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1910

Laws in Volume
Displaying 1 - 100 of 366

Chapter 1

An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the General Assembly and to appropriate money for the same.
Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 2

An ACT to authorize any county which shall alone constitute a judicial circuit to increase the salary of the circuit judge.
Judicial, Salaries

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the governor’s staff approved January 11, 1898.
Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 4

An ACT to authorize the Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Virginia, to take possession of certain turnpikes abandoned as such, and now used as county roads in the counties of Loudoun, Fairfax and Alexandria; and also to take possession of a portion of a county road in Fairfax county, and to improve said abandoned turnpikes or county roads, and said portion of a county road, and to convert the same into a modern and high class turnpike for the public convenience, whereon toll may be charged to pay for the construction, operation and maintenance of the same.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 5

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 11, 14 and 17 of an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities.
Municipal charters, Budget, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 6

An ACT providing for the regulation and inspection of public laundries and public washhouses within the cities of the State.
Business, Employment and labor

Chapter 7

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of the Code of Virginia
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 8

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges, and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, and repealing so much of the acts as affect the county of Augusta, approved February 26, 1884; February 19, 1886; February 28, 1890; March 3, 1894, and March 2, 1898, approved February 26, 1900, approved March 14, 1908.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Property

Chapter 9

An ACT to provide for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the city of Roanoke, Virginia.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 10

An ACT to authorize the councils of cities to make allowances or compensation to clerks of corporation or hustings court.
Municipal charters, Salaries

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 11, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia as amended.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend an re-enact section 19 of the Code of Virginia 1887, in regard to exempting land of the United States from taxation, and to exempt the United States from tax deeds.
Taxation

Chapter 13

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to punish as for a misdemeanor a person using abusive language to another
Amendments, Civil Rights, Judicial

Chapter 14

An ACT in relation to certain proper sanitary arrangements to be provided in factories, workshops, mercantile establishments or offices, and imposing penalties for failure to provide such arrangements.
Employment and labor, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Business

Chapter 15

An ACT to extend the time for collecting taxes accounted for by the city and county treasurer, and not returned delinquent.
Taxation

Chapter 16

An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors.
Cemeteries, Confederate, Charity, Public expenditures, Death and burial

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend an re-enact an act entitled an act to empower the circuit court and board of supervisors of any county to authorize and permit the erection of a Confederate monument upon the public square at the county seat thereof
Monuments and memorials, Confederate, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2357 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to how owner may correct mistakes and obtain an inclusive grant for lands.
Property

Chapter 19

An ACT of the general assembly of Virginia that the University of Virginia do accept and be embraced within the benefits of the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching.
Education

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Jonesville, in the county of Lee, approved February 13, 1901, and to provide for the assessment and collection of such taxes as may be deemed proper by the council of the town, and to appropriate money out the taxes so levied and collected and apply the same to the building, improvement or repair of said roads, or the payment of any indebtedness thereon already created on the pike road leading from the town of Jonesville to Ben Hur and known as the Jonesville and Ben Hur pike, and to issue certificates of indebtedness for the purpose of building, repairing or improving said road or any of its streets, roads, alleys or sidewalks.
Budget, Business, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 21

An ACT to dedicate as and for a public street or highway, upon certain conditions, a strip of the land composing the southwest corner of the Capitol Square not exceeding fifteen feet at the point of its greatest depth.
Boundaries, Public spaces, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 22

An ACT to provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the city of Newport News.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act of assembly approved February 4, 1890, and by an act approved February 24, 1890, and by an act approved February 24, 1892, and by an act approved January 29, 1894, and by an act approved February 27, 1894, and by an act approved February 12, 1898, and by an act approved February 15, 1901, and by an act approved March 15, 1904, and by an act approved February 29, 1908, in relation to appointment of commissioners in chancery.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 24

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State, approved February 25, 1908.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Property, Transportation

Chapter 26

An ACT to authorize the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of “gravity water bonds” and to authorize the issuance by said city of not more than $125,000 of said bonds, if a majority of those voting vote in favor of such issuance.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 27

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authoriz-
Amendments, Budget, Business, Debt, Property, Taxation

Chapter 28

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May 20, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 3, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2229 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certificates to be issued by the clerk with marriage licenses, the return to be made by persons celebrating the marriage.
Marriage, Civil Rights, Judicial

Chapter 29

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 46 of article 4 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 30

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment of section 110 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 31

An ACT to establish the Virginia State epileptic colony.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Public expenditures, Segregation

Chapter 32

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, to purchase the highway toll bridge across the Dan and Staunton rivers, at Clarksville, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, and to declare and maintain the same as a free bridge.
Transportation

Chapter 33

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 814 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 10, 1903, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 17, 1903.
Amendments, Bonds, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 34

An ACT to enable incorporated towns and cities to contribute to the building or improvement of public roads and bridges leading to such towns or cities.
Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 14 of chapter 1, sections 1 and 6 of chapter 2, section 1 of chapter 3, sections 2 and 7 of chapter 4, and section 7 of chapter 5 of the act concerning corporations,
Amendments, Business, Incorporation, Public officers, Property, Utilities

Chapter 36

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Clarksville, Virginia, to purchase the outstanding bridge certificates issued by the said town of Clarksville and secured by deed of trust on the steel toll bridge across the Dan and Staunton rivers at Clarksville, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, the approaches appurtenant thereto, and the tolls and revenues therefrom, and to cancel and retire the same.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 37

An ACT to provide for an election by the qualified voters of Waverly magisterial district, of Sussex county, Virginia, to determine whether or not intoxicating liquors shall be sold in any manner within the bounds of said district, and if the result of said election is against the sale of liquor, to abolish the dispensary in said district, or if the result be in favor of the sale of liquor, to preserve the present law therein. And to provide for biennial elections in said district on said questions.
Alcohol

Chapter 38

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Suffolk to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 39

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437a of chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, relating to assessments of lands, lots and interests therein, and improvements thereon, as the same has been heretofore amended by chapter 319, Acts of 1906.
Amendments, Business, Property, Taxation

Chapter 40

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 50 of article four of the Constitution of Virginia.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Taxation, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 41

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment of sections 119 and 120 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 42

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3801 of the Code of Virginia relating to the loading, unloading, running and transportation of railroad trains on Sunday.
Transportation

Chapter 43

An ACT to authorize any county in the State, in the discretion of its local read authorities, to use its apportionment of State money aid appropriated for the improvement of public roads in the construction of bridges, and providing how such money shall be expended.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend an re-enact section 925 of chapter 42 of the Code of the Virginia, as amended by act approved March 5, 1908.
Public officers, Municipal charters, Jails, Public spaces, Judicial

Chapter 45

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1767 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts of 1906, chapter 134, who may practice dentistry.
Healthcare, Education, Amendments

Chapter 46

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor for the improvement of public roads
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 47

An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the counties of the State.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 48

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Salem.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Fire fighters, Public spaces, Budget, Gambling

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to who are exempt from jury service.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Public expenditures, Civil Rights

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 446 of the Code, as here- tofore amended, in reference to the compensation of land assessors.
Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 51

An ACT to amend and renact section 3059 of the Code, as amended by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, 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, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1908, as to the times for holding regular terms of the courts in the several circuits, and giving jurisdiction to courts during recess, whether adjourned for the purpose of opening or holding another term, or part or portion, there or otherwise, which the judges of the circuit courts now have in vacation.
Judicial

Chapter 52

An ACT for the relief of the estate of James E. Phillips, deceased.
Public expenditures, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 37, 38 and 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, approved April 16, 1903, with reference to fees on charters of domestic corporations and fees on foreign corporations authorized to do business in this State, and to add a section thereto designated as section 38a.
Business, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation, Utilities

Chapter 54

An ACT to provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the county of Elizabeth City, or of portions thereof.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 55

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Business, Property, Public officers

Chapter 56

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville and to repeal its present charter.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Business, Employment and labor

Chapter 57

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $2,845 to pay deficit in the cost of buildings at the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind.
Education

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 43 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and 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 April 16, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1904, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 59

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper, approved January 25, 1898, and as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1906, and as amended and approved March 14, 1908.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Gordonsville, approved July 9, 1870, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, as amended by an act approved February 7, 1894, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1898, adding an additional section thereto.
Incorporation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Pensions, Public officers, Charity

Chapter 61

An ACT to require all water companies, heat, light and power companies and gas companies to pay a franchise tax, a property tax, and to furnish certain reports to the State corporation commission.
Utilities, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 62

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to borrow the sum of $80,000 to be used in building a new courthouse and in building bridges in each of the magisterial districts of said county, and, for that purpose, to issue the bonds of the county for the said sum of $80,000.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 63

An ACT to authorize cities of this State to make additional allowance or compensation to commissioners of the revenue.
Budget, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 64

An ACT amending sections 2 and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of the Gravel Spring Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Frederick county, to receive a donation of $1,000 and invest the same
Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 65

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the collection of taxes and levies, funds, securities, moneys and other property under the control of the fiduciaries and the several courts of the Commonwealth, incorporated into the Code of Virginia, 1904, as section 492b, so as to provide for the collection of taxes and levies on such funds in the hands of the fiduciaries not held by or under the control of any court.
Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 66

An ACT to require the reporting of cases of infectious, contagious, communicable and dangerous disease to boards of health.
Healthcare

Chapter 67

An ACT to authorize the school board of Tanner’s Creek magisterial district, No. 6, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $50,000 in amount.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 68

An ACT to authorize the school board of Butts’ Road magisterial district, No. 4, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $5,600 in amount.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 69

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437 of the Code of Virginia having reference to the periodical appointment of assessors to assess lands and lots, as amended by subsequent acts.
Amendments, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 70

An ACT to authorize the school board of Washington magisterial district, No. 5, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $40,000 in amount.
Education, Bonds

Chapter 71

An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved December 19, 1822, entitled an act declaring the Cowpasture River a public highway.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 72

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 30 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
Municipal charters, Public officers, Public spaces, Business

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to authorize the town of Cape Charles, in Northampton county, to issue bonds and borrow money thereon, for the purpose of erecting and equipping a public school building in and for the said town.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 74

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1752 of the Code of Virginia regulating the practice of medicine and surgery.
Healthcare, Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 75

Amendments, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 76

An ACT to repeal an act passed to provide for making or repairing division fences between coterminous landowners in the county Russell
Agriculture, Property, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 77

An ACT to authorize and empower the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, Virginia, to sell and dispose of the lot of land situated on the west side of England street, in said city, known as a part of Ireland street, and to pass title to same.
Property, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 78

An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, Virginia, to sell and dispose of the lot of land situated on Francis street, in said city, known as the “colored school lot,” and to pass title on same.
Education, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 79

An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds to establish water works to furnish a supply of water, and to create a board of commissioners to establish such system of water works.
Bonds, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 80

An ACT to authorize the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to issue coupons or registered bonds of the city for the purpose of enabling the city to appropriate $20,000 cash toward the establishment at or near the city of a State normal and industrial school for women.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1900, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 84 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896.
Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 82

An ACT to provide, with certain conditions, a site for the erection of a Confederate memorial institute on a portion of the land in the western section of the city of Richmond, now the property of the State, and known as the Soldiers’ Home property.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 83

An ACT to direct the board of charities and corrections to ascertain the facts concerning the weak-minded, other than insane and epileptic, in the State of Virginia.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare

Chapter 84

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to borrow the sum of $80,000, to be used in building a new courthouse and in building bridges in each of the magisterial districts of said county
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 85

An ACT to authorize the district school board of Grafton school district, of York county, Virginia, to borrow the sum of $4,000, and to issue bonds therefor, for the building and equipment of a new high school building in said district.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 86

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of New London academy to lease said buildings to county superintendents of schools of Bedford and Campbell counties for school purposes, approved May 10, 1887, and authorizing the trustees of the New London academy to convey the real and personal property vested in them to the county school boards of Bedford and Campbell counties, and providing for the maintenance and management of the academy.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 87

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1957 of the Code of Virginia, entitled examination of pilots.
Transportation

Chapter 88

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia,
Amendments, Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 89

An ACT to repeal 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, approved February 15, 1901, and all acts amendatory thereof.
Alcohol

Chapter 90

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1902, entitled an act requiring notaries within this State to affix to certificates of acknowledgment hereafter taken by them upon writings which are admitted to record the date when their terms of office shall expire so as to provide for showing a change of name in certain cases.
Amendments, Marriage

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 890 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted as follows.
Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 92

An ACT to authorize the school board of Deep Creek magisterial district, No. 2, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor,
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 93

An ACT to provide that the book of entries and surveys of the several counties of the State shall be kept In the clerk’s office or other safe place, and providing penalties for failure to do so.
Property, Public officers

Chapter 94

An ACT to authorize the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 1, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $50,000 in amount.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 95

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 of an act to put into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment and organization of the State corporation commission: its jurisdiction, powers, functions and duties; the qualifications of the members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its offices, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders, findings and judgments, and its expenses, etc.
Incorporation

Chapter 96

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roads of the county of Tazewell, approved February 24, 1888, etc., and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in the said county, approved February 29, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 27, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 17, 1901; and to provide for the distribution and disbursement of all funds, accrued under said act, as amended and re-enacted, which have not been expended for the purposes provided therein, and to provide for maintaining and improving the roads of Tazewell county.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Business

Chapter 97

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a retirement fund for public school teachers
Pensions, Education, Public officers

Chapter 98

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1438 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to public free schools for counties and the literary fund.
Education

Chapter 99

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 470 of the Code of Virginia.
Property, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 100

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to establish and construct, as a State money aid road, the Broadway and Brock’s Gap public highway; to issue and sell bonds of the county of Rockingham to the extent of one-half of the estimated cost of such road, and to establish and charge tolls upon such road for the purpose of paying off such bonds, in lieu of the assessment of tax for such purpose.
Budget, Bonds, Transportation
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