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1914

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 362

Chapter 101

An ACT to repeal the special road law as it applies to Nottoway
Transportation

Chapter 102

An ACT to provide for the payment and collection of tolls on the Apple Ridge Road in Frederick county, and for the improvement, repair and maintenance thereof.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 103

An ACT to authorize the school board of Powhatan district No. 2, of the county of James City, and the school board of Stonehouse district No. 3, of the county of James City, of the State of Virginia, to borrow money, and to issue bonds for the purpose of paying off and discharging the present indebtedness upon the Toano high school, owned jointly by said school districts, and making such further improvements to said high school, and any other purpose deemed pertinent by said school board, and to provide for the payment of such bonds and the interest to accrue thereon.
Education, Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 104

An ACT to make designated portion of Hughes’ river, in Madison county, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 105

An ACT to make a portion of the Robertson river, in Madison county, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 106

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Franklin to impose a capitation tax upon the residents of Franklin county, not to exceed $1.00 per annum for roads, or such other county purposes as the board may determine.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create a road board for the county of Fauquier, and to provide for the working of the roads of said county, approved March 8, 1904, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1906, and as further amended by an act approved March 11, 1908, and to provide for the building and repair of bridges in said county, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1910.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 108

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 256 of the acts of assembly, of 1855-6, as amended by chapter 123, acts of ussembly of 1883-4, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Orange, and to enable said town to borrow
Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Budget, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 109

An ACT to prohibit fishing in the rivers and creeks of Scott county, with seines more than sixteen feet in length.
Fishing

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, of an act approved April 29, 1874, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lawrenceville, in the county of Brunswick, in the State of Virginia.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Vagrancy, Alcohol, Gambling, Public spaces, Jails

Chapter 111

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved February 5, 1900, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Virgilina, in the county of Halifax.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 112

An ACT to give authority to the Gloucester charity school to sell real estate in Gloucester county.
Charity, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 113

An ACT to provide for the issuance by the city of Newport News of $40,000.00 of bonds for rebuilding and equipping the John W. Daniel School, recently destroyed by fire.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 114

An ACT to constitute and create the towns of Hil'sboro and Waterford, in the county of Loudoun, separate road districts and to provide for the disposition of the road fund assessed and collected in said town.
Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 115

An ACT authorizing the governor to place men suffering from tuberculosis, sentenced to jail for 5 years and over, in the tuberculosis hospital at the State farm.
Healthcare, Jails, Public officers

Chapter 116

An ACT to dedicate as and for a public street and highway upon certain conditions, a strip of land composing the northwest corner of the capitol aquare, not exceeding 15 feet at the point of its greatest depth.
Public spaces, Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 117

An ACT to make an appropriation to provide for the relief of needy confederate veterans who are not eligible to become inmates of the Soldiers’ Home because of suffering with cancerous affection or contagious disease.
Charity, Confederate

Chapter 118

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Eastville, Northampton county, Virginia
Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 119

An ACT to amend an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, by adding thereto an independent section to be known as section 11-a, under chapter 6, for the purpose of creating the office of superintendent of the water, gas and electric departments of the city of Danville, and prescribing the manner in which said office shall be filled.
Municipal charters, Utilities, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 120

An ACT to provide for submitting the question of the sale of liquor by a dispensary in the town of Scottsville, Virginia, to the qualified voters of said town, and to prohibit any other election to be held in said town upon the question of the sale of liquor therein, in any manner, within 2 years after any election is held under this act.
Alcohol

Chapter 121

An ACT to establish a closed season for menhaden fishing, to prescribe the size of the mesh to be used in said fishing, and to provide a penalty for the violation of this act.
Fishing

Chapter 122

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a uniform system of bookkeeping and accounting, and for the appointment of a State accountant, approved March 14, 1910, so as to add thereto sections 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, enlarging the powers and duties of the State accountant so as to authorize counties and cities to have the use of his services for the examination of the accounts of county and city offices at the expense of counties and cities.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 123

An ACT to repeal an act approved January 30, 1912, providing for remedy, by motion, after 30 days’ notice, for any tort.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 124

An ACT to authorize and empower W. F. Mench, J. D. Parker, J. E. Burcher, I. D. Hertzler, H. A. Campbell and J. C. Curtis, their associates, successors, and assigns to building, construct, maintain and operate a toll bridge across Deep creek, in the county of Warwick, Virginia.
Transportation

Chapter 125

An ACT to authorize and empower W. F. Mench, J. D. Parker, J. E. Burcher, I. D. Hertzler, H. A. Campbell and J. C. Curtis, their associates, successors and assigns to build, construct, maintain and operate a toll bridge across and over Warwick river in the county of Warwick, Virginia, under certain conditions.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 126

An ACT to repeal chapter 272 of the acts of the general assembly, 1910, entitled an act to empower the county of Warwick to construct or aid in construction of a bridge across Deep creek, between Bucher’s (Burcher’s) landing and Menche’s landing and to authorize and empower said county to negotiate a loan and issue bonds for that purpose
Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend an act to authorize the cities of Newport News and Hampton, and the counties of Warwick and Elizabeth City, to appropriate money and to issue bonds for drainage of any lands lying in the counties of Warwick or of Elizabeth City, and to add thereto the county of York, and to authorize the construction of a canal for drainage and transportation purposes through the said cities and counties.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 128

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to define a lawful fence for Washington county
Fence Laws

Chapter 129

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 2 of section 2070-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 16, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact subsection 2 of section 2070-a and section 2079 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 14, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 95 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the preservation of certain birds and animals, and to prevent unlawful hunting, and to repeal certain sections of the Code, et cetera, as further amended and re-enacted as to sub-section 2 of section 2070-a, by an act approved March 14, 1904, as further amended and re-enacted as to section 2070-a by an act approved March 15, 1906, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11, 1908, as far as the same applies to the counties of Surry and Prince George.
Hunting, Wildlife, Amendments, Unclassified

Chapter 130

An ACT to incorporate the town of Mendota in Washington county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Pensions, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 131

An ACT providing for an election upon the question of a dispensary in the town of Gretna, in the county of Pittsylvania.
Alcohol, Voting, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 132

An ACT to provide for instruction in the public schools, for preventing accidents.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 133

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 8 of an act approved March 28, 1902, entitled an act to promote the public health and to regulate the sanitary construction, house draining, and plumbing and to secure the registration of plumbers in all cities within the State of Virginia having a population of 8.009 inhabitants, and to provide for a board of examination of plumbers therein, and defining their duties and powers, provide for their compensation, and to provide for penalties for the violation of this act, and to repeal all laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Amendments, Healthcare, Utilities

Chapter 134

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 54 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 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, approved March 14, 1906.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Property, Equality before the law

Chapter 135

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act in relation to the assessment, for local taxation, of the rolling stock of railroad corporations
Amendments, Taxation, Business

Chapter 136

An ACT to amend and re-enact, so far as the county of Powhatan is concerned, an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 3d, 1884.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 137

An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider containing over one-half of 1 per cent, alcohol within 1 mile of any church in the town of Front Royal, Warren county, and to provide a penalty for violation thereof.
Alcohol, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 138

An ACT to authorize Albemarle county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $30,000, to refund the bonds issued under act approved February 20, 1908.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 139

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10, sub-section 3 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax.
Municipal charters, Transportation, Public spaces, Public officers

Chapter 140

An ACT to authorize the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, to issue bonds not exceeding $50,000, for the purpose of building and maintaining a sewerage system, high school building, street paving and filtration plant.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Utilities, Municipal charters

Chapter 141

An ACT for the protection of foxes in the counties of Loudoun and Fauquier, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.
Hunting

Chapter 142

An Act to provide in cities containing 10,000 inhabitants and less than 45,000 inhabitants, for the election of a special justice of the peace to be known as the civil and police justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties, to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil and police justice, and to abolish the office of police justice in said cities and towns and transfer the jurisdiction of such police justices in said cities to such civil and police justices.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Property, Employment and labor

Chapter 143

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Spotsylvania county to pay for turkeys killed by dogs out of any excess in the dog tax fund after paying all loss or damage occasioned sheep or other stock by dogs.
Agriculture

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend and reenact an act entitled an act establishing several towns, approved December 14, 1796, as amended by an act entitled an act concerning the town of New Market, in the county of Shenandoah, approved January 13, 1806, as amended by an act entitled an act appointing trustees for the town of New Market, in the county of Shenandoah, and prescribing their powers and duties, approved on the 16th day of March, 1840, as amended by an act to amend an act entitled an act enlarging the town of New Market, in the county of Shenandoah, approved March 28, 1871, as amended by an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of New Market, in the county of Shenandoah, approved December 25, 1872, as amended by an act entitled an act to enlarge the corporate limits of the town of New Market, in the county of Shenandoah, Virginia, approved January 31, 1890, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of New Market, in the county of Shenandoah, approved December 25, 1872, in relation to procuring council’s certificates to sell beer, wine, liquor, ardent spirits, or any mixture thereof, approved February 19, 1892; and to provide a new charter for said town of New Market.
Amendments, Alcohol, Business, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation

Chapter 145

An ACT appropriating $1,078 to the county of Wythe to reimburse the county for amount paid the judge sent by the governor to preside in the trial of the cases growing out of the Hillsville murders.
Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 146

An ACT authorizing the circuit court to order an election to be had by the cualified voters of Charlotte county to determine whether or not the county shall undertake the supervision of certain streams in the said county, and providing for the appointment of overseers of the said streams and the removal of obstructions from the same by the poard of supervisors; amending and re-enacting an act approved March 25, 1872, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1878, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1879, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1910, declaring certain streams in the county of Charlotte to be public highways, and providing for the cleaning out of obstructions therein.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Property, Wards, Public spaces, Budget

Chapter 147

An ACT authorizing the State board of charities and corrections to continue the investigation of the weak-minded, other than insane and epileptic; to report to the general assembly of 1916 a scheme for training, segregation and prevention of procreation of mental defectives; authorizing the employment of experts; and appropriating the sum of $3,000 annually for expenses.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Segregation, Public expenditures

Chapter 148

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Leesburg, in the county of Loudoun, approved February 27, 1858, as amended by an act approved March 29, 1875.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Property, Utilities

Chapter 149

An ACT to prohibit the manufacture of cider in Loudoun county, Virginia, within 1 mile of a public high school building, by the owner of a cider mill, for other than himself.
Alcohol, Education, Public spaces

Chapter 150

An ACT to provide for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people in accordance with the amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
Amendments, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 151

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent the catching of fish by gill nets or seines in the rivers and streams of the county of Rockbridge
Fishing, Amendments

Chapter 152

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of 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 ag amended.
Amendments, Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 153

An ACT to provide for the use of district schoolhouses out of
Education, Public spaces, Agriculture

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved April 15, 1903, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the several counties of the State to retire outstanding bonds and to issue new bonds at the same or a lower rate of interest; and to validate all bonds heretofore issued by any county of the State under said act.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 155

An ACT to provide for the cleansing of cans and other receptacles used as containers of milk, cream and ice cream, and fixing penalties for violation of the act.
Agriculture, Healthcare

Chapter 156

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 515 of the acts of assembly of 1902-3 entitled an act to work and keep in repair roads and bridges in the county of Stafford, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 246 of the acts of 1908.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 157

An Act regulating contracts of surety between common carriers and their employees and sureties upon such contracts, and imposing penalties for violations of this act.
Employment and labor, Business, Judicial

Chapter 158

An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establishments where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives, approved March 4, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912, so as to embrace mercantile establishments on Saturdays, and laundries, and adding an independent section thereto prohibiting the employment of males under twenty-one years of age, and females in places where intoxicating liquors are manufactured, bought, sold, packed, or shipped.
Employment and labor, Children -- Institutional care, Alcohol, Reformatories

Chapter 159

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Agriculture, Pensions

Chapter 160

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 117 and 118 of an act approved April 16, 1908, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution.
Amendments, Healthcare, Taxation, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 161

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 14, 1908.
Municipal charters, Transportation, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 162

An ACT to amend and reenact section 9 of chapter 10, of chapter 609 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1902-3-4, relating to turnpike companies. (H. B. 48.)
Transportation

Chapter 163

An ACT to repeal section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to define a lawful fence for the county of Warwick
Fence Laws

Chapter 164

An ACT to prohibit the running at large of dogs, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof.
Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 165

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1912, entitled 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 February 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 3, 1900, February 16, 1901, April 2, 1902, March 10, 1906, March 11, 1908, March 14, 1910, and March 12, 1912, which last named act authorized 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 166

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1488 of the Code as heretofore amended in relation to the condemnation and purchase of land for schoolhouses.
Education, Property, Public officers

Chapter 167

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 2, 1901, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Elba, Pittsylvania county, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1901.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Business, Public officers, Property

Chapter 168

An ACT to authorize A. W. Harman, Jr., treasurer, to restore and pay over to various parties the special fund of $4,790.60, reported to be in his hands, under the heading of “Special Primary Election Fund on Deposit Planters National Bank, Richmond,” in the report of the said treasurer for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1913.
Public expenditures

Chapter 169

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Frederick county to borrow money for the purpose of improving the courthouse and clerk’s office of said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 170

An ACT to provide unon the conveyance by the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls, of its property, real and personal, lo- cated in the county of Chesterfield, to the State of Virginia, that the State will assume control, operation and management of the said home in accordance with the charter of the said corporation, and to assume any indebtedness of the said home existing on the 1st day of March, 1914, not in excess of $1.500.00.
Children -- Institutional care, Property, Public expenditures, Healthcare

Chapter 171

An ACT empowering the school boards of 2 adjacent districts to establish joint schools for the use of both districts, and to purchase, take, hold, lease and convey school property for the joint use of the districts.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 172

An ACT to authorize Albemarle county, from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $40,000, for the purpose of uniting in the building, in the county of Albemarle, of State money aid or convict labor plan roads, as well as roads where private individuals contribute one-half the cost thereof, and to assist in securing undergrade crossings under the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company and the Southern railway company, respectively, in the county of Albemarle.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 173

An ACT to permit Richard T. Ames, of the county of Accomac, to build a bridge across a branch of Onancock creek, in said county.
Transportation, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 174

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled an act providing for the working, opening and keeping in repair the roads of the county of Lunenburg, and for building and keeping in repair the bridges of said county, except that an amendment to said act known as section 14-a, 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 district for the construction and repair of public roads in said magisterial district, which said amendment was approved March 12, 1912, is not to be affected hereby.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 175

An ACT declaring that there shall be a lien on real estate for town taxes, and providing for the enforcement thereof.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 176

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Spotsylvania county to prescribe collars for dogs on which taxes have been paid in said county, and require them to be muzzled during certain seasons, or confined, and providing penalties for the violation of the same.
Taxation

Chapter 177

An ACT to authorize and empower the several magisterial districts of King William county to levy a license tax on all vehicles used or operated in the said districts, for the purpose of raising revenue for the construction, improvement and maintenance of the public highways and bridges of said districts in said county.
Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 178

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the taking or removing of fish, except such as are excepted, from the water courses of the county of Augusta
Fishing

Chapter 179

An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of Smyth county to pay to the town of Chilhowie a part of the road tax for the year 1913, paid on the property, real and personal, in said town, and collected by the county treasurer of said county of Smyth.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 180

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boydton, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved March 16, 1874, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 4 of the charter of the town of Boydton, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved February 22, 1890.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces, Salaries

Chapter 181

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8, chapter 6, of an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, so that the council of said city shall have power and authority to construct, own, maintain and operate railway yards, tracks, depots and terminals, to purchase and condemn lands for said purposes and to lease and let the same.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 182

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to transfer to the county of Frederick the State’s interest in so much of the Northwestern turnpike company as lies within the county of Frederick, approved February 26, 1884; and to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Frederick to transfer the said interest to the State corporation commission, (H. B. 474)
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 183

An Act to authorize and provide for the purchase of a suitable lot of land in close proximity to the capitol, in the city of Richmond, and to create a State building commission to act for the State, and to make an appropriation therefor.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 184

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act for working the roads of Amherst county, approved February 20, 1912.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 185

An Act making the public square in the city of Winchester part of the several magisterial districts of the county of Frederick for the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justice of the peace of the county of Frederick.
Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 186

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Altavista, in Campbell county, Virginia, granted by the circuit court of Campbell county by an order duly entered of record pursuant to an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1908, entitled an act to provide for the incorporation by the courts of towns of more than 200 and less than 5,000 inhabitants, and conferring upon said towns when incorporated, certain powers of taxation.
Amendments, Incorporation, Property, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 187

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 270 and 275 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 13, 1912, in relation to the duties of the superintendent of public printing.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 188

An ACT to prohibit the sale of cider, and other drinks containing over one-half of 1 per cent. alcohol within 1 mile of the public school building, in the village of Capron, Southampton county, Virginia.
Alcohol, Education, Public spaces

Chapter 189

An ACT to amend and re-enact section or sub-section 4 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of assembly, approved March 12, 1904, relating to official receipts for fines, approved March 14, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 190

An ACT defining the territorial jurisdiction of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, part II, as a court of probate and registry.
Judicial

Chapter 191

An ACT defining the territorial jurisdiction of the chancery court of the city of Richmond as a court of probate and registry.
Judicial, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 192

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pearisburg, Virginia, and to repeal ail acts in conflict.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 193

An ACT to provide for the revision, codification and indexing, with suitable marginal citations and references, of the statute law of Virginia; for the printing, publication and disposition thereof; to appoint commissioners therefor and fix their compensation; to provide for the necessary clerical assistants to said commissioners; and to appropriate the necessary funds for said work.
Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Civil Rights

Chapter 194

An ACT for the creation and maintenance of a legislative reference bureau.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Employment and labor, Judicial

Chapter 195

An ACT to create the office of State forester under the direction and control of the State geological commission, and defining his duties.
Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 196

An ACT to lega‘ize the donation of the sum of $1,500 by the council of the town of Claiksville, Virginia, to the district school board of Clarksville magisterial district, for the purpose of aiding in the con-struction of a public high school bui.ding in said town and district.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 197

An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth and the county of Norfolk, subject to certain specified conditions, to lease, or to acquire by purchase or condemnation proceedings, land or other property for additional ferry terminals or facilities.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 198

An ACT to provide for the payment to each confederate veteran who is an inmate of R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, confederate veterans soldiers’ home, the sum of $1.00 per month for incidental peisonal expenses.
Confederate, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 199

An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the 2 fiscal years
Budget, Public expenditures, Pensions, Education, Labor, Civil Rights, Agriculture, Utilities, Transportation, Judicial, Cemeteries, Recreation, Charity, Wildlife

Chapter 200

An ACT providing for the protection of turnpikes that have been treated with bitumen or other artificial binder from injury by traction engines, tractors or motor trucks, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
Transportation, Agriculture, Public expenditures
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