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1922

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 206

An ACT to authorize the district road board of Scott magisterial district, Fauquier county, Virginia, to pay off and discharge certain certificates of indebtedness issued by it December 15, 1916, in order to borrow money to resurface and otherwise improve the macadam road in said district, from The Plains to Middleburg.
Transportation

Chapter 207

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide a special police for Newport magisterial district in the county of Warwick, approved February 19, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900.
Law Enforcement, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 208

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Warwick county to distribute certain portions of the general county levy funds among the various districts for road purposes.
Budget, Transportation

Chapter 209

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Hill, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, approved February 16, 1901, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Confederate, Charity, Education, Noncitizens, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 210

An ACT authorizing the school board of Mt. Gilead school district, in the county of Loudoun, with the approval of the board of supervisors of said county, to borrow a sum not exceeding $37,000 for the purpose of erecting school buildings in the said district.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 211

An ACT to supply the West Virginia State department of archives and history with specimens of the various Virginia bonds exchanged for bonds of West Virginia, under act of West Virginia, approved APT 1, 1919.
Bonds

Chapter 212

An ACT authorizing and directing the chairman of the board of supervisors of Amherst county to convey to the school board of Court House district, in behalf of Amherst county, a certain lot in said district for a
Education, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 213

An ACT to authorize the school board of Richmond district, number one, of the county of Wise, to issue and sell bonds to an amount not exceeding $60,900 for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a new public school building in the village of East Stone Gap in said school district, and to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 214

An ACT to authorize the school board of Richmond district, number one, of the county of Wise, to issue and sell bonds to an amount not exceeding $60,000, for the purpose of paying off the floating indebtedness of said school district, and to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Budget, Education

Chapter 215

An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm an election held by the qualified voters of the county of Madison, Virginia, on the eighteenth day of May, 1920, in pursuance of an order of the circuit court of Madison county, Virginia, on the ninth day of March, 1920, and to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds issued and to be issued in pursuance thereof, for the purpose of building, macadamizing or otherwise permanently improving certain roads in Madison county as set out in the order of the circuit court of Madison county entered on the ninth day of March, 1920.
Budget, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 216

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to borrow $10,000 for the purpose of refunding bonds issued by said board of supervisors January 1, 1904, for the purpose of building a bridge across James river in that county, and to issue bonds of the said county
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 217

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Covington to omit certain buildings in the town of Covington from taxation by said ate for a period of five years.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 218

An ACT validating certain negotiable notes issued by the board of supervisors of the county of Shenandoah, and authorizing said board to issue additional negotiable notes of said county.
Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 219

An ACT authorizing and directing the board of supervisors of Washington county to make an annual allowance, as a salary to one deputy sheriff in said county.
Law Enforcement, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 220

An ACT discontinuing the toll gate near the corporate limits o! the city of Winchester on the North Frederick road, and providing for the sale of the toll gate property and the disposition of the proceeds thereof
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 221

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to borrow not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, for the purpose of resurfacing and patching Madison road between the corporation line and Salem district line in Catalpa magisterial district of said county; and to require the said board to levy a tax to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity
Budget, Bonds, Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 222

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of Prince George and Surry counties to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges of the said counties, and for the protection of the lives and property of persons using such roads, and providing compensation for special services rendered by supervisors, and to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the boards of supervisors of Prince George and Surry counties to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges of the said counties, approved March 16, 1920.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Agriculture

Chapter 223

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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

Chapter 224

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 rec or otherwise improving public roads or bridges of magisterial ae said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 225

An ACT to amend an re-enact section 3292 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact subsection 13 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved February 19, 1918.
Agriculture, Fishing, Law Enforcement, Taxation

Chapter 226

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-four hundred and eight (2408) of the Code of Virginia.
Taxation

Chapter 227

An ACT to permit turnpike companies to regulate and control travel and traffic on turnpike roads.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1616 of the Code of Virginia.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3879 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 230

An ACT to authorize and require the auditor of public accounts to withhold the commissions of a commissioner of revenue for assessing omitted State taxes where the legality of the assessment is contested.
Taxation

Chapter 231

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4835 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Labor, Public expenditures, Transportation, Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 233

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Windsor, in the county of Isle of Wight, approved March 15, 1902, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Property

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2143 of the Code of
Transportation

Chapter 235

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to negotiate a loan and issue bonds of said county for the purpose of improving and repairing the courthouse of said county, and to levy a special county tax in said county to pay said bonds and the interest tts thereon.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Glade Spring, in the county of Washington
Amendments, Incorporation, Property, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 237

An ACT to regulate the payment and adjustment by common carriers of claims for loss or damage in transit, for storage, demurrage, and car service, and to permit evidence to be shown by affidavits in the trial of certain cases; and to repeal chapter 291 of Acts 1918.
Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 238

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections seven (7), nine (9) and ten (10) of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for the permanent road or bridge improvements and upkeep and maintenance in the magisterial districts of the county of Scott, approved March 13, 1918, and amended by an act approved March 23, 1920.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 239

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of chapter 6 of an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Jails, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 240

An ACT to authorize, under certain conditions, the mayor and council of the town of Cape Charles, in the county of Northampton, to issue bands and borrow money for the enlargement, extension, repair, improvement and maintenance of the water and sewer systems of the said town, and to refund certain sewer and water bonds maturing in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-three.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 241

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved April 1, 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, approved March 3, 1886, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of the aforesaid act approved January 31, 1890, as further amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in Mecklenburg county, approved February 19, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved January 30, 1900, approved March 16, 1916.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Pensions, Employment and labor

Chapter 242

An ACT to make it unlawful to destroy or disturb the nests of wild turkeys in this Commonwealth.
Wildlife

Chapter 243

An ACT to provide that no costs or fees shall be taxed for, or in any way allowed to, an attorney for the Commonwealth in any case unless he, or some one for him, actually appears and prosecutes the proceedings before the court.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 244

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Timberville, in Rockingham county, Virginia
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 245

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia.
Jails, Labor, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 246

An ACT to provide a suitable pavilion at Catawba and Piedmont sanatoria for the care of young children with active disease from tuberculosis infection and providing moneys therefor.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 247

An ACT to provide dispensary facilities for the rural districts by promoting the tuberculosis educational division of the State board of health and appropriating moneys therefor.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 248

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 672 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 249

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 24, 1920, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, so as to provide that said town may have a police justice.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 250

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges of the said county.
Transportation

Chapter 251

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Carroll county to make an appropriation of $2.000.00 to be applied to the construction of a bridge at Harrison Farris ford in Pulaski county.
Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 252

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2136 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 253

An ACT requiring that every person, firm, company, or corporation who exhibits performances in a dog show, pony show, side show, trained animal show, carnival, circus, menagerie and circus, or a moving picture show, or any other show, exhibition or performance similar thereto, within one mile of the corporate limits of the town of Coeburn, Virginia, shall procure from the said town such license as would be required if said show were exhibited within the corporate limits of the said town.
Amusement, Circus

Chapter 254

An ACT authorizing the town council of the town of Eastville in Northampton county to borrow not exceeding $15,000, and to issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of grading, draining, paving and otherwise improving the streets in the said town.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 255

An ACT to authorize and empower the town of Orange to borrow not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars to be used for street improvement purposes, and to issue bonds therefor; and if such bonds be issued, to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal: thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 256

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter incorporating the town of Eastville, in Northampton county, approved February 6, 1896, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Business, Taxation, Alcohol

Chapter 257

An ACT to regulate motion picture films and reels; providing a system of examination, approval and regulation thereof, and of the banners, posters and other like advertising matter used in connection therewith; creating the board of censors; and providing penalties for the violation
Amusement, Business, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Recreation, Voting

Chapter 258

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to construct the uncompleted portion of the Eagle Rock to Fincastle permanent road in Botetourt county, and to provide for issuing warrants on levies for not exceeding fifteen years in the Fincastle magisterial district to pay the expenses thereof.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, 15, 18-b, 19-h, 19-i, 29, 30, 40, 43, 44, 65 and 78 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as the same may have been heretofore amended.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget, Public spaces, Transportation, Property, Taxation, Utilities, Cemeteries

Chapter 260

An ACT to create Arlington sanitary district; conferring certain powers and imposing certain duties on the board of supervisors of Arlington county; granting to said board the power of eminent domain; authorizing the issuance of bonds upon certain conditions; to provide for the construction, maintenance and operation of water supply, drainage, sewerage and refuse disposal systems; and to repeal an act entitled an act to create a sanitary district of Alexandria county; providing for water and sewerage districts, approved March 25, 1920, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Utilities, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 261

An ACT to validate and authorize contracts upon the life of infants, under certain conditions, and, subject to certain provisos, to give a valid discharge of the contract or for ‘any benefits available or money payable under the same and to create liens thereon.
Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 262

An ACT authorizing the town council of the town of Halifax in Halifax county to borrow not exceeding $45,000, and to issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of improving streets in the said town; also authorizing the said council to levy a tax on the property in said town to pay the interest on and principal of said bonds.
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 263

An ACT to permit the Virginia Railway and Power Company to grant free transportation over its car lines in the city of Richmond and suburbs to Confederate veterans in R. E. Lee Camp Soldiers’ Home, and to relieve said company from any liability in connection with such transportation of said veterans, except in case of gross negligence.
Transportation, Armed forces, Confederate

Chapter 264

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Nelson county to issue bonds, not exceeding in amount $20,000, for the purpose of constructing roads and bridges in Lovingston magisterial district of said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 265

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4145 and 4146 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 266

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved February 25, 1920.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 267

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 675 of the Code of Virginia.
Education

Chapter 268

An ACT to authorize and validate the payment of small bank balances and small sums due from employers to next of kin of decedent.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 269

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act extending the right of suffrage to women; assessing a State capitation tax on certain women residents of Virginia; and prescribing the qualifications of women entitled to vote for members of the general assembly and all officers elective by the people, and the manner in which women may register and vote; also providing when this act shall take effect, approved March
Voting, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 270

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1707 of the Code of Virginia.
Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 271

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 79 of the Code of Virginia.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 272

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Wachapreague, in Accomac county, and to provide for taking the sense of the qualified voters of said town on the rues approved April 2, 1902.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 273

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Halifax county to borrow not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars and to issue notes therefor for the purpose of improving, constructing or reconstructing any section or sections of the State highway system within said county in accordance with the provisions of chapter 184 of the acts of assembly of 1920,
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Property

Chapter 274

An ACT authorizing the town council of the town of Wachapreague in Accomac county to borrow not exceeding $10,000, and to issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of improving’ streets and sidewalks in the said town; also authorizing the said council to levy a tax on the property in said town to pay the interest on the principal of said bonds.
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 275

An ACT to provide how the school board of the Rose Hill district No. 1, of Lee county, may issue bonds of the Rose Hill district not exceeding forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000.00) for the purpose of paying off the indebtedness of said school district, and how the said bonds shall be issued and payable, and to provide that said bonds shall be a lien on all the school property of said district.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 276

An ACT to provide for the enumeration of the veterans, the wives and the widows of veterans of the Confederate army and navy, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the enumeration of the veterans of the Confederate army and navy, approved March 20, 1920.
Armed forces, Confederate, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 277

An ACT to prohibit the sale of certain species of game fish in this State.
Fishing

Chapter 278

An ACT to limit the number of certain game fish that may be
Fishing

Chapter 279

An ACT to authorize cities and towns to lay an additional levy over and above any other amounts authorized by law for the purpose of providing a sinking fund for payment of principal and interest on its bonded indebtedness.
Budget, Bonds, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 280

An ACT to amend an act approved March 20, 1920, entitled an act for the protection of patients and inmates of State hospitals and colonies for the insane, epileptic and feeble-minded from improper and unlawful marriages and providing punishment for violation of this act.
Marriage, Children -- Institutional care, Cemeteries, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 281

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 4 of section 3299 of the Code of Virginia.
Fishing, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 282

An ACT to provide a road commission for Eastville magisterial district, in Northampton county, and to repeal previous acts.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 283

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3206 of the Code of Virginia.
Fishing

Chapter 284

An ACT to prohibit the selling of children; to protect children from wilful or negligent injuries; and to prevent children from being overworked, tortured, tormented, mutilated, or cruelly beaten or cruelly treated.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Civil Rights, Employment and labor

Chapter 285

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5194 of the Code of Virginia with reference to the recordation of contracts, deeds, etc., that are void as to creditors and purchases unless recorded.
Property

Chapter 286

An ACT designating Primary Road No. 1 of the State highway system as the Jefferson Davis highway.
Confederate, Transportation

Chapter 287

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3202 of the Code of Virginia.
Fishing

Chapter 288

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4580 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of police for religious meetings
Law Enforcement, Religious Institutions, Public officers

Chapter 289

An ACT to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces, Voting

Chapter 290

An ACT to require all owners, operators, proprietors, superin-
Industry, Property

Chapter 291

An ACT to protect landlords against removal of crop by tenants
Agriculture, Business, Debt, Property

Chapter 292

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Wakefield, approved February 10, 1920, as heretofors amended.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 293

An ACT to remove the disability of infancy for the purpose of passing contingent right of curtesy and dower.
Marriage, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 294

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3082 of the Code of Vir.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 295

Chapter 296

An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of the town of Potomac, in Arlington county, the question of annulling the charter of said town by repealing an act approved March 13, 1908, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Potomac, in the county of Alexandria; and to annul and repeal said charter upon a majority vote declaring against said charter.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 297

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled 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, approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by an act approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 298

An ACT authorizing the school board of South Hill school dis- district, in the county of Mecklenburg, to borrow money, not to exceed $45,000, for building a school house in the town of South Hill, in said ws
Education, Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 299

An ACT authorizing the convict lime board to borrow not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars on the lime grinding plant at Irvington; in case the said loan cannot be effected, to lease the said plant for not exceeding two years; also authorizing the said board to sell the lime now in storage at said plant in any way it may consider to be to the best interests of the State.
Industry, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 300

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the business of making small loans, by requiring persons charging directly or indirectly a greater rate of compensation than the conventional legal interest rate per annum on loans not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00) to any person, to obtain a license; by prescribing the maximum amount of compensation which licensees may charge; by regulating assignments to licensees of salaries or wages earned, or to be earned; by prohibiting false or deceptive advertising concerning such loans; by fixing penalties for violation of certain provisions of this act; by prescribing certain duties of the chief examiner of the banking division of the State corporation commission in respect to licenses; repealing section 81 of the revenue act and all other acts, or parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1918, sections 14, 16, 17 and 18 of which said act were amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1920.
Amendments, Business, Debt, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 301

An ACT to amend an re-enact section 2337 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 18, 1920.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 302

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 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 heretofore amended.
Amendments, Taxation, Property, Business, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 303

An ACT to authorize the filing of notices of Federal tax liens
Taxation

Chapter 304

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2215, 2228 and 2229 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 2226 and 2227 of the Code of Virginia.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 305

An ACT to validate the issuance of $200,000 of bonds by the town of South Boston, Virginia, and to authorize the issuance of the same and to provide for the levy of a tax to pay the interest on said bonds and provide for a sinking fund.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Education, Utilities

Chapter 306

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2002 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1920.
Amendments, Public officers, Salaries, Budget
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