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1902/1904

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Chapter 507

An ACT to amend and re-enact: an act entitled “an act providing for an additional appropriation for the erection of a fence around the Lee monu-ment in Richmond, Virginia.”
Amendments, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 508

An ACT to provide for rerating pensioners classed on the pension rolls of the State as partially disabled.
Pensions

Chapter 509

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public free schools for counties and to the literary fund.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 510

An ACT to amend and reenact sections 3744 and 3745 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the giving or acceptance of a bribe, and the punishment therefor.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 511

An ACT to provide for abating public nuisances and to repeal an act approved March 5, 1888, in relation thereto.
Judicial, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 512

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 67 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public free schools in cities and in towns constituting separate school districts.
Education, Budget, Employment and labor, Taxation

Chapter 513

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to allow notaries or other officers who hold stock in companies to take acknowledgments to deeds or other writing which said companies execute, provided said notaries or other officers are in no wise interested," approved February 2, 1892
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 514

An ACT to provide a remedy for the correction and redress of erroneous assessments of property for taxation in cases not already provided for by law.
Taxation, Property, Judicial

Chapter 515

An ACT to provide for the transfer of causes at law, presentments, informations, and indictments for misdemeanors and felonies pending in the county courts of the Commonwealth to the circuit courts of such counties.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights

Chapter 516

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled 'an act defining the powers and duties of the board of agriculture and immigration, and providing for an election of a commissioner of agriculture and immigration, and for repealing all acts in conflict with this act'
Agriculture, Amendments

Chapter 517

An ACT to repeal an act entitled ‘an act to impose a tax on corporations chartered and organized as social clubs desiring to keep liquors at their club house or other place of meeting, to be sold or given away to the members of the corporation for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to prescribe the mode of paying such tax and penalty for its non-payment; to define the privileges of such clubs, and to prescribe in what cases their charters may be revoked.”
Alcohol, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 518

An ACT appropriating the sum of ten thousand dollars for a statue of General J. E. B. Stuart, as pledged by an act approved March 28, 1903.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 519

An ACT to repeal sections 1532, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1639, and 1540 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public free schools in cities and in towns constituting separate school districts.
Education

Chapter 520

An ACT to repeal sections 1440, 1480 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 14, 1890, and 1513 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act approved May 15, 1903, entitled “an act to put into operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the composition and organization of the State board of education; the election and appointment of its members; their qualifications; powers and duties of the board; expenses, etc.”
Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 521

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2562 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1898, in relation to jurisdiction of partition of lands.
Property, Judicial

Chapter 522

An ACT to repeal an act approved January 23, 1896, in relation to waiver of a jury in misdemeanor cases.
Repeal of legislation, Judicial

Chapter 523

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3605, 3614, and 3615 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Debt, Property

Chapter 524

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3584 and 3599 of the Code of Virginia.
Property, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 525

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to prescribe a penalty for persons who, under the provisions of sections 3932 and 3934 of the Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in chain-gangs and escape, or attempt to escape, from the person in whose custody they lawfully are.”
Amendments, Armed forces, Jails, Labor, Prisons, Reformatories

Chapter 526

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3618 and 3625 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Debt, Judicial, Property

Chapter 527

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3944 of the Code of Virginia.
Coroner, Judicial, Death and burial

Chapter 528

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1608 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Education

Chapter 529

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3955 and 3956 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to process for the arrest of persons charged with crime.
Amendments, Armed forces, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 530

An ACT to empower Samuel N. Hurst to publish new and revised editions of his annotated pocket Code of Virginia.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 531

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2616 and 2620, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 23, 1888, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1888, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 2, 1902, and sections 2621 and 2622 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, so as to authorize and prescribe certain rules governing the leasing of the lands of infants or insane persons, and to repeal section 2617, and to amend and re-enact section 2625 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1896.
Amendments, Custody of children, Death and burial, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 532

An ACT to amend and combine chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, as to section 277 of said chapter, by act approved January 15, 1890, and by act approved January 16, 1892, and further amended by act approved May 13, 1903, and chapter 377 of the acts of assembly, extra session 1887, entitled 'an act to amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the public printing and binding, and defining the duties of the superintendent of public printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the acts of assembly 1879-’80,' approved May 23, 1887, as amended, as to section 10 of said act by act approved March 5, 1888, and by act approved February 5, 1892, and as amended, as to section 11 of said act, by act approved February 24, 1890, and by act approved February 9, 1894; and to consolidate and re-enact the same into chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 533

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 300 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, in relation to the active or volunteer militia.
Armed forces

Chapter 534

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1362, 1367, 1369, 1375, 1378, 1379, 1380, and 1390 of chapter 62 of the Code of Virginia.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 535

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 826, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 838, 840, 841, 846, 847, 849, and 850, and to repeal section 839 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Budget, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Public officers, Healthcare, Education, Pensions

Chapter 536

An ACT to authorize parties planting oysters on ground rented from the State to erect piers, docks, or watch-houses on the same.
Fishing, Business, Public spaces

Chapter 537

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (f) of section 2, chapter 2, of an act entitled 'an act concerning corporations'
Incorporation, Property

Chapter 538

An ACT to repeal an act approved July 28, 1902, entitled “‘an act to provide for the appointment of registrars for the several towns in the Commonwealth,” and to repeal an act approved March 2, 1903, entitled ‘“‘an act to amend and re-enact section 1022 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to registrars and judges of election for the towns of this State.”
Repeal of legislation, Voting

Chapter 539

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to require the judges of county and corporation courts to set criminal cases for trial,” approved February 24, 1890, and make it apply to judges of circuit courts.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 540

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2048 of the Code of 1887, as amended by act of the general assembly approved February 26, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900, so as to provide how the present existing fence law in any county, magisterial district, or selected portion of any county, other than such as now have the no-fence law, may be changed by the board of supervisors of such county.
Fence Laws

Chapter 541

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, so as to authorize the signing of bills of exception, either in term time or vacation,' so as to make the same apply to criminal as well as civil cases.
Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 542

An ACT to provide for the appointment of police justices and their jurisdiction in cities of a population of ten thousand or over, in which, by the terms of their charters, no provision is made for the election or appointment of police justices.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Salaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 543

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (f) of section 2 of chapter 3 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations
Business, Incorporation, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 544

An ACT to authorize Brookland school district, of Henrico county, to borrow $10,000 and issue bonds therefor, to be used for the erection of a school-house at Barton Heights.
Education, Bonds

Chapter 545

An ACT to amend section 2 of an act of the general assembly approved May 5, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, with several amendments thereto, so far as it relates to the counties of King George and Stafford.
Fishing, Taxation, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 546

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3630 and 3636 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Debt, Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Property

Chapter 547

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 18 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth and concerning the State and certain other libraries.
Amendments, Education, Libraries, Public officers, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 548

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 884 and 885 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to vagrancy, so as to define who are vagrants, and to punish persons convicted of vagrancy as for a misdemeanor, and to repeal section 886 of the Code of Virginia.
Vagrancy, Employment and labor, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 549

An ACT to amend and reenact sections 3975, 3976, 3977, and 3978 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Judicial

Chapter 550

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act approved March 3, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved February 22, 1890, entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, and to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 12 of said act, as amended by an act approved February 12, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 12 of an act entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk,” approved February 22, 1890.
Boundaries, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 551

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3853 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to bribing voter at elections.
Voting, Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 552

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2599 ; section 2600, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 3, 1898, and sections 2601 and 2602 of the Code of Virginia.
Custody of children, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 553

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4016 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894; section 4018 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900; sections 4023, 4036, and 4039 of the Code of Virginia; section 4047 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 24, 1894, and section 4048 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 18, 1888.
Judicial

Chapter 554

An ACT to prevent merchants engaged in buying and selling merchandise, while indebted, from selling their entire stock of merchandise in bulk or selling the major portion thereof otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade.
Business, Debt, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 555

An ACT to amend subsection (f) of section 1 of chapter 2, subsection (h) of section 1 of chapter 3, and section 28 of chapter 5 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act concerning corporations,” which became a law May 21, 1903.
Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 556

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 1015b, 1015g, 1033, 1033b, 1033f, 1042a, and 1048 of section 1, and section 2 of an act approved May 20, 1903, 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.’
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 557

An ACT to authorize and empower the councils of cities and towns and the boards of supervisors of counties to levy special taxes or levies for the purpose of paying the interest on and providing a sinking fund for bonds issued by virtue of any act of the general assembly enacted.
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 558

An ACT to authorize the town of Clarksville, in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, to build, own, operate, and maintain a toll bridge across the Roanoke river or the Dan and Staunton rivers, at the said town, and to issue its bonds and certificates of indebtedness to pay for the same.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 559

An ACT to confer on the town council of the town of Barton Heights, Henrico county, certain authority as to the cemeteries adjoining said town.
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law)

Chapter 560

An ACT to prohibit the throwing of sample packages of medicines in yards, halls, porches, or doorways in this State.
Healthcare

Chapter 561

An ACT to remove the political disabilities of George T. Croxton, of the county of Essex.
Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 562

An Act to Provide for the Release of Contracts for Sale of Personal Property Docketed Under Section 2462 of the Code of Virginia, as Amended by Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Approved 28th Day of February, 1890.
Business, Property, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 563

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia
Cemeteries, Public spaces, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 564

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1347 and 1360 of chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 565

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1340 and 1345 of chapter 60 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Transportation, Property

Chapter 566

An ACT to establish a rule of evidence in actions of ejectment and unlawful entry, or detainer involving the location of reservations within the exterior boundaries of grants or other conveyances.
Property, Boundaries, Judicial

Chapter 567

An ACT to authorize the school board of the city of Charlottesville to borrow money and to execute its bonds for said loan.
Education, Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 569

An ACT to repeal sections 2842, 2843, 2845, 2846, 2848, 2849, 2850, and 2851 of the Code of Virginia.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 570

An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act regulating the grant of franchises, etc., by cities and towns, and providing for the advertisement thereof and the public reception of bids therefor, and providing for the enforcement of the obligations of the grantees, grantors, or owners of franchises, and providing penalties for the usurpation of or violation of the terms of the provisions of franchises,” approved April 7,
Repeal of legislation, Business

Chapter 571

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved May 15, 1903, entitled 'an act to amend and reenact sections 4 and 11 of an act entitled 'an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, approved May 23, 1887, as amended by an act entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of the charter of the town of Hampton,' approved March 3, 1898.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 572

An ACT to confirm the proceedings of the common council of the city of Newport News relating to the issue and sale of $56,000 bonds of the city for paving purposes.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 573

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to fix the times of holding regular sessions of the boards of supervisors of Warren, Page, Clarke, Shenandoah, and Frederick
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 574

An ACT to authorize the exchange of lots between the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the county of Albemarle.
Charity, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 575

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 28, 1903, entitled “an act to provide for changing the boundaries of wards in cities; and for increasing or diminishing the number thereof.”
Boundaries

Chapter 576

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 49 of the Code of Virginia, relating to savings banks.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 577

An ACT to provide for the election of justices of the peace, and their jurisdiction, in cities in which, by the terms of their charters, no provision is made for the election of justices of the peace.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 578

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 48 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing qualifications of bank directors.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 579

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 143 of an act entitled ‘an act to raise revenue for support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution'
Alcohol, Taxation, Business, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 580

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 60, chapter 7, of the charter of the city of Portsmouth in relation to city officers.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 581

An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to provide for the election of commissioners of the revenue for the counties of this State,” approved March 28, 1903, and an act entitled “an act to provide for the election of commissioners of the revenue for the cities of this State,” approved March 28, 1903.
Repeal of legislation, Public officers

Chapter 582

An ACT to permit the netting of partridges in Henry county.
Hunting

Chapter 583

An ACT looking to the establishment of a State female normal school with industrial training.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 584

An ACT to validate all licenses for marriages issued by a clerk of a county court on or after December 12, 1903, and prior to February 1, 1904.
Marriage

Chapter 585

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 890 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 586

An ACT to repeal so much of an act approved December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, as repeals section thirty-five hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section thirty-five hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 587

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 10 of the Code in reference to general and special elections; when and where to be held; regulations for their conduct and government; compensation for service
Voting

Chapter 588

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 72, Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved March 29, 1902, in regard to the management of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, and to conform the same to the Constitution, approved November 28, 1903.
Education, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 589

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 623 of the Code of Virginia
Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 590

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 857 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to delivery of books and papers in the possession of a county or city treasurer, including uncollected tax tickets for taxes and levies, to his successor.
Amendments, Public officers, Taxation, Budget

Chapter 591

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3111 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 592

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3154 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial

Chapter 593

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 8, 1888 entitled an act to exempt undertakers from jury service.
Employment and labor

Chapter 594

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1903, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 595

AN ACT to extend the sessions of the county courts of this Commonwealth at the January terms in the year 1904.
Judicial

Chapter 596

An ACT to provide for furnishing by the county treasurers of list of those who are residents of or voters in the incorporated towns of the Commonwealth, who have paid their State capitation taxes six months prior to a regular election to be held in the incorporated towns of which they are residents, and to comply with section 38 of the Constitution.
Voting

Chapter 597

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of chapter 577 of the acts of assembly of Virginia, session 1895-96, approved March 3, 1896, entitled "an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Waynesboro."
Amendments, Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Property, Voting, Municipal charters

Chapter 598

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3676 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to kidnapping and the punishment therefor.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Death and burial, Prisons

Chapter 599

An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of any county wherein the board of school trustees in any school district of such county has, prior to the passage of this act, issued bonds under any special act of the general assembly, to levy a sufficient tax on the property in such school district, in addition to the levy authorized by law to be laid for general district school purposes, to pay the interest on and principal of such bonds as the same shall become due.
Education, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 600

An ACT to authorize the University of Virginia to send property to St. Louis for exhibition purposes.
Education, Public spaces, Cemeteries, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 601

An ACT to authorize and direct the register of land office to make certain improvements to the hall of the house of delegates and to provide therefor.
Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Public spaces

Chapter 602

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to locate and define the metes and bounds of the corporate property of the said county at Isle of Wight courthouse, and to purchase such additional property adjacent thereto as may be necessary for county purposes.
Boundaries, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 603

An ACT to provide for the appointment of road superintendents in the county of Elizabeth City; to define their terms of office and their duties.
Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 604

An ACT to authorize and direct the register of land office to make flee improvements to the hall of the senate of Virginia, and to provide therefor.
Public spaces

Chapter 605

An ACT authorizing the town of Smithfield to make an annual appropriation to the white military company.
Armed forces, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 606

An ACT empowering the council of the town of Smithfield to appoint a harbor master for said town, and to regulate and prescribe his duties and fees for the performance of said duties, and to establish port warden lines within the corporate jurisdiction and one mile beyond the same.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 607

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases
Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law), Healthcare, Transportation
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