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1918

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 436

Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact section § 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, approved April 16, 1908, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 102

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Bedford.
Business, Property, Public officers

Chapter 103

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 852 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908.
Public officers, Budget

Chapter 104

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45 and 54 of an aet to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 105

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

Chapter 106

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act providing for the appointment of a State board of health and of local board of health, defining the duties and powers and compensation thereof, and of their members, officers and agents in connection with the preservation of public health; and prescribing penalties against witnesses failing to obey subpoenas issued by said State board of health, or any authorized member thereof, for refusing to testify or otherwise acting in contempt of said State board or its duly authorized members, approved March 7. 1900
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Amendments

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 11, 18, 18a, 18b, 19g, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 88, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89. 90, 91, 92, 98, 94, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107 and 108, of chapter 101 of the acts of the general assembly, approved May 24, 1870, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended; to add to said charter, as a part of the charter of the city of Richmond, sections to be Kngwn as sections 18c, 18d, 18e, 27a, 27b, 27¢c, 27d, 28a, and Slu, and to repeal sections 13b, 30u, 30b, 30c, 30d, 30e, 30f, 30g, 30h, 301, 30j, 93a, 93b, 93c, 938d, 98e, 93f, 938g, 93h, 931, 93), 93k, 931, 93m, 93n, 9380, 9383p, 93q, B8r, 938s and 109 of said charter, the general object of which amendments, added sections and repeal of sections is to require claimants for damages occurring by reason of the negligence of the city to give notice of such claim; to limit the time in which suit shall be brought to recover land opened to and used by the public as a street or alley; to divide the government of the city of Richmond into six departments; to provide for the appointment, qualification and duties of the head of each of said departinents; to enlarge the powers and duties of the mayor; to create a bvard to be known as the advisory board of the city of Richmond, and define their powers and duties; to provide for the better assessment, collection and levy of taxes: to authorize the council of the city of Richmond to pass ordinances deemed necessary to cure defects in the making of such levies and assessments of taxes; to abolish the board known as the administrative board of city of Richmond; to abolish the board known as the board of fire commissioners of the city of Richmond, and to provide for the holding of an election by the people to finally determine whether or not the said amendments shall become effective as a part of the charter of the city of Richmond.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation, Property, Judicial, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 108

An ACT to provide for the publication and distribution of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and reenact section 1 of an act entitled an act to create a commission to consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constables and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commissioners, to fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers
Budget, Public officers, Salaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 111

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3194 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended in relation to the practice of law without a license.
Lawyers, Judicial

Chapter 112

An ACT to authorize the common council of Winchester to issue $50,000 of refunding improvement bonds in the sum of $50,000 and prescribing the terms and conditions of said issue.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 113

An ACT to provide for the payment of compensation to the court stenographer employed on behalf of the State of Virginia by the attorney general to stenograph the evidence and transcribe a record in the case of Commonwealth of Virginia v. J. Frederick Kernochan, committee of Marie Marshall, in the circuit court of James City county, and the city of Williamsburg, on the 11th day of October, 1917.
Judicial, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 114

An ACT to authorize the school board of the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $30,000 to meet notes for money borrowed by trustees for the purpose of erecting the graded school building in said town, and to complete the said building.
Education, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 115

An ACT to permit the councils, or other governing bodies, of cities of the first class, to appropriate money to aid in the support of dependent children of members of the police and fire departments of such cities who may have lost their lives through injuries received or disease incurred while in the performance of their duties as members of such departments.
Children -- Institutional care, Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 116

An ACT authorizing cities, containing by the last or any sub-sequent United States census, a population of not less than fifty thousand nor more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, to appropriate to standard guage steam railroad companies such sum or sums as may be necessary, not to exceed two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars in any one case, to induce such standard guage steam railroad companies to extend their lines into the corporate limits of such cities, and ratifying and confirming any such appropriation, not exceeding two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars, made by any such city heretofore for said purpose.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 117

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing seventy thousand 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, approved March 5, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1910, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1912, by (1) increasing the salary limit of said civil justice; (2) providing for interrogatories under executions issued by said civil justice, and (4) giving said civil justice certain powers in matters of contempt; (5) by enlarging the jurisdiction of said civil justice in interpleader proceedings and otherwise, approved March 10, 1914.
Judicial, Public officers, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 118

An ACT to require the auditor of public accounts to turn over to the State bureau of vital statistics certain marriage, birth and death records.
Marriage, Registration of births, etc., Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 119

An ACT making it unlawful for a person, firm or association to transact business in this State as a corporation, or to offer or advertise to transact business as a corporation without first being incorporated.
Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 120

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lee county to borrow money and to issue bonds of said county, or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $50,000.00, for the purpose of repairing damage done by flood to the public roads and bridges of said county, and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund for the payment of such bonds at maturity.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 121

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 $75,000 of water improvement bonds and to authorize the issuance by said city of not more than $75,000 of said bonds, the proceeds whereof shall be used for improvement, enlargement and extension by the said city of its existing system of water works if a majority of those voting vote In favor of such issuance.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 122

An ACT to authorize the school board of Washington magisterial district No. 5, of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $14,000 in amount.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 123

An ACT to amend section 37 of an act approved January 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, Virginia, as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1906, and as further amended by an act approved March 13, 1912, and as further amended by an act approved March 16, 1916.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 124

An ACT to authorize Albemarle and Buckingham counties to erect, build and construct a bridge across James river at Hatton, 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.
Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 125

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of said county a sufficient amount of money to maintain the convict road force in said county, and for the construction of other permanent improved roads in said county, and to borrow money at any time not exceeding $20,000, for the purpose of maintaining said convict road force and for the construction of other permanent improved roads as aforesaid.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Prisons, Bonds

Chapter 126

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to acquire rock quarries.
Industry, Public expenditures, Transportation, Property

Chapter 127

An ACT to refund money improperly collected from the Vinton-Roanoke Water Company, a corporation, and paid into the treasury of the State.
Business, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 128

An ACT to make and declare the county courthouse building and the lot appurtenant thereto, located in Harrisonburg, a part of Central magisterial district in Rockingham county, for certain purposes.
Judicial, Voting, Property, Public officers

Chapter 129

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the killing of sora in the marshes of the Mattaponi river at night with lights
Hunting

Chapter 130

An ACT to enact and re-enact sections 2, 5, 6, 19 and 21 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the making, changing, and working of roads in the county of Rockingham, approved March 2, 1888, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 5, 1890, as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 25, 1892, as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 26, 1896, approved March 15, 1904, as further amended by an act approved March 10, 1910, approved March 20, 1916.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 131

An ACT to uuthorize the town council of the town of Altavista to sell and convey certain lands belonging to said town.
Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 132

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the killing of deer in the county of Buckingham for the term of five years
Hunting

Chapter 133

An ACT to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Taxation, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces, Healthcare, Charity, Recreation, Children -- Institutional care, Education, Pensions, Cemeteries

Chapter 134

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair public roads and bridges of Page county, and for opening new roads, and changing locations of existing roads
Transportation

Chapter 135

An ACT to validate a conveyance by the trustees of the town of Louisa to W. O. Smith of a lot in said town.
Property

Chapter 136

An ACT to authorize the appointment of two additional commissioners in chancery for the circuit court of Montgomery county.
Judicial

Chapter 137

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of Charlotte, for the creation of district road boards in said county, and for the repeal of all acts in conflict therewith
Public expenditures, Transportation, Property

Chapter 138

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15 and 17 of the charter of the town of Mimnassas
Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 139

An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to close the Cove street canal from the eastern side of Arlington place to the junction of said Cove street canal with Mahone’s canal, and to close Mahone’s canal from its said junction with Cove street canal to the eastern side of Lake avenue, in the city of Norfolk.
Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 140

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act appropriating the proceeds of the Glebe lands, and other property, belonging to the parishes of Abingdon, Ware, and Petsworth, in the county of Gloucester, and for other purposes
Property, Bonds, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 141

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Chilhowie, in the county of Smyth, to borrow money and issue bonds for equipment of the fire department, and for the construction and improvement of water and sewerage systems of the said town.
Bonds, Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 142

An ACT to prohibit the shooting, for sale, of rabbits in Madison county.
Hunting, Agriculture

Chapter 143

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to levy a special district road tax for Boiling Springs and Clifton districts.
Transportation

Chapter 144

An ACT to repeal section 141 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended, and to prohibit gypsies and other strolling companies of persons pretending to tell fortunes and practice magic arts for money.
Repeal of legislation, Public expenditures, Pensions, Law Enforcement, Gambling

Chapter 145

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to create the office of State forester, under the direction and control of the State geological commission, and defining his duties, approved March 21, 1914, and to make provision for the prevention of fires, approved March 20, 1916.
Business, Property

Chapter 146

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3158 of the Code of Virginia in relation to special juries.
Judicial

Chapter 147

An ACT to prescribe who may administer an oath or affidavit to the purchaser of fuel, provisions, or other thing, and the effect of such oath or affidavit.
Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 148

An ACT to prevent the setting or using of fish nets or fish traps
Fishing

Chapter 149

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3532 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, as to the fees of jailers, for feeding prisoners.
Jails, Prisons, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 150

An ACT to appropriate $780.65 to reimburse Marshall M. Milton for expenditures made and bills incurred by him in the organization and recruiting of the fifth company, Virginia coast artillery, between the time of its muster Into State service, July 2, 1917, and its muster into federal service July 25, 1917.
Armed forces, Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 151

An ACT to amend the special road law for Rockbridge county
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 152

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2700a of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow executors and other fiduciaries to invest in Virginia three per centum bonds issued by virtue of an act approved February 14, 1882, approved February 9, 1898, approved March 22, 1916, in relation to fiduciary investments.
Amendments, Bonds, Business, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 153

An ACT to authorize the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 1, of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $50,000 in amount.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 154

An ACT to authorize the school board of Tanner’s creek magisterial district, No. 6, of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $75,000 in amount.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 155

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to enlarge or build an addition to the vault of the courthouse of said county, and make other improvements to said courthouse and additions thereto, and arrange plants to furnish heat, light, and water for the same; and to provide for issuing county warrants on levies for future years to pay the expenses thereof.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 156

An ACT to declare Miry creek in Halifax county from Midley’s old mill dam to its mouth a highway and providing for clearing the same of obstructions and to authorize the board of supervisors of Halifax county to appoint an overseer to inspect the same.
Utilities

Chapter 157

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Waynesboro, to call a special election of the qualified voters of the said town, to determine whether or not all live stock shall be prohibited from running at large within, the corporate limits of the town of Waynesboro, Virginia
Agriculture, Property, Public spaces, Voting

Chapter 158

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059-h of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled 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, and as further amended und re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and also to amend and reenact section 3059 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 3066, 3067, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060 and 5062 of the Code, as heretofore amended, and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, as to the times for holding regular terms of the courts in the several circuits, and giving jurisdiction. to courts during recess, Whether adjourned for the purpose of opening or holding another term, or part or portion there or otherwise, which the judges of the circuit courts now have in vacation, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and as further amended by an act approved February 26, 1910, approved March 4, 1912.
Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 159

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of gill nets or seines, or the taking of fish therewith, in the waters of Dan river, any lake or pond formed thereby, or any back-water therefrom, within Pittsylvania county, and the corporate limits of the city of Danville, approved March 138, 1912.
Fishing

Chapter 160

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro-hibit fishing within 500 yards of the mill dam across Clinch river at Speers ferry, Scott county, Virginia, approved March 13, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1914.
Fishing

Chapter 161

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Amendments, Boundaries, Business, Municipal charters, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Utilities, Healthcare, Public spaces, Public officers

Chapter 162

An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the county of Scott.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 163

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3508 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fees of certain officers, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Jails, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Property

Chapter 164

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4077 of the Code of Virginia relative to certain allowances for jailers.
Jails, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 165

An ACT to add three sections to an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create and maintain a State board of crop pest commissioners, and to define its duties and powers
Agriculture

Chapter 166

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Prince William county to reimburse Palmer Smith for damages suffered by him by reason of their order.
Property

Chapter 167

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Parksley, in the county of Accomac, to borrow money and issue bonds for the purchase, construction, repair and improvement of the water and lighting systems of said town.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Utilities

Chapter 168

An ACT for the protection of gray squirrels in the county of Loudoun.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 169

An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 170

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to borrow money and issue bonds of said county, or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $30,000, for the purpose of repairing damage done by flood to the public roads and bridges of said county, and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund for the payment of such bonds at maturity.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 171

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 172

An ACT to relieve Marshall McCormick, by the payment to him of certain warrants which he paid off in 1877, 1878 and 1879, but which have not been repaid to him.
Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 173

An ACT to prohibit the issuing of bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement, under an election held in 1916 for this purpose, in Lunenburg county, for Pleasant Grove magisterial district of said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 174

An ACT in relation to killing and trapping muskrats in the county
Hunting

Chapter 175

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Virginia
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 176

An ACT to validate the recordation of certain maps and plats as recorded in the counties of Amherst, Campbell and Halifax and authorize the use of plat books in the clerk’s offices thereof.
Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 177

An ACT to provide a cottage at Catawba sanatorium for tubercular teachers.
Healthcare, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 178

An ACT to provide for the building of bridges in the county of Isle of Wight, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issuing of bonds, and to build bridges in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 179

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 5, 1916, entitled 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, Property

Chapter 180

An ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of any two or more counties in this State, or the board of supervisors of any one or more of the counties in this State and the council or councils of any one or more of the several cities in this State, to establish a home for the care and maintenance of the poor; to authorize the sale and conveyance of certain rental and personal property belonging to such cities and counties as may adopt the provisions of this act; to authorize the authorities of such counties and cities to purchase farms of suitable size, fertility and location; to authorize such authorities to erect suitable buildings to be called district homes, to which all of the counties and cities composing such district must send its poor, and care for same; providing for the appointment of boards of control, superintendents, physicians and necessary employees; and to abolish county and city poor houses in the several counties and cities which adopt the provisions of this act.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 181

An ACT to prohibit the hunting, shooting or trapping of ring-necked pheasants in Brunswick county, until the first day of November, 1921.
Hunting

Chapter 182

An ACT to authorize courts and other tribunals to take judicial notice of the laws of other States and foreign countries, and of the United States.
Judicial

Chapter 183

An ACT to validate certain instruments in town of Mendota.
Municipal charters, Property, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 184

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to retire certain bonds issued for the improvement of roads in Stevensburg district in said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 185

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roads of Tazewell county, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in said county, approved February 29, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 27, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 17, 1901, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 8, 1910, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1912, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1914, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 16, 1916, and to provide for the working, repairing, maintaining and improving the roads in Tazewell county.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 186

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of said county a sufficient amount of money to maintain the convict road force in said county, and for the construction of other permanent improved roads in said county, and to borrow money at any time not exceedingly $20,000, for the purpose of maintaining said convict road force and for the construction of other permanent improved roads as aforesaid.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Prisons, Bonds

Chapter 187

An ACT to authorize and empower boards of supervisors to remit certain classes of local taxes upon certain steam railways operating at a loss.
Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 188

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Danville, so as to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 3, sections 1 and 2 of chapter 4, sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of chapter 5, and section 2 of chapter 10, of an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, as the same, or any of said sections, may have been heretofore amended.
Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 189

An ACT to provide for the commitment by any court having jurisdiction of such persons convicted therein of a misdemeanor or the violation of a city ordinance to any county or city farm; to provide for the commitment by the several courts and police justices of this State of juveniles that might be committed under the terms of an act approved March 27th, to any county or city farm; and to provide for the necessary expense of removing and delivering any person to said farm; and to provide the expense for the maintenance and support during the period of his or her confinement upon such farm.
Prisons, Charity, Custody of children, Public expenditures

Chapter 190

An ACT to prescribe the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of Norfolk to secure the State revenue, and to require weekly settlements of such treasurer.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 191

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to create a general road fund, and to provide for the permanent improvement of roads, approved April 2, 1902, and to create an advisory road board and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 14, 1903, and to authorize the said board of supervisors to create a general maintenance road fund.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 192

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 9 and 48 of an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter of the city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, and as amended March 20, 1916.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 193

An ACT to authorize the appointment of one additional commissioner in chancery for the circuit court of the county of Pittsylvania.
Judicial

Chapter 194

An ACT to prohibit the killing of deer for a period of three years, and of elk for a period of five years, in the counties of Botetourt, Bland, Alleghany, Giles, Montgomery, Craig, Pulaski, Russell, Rockbridge, Franklin, Rockingham, Wythe and Patrick.
Hunting

Chapter 195

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte to provide annual allowance for the sheriff of said county
Public officers, Budget, Salaries

Chapter 196

An ACT to regulate the hunting, shooting, or sale of squirrel:
Hunting

Chapter 197

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the killing of deer in the county of Cumberland for the term of three years
Hunting

Chapter 198

An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, to convey a part of its real estate.
Education, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 199

An ACT to provide for the locating and opening of new roads, for the altering and discontinuing of any of the existing roads, for the working, improving and keeping the same in repair; and to provide for the erection and maintenance of bridges, in the county of Wythe; and to provide a penalty for obstructing or injuring the roads and bridges in said county, and for repealing all former special road laws for the said county of Wythe.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 200

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick and Charlotte, approved March 6, 1874, as heretofore amended.
Agriculture

Chapter 201

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to give rewards for crow scalps.
Wildlife, Agriculture
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