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1904

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 102

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

Chapter 103

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3956 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1898, and by an act approved February 9, 1900, and by an act approved February 16, 1901; section 3958 and section 4106, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1894, and by an act approved March 5, 1896, and by an act approved February 9, 1898, and by an act approved March 5, 1900, and by an act approved December 10, 1903.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 104

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed March 21, 1836, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in the county of Botetourt (now in Roanoke county), and all acts amendatory thereof.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Taxation, Property, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Fire fighters, Utilities, Transportation, Boundaries, Amendments

Chapter 105

An ACT appropriating the public revenue
Budget, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Prisons, Healthcare, Education, Civil Rights, Agriculture, Taxation, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 106

An ACT to provide the establishment, proper construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair of all public roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves in the several counties of this State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'an act to regulate the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the estates of decedents, and appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators, committees, by the clerks of circuit courts'
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 108

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2533 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in reference to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903, entitled 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.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 109

An ACT to appropriate $25,000 for the erection of a building and plant to furnish heat, light, and power to the governor’s mansion, the State library building, and the State capitol, and to permit the removal of the heat and power plants now in said building.
Budget, Public expenditures, Utilities, Public officers

Chapter 110

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $165,000 to provide buildings, equipment, and improvement for the Virginia polytechnic institute.
Education, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 111

An ACT making it a misdemeanor to desert without just cause or wilfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances, and to provide a penalty therefor.
Divorce, Custody of children, Employment and labor

Chapter 112

An ACT to make the 5th day of April, 1904, being the day selected for the launching of the battleship “Virginia,” a legal holiday in this State.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 113

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend the road Jaw of Prince George county,” approved March 3, 1898.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 114

An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to provide for the working and keeping in order the public roads in the county of Dinwiddie”
Transportation

Chapter 115

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 62 of chapter 8 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved December 8, 1902.
Voting

Chapter 116

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 142 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 7 5 to 147, inclusive, of an-act approved April 16, 1903,” and to provide how social clubs chartered since April 16, 1903, shall obtain licenses to sell ardent spirits, etc.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Gambling, Public expenditures

Chapter 117

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 6 of section 185 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 7, 1903.
Judicial, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 118

An ACT to require interest to be paid upon all State, county, district, and municipal taxes or levies remaining unpaid on the 15th of June in the year next after that in which the same were or may be assessed or assessable, and to prescribe the date from which such interest shall be charged.
Taxation

Chapter 119

An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Ridgeway, in the county of Henry, Virginia, and to prohibit the sale, barter, or exchange of such liquors in said town, except as provided by this act.
Alcohol, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 120

An ACT to repeal an act approved February 29, 1888, entitled “an act to work and keep in order the public roads in the county of Pittsylvania.”
Repeal of legislation, Transportation

Chapter 121

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Pocahontas, Virginia, to sell a strip of eight feet on the east side of Centre street, from St. Clair to what is known as Philadelphia Row, in order to straighten said Centre street and make same of uniform width, and provide that the fund arising from same shall go to the benefit of the public school of the town.
Property, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 122

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact article 10 of an act to incorporate the town of Phebus, in Elizabeth City county," approved January 22, 1900, and amended by an act approved April 2, 1902.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 123

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 10 of an act entitled "an act to provide for the improvement and working of the roads of the county of Henrico, and for the construction and repair of the bridges therein, ete," and the acts amendatory thereof, and to repeal section 7 of said act
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 124

An ACT to provide for official receipts for fines.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 125

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 637 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact section 637 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to clerks delivering to treasurers copy of list of delinquent real estate; treasurers to post the same with notice of sale of lands for taxes, levies, etc., attached,’”’
Taxation, Property, Judicial

Chapter 126

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3129 of the Code of Virginia,
Judicial, Lawyers, Amendments

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Fairmount, Henrico county”
Incorporation, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 128

An ACT to repeal sections 1304, 1305, and 1309 of the Code of Virginia.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 129

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the voting precinct of Windsor, in the county of Isle of Wight, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Windsor, and in the event of a majority of those voting at said election vote for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter, within said voting precinct, or within one mile of its limits, the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as provided herein.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Civil Rights, Public expenditures, Taxation, Vagrancy

Chapter 130

An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act to impose fine for trespass of swine and other stock in Rockfish district, Nelson county, approved February 9, 1900,” approved March 3, 1900.
Agriculture, Repeal of legislation, Property

Chapter 131

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 28, 1903, in relation to changing the boundaries of wards in cities, and for increasing or diminishing the number thereof.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Voting

Chapter 132

An ACT to provide for an election in Albemarle county for the purpose of taking the sense of the qualified voters upon the question of authorizing the supervisors of said county to make an appropriation of $5,000 to a State female normal school, to be established in said county, or in the city of Charlottesville.
Education, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 133

An ACT to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Parksley, Virginia.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Budget, Law Enforcement

Chapter 134

An ACT to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Damascus, Virginia.
Boundaries, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Public expenditures, Taxation, Salaries, Law Enforcement, Fire fighters, Utilities, Public spaces

Chapter 135

An ACT to authorize the district school board of Franktown school district, in Northampton county, to borrow money for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a school-house near the town of Franktown, and to provide for the payment thereof.
Education, Debt, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 136

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, in the county of Roanoke, and repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the
Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 137

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia,
Amendments, Labor

Chapter 138

An ACT to allow the council of the town of Onancock to levy an additional capitation tax for the aid of the public schools of said town, or for such town purposes as the said town council shall determine.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 139

An ACT to amend, revise, and re-enact sections 19, 26, and 28 of the charter of the town of Pocahontas, in Tazewell county. Virginia.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 140

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the Code of Virginia
Legislative Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 141

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town of Liberty, to extend its limits, and change the name to Bedford City,” approved March 3, 1890.
Amendments, Alcohol, Vagrancy, Gambling

Chapter 142

An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Narrows, in Giles county, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Business, Boundaries

Chapter 143

An ACT to amend charter of town of LaCrosse, Mecklenburg county, Virginia.
Municipal charters

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 2, 1898, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to let to contract public roads of that county, and levy tax to keep the same in repair, and to amend section 3 of said act as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 145

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henrico to levy taxes on dogs in said county, and to provide for the collection of the same.
Taxation

Chapter 146

An ACT in relation to fish ladders on the Rapidan river between the counties of Culpeper, Orange, and Madison.
Fishing

Chapter 147

An ACT prescribing and defining the right to an attorney’s lien in certain cases.
Lawyers, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 148

An ACT to amend section 43 of an act entitled “an act to raise reve-
Taxation, Public expenditures, Business, Charity, Utilities

Chapter 149

An ACT to authorize the judge of the circuit court of Goochland county to appoint a board of county road commissioners for Goochland county, and to define their duties in connection with warking the public roads of said county, and to increase the county road levy necessary therefor.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 150

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to appropriate certain sums of money from the public treasury in aid of Confederate memorial associations having in charge cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers,” approved February 8, 1904.
Amendments, Cemeteries, Charity, Confederate, Public expenditures, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 151

An ACT to authorize the town of Harrisonburg and the county of Rockingham, or either of them, to appropriate money for the purpose of securing the location of a State female normal school at or near the town of Harrisonburg.
Education

Chapter 152

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2698, 2700, 2702, and 2703 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to confirmation of fiduciary accounts, and the investment, payment, or distribution of money in hands of fiduciary.
Amendments, Judicial, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 153

An ACT to authorize the councils of towns, villages, or where there are no such councils, the board of supervisors of any county in which there may be any town, village, or other point in this State not having adequate police protection, to prohibit the transportation by railroad companies of excursions or picnic parties, and to make it unlawful for railroad companies to transport excursions or picnic parties to such towns, villages, or other points in this State under certain conditions.
Transportation, Public spaces, Public officers, Recreation

Chapter 154

An ACT to validate certain orders of publication heretofore made
Judicial

Chapter 155

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 131 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, approved March 5, 1900, and to repeal sections 132 and 133 thereof.
Amendments, Bonds, Business, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 156

An ACT to protect pheasants or grouse in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
Hunting

Chapter 157

An ACT making an appropriation for the benefit of the Virginia State horticultural society.
Agriculture

Chapter 158

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2935 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by the acts of 1897-’98.
Amendments, Property, Debt

Chapter 159

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2689 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to resignation by fiduciary of his trust.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 160

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 536, acts of assembly 1902-703-04, approved December 31, 1903, entitled an act to authorize parties planting oysters on grounds rented from the State to erect piers, docks, or watch-houses on the same.
Agriculture, Fishing, Public spaces

Chapter 161

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2708 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to proceedings by legatees or distributees to compel creditors to show cause against distribution of estate, their liability to refund in such case.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 162

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 5, 1900, entitled “an act to provide for the establishment, alteration, discontinuance, and working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Giles county, and to punish obstructions of the road commissioners in the discharge of their duties,” and also to punish road officials of Giles county for any neglect of their official duties.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 163

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

Chapter 164

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1416 of the Code of Virginia.
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law)

Chapter 165

An ACT concerning liquor dealers deprived of their licenses by a local-option election or by the establishment of a dispensary.
Alcohol

Chapter 166

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 580 of the acts of the general assembly, extra session 1902-’03-’04, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 60, chapter 7, of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, in relation to city officers.”
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Public expenditures

Chapter 167

An ACT to incorporate the town of Madison Heights, in Amherst county.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Public expenditures, Alcohol, Property

Chapter 168

An ACT to provide for creating, working, and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county, and defining the boundaries of same.
Transportation, Boundaries, Public expenditures, Amendments, Public spaces, Budget, Municipal charters, Utilities

Chapter 169

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10, chapter 4, of an act concerning public service corporations, approved January 18, 1904, providing for the appointment of police agents and making certain persons conservators of the peace.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 170

An ACT to provide punishment for maliciously or unlawfully shooting at or throwing stones or other missiles at or against any train or car of any railroad or other transportation company, or at or against any vessel or river craft.
Law Enforcement, Transportation, Public spaces, Death and burial

Chapter 171

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the Code of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1894, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1896, to provide punishment for maliciously or unlawfully removing or injuring any part of a canal or railroad, or any bridge or fixture thereof, or for maliciously or unlawfully obstructing, tampering with, or injuring any machinery, engine, car, or work thereof, or for maliciously or unlawfully opening, closing, displacing, tampering with, or injuring any switch, switch point or switch lever, or signal of any railroad company.
Amendments, Property, Transportation

Chapter 172

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of the charter of the town of Luray, Page county, Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved
Alcohol, Municipal charters

Chapter 173

An ACT to repeal sections 1334, 1335, and 1336 of the Code of Virginia.
Repeal of legislation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 174

An ACT to allow the street mileage in the town of Chase City, county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, to be included in mileage of county public roads, and to receive its proratable share of county road levy.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 175

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1764 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, relating to the practice of pharmacy
Healthcare, Business, Judicial

Chapter 176

An ACT to have plats of oyster-planting grounds endorsed “abandoned” under certain conditions, and to authorize the renting of such ground.
Agriculture, Business, Fishing, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 177

An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Caroline county to grant permission for a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county to be erected in the courthouse square of said county, and to make appropriation thereto.
Monuments and memorials, Confederate

Chapter 178

An ACT for the protection of squirrels in Southampton and Isle of Wight counties.
Wildlife, Hunting

Chapter 179

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

Chapter 180

An ACT to provide offices and rooms for the use of the department of education and public instruction, for the supreme court of appeals and to appropriate the sum of $1,440, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the payment of the rental thereof, and to prescribe the method of such payment.
Education, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 181

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-division “b” of section 8 of an act approved December 21, 1901, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia,’ as amended by an act approved March 29, 1902.
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Public spaces, Property, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 182

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 6, 1900, entitled an ‘act to provide for working, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county.”
Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 183

An ACT to repeal chapter 817 of the acts of the general assembly of 1897-’98, approved March 3, 1898; chapter 298 of the acts of the general assembly of the extra session of 1901, approved February 16, 1901; chapter 4 of the acts of the general assembly of 1895-6, approved December 14, 1895; chapter 299 of the acts of the general assembly of 1895-6, approved February 12, 1896; chapter 405 of the acts of the general assembly of 1901-2, approved March 29, 1902, and chapter 688 of the acts of the general assembly of 1897-’8, approved March 3, 1898.
Repeal of legislation, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 184

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Gladeville, in Wise county.
Amendments, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 185

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 2 of section 2070a, and section 2079 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved May 14, 1903, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact chapter 95 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the preservation of certain useful birds and animals, and to prevent unlawful hunting, and to repeal certain sections of the Code,” &e.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 186

An ACT to require any person, firm or corporation employing large bodies of laborers, constructing works of public improvement, to have them regularly inspected by the board of health of the counties in which they are located.
Employment and labor, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 187

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section 3319 of chapter 163 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of commissioners in chancery as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 4, 1890; and by an act approved February 24, 1890; and by an act approved February 4, 1892; and by an act approved January 29, 1894; and by an act approved February 27, 1894; and by an act approved January 18, 1896; by an act approved February 12, 1898, approved February 17, 1900; and by an act approved February 15, 1901.
Judicial

Chapter 188

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2599, 2600, 2601, 2602, as amended by an act approved January 2, 1904, providing for the appointment of guardians by the circuit and corporation courts and the judges thereof.
Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 189

An ACT to provide for the payment of pensioners under the pension act of April 2, 1902, whose claims were not approved and filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts prior to September 1, 1903.
Pensions

Chapter 190

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4036 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15, 1904.
Judicial

Chapter 191

An ACT to authorize the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac, Virginia, to borrow money.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 192

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Patrick and Grayson counties, respectively, to levy a capitation tax for school or other county purposes.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 193

An ACT to provide for evidence of the prepayment of State poll taxes by voters transférred from one city or county to another city or county.
Voting, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 194

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3768 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 26, 1898, which is chapter 513 of the acts of 1897-1898.
Judicial

Chapter 195

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 444 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 10th, 1903, entitled 'an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots.'
Amendments, Property, Taxation

Chapter 196

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 613 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved April 2, 1902; and to amend and re-enact section 614 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1888, as amended by an act approved February 29, 1888.
Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 197

An ACT to authorize the city of Bristol, Virginia, to make additional issues of bonds for water works improvement.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 198

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 199

An ACT to authorize the board of fisheries to procure for use in its office a complete list of persons holding oyster planting ground by assignment of record in the clerk’s offices, and the number of ‘acres held by each, and the number of acres occupied for oyster planting not of record in said clerk’s offices.
Fishing, Business, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 200

An ACT to allow the town of Front Royal to supply said town, the inhabitants thereof, and the inhabitants in the vicinity of said town, with light, and to issue bonds of said town to effect said purpose, and to hold an election therefor.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Municipal charters

Chapter 201

An ACT to authorize the town of Blacksburg, in Montgomery county, to donate a sum not exceeding $1,000 for the purpose of erecting in said town a public school building.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters
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