1916

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Chapter 1

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

Budget

Chapter 2

An ACT to provide for the Sport nent of a police justice for the city of Alexandria and his jurisdiction.

Judicial, Public officers, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 3

An ACT to authorize and empower the local road board of Salem magisterial district, in Culpeper county, Virginia, to issue bonds to raise money for the purpose of providing for the building and completion of certain roads in said magisterial district, in said county.

Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 4

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, of chapter VIII of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, relating to the improvement of roads in Pittsylvania county, temporary loans, the borrowing of money, limit to outstanding bonded indebtedness, and the creation of a sinking fund, etc., as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 1, 1901, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 8, 1902, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 12, 1903.

Budget, Public expenditures, Bonds, Debt, Municipal charters

Chapter 5

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 10, 1914, entitled 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 6

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county to appropriate money to Confederate monument

Confederate, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 7

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Loudoun county to offer and pay rewards, payable out of the treasury of said county, for the scalps of certain hawks, killed in said county.

Wildlife, Recreation, Agriculture

Chapter 8

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Powhatan county to appropriate money to the Powhatan chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy as part payment for a monument to Confederate soldiers at Huguenot Springs in said county.

Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 9

An ACT to prevent the sale or the offering or exposure for sale of deleterious foods; providing for the seizure and destruction of such foods and fixing penalties for violations of the act.

Healthcare, Business

Chapter 10

An ACT to provide a reasonable compensation for the board of road commissioners of Bluestone magisterial district, Mecklenburg county, Virginia

Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 11

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Amelia to borrow from time to time the sum of $5,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to continue the improvement of the public reads of said county.

Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 12

An ACT to prevent the transportation or storage of food products under insanitary conditions, and fixing penalties for the violation of the act.

Agriculture

Chapter 13

An ACT to make it larceny to receive money or other thing of value with intent to injure or defraud, from any person engaged in the cultivation of the soil, under a contract of employment for personal service, and fraudulently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund such money or other thing of value so received.

Agriculture, Employment and labor

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, to issue bonds not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of building and maintaining a sewerage system, high school building, street paving and filtration plant.

Bonds, Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 20, 1896, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties.

Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 16

An ACT to authorize the town of Wytheville to sell and convey its real estate on Church street; and to ratify and confirm a certain deed made by it to M. L. Harrison, J. M. Suddeth and W. E. Fulton, trustees, and their successors lawfully appointed, for the Wytheville Baptist church of Wytheville, Virginia, bearing date the 16th day of September, 1915.

Municipal charters, Religious Institutions, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2538, extra session 1902-3-4, of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act providing for the working, opening and keeping in repair the roads in Cumberland county

Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Labor, Amendments

Chapter 18

An ACT to prevent fraud and deception in the storage and sale of oleomargarine, process and renovated butter; regulating the storage and sale of such products; defining violations of the act, and fixing penalties therefor.

Business, Agriculture

Chapter 19

An ACT to prohibit the hunting, shooting, fishing or trespassing upon the lands of any person in county of Loudoun without permission in writing.

Hunting, Fishing, Property

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to establish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of roads and bridges in Dinwiddie county

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 21

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 81 of the acts of the general assembly of 1874 for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick and Charlotte.

Agriculture, Business, Property, Taxation

Chapter 22

An Act to authorize the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester, Virginia, of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than $40,000.00 of electric light bonds

Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 23

An ACT to provide for the protection of certain fur-bearing animals in the county of Loudoun.

Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 24

An ACT to amend section 5 of the charter of the town of Falls Church, in the counties of Fairfax and Alexandria.

Amendments, Budget, Education, Property, Taxation

Chapter 25

An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds to be issued by the town of Ashland, in Hanover county, the ordinance authorizing the issue and providing for the redemption thereof, and for the ordering and holding of an election of the qualified voters of said town to pass upon such issue, and the election ordered and held in pursuance thereof, for the purpose of raising funds for the erection of a public high school building in said town.

Bonds, Education, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 26

An ACT to refund money improperly collected from the Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company, Incorporated, and paid into the treasury of the State.

Business, Taxation

Chapter 27

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tazewell county to issue additional bonds of Tazewell county, to pay off and discharge indebtedness incurred for work done and materials furnished in macadamizing and otherwise permanently improving the public roads and bridges of the several districts of said county.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 28

An ACT to provide for the building and improvement of public roads in the county of Surry, and prescribing the powers and duties of road boards in the several magisterial districts of said county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 29

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3906 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts twice before sentenced in the United States to confinement in the penitentiary.

Amendments, Judicial, Prisons, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 30

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3905 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary once before sentenced in the United States to a like punishment.

Amendments, Prisons, Judicial

Chapter 31

An ACT to prohibit the sale or offering for sale of any cider,

Alcohol, Public spaces

Chapter 32

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 33

An ACT to create for the county of Princess Anne, Virginia, a commission of roads, bridges and wharves and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission and thereby provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads, bridges and wharves therein, and to repeal any and all acts not in keeping with this act.

Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 34

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington.

Municipal charters, Boundaries

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act in relation to the government of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the Commonwealth for the caring for such minors

Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Judicial, Reformatories, Vagrancy

Chapter 36

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 17, 1910, amending and re-enacting section 2219 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to how a minister is authorized to celebrate the rites of matrimony as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15,

Marriage, Religious Institutions, Judicial

Chapter 37

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the Code of Virginia.

Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 38

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to enable incorporated towns and cities to contribute to the building or improvement of public roads and bridges and to the purchase of such bridges as may be so needed and are owned either by corporations or individuals, leading to such towns or cities

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 39

An ACT to provide a road commission for Capeville magisterial district, in Northampton county, and to repeal preview acts.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 40

An ACT to repeal an act of assembly of 1915, approved February 5, 1915, entitled an act to provide a road commission for Capeville magisterial district in Northampton county, to authorize the board of supervisors of Northampton county to borrow money for road purposes in Capeville district and to repeal previous acts.

Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 41

An Act to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), for the purpose of building, improving and maintaining the public roads and bridges of Capeville magisterial district in said county.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 42

An ACT to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising and making such advertising a misdemeanor, and providing penalties.

Business, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations

Amendments, Business

Chapter 44

An ACT to prohibit gambling.

Gambling

Chapter 45

An ACT requiring sheriffs and sergeants to keep a record of persons confined in jails; stating what said record shall contain; requiring reports to be made to the State board of charities and corrections; prescribing penalty.

Jails, Law Enforcement, Charity, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 46

An ACT to provide for the examination of the oyster and clam beds and waters of Virginia; to provide for the marking of polluted areas and to prohibit the taking of oysters and clams from polluted areas; defining violations of the act and fixing penalties therefor.

Agriculture, Business, Fishing, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 47

An ACT to amend and re-enact section seven hundred and fifty-three of the Code of Virginia, in relation to State depositories.

Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 48

An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds heretofore and hereafter issued by the town of Orange, Virginia, and an election held on the thirty-first day of August, 1915, authorizing the issuing of the said bonds for water and street improvement of the said town.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 36 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto.

Amendments, Alcohol, Business, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Prisons

Chapter 50

An ACT providing for the sanitation of slaughter houses, abattoirs, packing houses, sausage factories, rendering plants and other places where animals are slaughtered for sale for human food or where animal carcasses, or parts thereof are prepared for human food; providing for the licensing of such establishments; defining violations of the act and fixing penalties therefor.

Agriculture

Chapter 51

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved March 12, 1912, and entitled 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; and to ratify and confirm certain ordinances relating to the segregation of races heretofore passed by certain cities and towns of this Commonwealth.

Segregation, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 52

An ACT defining the time in which it may be lawful to hun

Hunting

Chapter 53

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of New Market in Shenandoah county, to levy a tax on all dogs kept in said town.

Public expenditures

Chapter 54

An ACT to prevent the barter and sale of the plumage of all birds killed in Virginia other than game birds and domestic oo

Wildlife

Chapter 55

An ACT prescribing the manner in which cities in this Commonwealth having a population in excess of 65,000 inhabitants and less than 100,000 inhabitants may request the general assembly to grant a special form of government for any such city, under section 117 of the Constitution, providing for the holding of special elections in relation thereto.

Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3561 of the Code of Virginia as amended heretofore.

Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 57

An ACT to give the courts of record the power to suspend sentence in convictions of larceny, forgery or uttering or attempting to employ as true such forged writing, knowing it to be forged, during good behavior and the effect thereof.

Judicial, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 58

An ACT to prevent the buying and selling of the “Ss es

Wildlife, Hunting, Amendments

Chapter 59

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2564 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1900.

Property

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 5, 1915, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 443 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the returns to be made by land assessors and the penalty for their failure to comply with the requirements of the law as amended by act approved March 17, 1906, and by an act approved March 13, 1908, so as to provide for an extension of time.

Amendments, Property, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 61

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2257 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.

Divorce, Marriage, Judicial, Property

Chapter 62

An ACT to provide for the settlement, registration, transfer, and assurance of titles to land, and to establish courts of land registration, with jurisdiction for said purposes, and to make uniform the laws of the States enacting the same.

Property, Judicial, Debt, Inheritance and succession, Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 63

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Warren county to erect toll gates, and to demand and collect tolls on the macadamized roads and bridges across the Shenandoah river or either branch thereof, of the county of Warren, and to provide how such tolls are to be expended.

Transportation

Chapter 64

An ACT to prevent the maintenance of suits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes.

Taxation

Chapter 65

An ACT to create the city of Hopewell, in the county of Prince George; to provide temporary and permanent officers for its organization and management and to authorize the assessment and collection of revenue necessary for the permanent improvement and government of said city.

Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 66

An ACT to provide for a temporary adequate administration and government of the local affairs of the unincorporated community known as Hopewell and adjacent territory, now a portion of the Bland magisterial district, in the county of Prince George, until such time as it becomes a city.

Municipal charters, Public officers, Public expenditures, Judicial, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 67

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $25,000 for the administration of the affairs of that part of Bland magisterial district, Prince George county, Virginia, known as Hopewell, and its suburbs; to prescribe the method whereby the said appropriation shall be expended, and to provide for the payment thereof to the State treasury.

Public expenditures, Prisons, Municipal charters, Budget, Judicial

Chapter 68

Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to section 117 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia

Amendments, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 69

An ACT to prohibit the manufacture and sale of adulterated, misbranded or deleterious stock, cattle and poultry feeds; fixing penalties for viclations of the act; providing for the enforcement of the act and to repeal all Jaws and parts of laws in conflict with this act in so far only as they may be in conflict with the provisions of this act.

Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth article of section one hundred and eighty-three (183) of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December eighteen (18), nineteen hundred and three (1908), entitled an act to amend and re-enact the fourth article of section 183 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other allowances, approved February 7, 1903.

Amendments, Salaries, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 71

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the cities and towns of this Commonwealth to acquire, by purchase, gift, or condemnation, property adjoining parks, monuments or other public property belonging to such cities or towns, or property in the vicinity of such parks, monuments, or other public property, which is used and maintained in such a manner as to impair the beauty, usefulness, efficiency, or convenience of said parks, monuments, or public property, and to dispose of the same, with proper limitations as to the future use thereof

Property, Public spaces, Monuments and memorials, Transportation

Chapter 72

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to create Ettrick sub-school district in Matoaca district of Chesterfield county

Education, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3286 of the Code of Virginia, providing when, in an action of assumpsit, no plea to be received, or inquiry of damages made unless defendant file with plea affidavit denying plaintiff’s claim, but judgment given therefor.

Amendments, Judicial, Business

Chapter 74

An ACT providing how the cities of this Commonwealth having a population in excess of one hundred thousand inhabitants may request of the general assembly of Virginia to grant to any such city a special form of government.

Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 75

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3526 of the Code of Virginia in relation to fees of attorneys for the Commonwealth.

Amendments, Lawyers, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 76

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3560 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.

Judicial, Amendments, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 77

An ACT in relation to the sale of farm produce on commission, defining the terms 'farm produce' and 'commission merchant,' and regulating commission merchants and providing for their registration and bonding, and the issuing of a certificate of such registration by the commissioner of agriculture and immigration; also empowering the commissioner of agriculture and immigration, upon complaint, and in certain cases, to investigate the acts of commission merchants, and to revoke or refuse certificate of registration and prescribing regulations and offenses under this act, and providing penalties for violations of such regulations and of this act.

Agriculture, Business

Chapter 78

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

Municipal charters, Boundaries, Business, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public spaces, Debt

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act 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 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, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled, an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns, approved May 20, 1903, by amending section 1015-a so as to reduce the minimum number of members of the board of aldermen and of the common council in cities.

Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March, 14, 1910.

Taxation, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1398 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to conveyances of real estate for religious purposes.

Religious Institutions, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 82

An ACT to compensate R. Gordon Finney for services rendered as trial justice for Alexandria county, Virginia, for the months of January and February, 1914, under the act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 23, 1912.

Judicial, Public expenditures, Salaries

Chapter 83

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2820 ef the Code of Virginia in relation to the rate of interest allowed to bankers, brokers and corporations.

Business, Debt, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 84

An ACT to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery

Healthcare

Chapter 85

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 7 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.

Fishing, Property, Public spaces, Amendments

Chapter 86

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor for the improvement of public roads

Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 87

An ACT to authorize the State highway commissioner to establish a convict camp at Catawba sanatorium for the purpose of constructing necessary roads, walks and such other improvements as may be agreed upon by the State highway commissioner and the State health commissioner, and prescribing the manner in which the expenses of such force shall be paid.

Amendments, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 88

An ACT to prohibit the killing of deer in the counties of Bath and Highland for the term of five years.

Hunting

Chapter 89

An ACT to provide for the payment of road bonds of the county of Orange for Barbour district, of said county, by use of road funds of said district and by levy.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 90

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Nansemond county to borrow money and issue notes therefor.

Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 104 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and provide a charter therefor

Municipal charters, Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 92

An ACT prescribing time for catching river or pond bass in the waters of Back Bay, in Princess Anne county, Virginia,

Fishing

Chapter 93

AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of article 2, and section 1 of article 3, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county

Municipal charters, Property, Budget, Public officers, Taxation, Business, Charity, Public spaces, Recreation, Utilities

Chapter 94

An ACT to change the name of Poropotank creek to Poropotank River.