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1912

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 349

Chapter 101

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county to expend the amount received from levy or tax on the railroad trackage and right of way in such magisterial district, or districts, as it may deem advisable, just and equitable.
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 102

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled: “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.”
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public expenditures, Public officers, Education, Healthcare, Public spaces, Cemeteries, Death and burial, Labor, Alcohol, Vagrancy, Civil Rights, Transportation

Chapter 103

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Clinton Grange, No. 220, an order of farmers in the county of Cumberland, to make sale of the property held by them and divide the proceeds among the members of said order.
Agriculture

Chapter 104

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections four, five, seven and eight of section 184 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 24, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sub-sections four, five, six, seven, eiyht and nine of section 184 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled "An act to amend and re-enact sub-section 184 concerning the salary of members and officers of the general assembly, approved March 6, 1900, and as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact title eight of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage and other allowances, approved February 7, 1903.
Legislative Amendments, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 105

An ACT concerning railroad companies in which, or in the stock or securities of which, the Commonwealth owns, or is entitled to, any proprietary rights or interest.
Transportation, Business, Public officers, Amendments, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 106

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about railroads shops, coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories, the payment of wages at regular intervals and in lawful money of the United States.
Employment and labor, Labor, Business

Chapter 107

An ACT to change the time of holding the town election of the town of Branchville in Southampton county, Virginia, and extending the term of office of the present officers of said town.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 108

An ACT to provide for the payment to the Richmond Press of the balance due them for printing the Index to enrolled bills.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 109

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled 'An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax.'
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Jails, Judicial

Chapter 110

An ACT to provide for the sale of estates of freehold in land, and such estates in personal property as would be estates of freehold, if they were estates in land, taken by deed, will or other writings, to any person, with limitation therein, by way of remainder to his 'heirs,' or 'heirs of his body,' or 'issue,' or other words of like import, and the investment of the proceeds of such sales for the use and benefit of the person so holding the estate, subject to such limitation.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 111

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of the charter of the town of Manassas, Virginia.
Bonds, Business, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 112

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1835, providing a charter for the town of Bridgewater, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1884, and as amended by an act approved August 26, 1884, and as further amended by an act approved February 16, 1901, and all other acts heretofore passed amendatory of said charter.
Municipal charters, Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Employment and labor, Alcohol, Healthcare, Public spaces, Recreation, Jails, Judicial

Chapter 113

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled, “An act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Henrico county to require osage orange hedges bordering on public roads of said county to be trimmed by owners of such hedges and to impose a fine for failure to comply,” which became a law December 20, 1897, by enlarging the powers of the said Board of Supervisors.
Public spaces, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 114

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 8 of the charter of the city of Lynchburg, providing for the creation and investment of a sinking fund by the said city, as amended by an act of April 2, 1902.
Budget, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 115

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 509 of the Code of Virginia in reference to Commissioners of the Revenue extending levies and taxes; compensation therefor.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Budget, Amendments

Chapter 116

An ACT to prescribe a fence law for Fork Magisterial District of Warren county.
Fence Laws, Boundaries, Agriculture

Chapter 117

An ACT to permit the directors of the Western State Hospital to sell and dispose of a right of way over a tract of land belonging to said hospital.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Transportation, Healthcare

Chapter 118

An ACT to prohibit driving and riding on side-walks in unincorporated towns and villages.
Public spaces, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 119

An ACT to provide for the payment to Weymouth, Meister & Smethie of the balance due them for binding the index to enrolled bills.
Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 120

An ACT to pay D. D. Talley and W. A. Crenshaw for extra services rendered by them as assistant assessors of real estates for the city of Richmond during the year 1910.
Budget, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 121

An ACT to amend and re-enact subdivision 25 of an act entitled "An act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain"
Amendments, Public officers, Property, Judicial

Chapter 122

An ACT to require the board of bridge commissioners of the Falmouth Bridge in the county of Stafford to let out the collecting of tolls and keeping of said bridge to the highest bidder.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 123

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county, approved March 5, 1900.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget, Property

Chapter 124

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 37 and 39 of the charter of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, as amended by an act of the general Assembly of Virginia approved February 20, 1871; by an act approved March 22, 1871; by an act approved March 17, 1876; by an act approved March 20, 1877; by an act approved January 25, 1879; by an act approved March 1, 1888; by an act approved February 25, 1892; and by acts approved February 26, 1894; March 1, 1894; March 8, 1894; February 27, 1896; March 3, 1896; March 4, 1896; and by an act approved February 7, 1898.
Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 125

An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act to incorporate the town of Elba, Pittsylvania county, approved February 2, 1901, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1901.
Municipal charters

Chapter 126

An ACT providing for the enactment of concurrent legislation regarding the fish and shellfish industry in the Potomac river in accordance with the compact entered into between the States of Maryland and Virginia on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-five, and to repeal all acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Fishing

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1894, entitled “an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Nelson county,” as amended by an act approved February 26, 1896, and as further amended by an act approved March
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation, Property

Chapter 128

An ACT to reimburse W. C. Parks and others, district road commissioners for Washington county, for advancing certain funds for local public road improvements on account of a deficiency in the State convict road force fund.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Prisons, Labor

Chapter 129

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act entitled "an act to amend an act and re-enact an act entitled 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," approved March 14, 1904; approved March 8, 1906; approved March 14, 1908.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 130

An ACT to make it a misdemeanor to borrow money from sales tobacco warehousemen upon a written promise or pledge to sell tobacco with said sales tobacco warehousemen, and thereafter fail to comply with such written promise or pledge.
Agriculture

Chapter 131

An ACT to amend and re-enact fifth sub-division of section 834e¢ of the Code of Virginia authorizing the board of supervisors of each county in the State to levy a tax on dogs and to enforce collection of said tax, with certain penalties in case of failure to pay the same.
Taxation

Chapter 132

An ACT to pay John A. Bailey seventy-five dollars, being the amount of a judgment rendered by the circuit court of the city of Richmond in favor of John A. Bailey, and against the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Budget, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 133

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, affecting the control of its fire and health departments.
Amendments, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 134

An ACT to allow the erection of a fountain in the city of Alexandria, by the Mount Vernon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and to authorize the city council of Alexandria, to grant permission for such erection.
Public spaces, Cemeteries, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 135

An ACT to amend an act approved January 25, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1906, and as further amended by an act approved February 21, 1908, so as to add a new section thereto to be known as section 151-2 providing for an election in said county on the question of borrowing money and issuing bonds therefor for improving the roads in Catalpa magisterial district in such county, including the town of Culpeper, and defining the effect thereof.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 136

An ACT to authorize the city council of Fredericksburg to issue its coupon or registered bonds for the purpose of improving its streets in said city.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 137

An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively on the 28th day of February, 1913, and the 28th day of February, 1914
Budget, Public expenditures, Pensions, Education, Healthcare, Judicial, Labor, Agriculture, Reformatories, Civil Rights, Death and burial, Utilities, Transportation, Property

Chapter 138

An ACT to make valid and effective the recordation of deeds of corporations conveying property real or personal, heretofore or hereafter executed, and heretofore or hereafter recorded, in pursuance of resolutions of the boards of directors of such corporations authorizing such execution by their presidents and secretaries, when executed by such officers signing the corporate names and affixing and attesting the corporate seals respectively or jointly, and when such deeds have been or may be recorded upon the certificates of acknowledgment of the presidents only.
Business, Property

Chapter 139

An ACT in relation to the assessment for local taxation of the rolling stock of railroad corporations.
Transportation, Taxation, Business

Chapter 140

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of 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
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 141

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Kenbridge, in the county of Lunenburg, and to repeal an act approved March 14, 1908, incorporating the town of Kenbridge, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Property, Budget, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 142

An ACT to provide for the removal of the remains of General Henry Lee from the State of Georgia, and re-inter the same at some appropriate place in Virginia, and to appropriate funds for the purpose.
Monuments and memorials, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 143

An ACT to continue and extend an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled 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, and also to direct the said board of charities and corrections to ascertain, investigate and report to the next general assembly of Virginia, as to the propriety of providing surgical aid and treatment to the deformed, crippled and disfigured persons of the commonwealth who are too poor to provide such treatment for themselves, and to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars for the purpose.
Charity, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 11, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1906, entitled 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 Iebruary 20, 1892, entitled an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia, not funded, et cetera, and variously amended January 31, 1894, January 23, 1896, January 25, 1898, February 38, 1900, February 16, 1901, April 2, 1902, March 10, 1906, March 11, 1908, and March 14, 1910, and to authorize the adjudication of the claims of the holders of certain bonds and coupons which have been guaranteed by the Commonwealth, and the funding of the same when so adjudicated.
Amendments, Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 145

An ACT authorizing 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 twenty-five thousand dollars of Town run improvement bonds, and to authorize the issuance by said city of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of said bonds, if a majority of those voting, shall vote in favor of such issuance.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 146

An ACT to empower the council of the town of Chatham, in the county of Pittsylvania, to issue and sell bonds for the purpose of improving the streets, improving the water system and establishing a sewerage system in said town
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 147

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8 and 22, and to repeal sections 16, 17, 18, and 19 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and to macadamize the roads in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question, approved April 2, 1902, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 15, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11, 1910.
Amendments, Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 148

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair of public roads in the counties of Alleghany, Bath and Highland
Transportation

Chapter 149

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly, approved March 4, 1894, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order the public roads of the counties of Greene and Madison, as amended by act approved May 14, 1903, so far as the same applies to Madison county, so as to provide for the opening, constructing, maintaining and working the roads, and keeping in order the causeways and bridges of Madison and Greene counties, and creating the office of superintendent of roads, and prescribing his duties and compensation; and repeal any act in conflict herewith.
Amendments, Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 150

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act approved February 16, 1892, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Shendun, Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 5, 1896, entitled an act to amend section 2 of an act to incorporate the town of Shendun, Virginia, approved February 16, 1892, so as to change the name of the town to Grottoes, and to alter the boundaries thereof.
Incorporation, Boundaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 151

An ACT to amend an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled "An act providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Lunenburg, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in said county," by adding a new section (14-a) thereto, providing for submitting to the qualified voters of the several magisterial districts in Lunenburg county, the question as to the issuance of bonds by such magisterial districts for the construction and repair of the public roads in said magisterial districts.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 152

An ACT to validate and hold firm and binding the receipt, recordation and verification of deeds, orders of probate, fiduciary accounts, and other papers and writings received into the clerk’s offices of the courts of this Commonwealth by the clerks thereof, and transcribed upon the record books in said offices, though the receipt, recordation and verification certificates attached thereto have not received the attesting signatures of the said clerks, and to provide for the attesting and verification of the same.
Property, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 153

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1910, entitled “an act to constitute a united agricultural board to co-ordinate the Virginia college of agriculture and polytechnic institute and the Virginia agricultural experiment station, the commissioner and State board of agriculture and the State board of education, in co-operation with the United States department of agriculture for the betterment of agricultural, experimental and demonstration work, and generally to advance the agricultural interest of this State, and to authorize boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for experimental and demonstration work in their respective counties.”
Agriculture

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to continue in force and again appropriate the ten thousand dollars heretofore appropriated by an act approved March 9, 1908, entitled an act to make an appropriation to provide for the erection of a monument on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa.,; to commemorate the services of Virginia troops in the battle on that field (no part thereof having been expended up to this time); also to approve the design of the monument selected by the committee appointed under said act of March 9, 1908, and to authorize and direct said committee to contract for the erection of said monument and to appropriate the further sum of forty thousand dollars for that purpose.”
Amendments, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 155

An ACT to incorporate the town of Dillwyn, in Buckingham county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation, Alcohol

Chapter 156

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 22, 1871, to incorporate the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, and to provide a new charter for same.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Voting, Property, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Recreation, Healthcare, Utilities, Civil Rights, Education, Employment and labor

Chapter 157

An ACT to provide for designation by cities and towns of segregation districts for residence of white and colored persons; for the adoption of this act by such cities and towns, and for penalties for the violation of its terms.
Segregation, Civil Rights, Municipal charters, Equality before the law

Chapter 158

An ACT to provide for the examination and testing of dairy cattle for controlling tuberculosis, and to appropriate money for expenses thereof.
Agriculture

Chapter 159

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to promote the public health, convenience and welfare by leveeing, ditching, and draining the wet, swamp and overflowed lands of the State, and providing for the establishment of levee or drainage districts for the purpose of enlarging or changing any natural water courses, and for digging ditches, or canals, for securing better drainage, or providing better outlets for drainage, for building levees or embankments, and installing tide gates or pumping plants for the reclamation of overflowed lands, and prescribing a method for so doing; and providing for the assessment and collection of the cost and expense of the same, and issuing and selling bonds therefor; and for the care and maintenance of such improvements when constructed," approved March 17, 1910.
Amendments, Agriculture, Property, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 160

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled ‘tan act to provide the mode of ascertainment of damages in favor of abutting owners where any city or town shall cause injury to property by reason of the grading of any street, alley or other public place belonging to such city or town, and to give to any assessment so made against the city or town the effect of a judgment.
Amendments, Property, Public officers

Chapter 161

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of 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
Transportation

Chapter 162

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to pro-
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation, Property, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 163

An ACT to authorize the State board of education to redeem registered certificate number fifteen, issued under the provision of an act approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and to hold the same as a part of the permanent literary fund.
Education

Chapter 164

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, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1910, 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; and to enlarge the powers of the said board of managers.
Education, Charity, Public expenditures, Children -- Institutional care, Property

Chapter 165

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to provide a new charter for the town of Liberty, to extend its limits and change the name to Bedford City, approved March 38, 1890; and to change the name of the town to Bedford."
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Voting, Taxation, Public officers, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 166

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth,” approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 9, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualifications, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing section seven of chapter two of said city charter.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Civil Rights, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 167

An ACT to consolidate into one act, all acts relating to Confederate pensions, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Pensions, Confederate, Civil Rights, Death and burial

Chapter 168

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1698 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Custody of children

Chapter 169

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain, approved January 18, 1904.
Property, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 170

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'fan act to authorize the judge of any court, police justice, or justice of the peace, in cities of forty thousand inhabitants and over, to continue the case and admit to bail any person brought before him charged with being an habitual drunkard, with failing to support his wife or children, with being a vagrant or an idler able to work, and who is liable to become a charge upon the corporation, and to commit such person to the supervision of an officer to be known as a probation officer; to provide for the appointment and compensation of such probation officer, and to invest him with full police power while in the discharge of his duties,' so as to cover cities of fifteen thousand inhabitants and over.
Amendments, Alcohol, Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 171

An ACT to authorize and empower the present clerk of Goochland county to copy and transmit to the treasurer of said county lists of lands delinquent for taxes for certain years which the previous clerk of said county failed to transmit to the treasurer of said county as required by law, and to authorize the treasurer of said county to make sale of such lands, and to authorize the judge of the circuit court of said county to allow said clerk of the circuit court of Goochland county suitable compensation for making lists aforesaid.
Taxation, Property, Public officers

Chapter 172

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2048 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended by an act of the general assembly, approved December 31, 1903, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2048 of the Code of 1887, as amended by act of the general assembly, approved February 26, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900, so as to provide how the present existing fence law in any county, magisterial district, or selected portion of any county, other than such as now have no fence law, may be changed by the board of supervisors of such county.”
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 173

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to prohibit the granting of charters to banks having a minimum capital stock of less than ten thousand dollars, and providing how the same shall be paid in, and how branches thereof may be authorized, and providing that such banks shall be subject to local taxation in the county, city or town in which such branch is located,” approved March 16, 1910.
Taxation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 174

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to license and regulate the sale and inspection of condimental stock and poultry foods and powders intended for domestic animals and poultry,”
Agriculture, Business, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 175

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, ete., and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads of 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 as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 8, 1910; 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, Property, Business

Chapter 176

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1041-a of the Code of Virginia, 1904, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1910, entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 1041l-a of the Code of Virginia, 1904, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1041-a of the Code of Virginia, 1904, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 10438 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns."
Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 177

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections four, twelve, the first sub-section of section twenty-three, sections fifty-three and seventy-six of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and eight, in reference to the time of election of councilmen, the number of councilmen, the power to establish and enlarge water works, printing of ordinances, the pay of councilmen and other city officers, and to add to the said charter a new section, to be known as section thirty-two-a, in reference to the issue of bonds.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Bonds, Salaries, Pensions, Public officers

Chapter 178

An ACT concerning coal mines and safety of employees, creating a department and inspector of mines under the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics.
Employment and labor, Healthcare, Public officers, Judicial, Civil Rights, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 179

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3397 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to special commissioners of sale.
Property, Judicial, Business

Chapter 180

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Warrenton, in the county of Fauquier, at a special election to be held therefor, when the town council so directs, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Warrenton, and in the event of a majority of those voting at said election for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter within said town, or within one mile of its limits, the sale, barter or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms or corporations, except as provided herein.
Alcohol, Gambling, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 181

An ACT to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the State of Virginia, by means of certificates of births and deaths, and burial or removal permits; to require prompt returns to the bureau of vital statistics at the capital of the State, as required to be established by the State board of health; to insure the thorough organization and efficiency of the registration of vital statistics throughout the State; to provide certain penalties; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Cemeteries, Death and burial, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 182

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to sell or rent a farm containing five hundred acres, situated at Saxe, in Bacon magisterial district, Charlotte county, Virginia, and directing the disposition of the proceeds thereof.
Agriculture, Bonds, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 183

An ACT fixing the salaries of judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, whose terms of office commence on or after the first day of February, 1915.
Judicial

Chapter 184

An ACT to amend section thirty-seven of an act approved January cleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, Virginia, as further amended by an act approved March the third, nineteen hundred and six.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Transportation

Chapter 185

An ACT to provide for the reeordetion of names of the heirs of a person dying intestate.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 186

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17, 18 and 19 of an act entitled an act for working roads in the county of Loudoun
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 187

An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider and other drinks containing over one-half of one per centum alcohol within one mile of Elon Baptist church, in the town of Pamplin City, Appomattox county.
Alcohol, Legislative Amendments, Public spaces

Chapter 188

An ACT to authorize the payment of a salary to the chairman of the board of supervisors of Albemarle county.
Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 189

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to assign offices to the several departments and officers of the State gov-ernment in the several public buildings owned by the State, approved March 14, 1906."
Amendments, Business, Education, Labor, Public officers

Chapter 190

An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of Isle of Wight county to appropriate money for the erection of a wharf on Chuckatuck creek
Property, Public expenditures, Transportation, Boundaries

Chapter 191

An ACT to authorize the several magisterial districts of Accomac county to borrow money and issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of building, improving, and maintaining the public roads of said districts in said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Voting

Chapter 192

An ACT to make vahd and effective deeds of corporations
Business, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 193

An ACT to validate a certain bond issue had in the town of Virginia Beach, authorized by an election held November 20th, 1906.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 194

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 139 of an act 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
Amendments, Business, Gambling, Taxation

Chapter 195

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 2, 1910, to authorize the district school board of Grafton school district of York county, to borrow $4,000 and to issue tonds therefor for a new high school building.
Education, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 196

An ACT to establish on the farm of the Virginia State epileptic colony, the Virginia colony for the feeble minded and to provide for the commitment of feeble minded persons to such colony.
Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Equality before the law, Judicial, Municipal charters, Reformatories

Chapter 197

An ACT to authorize the county of Elizabeth City to expend certain money in the sinking fund of said county for the repair of Hampton bridge.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 198

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 230 of an act entitled ‘“‘an act to provide for the establishing, altering and building the public roads and bridves in the county of Shenandoah, and for working and keeping the same in repair,’ approved February 8, 1898.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 199

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the making and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Charlotte county, approved March 6th, 1896,
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Labor, Municipal charters

Chapter 200

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the Code of Virginia, as to unlawful fishing, and to prescribe the time for catching bass,” approved March 16, 1910, so as to exclude from the operation thereof New river, in Wythe county, Virginia, and to prevent the catching of fish with seines in certain waters of said county.
Fishing, Amendments, Wildlife
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