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1912

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-one (21) of the charter of the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874, to validate and confirm all bonds heretofore issued by the town, and to authorize the mayor and the council of the town to issue bonds to the amount of seventy-five thousand dollars for the purpose of supplying the town with water.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Utilities

Chapter 2

An ACT for the protection of wild turkeys, pheasants. grouse, quail, partridges, woodcocks, hares (or rabbits), and squirrels.
Wildlife

Chapter 3

An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.
Budget

Chapter 4

An ACT to declare that when offices held by persons who may be or have become adjudged to be lunatics or insane shall be vacant and how such vacancies shall be filled.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 5

An ACT to appropriate forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of paving to the several Confederate pensioners on the rolls the ten per centum deducted from their nineteen hundred and eleven pensions.
Pensions, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 6

An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, in Tazewell county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Judicial

Chapter 7

An ACT to amend chapter 412. Acts 1887 and 1888, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Estillville (now Gate City), in the county of Scott, approved March 5, 1888, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1892, as amended by an act approved February 9, 1898.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Budget, Amendments

Chapter 8

An ACT to amend and re-enact the act in effect February 17, 1900, regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases.
Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law), Healthcare, Transportation

Chapter 9

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 58 of the Acts of 1889 and 1890, approved February 11, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, entitled an act to provide for the appointment of assistant commissioners of accounts and to define their duties and powers.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 10

An ACT to authorize any city, town or county of this Commonwealth to use the waters of Lake Drummond for the purpose of a supply of water to itself or its inhabitants, and to acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise sufficient lands along the shores of said lake and water, and water rights for the establishment of its water works, pumping stations and other necessary works.
Utilities, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 11

An ACT providing for remedy by motion after thirty days’ notice for any tort; when notice to be returned to clerk’s office; provision to prevent discontinuance of the motion.
Civil Rights, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Property

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to authorize supervisors of each county and the council of each city to make a special levy for the support and maintenance of maimed and disabled Confederate soldiers or the needy and indigent widows of Confederate soldiers in their respective counties and cities.
Amendments, Charity, Confederate, Pensions

Chapter 13

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2197 of the Code of Virginia in relation to burial of hogs that died from disease, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 30, 1890, and by an act approved February 1, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing penalties for violation thereof, approved March 15, 1904, making the act apply to animals or fowls dying from any disease.
Agriculture, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 14

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, Death and burial, Charity

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 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, approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1908, and as further amended by an act approved March 12, 1908.
Taxation, Pensions, Public expenditures

Chapter 16

An ACT to give concurrent jurisdiction to the circuit court of any county within which is situated any city which has undergone transition from a city of the second class to a city of the first class since the present Constitution went into effect, with the corporation court of such city in all actions at law and suits in equity until a separate circuit court for such city shall be established.
Judicial

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 655 of chapter 28 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, entitled “when deed to be made to purchaser; clerk to make it; what to contain; fee of clerk,” as amended by an act approved March 16, 1910.
Property, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia
Amendments, Budget, Business, Civil Rights, Education, Employment and labor, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Pensions, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Utilities, Voting

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2920 of the Code of Virginia in reference to limitations of personal actions.
Amendments, Judicial, Property

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize cities to create, improve and develop harbors within the corporate limits, or within two miles thereof, approved March 16, 1910, and to authorize the issuance of bonds therefor, and to give jurisdiction over the same.
Amendments, Bonds, Business, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 21

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law on May 21, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1910, entitled an act to amend section 4 of chapter 4 of an act concerning corporations.
Amendments, Business, Cemeteries, Incorporation

Chapter 22

An ACT to authorize the town of Pocahontas, in Tazewell county, to sell and convey the fee in the part of a certain street.
Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1014a of the Code of Virginia, entitled extension of the corporate limits of cities and towns
Amendments, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 24

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19, 19-d, 26, 28, 29, 30, concerning the procedure necessary to recover and the liability on bonds given by municipal officers for the faithful discharge of their duties and creating an administrative board and defining their duties, and to amend and re-enact sections 31, 37, 47, 62, 68 and 64 of an act approved March 24, 1870, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Business, Jails, Public officers, Public expenditures, Property, Transportation

Chapter 25

An ACT to provide reasonable compensation for the boards of road commissioners of the respective magisterial districts of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds issued by said county, for their services in directing or supervising the expenditure of the fund thus provided for permanent road or bridge improvement in their respective magisterial districts.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 26

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Isle of Wight county to build a bridge across Jones creek.
Transportation

Chapter 27

An ACT prohibiting the direction of verdicts; to what cases applicable.
Judicial

Chapter 28

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 117 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Property

Chapter 29

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1103-b of the Code of Virginia, to enable certain mining and manufacturing corporations of other States or countries to conduct operations in this State.
Business, Industry, Property

Chapter 30

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 $20,000.00 in amount.
Education, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 31

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for instruction in agriculture, domestic arts and sciences and manual training in public high schools
Agriculture, Education

Chapter 32

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 5 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations
Business, Bonds, Legislative Amendments, Incorporation

Chapter 33

An ACT to require the clerks of the Supreme Court of Appeals, at its various places of session, to mail to the law librarian of the University of Virginia copies of all printed briefs and records filed in said court.
Education, Judicial, Libraries

Chapter 34

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the compensation of supervisors.
Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8&5 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 14 1908, relative to the duties and powers of the boards of supervisor of the several counties of the State, approved March 16, 1910.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Charity, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 36

An ACT to authorize the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 1, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow $81,600.00 for the purpose of refunding bonds issued by authority of Acts of the General Assembly, approved February 16, 1901; March 8, 1906; February &, 1908; March 12, 1908, and March 4, 1910, and also an additional $20,000.00 for the purpose of school improvements in said district.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 37

An ACT to authorize the town of Cape Charles, in Northampton county, to issue bonds and borrow money thereon for the purpose of erecting, equipping and operating a plant for the manufacture, distribution and sale of electricity.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 38

An ACT to authorize the town of Cape Charles, in Northampton county, to issue bonds and borrow money thereon for the purpose of funding or redeeming certain outstanding bonds known as water bonds, maturing on the 11th day of May, A. D. 1916, and to extend and improve the water or sewer systems of the said town.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 39

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

Chapter 40

An ACT to provide for the resubmission to the people for approval and ratification of the proposed amendments to section 119 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia, in relation to commissioners of the revenue in the cities, and section 120 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia, in relation to treasurers in the cities, in order that there may be a separate vote of the people on each of said proposed amendments.
Amendments, Voting, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 41

An ACT authorizing the council of the city of Radford, Virginia, to have issued and sold bonds of the city of Radford, Virginia, to the amount of $35,000.00 for general public improvements for school purposes.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 42

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act relating to demurrers to evidence
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 43

An ACT to require the licensing and adequate inspection and supervision of persons and corporations conducting maternity hospitals and lying-in asylums, and of persons receiving, boarding and keeping children, not relatives; prescribing rules for placing out and for reports; penalty.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3058 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the General Assembly, approved on the 26th day of December, 1903, so as to give to courts of equity jurisdiction to remove clouds from title to real estate where the complainant is not in possession, or where the complainant has the equitable right to the legal title.
Judicial, Property

Chapter 45

An ACT to protect fish in the waters of Roanoke city, Roanoke county and Montgomery county.
Fishing

Chapter 46

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 824 of the Code of Virginia relating to the approval of title to real estate for public uses.
Property, Public officers, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 47

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 1 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law May 21, 1903, with reference to the decrease of outstanding capital stock.
Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 48

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county, approved February 21, 1898.
Amendments, Transportation

Chapter 49

An ACT to authorize the town of Eastville, in Northampton county, to issue bonds and to borrow money for the purpose of paying the balance due for completing the work of macadamizing the roads or streets through the town.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 30, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1910, in regard to prohibiting the killing of fish in Clinch river, in the county of Russell, with dynamite or other explosives and poisons, and to prescribe a punishment therefor.
Fishing

Chapter 51

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 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
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 525 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Budget, Property, Public officers

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 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 February 21, 1908.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 336 of Acts 1908, entitled an act to provide for submitting the question of the removal of the courthouse of any county to the qualified voters of such county, and in the event such removal is voted, to authorize the board of supervisors to acquire necessary land and erect buildings, and to empower councils of towns, when authorized by the vote of the people of such town, to issue bonds, the money derived from the sale of which may be donated as an inducement for the location of the county courthouse.
Amendments, Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 55

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1898, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, which latter act was further amended by an act approved March 16, 1910, which said amendment and the amendment herein contained being for the purpose of authorizing the board of supervisors of said county to work and improve the public roads of said county, expend any surplus money on the roads and bridges of said county and cues the erection of toll gates on certain roads in said county for the e of raising revenue to maintain and build, macadamize an ‘ot erwise permanently improve roads in said county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget, Taxation

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 38, 42, 45, 47, 53, 54, 55, 60, 79, 80, 81, 82, 87, 88, 99, 101, of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled an aet to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial, Property, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 57

An ACT to prohibit the opening, repairing or maintaining of any street or alley through, on or over any lands within any of the cities or towns of this Commonwealth, which belongs to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to the Confederate Memorial Association, or any agency of the State.
Confederate, Public spaces, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitled ‘fan act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed forty-five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force, and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
Amendments, Armed forces, Labor, Prisons, Transportation

Chapter 59

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1906, entitled “an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony,” as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony approved February 27, 1906.
Amendments, Armed forces, Labor, Prisons, Forced labor, Judicial

Chapter 60

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county and the town of Lexington, or either of them, to contribute such sum as in the judgment of the board of supervisors or the town council, may seem proper for the benefit of the Jackson Memorial Hospital in the town of Lexington, Virginia.
Healthcare

Chapter 61

An ACT fixing the strength of bridges in county of Franklin
Transportation

Chapter 62

An ACT.to amend and re-enact chapter 14, of acts 1910, entitled an act in relation to certain proper sanitary arrangements to be provided in factories, workshops, merchantile establishments or offices, and imposing penalties for failure to provide such arrangements
Employment and labor, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 63

An ACT to prevent the killing of robins
Wildlife

Chapter 64

An ACT in relation to proceedings against and the liquidation of delinquent insurance corporations.
Business, Judicial, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 65

An ACT to provide a reserve for outstanding liability losses of insurance companies transacting the business of insuring any one against loss or damage resulting from accident to, or injury suffered by, an employee or other person, for which the person is liable.
Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 66

An ACT to authorize the ascertainment of taxes due upon real estate.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 67

An ACT to prohibit the use of the name, photograph or likeness of any deceased officer of the Confederate army or navy as the name, brand, trademark or trade name for any intoxicating liquor or beverage, and providing penalty for violation.
Alcohol, Confederate, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 68

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3737 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to “forgery, uttering, etc., and how punished.”
Judicial, Prisons

Chapter 69

An ACT to permit the county of Rockingham, through its board of supervisors, to accept donations and trusts made for benevolent or charitable objects of a public character within its territorial limits, and to perform such conditions and execute such trusts as may be connected with the same.
Charity, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 and section 8 of an act entitled, “an act to constitute the town of Warrenton and surrounding territory a separate school district,” approved March 14, 1878
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 71

An ACT to prevent deception in the sale of ice cream and to establish standards for the same, defining condensed milk and providing for its sale.
Business, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 72

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1573, Code of Virginia of 1904, providing for the officers of the institute to be part of the militia, and commissioned.
Armed forces, Education

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county," approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act entitled '"an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, approved March the 9th, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereof," approved February the 29th, 1892, as further amended by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county, approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, approved March 9, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereof, approved February 29, 1892, and to add an independent section and power in the town council of said town to negotiate a loan not to exceed $5,000.00," approved March 5, 1896.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Judicial

Chapter 74

An ACT to authorize the ascertainment and designation of the boundary line of real estate.
Boundaries, Property, Judicial

Chapter 75

An ACT to facilitate the development of the resources of the State by providing ways of ingress and egress for mining, manufacturing and timber cutting, and to authorize proper passways, tram-roads, haulroads and other means of transportation over the lands of another or others.
Transportation, Property, Business, Industry, Public spaces

Chapter 76

An ACT to prohibit any person or persons without authority from hypnotizing or mesmerizing or attempting to hypnotize or mesmerize any persons or persons and to prohibit any person or persons from consenting to be hypnotized or mesmerized or attempting to be hypnotized or mesmerized.
Unclassified

Chapter 77

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3704 of the Code of Virginia of 1887.
Amendments

Chapter 78

An ACT regulating policies insuring against accidental bodily injury or disease issued in this State, and the companies issuing
Healthcare, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1913 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the standard of cord measure and of agricultural products.
Agriculture

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 2 and section 2 of chapter 6 of an act entitled, ‘‘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,”
Amendments, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 81

An ACT to authorize the county of Louisa, Virginia, to borrow temporarily not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars.
Budget, Public expenditures, Debt, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 82

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of the charter of the city of Suffolk as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 83

An ACT to provide that the status of a bank as a State depository shall not be affected by a change of the name or merger of such bank with another bank, or because it shall be converted into a national bank.
Business, Bonds, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 84

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
Amendments, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 85

An ACT to amend and re-enact section three thousand and fifty-seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and also to amend and re-enact section three thousand and fifty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled an act to repeal sections, three thousand and sixty-three, three thousand and sixty-five, three thousand and sixty-six, three thousand and sixty-seven, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections three thousand fifty-six, three thousand and fifty-seven, three thousand and fifty-eight, three thousand and fifty-nine, three thousand and sixty and three thousand and sixty-two 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, 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, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and as further amended by an act approved February 26, 1910.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 86

An ACT to re-enact section 50 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to representation of the State in the congress of the United states
Legislative Amendments, Voting, Boundaries

Chapter 87

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3533 of the Code of Virginia.
Legislative Amendments, Law Enforcement, Salaries

Chapter 88

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 788 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the report of the auditor of public accounts.
Budget, Taxation

Chapter 89

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of LaCrosse, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, which took effect February 15, 1901.
Amendments, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 90

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the counties of Essex and King William to sell and convey unto the Richmond, Washington and Chesapeake Bay Railway Company a right of way through the poor house farms in the said counties.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 91

An ACT to authorize the School Board of Jerusalem Magisterial District, Southampton county, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose to pay off school indebtedness in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $12,000.00 in amount.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 92

An ACT to prevent the catching of fish by gill nets or seines in the rivers and streams of the county of Rockbridge.
Fishing

Chapter 93

An ACT to establish the Pulaski County Confederate home.
Confederate, Charity, Death and burial

Chapter 94

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1582, Chapter 69, of the Code of Virginia relating to State Cadets in the Virginia Military Institute.
Education, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Amendments

Chapter 95

An ACT to amend section 437a of an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessments of land and lots approved December 10, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act to amend and re-enact section 437a of an act approved December 10th, 1903, amending and re-enacting chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to assessment of lands and lots so that the said section shall apply to and provide for the assessment of standing timber trees and to make the same retrospective as to certain assessments approved February 21st, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the assessment of lands and lots as the same was amended and reenacted by chapter 388 of Acts of assembly 1902-34, approved December 10th, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid act of assembly approved March 17th, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act to amend and re-enact section 437a of an act entitled 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 reenacted by chapter 388 of the acts of assembly of 1902-3-4, approved December 10, 1903, and to validate assessments and other acts done under the aforesaid acts of assembly approved March 17th, 1906, so that said section shall apply to and provide for the assessment of standing timber trees, approved March 12th, 1908, as amended and reenacted by an act to amend and reenact section 437a of chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia relating to assessment of lands, lots and interest therein and improvements thereon as the same has been heretofore amended by chapter 319 acts of 1906, approved February 19th, 1910.
Property, Taxation, Amendments, Industry

Chapter 96

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Nottoway to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to continue the improvement of the public roads of the said county.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 97

An ACT conferring upon the councils of cities having, by the fast United States census, a population of more than sixty thousand, and cities within five miles thereof the power to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, lease or otherwise, the property, in whole or in part, of any private or public service corporation operating a waterworks system, or chartered for the purpose of acquiring or operating such a system; and providing for condemnation proceedings in regard thereto.
Municipal charters

Chapter 98

An ACT to amend section 3 of an act approved March 38, 1892, entitled “An act making an annual appropriation to the Confederate soldiers’ home, and in consideration therefor accepting a conveyance from R. E. Lee camp No. 1, Confederate veterans, of the property owned by it and now used for said home, so as to extend the time when the possession and control of the property conveyed in the deed from said R. E. Lee camp No. 1, Confederate veterans, to the Commonwealth of Virginia, duted March 24, 1892, shall pass from the grantor to the grantee in said deed.
Amendments, Confederate, Public expenditures, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 99

An ACT to amend the divorce practice in the State of Virginia and to provide for the mailing of a copy of the order of publication against non-resident defendants to his or her last known place of address by registered mail at least fifteen days before the taking of depositions
Divorce, Civil Rights, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 100

An ACT to provide how further proceedings are to be had on the judgment of a justice of the peace, or of the mayor of a corporation, from which an appeal has been allowed when the appeal is dismissed.
Judicial
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