Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-03-20
LAWS ENACTED BY
THE LEGISLATURE
Many Measures Have Already Ee,n
Signed by the Governor.

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now on Governor Swanson's desk.
-Four hundred and nine bills passed
the legislature. Of this number 266
were first presented in the house, and
143 in the senate. Under the law the
governor must sign all bills within five
days after they are presented, or else,
unless he wishes to issue veto, they
will become law without it.
The bills passed in the legislature
cover 1927 enrolled pages, not includ-
ing the general appropriation bill,
which cover about twenty-five pages.
In 1906 the laws passed covered 1,26S
enrolled pages.
Governor Swanson has already sign
ed many bills, the majority of which
will become laws in ninety days after
final adjournment, but others carry an
emergency clause and will become law
with the signature of the executive.
The following bills have been signed
and will become law in due course:
To provide for normal instructions in
certain public high schools, to be de-
signated by the state board of educa-
ton, and TO appropriate money there
for.
To amend and re-enact section 10 of
an act to create the convict road force,
to authorize the working of certain pri-
sOners on the public roads of the State,
providing for the guarding, transporta-
ton, 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
convict road force, and appropriating
money from the public treasury to car
ry out the provisions of this act in eff
feet.
To amend and re-enact section 400 OF
the code of Virginia in relation of cou-
pons heretofore rendered for taxes.
To amend and re-enact section $500 Of
the code of Virginia in relation to fees
of salaries and justices of the peace a.
heretofore amended.
To amend an act of the general as,
sembly entitled an act to authorize the
auditor of public accounts to issue
duplicates.
To amend and re-enact an act TO work
and keep in repair the roads and build
ings and keeping in repair the bridges
in Essex county, and providing to what
tax shall be used for same.
To repeal an act approved March I,
1900, entitled an act to provide for local
assessment in cities and towns.
To amend and re-enact sections 3, 4
and of an act entitled an act to create
the state convict road force, which be-
came law March 6, 1906.
To amend an act entitled an act to
authorize the school boards of the sew
eral school districts in the counties OF
the State to borrow money and to issue
bonds for the purpose of erecting and
furnishing schOol-houses and to provide
for the payment of such bonds and the
interest to accrue thereon.
To amend an act defining the duties
of the state board of agriculture and
immigration, so as TO prescribe the
powers and duties of said board and
said commissioner, and to repeal all
other acts in conflict Herewith.
To amend and re-enact section 81 OF
the code prescribing the qualification
of voters in special and local option
election.
To permit the directors of the West
ern State hospital to'sell andfdispose OF
small tract of land belonging to sale
hospital.
To re-enact section 1861 of the code
relating to the taking of dispositions.
To establish the state geological sur
vey and make provision for the prepa
ration and publication of reports and
maps, to illustrate the natural resources
of the State, together with the neces
sary investigation preparatory thereto.
To amend an act to provide a new
charter for the city of Roanoke.
To amend an act providing for the
purchase and care of a permanent camp
ing ground.
To validate the acts of the councils OF
such of the towns in the State of Wiz.
ginia as may be invalid by reason OF
the failure to conform to the general
law in the election of town officers.
To amend the act to authorize the
courts of the Commonwealth to pay
money to infants entitled to it, or tC
their parents, in certain cases, without
the Intervention of a guardian.
To amend and re-enact section 22l9 Of
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