Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia

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Superintendent of Public Printing., 1924

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Page 10 - On the final passage, in either house of the Legislature, of any act which imposes, continues or revives a tax, or creates a debt or charge, or makes, continues or revives any appropriation of public or trust money or property, or releases, discharges or commutes any claim or demand of the State, the question shall be taken by...
Page 345 - Section 186. Collection and disposition of State revenue; payment of money from State treasury; what appropriations shall not be made. — All taxes, licenses and other revenue of the State shall be collected by its proper officers and paid into the State treasury. No money shall be paid out of the State treasury except in pursuance of appropriations made by law...
Page 649 - No debt shall be contracted by the State except to meet casual deficits in the revenue, to redeem a previous liability of the State, to .suppress insurrection, repel invasion, or defend the State in time of war. No scrip, certificate or other evidence of State indebtedness, shall be issued except for the transfer or redemption of stock previously issued, or for such debts as are expressly authorized in this Constitution.
Page 10 - Fifty, any special, private, or local bill introduced in either house shall be referred to and considered by such joint committee and returned to the house in which it originated with a statement in writing whether the object of the bill can be accomplished under general law or by court proceeding; whereupon, the bill, with the accompanying statement, shall take the course provided by section Fifty.
Page 409 - An act to protect the title of motor vehicles within this state; to provide for the issuance of certificates of title and evidence of registration thereof; to regulate purchase and sale or other transfer of ownership; to facilitate the recovery of motor vehicles stolen or otherwise unlawfully taken ; to provide for the regulation and licensing of certain dealers in used and second hand vehicles as herein defined ; to prescribe the powers and duties of the secretary of state hereunder; and to provide...
Page 10 - Every law imposing, continuing or reviving a tax shall specifically state such tax and no law shall be construed as so stating such tax which requires a reference to any other law or any other tax. The presiding officer of each house shall, in the presence of the house over which he presides, sign every bill that has been passed by both houses and duly enrolled. Immediately before this is done, all other business being suspended, the title of the bill shall be publicly read.
Page 167 - The magisterial districts shall, until changed by law, remain as now constituted : provided, that hereafter no additional districts shall be made containing less than thirty square miles. In each district there shall be elected by the qualified voters thereof, one supervisor. The supervisors of the districts shall constitute the board of supervisors of the county, which shall meet at stated periods and at other times as often as may be necessary, lay the county and district levies, pass upon all...
Page 11 - Any senator may call for a division of the question, which shall be divided if it comprehend propositions so distinct in substance that, one being taken away, a substantive proposition shall remain for the decision of the Senate; and a motion to strike out, being lost, shall preclude neither amendment nor a motion to insert, nor 3' motion to strike out and insert.
Page 501 - ... for violation of this act; to create the office of Commissioner of Prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for Intoxication...
Page 47 - A bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to create a commission to consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high...

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