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1914

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Chapter 301

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and reenact 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.

Municipal charters

Chapter 302

An ACT to provide for the payment of compensation to the counsel employed on behalf of the State by the governor and attorney general to prosecute Floyd Allen and others, charged with the murder of the judge of the circuit court of Carroll county, Virginia, and of certain officers and a juror in attendance upon said court, on the 14th day of March 1912, and for the payment of compensation to counsel employed by the judge presiding at the trials to defend certain of the prisoners unable to employ counsel.

Judicial, Lawyers, Death and burial, Public expenditures, Prisons

Chapter 303

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 148 of the acts of 1891-2, approved February 2, 1892 (section 2547-a of Pollard’s Code) entitled an act to protect the title of a bona fide purchaser of real estate for value from the heir-at-law of a decedent against a devise of the said real estate without notice to such purchaser, (S. B. 408)

Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Property

Chapter 304

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 15 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 375, acts of 1891-92, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 588 of the acts of 1897-98, entitled an act for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Wythe.

Transportation, Budget, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 305

An ACT to amend and reenact an act entitled an act to establish and regulate the holding of primary elections; to pay expenses of same; to secure the regularity and purity of the same, and to prevent and punish any corrupt practices in connection therewith

Voting, Amendments

Chapter 306

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 10, 15, and 18 of an act entitled an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain, approved January 18th, 1904, and to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of the same act, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 16th, 1906.

Property, Judicial, Business

Chapter 307

An ACT to preserve the purity of the waters of the Lynnhaven river and to prevent injury to the oyster beds therein.

Wildlife

Chapter 308

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working of certain long-term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor, and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road construction, to the citizens of the State, approved March 14, 1912, adding the manufacture of ground marl.

Amendments, Armed forces, Business, Labor, Prisons, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 309

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bedford county, in Virginia, to adopt any Jaws or parts of Jaws in force in any county of this State for repairing and keeping in order the public roads and bridges.

Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 310

An ACT to provide how trust companies may be incorporated, and to provide for general powers for the purpose of doing a trust business in this State, in addition to a general banking business.

Business, Incorporation

Chapter 311

An ACT to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of the same, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and to repeal an act entitled an act to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of same, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, approved March 14, 1910.

Healthcare, Business, Judicial, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 312

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended

Amendments, Business, Charity, Judicial, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities, Armed forces

Chapter 313

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1682 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 7, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910, in relation to the admission to the State hospitals of insane persons charged with or indicted for crime, etc., etc., and providing for examination into the sanity of the defendant by experts in insanity by order of the court, etc., ete.

Amendments, Healthcare, Prisons, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 314

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 11, 1910, entitled an act to provide for compromise, settlement, and release of State and county taxes and levies, in certain cases, and to provide a method and remedy therefor where grants of land have been made by this State, or by colonial governors of Virginia prior to the organization of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and subsequent grants were made which are contained partly or wholly within the boundaries of such senior grants.

Repeal of legislation, Property, Boundaries

Chapter 315

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903,

Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 316

An ACT to authorize and direct the auditor of public accounts to prescribe and furnish forms of accounts for claims against the Commonwealth which are allowed from time to time by the several corporation and circuit courts in this State.

Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 317

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishing, altering, and building of public roads and bridges in the county of Shenandoah, and for the working and keeping the same in repair, approved February 8th, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1912.

Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Amendments

Chapter 318

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 24, 1890, entitled an act to require the clerk of any circuit, county, or corporation court to remit to the auditor whenever funds due the State in their hands shall amount to $500.

Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 319

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1898.

Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 320

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 40 of an act entitled an act to put into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment, and organization of the State corporation commission, its jurisdiction, powers, functions, and duties; the qualification of the members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its offices, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders findings, and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings, and judgments, and its expenses, et cetera

Amendments, Business, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 321

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved February 27, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 4, 1898, amending and re-enacting sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for a bureau of labor and industrial statistics, and defining the duties of said bureau, approved March 3, 1898, and adding an independent section thereto, so as to make more complete regulations for factory inspection and for the appointment of factory inspectors.

Amendments, Employment and labor, Industry, Labor, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 322

An ACT to create the Virginia normal school board; to define its Powers and duties, and to abolish the boards of trustees of the State female normal school at Farmville, the State normal and industrial school for women at Harrisonburg, the State normal and industrial school for women at Fredericksburg, and the State normal and industrial school for women at Radford, Virginia.

Education

Chapter 323

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to State depositories.

Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 3, 1898, and April 2, 1902, in relation to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, and constables.

Judicial, Law Enforcement, Amendments

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1912, in relation to when certain officers not to be paid, fees in criminal cases.

Judicial, Law Enforcement, Salaries, Public expenditures

Chapter 326

An ACT for the protection of oysters and clams in the Lynnhaven river, Princess Anne county, Virginia.

Fishing, Public expenditures

Chapter 327

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.

Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Taxation, Property, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Public spaces, Utilities, Alcohol, Civil Rights, Death and burial, Amendments, Recreation, Transportation, Labor, Law Enforcement

Chapter 328

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Blackstone, in the county of Nottoway, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.

Incorporation, Boundaries, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers, Voting, Taxation, Healthcare, Public spaces, Cemeteries, Death and burial

Chapter 329

An ACT relating to and providing for the incorporation of co-operative associations.

Agriculture, Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 330

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prescribe the manner in which a county or city treasurer may, after the expiration of his term, secure final discharge from his liability as such treasurer, approved May 5th, 1903, and to provide for county, city, and town treasurers securing a final discharge from their liability, and to provide a period of limitation after which no suit or action shall be brought against a county, city, or town treasurer, his surety or sureties.

Repeal of legislation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 331

An ACT to simplify and expedite the administration of justice in this State by the elimination of useless technicalities and vexatious delays and permitting amendments under certain conditions in causes hereafter instituted.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Amendments

Chapter 332

An ACT to amend and reenact 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 expenses of the same, and issuing and selling bonds therefor, and for the care and maintenance of such improvements when constructed,

Agriculture, Bonds, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities, Judicial

Chapter 333

An ACT to make it obligatory upon persons, firms, or corporations employing men in foundries or moulding shops to provide for proper ventilation in such foundries or moulding shops.

Employment and labor, Healthcare, Industry

Chapter 334

An ACT to provide for the immediate admission, without an order of commitment, into the State hospitals or other State institutions for the insane, or insane persons who are in urgent need of immediate treatment and care, or who are dangerously insane and a menace to the public safety, and for their subsequent commitment, and to provide for the conveyance of such patients to the hospital.

Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 335

An ACT to prohibit the speeding of automobiles on the road between Big Stone Gap and Appalachia, in Wise county, Virginia.

Transportation, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 336

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 814 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 10, 1908, approved December 17, 1903.

Bonds, Public officers

Chapter 337

An ACT to give the consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the reclaiming by the United States of America of certain submerged land lying in the Elizabeth river, adjacent to Craney island, in Norfolk county, Virginia.

Property, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities, Business

Chapter 338

An ACT ceding jurisdiction to the United States government over certain tracts of land situated in Norfolk county, adjacent to the Chesapeake and Albemarle canal.

Transportation

Chapter 339

An ACT to regulate the employment of children in factories, mercantile establishments, workshops and laundries, and as messengers, or in selling or distributing newspapers or other periodicals in this Commonwealth on and after July 1, 1914, and to prescribe penalties for violations of such regulations.

Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 340

An ACT imposing public duties on heat, light, power, water, and telephone companies, and providing for the control and regulation of such companies by the State corporation commission.

Utilities, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 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

Taxation, Public expenditures, Pensions, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 342

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Albemarle to grant aid to a woman’s co-ordinate college of the university of Virginia.

Education, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 343

An ACT to authorize the city council of the city of Charlottesville to grant aid to a woman’s co-ordinate college of the university of Virginia.

Education, Public expenditures, Bonds, Amendments

Chapter 344

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorpo-

Amendments, Incorporation, Jails, Labor, Municipal charters, Prisons, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 345

An ACT to provide for participation by the State of Virginia in the Panama exposition at San Francisco, to appoint a commission, and to appropriate money for that purpose.

Amusement, Budget, Business, Education, Public expenditures, Agriculture

Chapter 346

An ACT to establish on the land of the Central State hospital, in the county of Dinwiddie, Virginia, the Central State colony for the feeble-minded, and to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony, and for the examination and furloughing of such persons.

Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Employment and labor, Charity, Civil Rights, Judicial

Chapter 347

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1906, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex.

Amendments, Business, Municipal charters, Judicial, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 348

An ACT to authorize Albemarle and Buckingham counties to erect, build, and construct a bridge across James river, at Warren, Virginia, either at the point where a ferry is now being operated or within one mile thereof, and to maintain and operate the same as a free bridge, and to issue bonds for that purpose

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 349

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 31st, 1903.

Amendments, Business, Death and burial, Education, Marriage, Property, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 350

An ACT to provide for the commitment of delinquent, dependent, or neglected children to the State board of charities and corrections, and to certain societies, associations, or reformatories, and authorizing such organizations to place said children in suitable homes and institutions; defining the terms “delinquent,” “dependent,” and “neglected” child: when children under eighteen years of age may or may not be sent to jail, workhouse, police station or penitentiary; requiring parents in certain contingencies to pay for support of delinquent, dependent or neglected children, providing for physical and mental examination of children, and for placing them in hospitals when necessary; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; allowing delinquent children to be released on probation; prescribing the procedure in the hearing of children’s cases; penalties for removing or interfering with any child committed hereunder, or for violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals; and providing for the supervision and inspection of societies and associations by the State board of charities and corrections.

Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Custody of children, Education, Public officers, Reformatories, Healthcare

Chapter 351

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1743-f of the Code of Virginia, prescribing rules for the transportation of dead bodies, as amended by act approved January 30, 1912.

Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law)

Chapter 352

An ACT to create a commission to consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constable, and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commissioner to fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers.

Budget, Public officers, Salaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 353

An ACT; to repeal 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 the 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 interests of this State, and to authorize the boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for experimental and demonstration work in their respective counties, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1912, and enacting certain provisions in lieu thereof, and making appropriations to the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute for demonstration work, and to authorize boards of supervisors to appropriate county funds for demonstration work in their respective counties, in co-operation with the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute and the United States department of agriculture, and providing for co-ordination of certain agricultural activities within the State of Virginia.

Agriculture, Education, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 354

An ACT to amend section 14, chapter 3, of charter of the city of Portsmouth, so as to authorize the city clerk to qualify members elected to the city council,

Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 355

An ACT to amend section 3470 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relating to bonds of appellants or petitioners.

Bonds, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 356

An ACT to appropriate money from the treasury for the relief of B. W. Andrews for acting as guide in the capitol for four years.

Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 357

An ACT to allow the boards of supervisors of counties to establish and maintain public sewers where necessary.

Municipal charters

Chapter 358

An ACT to discontinue the corporation of East Stone Gap, in Wise county, Virginia, incorporated by an act approved March 13, 1912, and to provide for the collection of levies already assessed therein.

Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 359

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 and section 8 of an act of assembly entitled an act to authorize the several school boards of the school districts in this State to borrow money belonging to the literary fund for certain purposes, and to authorize the loan of said funds for each district, approved March 15, 1906, extending the same privileges to cities, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 25, 1908.

Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 360

An ACT to regulate the shooting and to prevent the destruction cf wild water fowl in the waters of Back Bay and its tributaries, and the lands adjacent thereto, in the county of Princess Anne.

Wildlife, Hunting, Fishing, Noncitizens, Public officers

Chapter 361

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county of this State in which the State is a stockholder, to sanction and authorize the extension, construction, operation and maintenance of the line of turnpike road of any turnpike company of this State into, or through, such county, or any portion thereof, upon such terms as to tolls, and upon such conditions, as may be prescribed by such board of supervisors and accepted and agreed to by such company.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 362

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 833 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 11, 1908, and other acts, in relation to the powers and duties of the board of supervisors at annual meetings, by changing the body of said section, and by an amendment in addition to the new section designated as section 833-a, which shall prescribe the powers and duties of boards of supervisors in relation to county and school levies, approved March 11, 1908.

Amendments, Budget, Education, Public expenditures, Public officers