Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-09
NEW LAWS.
The following are some of the new

| tboriZc certain persons. Wnen arrested
or convicted, TO be committed to tn
custody OF The prison association o
Virginia.
To prevent cruelty to children ant
to regulate and provide for their con
troll and custody in certain cases.
To amend an act to require the pay
ment of fees on certain charters.
To amend section $3.50 of the code
in reference to rape and its punish
ment.
To amend an act in relation to thu
counties and districts, of the county
court judges.
Suspending time of redeeming land:
sold for delinquent taxes and bought
by the auditor, in cases where proceed
ings in equity have been instituted by
persons interested in such lands.
To amend chapter sos of the acts o.
1898 -'94, in relation TO the roads of AL
eXandria county.
To require the judges of courts and
the clerks to certify to auditor lists o.
ell allowances made by courts.
To regulate the granting of injunc-
tioDs in certain cases.
To authorize landowners to erect
and maintain gates across private
roads.
To amend section of an act to in
corporate the Masonic Home of Vir-
giuia.
To amend section 2O42 of the code,
10 relation TO damages tor trespass by
animals.
To authorize and empower the audi
;or to collect taxes heretofore assessed
upon benk stock held by resident and
resident stockholders.
To amend section 1861 of the code
relative TO attachments.
To amend and re enact an act en-
titled IAN ectio provide fer the payment
of debts due 10y commission mer-
chants"
In relation TO the fraudulent sale,
negotiation, pledge, or hypothecation
f licensed warehouse or other licensed
storage receipts.
70 amend au act TO require the pay
ment OF fees on certain charters.
To amend and re-enact section l OF
an act entitled an act to prescribe the
mode of applying for and obtaining d
license, the tax on which, but for this
act, would be $50 or more, were it is
sued ior the period OF one year.
In relation to the unlawful hunting
on another's land.
In relation TO the collection of fees
of the commissioners of the revenue.
To prohibit the several cities and
towas Of the commonwealth from i'm
posing and collecting taxes, fines, or
other penalty upon persons selling their
own farm and domestic product within
the limits of any such town or city out
side of and not within the regular
market-houses and sheds of such towns
and cities.
To amend section Of an act enti-
tied an act to create board of excise
commissioners for Alexandria county.
To increase the number of governors
for the Masonic Home of Virginia.
70 amend section 3251 Of the code
relating to forms of actions and decla-
rations on policies of insurance.
Requiring the auditor of public &C.
counts to make statement annually,
showing an accounting of the county
and city treasurers with the State who
are in arrears, and prescribing the
manner in which the same shall be
made public.
In relation to the confinement in Jail
and release therelrom of persons SEN
fenced Or directed by q court of justice
to be confined therein in default of the
payment of fine and cost, or cost,
where there is no fine.
To protect all payments made to the
holder of auy policy in any accident
company, sick benefit company, or any
company Of like kind from levy or dis.
tress for any debts due by the insured.
For the protection and preservation
Of certain fish in the Potomac river.
Ia relation to fees of attorneys for the
| Commonwealth.
For the protection of terrapiD.
To incorporate the Occoquan and
Mount Vernon Passenger Railway
Company.
To amend and re-enact section 37S(
of the code, in relation to carrying con
cealed weapons.
Amending the charter of the city o
Alexandria.
In relation to the powers, duties, ant
compensation of the State Board o
Health. and to make an appropriation
for maintaining the same.
To incorporate the Falls Church
Fairfax, and Manassas Railway Com
pany.
To make husband and wife competen
witnesses for or against each other il
civil cases.
Providing for the appointment ant
removal of coroners and for the enact
ing and re-enacting of section S91 of tn
code.
To take the sense of the people upol
| the call of a convention to revise ant
amend the constitution.
To punish winter racing in the Stat
of Virginia. :.
Prescribing how person riding a bl
cycle shall pass vehicle or person
on the public highways and bridge;
and providing penalties.