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1906

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 327

Chapter 101

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to deposit, or invest, the sinking fund provided for the purpose of paying off the bonds of said county, and to collect and reinvest the same and the interest accruing thereon, so often as may be necessary or expedient, until said bonds become payable, or subject to call.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 102

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 6, and 9, and to repeal sections 8 and 12 of the act approved February 16, 1901, which is chapter 331 of the acts of the special session of 1901, concerning the roads in Montgomery county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Amendments

Chapter 103

An ACT to protect landlords against removal of crop by tenants
Agriculture, Business, Property

Chapter 104

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 29, 1902, entitled “an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to divide equally for road purposes, among all the magisterial districts of said county, the district road tax on and collected from the Southern railway company in and for Stevensburg, Catalpa, and Cedar Mountain districts, in said county.”
Repeal of legislation, Transportation

Chapter 105

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $850, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of regilding frame, restoring and backing paintings of the battle of Yorktown and Thomas Jefferson, property of the State of Virginia.
Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 106

An ACT to provide for the election and compensation of a police justice for the city of Staunton.
Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 107

An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 108

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for creating, working, and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county, and defining the boundaries of the same
Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 109

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Pulaski, in the county of Pulaski, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquor in said town, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act so far as they apply to said town.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia in relation to public holidays
Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 111

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia.
Public expenditures, Charity, Employment and labor, Wildlife, Healthcare

Chapter 112

An ACT concerning the bureau of insurance, and insurance, guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, security, and fraternal benefit companies, associations, societies, and orders, and imposing penalties for its violation.
Business, Fraternal organizations, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Healthcare

Chapter 113

An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal year ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1907, and the 29th day of February, 1908.
Budget, Public expenditures, Salaries, Healthcare, Labor, Legislative Amendments, Education, Pensions, Agriculture

Chapter 114

An ACT to provide judges for new or additional circuits when created, and for their terms of office.
Judicial

Chapter 115

An ACT to provide for the expense of removing, supporting, and maintaining insane persons; how paid.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 116

An ACT to ratify and confirm a contract of lease entered into between the special board of directors of the Southwestern State hospital and United States spruce lumber company.
Business, Property

Chapter 117

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 26, 1903.
Judicial

Chapter 118

An ACT to authorize the county of Norfolk to acquire the toll roads and toll bridges in said county, and to issue bonds for that purpose.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 119

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act in relation to changing the boundaries of wards in cities and to prevent gerrymandering.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Voting

Chapter 120

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2629 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 19, 1903.
Property, Noncitizens, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 121

An ACT requiring the chairmen of the boards of supervisors and presidents of city councils to check over and compare the assessments made by the corporation commission of public works in each county and city.
Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 122

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the several counties of this Commonwealth to appropriate county funds to secure historical and physical descriptions of their respective counties, and to edit and publish the same, for distribution at the Jamestown tercentennial exposition and elsewhere, and to select and prepare exhibits of the industrial, agricultural, mineral, and commercial resources of their respective counties, to be exhibited at the Jamestown tercentennial exposition.
Agriculture, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 123

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1035 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, with reference to the salary of mayors of towns.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Salaries

Chapter 124

An ACT to authorize the district school board of Capeville school district, in Northampton county, to borrow money for the purpose of providing a suitable school building in that district, and to provide for the payment of the amount so borrowed.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 125

An ACT to amend sections 3, 4, and 7 of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Colonial Beach, Virginia,” approved February 25, 1892.
Municipal charters, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 126

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Basic City to sell and convey the fee in a part of a certain street and alley.
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 3, 1900, entitled an act to authorize the council of the town of New Market to borrow money for certain improvements.
Budget, Bonds, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 128

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to incor-porate the town of Manassas, as approved April 2, 1873; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1884; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1894; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1902."
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Taxation, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Public spaces, Healthcare, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Gambling, Fire fighters

Chapter 129

AN ACT to make further appropriations of the public revenues for the two fiscal years ending February 28, 1907, and February 29, 1908
Budget, Education, Agriculture, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Healthcare, Employment and labor, Prisons, Recreation, Libraries

Chapter 130

An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to create a board of excise commissioners for Alexandria county,” approved March 2, 1894, and an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act to create a board of excise commissioners for Alexandria county,” approved March 2, 1896.
Repeal of legislation, Alcohol

Chapter 131

An ACT to appropriate money to furnish the offices of the superintendent of public printing.
Public expenditures, Budget, Business

Chapter 132

An ACT to declare the effect of the death of the drawer of a check.
Death and burial, Debt, Property

Chapter 133

An ACT to provide for the purchase and distribution to certain officials copies of Waddey’s guide to magistrates, and to appropriate money for that purpose.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 134

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, section 2, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 15, 1904, and sections 7, 12, 16, 18, and 20 of an act entitled ‘an act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war or by the infirmities of old age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors or marines who lost their lives in said service or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act.
Amendments, Armed forces, Pensions, Civil Rights, Equality before the law

Chapter 135

An ACT to declare the true and lawful confines of cities and towns of a certain class.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers

Chapter 136

An ACT to define the duties and liabilities of inn-keepers, hotel-keepers, and keepers of ordinaries.
Business

Chapter 137

An ACT requiring the several county and district school boards of Virginia to make and publish annually a statement of receipts and disbursements, and providing a penalty for failing to do so.
Education

Chapter 138

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 17, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7, 17, and 18 of an act approved February 24, 1892, entitled an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia not funded, etc., approved February 3, 1900, and a similar amendment approved February 16, 1901, as again amended by act approved April 2, 1902.
Debt, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 139

An ACT to repeal an act to amend and re-enact an act entitle "an act to regulate the hunting and killing or capturing of hares in the county of Norfolk"
Hunting

Chapter 140

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 598 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 3, 1894, entitled 'an act in relation to working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in Alexandria county, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1895, and as amended by an act approved February 11, 1898.'
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 141

An ACT to incorporate the town of Cambria, in Montgomery county.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 142

An ACT to repeal an act entitled ‘an act to incorporate the town of Bangs, in Montgomery county,”
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 143

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the judges of the circuit courts in cities of the first-class having over forty thousand population and a separate clerk for said circuit court to make an annual allowance for such clerk, payable out of the treasury of said city
Judicial, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1429 of the Code of Virginia as the same has been amended by an act approved February 19, 1906.
Education, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 145

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1904, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia in relation to State depositories.”
Amendments, Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 146

An ACT to authorize the rector and visitors of the university of Virginia to issue new bonds, secured by deed of trust, for the purpose of retiring certain bonds now outstanding and secured in like manner.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 147

An ACT to provide for the organization and government of incorporated communities which shall become cities of the second class under the provisions of section 1013b of the Code of Virginia.
Municipal charters, Incorporation, Property, Taxation, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Alcohol

Chapter 148

An ACT authorizing the borrowing of money and issuing of bonds therefor by the towns in this Commonwealth, etc.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 149

An ACT authorizing the town of Emporia to issue bonds and borrow money to aid in establishing a system of water works for said town.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 150

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2148 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1901, as amended by an act approved April 24, 1903, and by previous acts, in relation to the time for taking oysters, and to prohibit use of patent tongs.
Amendments, Fishing, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 151

An ACT to appropriate money to pay for twenty-five copies Pollard’s Code purchased for the use of the general assembly.
Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 152

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Northumberland county to establish a public ferry across Lodge creek.
Transportation

Chapter 153

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3507 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the clerks of courts of appeals and to printing records.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1767, 1769, 1774, and 1775 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, regulating the practice of dentistry.
Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 155

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1901 (extra session), in relation to the compensation of supervisors.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 156

An ACT to regulate the business of lending money on household and kitchen furniture, household goods, wearing apparel, sewing machines, musical instruments, or wages and salaries, on conditional sales of the same, and the buying of salaries and wages.
Business, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 157

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Front Royal to sell and convey certain real estate.
Property

Chapter 158

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a police justice or police justices in the counties having a population of fifty thousand or over.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 159

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 14, 1904, in relation to working the public roads of Goochland county.
Transportation

Chapter 160

An ACT to prevent fraudulent erasures, alterations, secreting, and destruction of bills and resolutions, and amendments to bills, pending before the general assembly, or either branch thereof, or of any committee of either or both branches, or of any bill of the general assembly.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 161

An ACT to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Troutdale, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 162

An ACT to authorize the sale of the penitentiary spring lot, a Richmond.
Prisons, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 163

An ACT for the protection of fish in the Shenandoah river and its tributaries.
Fishing

Chapter 164

An ACT to provide for the establishment of “Virginia State school for colored deaf, dumb and blind children.”
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 165

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2489 of the Code of Virginia in relation to lien of inn-keepers, etc.
Property, Business

Chapter 166

An ACT to amend and re-enact the second clause of section 185 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact the second clause 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,” approved March 7, 1904.
Legislative Amendments, Salaries

Chapter 167

An ACT providing that the judgment of a circuit or corporation court, or other law court of record, in any action at law requiring a plaintiff to remit any part of his recovery, as ascertained by the verdict of a jury, and accept a reduced sum, may be accepted by such plaintiff under protest; and that such judgment, if accepted under protest, may be the subject of review by the supreme court of appeals upon a writ of error awarded either the plaintiff or defendant.
Judicial

Chapter 168

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 92 and 98 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 18, 1903, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia, as 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.
Public officers, Judicial, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 169

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 173 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, so as to empower clerks of city councils, common councils, and boards of aldermen to administer oaths and take affidavits.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 170

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled 'an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882,' as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887, April 28, 1887, May 14, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21, 1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887, February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.
Boundaries, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Public spaces, Property, Voting, Death and burial, Healthcare, Charity, Education, Public expenditures, Reformatories

Chapter 171

An ACT to authorize the school board of Lee magisterial district of the county of Accomac, to borrow money for the purpose of erecting and furnishing school-houses in said district, and to provide for the payment of the amount which may be borrowed.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 172

An ACT to enable the city of Norfolk to furnish water to the Jamestown exposition company at Sewell’s Point, in Norfolk county, Virginia, by the extension of the city water mains or by leasing or purchasing a part or the whole of the property of the Norfolk county water company.
Utilities, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 173

An ACT to permit the soldiers and sailors of the United States government, and of all foreign governments, and the militia of the States to bear arms and maneuvre in Virginia during the period of the Jamestown exposition.
Armed forces, Recreation, Public officers

Chapter 174

An ACT to allow compensation to the ‘Virginia home and industrial school for girls” for caring for girls committed to its custody and control under the commitment of a court, judge, or justice.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Charity, Education, Civil Rights, Segregation

Chapter 175

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 2, 1898, entitled “an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to let to contract the public roads of that county and levy a tax to keep the same in repair,” as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1904.
Amendments, Transportation, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 176

An ACT to incorporate the town of Tangier, in Accomac county.
Incorporation, Municipal charters

Chapter 177

An ACT relating to demurrers to evidence.
Judicial

Chapter 178

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Northumberland county to establish a public ferry across the Little Wicomico river, in said county.
Transportation

Chapter 179

An ACT to provide for establishing, working, and keeping in repair the roads and building and repairing the bridges in the county of Prince George.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 180

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight, in their discretion, to contribute and expend annually, out of the general county levy of the said county, a sum of money to aid in the maintenance and efficiency of company H, seventy-first regiment of infantry, Virginia volunteers.
Armed forces, Budget

Chapter 181

An ACT to define what is pure apple cider within the meaning of section 141 of chapter 20 of acts of 1904, approved February 19, 1904.
Agriculture, Alcohol, Business, Judicial

Chapter 182

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of chapter 96 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to unlawful fishing.
Fishing

Chapter 183

An ACT to assign offices to the several departments and officers of the State government in the several public buildings owned by the State.
Budget, Business, Education, Labor, Public officers

Chapter 184

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled “an act to provide for the extension of the corporate limits of cities and towns”
Municipal charters

Chapter 185

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3811 of the Code of Virginia.
Jails, Judicial

Chapter 186

An ACT to legalize the adoption of adult persons.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 187

An ACT to provide for the purchase of a silver service to be presented to the battleship Virginia.
Armed forces, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 188

An ACT to create drainage districts of adjoining or adjacent owners of low lands, and to give jurisdiction to the circuit court in which said lands lie to enforce its provisions.
Agriculture, Property, Judicial

Chapter 189

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1671 of the Code of Virginia in relation to disposition of proceedings before commission, fees, etc.
Judicial, Healthcare, Amendments

Chapter 190

An ACT to authorize the district school boards of Tuckahoe school district and Fairfield school district, in Henrico county, to expend or invest the sums received by them respectively from the city of Richmond under proceedings for the extension of the limits of said city of Richmond.
Education

Chapter 191

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of assembly, approved March 12, 1904, relating to official receipts for fines.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Debt, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 192

An ACT ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within the city of Fredericksburg, in this State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof.
Property, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 193

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled ‘an act incorporating the town of Burkeville, in the county of Nottoway, approved March 17, 1877,” and providing for the continuance in office of present officers.
Incorporation, Municipal charters

Chapter 194

An ACT to authorize the cities and towns of this Commonwealth to acquire, by purchase, gift, or condemnation, property adjoining parks, monuments, or other public property belonging to such cities or towns
Public spaces, Monuments and memorials, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 195

AN ACT to authorize the council of the town of Chatham, in Pittsylvania county, to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of increasing the water supply, constructing sidewalks, and retiring in whole or in part the present bonded indebtedness of said town.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 196

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059 of the Code, as amended by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled “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 as heretofore amended,” and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, in so far as the same applies to the sixteenth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Civil Rights

Chapter 197

An ACT to amend an act entitled “an act to provide for the operating and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper,” approved January 25, 1898.
Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities, Public officers

Chapter 198

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 18, 1903, entitled “an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Patrick.”
Amendments, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 199

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Caroline county to levy an additional capitation tax of one dollar per year, to be applied in the aid of public schools in said county and for such other county purposes as they may determine.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 200

An ACT to place a bronze tablet in the capitol building containing thereon the names of the commissioners, clerk, architects, and contractor under whose supervision the work of remodeling the building was done.
Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures, Public spaces
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