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1902/1904

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Chapter 406

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3207 and 3208 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Divorce, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 407

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3419, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, in reference to the powers of a personal representative of a dead trustee,” approved February 7, 1890, and by an act approved March 7, 1898, and section 3426, as amended by an aet entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders,” approved February 12, 1894, and by an act approved January 27, 1896, and by an act approved March 3, 1898.
Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Property

Chapter 408

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 923 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 409

An ACT to amend and reenact section 3214, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1900, and by an act approved March 3, 1900, and section 3218 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Property, Public officers

Chapter 410

An ACT to amend and reenact sections 927, 929 as heretofore amended, 930 and 934 of the Code of Virginia.
Jails, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 411

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3354 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 412

An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Warren county to borrow $15,000, to be used in the building of a bridge and approaches thereto over the south branch of the Shenandoah river at or near Carson’s ford, in said county.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 413

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1565, 1574, 1581, and 1582, and to repeal sections 1569, 1576, 1579, and 1580 of chapter 69 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to the Virginia Military Institute and its management.
Amendments, Armed forces, Education, Public officers

Chapter 414

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3086, 3093, and 3095 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 415

An ACT to amend section 3382 of chapter 166 of the Code of Virginia.
Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 416

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3203 and 3204 of chapter 155 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 417

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 as materiel by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved January 22, 1894, and by an act approved May 20, 1903; section 457 as amended by an act approved January 22, 1894; section 459 as amended by an act approved February 9, 1898; section 492 as amended by an act approved February 24, 1898; section 498 as amended by an act approved January 8, 1898; sections 460, 462, 487, 488, 491, 503, 521, 524, 527, 528, and 532, and to repeal section 472 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Charity, Education, Property, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 418

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 812. 813, 814, 815, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, and 824 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Budget, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Property

Chapter 419

An ACT to repeal certain sections of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 420

An ACT to limit the time in which warrants drawn by boards of supervisors, district school boards, and circuit courts shall be paid, and to repeal an act entitled “an act limiting the time in which warrants drawn by the supervisors, school boards, and county boards shall be paid,” approved January 20, 1898.
Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 422

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 305, acts of assembly 1897-’8, entitled “an act to require the clerks of the county and corporation courts of this State to report to their respective courts a list of all fines reported by justices of the peace under section 718 of the Code of Virginia, what lists shall contain, and to require the auditor of public accounts to furnish blank forms upon which such lists shall be made.”
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 423

An ACT to repeal sections 1068 and 1069; section 1070, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1890; sections 1071 and 1103 of chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia.
Repeal of legislation, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 424

An ACT to repeal section 1092, as amended by an act approved January 29, 1894; section 1093; section 1094, as amended by an act approved February 9, 1894; sections 1095, 1096, 1097, and 1098 of chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 425

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2274 of the Code of Virginia, relating to dower.
Inheritance and succession, Marriage

Chapter 426

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2179 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 427

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2216, as amended by an act approved January 17, 1896; 2224, as amended by an act approved December 17, 1895; 2225, as amended by an act approved January 28, 1896; 2228, 2240, 2250, and to repeal section 2233 of the Code of Virginia.
Marriage, Divorce, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 428

An ACT to repeal section 220 and to amend and re-enact section 221 and section 222 of the Code of Virginia, relating to power and duties of governor.
Amendments, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 429

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2790 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to when and by whom distress made.
Property, Amendments, Business

Chapter 430

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2552 of the Code, in relation to how bastards take by inheritance, so as to prescribe in what cases the children of former slaves may take by inheritance.
Inheritance and succession, Slavery, Civil Rights

Chapter 431

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 2, 1888, entitled an act to authorize the clerks of the circuit courts to take acknowledgments to deeds and other writings, and to certify the same.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 432

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3068 and 3082, and to repeal section 3079 of the Code of Virginia, relating to courts of the city of Richmond.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 433

An ACT to repeal and amend various sections of the Code of Virginia regarding the duties and jurisdiction of circuit and city courts.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 434

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 8 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 29, 1871, relating to the election of municipal officers.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 435

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of an act entitled “an act to raise revenue”
Taxation, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 436

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2939, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1892; section 2956 and section 2957, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1894, of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled "an act to provide that if the plaintiff in a warrant upon a contract of such nature that an action of assumpsit would lie on same shall have served with the warrant a copy of this account, verified by affidavit, he shall have judgment for the amount of the said account, unless the defendant shall deny under oath that the account is due; and if the defendant deny only a part of the account he shall have judgment as to the residue, and the case be tried as to the part so denied," approved March 1, 1898; and also to repeal an act entitled "an act to provide how appeals from justice and warrants removed shall be tried, and how defects, omissions, and irregularities in the proceedings below may be corrected in the court to which the appeal is taken or the warrant removed," approved February 27, 1894.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Debt, Property, Amendments

Chapter 437

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2660 of the Code of Virginia fixing the order in which debts of decedent are to be paid
Debt, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 438

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1894, and to amend and re-enact sections 2534 and 2538 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend section 2547 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1898, in relation to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills.
Inheritance and succession, Death and burial, Judicial, Property

Chapter 439

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2716, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2716 of the Code, in relation to unlawful detainer,” approved March 4, 1890, and sections 2717, 2718, 2719, and 2720 of the Code of Virginia.
Property, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 440

An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquor in Leigh magisterial district, at Meherrin, Prince Edward county, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations, to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said magisterial district, and to repeal all laws in conflict, with this act so far as they apply to said magisterial district.
Alcohol, Amendments, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 441

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 754, 765, 768, and 774 of the Code of Virginia.
Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 442

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of chapter 1 of an act entitled "an act concerning corporations"
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 443

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 567, 568, 571, 573, and 578 of the Code of Virginia, in relation tu the erroneous assessment of real and personal property.
Taxation, Property, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 444

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4162 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, and as further amended by an act approved May 5, 1903, and to repeal section 4163 of the Code of Virginia.
Prisons, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 445

An ACT to permit the commissioner of agriculture to collect specimens of natural history.
Agriculture, Wildlife

Chapter 446

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Washington county to appropriate and contribute money for the purpose of aiding the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county.
Monuments and memorials, Confederate

Chapter 447

An ACT to permit persons more than nineteen years of age to take the State bar examination for a license to practice law.
Lawyers, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 448

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4179 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial, Prisons

Chapter 449

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act entitled 'an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Boydton, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, and within one mile of the corporate limits of the said town; to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations, to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said town, and within one mile of the corporate limits thereof, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act so far as they apply to the said town and the country within one mile of its corporate limits'
Alcohol

Chapter 450

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1401 of the Code of Virginia.
Religious Institutions, Amendments

Chapter 451

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 8 of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, relating to power to subscribe to stock of incorporated companies, to improvement of roads, and limit to outstanding debt.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 452

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 637, 638, 642, 648, 649, 650, G51, 653, 654, 655, 659, 662, 664, 665, and 666 of the Code of Virginia, as here- tofore amended, in relation to the sale of delinquent lands.
Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 453

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2773 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Property

Chapter 454

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 288 and 299 of the Code of Virginia in relation to superintendent of the public buildings, etc., and to repeal an act approved January 30, 1900, entitled 'an act to prescribe the duties of the register of the land office and fix his salary.'
Amendments, Public officers, Public spaces, Budget

Chapter 455

An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to provide for the special and separate assessment of taxes on mineral lands, and on the improvements, fixtures, and machinery thereon,” approved May 13, 1903.
Taxation

Chapter 456

An ACT to repeal sections 2297 and 2298 of the Code of Virginia.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 457

An ACT to provide for the collection of all taxes in arrear and past due to the Commonwealth prior to February 1, 1903, upon the shares of the capital stock of banks and banking associations, whether due by resident or non-resident stockholders, and for this purpose to amend chapter 642 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session 1895-1896, approved March 3, 1896.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 458

AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections 194, 197, 198, and 199, and to repeal sections 202 and 208 of chapter 15 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 459

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1750 of the Code of Virginia
Healthcare, Judicial

Chapter 460

An ACT to authorize the sale of real estate held as curtesy or as dower, whether the remainder be vested or contingent, and whether the remaindermen be infants or adults.
Inheritance and succession, Property

Chapter 461

An ACT to amend and re-enact title 12 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the public debt.
Bonds, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 462

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2917 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Property

Chapter 463

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 814 of the Code of Virginia
Bonds, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 464

An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating hquors in Waverly magisterial district, Sussex county, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, or corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to said magisterial district.
Alcohol, Repeal of legislation, Public expenditures

Chapter 465

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county to appropriate and contribute out of the county funds an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars to L. A. Armstead Camp Confederate Veterans, No. 26, of Virginia, for the purpose of aiding said camp in the completion of the monument upon the public square of said county, at the county seat thereof.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 466

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act authorizing the qualified voters of Prince Edward county to vote upon the question of issuing the bonds of said county to secure money for the purpose of purchasing road machinery and improving the public roads of said county, and authorizing the board of supervisors to issue the bonds of the county for said purpose, if the vote shall be in favor thereof
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 467

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Patrick county.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 468

An ACT authorizing the auditor of public accounts to refund money in certain cases.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business

Chapter 469

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to lease to the National Bank of Fairfax the old clerk’s office building, on the public square, in the town of Fairfax,
Amendments, Business, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 470

An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth article of section 183 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances
Budget, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 471

An ACT to provide for the collection, classification, and publication of the general statutes of the Commonwealth.
Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 472

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2757 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Children -- Institutional care, Amendments

Chapter 473

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1721 and to repeal section 1722 of the Code of Virginia.
Healthcare, Property

Chapter 474

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1991 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Transportation

Chapter 475

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1421 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Amendments, Charity, Property

Chapter 476

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled “an act to provide fire-escapes from buildings of over three stories.”
Public expenditures, Fire fighters, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 477

An ACT providing for the appropriation of $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the cost of the completion of a fire-proof shell building, including heating, plumbing, etc., at the penitentiary.
Prisons, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Budget

Chapter 478

An ACT to provide for the payment of the work of indexing the act and journals of the present session of the general assembly when said work completed.
Budget, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 479

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved May 9, 1903, entitled an act to authorize the city of Petersburg to acquire land necessary to construct a channel for diverting the freshet water from the Appomattox river at Petersburg, Virginia, so as to improve the harbor and channel of said river.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 480

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 69 of chapter 148 of the acts of 1902-°3, entitled “an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and publie free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, so as to permit foundrymen to exchange new castings for old ones, and to buy old metals or old machines for use in their business, or to be renovated and sold, without taking out a junk dealer's license.
Amendments, Business, Taxation

Chapter 481

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000, to be used in the erection of a State building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Budget, Public expenditures, Industry, Public spaces

Chapter 482

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia, amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May 20, 1903, entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to election of State, county, district, and city officers, and the terms of their offices, and filling vacancies.”
Amendments, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 483

An ACT authorizing the councils of cities to have a legal enumeration of their population.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 484

An Act to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, Virginia, to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of establishing a system of water works and fire department for said city.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 485

An ACT to amend and re-enact: sections 3916, 3918, 3922, 3929, 35. and 3933 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
Judicial, Prisons, Labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 486

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 10, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 28, 1896, in relation to certificates of acknowledgments.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Property

Chapter 487

An Act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled 'An Act to amend section 5 of an act providing for the appointment of a State board of health and local boards of health, defining the duties and powers and compensation thereof, and of their members, officers, and agents, in connection with the preservation of public health, and prescribing penalties against witnesses failing to obey subpoenas issued by said State board of health, or any authorized member thereof, for refusing to testify, or otherwise acting in contempt of said board or its duly authorized members, approved March 7, 1900, so as to empower the chairman of the board of supervisors, with the approval of two of the members of the local board of health, to make certain contracts for the removal and quarantine of parties suspected of small-pox, or for compulsory vaccination,' approved March 25, 1902.
Healthcare

Chapter 488

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1774 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 28, 1890, and by an act approved March 2, 1894, and to repeal section 1773 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 489

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 509, acts of assembly 1895-’96, relating to how members of State board of veterinary examiners qualify.
Amendments, Amusement, Healthcare

Chapter 490

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 84 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 162, acts of assembly 1901-02, approved March 11, 1902, and to amend and re-enact sections 86 and 89 of said charter, all in regard to the police department of said city.
Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 491

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1955, 1957, 1963, and 1967 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 492

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2008 and 2022 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 26, 1890, and to amend and re-enact sections 2019 and 2023 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 493

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Farmville magisterial district, Prince Edward county, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations, to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to said magisterial district,” approved February 13, 1901.
Alcohol, Amendments, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 494

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Scottsville, in the counties of Albemarle and Fluvanna, Virginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishing a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein
Alcohol, Business, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 495

An ACT to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, and 3067 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060, and 3062 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Judicial, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 496

An ACT to authorize the improvement of the roads of Frederick county, and to provide funds to pay the same.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Voting, Municipal charters

Chapter 497

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1591 and 1595 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1903.
Education, Agriculture, Public officers

Chapter 498

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3559; section 3560, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 24, 1898; sections 3562 and 3563, chapter 174, of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Debt, Property, Civil Rights

Chapter 499

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3454, 3455, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved January 18, 1888; sections 3457, 3459, 3460, 3465, 3466, 3467, 3469, 3471, 3474, 3485, 3488, and 3490 of chapter 170 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 3453, 3468, 3473, 3482, 3483, and 3487 of said chapter of said Code.
Amendments, Judicial, Property, Taxation

Chapter 500

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1781 of the Code of Virginia.
Healthcare, Education, Dead bodies (Law)

Chapter 501

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3552 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 502

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3888, as amended by an act approved January 15, 1894; 3902, 3903, 3904, 3909, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898, and 3911, and to repeal section 3910 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Civil Rights

Chapter 503

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3498, 3500, 3505, 3506, and 3508 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3515 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1896, and section 3519 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 18, 1896, and section 3528, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, and also to repeal section 3524 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1900, and section 3525 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights

Chapter 504

An ACT to repeal section 10 of an act entitled 'an act to authorize and empower the town council of the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, to borrow money by the issue of bonds for the construction and establishment of a system of water works in and for the use of said town; to construct and establish such works, and a sewerage system if needed'
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 505

An Act to amend and re-enact 1015b of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887) in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled “an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns,” approved May 20, 1903.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers

Chapter 506

An ACT to provide for the additional wards to the University Virginia Hospital.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Education
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