Business

1887es
An ACT to incorporate the Clinch river construction company.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS prohibiting the granting of licenses for the transaction of any business or the pursuit of any occupation or profession, or the enjoyment of any privilege for which license is required by law for a longer period than from the date of the issuance of such license to the 1st day of June, 1887, and prescribing the amount to be paid for such licenses.
An ACT incorporating the Sandy river mercantile and manufacturing Company
An ACT to incorporate the New River Steamboat company.
An ACT to authorize any corporation of this State to subscribe for, guarantee, or acquire the stock and bonds of the Roanoke water works.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia and Kentucky railroad company, approved March 3, 1884, and to authorize the said company to consolidate with, lease its lines to, or lease the lines of any railroad connected with it.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol-Goodson street railway company.
An ACT in relation to Insurance Companies and Associations upon the assessment plan.
An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Richmond Union Passenger Railway Company
An ACT to authorize the county of Franklin to votea subscription to the Roanvke and Southern railroad company, and to issue bonds for the payment of the same.
An ACT to authorize the joint ferry committee for the management of Norfolk county ferries, to issue coupon bonds
An ACT to revive and re-enact an act to incorporate the Balcony Falls company.
An ACT to ineorporate the Norfolk Dock Improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Rockbridge company.
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 Rich Valley railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the American Telephone company.
An ACT to revive, amend and re-enact the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Gladesville and Mineral city telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the New South mining and improvement company
An ACT to incorporate the Spotsylvania railroad company.
An ACT authorizing an increase in the capital stock of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.

1887/1888
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia State Agricultural and Mechanical society.
An ACT to incorporate the Suburban and Exposition railway Company
An ACT to authorize the circuit and corporation courts of this commonwealth to render judgments against receivers and commissioners and purchasers at judicial sales, and their sureties in certain cases.
An ACT to allow Mrs. Mary J. Young to erect a wharf, platform, shed, and other necessary buildings for conducting the business at Franklin City, Accomac county, Virginia, adjoining her land in Chincoteague bay
An ACT to incorporate Big Stone Gap water company.
An ACT to incorporate the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order True Reformers.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Building and Loan company.
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg, Ettrick, and Matoaco railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Abingdon railway company.
An ACT to exempt undertakers from jury service
An ACT to incorporate the North Amherst railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bessemer Steel and Iron company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1165 and 1166 of chapter 48, Code of Virginia 1887, prescribing qualifications of bank directors.
An ACT to incorporate the Seaboard water company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act to incorporate the Fauquier Telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the railway reform rolling stock company.
An ACT to relieve Andrew Rodgers from the payment of a license tax for peddling in the county of Pulaski.
An ACT to incorporate the Dunlop and McCance Milling and Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bee.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and East Tennessee railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Copperhonk Springs company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2871 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, in relation to special partnerships.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Dismal Swamp steamboat company.
An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to reduce the number of trustees in Upper Appomattox company
An ACT to incorporate the Mutual Live Stock association of Accomac parish.
An ACT to consolidate the Brighthope railway company with the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Berkley Street railway company.
An ACT to authorize the issue of bonds and stock by the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and common council of the town of Liberty to borrow for said corporation a sum of money not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for the purpose of completing or making permanent improvements.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 9 of the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to incorporate the Falls Church telephorre com-
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Savings and Safe Deposit company of Richmond.
An ACT to incorporate the Shenandoah driving park.
An ACT to allow George R. Dalby and Labon J. Belote to erect a wharf on Nassowodux creek in Northampton county.
An ACT to provide for the deposit of state funds in certain cases.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Cape Henry railroad and hotel company.
An ACT to incorporate the Big Stone Gap Improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Mecklenburg Toll-bridge company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Fuel and Gaslight Company, of Norfolk, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the society of the Honorable Knights of Johnathan of the state of Virginia.
An ACT to extend the charter and franchises of the Southern improvement company.
An ACT to amend sections 4, 6 and 7 of an act to incorporate the Richmond perpetual building, loan and trust company
An ACT to incorporate the Commercial club of Berkley, Norfolk county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Fauquier and Rappahannock railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bank of Christiangurg.
An ACT to incorporate the Black Mountain Coal and Iron company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol and Danville railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Nelson manufacturing company.
An ACT to authorize county subscriptions to the capital stock of Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Big Stone Gap construction company.
An ACT to incorporate the Northern Virginia Abattoir company.
An ACT to incorporate the Rosenberger and Shirley telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Fincastle telephone and telegraph company.
An ACT to authorize the county of Madison to subscribe to the stock of the Madison courthouse and Orange railroad on certain conditions.
An ACT to incorporate the Loudoun county and Frederick bridge company for the purpose of constructing a bridge at Point of Rocks in Frederick county, Maryland, across the Potomac river to Loudoun county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Pocahontas Towing and Transportation company.
An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Gentlemen’s driving club.
An ACT to facilitate the transfer of shares in the Upper Appomattox Company and to provide for changing the same from real to personal estate, and to authorize the said company to mortgage its property and franchise.
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg and Asylum railway
An ACT to incorporate the Ivanwold hotel and ferry company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Shenandoah Valley railroad company, and to issue preferred stock or convertible under any plan of reorganization thereof
An ACT to incorporate the Chester Lumber and Manufacturing company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the Madison Courthouse and Orange railroad company
An ACT to incorporate the Big Stone Gap Steel and Iron company.
An ACT to incorporate the Augusta Telephone and Telegraph company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act approved the first day of March, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Lynchburg building and loan company.
An ACT to incorporate the Lambert’s Point turnpike company.
An ACT to amend the third section of an act approved March 1, 1886, creating the Baldwin Fair association, enlarging the powers of the association, &c.
An ACT to prescribe the manner by which any internal improvement company may elect a part of its board of directors for a period of more than one year.
An ACT to change the name of Iron Belt land, mining, and development company of Virginia, to the Virginia company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to authorize Christian Hanson to erect a wharf in front of his shore for shipping oysters.
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg Manufacturing company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Publishing company.
An ACT for the relief of Joseph B. Worth of erroneous license tax.
An ACT to incorporate the Loudoun Creamery Association.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bristol-Goodson street railway company.
An ACT authorizing and empowering the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds for the purpose of erecting a city market-house.