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1914

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 207 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the duties of keeper of the rolls, as amended by an act approved February 3, 1908.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 2

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $40,000.00 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay criminal charges, the appropriation made for the year ending February 28, 1914, having become exhausted.
Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 3

An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the genera: assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 4

An ACT to provide for the segregation of the tax upon money on deposit or otherwise, and to make it liable to taxation by the State alone and to fix the rate of such taxation.
Taxation, Education

Chapter 5

An ACT to authorize the institution of proper proceedings in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia to enforce the return to it of the original will of Martha Washington.
Property

Chapter 6

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Brunswick to issue bonds of the said county to an amount not exceeding $57,000.00 in exchange for and to raise funds to pay off the outstanding bonds of said county, issued by it in payment of its subscription to the capital stock of the Atlantic and Danville Railway Company.
Bonds, Budget, Business, Transportation

Chapter 7

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 8

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Greensville county to issue bonds of the county to be exchanged for or used in paying off the bonds of said county issued in payment for the stock of the Atlantic and Danville Railway Company, payable in 1914, providing a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 9

An ACT to appropriate $19,954.24, the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made by the general assembly for the erection of a monument on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the services of Virginia troops in the battle on that field, so as to make this amount available for that purpose and not lapse into the treasury under the constitutional provision respecting appropriations.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 10

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 804 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Voting

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section-i of section 3059 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, has heretofore amended.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 12

An ACT to repeal an act entitled ‘An act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges, and opening new roads in the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren and Augusta, approved February 26, 1884,” and all acts amendatory thereof, in so fur only as said act applies to Frederick county.
Transportation

Chapter 13

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

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1041-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 13, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1041-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1041-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1041l-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved May 20, 1908, 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 1089 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 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, Business, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation

Chapter 15

An ACT to provide for the calling and hoiding of an election upon the question of prohibiting the manufecture for sale and the sale of intoxicating liquors, to prescribe for qualification of voters in said election, to declare the effect of the result of such election, and to pro- vide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.
Alcohol, Voting, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 16

An ACT making certain provisions in reference to the construction of factories, shops and manufacturing establishments, providing for the use of certain safety appliances therein and the protection of dangerous machinery therein; making provisions how factories, shops and manufacturing establishments shall be lighted, vesting in the commissioner of labor certain powers in reference thereto; and providing certain penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this act.
Employment and labor, Business, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend and re-enact fifth sub-division of section 834-g 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, as amended by act of generai assembly, approved March 11,1912.
Taxation

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912.
Amendments, Judicial, Debt, Law Enforcement

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3798, chapter 185, of the Code of Virginia, re!ative to profane swearing and drunkenness.
Amendments, Alcohol, Gambling, Public officers

Chapter 21

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 3 of an act concerning public service corporations
Transportation, Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 22

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 26388 and 2640 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Death and burial

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19, 26, 28. 29, 30-f, 30-g, 30-h, 30-i, and 47 of an act approved February 9, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 19, 19-d, 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, 387, 47, 62, 63, and 64 of an act approved March 24, 1870, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended; and to amend and re-enact section 19-c of an act approved March 3, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended, in relation to the powers of the city council; and to amend and re-enact section 64 of the said charter in relation to the duties of the city engineer, and amending and re-enacting section 22 of an act approved March 24, 1870, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended.
Budget, Business, Public officers, Healthcare, Employment and labor, Municipal charters

Chapter 24

An ACT permitting the reciprocity of embalmers’ licenses in this State with other states, or Canada and foreign countries.
Healthcare, Death and burial

Chapter 25

An ACT to appoint trustees from the members of the Hollywood Memorial Association, and to make an appropriation to enable said trustees and said association to make a contract with the Hollywood Cemetery Company by which the graves of the confederate dead in the soldiers’ section in Hollywood cemetery shall be kept in ‘perpetual care,’ and to relieve the State from further obligation in this behalf.
Cemeteries, Confederate, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 26

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of article 1 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900; to amend and re-enact section 1 of article 2, as heretofore amended by an act approved February 20, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of article 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900; and to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 5 of article 2, section 1 of article 3, and section 1 of article 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Public officers, Voting, Budget

Chapter 27

An ACT to empower the banks chartered by the State of Virginia to become member banks of the federal reserve banks of the United States, as provided for by an act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for the establishment of federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes,” approved December 23, 1915.
Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 28

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of the charter of the former town, now city, of Hampton, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia. approved May 28, 1887, in relation to taxation. (H. B. 52.)
Taxation, Municipal charters, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 29

An ACT to amend section 11 of an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission, to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary, and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commissioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect
Transportation, Public expenditures, Labor, Public officers

Chapter 30

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2942 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how and when warrant tried and judgment given, and in relation to how a justice may associate justices with him, and whose opinion to prevail, as amended by an act approved March 8, 1904.
Judicial

Chapter 31

Amendments, Fishing, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 32

An ACT for the relief of James F. Bonewell, of the county of Warwick, and appropriating money therefor.
Agriculture, Fishing, Public expenditures

Chapter 33

An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State, jointly or severally, to establish county or city farms, and providing for the Joint use of the same, and for the government and support of persons confined therein.
Agriculture, Amendments, Armed forces, Civil Rights, Custody of children, Employment and labor, Jails, Labor, Public expenditures, Prisons, Reformatories, Vagrancy

Chapter 34

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11, 12, and 63 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
Municipal charters, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 45 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874.
Education, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 36

An ACT providing for the control and eradication of the plant disease, commonly known as “orange” or “cedar rust,” in the magisterial districts and counties of this State where said disease is prevalent.
Agriculture, Public expenditures, Property, Public officers

Chapter 37

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 815 of the Code of Virginia
Bonds, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 38

An ACT to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescrive the powers and duties of such com- mission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keep- ing in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and, for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges there- in; and to repeal an act entitled, an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 18909, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled, an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 39

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, and 4 of an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1906, entitled an act to amend 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, providing and regulating a road board for said county, and directing tha disbursement of the county road fund.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 40

An ACT to appropriate for the fiscal years 1914 and 1915 the sum of $5,000.00 from the treasury of the State of Virginia in aid of the Home for Needy Confederate Women, located in the city of Richmond, at number 3, East Grace street.
Charity, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 41

An ACT to provide compensation for judges of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia on their retirement from the bench after a service of 12 consecutive years and upon attaining the age of 70 years.
Judicial, Pensions, Public officers

Chapter 42

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 13, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roads of Tazewell county, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in said county, approved February 29, 1892.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 43

An ACT to compensate R. Gordon Finney, trial justice for Alexandria county, Va., for services rendered as such trial justice under the act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 28, 1912.
Public expenditures, Salaries, Judicial

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act to amend and
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 45

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac, to levy an additional tax on all prorerty, real and personal, in the corporate limits of said town, for such town purposes as the council of said town shall determine.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 46

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight, in its discretion, to contribute and expend annually, out of the general county levy, a sum of money for the conduct of an educational and agricultural fair, to be held in said county.
Agriculture, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 47

An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of Norfolk county, subject to certain specified conditions, to borrow a sum not exceeding $250,000.00 for the purpose of building, macadamizing or otherwise permanently improving public roads and bridges, and acquiring toll roads and toll bridges, in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by a deed of trust on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; and to provide for the expenditure and application of the proceeds of said bond issue, and for the payment of said bonds.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters, Budget, Industry

Chapter 48

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Emporia to aid the county school board of Greenville county in the construction of a school building in the said town.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 23, 1906, entitled an act to authorize the sale of lots purchased by the Commonwealth for delinquent taxes, and not redeemed within four years or more.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 50

An ACT to appropriate money by the board of supervisors and councils of cities to defray expenses to unveiling of statue at Gettysburg.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 51

An ACT to provide a permanent record of soldiers, sailors, or marines from the State of Virginia who served with the military or naval forces of the United States with Spain, or subsequently in the Philippines, prior to July 4, 1902.
Armed forces

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 3 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 of chapter 1 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, to amend and re-enact chapters 2, 3 and 5 of said act as amended by subsequent acts, and to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5, and to repeal section 7 of chapter 6 of said act.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Public expenditures, Charity, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Public spaces, Education, Labor, Law Enforcement, Utilities, Transportation, Vagrancy, Taxation, Amendments, Property, Fire fighters

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 571 of the Code of Virginia in relation to redress against erroneoug assessments of levies and local taxes.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 567 of the Code of Virginia in relation to redress against erroneous assessment of taxes.
Taxation

Chapter 55

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1507 of the Code of Virginia
Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 56

An ACT to appropriate a sum of money not to exceed $5,000.00 per year for the 2 years 1914 and 1915 for the relief of needy confederate women of Virginia, who are not upon the State pension rolls, and who are not inmates of any confederate, independent or church homes or charitable institutions.
Charity, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 57

An ACT to provide, in cities containing 50,000 inhabitants or more, for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the justice of the juvenile and domestic relations court, and to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Divorce, Judicial, Public officers, Civil Rights

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend an act approved February 22, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1896, to prescribe the mode of applying for and obtaining a license (other than a license for which the certificate of a court is required by law before it is granted), the tax on which, but for this act, would be $50.00 or more were it issued for the period of one year.
Business, Taxation

Chapter 59

An ACT to authorize the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac, Virginia, to borrow money.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February co, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved Februar;’ 23, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 20, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906, providing for the working and keeping in repair the roads, and building and keeping in repair the bridges in the county of Essex, and providing what tax shall be used for the same, and to add thereto an independent section to be known as section 12-a.
Amendments, Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 61

An ACT to prevent the expenditure of money by the various institutions of the State by sending members of their boards, managers, superintendents or presidents, or other persons to the legislature for the purpose of obtaining appropriations for said institutions or for any other purpose.
Budget, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 62

An ACT to provide for an audit or examination of financ.al transactions of county or district officers, boards or commissions, in each and every county of the State which alone constitutes a separate judicial circuit.
Budget

Chapter 63

An ACT to provide for a public park, or public playgrounds, in the town of Waverly.
Public spaces, Recreation, Municipal charters

Chapter 64

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
Judicial, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 65

An ACT to repeal all acts heretofore approved to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, except section 12 of an act approved February 9, 1910, 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, etc., and to re-enact said section 12.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 66

An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands situate at Cape Henry, in the county of Princess Anne.
Armed forces, Property, Taxation

Chapter 67

An ACT to prohibit the use of dredges or scrapes while taking oysters or clams in Pocomoke sound, to define the evidence of such violation, and to fix a penalty therefor.
Fishing

Chapter 68

An ACT to permit counties having a population greater than 300 inhabitants per square mile, as shown by the United States census, to bond for 18 per cent. of the assessed value of real estate in such county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 69

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191, chapter 154, of the Code, as amended by an act in force on and after February 2, 1892, and by an act in force on and after July 1, 1896, and by an act approved March 14, 1910, relating to how a person is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia.
Amendments, Lawyers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved May 16, 1887, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to release and transfer to the counties of Highland and Augusta the interest of the Commonwealth in the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike road, et cetera.
Transportation

Chapter 71

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, as amended and re-enacted by 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 March 14, 1908.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Public officers, Municipal charters, Employment and labor

Chapter 72

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 9, 1906, entitled an act to authorize the county of Norfolk to acquire the toll roads and toll bridges in said county, and to issue bonds for that purpose.
Bonds

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Botetourt county, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair, the roads of Botetourt county, approved March 4, 1896, and an act amendatory thereof, approved February 14, 1901.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 74

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of building and permanently improving roads in Kempsville magisterial district, in said county.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 75

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1912, entitled an act to regulate the taking of fish from streams west of the Blue Ridge mountains.
Fishing

Chapter 76

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Waverly, approved February 29, 1892.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 77

An ACT to authorize the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Com- pany, Incorporated, to take possession of the turnpike leading from near Warrenton to Fairfax courthouse, and prescribing the terms and limitations of the same.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Industry

Chapter 78

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Sussex county to lay a special levy of not exceeding ten cents on the one hundred dollars’ worth of property in Wakefield magisterial district, in said county, for the purpose of providing for the final liquidation of the bonded indebtedness of said district.
Public expenditures, Taxation, Education

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24 or an act approved July 11, 1870, providing a charter for the town of West Point, in King William county, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1872, and as amended by an act approved March 1, 1884, and as amended by an act approved May 2, 1887, and as amended by an act approved March 1, 1892, and as amended by acts approved March 3, 1894, and by an act approved March 14, 1910, and to add additional sections thereto.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Budget, Public officers, Property, Taxation, Public spaces, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Employment and labor, Utilities

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections E, T and Z, of section 3059 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 81

An ACT to provide a mode by which cities of this Commonwealth having a population in excess of 100,000 may request the general assembly to grant a special form of government for any such city.
Municipal charters

Chapter 82

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural districts, and to appropriate money therefor, approved March 14, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural districts and to appropriate money therefore, approved March 17, 1910.
Education, Libraries, Public expenditures

Chapter 83

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4 and 19 of 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 capitol 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, approved March 12, 1912.
Healthcare, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 84

An ACT to admit children 6 years of age to the public free schools of the State under certain conditions.
Children -- Institutional care, Education

Chapter 85

An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for the county of Cumberland for permanent road improvement in Randolph magisterial district of said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 86

An ACT to provide for the encouragement, maintenance and supervision of industrial, agricultural, household arts and commercial education.
Agriculture, Education, Employment and labor, Industry

Chapter 87

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 278 of assembly, anproved March 16, 1910, and entitled an act to require railroads to provide suitable caboose car on freight trains, and imposing a penalty for failure so to do.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 88

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 7, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public expenditures, Pensions, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Labor, Property, Public spaces, Utilities, Public officers

Chapter 89

An ACT requiring all railway corporations or receivers or lessees operating a standard gauge line of railway in this State, to equip its locomotive engines with electric headlight, or other headlights of not less than 500 candle power with the aid of a reflector, and providing a penalty for violation of this act.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 90

An ACT to place it in the discretion of the court to require testimony in a divorce case to be given ore tenus in open court, and providing how testimony so given, may be made part of the record of the cause for appeal.
Divorce

Chapter 91

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Middlesex county to order an election by the qualified voters of Middlesex county upon the question of making the free bridge across Urbanna creek, at Urbanna, a toll bridge, and providing the rate, and for the collection of tolls thereon, and the disposition of money received from tolls and for the ultimate erection of a permanent free bridge across Urbanna creek, at Urbanna, Va.
Transportation

Chapter 92

An ACT to amend and reenact an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Chatham, in Pittsylvania county, approved April 24, 1874, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and reenact the charter of the town of Chatham, approved February 21, 1882, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and reenact section 4 of the charter of the town of Chatham, approved March 16, 1908.
Municipal charters, Judicial, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 93

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act approved May 24, 1870, entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Richmond.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 94

An ACT to provide for a change in the form of government of cities having a population of less than 100,000 and of towns, and to provide in what manner such cities and towns may adopt such form of government.
Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 95

An ACT to provide for the supervision and control of telephone companies by the State corporation commission.
Utilities

Chapter 96

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1875, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the counties of Fairfax and Alexandria, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1879, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church in the counties of Fairfax and Alexandria, approved March 30, 1875, and as further amended by an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to amend: section 7 of chapter 316 of the acts of assembly. session of 1874-1875. entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the counties of Fairfax and Alexandria, as further amended by an act approved March 2, 1892, and as further amended by an act approved March 10, 1910.
Amendments, Business, Municipal charters, Taxation, Alcohol, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 97

An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to close the Cove street canal from the west side of Hampton court to the east side of Arlington place.
Municipal charters, Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 98

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

Chapter 99

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 50 of article 4, of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment, and certifying the same to the next general assembly
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 100

An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembiy of Virginia entitled an act to prescribe the effect as evidence to be given to deeds recorded prior to the year 1865.
Repeal of legislation, Property
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