tendance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia, and providing penalties for failure, and designating the manner of collecting such penalties, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight. No. 31. House bill 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, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1916. No. 32. House bill to amend and re-enact section 23 of an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles, and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, approved March 17, 1910, and further, to provide for licensing dealers and garages and for running motor vehicles for hire, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; and to further provide for the payment of fees collected under this act into the State treasury, and the expenditure. of same in the maintenance and construction of State aid roads and bridges, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 24, 1916. No. 35. House bill to provide for the examination and punishment of persons convicted of prostitution, or of keeping houses of illfame, or assignation, and for commitment of such persons to city farms or hospitals. No. 85. House bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to regulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establishments where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives, approved March 4, 1890, as heretofore amended. No. 107. House bill to prevent damage and injuries by dogs, and to provide compensation to owners of stock so injured: to provide for license on dogs, and to provide for penalties for violations thereof. No. 125. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 6 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of roads and bridges in Dinwiddie county, to create a road board for Dinwiddie county, and to prescribe its powers and duties, and provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, and to regulate his duties, approved March 8, 1904, as heretofore amended. No. 127. House bill to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regu lating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules and regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, approved March 17, 1910; and further, to provide for licensing dealers and garages and for running motor vehicles for hire, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; and to further provide for the payment of fees collected under this act into the State treasury and the expenditure of same in the maintenance and construction of State and roads and bridges. approved March 24, 1916. No. 150. House bill making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts. No. 174. House bill to provide whole family protection members of fraternal benefit societies. No. 177. for House bill to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to prescribe the mode in which clerks of courts shall keep a record of all taxes and other public moneys collected by them, and to require them to pay the same in to the treasury, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914: and to require the clerk in connection therewith to keep a record of fees received, with an appropriation to carry the same into effect. No. 207. House bill 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 ($300) dollars, 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 Banking Division of the Corporation Commission in respect to licensees; repealing section 81 of the revenue act and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act. No. 241. House bill to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia of 1887; and all aamendments thereto, approved an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 22, 1894, and sections 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751 and 1752 of the Code of Virginia of 1887; and all amendments thereto," approved March 13, 1912. No. 254. House bill to authorize, empower and direct the board of supervisors of the county of Norfolk to borrow money, by the issuance of bonds, a sum not to exceed one million dollars for the purpose of purchasing, building and improving roads and bridges in said county; to sell said bonds; to provide for their payment, and to authorize the commission of roads and bridges for said county to dispense the funds so obtained. No. 270. House bill to amend and re-enact section five of chapter ten of chapter six hundred and nine of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1902-3-4, relating to turnpike companies, which became a law January 18th, 1904. No. 314. House bill to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities, approved March 15, 1906. No. 344. House bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act imposing public duties on heat, light, power, water and telephone companies, and providing for the control and regulation of such companies by the State Corporation Commission, approved March 27, 1914. No. 346. House bill to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain "securities" herein defined by requiring an inspection thereof, providing for such inspection, supervision and regulation of the business of any person, association, partnership, or corporation, engaged or intending to engage, whether as principal, broker or agent, in the sale of any such securities in the State of Virginia as may be necessary to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of said securities and scribing penalties for the violation thereof. pre No. 348. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 21, 22, 59, 65, 72, 73 and 121 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, as amended, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 14, 1908, and to add a new and independent section 125-a thereto. No. 365. House bill to prohibit the recordation of plats for the sub-division of land into lots showing on said plats streets and alleys, within, or within fifteen miles from, the limits of any city, having a population of not less than sixty thousand nor more than one hundred and ten thousand inhabitants, except in conformity with the plan provided by such city. No. 369. House bill to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act in relation to the sale of farm produce on commission; defining the terms "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 registra tion, and prescribing regulations and offenses under this act, and providing penalties for violations of such regulations and of this act, approved February 29, 1916. No. 380. House bill for the prevention of blindness from opthalmia neonatorum, and designating certain powers and duties and otherwise providing for the enforcement of this act and making appropriation to carry it into effect. No. 449. House bill to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to establish a public free school on the grounds of the Prison Association of Virginia at Laurel, Henrico County, and to make an appropriation for erection and equipment of the schoolhouse, and to provide for the conduct and maintenance of the same, approved March 16, 1908. No. 450. House bill to amend and re-enact clause 2 of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia entitled an act to establish a court of law and chancery for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, which was approved March 10, 1910. The following communication from the Governor, by his secretary, was received and read: To the Senate of Virginia: COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Senate Bill No. 270: I return this bill without my approval, because I have signed House Bill No. 325, which is identical with this bill. WESTMORELAND DAVIS, The President of the Senate laid before the Senate: Governor, S. B. No. 270. A bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to borrow money and issue bonds of said county, or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $30,000, for the purpose of repairing damage done by flood to the public roads and bridges of said county, and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund for the payment of such bonds at maturity. And the question being: Shall the bill pass, notwithstanding the Governor's veto, was put and decided in the negative. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as followsayes, 0; noes, 29. Senators who voted are: NAYS-Messrs. Allen, Andrews, Barham, Bowers, Buchanan, Byrd, Conrad, Corbitt, Davis, Downing, Drewry, Garrett, Gayle, Goodloe, Goolrick, Gravatt, Hening, Jeffreys, Jordan, Mapp, Mathews, Mitchell, Rinehart, Rison, Royall, Walker, Webb, Wendenburg, West-29. The following communication from the Governor, by his secretary, was received and read: To the Senate of Virginia: COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, RICHMOND, March 18, 1918. Senate Bill No. 361: I return this bill without my approval, because I have signed House Bill No. 393, which is identical with this bill. WESTMORELAND DAVIS, The President of the Senate laid before the Senate: Governor. S. B. No. 361. A bill to validate certain obligations of the city of Norfolk, and authorizing the said city to refund or renew the same by issuing renewal or other obligations. And the question being: Shall the bill pass notwithstanding the Governor's veto? was put and decided in the negative. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as followsayes, 0; noes, 28. Senators who voted are: |