Amendments

1885/1886
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the reports of insurance companies, approved February 22, 1878, as amended by an act approved April 22, 1879.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section four of the charter of the New River and Chambers Valley railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Young Men’s Christian Association
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New River Narrow-Gauge railroad company, approved March 20, 1878, as amended by acts approved March 20, 1877, and by March 6, 1882.
An ACT to allow George W. Bishop and Jno. W. Smith to erect a wharf at Franklin City.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Nelson county to let to contract the public roads of said county, and levy a tax to keep the same in order
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Powell’s Fort mining company, approved March 4, 1878.
An ACT for the relief of Wm. J. Kilgore, clerk of Wise county and circuit courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13, of chapter 61, of Code of Virginia, 1873, relative to tolls on turnpikes.
An ACT to define and punish barratry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to pay to the public free schools the money set apart by the constitution aid laws for their benefit, and to repeal chapter 177 of the Acts of 1878-’9, approved March 6, 1882.

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 50, extra session acts, 1884, in relation to records in the Clerk’s office of Rockingham county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry.
An ACT to incorporate the Appomattox, Red House and Hat Creek railroad company.
An ACT to amend section 31 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities and compensation of certain county officers, providing for the collection of taxes and for the repeal of chapters 37 and 46, Code of 1873, approved March 29, 1875, as amended by an act approved March 29, 1876, amending sections 15 and 30, and by an act approved the same day amending section 47 and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved April 2, 1877; amending the 18th and 20th sections; and by an act approved on the same day amending the 30th section and by these several acts approved March 12, 1878, amending the 7th, 6th and 29th sections of said first mentioned act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, approved April 1, 1879.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 514 of the acts of 1883-4, entitled an act to amend an act approved March 9, 1880, respecting wild game.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved Dec’r 1, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 17, 1884, entitled an act for the relief of the sureties of Chas. W. Walker, late treasurer of Giles county, and the relief of,the sureties of his deputies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating Marshall Lodge, No. 39, of Free and Accepted Masons
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase city, in the county of Mecklenburg, Virginia
An ACT to amend the charter of Lynchburg, by adding an additional chapter thereto.
An ACT to incorporate District Lodge, No. 15, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend section 15, of chapter 20, of the Code of 1873, as amended by chapter 127, of Acts of extra session of 1884, entitled an act to amended section 15, of chapter 20, of the Code of 1873, in regard to the door-keeper to the executive, messenger to the governor and secretary of the commonwealth.
An ACT to prevent frauds upon the commonwealth, and the holders of her securities, in the collection and disbursement of revenue; and to repeal section 112 of an act approved March 15, 1884, entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes, &c.; and to repeal an act approved February 7, 1884, entitled an act to regulate the granting of licenses, &c.; and to repeal an act approved February 25, 1884, entitled an act to regulate granting of license, &c.
An ACT for the enactment of a special road law for Scott county.
An ACT to authorize the counties of Washington and Russell to take stock in the Washington and Russell turnpike company, and to erect telephone lines in said counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 17, and repeal sections 39 and 40 of an act for the preservation of oysters, and to obtain revenue for the privilege of taking them within the waters of the commonwealth
An ACT to charter the Clinch river railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Railroad and Transportation company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4, of chapter 141, of the Code, in relation to the acceptance and payment of bills of exchange.
An ACT to incorporate the Colored Agricultural and Industrial Association of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Holcombe Hall association to borrow money, and to enable them to provide for the repayment of said money.
An ACT to amend sections 18, 24, 31, 32, 33, 39, 48, 54, 64, 81, 87, 88 and 89, of an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide for the mode of applying for licences to transact any business in this state, and prescribing the amount to be paid asa condition precedent to the right to transact such business, approved March 15, 1884, to add additional sections thereto, and to repeal sections 106 and 107 of said act, and chapter 196 of the Acts of the extra session of 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of chapter 167, Code of 1873, in relation to rules, pleadings and evidence.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of chapter 60 Special Session Acts of 1879, approved April 1, 1879, prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities and compensation of certain county
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Frederick county, to order a special election upon the question of building a house in Opequon magisterial district, for the purpose of holding magisterial courts.
An ACT to employ convict labor on county roads and other works of internal improvement.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections I, 2 and 3, of chapter 65 of the Acts of Assembly 1883-84, entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery, approved January 31, 1884.
An ACT to ascertain the amount of fines and costs collected by certaine county officers, and which may not have been accounted for.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18, 20, 21 and 22, of the Code of 1873, in relation to the recovery of fines.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 8 of chapter 120 of Code of 1873, in relation to working and surveying mines.
An ACT to extend the time for the construction of the Norfolk and Cincinnati Railroad.
An ACT to authorize a subscription by the counties of Cumberland and Powhatan to the stock of the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad Company.

1887es
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved February 28, 1867, entitled an act to incorporate the Shenandoah Valley railroad company, and to issue preferred stock and convertible bonds under any plan of reorganization thereof,
An ACT for the relief of the land owners of Mathews county to have their lands relieved from delinquent taxes and county levies.
An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke street railway company, and to make valid the acts of said company under a charter heretofore granted to it by the judve of the hustings court of the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Hampton normal and agricultural institute.
An ACT to incorporate the West Norfolk and Carolina railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one, three, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and twenty-one of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads in the county of Page, approved February 27, 1886, and adding independent sections thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 9 of an act to incorporate the Atlantic and Danville Narrow Gauge railroad company, approved April 21, 1882, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 24, 1886, and to confer certain additional powers on said company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the tenth section of an act approved February 20, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Broadway, in the county of Rockingham, and to repeal chapter 246 of the Acts of 1879-80.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 9, 1880, in relation to turnpike companies.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Mining and Improvement company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New River Narrow Gauge railroad company, approved March 29, 1873, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1877, and as further amended by an act approved March 6, 1882, and also to amend and re-enact section 7 of the same act as amended by an act approved March 6, 1886.
An ACT to amend and re-enact. an act entitled an act to provide for building bridges, opening, working, and keeping in order the roads of Charlotte county, approved March 3, 1886.
An ACT to remove the political disabilities of John L. Lee, of Amherst, and B. C. Mosby, of Bedford.
An ACT to allow George W. Amory to erect a wharf at Fore’s landing, in York county.
An ACT entitled an act to amend and re-enact the fortieth section of an act in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 7, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of North Danville, and section 8 of an act approved February 26, 1886, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 8 of an act approved March 7, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of North Danville, as amended by an act approved August 23, 1884.
An ACT to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind institute at Staunton, Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the appointment and removal of district school trustees, and to repeal chapted 158, Acts of Assembly 1883—4, and the acts amendatory thereof, chapters 38 and 121 of Acts 1ss3—4, and chapter 10 of Acts of Assembly 1885-6.
An ACT to incorporate the Bland county railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 3, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Western railroad company.
An ACT to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tide-water
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, and 14 of chapter 54 of the Acts of the General Assembly, extra session of 1884, in relation to the appointment of a board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved Februar 27, 1880, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the twenty-fourth section of chapter forty, of the Code of 1873, in relation to the auditor’s power to adjust old claims.
An ACT supplementary to an act approved March 17, 1884, entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the Virginia Mineral railway company, approved March 6, 1880.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act approved February twenty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled an act to incorporate the Culpeper, Sperryville, Washington, and Fort Royal telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Pamunky mining and navigation company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act enti-
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities, and compensation of certain county officers, providing for the collection of taxes and for the repeal of chapters thirty-seven and forty-six, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three
An ACT to provide for a normal school in the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute.
An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of Norfolk county
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of an act approved May 6, 1887, to incorporate the Portsmouth street railway company.
An ACT to amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the public printing and binding, and defining the duties of the superintendent of public printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the Acts of Assembly of 1879-80.
An ACT to require proper proof of disability in order to obtain aid as a disabled soldier or marine.
An ACT to amend the Wythe Lead and Zinc mining company.
An ACT for working and repairing the public roads of Grayson and Patrick counties.
An ACT for the relief of G. O. Sledge, of Southampton county.
An ACT to provide a modified oath to be taken by persons elected or appointed to any post or office under the laws of the commonwealth, who are unable to take the oath required under the Acts of Assembly approved April 21, 1882.
An ACT to remove the political disabilities of Page McCarty and William L. Royall.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Roanoke and Southern railway company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Winchester, and to authorize said city to increase its public debt.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia mining company.

1887/1888
An ACT to amend sections 16, 21, 23, 26, and 28 of the charter of Suffolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 16, 17, 20, and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1873, the act amending section 2, approved February 23, 1875, and the acts amending sections 4 and 17, approved April 28, 1874, and February 23, 1875, respectively.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, and 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads in the counties of Alleghany, Bath, and Highland, and to amend and re-enact section 5 of same act, and to add independent section.
An ACT appropriating the public revenues for the fiscal years 1888 and 1889.
An ACT providing for the sub-division of tracts of land into lots or parcels, and for the record of plats thereof.
An ACT to authorize Theodore Haughwont to erect a pier-head on his oyster ground on James river.
An ACT for the relief of A. J. Bishop from the payment
An ACT to change the name of the Lynchburg agricultural and mechanical society.
An ACT for the relief of Hughes Dillard, Jr., from the payment of a fine.
An ACT to work and keep in order the public roads in the county of Pittsylvania.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and three of an act passed January 23, 1861, entitled an act amending and re-enacting the act entitled an act to incorporate the Jackson Orphan Asylum of Norfolk, passed February 26, 1856.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 614 of chapter 27 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the gener statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887, in relation to the compensation of county and city treasurers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 192 of the Acts of 1885-6, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski City, in the county of Pulaski.
An ACT for the relief of T. E. McCracken from a fine imposed by the corporation court of Fredericksburg.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Loudoun county to borrow money to build a jail.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery