1906

Displaying 301 - 327 of 327

Chapter 301

An ACT to require common carriers doing business in this State to receive and receipt for all freights delivered to them, and to provide a penalty for neglect or refusal therefor.

Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 302

An ACT prohibiting expectorating or spitting in public places, buildings, theatres, steamboats, railways, and street cars, and other public conveyances, and requiring a sufficient number of spittoons or cuspidors to be provided in smoking compartments and smoking cars when so requested, and also requiring the posting of copies of this act.

Public spaces

Chapter 303

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1904, entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact section 847 of the Code of Virginia,” as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and reenact sections 826, 831, 832, 834, 835, 836, 838, 840, 841, 846, 847, 849, and 850,” and to repeal section 839 of the Code, approved December 31, 1903.

Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 304

An ACT empowering the special board of directors of the eastern State hospital at Williamsburg to sell certain lots now owned by said hospital, and reinvest the money in arable land.

Healthcare, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 305

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 69 and 70 of chapter 148 of the acts of 1902-03-04, entitled “an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution,” approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved December 18, 1903.

Amendments, Business, Taxation

Chapter 306

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to donate the sum of $300 for the completion of payment of contract for the erection of Confederate monument at Princess Anne Court-ouse.

Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 307

An ACT to make the superintendent of public instruction ex-officio a member of the board of visitors of the university of Virginia.

Education

Chapter 308

An ACT upon the subject of county roads, causeways, and bridges, etc., and providing for the further division of counties into road sub-districts; for additional road tax therein; for election and appointment of officers of same, providing for their terms of office, powers, duties, etc., and duties of the State engineer in connection with the carrying into effect of this act.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Judicial, Taxation

Chapter 309

An ACT to provide for the appointment of an auditing committee and to appropriate money to pay the expenses of same.

Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 8 of an act concerning public service corporations

Public expenditures, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 311

An ACT to appropriate money to furnish the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth.

Public expenditures

Chapter 312

An ACT to amend section 12 of the charter of the town of Windsor, Virginia.

Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 313

An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, Virginia, to dispose of the jail lot with the buildings thereon in said city, and to pass title to same.

Jails, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 314

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Jerusalem magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, or corporations, except manufacturers of apple and peach brandy within said district 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 the said district

Alcohol, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 315

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Amherst county to permit the erection on the courthouse square of that county a Confederate hall or other memorial of the soldiers of the Confederate States army.

Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces

Chapter 316

AN ACT to create a harbor board for the waters adjacent to the site of the Jamestown exposition, and to amend and re-enact section 2010 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 26, 1890.

Transportation, Public officers, Business

Chapter 317

An ACT to relieve the south and western railway company from any possible forfeiture of its charter.

Transportation, Business, Amendments

Chapter 318

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, and 14 of the act approved March 12, 1904, relating to the establishment, proper construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair all public roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves, and soforth.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 319

An ACT to amend and reenact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessment of lands and lots as the same was amended and re-enacted by chapter 388 of the acts of assembly 1902-1903-1904, approved December 10, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid act of assembly.

Budget, Property, Taxation, Business, Employment and labor

Chapter 320

An ACT to define and regulate fraternal beneficiary associations, orders, or societies.

Fraternal organizations

Chapter 321

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 185 of 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 February 7, 1903, as further amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact subsection 6 of section 185 of the Code of Virginia,” approved March 12, 1904.

Amendments, Salaries, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 322

An ACT to regulate the erection of toll gates on turnpikes in the State of Virginia.

Transportation

Chapter 323

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 78 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved December the 8th, 1903, entitled 'an act to repeal sections 63 and 66, and to amend and re-enact sections 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, and 85, as amended by an act approved May 26, 1903, of chapter 8 of the Code of Virginia,' in relation to 'duties of registrars; their pay.'

Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 324

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 131 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled an act to raise revenue for the 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, approved February 19, 1904.

Business, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act entitled “an act to raise revenue for the 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.”

Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities, Pensions, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 326

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 11, and 12 of an act entitled “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,” approved March 12, 1904.

Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 327

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30 of chapter 5, of an act entitled “an act concerning corporations,” which became a law on the 21st day of May, 1903.

Amendments, Business, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Property