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1918

Laws in Volume
Displaying 301 - 400 of 436

Chapter 302

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, as amended by act approved February 9, 1916, so as to provide how the board of supervisors of Buchanan county may establish, change and relocate roads in that county and contract for the construction of same, on terms and conditions.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 303

An ACT authorizing the council of the town of Gretna in the county of Pittsylvania to use and dispose of the net profits derived from the dispensary in said town.
Alcohol, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 304

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 279 of an act of the general assembly, approved March 16, 1910, entitled an act to require the State treasurer to charge off the books of his office all checks drawn by him on State depositories which have not been presented for payment within five years from the date they were issued, and to require him to certify the fact to the auditor of public accounts and to the State depositories on which these checks were drawn not to pay same.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 305

An ACT to dispose of certain moneys in the hands of the treas-urer.
Budget, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 306

An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors
Cemeteries, Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 307

An ACT to appropriate $810.25 to compensate A. Wingfield Baker
Armed forces, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 308

An ACT for the relief of James R. Elam, of Danville, Va.
Debt, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend and reenact section 4 of an act entitled an act concerning the appointment of a dairy and food commissioner within the department of agriculture and immigration, and imposing penalties for its violation, approved March 11, 1908S, and to repeal section 15-a of an act entitled an act to prevent the manufacture or sale of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous or deleterious stock and cattle feeds, and to repeal section 15 and sub-sections a, b, c, d, e, f, and g of said section 15, chapter 188, acts of assembly, 1908, approved March 11, 1908, and to repeal all other laws in conflict with this act, in so far as they may be in conflict with the provisions of this act, approved March 14, 1910.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1656-a of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 311

An ACT to restrict the trading in second-hand grate baskets, electric lights or gas fixtures, locks or other builders’ hardware, plumbing fixtures, bells and bell fixtures, lead or brass water pipes, or any part of such fixtures or pipes, any wire, cable, lead, solder, copper, iron or brass used by or belonging to a railroad, telephone, telegraph, gas or electric light company.
Business, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 312

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the removal of remains interred in grave-yards and sale of land vacated by such removals
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 313

An ACT prohibiting the use of public drinking cups.
Public spaces, Recreation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 314

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3630 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to homestead exemption.
Amendments, Debt, Property, Public officers, Labor

Chapter 315

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia of 1904 as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1908, as amended and re-enacted March 17, 1910, as amended and re-enacted February 18, 1915, in relation to qualifications of disability of persons holding office under United States so as to allow rural carriers of United States government to be appointed and act as notary public.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Reformatories

Chapter 316

An ACT to ratify and confirm judicial proceedings in partition suits where parcels of real estate, in which infants had undivided interests, have been conveyed to corporation organized for the purpose of acquiring such real estate in exchange for its capital stock.
Property, Children -- Institutional care, Judicial

Chapter 317

An ACT to regulate the business of itinerant venders and itin- erant auctioneers, prescribing a specific license therefor and providing penalties for a violation thereof.
Business, Taxation

Chapter 318

An ACT appropriating the sum of $43,000.00 for the purchase of tract of land in Powhatan county, Virginia.
Property, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 319

An ACT to appropriate $100.00 for payment of account due by commission on efficiency and economy for stenographic work.
Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 320

An ACT limiting the number of quail, partridges, and wild turkeys that may be killed in one day by any one person in the county of Brunswick.
Hunting

Chapter 321

An ACT to provide for the training and licensing of attendants for the sick under certain conditions.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 322

An ACT to organize home guard companies.
Armed forces, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, Public officers

Chapter 323

An ACT for the relief of Martha E. Hensley, J. C. Larkey, and S. E. Head.
Debt, Property, Judicial

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the ‘Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved respectively, March 16, 1910, and March 13, 1912, in relation to unlawful fishing.
Fishing

Chapter 325

An ACT to allow the supervisors of Amelia county to increase the salary of the county clerk of said county.
Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 326

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Columbia, in the county of Fluvanna, to elect the treasurer of said county collector for said town.
Municipal charters

Chapter 327

An ACT allowing James A. Fenwick to erect a wharf in King George county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 328

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to create a road board
Transportation

Chapter 329

An ACT to appropriate $500.00 to erect a memorial tablet in
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 330

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of York county to borrow money for the purpose of bridging Felgates creek, Kings creek and Queens creek, in the county of York, to borrow money for said purpose and to issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 331

An ACT to provide for the recordation of the names of drafted men.
Armed forces

Chapter 332

An ACT for the protection and preservation of the inter-county fair grounds at Doswell, Virginia.
Amusement

Chapter 333

An ACT to appoint a commission to provide and arrange for a celebration of the 300th anniversary of the first meeting of the general assembly of Virginia, on July 30, 1919, and to provide sufficient funds therefor.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 334

An ACT to empower and authorize the board of supervisors of Lee county to employ an agent to make from the office of the register of the land office of Virginia, copies of surveys missing from the surveyor’s records now on file in the clerk’s office of Lee county, and of old surveys covering lands in Tee county, as now constituted, made before the formation of said county, and to make copies so procured evidence in any case involving the title to the lands covered by such surveys.
Property

Chapter 335

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Luray, in the county of Page, to convey certain land to the Confederate memorial association of said county.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Property

Chapter 336

An ACT to regulate the operation of motor vehicles in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
Transportation, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 337

An ACT to provide for the recordation of certain maps and plats, and validating certain maps and plats already recorded.
Property

Chapter 338

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1671 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to commissions of lunacy and their fees
Amendments, Judicial, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 339

An ACT to authorize the sale and conveyance of a lot of not exceeding fifteen acres of land, part of the State penitentiary farm.
Prisons, Property, Public officers

Chapter 340

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3142 of the Code of Virginia, relative to lists of jurors.
Judicial

Chapter 341

An ACT to provide for the removal of certain justices.
Judicial

Chapter 342

An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment taken by notaries public in foreign countries.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 343

An ACT to validate certain obligations of the city of Norfolk and authorizing the said city to refund or renew the same by issuing, renewal or other obligations.
Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 344

An ACT to ratify, confirm and validate all elections, proceedings, acts or things heretofore held, done and performed in the city of Norfolk, a city having a population in excess of sixty-five thousand inhabitants and less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, in reference to the granting, pursuant to chapter 55 of the acts of the general assembly of 1916, of a special form of government to the said city by the general assembly, as provided for by an act approved February 7, 1918.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 345

An ACT to authorize the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac, Virginia, to borrow money.
Budget, Bonds, Education, Municipal charters

Chapter 346

An ACT to take over certain roads in Clarke county.
Transportation

Chapter 347

An ACT to authorize and empower the district school boards of the county of Page to borrow money for certain purposes.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 348

An ACT concerning the exercise of the right of the power of eminent domain by the government of the United States.
Property, Judicial, Noncitizens

Chapter 349

An Act to provide for the use of probation and the suspension of sentence in criminal and juvenile courts, providing for the appointment of probation officers and defining their powers and duties.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights

Chapter 350

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 106% 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
Amusement, Charity, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 351

An ACT to provided for the conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia of the Laurel Industrial School, its property, real and personal, located in the county of Henrico, to the State of Virginia; that the State will assume control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the charter of the said association.
Education, Prisons, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 352

An ACT authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 353

An ACT to provide for the issuance of shares of capital stock of corporations organized under the laws of this State without nominal or par value.
Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 354

An ACT to require clerks of courts to keep telephones in their offices.
Judicial, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 355

An ACT to prohibit stealing and taking away sand and gravel
Property, Recreation, Industry

Chapter 356

An ACT to regulate the situs of taxation of bank stock.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 357

An ACT to prevent minors from frequenting, playing in or loitering in public pool rooms, billiard rooms, outside of the corporate limits of towns and cities.
Children -- Institutional care, Amusement, Billiard parlors, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement

Chapter 358

An ACT to authorize the councils of the several cities or towns of the State to issue bonds for a supply of water or other specific under-taking from which the city or town may derive a revenue, pursuant to section one twenty-seven (127) B of the Constitution of Virginia.
Bonds, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 359

An ACT to regulate the taking of fish from the streams in Scott county, and providing penalties for the violation of same and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Fishing, Public expenditures

Chapter 360

An ACT authorizing the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia to offer one hundred and nineteen State scholarships to students from Virginia, which shall entitle the holder to tuition in the college, room rent, light, heat and attendance free of charge.
Education, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 361

An ACT providing when the defense of death by suicide can be made in any action, motion or suit on life insurance policies, and to define the period after which such policies shall be incontestible.
Death and burial, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 362

An ACT prescribing the style of type in which conditions and restrictive provisions of insurance policies shall be printed, and to define the time in respect to which insurers may limit the right to institute suit or action upon such policies, and regulate the filing of proof of loss.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 363

An ACT to permit public officers to engage in war service without thereby vacating their offices, and to provide for the designation of acting officers to temporarily perform the duties of regular officers while so engaged.
Armed forces

Chapter 364

An ACT to provide for payment of compensation to W. C. Bibb, Commonwealth's attorney, aS counsel for the Commonwealth in the case of Commonwealth against Geo. H. Brown, in Louisa circuit court at its November term, 1916.
Taxation

Chapter 365

An ACT to make uniform the law relating to partnerships.
Business, Judicial, Property, Debt

Chapter 366

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors to supplement the compensation of justices of the peace in certain cases.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 367

An ACT to provide for clearing trees and underbrush from the sides of public roads.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 368

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 8 of chapter 159 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of the session of 1916, relating to the organization and government of cities of the second Class.
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers

Chapter 369

An ACT to define the status of persons having their actual or habitual places of abode in this State for the larger portion of the twelve months preceding the first day of February in each year, for purposes of taxation.
Taxation

Chapter 370

An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of the respective counties of the Commonwealth to pay rewards out of county levies for the capture of illicit stills and delivery of the same to the sheriff of the county, and for the conviction of the person, or persons, guilty of operating the same, in the manufacture of ardent spirits.
Alcohol

Chapter 371

An ACT to provided for deposit and disbursement of donations for public free school purposes.
Education

Chapter 372

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the incorporation by the courts of towns of more than two hundred and less than five thousand inhabitants, and conferring upon said towns, when incorporated, certain powers of taxation, approved March 14, 1908, in order to provide for the repeal of charters of towns.
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 373

An ACT to prohibit advertising concerning venereal diseases.
Healthcare, Law Enforcement

Chapter 374

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 24, 1914, as amended by an act approved March 21, 1916 (chapter 425, acts 1916), entitled an act to provide additional remedies for the collection of taxes, State, county and municipal.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 375

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 9, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualification, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing section 7 of chapter 2 of said charter, approved March 12, 1912.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 376

An ACT to provide for the continuance of all proceedings, civil or criminal, in which any party thereto is engaged in the military or naval service of the United States.
Armed forces, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 377

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Vienna, in Fairfax county, approved February 28, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1908.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries

Chapter 378

An ACT to encourage the production of food fish.
Fishing, Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 379

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 238 of the Code of Virginia providing for the examination of accounts and the payments of amounts appropriated for contingent expenses.
Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 380

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Dillwyn, in the county of Buckingham, the question of repealing the charter of said town.
Municipal charters, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 381

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magisterial districts thereof; to authorize the erection of toll gates and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads therein, and making certain provisions for the enforcement and collection of said tolls and the protection of the said roads, and the property of said district road boards, and providing certain penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal all special acts heretofore enacted in reference to the public roads of said county, and to validate the official acts of certain officers under laws heretofore in effect in said county, and to prescribe a penalty for the violation thereof; and to add an independent section thereto, numbered 1514, so as to require the owners or occupants of land abutting on any public road to keep the same free from certain obstructions, approved February 2, 1915, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1916.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 382

An ACT ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within the State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof, and any interest therein, and repealing all prior acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act.
Armed forces, Property, Repeal of legislation, Taxation, Voting

Chapter 383

An ACT to repeal an act entitled 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, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 384

An ACT to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in ‘the State highway system,” and to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades, from the first to the seventh, inclusive, and to provide for the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis among the people of this State, and to extend the work of the State board of health.
Budget, Public expenditures, Education, Healthcare, Taxation, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 385

An ACT to provide for the payment out of the State treasury of the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the counties and cities of the State, certain fees in felony and misdemeanor cases, and to fix the maximum amount that the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the respective counties and cities of the State shall be paid in fees out of the State treasury, and to fix for them and to provide for the taxing and payment of certain fees in scire facias and other proceedings upon forfeited recognizances, and to amend und re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528S of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public expenditures, Prisons

Chapter 386

An ACT to locate and mark a part of the State line between the States of Virginia and Kentucky.
Boundaries

Chapter 387

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the Code of Virginia relative to temporary appointment of circuit Judges.
Judicial

Chapter 388

An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916 and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Civil Rights, Divorce, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Healthcare, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Marriage, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Taxation, Utilities, Voting

Chapter 389

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about railroad shops, coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories, and railroad clerks the payment of wages at regular intervals, and in lawful money of the United States, approved May 28rd, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11th, 1912.
Employment and labor, Labor, Business

Chapter 390

An ACT to prevent damage and injuries by dogs, and to provide compensation to owners of stock so injured; to provide for license on dogs, and to provide for penalties for violation thereof.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Property, Wildlife

Chapter 391

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18, 19 and 20 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and the 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, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof, and to segregate to localities the tax upon shares of stock of banks, banking associations, trust and security companies.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Pensions, Business

Chapter 392

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3527, 3580 and 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to fees of justices of the peace, attorney for the Commonwealth, clerks, sheriffs, sergeants, jailors, coronors, criers, constables, ete.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 393

An ACT to appropriate, upon certain conditions, the sum of $630.00 for the installation of three automatic flue cleaners (one for each boiler) for the Virginia State power plant, Richmond, Virginia.
Public expenditures

Chapter 394

An ACT to aménd and re-enact section 89 of an act entitled 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, Legislative Amendments, Voting

Chapter 395

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 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 constable, and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commissioner to fix the maximum amount of compensation of said officers, approved March 27, 1914, in reference to the county of Prince George, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1916.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 396

An ACT to authorize and regulate the exchange of certain classes of reciprocal and inter-insurance contracts among individuals, partnerships and corporations, empowering corporations generally to make such contracts, regulating process in suits on such contracts, and prescribing certain fees, taxes and licenses, and penalty for ee
Business

Chapter 397

An ACT to permit the transfer of the Valley Turnpike to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to fix the terms and conditions of such transfer and to provide for the maintenance of said turnpike.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Utilities

Chapter 398

An ACT to repeal an act approved February 19, 1896, entitled an act to constitute capitation tax a lien upon real estate owned by the person at the time such capitation tax is assessed, as amended by an act approved December 3, 1903.
Taxation

Chapter 399

An ACT to regulate the appointment of receiver for insurance companies.
Business

Chapter 400

An ACT to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act.
Employment and labor, Healthcare, Judicial, Public expenditures, Death and burial, Pensions, Labor

Chapter 401

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to provide for the protection of sheep and other live stock by a license tax on dogs, the enforcement thereof, and the reimbursement of the owners of such animals, killed or injured by dogs, out of the proceeds of such tax.
Agriculture, Business, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities
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