The Highway Code Great Britain version, available in English and Welsh, applies to England, Scotland and Wales, but regional specific signs such as driver location signs in England or bilingual signs in Scotland and Wales are not covered. The Northern Ireland version, available in English and Irish, applies to Northern Ireland. Costing one penny, the first edition of the Highway Code was published on 14 April 1931. It contained just 18 pages of advice, including the arm signals to be given by drivers and police officers controlling traffic. The second edition, considerably expanded, appeared in 1934, and now illustrated road signs for the
Code of Virginia as soon as 1923, the director of the State Legislative Reference Bureau published "General Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia" to incorporate amendments and assign section numbers to new statutes. In 1924, the Michie Company published "The Code of Virginia as Amended to Adjournment of General Assembly 1924," which was prepared by company founder and Supreme Court of Appeals reporter Thomas Johnson Michie. The "Michie Code", as it became known, was supplemented after each session of the General Assembly, and a new edition was published in 1930, 1936, and 1942, by which time the one-volume code had grown to more