Address to the General Assembly

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Division of Purchase and Print, 1926
Includes inaugural addresses, annual and special messages, and proclamations.
 

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Page 39 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Page 44 - Such board shall consist of the governor, the chairman of the finance committee of the senate, the chairman of the ways and means committee of the assembly and the state comptroller.
Page 39 - If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity.— Daniel Webster.
Page 113 - Subject to the provisions of this Constitution and to such requirements, rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law, the State Corporation Commission shall be the department of government through which shall be issued all charters and amendments or extensions thereof, for domestic corporations, and all licenses to do business in this State...
Page 127 - Reserve, and to be used so as to demonstrate the practical utility of timber culture and as a breeding place for game. Such gifts must be absolute except that mineral and mining rights over and under land...
Page 133 - Assembly, the division shall: Draft or aid in drafting legislative bills or resolutions and amendments thereto; Advise as to the constitutionality or probable legal effect of proposed legislation; Prepare summaries of existing laws affected by proposed legislation, compilations...
Page 126 - Information about forestry matters should undoubtedly be made as widely and easily available as possible, and this has, since the establishment of this department, been done as fully as its resources have permitted, by means of the distribution of posters, correspondence and personal interviews, circular letters, publications, newspaper bulletins and special articles, lectures, etc.
Page 50 - State and each political subdivision thereof, from each subject of taxation, should such plan be put into effect. Likewise, for the purpose of comparison, there shall be submitted a detailed statement showing the amount which the State and each political sub-division thereof received during the last preceding year from each subject of taxation, which was agreed to.
Page 26 - I have been requested by the memorial fund committee, formed for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the sacrifices and services in the World War of the women of the United States of America, to call the attention of the...
Page 94 - VIRGINIA RANKS SECOND AMONG ALL SOUTHERN STATES IN : 1. Percentage of farms operated by owner. VIRGINIA RANKS FIRST AMONG THE SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES IN : 1. Number of sheep and fowls on farms. 2. Percentage of farms with purebred horses and cattle. 3. Value of dairy and poultry products. 4. Value of livestock sold and slaughtered on farms. 5. Value of cereal and hay crops. 6. Percentage of farms having telephones and tractors.

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