1919es

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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 money for the same

Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 2

An ACT to add a new section to the charter of the city of Suffolk, to be known as section 34, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualifications, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office, and compensation, and repealing all acts and parts of acts and all charter provisions in conflict herewith.

Civil Rights, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 1 and sub-section 5 of section 44 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, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 4

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to purchase and provide for the payment therefor of the Rawley springs and Harrisonburg turnpike, and the Harrisonburg and Franklin turnpike, or either of them.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 5

An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, State of Virginia, to borrow money, issue warrants and bonds therefor, for the purpose of erecting a public school building, building a concrete street from the corporate limits on York street to the corporate limits on Richmond avenue, and to complete the water and sewer systems of the said city, and providing for submission of the issuance of bonds for these purposes to the qualified voters of the said city.

Budget, Business, Education, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 6

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 61 of an act entitled ar act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal al: acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 14, 1908

Amendments, Budget, Bonds, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 7

An ACT to provide for improving the public roads and bridges of Floyd magisterial district in the county of Scott and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges, grade and macadamize the roads in Flore Se

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 8

An ACT to authorize the Chincoteague Toll Road and Bridge Company, Incorporated, to cross, maintain and operate a public toll bridge and road across certain lowlands, marshes and meadows in the county of Accomac.

Transportation, Utilities, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 9

An ACT to permit the county of Fauquier to issue bonds for Cedar Run magisterial district, of Fauquier county, for the purpose of permanent improvement of roads and bridges in said district, not exceeding twenty per cent of assessed value of taxable property in said district and to levy a tax not exceeding $1.80 on the $100.00 as-assessed valuation of the taxable property in said district subject to county and district taxation, to provide for payment of interest on said bonds and a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said bonds, and for the upkeep of said roads so constructed, and the other roads in said district.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 10

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to borrow money and issue bonds of the Gladeville magisterial district thereof for a sum not exceeding $80,000.00 for the purpose of constructing and improving a public road and the necessary bridges on and along same, in the said Gladeville magisterial district along the Roaring Fork of Powell’s river and the Pot Camp Fork of said Roaring Fork, beginning at the Richmond magisterial district line at the northern end of the said district public road leading from the State highway between Appalachia and Norton, thence up and near Roaring Fork and Pot Camp Fork through the villages of Roaring Fork and Dunbar to the village of Pardee in said Gladeville magisterial district, and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund for the payment of such bonds at maturity.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 11

An ACT to permit the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Company, Inc., to surrender to Fairfax county the section of its road from Fairfax to Centreville in Fairfax county, and to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to issue to said company for said section of road the notes or bonds of Fairfax county for $8,000 00, payable out of county levy.

Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact the act approved March 4, 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 45 of the act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874.

Education, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 13

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 56 of the acts of assembly of 1910, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville and to repeal its present charter.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Salaries

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 256 of the acts of assembly of 1855-’6, as amended by chapter 123, acts of assembly of 1883-’4, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Orange, and to enable said town to borrow

Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled "an act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield and to grant a new charter to the said town, which took effect February 17, 1900," as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February in’ B 1915.

Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Education, Municipal charters

Chapter 16

An ACT making it the duty of the game warden of Clarke and Warren counties to enforce in said counties laws, by-laws, rules, regulations and ordinances relating to trespassing of animals on the public highways of said counties.

Hunting

Chapter 17

An ACT to prohibit the taking of fish from the streams of Franklin county, except with hook and line.

Fishing

Chapter 18

An ACT to make it unlawful to hunt, kill or chase deer in the county of Lunenburg from the first day of January to the first day of October, in each year.

Hunting

Chapter 19

An ACT to permit the board of supervisors of Prince William county to pay over to the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Company, Inc., the sum of $2,000.00 to be used in the improvement of that part of the road of said company between Bull Run and Gainesville in said county.

Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 20

An ACT to appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars to the legislative reference bureau for the employment of stenographic and clerical help, and to pay other expenses of said bureau.

Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 21

An ACT requiring superintendent of roads to keep roads, foot and other bridges in repair, prescribing how materials for roads and bridges are to be procured, how compensation for same shall be fixed and damages ascertained, and what is not to be interfered

Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 22

An ACT to fix the salary of the assistant attorney general of Virginia.

Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 8 of an act in relation to the sale of farm produce on commission; defining the term “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 24

An ACT to amend sections ten and eleven of the charter of the town of Salem, as heretofore amended.

Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Taxation, Fire fighters, Business

Chapter 25

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.”

Budget, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 26

An ACT to amend section 5189 of the Code of Virginia

Business, Property, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 27

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 6 of an act entitled an act to prevent damage and injuries by dogs, and to provide compensation of owners of stock so injured; to provide for licenses for dogs and to provide penalties for violation thereof.

Taxation, Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 28

An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial district of the counties of the State, and repealing all acts in so far as the same are in conflict herewith.

Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 29

An ACT to appropriate the sum of six thousand dollars for the purpose of providing proper ventilation in the halls of the general assembly.

Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 30

An ACT to authorize the town of Potomac, in the county of Alexandria, Virginia, to issue bonds not exceeding $60,000.00 for the purpose of building and maintaining a sewerage system; to allow the council of said town to issue said bonds if the same shall be authorized by a majority of the qualified voters, being freeholders thereof; and to levy and collect a special tax to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund for the redemption of the said bonds upon their maturity.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation

Chapter 31

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission, to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commissioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1906; to provide for the appointment of a commission, and fixing their term of office; to give to said commission the power of eminent domain: the power to make and enforce rules and regulations governing the traffic on and use of the State Highway System, not in conflict with the laws of this State, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities, Legislative Amendments, Employment and labor

Chapter 32

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $9,260 to the Virginia home and industrial school for girls at Bon Air for the payment of salaries and the purchase of supplies and equipment.

Budget, Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare

Chapter 34

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $21,113.54 to the Virginia penitentiary to supplement an appropriation made by an act entitled an act to regulate the treatment, handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary, and to appropriate funds therefor

Prisons, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3B, 3C, 5, and 23

Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 36

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $25,350.00 to the virginia normal and industrial institute at Petersburg.

Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 37

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $13,015 to the college of William and Mary in Virginia to purchase and replace worn out and discarded dormitory equipment, to make necessary repairs to college buildings, and to provide circulating hot water for the college Bayings

Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 38

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $8,040.00 to the register of the land office and superintendent of grounds and buildings for maintenance of the capitol grounds and buildings; and to provide ice, fuel, light and water for the capitol and library buildings, governor’s house and power plant.

Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 39

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $15,000 to the convict lime board to-enable it to pay for machinery and equipment.

Budget, Public expenditures, Prisons

Chapter 40

An ACT to compensate commissioners of the revenue for additional services made necessary because of change in State tax rate to provide funds to meet appropriation by the United States government for the construction of public highways in Virginia and to appropriate out of the State treasury the sum sufficient.

Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 41

An ACT to extend the time for collection of State taxes and county and city levies assessed on the land and personal property books and State taxes assessed on the income books for the year 1919 and for that year only, notwithstanding the provisions of mention 603 of the Code of Virginia as amended.

Taxation

Chapter 42

An ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Smyth county to invest the sinking fund of said county in bonds of the United States government.

Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 29% 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, and acts amendatory thereof.

Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 44

An ACT to authorize the State highway commissioner to sell, in his discretion, houses formerly used as toll houses on the Valley turnpike, conveyed to the Commonwealth of Virginia under an act approved March 20, 1918.

Transportation

Chapter 45

An ACT to appropriate the additional sum of $100,000.00 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay criminal charges, the appropriation made for the year ending February 28, 1919, and year ending February 29, 1920, being VS Boal

Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 46

An ACT to validate the proceedings of the city of Norfolk for the issuance of certain bonds; to validate such of said bonds as have been issued; and to authorize the issuance of such of said bonds as have not yet been issued.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 47

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 12 of an act, approved March 19, 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact so far as the county of Powhatan is concerned an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 13, 1884.

Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 48

An ACT to provide for ihe issuance of shares of capital stock of corporations organized under the laws of this State without nominal or par value, and for the domestication under the laws of this State of foreign corporations, all or any class of the shares of stock of which are without nominal or par value.

Business

Chapter 49

An ACT to validate an ordinance of the city of Norfolk and to authorize the issuance of $100,000 school ponds pursuant thereto.

Budget, Public expenditures, Education, Bonds

Chapter 50

An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm bonds heretofore and hereafter issued on elections heretofore held authorizing the issuance of such bonds by any county of the State for the purpose of macadamizing or otherwise improving public roads or bridges of magisterial districts of said county.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 51

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to borrow the sum of $50,000.00 to be used for the construction and permanent improvement of roads and bridges in said county under the supervision of the State highway commissioner or the board of supervisors of said county and to provide for the payment of same and to provide for the retirement of any notes or bonds which may have been issued by said board pursuant to acts of the general assembly, approved March 9, 1918, and March 14, 1918, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.

Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 52

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $800,000 to supplement any appropriation heretofore or hereafter made to carry out the provisions of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor, for the improvement of public roads, approved February 25, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 25, 1910, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1916, approved March 27, 1918.

Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Healthcare, Amendments

Chapter 53

An ACT to create for the county of Appomattox a road board and to prescribe the powers and duties of such board and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing, working and keeping in repair ‘the public roads and bridges within said county and to empower and authorize the levy of taxes for road and bridge purposes in said county.

Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 54

An ACT to prevent trusts, combinations and monopolies inimical to the public welfare.

Business, Labor

Chapter 55

An ACT defining cold storage and cold storage warehouses, and regulating the storage of articles of food, and providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and providing an appropriation for carrying out the requirements of the act.

Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 56

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $5,000 to the State executive committee of the American Legion, Virginia branch, to pay expenses of organization, establishment of posts, and to assist in the payment of the expenses of a convention to be held on October 10 1919.

Armed forces, Charity, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 57

An ACT to provide for the recordation of titles to motor vehicles and the identification of the same; to regulate the purchase sale, storage and repair of motor vehicles; declaring the theft of motor vehicles to be a felony and to prescribe penalties for eB ieT

Transportation, Business, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 58

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $9,545.58 for the gah of venereal diseases in the State of Virginia.

Healthcare

Chapter 59

An ACT to authorize the military board to pay out of the military fund, the sum of $7,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the transportation expenses of the officers and cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in attending the unveiling of a statue of General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson.

Armed forces, Monuments and memorials, Transportation

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act providing for the protection of turnpikes that have improved surface or have been treated with bitumen or other artificial binder from injury by traction engines, tractors or motor trucks, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof

Transportation, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 61

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pittsylvania county to make an annual allowance to the sheriff of said county of not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars, payable out of the county treasury.

Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 62

An ACT for the relief of B. M. Hogg.

Confederate, Pensions, Public expenditures

Chapter 63

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor for the improvement of public roads

Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 64

An ACT for the protection of certain fish in the waters of Back bay, Fresh pond and Salt pond in the county of Princess Anne; and to prescribe a time and method for taking and selling in same.

Fishing

Chapter 65

An ACT to pay the actual traveling expenses and hotel bills of the circuit judges while holding courts in all the counties in their circuits except in the counties in which the judges reside in the county seats.

Judicial, Public expenditures, Salaries

Chapter 66

An ACT to appropriate ten thousand dollars to the State board of health to enable it to carry on extension work in co-operation with the United States government.

Healthcare

Chapter 67

An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the county of Princess Anne

Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 68

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled "an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March 12, 1908, March 14, 1908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 18, 1914, March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, February 5, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk," approved February 7, 1918.

Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Education, Children -- Institutional care, Death and burial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 69

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

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 70

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 Franktown magisterial district in Said county.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Budget, Property

Chapter 71

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county, approved February 21, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 138, 1914, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1918.

Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 72

An ACT to transfer certain fund at Virginia polytechnic institute

Education, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force; providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed forty-five men, providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the State convict road force, and appropriating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1906, as amended.

Amendments, Armed forces, Debt, Labor, Prisons, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 74

An ACT requiring permits to be obtained for the construction, repair or improvement of buildings or structures in the on of Norfolk.

Property, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 75

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the road law of Montgomery county, as approved March 14, 1910, which is chapter 173 of the acts of the general assembly of 1910.

Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 76

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the opening, altering, changing and working the public roads in the county of Warren, approved February 18, 1886, to provide for the working, repairing, opening, altering, changing and building of the public roads, bridges, ferries and landings in Warren county, Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 18, 1908.

Transportation

Chapter 77

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Warren county to borrow certain sums of money not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and issue bonds therefor, for the permanent improvement and construction of certain roads in Front Royal, Cedarville, and Fork magisterial districts of said county.

Budget, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 78

An ACT to authorize the city of Bristol to lease or sell the Gauthier property in said city.

Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend and re-enact paragraph sixty of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county, approved March 4, 1912, increasing the rate of taxation authorized by said paragraph sixty of said act approved March 4, 1912, from one dollar and twenty-five cents to two dollars, upon each one hundred dollars of assessed value of real and personal property in the town of Dayton.

Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 80

An ACT to appropriate a sum sufficient to increase the salaries and wages of the officers and employees of the State Farm ten per centum.

Salaries, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.

Amendments, Budget, Business, Property, Public officers

Chapter 82

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties, and councils of cities and towns, to appropriate money, in their discretion, to defray the necessary expenses of Confederate veterans of said counties, cities and towns, in attending any annual re-union of the United Confederate veterans.

Confederate, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 83

An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of Nottoway county to levy a sufficient tax in addition to the levy authorized by law to be laid for general district school purposes to pay the interest on and principal of certain bonds as the same shall become due.

Budget, Education, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 84

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to cause all depositions or accounts in the several banks and banking corporations or associations in this Commonwealth, whereof the depositor is unknown, or the person or persons, to whom such account of deposit belongs, or belong, is, or are unknown, and against which deposit or account there has been no check, draft or order for a period of twenty-one years, by one entitled to check thereon, to escheat to the Commonwealth; and to direct the manner of reporting same, and the final disposition thereof

Property, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 85

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 301 of acts of the general assembly of 1889-1890, entitled an act to provide for the drainage of low lands in Northampton and Accomac counties.

Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 86

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

Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 87

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 2, 1888, entitled an act to provide for making, changing and working roads in the county of Rockingham, as heretofore amended.

Amendments, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Utilities

Chapter 88

An ACT to appropriate a sum sufficient to pay an increase of ten percentum to all state employees at the seat of government, based on the aggregate amount of salaries or wages drawn, or to be drawn, by them, respectively, from September 1, 1919, to February 29, 1920

Employment and labor, Public officers, Public expenditures, Salaries

Chapter 89

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000 to the Virginia war history commission, and to authorize the boards of supervisors of the several counties and the governing bodies of the several cities to appropriate sums to the local branches of the said comms

Legislative Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 90

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 46, 9244 and 118% 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, and acts amendatory thereof, and to add thereto a new section to be known ao D ol 51%.

Amendments, Business, Taxation, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Utilities

Chapter 91

An ACT to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Public expenditures, Budget