Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-08
NEW LAWS.


The following are some of the bills
approved by the Governor which have
become laws:
To amend 40 act as to what property
may he di5trained for taxes.
To amend an act in relation to the
payment of fees to sheriff, sergeant,
coroner, crier, or constable.
To amend an act incorporating Falls
Church and Potomac Railroad Com
pany.
To amend an act as to how judges of
election appointed; falling to attend;
who to act
To provide for the destruction of cer-
'aiu poll books and ballots in the
ylerk's office OF the county and corpo-
ration courts.
To require the return of distress war
/ rants aud to provide for process of sale.
TO provide for the appointment of
special prost cutting attorney in proper
cases.
To amend the code in relation to the
trial Of an issue out OF chancery.
To provide for the collection of taxes
and levies, funds, securities, money,
and other property under the control
ot The tiduciaries aud the several courts
OF the Commonwealth.
To amend the code in regard to the
appointment and qualification of no.
taries public
To amend an act imposing tax on
collateral inheritances and regulate the
collection of the same.
To amend the code relating to the
pay ofjudge of one circuit sitting in
another to mold spe cla term.
To amend section 1881 of the code,
relative TO the verltication and publica-
ZION of the annual reports of insurance
companies
To provide for eriaining and pub
,ishing statement of the annual re-
,eipts and disbursements of the coun-
ue5 and cities of the Commonwealth.
To amend and re.enact section 1886
Of the code. in relation to killing trees.
TO empower the corporation courts
OF the State to render judgment in civil
actions at any term of the court.
To require the issuing of executions
on Judgment for money.
To amend the code 10 relation to the
duties of boards of school trustees
To prevent the unlawful use of tele-
rhone lines and instruments, and to
protect them from injury, and prescribe
i penalty therefor.
To amend the code with reference
10 clerks keeping registers and descrip-
tive lists of persons convicted Of felony
and copy of list to be evidence OF iden-
tity.
To amend the code in relation to
wri IS of error; where lie; when for ac-
Gus I'd; when for State.
To authorize the supervisors of the
counties of Rappshannock, Madison,
Culpeper, Albemarle, Greene, Orange,
Warren, and Spotsylvauia, or any of
them, to aid in the construction of the
Piedmont Railway Company.
To provide for the serving of war.
rants with verified accounts by the
plaintiff.
To amend an act for the protection
of laboring men who are house -holders
against being deprived of the exemp-
ton to which they are entitled by law.
To allow a remedy by motion for
Judgment in the county court after ten
,iays' notice, whenever persons is en-
titled to recover money or specific per
sonal property.
To amend an act to require the pay
ment of fees on certain charters.
To amend the code in relation to at
tempt to poison and how punished.
To repeal certain sections OF the code
relating to the registration OF births
and deaths.
TO amend certain sections OF the
code as to what couveyances for re-
lgious purposes are valid.
For the protection of terrapins.
In relation to fees of Il TAILOR.