 3186, and 3187 in
relation to,

CLERKS OF CIRCUIT COURT:

Act regulating probate of will,
ete., by,

CLINTWOOD SCHOOL DISTRI

Authorizing trustees to issue
bonds for purchase of site and
erection of school-house, etc.,

CODE (SECTIONS AMENDED
Amending section 4 of, in relation

to commencement of,
mending section 5 as to con-
struction of words city, town,
or council, 556

CODE. |
mending sections 22, 23, and 24
in reference to assessors of

lands for United States, 561
mending section 32 in relation to
great seal, 570

ct amending sections 60 and 61
of, in relation’ to reapportion-
ment in senate, 540
et amending sections 62, 64, 65,
67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 75, 78, 79, 80,
and 85 in relation to elections
by the people, 561-567
mending section 85 making reg-

istrans conservators of the
peace, 15
\mending section 85, making reg-
istrars conservators of the
peace, 537

\mending sections 87 to 108, in-
clusive, in reference to election
of officers, 740-745
‘mending sections 87 to 108 in-
clusive in relation to election of
State, county, district, and city
officers, 504
\mending sections 109 to 151, in-
clusive, and subsections in ref-
erence to elections. 922-941
\mending sections 125 and 129 in
relation to receiving and can-
vassing ballots, and names en-
tered on poll books, 12
‘mending sections 157, 158, 159,
160, and 161 in relation to con-
tested clections, 582-584
‘mending sections 168, 169, 170,
175, and 180 in reference to

oaths and bonds of officers, 584

(mending sections 183, 184, 185,
186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191,
192, and 193 in relation to
salaries, mileage, and other al-
lowances, 47

Amending sections 194, 197, 198,
and 199 in relation to members
of general assembly officers, ete., 704

Amending sections 221 and 222 in
relation to powers and duties o1
governor, 663

Amending sections 223 to 233, in-
elusive, and section 235 in ref-
erence to officers at the seat of
government, 579

Amending section 232 in relation
to appointment of directors and
surgeon of penitentiary, 251

Amending sections 242 to 267, in-
clusive, in relation to duties of
secretary of Commonwealth,
libraries, etc., 869-

Amending sections 242 243, 244,
245, 246, 250, 252, and 257 re-
lative to duties of secretary of
the Commonwealth,

Amending section 270 to 285, in-
clusive, in reference to print-
ing, : 846-

Amending sections 270, 271, 272,
273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278,
279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284,
285, and 286 in reference to
duties of superintendent of pub-
lic printing, etc., 326-

Amending sections 288 and 299,
and repealing act with reference
to duties of register of land of-
fice, ete.,

Amending section 300 in relation
to militia,

Amending sections 383 to 436, in-
clusive, in reference to the pub-
lie debt, 706-

Amending sections 437, 438, 439,
440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 446,
and 447 in reference to assess-
ment of lands, 610-

Amending sections 448, 457, 459,
460, 462, 487, 488, 491, 492. 498,
508, 521, 524, 627, 528. and 532
in relation to the duties of the
commissioner of the revenue.

643-

Amending section 448 in refer-
ence to commissioners of the
revenue in Caroline,

Amending sections 555 and 559 in
relation to licenses.

Amending sections 567, 568, 571,
573, and 578 in relation to er-
roneous assessments,

Amending sections 581 and 585 in
reference to local option,

Amending section 587 as_ to
license revoked by local option
elections,

Amending sections 588 and 591 of,

Amending section 623 in reference
to collection of taxes,

Act amending section 623 in rela-
tion to collection of taxes, ete.,

Amending sections 637, 638, 642,
648, 649, 650, 651, 653, 654, 655,
659, 662, 664, 665, and 666 in
relation to sale of delinquent
lands, 689

Act. amending section 666 in rela-
tion to delinquent lands,
mending sections 718, 721, 723,
738, and 743 with reference to

fines, 605
mending section 753 relating to
State depositories, 657

mending sections 754, 765, 768,
and 774 in relation to public

moneys and duties of auditor, 681.

mending sections 791, 793, 796,
799, 801, 804, and 810 in rela-
tion to counties, etc., 598-600

mending sections 812, 813, 814,
815, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822,
and 824 in relation to county,
city, and district officers, 651-656

mending section 814 in relation
to bonds of officers, 723

imending section 819 in regard
to county, district, and corpora-
tion officers, 535

mending sections 826, 831, 832,
833, 834, 835, 836, 838, 840,
841, 846, 847, 849, and 850 in
relation to duties, ete., of board
of supervisors, 855-860

\mending sections 853, 855, 857,
858, 861, 862, 863, and 865 in
relation to treasurers, 620-622

\mending section 857 in reference
to duties of treasurers, etc.,

‘mending sections 875, 882, and
883 in reference to the poor, 609

\mending sections 884 and 885 in
relation to vagrancy,

\mending section 890 in reference
to sheriff city of Richmond, 921

\mending sections 890, 891, 896,
and 912 as to sheriffs, coroners,
ete., 574

Amending sections 913, 917, and
922 in relation to surveyors, 569

Amending section 923 in relation
to notary public,

Amending sections 927, 929, 930,
and 934 in relation to jails and
jailors, 636

Amending section 931 as to erec-
tion of jails and repairs to
courthouses, 232

Amending sections 1013 to 1048
inclusive in reference to cities
and towns, 412

Amending sections 1015, 1033,
1042, and 1048, and certain sub-
sections, in relation to cities
and towns, as amended by act
approved May 20, 1903, 886-892

Act amending section 1022 in re-
lation to registrars and judges
of elections for towns, 68

132

943

876

634

Amending section 1101 in relation
to condemnation of lands of
State hospital and other State
institutions,

Amending sections 1104 and 1105
relative to incorporated com-
panies, .

Amending sections 1154 to 1173,
inclusive, in relation to banks of
discount and deposit, 9065-

Amending sections 1174, 11765,
1176, 1177, 1178, 1179, 1180,
and 1180a in relation to sav-
ings banks, |

Amending sections 1340 and 1345
in relation to water courses,

Amending sections 1347 and 1360
in relation to mills, dams, etc.,

Amending sections 1362, 1367,
1369, 1375, 1378, 1379, 1380,
and 1390 in relation to ferries
and bridges,

Amending section 1401 as to how
church property held,

Amending section 1414 in rela-
tion to cemeteries,

Amending section 1421 in relation
to gifts to educational purposes,

Amending sections 1427 to 1520,
inclusive, in relation to public
free schools, 798-

Amending sections 1522, 1524,
1525, 1526, 1527, 1528, 1529,
1531, 1533, 1534, and 1538 in
reference to public free schools
in cities, 825-

Amending sections 1546 and 1551
in relation to duties of visitors
of university, etc.,

Amending sections 1563 to 1585
inclusive in regard to manage-
ment of Virginia Military In-
stitute,

Amending sections 1565, 1574,
1581, and 1582 in reference to
Virginia Military Institute,

Amending sections 1586 to 1607
inclusive in regard to Virginia
A, and M. College and Poly-
technic Institute and Hampton
Normal and Industrial Insti-
tute, 524

Amending sections 1591-1695 in
reference to Virginia Polytech-

. nie Institute,

Amending section 1608 in relation
to State Female Normal School,
Amending

Amending sections 1608 to 1612
inclusive in regard to manage-
ment of State Female Normal
School, 411

sections 1637, 1638,
1639, 1640, 1641, 1642, 1643,
1644, 1645, 1646, 1647, 1648,
1649, 1650, 1651 in relation to
educational institutions,
Amending sections 1652 to 1659
inclusive in regard to Virginia
School for Deaf, Dumb, and
Blind,

Amending sections
1664, 1665, 1666,
1672, 1673, 1674,
1679, 1680, 1682, 1684, 1685,
1688, 1697, 1702, 1707, and
1710 in relation to State hos-
pitals for the insane, 121-
Act amending section 1681 in re-
lation to commitment of cer-
tain persons to insane hospitals,
Amending section 1721 in refer-
ence to temporary hospitals,
Amending section 1747 regulating
practice of medicine and sur-
gery,

Amending section 1750 in relation
to practice of medicine and sur-
gery,

Amending section 1750 regulating
practice of medicine and sur-
gery,

Amending section 1759 in rela-
tion to practice of pharmacy, 71

Amending section 1774 in refer-

389

408
1662,
1669,

1675,

1663,
1670,
1677,

130

ence to dentistry, 753
Amending section 1781 in relation
to bonds for dead bodies, 782
Amending sections 1955, 1997,
1963, and 1967 in reference to
pilots, 757
Amending section 1991 in refer-
ence to ballast masters, 735
Amending sections 2008, 2019,
2022, and 2023 in reference to
harbor masters, 738
Amending sections 2044, 2051,
2055, and 2058 as to trespass by
animals and lawful fences, 575
Amending section 2048 in relation
to lawful fence, 863
Amending section 2063 in refer-
ence to estrays, 586
Amending sections 2070, 2071, —-
ON72, 2073, 2OT4, 2078, 2079,
nnd 2080 in reference to unlaw-
331-338

ful hunting,

Amending section 2083 of, rela-
tive to fishing with pound nets,

Amending section 2086 as to King
George and Stafford,

Amending section 2086 in rela-
tion to fishing,

Amending sections 2117 and 2118
in relation to fishing, etc.,

Amending section 2148 in rela-
tion to time for taking oysters,
etc.,

mending section 2179 in relation
to forfeitures,

Amending section 2216, 2224, 2225,
2228, 2240, and 2250 in relation
to marriages,

Amending section 2229 in rela-
tion to marriage licenses,

Act amending section 2260 in re-
lation to proceedings for di-
vorce,

Amending section 2266 in rela-
tion to divorces,

Act amending section 2266 relat-
ing to divorces,

Amending section 2274 in relation
to dower, :

Amending section 2357 in relation
to inclusive grants,

Amending section 2386 in refer-
ence to escheats,

Amending section 2463 in relation
to void contracts,

Amending sections 2485 and 2486
in relntion to lien of employees,
etc.,

Amending section 2501 in relation
to certificate of acknowledg-
ments,

Amending section 2505 in relation
to indexing of deeds,

Amending sections 2533, 2534,
2538, and 2547 in relation to
wills,

Amending section 2552 in relation
to descents,

Amending section 2562 in relation
to partition of lands,

Amending sections 2599 and 2600
in relation to guardians,

Amending sections 2616, 2620,
2621, 2622, and 2625 in relation
to disubilities,

Amending section 2629 as to
transferring effects out of State

Amending sections 2636, 2637,
2639, 2640, 2642, 2644, 2645, 2647
in relation to personal represen-
tatives, ete.,

867

591

593
\mending section 2660 in relation
tv order in which debts of de-
cedents are paid, 672
‘mending sections 2716, -2717,
2718, 2719, and 2720 in relation

to unlawful detainer, 675
‘mending section 2757 in refer-
ence to improvements, 734

mending section 2773 in relation
to improvements,

\mending sections 2785 and 2786
in reference to rents, etc.,

\mending section 2790 in relation
to when and by whom distress
made,

‘mending section 2844 in rela-
tion to public holidays, and
when notes, etc., to be pre-
sented, etc., 18

‘mending section 2847 in rela-
tion to, when notes, ete., be-
come due, 18

\ct amending sections 2864, 2865,
2871, and 2875 in relation to
limited partnerships,

\mending section 2914 in rela-
tion to bonds in cases of deti-
nue,

‘mending section 2917 in relation
to limitation of suits,

mending sections 2939, 2956, and
20957, and repealing certain acts
with reference to warrants for
small claims,

mending sections 2961, 2962, and
2965 as to attachments,

mending sections 2999, 3000, and
3004 in relation to interpleader, 597

‘mending sections 3029 and 3036
as to writ of habeus corpus,

mending sections 3049, 3050,
3053, 3054, and 3055 in relation
to corporation courts,

mending section 3049 as to de-
signation of judge by governor,

699

588

663

992

576

666

to hold court, etc., 945
imending section 3049 when
judge fails to hold court, ete., 257

\mending section 3049 of Code in
regard to, when judge fails to
hold court, who to appoint, ete,

ct amending section 3049 pro-
viding when judge fails to hold
court, what judge may do so,
when governor may designate

judge, etc., 40
‘mending sections 3036, 3057,
3058, 3059, 3060, and 3062 in
reference to circuit courts, 764

Amending sections 3068 and 3082
relating to courts of city uf

Richmond, 665
Amending sections 3086, 3093, and

3095 in relation to court of ap-

peals, 641
Amending section 3090 in rela-

tion to, where cases heard in -

court of appeals, 233
Amending section 3111 in refer-

ence as to recess and adjourn-

ment of courts, 943
Amending sections 3116, 3117,

3120, 3122, 3129, 3130, 3131,

3132, 3134, and 3135 relating to

courts, 607-609
Amending sections 3139, 3140,

3142, 3143, 3144, 3145, 3146,

3147, 3166, and 3167 in reference

to jurors and juries, 601-605
Amending section 3139 of, in re-

lation to who liable to serve

as jurors, 10
Amending section 3139 as to who

liable to serve as jurors, 288
Amending section 3154 as to ju-

ries, 944
Amending sections 3174, 3175,

3176, 3182, 3184, 3186, 3187 in

relation to clerks of courts, 617
Amending section 3196 in relation

to disbarring attorneys at law, 571
Amending sections 3203 and 3204

in relation to duties of attor-

ney-general, 642
Amending sections 3207 and 3208

in relation to notice, 632
Amending sections 3214 and 3218

in relation to where suits

brought, mandamus, etc., 635
Amending section 3231 in relation

to order of publication, 623
Amending section 3316 in relation

to removal of causes, 625
Amending section 3354 in relation

to compelling attendance of wit-

nesses, etc., 637
Amending section 3376 as to loss

of papers, etc., 568
Amending section 3382 in refer-

ence to trials, 642
Amending section 3385 in relation

to bills of exception, 864
Amending sections 3419 and 3426

in relation to trustees and inter-

locutory decrees, 632

Amending section 3427 in rela-
tion to how chancery cause,
etc., submitted for decision in
vacation,

77
Amending section 3436 in refer-
ence to jurisdiction of injunc-
tions,

Amending sections 3454, 3455,
3457, 3459, 3460, 3465, 3466,
3467, 3469, 3471, 3474, 3486,
3488, and 3490 in relation to
appeals, writs of error, etc.,

Amending section 3455 in relation
to appeals, ete.,

Amending sections 3498, 3500,
3505, 3506, 3508, 3515, 3519,
and 3528 in relation to fees of
officers,

Repealing act which repealed sec-
tion 3525 and amending section
3525 in relation to fees of offi-
cers,

Amending section 3552 in relation
to costs,

Amending sections 3559, 3560,
3562, and 3563 in reference to
judgments, ete.,

Amending sections 3584 and 3599
in relation to executions,

Amending sections 3605, 3614,
and 3615 in relation to execu-
tions,

Amending sections 3618 and 3625
with relation to forthcoming
bonds,

Amending sections 3630 and 3636
in relation to exemption of pro-
perty of householder,

Amending section 3676 with refer-
ence to kidnapping,

Amending scction 3676 in refer-
ence to kidnapping,

Amending sections 3744 and 3745
providing rule of evidence in
eases of bribery,

Amending sections 3744 and 3745
in relation to giving or accept-
ing a bribe,

Amending section 3853 in relation
to bribing voters at elections,
Amending sections 3888, 3902,
3903, 3904, 3909, and 3911, gen-

eral provisions as to crimes,

Amending sections 3916, 3918,
3922, 3929, 3932, and 3933 in
relation to prevention of crime
and conservators of the peace,

Amending section 3044 in relation
to coroners’ inquests,

Amending sections 3955 and 3956
in relation to arrests,

Amending section 3960 in rela-
tion to bail,

Amending section 3972 in rela-
tion to justice aesociating jus-
tice with him,

786-

572

Amending sections 3975, 3976,
3977, and 3978 in relation to
grand juries,

Amending section 3976 in rela-
tion to grand jurors,

Amending seetions 4016, 4018,
4023, 4036, 4039, 4047, and 4048
in relation to juries in felony
cases and venue,

Amending sections 4050, 4051,
4052, 4053, 4057, 4060, 4073,
and 4074 in relation to writs of
error, etc.,

Amending section 4079 in rela-
tion to medical attendance for
persons in jail, ete.,

Amending section 4096 in relation
to recognizance,

Amending sections 4106 and 4107
in relation to police justices
and justices of the peace, 614-

Amending sections 4110, 4113,
4114, 4115, 4123, 4124, 4133,
4154, 4155, 4156, 4157, 4159,

. 4160, 4162, 4167, 4168, 4172,
and 4173 in reference to the
State penitentiary, 294-

Amending section 4147 in relation
to allowance to convicts,

Amending section 4162 in relation
to monthly report of superin-
tendent of penitentiary, ete.,

Amending section 4179 as to juris-
diction for trial of convicts,

CODE (SECTIONS REPEALED

Act repealing sections 27, 28, 29,
30, and 31 in relation to asseas-
ors of lands for United States,

Act repealing sections 63 and 66
in relation to elections,

Repealing section 83 in relation to
appeals from registrars,

Repealing sections 202 and 208 in
relation to general assembly,

Act repealing section 220 in rela-
tion to powers and duties of
governor,

Act repealing section 472 in rela-
tion to duties of commissioners
of the revenue, 643.

Act repealing sections 593, 594,
595, 596, 597, 598, 599, 600, and
601,

Act repealing sections 735 and 737
with reference to fines,

Repealing section 839 in relation
to board of supervisors,

Act repealing sections 1039, 1040,
and 1043 in relation to cities
and towns,
RAN Shee

Repealing sections 1039, 1040, and
1043 in relation to cities and
towns, 886-892

Repealing sections 1040 and 1043
in relation to cities and towns,

Act repealing sections 1068, 1069,
1070, 1071, and 1103 in relation
to corporations,

Act repealing sections 1072. to
1091, inclusive, and sections
1099, 1100, and 1101 in relation
to corporations,

Act repealing sections 1092, 1093,
1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, and 1098
in reference to corporations,

Act repealing sections 1440, 1480,
and 1513 in relation to superin-
tendents and teachers of schools, 835

Act repealing sections 1532, 1535,
1536, 1537, 1539, and 1540 in
Telation to public free schools
in cities and towns,

Act repealing sections 1569, 1576,
1579, and 1580 in reference to

437

659

656

660

835

Virginia Military Institute, 639
Repealing section 1722 in refer-
ence to hospitals, 734

Act repealing section 1773 in ref-
erence to practice of dentistry, 753
Act repealing sections 2297 and
2298 in relation, in reference to
husband joining in contracts of
wife, etc., 701
Repealing section 2617 in relation
to disabilities, 842
Repealing sections 2842, 2843,
2845, 2846, 2848, 2849, 2850, and
2851 in relation to negotiable

instruments, 899
Act repealing sections 3043, 3044,
3045, 3046, 3047, 3048, 3051,

3052 in relation to county and
corporation courts,

Repealing sections 3063, 3065,
3066, and 3067 in reference to
circuit courts, 764

Repealing section 3079 in relation
to courts of city of Richmond, 665

ict repealing section 3109 in ref-

666

erence to seal of court, 607
\ct repealing section 3315 in rela-
tion to removal of causes, 625

\ct' repealing sections 3424 and
3425 in relation to fees of offi-
cers, 786-795

\ct_ repealing sections 3453, 3468,
3473, 3483, and 3487 in relation
to appeals, writs of error, ete, 7/8

epealing section 3910 as to clerks

elivering lists of persons con-

victed of crime, etc., 783

Repealing section 4163 in rela
to supplies for penitentiary

Act repealing sections 4199
4200,

COLLECTION OF TAX]
Act amending section 623 in 1
tion to,
Repealing act for, on shares
stock in corporations,
Act providing for, on banks
banking associations, etc.,
Amending section 623 in refer:

?

COLONIAL BEACH.
Amending section 14 of cha
of,

COMMENCEMENT OF STA
Amending section 4 of Code in
gard to,
7

COMMISSIONER OF AGR
TURE.
Act providing for election of, «
Act permitting, to collect sp
mens of natural history,

COMMISSIONERS IN CHAN
Act to validate certain act
certain, in the Commonwealt

COMMISSIONERS OF T
REVENUE.

Act to provide for election of,
counties,

Act to provide for election of,
cities,

Amending section 448 of Code
reference to Caroline count}

Amending sections 448, 457, 4:
460, 462, 487, 488, 491, 492, 4:
503, 521, 524, 528, and 532, a
repealing section 472 in relati
to duties of, €

Repealing acts for election of,
counties and cities,

COMMON CARRIERS.
See Railroads.

COMMONWEALTH'S ATTOR
See attorneys for the Comme
wealth,

CONDEMNATION OF LAN
Act amending section 1101 in 1
lation to, pertaining to Sta
institutions of learning,
See Corporations, ,
Bopees SE so

CONDITIONAL PARDONS.
Amending act authorizing gover-
nor to grant, 282

CONSERVATORS OF THE PEACE.

Amending section 85 making reg-
istrars, 53

Amending sections 3916, 3918,
3922, and 3929 in relation to, 748

CONSTITUTION.
Act providing for defending cer-
tain suits involving validity of, 31
Amending act for defending va-
lidity of, 300

CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTES.
Amending subsection 16 of see-

tion 5 of Code as to words

“city,” “town,” or “council,” 556

CONTESTED ELECTIONS.
Amending sections 157, 158, 159,
160, and 161 of Code in relatio:

1

to, ~ §82
CONTRACTS.
Amending section 2463 in relation
to, void, 598
CONVICTS.
Amending section 4147 as to al-
lowance to, on discharge, 619
Amending section 4179 as to juris-
diction for trial of, 686
CORONERS.
Amending section 891, how ap-
pointed and removed, 574
CORPORATIONS.

Act concerning, 437-484
For detailed index, see Appendix.
Repealing act for collection of tax

on shares of stock in, 555
Act repealing sections 1072 to

1091, inclusive, and _ sections

1099, 1100, and 1101 in relation

to, 656
Act repealing sections 1068, 1069,

1070, 1071, and 1103 in relation

to, 659
Act repealing sections 1002, 1093,

1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, and 1098

in relation to, 660
Amending section 14 of chapter 1
of act concerning, 682

Amending subsection f of section
2, chapter of “act concerning,” 861
Amending subsection f, section 2,
chapter 3, of act concerning, 866

INDEX.

Amending sub-section (f), scetion
1, chapter 2; subsection th),
section 1, chapter 3, and section
28, chapter 5, of act concerning,

See also Public Service Corpora-
tions.

CORPORATION COMMISSION
See State Corporation Commissior

CORPORATION COURTS.
Amending sections 3049. 3050,
3053, 3054, and 3055 in relation

>

COSTS.

Amending section 3552 as to who
to tax, ete.,

COUNTIES.

Supervisors of, authorized to re-
tire outstanding bonds of, and
issue new bonds,

Amending sections 791, 793, 796,
799, 801, 804, and 810 in relation
to, 598

Repealing act for holding election
to take sense of voters as to
creating new counties, etc.,

COUNTY COURTS.

Act vesting powers of, etc., in cir-
cuit courts,

Providing for transfer of all
causes to circuit courts,

Extending sessions of, fur month
of January, 1904,

COUNTY AND CITY

ERS.

Amending sections 853, 855, 857,
858, 861, 862, 863, and 865 in re-
lation to,

Amending section 857 in reference
to transfer of papers, etc., to
successors,

Act for furnishing by, list of vot-
ers, etc., in incorporated towns,

TREAS'

COUNTY OFFICERS.
Amending sections 812, 813, 814,
815, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822,
and 824 in reference to, 651

COURTS.
Amending sections 3116, 3117,
3120, 3122, 3129, 3130, 3131,
3132, 3134, and 3135 relating to,
607
Amending sections 3111 as to
power to adjourn or take recess, 043
See also circuit courts.

COURTHOUSES.
Act amending section 931 as to

repairs of, 232
COURT OF APPEALS.
Amending sections 3086, 3093, and
3095 in relation to, 641
COURTLAND.
Amending charter of town of, 117 |

CRAIG COUNTY.
Amending section 3090, where
cases heard in court of appeals, 233

CRIERS.
‘mending section 896, appoint-
ment of, bonds, etc., ATS

CRIMINAL CASES.
ict for prosecution of, in Federal
courts removed from State
courts, 64
‘ct for payment of costs, etc., of
cases removed from Patrick and
Wythe to United States courts, 69

CROP PEST COMMISSION.
ee State Board of Crop Pest
Commissioners.

CROP PEST COMMISSIONERS.
ee State Board of Crop Pest
Commissioners.

CROXTON, GEORGE T.
olitical disabilities of, removed, 895
CULPEPER COUNTY.
ict «to establish “good roads
commission” for,

CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
smpowering supervisors to de-

356

elare streams highways in, 279
\ct for working roads of, 377
CURTESY.

et authorizing sale of real estate
held as, etc., 706
DANVILLE.
mending charter of city of, 237
et amending section 1 of chapter
8 of charter of, 688

DEAD BODIES.
Amending section 1781 in ref
ence to bond to be given, etc.
Amending act regulating tra
portation of,

DEAF, DUMB, AND BLI}

See Virginia School for the Di
and Blind.

DECEDENTS.

Amending section 2660 as to |
der in which debts of, are pa

DECEDENT’S ESTATE.

' Act providing for payment

State tax on, when committ
to sheriff, etc.,

DECREES.
Amending section 3426 in relati
to interlocutory,

DEEDS.
Amending section 2505 in relati
to indexing,

DELINQUENT LANDS.

Act amending section 666 in |
lation to,

Amending sections 637, 638, 6:
648, 649, 650, G51. 653, 654, 6F
659, 662, 664, 665, and 666
relation to sale of, (

DEMURRAGE.
Act in relation to,

DENTISTRY.
Amending section 1774 and repe:
ing section 1773 in reference
practice of dentistry,

DESCENTS.
Amending section 2552 in relati
to,

DETINUE.
Amending section 2914 in relati
to when bond to be returned,

DICKENSON COUNTY.

Act authorizing Clintwood schc
district to issue bonds, etc.,

DISABILITIES.
Amending sections 2616. 26%
2621, 2622, and 2625 and repe:
ing section 2617 in relation tc
Sheriffs, attorneys for Common-

wealth, commissioners, and
treasurers, 505
Clerks, 505
Surveyors and superintendent of
poor, 506
Additional justices and con-
stables, 506
Officers of cities, 506

When election to fill vacancies, 527
How elections for school purposes
held, 507
When officers to enter upon duty, 507
When term of officer to fill va-

cancies begins, etc., 507
To whom writs of election di-
rected, 507
By whom issued, 508
Vacancy filled by judge in vaca-
tion, 508
Appointees to qualify in thirty
days, 508

Amending section 85 making reg-
istrars conservators of the
peace, 537

Act for preservation of permanent
registration rolls, 543

Act providing appeal to person
denied registration, 544

Act amending sections 62, 64, 65,

67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79,

80, and 85 in reference to, 561-567
Qualification of voters, 562
Electoral boards, 562
Appointment of registrars, 563
Meeting of boards, 563
Board to fill vacancy in office of

registrar, 563
When circuit judges to fill vacan-

cies in board, 563
Who to be registered, 563

Secretary of Commonwealth to
prepare and distribute books, 564
Registration oath, 565
When voters registered, 665
Clerks to furnish registrars with
list of persons convicted of
crime, 565
Voter changing residence, etc., 566
Registrar conservator of peace, 567
Repealing act amending section
1022 in relation to registrars
and judges of election in towns, 624
Amending sections 87 to 108, in-
elusive, in reference to election
of officers, 740-745
Amending section 3853 in relation
to bribery at, 880
Amending sections 109 to 151, in-
elusive, and sub-sections in re-
lation to, 922-941

133

General elections, when held, 923

Special election, when held, 923
Districts, how constituted, 923
How number increased, 923

Councils of cities to establish, 923
When special election ordered by

governor, etc., 924
How writ issued in other cases, 924
How judges of, appointed, 924
Qualifications of judges and

clerks, 925
How and by whom poll-buoks fur-

nished, 925
Form of poll-books, 925
When polls opened and closed, 927
Elections to be by ballot, 927

Duty of candidates for office, 927
How and when ballots printed, 927
Elections for president and vice-
president, 927
Duties of electoral] board, + 929
How and when ballots opened, 930
How voting places arranged, 930

Order of voting, 930
Method of voting, 930
Ballot not to be carried away, 931
Time allowed for voting, 931
Defaced ballots, 931

Judges to assist certain voters, 931
Crowds forbidden, counterfeit bal-

lots, 932
Elections in towns, 932
Penalty for violations, 932
Voting in primary, 933
Cost of elections, 933
Ballot boxes, 933
How emptied hefore elections, 933
Where ballot box kept, 933
Challenges, 934
How challenge tried, 934
How polls closed, 934
How votes canvassed, 934
How votes counted and returns

made, 935
When ballot void, 935
Poll-hooks and ballots to be

sealed, 936
How commissioners of election ap-

pointed, 936
How irregularities corrected, 937
Who to receive certificates of elec-

tion, 937
Abstracts to be made and certi-

fled 937

When a clerk to make out and de-
liver certificate of election, 938
When clerk absent who to per-

form duties, 938
Board of State canvassers, - 930
Secretary Commonwealth to open

and record returns, 938
Abstracts not forwarded, messen-

ger to be sent for them, 938
How elections canvassed by State

; ; 930
How determined in case of tie, 939
Preservation of order at elections, 940

Intimidation, ete., of voters, 940
Intimidation of election officers, 940
Disturbance of election, 940
How special elections superintend-

ed and determined, 940
Pay of clerks of courts, 941
Pay of sheriffs, 941
Pay of judges and clerks, 941
Pay of commissioners, 941
Pay of messenger, 941

ELECTORAL BOARDS.
Act amending section 64 of Code

in relation to, 562
Chairman and secretary, section

65, 563
Meeting of board, section 68, 563
Board to fill vacancy in office of

registrar, ete., section 69, 563
When judges of circuit court to

fill vacancies, section 72, 563

ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY.

Supervisors of, authorized to bor-
row $50,000 for road purposes

in, 115
Act to provide for appointment of
road superintendents in, 950
EMBALMING.

See State Board of Embalming.

EMINENT DOMAIN.
f Act concerning the exercise of the
power of, 957-968

EMPORIA.

Town of, authorized to issue addi-
tional capitation tax for street
purposes, 410

ENCLOSURES.

Amending sections 2051, 2055,
and 2058, lawful fences, ete., 575

ENUMERATIONS.
Act for making, in towns and
elties, 536
Act repealing act for making, in
towns and cities, 589

Cities authorized to have legal, 746

ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS.
Amending sections 567, 568, 571,

573, and 578 in relation to, 683
Providing a remedy for correction

of, ete., 830

ESCHEATS.
Amending section 2586 in refer-
ence to, |

ESSEX COUNTY.

Act for working roads of, 495
ESTRAYS.
Amending section 2063 in refer-
ence to, 586
EVIDENCE.

Amending section 3354 as to com-
pelling attendance of witnesses, 637

EXEMPTION OF PROPERTY OF
HOUSEHOLDER.
Amending sections 3630 and 3636
in relation to, 868

EXECUTIONS.
Amending sections 3605, 3614,
and 3615 in relation to, 836
Amending sections 3584 and 3599
in relation to, 837

EXECUTIVE MANSION.
Appropriating $120 for premiums
on insurance policies on, 489

FAIRFAX COUNTY.

Authorizing supervisors of, to
lease old clerk’s office building
to National Bank of Fairfax, 10
Amending act for working roads
of, 491
Supervisors of, authorized to lease
clerk’s office building to Na-
tional Bank of Fairfax, 732

FAIRFAX SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Authorized to issue bonds for pur-
chase of property for school

purposes, 36
FARMVILLE.
Act amending sections 16 and 18
of act for dispensary in, 559
Act repealing act to establish dis-
pensary in, with conditions, 560
Amending act to establish dispen-
sary at, 759
FEES.
Amending sections 3498, 3500,

3505, 3506, 3508, 3515, 3519,

and 3528, and repealing sec-

tions 3524 and 3525 in relation

to,. 786-795
Amending section 3525 in relation

to fees of sheriffs and sergeants, 922
PRLUNI.
mending sections 3903, 3909,
and 3911 in relation to, 784-785
mending section 4047, within
what time, must be tried, etc.,

FENCES.
mending sections 2051, 2055,
and 2058, declaring streams
lawful, ete., 575
mending section 2048 in rela-

881

tion to, 863
FERRIES.

mending sections 1362, 1367,

1369, 1375, 1378, 1379, 1380,

and 1390 in relation to, 853

INAL REVISION AND ADJUST-
MENT OF THE STATUTES.
ee Joint Committee on Final Re-
vision and Adjustment of the
Statutes.

FINES.
mending section 718, 721, 723,
738, and 743, and repealing sec-
tions 735 and 737 in reference

to, 605
\ct, repealing sections 4199-4200,
when governor not to remit,
ete., 625

‘mending act requiring clerks to
report lists of, reported by jus-
tices, 658

FINES AND PENALTIES.

\ct prescribing cases in which
governor shall have power to
remit, etc., 83

Repealing act prescribing cases in
which governor shall have
power to remit, etc., 627

ARAUDULENT

FIRE ESCAPES.
Amending act providing,
buildings over three stories,

for
735

FIREMEN’S INSURANCE COM-
PANY OF BALTIMORE.
Act for relief of, 25

FISH.
Amending section 2086 in refer-
ence to fishing in waters of Com-

monwealth, 303

FISHING.
Amending sections 2117 and 2118

in relation to, 589
Amending section 2048 in rela-
tion to, 867

PAA V sasvarysn VN +"

Act for working roads of,

FOOD ADULTERATED ©

BRANDED.

Act appropriating $2,000
partment of agriculture
vent sale of,

FORFEITURES

Amending section 2179 it
tion to,

FORTHCOMING BO

Amending sections 3618 an
in relation to,

FRANCHISES.

Act regulating granting
cities and towns,

ke [lek oe oe

FRANKLIN.

Act amending sections 11
of charter of town of,

FRANKLIN MAGISTER
TRICT.

Amending section 16 of
reference to dispensary

SALES
CHANDISE.
Act to prevent,

Act to prevent, and to rey
approved May 20, 1903

FREDERICK COU?

Act for-working roads in

Act prescribing jurisdictio

pervisors of, in certain

Fixing time for holding |
of supervisors of,

Authorizing improvement «

in,

Repealing act for fixing t
holding sessions of sup
of,

GAME.
See Birds and Animals.

GAME WARDE
See Birds and Animals.

GAS.
Act requiring hotels, etc.,
notices where gas is |
heating or lighting,
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

\ct providing compensation and
mileage of members, officers,
and employees of,

\ct providing mileage to members
and officers for attending recon-
vening of, on November 12th,

\ct to facilitate committees of, in
work of adjusting statutes to
the Constitution,

\ct providing for payment of cer-
tain officers and employees be-
tween lst January, 1903, and
6th February, 1903, inclusive,

\ct prohibiting auditor from pay-
ing certain officers and em-
ployees compensation from July
28, 1902, to November 12, 1902,

\ct to provide for contingent and
incidental expenses of,

‘mending section 60 as to elec-
tion of senators,

low vacancies filled,

ict providing mileage to mem-
bers and officers of, for attend-
ing reconvening of, on Novem-
ber 10th,

\et to provide for contingent and
incidental expenses of,

tepealing act providing compen-
sation and mileage of members,
officers, and rug lowe of,

‘mending sections 194, 197, 198,
and 199, and repealing sections
202 and 208 in relation to,

-roviding for payment of work
of indexing acts and journals
of,

‘-ENERAL ALUMNI
TION OF THE UNIVERSITY
VIRGINIA.

.et to incorporate,

GILES COUNTY.

\ct to empower supervisors and
county judge to allow Confed-
erate monument to be erected
on courthouse square,

\ct authorizing supervisors to sell
lot of land to Baptist church at
Ripplemead,

et. to prevent delivery of liquors,
etc., in local-option districts in,

GLADEVILLE.

‘reating board of sinking fund
commissioners for,

58

552

624

704

736

‘ASSOCIA-

OF

73

102

228
319

313

GLOUCESTER COUNTY.
Act to authorize the supervisors
of, to borrow money,
Act authorizing trustees of Pets-
worth school district, in, to bor-
row money,

GOOSE CREEK.
Amending act requiring fish lad-
ders on dam at Leeaville,

GOVERNOR.

Act amending section 3049, when
judge fails to hold court, when
governor may designate judge,
etc.,

Act prescribing cases in which,
shall have power to remit fines,
ete.,

Amending section 3049 when, to
designate judge to hold court,
Amending act authorizing, to

grant conditional pardons,

Amending section 3049, when
judge fails to hold court, who
to designate,

Repealing act prescribing cases in
which, shall have power to re-
mit fines, etc.,

Act repealing sections 4199 and
4200, when, not to remit fines,
etc.,

Repealing section 220 and amend-
ing sections 221 and 222 in re-
lation to powers and duties of,

GOVERNOR’S MANSION.
Act to provide fuel, light, and ice
for,

GRAND JURORS.
Amending section 3976 in relation
to,

GRAND JURY.
Amending sections 3975, 3976,
3977, and 3978 in relation to,

GREENE COUNTY.
Amending act for working roads
of,

GREENESVILLE COUNTY.

Repealing act making boundary

lines of lots and tracts of land a
lawful fence,

Supervisors of, authorized to con-
tribute money to Confederate
monument,

County court of, authorized to
permit Confederate monument
to be erected on public square,
GUARDIAN AND WARD.
Amending sections 2599 and 2600
in relation to, _ 880

HABEAS CORPUS.
Amending sections 3029 and 3036
as to writ of, 576

HALIFAX COUNTY.
Empowering supervisors to de-

clare streams highways in, 279
HAMPTON.
Council authorized to borrow
$25,000, 377
Amending sections 4 and 11 of
charter of, 487
Amending act to incorporate town
of, 900

HAMPTON NORMAL AND INDUS.
TRIAL INSTITUTE.

Amending sections 1586 to 1607,

inclusive, in regard to, 524-535
Conditions of annuity to, 532
Selection of students, 532
Treasurer of institute, 532
Board of Education to turn over

funds to, 532
Annual report of, 633
Power of general assembly, 533

See Virginia Agricultural and
Mechanical College and Poly-
technic Institute.

HARBOR MASTERS.
Amending sections 2008, 2019,
2022, and 2023 in reference to, 758

HAWKSBILL CREEK.
Act authorizing council of town
of Luray to build bridge across, 4

HENRY COUNTY.
Amending act for establishing dis-
pensary at Martinsville, in, 289
Act. Permitting netting of par-
tridges in, 920
HEUSER, H. M.
Act for payment to, for services

and expenses in case removed
from Wythe county to U. 8S.

court, 69
HIGH POINT ACADEMY, IN GRAY-
SON COUNTY.

Repealing act to incorporate, 109
HIRER.

Amending section 4073 in relation
to persons sentenced to jail for
failure to pay fine, ete., 628

HOLIDAYS.
Amending section 2844 in re
to public,
Designating certain days a

HOME FOR NEEDY
ERATE WOMEN
Act authorizing appropriati
$5,000 to be used in enl:
buildings, etc.,

HOOKER, J. M.

Act for payment to, for se

and expenses in case re

from Patrick county to
court,

HOSPITALS.
Amending section 1721 and r
ing section 1722 in referer
temporary hospitals,

HOTELS, INNS, ET

Act requiring, to post n

where gas is used for heati
lighting,

HOUSE OF DELEGA'
Amending section 61 as to
vacancies filled,
Certain. improvements in ha
authorized,

HUNTING.
Amending chapter 95 of Co
prevent unlawful hunting,

HURST, SAMUEL |]
Authorized to publish revise:
tion of pocket Code,

IMPROVEMENTS.
Amending section 2773 in
tion to, when party under
abilities,
Amending section 2757 in 1
ence to,

INCLUSIVE GRANT
Amending section 2357 in
tion to,

INCORPORATED COMP.
Amending sections 1104 and
relative to,
See Corporations.

INEBRIATES, OPIUM |
AND PERSONS LOST T
CONTROL.

Act for commitment to pr
hospitals of,
Bare eS See

mending section 8436 in refer-
ence to jurisdiction of, 57:

w

INSANE.
ee State Hospitals for the Insane.

INSANE HOSPITALS.

ct amending section 1681 in re-
lation to the commitment of
certain persons to, 100
ee State Hospitals for Insane.

INSURANCE BROKERS.

mending section 83 of act relat-
ing to, 352

INTERLOCUTORY DECREES.

mending section 3426 in relation
to, 633

INTERPLEADER.

mending setions 2999, 3000, and
3004 in relation to, 597

INTERROGATORIES.

\mending section 3605 in relation
to, : 836

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY.
ict. apportioning with Southamp-
ton cost of building bridge over
Blackwater river, 230
supervisors of, authorized to de-
fine bounds, etc., of county
property at courthouse, 950

JAILS.
Amending section 4079 providing

for medical attendance, etc.,

for indigent persons in, 21
Act amending section 931 as to

erection and repairs of, 232

JAILS AND JAILORS.
Amending sections 927, 929, 930,

and 934 in relation to, 636
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION COM-
PANY.

Appropriating $200,000 to, 264

JERUSALEM MAGISTERIAL DIS-
TRICT.

Amending section 11 of act in
reference to dispensary in, 387

Se eee

VISION AND ADJUSTMENT

THE STATUTES.
Appropriating money for expenses

of, ‘

JONESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL D
TRICT.
Act establishing, :

JUDGES.

Act fixing terms of offices of, of
the twenty-four judicial cir-
cuits,

Act amending section 3049, when
judge fails to hold court what
judge may do so, etc.,

Act amending section 3049, if
judge fails to hold court who to
hold same, etc.,

Amending section 3049 of Code,
when judge fails to hold court
who to appoint, ete.,

JUDICIAL CIRCUITS.

Act fixing terms of office of judges
of,

JUDGMENTS.

Amending sections 3559, 3560,
3562, and 3563 in relation to,

JURIES.
Amending sections 3139, 3140,
3142, 3143, ° 3144, 3145, 3146,
3147, 3166, and 3167 in refer-
ence to, 601.
Repealing act for waiver of, in
misdemeanors,
Amending sections 4016, 4018,
4023, and 4048 in relation to,
Amending section 3154 as to,

JURORS.

Amending section 3139 in relation
to who liable to serve as,

Amending section 3139 in relation
to who liable to serve as,

Amending sections 3139, 3140,
3142, 3143, 3144, 3146, 3146,
3147, 3166, and 3167 in refer-
ence to, 601

JURISDICTION OVER PLACI
ETC.
Act amending sections 22, 23, and
24 and repealing sections 27, 28,
29, 30. and 31 of Code,
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Act amending section 3972, how
justice may associate justice
with him, whose opinion to pre-

vail, ete., 116
Amending sections 4106 and 4107

in relation to, 614 ,
Providing for election of, in cities, :

ete., . 904

KIDNAPPING.

Amending section 3676 with ref-

ence to, 948

KING GEORGE AND STAFFORD.
Amending section 2048 in rela-
tion to fishing, 867
KING WILLIAM COUNTY.
Act empowering county court of,
to permit Confederate monu-
ment to be erected on public
square,
Act authorizing supervisors to ap-
propriate money to Confed-
erate monument,

44

47

LABELS, TRADE MARKS,
SIGNS, DEVICES, ETC.
Act to protect persons, firms, etc.,
in use of, 262

DE-

LANCASTER COUNTY.
Act authorizing supervisors of, to
acquire lot of land,
Authorizing supervisors of, to ef-
fect loan for road purposes,

98
102
LANDLORD AND TENANTS.

Act amending sections 2785 and
2786 in relation to termination

of tenancy, etc., 588
LAWFUL FENCES.
\inending sections 2051, 2055 and
2058 declaring streams, 575
imending section 2048 in refer-
ence to, 863
LEE COUNTY.
\ct_ establishing Jonesville high
school district, in, 284
LEE, ROBERT EDWARD.

.ct to provide statue of, to be
placed in National Capitol, 81
ct appropriating $10,000 for
statue of, to be placed jn Na-
tiunal Statuary Hall, 361

LEE MONUMENT.
Act providing for erection of
fence around,
Amending act providing -for erec-
tion of fence around,

38
797

LEESVILLE.
Amending act requiring fish lad-
ders at Goose creek, 109
LIBRARY.
See State Library.

LICENSES.
Amending sections 555 and 559
in relation to,
See Assessment of Taxes.

572

LIEN.
Amending sections 2485 and 2486
in relaticn to employers of
transportation companies, ete., 623

LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES.
Act authorizing assignment of, 256

LIMITATION OF SUITS.
Amending section 2917 in relation
to, 723
LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS.
Act amending sections 2864, 2865,
2871, and 2875 in relation to, 66
LOCAL OPTION.
-Amending sections 581 and 585 in
relation to, 577
LOCAL OPTION ELECTIONS.
Act to provide for contesting, 544
LOSS OF PAPERS AND RECORDS.
See Papers.

LOUDOUN COUNTY.
Amending section 16 of act for
working roads of, 258
LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSI-
TION.
Act providing for industrial and

commercial exhibit at, 32
Appropriating $10,000 to be used
in erection of a State building
at, 739
LUNENBURG COUNTY.
Amending sections 2 and 4 of road
law of, 522
Lumar.
ct authorizing council of town
of, to build bridge across
Hawksbill creek, in said town,
et authorizing council of town
of, to borrow money for street
and road purposes,

LYNCHBURG.
ct amending section 7, chapter
4, of, relating to bonds of city
officials,
mending subsection 7 of section
7 of chapter 6 of charter of,

37
254

LYNCHBURG AND CAMPBELL

COURTHOUSE TURNPIKE.
ct «authorizing supervisors of
Campbell to purchase,
mending act authorizing super-
visors of Campbell county to
purchase,

MADISON COUNTY.
‘mending act in reference to
roads of,

MANASSAS.
\ct in relation to establishing

353 |

35

i
|
'
|

dispensary in, 348 |
MANCHESTER.
ict authorizing school board of,
to borrow money and issue
bonds, 44
\ct authorizing taking of census
of, 82

\mending section 10 of charter of, 131

MANDAMUS, PROHIBITION, AND
CERTIORARI.

‘mending section 3218 in relation

to jurisdiction of writs of 635
MARRIAGES.

(mending sections 2216, 2224,

2225, 2228, 2240, and 2250 in

relation to, 662
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Amending section 2229 in rela-
tion to, 501

Jalidating licenses issued by clerk
of county court from December
12, 1903, to February 1, 1904, 921

MARRIED WOMEN.
Repealing sections 2297 and 2298
in relation to husband joining

in contracts, etc., 701

SLATS ANN V 2hakses.
Amending section 16 of act for es-
tablishing dispensary in,
Town of, authorized to borrow
$10,000 for public free school
lot and building,

MASSEY, J. W. AND T. H.

Authorized to build pier in James
river,

MAYVILLE.
Act to incorporate town of,

MECKLENBURG COUNTY.
Act authorizing supervisors to
contribute to erection of Con-
federate monument upon public
square,

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGD

Amending section 1651 in refer-
ence to,

MEDICINES.

whet prehibiting throwing of sam-
ple packages of in yards, etc.,

MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Amending section 1747 regulat-
ing practice of,
Amending section 1750 regulat-
ing practice of,
Amending section 1750 in relation
to practice of,

MEHERRIN.
Act to establish dispensary at,

MERCER MONUMENT.

Act giving consent of the Com-
monwealth to acquisition for
site for the,

MERCHANDISE.
Act to prevent fraudulent sale of,
in bulk,
Act to prevent fraudulent sale o!
in bulk, and tw repeal act ap
proved May 20, 1903,

MILITIA.
Act for support and inatructior
f,

or,
Amending section 300 in relation
to militia,
MILLER MANUAL LABOR SCHOOL
OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY.
Act vesting in circuit court of
Albemarle county powers of
county court in relation to,
Amending section 1649 in rela-
tion to,

323
389

MILLS.
Amending sections 1347 and 1360
in relation to, 896
MILLS, J. T.

Act for relief of, 522

MINERAL LANDS.
‘Act providing for assessment of
taxes on,
Repealing act providing for as-
sessment of taxes on,

320

MINORS.

Act to punish, for obtaining

liquors by false representation, 524
MISDEMEANORS.

Amending sections 3902 and 3904,
how punished,

Repealing act for waiver of jury
in,

784
836

MONROE, JAMES, WIFE AND
‘DAUGHTER OF.
Appropriating $500 to move re-

mains of, to Hollywood, 490
MORAN, J. J. °
Act compensating heirs of, for
services by, 42

MOTIONS IN COUNTY COURT.
Repealing act alluwing remedy
by,

MT. JACKSON AND HOWARD
LICK TURNPIKE COMPANY.
Repealing act to transfer State’s
interest in, to Shenandoah
county,

569

72

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
Act authorizing, to issue bonds

for redemption of outstanding

bonds, 79
Act to confer upon, power to reg-

ulate sale of liquors, 234
Amending act authorizing, to is-

sue bonds for redemption of

outstanding bonds, 577

134

|

MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COM-
PANIES.
Authorized to re-incorporate un-
der existing names, 367
NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS.
Amending section 2547, when to
be paid,
Amending section
be presented, etc.,
Repealing sections 2842, 2843,
2845, 2846, 2848, 2849, 2850, and
2851 in relation to,

2844, when to

899

NEW LONDON ACADEMY.
Amending act for leasing and
operating,

NEWPORT NEWS.

Act providing for issue of bonds
for payment of paving of Wash-
ington avenue and Twenty-
fifth street,

Act to authorize use of money de-
rived from sale of bonds for
erematory in street improve-
ments,

Act for issue of $100,000 in bonds
for certain improvements,

Repealing act to amend section
554 and amending section 65 of
charter of,

Act for issuance of $30,000 in
bonds for damages in erection
of Twenty-eighth-street bridge, 395

Confirming proceedings of council
of, relating to issue of $56,000
bonds,

NEWPORT MAGISTERIAL _DIS-
TRICT, WARWICK COUNTY.
Act for working roads in,

39

40
243

323

901

107

NOMINI AND CURRIOMAN BAYS.

Amending act to lay off natural
rocks in, 488

NORFOLK.

Act amending certain sections of
act regulating the holding of

primary elections in, ete., 541
Amending act in relation to boun-
daries of city of, 879

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Amending section 4 of act for

working roads of, 366
NORTON.
Ast, to amend section 3 of charter
307
WN BAAS Me

Amending ext allowing, to take
acknowledgments to companies
in which they have interest, 518
Amending section 923 in relation
to appointment of, 634
Amending act allowing to take
acknowledgments to companies
in which they have an interest, 829

NOTICE.
Amending sections 3207 and 3208
in relation to, 632

NUISANCES.

Act t providing for abating public,
repealing act approved

pee We

Marah

OYSTERS.

Act repealing act declaring cer-
tain land in Accomac to be
barren area, etc., 16

Act appointing special committee
in reference to leasing out bar-
ren area in Baylor survey, 118

Amending section 2148 in rela-
tion to time for taking, etc., 246

Amending section 11 of act in re-
lation to, 248

Amending act to lay off natural
rocks in Nomini and Currio-
man bays, 488

Act authorizing persens planting
on rented ground to erect piers,
ete.

PENITENTIARY.

Amending sections 223, 224, 225, 226,
. 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, and 235 in

relation to ....

Act repealing act providins modi-
fied oath to be taken by certain
persons, etc., 552
Amending sections 168, 169, 170,
and 175 in reference to oaths of
officers, 584

OFFICERS.

Amending chapter 8 of Code in
relation to election of, 504

Amending section 819 in rela-
tion to residence of, 635

OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF
STATE.

Act allowing auditor to pay sala-
ries to, at stated periods, 231

OFFICERS AT SEAT OF GOVERN-
MENT.
Amending sections 223 to 233 and
235 in reference to, 579

ORANGE.

Act amending sections 3 and 11
of charter of town of, 96

ORANGE COUNTY.

Act for issuing bonds for road
purposes, 236

Tre ert page 579
vc owvew ann Uwe ews, Lemus, wav
Act fixing time for holding ses-
sions of supervisors, 521

Repealing act for fixing time for
holding sessions of supervisors
of, 901

PAPERS.

Act amending section 3376 as to
papers lost or destroyed, 568

PARTITION.

Amending section 2562 in relation
to jurisdiction of, 835

PARTRIDGES.
See Birds and Animals.

PATENT TONGS.
Act prohibiting use of, 246

PATRICK COUNTY.
Act repealing act for working

roads in, 319
Act for working roads in, 729
PEDDLERS.

Act amending section 50 of act in
relation to, 484

Amending section 51 of revenue
law in regard to, 533
SENSI EAN SLOT.
Act to pay certain guards at, cer-

tain sums due them, 17
Act to pay certain officers cer-

tain sume due them, 26
Amending sections 2, 3, 4, and

5 of act in reference to State

farm, 247

Amending act authorizing direc-
tors to employ assistant clerks,
ete., 248

Amending section 232 in relation
to appointment of directors and
surgeon of,

Amending act authorizing gover-
nor to grant conditional pardon, 282

Amending sections 4110, 4113,
4114, 4115, 4123, 4124, 4133,
4154, 4155, 4166, 4157, 4159,
4160, 4162, 4167, 4168, 4172,
and 4173 in reference to man-

251

agement and control of, 294-300
Organization, government, and
discipline, 295

Board to prescribe rules, etc.,

Record of conviction of convicts,

Appointment of committee of con-
vict’s estate,

Male prisoners to subscribe to
rules,

Males and females to be kept

separate, 297
As to convicts on county roads, 297
Punishment for misbehavior, 297
Meetings of board, 297
Power of board to investigate, 298
Annual! inventory, 298
Annual report to general assem-

bly, 298
Where superintendent to reside, 299
How clerks, etc., appointed, 299

Superintendent may purchase ma-

terial, etc., 299
Employment of guards, etc., 299
Compensation of guards, 299

Contracts for employment of con-

victs, 300
Tasking convicts, 300
Amending section 232 as to ap-

peintment of directors, etc., 581

Amending section 4147 as to al-
lowance to convict on discharge, 619

Amending section 4162, and re-
pealing section 4163 in relation

to report of superintendent of . ~

and of purchasing supplies for,”
ete., e.
Providing $50,000 to pay dost of
completion of steel. building,
ete., at, 736

SENSING.
Act validating all acts done ur
der chapter 453, acts 1901
bet to t of, und
r of, under ac
of March 7, 1900,
Act for eee of, under ac
of April 21, 1902,

Act amending act for payment of
under act of April 21, 1902,
Amending act for payment of
under act of April 21, 1902,
Act providing for re-rating of pen
sioners classed as partially dis

abled,

PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Act for release of contracts fo
sale of, docketed under sectio
2462,

PERSONAL REPRESENTATI
Amending sections 2636, 2637
2639, 2640, 2642, 2644, 2645, an
2647 in relation to, 59
Amending section 2660 as to corde
in which debts of decedents ar
paid,

PEST HOUSES.

Amending time of act to prohibi
establishment of, under certaii
conditions, etc.,

PETERSBURG.
Authorizing city of, to acquir
land for diverting freshet wate
of Appomattox river,
Amending section 2 of act au
thorizing city of, to acquir
land for diverting freshet wate
of Appomattox river,

PETSWORTH SCHOOL DIST!

Trustees of, authorized to borrov
money,

PHARMACY.

Amending section 1759 in rela
tion to practice of,

PHILLIPS, JAMES E.

_ Act to pay, $5,000 for work don

and materials furnished Uni
versity of Virginia,

PILOTS.

Amending sections 1955, 1957
1963, and 1967 in reference to,
_ FEVUIBUN CASES.
ict amending section 4079 in re-
lation to analyses in, 21

POLICE JUSTICES.
mending section 4106 and 4107
in relation to, 614
roviding for appointment of, 865

POLLARD, JOHN GARLAND.
\uthorized to publish general
statutes, 733

PORTSMOUTH.
\uthorizing council of, to issue
bonds for paving streete of, 39
mending section 17 of charter
of, 352
mending section 60, chapter 7,
of charter of, in relation to city
officers, 919

POUND NETS.
mending section 2083 in rela-
tion to fishing with, on eastern
side of Chesapeake bay, 4

POWHATAN COUNTY.
et validating certain records of
county court of, 38
Impowering supervisors to de-
clare streams to be highways
in, 279

PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY.
mpowering supervisors to de-
clare streams highways in, 279
egalizing election in, for sub-
scribing to stock of Charlotte,
Farmville and James River

Valley Railway Company, 339
ct to establish dispensary at Me-
herrin in, 677

mending act authorizing vote
upon question of issue of bonds
for road machinery, ete. 727

PRINCESS ANNE COUNTY.
\uthorizing supervisors of, to
contribute to Confederate mon-
ument, 111

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY.
ct to incorporate town: of May-

ville, in, 346
PRINTING.

ee Superintendent of Public Print-

ing.

mending sections 270 to 285, in-
elusive, in relation to, 846-852

PROFESSIONAL NURSING.
Act regulating, 280

PUBLIC DEBT.

Amending sections 383 to 436, in-
clusive, in relation to, 706-722

PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS.
Amending sections 1429 to 1520,

inclusive, in relation to, ~-798-822
Amending sections 1522, 1524,
1525, 1526, 1527, 1528, 1529,

1531, 1533, 1534, and 1538 as to
cities and towns, 825-828
Act repealing sections 1440,-T480, a a
and 1513 in relation to, and re-
pealing act in relation to state
board, of education, 835
Act repealing sections 1532, 1535,
1536, 1537, 1539, and 1540 in re-
lation to, in cities and towns, $35

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
See Holidays.

PUBLIL NUISANCES.
Act to provide for abating, and

to repeal act approved March
5, 1888, in relation thereto, 824

PUBLIC PRINTING.
Amending section 270 to 285, in-
clusive, in relation to, 846-852
See Superintendent of Public Print-
ing.
PUBLIC ROADS.
Act to prevent encroachment upon

or changing lines of, 489
PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS.
Act concerning, 968 to 1009
Definition of terms, 968
General provisions, : 969
Transportation companies, 974
Railroads and railroad companies, 981
Canals and canal companies, 995
Steamships and steamboats, 996

Express and express companies, 997
Telegraph and telephone compa-

nies, 1000
Heat, power, light, electric rail-
way, cold storage, viaduct, con-
duit, bridge, gas, and water
companies, 1003
Turnpike and turnpike com-
panies, 1006

PULASKI.

Amending section 13 of charter
of, 514
fULASAL LVUUNLI,

Amending act for working roads
of,

Supervisors authorized to borrow
money for bridges in Pulaski
district,

Amending section 16 of act for
working roads in,

PURE ELECTIONS.
Act to promote, etce.,

RADFORD.
Act fixing term of judge of cor-
« poration: court of,

RAILROADS.

Act prescribing liability for loss
or damage to property,

Amending sections 2485 and 2486
in relation to lien of employees,
etc.,

Act repealing sections 1072 to
1091, inclusive, and_ sections
1099, 1100, and 1101 in relation
to,

Act repealing sections 1092, 1093,
1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, and 1098
in relation to,

See also Corporations.

RECOGNIZANCES.
Amending section 4096 in relation
to,

345

497
539

88

313

388

623

REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE.

Amending sections 223 to 231 and
235 in relation to,

Amending sections 288 and 299,
and repealing act in reference
to duties of, etc.,

Act directing, to make improve-
ments in hall of house of dele-
gates,

Act directing, to make improve-
ments in hall of senate,

REGISTRARS.

Act amending section 85 making,
conservators of the peace,

Act to prevent disturbance of,
in the discharge of their duties,

Act providing for appointment of,
in towns,

Act repealing section 83 in rela-
tion to appeals from,

Amending section 85 making, con-
servators of the peace,

Act amending sections 67, 69, 72,
73, 75, 78, 79, 80, and 85 in ref-
erence to duties of,

Repealing act for appointment of,
in towns,

579

HLGLLTRALION OF VOTERS

Act providing for, under Consti-
tution, making it applicable to
towns,

Act amending section 67 of act
relative to,

Act providing appeal to person de-
nied,

ct amending sections 64, 65, 67,
68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80,
and 85 in relation to, 562

REGISTRATION ROLLS.
Act for preservation of perma-

nent, and for transfer of voters
on,

REMOVAL OF CAUSES.
Amending section 3316 and re-
pealing section 3315 in relation
to,

RENTS.

Amending sections 2785 and 2786
in relation to,

REVENUE BILL.
See Assessment of Taxes.

RHEA, J. B.

Heirs of, authorized to ex-
change lands with Southwest-
ern State Hospital,

RICHMOND.

Amending act in reference to
book for money under control
of law and equity court,

Amending section 890 in relation
tu sheriff of,

Amending sections 4 and 5 of act
to establish law and equity
court,

Amending sections 3068 and 3082,
and repealing section 3079 re-
lating to courts of city of,

Amending sections 5 and 8 of
charter relating to election of
municipal officers,

Amending section 84 of charter of
city of,

Amending section 890 in reference
to sheriff of,

ROADS.
See Public Roads.

ROANOKE.
Amending section 9 of charter of
a

Act to amend act for working
roads of, ~
Amending act for working roads

of,

a

354

SALARIES, MILEAGE, AND OTHER

ALLOWANCES.
Act amending sections 183, 184,
185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190,
191, 192, and 193 in relation

-58

48

to, 47
SALARIES EXECUTIVE DEPART-
MENT.

Governor and secretary and
messenger,

Attorney-general and clerk,

Secretary of Commonwealth and
clerks,

Auditor and clerks,

Second auditor and clerks,

Treasurer and clerks,

Superintendent of public printing,

Register of land office,

Superintendent penitentiary, etc.,

Guards at penitentiary,

Corporation commission,

Commissioners of agriculture,

Superintendent of public instruc-
tion,

Commissioner of labor,

Adjutant-general,

Capitol and library—sub-officers,

State hospitals,

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

Members and officera of general

assembly,
Clerk of house and senate,
Assistant clerks, .
Enrolling clerk,
Committee clerks,
Sergeant-at-arms,
Doorkeepers,
Pages,

JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT.

Judges of court of appeals,

Clerks, reporter, and stenographer,

Judges of circuit courts,

Mileage,

County court judges,

Judges of city courts,

Increase of salary of judges,

How salaries and mileage paid,

Rate of mileage,

Distance from Richmond,

How ascertained from place other
than courthouse,

48

48
48
49
49
49
49

te,
When officer's right to sue
salary barred,

SALARIES OF STATE
PLOYEES.

Amending act for garnishmen'

SALEM.

Authorizing council of town
to retire and refund cer
_ bonds,

SALES.

Act to prevent fraudulent eal
merchandise, etc.,

SAMPLES OF MEDICT

Act to prohibit throwing of
yards, etc.,

SAN JOSE SCALE.

See State Board of Crop Ps
missioners.

SAVINGS BANKS.

Amending sections 1174, |

1176, 1177, 1178, 1179, and
in reference tu,

SCHOOL WARRANT

Act for relief of treasurer
has lost,

SCOTTSVILLE.
Act for establishment of di:
sary at,
SEAL.
Amending section 32 in rel:
to description of,

SECOND AUDITOR

Amending sections 223 to 231
235 in relation to,

SECRETARY OF THE C
WEALTH.

Act providing telephone servi
office of,

Amending sections 242, 243,
245, 246, 250, 252, and
in relation to duties of,

Appropriation to, to furnisk
of charters to State Corpor
Commission,
SECRETARY OF THE COMMON-
WEALTH.

mending section 591, when to
report taxes he receives,
mending section 223 as to ap-
peintment of clerks, 582
mending sections 242 to 267, in-
elusive, in relation to duties of,
869-876

SENATE OF VIRGINIA.

\ct amending sections 60 and 61
of Code as to election of, and
for filling vacancies

554

540

SENATE.
Yertain improvements in hall of,
authorized, 951
SERGEANTS.
{mending act requiring to report
number of prisoners in jails,
etc.,

SHARES OF STOCK.

Repealing act for collection of tax
on, ete.,

626

555

SHEEP.
Amending act for protection of,
so as to impose license tax on

dogs,
Amending act for protection of,

60
312

SHENANDOAH.

Act authorizing council to borrow
money for system of water-
works,

Act repealing section 10 of act
authorizing council of, to bor-
row money, etc., 795

SHENANDOAH COUNTY.

Act for working roads of,

Town of Edenburg, in, authorized
to acquire land for cemetery
purposes,

Act prescribing jurisdiction of su-
pervisors in certain cases,

Act fixing time for holding session
of supervisors of,

Repealing act for fixing time for
holding sessions of supervisors
of,

249

370
520
521

901

SHERIFFS.
Amending act requiring, to report
number of prisoners in jails,

ete., 626

SLOT-MACHINES.
Act to prohibiting keeping or ex-
hibiting, in which element of
chance enters, 1

SMALL-POX HOSPITALS OR PES
HOUSES.

Act to prevent the establishment™
and location of, within fifty
yards of street, public road, etc.,

Amending title of act to prohibit
establishment of, under certain
conditions, etc., g

SMITHFIELD.
Authorizing town of, to borrow
money, , ]
Town of, authorized to make ap-
propriation to white military
company, ‘
Town of, empowered to appoint
harbor master, ;

SMYTH COUNTY.
Supervisors authorized to borrow
money for road purposes and to
take sense of qualified voters
on question,

SOCIAL CLUBS.
Repealing act imposing tax on,
ete., and amending section 144
of revenue bill in reference to,

SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY.
Act apportioning, with Isle of
Wight county, cost of building
bridge over Blackwater river,

SOUTH BOSTON.
Amending sections 3 and 22 of
* charter of,

SOUTHWESTERN STATE HOS
PITAL,

Board of directors of, authorized
to exchange lands with J. B.
Rhea’s heirs,

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY.
Act for appointment of road com-
mission for, and to submit bond
issue of $100,000 for improving
roads of,

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTU

Act defining powers and duties of,

Amending section 2 of act defining
powers and duties of,
Act amending act to create and
maintain, 308-312

Act to appropriate money in-
tended to be appropriated for

support of, 358

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Act to put into operation pro-
visions of Constitution in ref-

erence to, 382

STATE BOARD OF EMBALMING.

Act to amend sections 2, 6, 10, and
14 of act establishing, 85

f STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Act appropriating $8,000 to de-

fray expenses of, 95
Act amending section 5 of act for
appointment of, etc., 752

STATE BOARD OF VETERINARY
EXAMINERS.

Amending act as to how members
of, qualify, 754

/ STATE CORPORATION COMMIS-
SION.

Act providing for substitution of,
in place of board of public
works, 84

Act to put into effective operation
the provisions of the Constitu-
tion relating to the creation
and organization of, 137-155

Act providing for extension of

charters through, 256
Required to fix demurrage

charges, etc., 389
Act to provide rooms for, 490
Appropriation to secretary of

Commonwealth to furnish list

of charters to, 512
Act providing ' yoyment of

printing for. .1 658
See Corporations.

STATE Di POST PORITES,

Amending sectie: 75° ©! Code re-

lating to, 557

STATE FARM.

Act amending sections 2, 3, 4, and

5 of act in reference to, 247

Act appropriating $5,000 for bet-
terments,

Amending sections 1608 to 1612
inclusive in reference to man-
agement of,

Appropriating $5,000 to, and in-
creasing annual appropriation
to,

Amending section 1608 in rela-
tion to,

STATE FEMALE NORMAL SCHOOL,
WITH INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.
Act looking to the establishment

of,

30

411

501
840

920

ae HOSPITALS FOR THE IN-

SANE.
Amending section 1681 in rela-
tion to commitment of persons

to, 100
Amending sections 1662, 1663,
1664, 1665, 1666, 1669, 1670,
1672, 1673, 1674, 1675, 1677,
1679, 1680, 1682, 1684, 1685,
1688, 1697, 1702, 1707, and
1710 in relation to, and the
commitment of insane persons
to, 121
Board ,of directors, appointment,
terms, etc., 121
Superintendent and employees,
how selected, etc., 122
Commissioner of hospitals, how
appointed, 123
How funds of hospital kept, ete., 124
How money disbursed, 124
Proceeding to ascertain sanity, 125
What judge or justice to do if
person insane, 126
Sheriff’s duty, 126
Conveyance of insane person to
hospital, 127
Examination of persons adjudged
insane, 128
Writ of habeas corpus to question
legality of detention, 128
Terms of admission to hospitals, 128
Provision for insane not in hos-
pitals, 128
How expenses paid, 128
Admission of persons charged
with crime, 129
Re-examination of such insane
person, 129
Conveyance to hospital by person
other than sheriff, 129
Person adjudged insane, court co
appoint committee, 129
Powers and duties of committee, 129
Payment of expenses of insane in-

fants and married women, 130
Restrictions on commissioner and
officers of hospitals, 130

STATE LIBRARY.

Act for maintenance and manage-
ment of, 378

Repealing act for maintenance
and management of, 869-876

Amending section 242 to 267 in re-

lation to, 869-876
STATUTES.
John Garland Pollard authorized
to publish, 733

ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION.
See Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

STREET RAILWAYS.

Amending act requiring vestibuled
fronts during certain months, 322

STUART, GENERAL J. E. B.
Dedicating site for equestrian

statue of, on capitol grounds, 99
Act appropriating $10,000 for a

statue of, 834
SUIT.
Amending section 3214 in relation
to, where brought, etc., 635

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC
PRINTING.

Amending sections 272 to 286 in-
elusive in reference to duties

of, ete., 326-331
Election of, 326
Oath, 326
What books to keep, 326
How contracts for printing

awarded, 326
How contracts for paper

awarded, 327

To supply officers with station-
ery, etc., publish proclamations,

etc., 327
Printing for senate and house, 328
Printing journals, 328 |
How bills, ete., printed, 328
Acts of assembly, 329
Annual reports, 329
Reports court of appeals, 330
Report of, 331
Committee on printing, 331

135

Amending sections 223, 224, 225,
226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, and
235 in relation to,

Amending section 270 to 285 in-
clusive, . 846

SUPERVISORS.
See Board of Supervisors.

SUPREME COURT OF APPEA

Act authorizing, to have manu-
script records destroyed, etc.,
Amending section 3090, where

cases from Craig county heard,
Amending sections 3086, 3093, and
3095 in relation to,

SURVEYORS.

Amending sections 913, 917, and
922 of Code in relation,

TAXES.

Act to extend time for payment
of, without addition of, penalty,
See Assessment of Taxes.

TAX ON SUITS AND SEALS

Act amending section 588, to
whom paid,

TAZEWELL COUNTY.
Act to prevent delivery of liquors,
ete., in local option districts in,

TOWNS.

Act providing for registration of
voters in,

Act amending section 1022 in re-
lation to registrars and judges
of election for,

Act extending terms of various
officials of,

Act for holding election for de-
ciding upon bond issue in,

Act for making enumerations in,

Amending section 9 of act for
holding election for deciding
upon bond issue in,

Repealing act amending section
1022 in relation to registrars
and judges of election for,

Providing for furnishing list of
those resident and voters in,
and who have paid State capi-
tation taxes,

Also see Cities and Towns.

TOY FIREARMS.

Act preventing sale or gift of,
to children under twelve years,
£2 NOADOU MT.
Act for relief of, who has lost

school warrant, 29

Act directing auditor to accept
principal and interest at 6 per
cent. for judgments against
treasurers and securities, 88

Act empowering supervisors to
settle claims against, 235

Act allowing further time to col-
lect taxes, 255

Act prescribing manner in which,
may secure final discharge from
liability, 293

Amending act authorizing suspen-
pension of, etc.,

Amending sections 853, 855, 857,
858, 861, 862, 863, and 865 in
relation to, 620

Amending section 857 in reference
to transfer of papers, etc., to
successors, 943

TRESPASS.

Amending section 2044, right of
distress for, by animals, 575
TRIAL.

Amending section 3382 in relation
to, in civil cases, 642

TRUSTEES.

Amending section 3419 in relation

to, 633
UNDERTAKERS.

Amending act tu exempt, from

jury service, 944

UNIFORMITY OF LEGISLATION.
Act to provide for the appoint-

ment of commissioners fcr, - 100

UNITED STATES.
Act giving consent for acquisi-
tion by, for site for Mercer
monument, 5

UNITED STATES COURTS.
Act providing for prosecution of
criminal cases in, removed from
State courts,
Act for payment of costs of cases
removed to, from Patrick and
Wythe counties,

64

69

of visitors, salaries of protes-
sors, etc.,
Act providing additional wards
for hospital of, 796
Authorized to send property to
St. Louis,

UNLAWFUL ENTRY OR _ DE-
TAINER.
Amending sections 2716, 2717,
2718, and 2719 in relation to,
Establishing rule of evidence in

116

949

675

actions of, 898
_ UNLAWFUL HUNTING.
Amending chapter 95 of Code in
reference to, 331-338

VACANCIES.
Amending section 231, how tilled

in certain State offices, 581
VACATION DECREES.
Act amending section 3427 in re-
lation to how chancery causes,
ete., submitted in vacation, 77

VAGRANTS.
Amending section 884 and 885 in

reference to, 876
VENUE.
Amending sections 4036 and 4039
in relation to, 881
VESTIBULED FRONTS.
Act requiring street railways to
run, during certain months, 322

VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL AND
MECHANICAL COLLEGE AND
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.

Act increasing annual appropria-
tion from $25,000 to $40,000, 502

Amending sections 1586 to 1607
inclusive in regard to, 524-533

Payment of interest to, 624

Students who may attend free, 525
Reversion of property, 526
Curriculum of college, 526
How long students may attend
free, 526
Appointment of visitors, 526
Board of visitors a corporation, 527
Rector and clerk, 527
When office of visitor vacant, 527
Meetings of board, 527
Their duties and expenses, 527
Professors’ salaries, © 527
Experimental farms, etc., 528
Agricultural experiment station, 528
Bond of treasurer, 532
Donations to college, 532

Board of education to turn over

funds to, 532
Annual report of, 533
Power of general assembly, 533

Amending sections 1591 and 1595
in relation to visitors of, 776
VIRGINIA FEMALE INSTITUTE
AT STAUNTON.
Act amending sections 2 and 4 of
charter of, :

VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE.

Amending chapter 69 of Code in
relation to management of, 400-404

Act amending sections 1565, 1574,
1581, and 1582, and repealing
sections 1569, 1576, 1579, and

1580 of Code in reference to, 639

VIRGINIA NORMAL AND COLLE- |

GIATE INSTITUTE.
Amending section 11 of charter of, 109

VIRGINIA NORMAL AND INDUS-
TRIAL INSTITUTE.
Act appropriating $5,000 to,
Act amending chapter 72 of Code
in reference to management of, 548
Amending section 11 of act with
reference to, . 941

500

VIRGINIA SCHOOL FOR THE
DEAF AND THE BLIND.
Act appropriating $5,000 to meet
current expenses, 68
Amending sections 1652 to 1659
inclusive in reference to man-

agement of, 408 |
VOLUNTEERS.
See Militia.
VOTERS.
Act amending section 62 in rela-
lation to qualification of, 562

Changing residence may change
registration, 566

WARRANTS.
Act limiting time in which, drawn
by supervisors, etc., shall be
paid, and repealing act in rela-

tion thereto, 657

WARRANTS FOR SMALL C

Amending sections 2939, 2956,
2957, and repealing certain |
with reference to,

‘WARREN COUNTY.
Supervisors of, authorized to |
row $12,000 to build bridge
Carson’s ford,
Act prescribing jurisdiction of
pervisors in certain cases,
Fixing time for holding sess:
of supervisors of,

Act to prevent delivery of liqu
etc., in local option districts

Supervisors of, authorized to |
row $15,000 to build bridge
Carson’s ford in,

Repealing act for fixing time
holding sessions of supervi
or,

WARRENTON.
Providing charter for town of

WARWICK COUNTY.

Act for working roads in New]
magisterial district, in,

WASHINGTON COUNT

Amending act for working rc
of,

Act authorizing supervisors to
propriate money to Confede
monument,

WASHINGTON, SOUTHERN
WAY COMPANY.

Act confirming sale of cer
property to, by council of A
andria,

WATER COURSES.

Amending sections 1340 and |
in relation to,

WAVERLY.
Act establishing dispensary a

WAYNESBORO.

Amending section 26 of charte
town of,

WESTERN STATE HOSP:

Act appropriating $16,302.46
meet deficit in appropriat
for,