Business

1887/1888
An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria perpetual building fund association.
An ACT to incorporate the Workingmen’s Association of Prince Edward county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the Tunis Lumber company of Baltimore city, to hold land in the state of Virginia.
An ACT to change the name of the Virginia Boom and Log company to Clinchport Improvement company, and to amend sections 1, 2, 3 and 6 of its charter.
An ACT for the relief J. B. Dortch, of Halifax county, from a fine imposed by Halifax county court.
An ACT to incorporate the Bank of Richmond.
An ACT to incorporate the Princess Anne county railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Great Southern railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Old Dominion Boom and Log company.
An ACT to provide for a Board of Agriculture of Virginia and making appropriation therefor.
An ACT to amend sections 16, 21, 23, 26, and 28 of the charter of Suffolk.
An ACT to authorize the Petersburg railroad company to lease its road.
An ACT to incorporate the Montrose Land and Improvement company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 907 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887, relative to the sale of mules, work oxen, and horses under levy in the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to incorporate the Wythe Canning and Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia immigration, land and improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and Great Western railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia underground electrical conduit company.
An ACT to incorporate the Washington, Western and Southwestern railroad company.
An ACT for the relief of Henry Mahany
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 16, 1886, entitled an act to allow Wm. H. Ellis to erect a wharf at Franklin city, Accomac county.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the sale of the state’s interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk Fuel and Gas Light company of Norfolk, Virginia
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond by adding additional sections to chapter 4 concerning city officers, so as to provide for the appointment of a board of public interests.
An ACT to incorporate the Sun Mutual Aid association.
An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Richmond city railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the fifth section of the charter of the Farmville and Charlottsville railroad company as amended and re-enacted by an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved on the 13th day of January, 1888.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Rappahannock Valley Agricultural and Mechanical society of Fredericksburg.
An ACT to amend the second section of an act to incorporate the Warrenton and Marshall Road Company.
An ACT to repeal sections 1853, 1854, and 1884 of chapter 84 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887, in relation to the inspection of flour and fish.
An ACT to incorporate the Green Springs Tramway company.
An ACT to incorporate the West-End water company.
An ACT to incorporate the Mount Vernon fire insurance company of Alexandria, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Greenleaf Johnson lumber company.
An ACT to repeal section 1168, chapter 48, Code 1887, fixing a limitation on banking associations in discounting accommodation paper to one-tenth part of the capital stock of such association actually paid in.
An ACT to incorporate the West Norfolk land and improvement company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1101, chapter 46, of Code of 1887, authorizing internal improvement companies to take wood, stone, gravel, earth, or water from convenient lands.
An ACT to incorporate the Manchester Manufacturing company.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville Storage company.
An ACT to incorporate the Gordonsville and Sperryville Telephone company.
An ACT to authorize Theodore Haughwont to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Safety Deposit company of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-three of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes, &c., approved March 6th, 1886, in regard to the tax on peddlars.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol and South Atlantic railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville tobacco association.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville real estate investment, trust and land title company.
An ACT to incorporate the Wytheville Street railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the James River Valley Construction company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 5th and 7th sections of the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville Railroad Company as amended and re-enacted by the Act of Assembly, approved the 18th day of May, 1887.
An ACT to incorporate the Owl Club, No. 1, of Norfolk, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Merchants Bank of Danville.
An ACT to allow the citizens of Prince William county to vote on the question of the removal of the court-house from Brentsville to Manassas; to issue bonds for erection of public buildings, in case removal to said corporation be agreed to by a majority of the voters of Prince William.
An ACT to incorporate the New River Plateau railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Falls Church and Potomac railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Southern Paper and Pulp company.
An ACT to incorporate the Wytheville Telephone company,and to authorize the merger of the charters of the Wythe,land, Carroll, and Grayson Telephone company, and the Wytheville Telephone Exchange in said company.
An ACT to incorporate the Warwick Park Transportation company.
An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Cotton Mill and Improvement company.
An ACT for the relief of Walter S. Phillips
An ACT to incorporate Scott Telephone and Telegraph company in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Eltham railroad and navigation company
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Clarke county to loan out certain money to the credit of the sinking fund, provided for the redemption of the bonds of the county.
An ACT to incorporate the Midlothian coal company.
An ACT to incorporate the Southern improvement association.
An ACT to incorporate the Lexington Street railway company.

1889/1890 Public Laws
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of chapter 431 of the acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1887-’88, relating to the transfer of a certain claim of the state of Virginia against the government of the United States to the Mt. Vernon Avenue Association.
An act to prevent the manufacture and sale of adulterated cider vinegar.
REPORT from the committee on general laws and resolutions, appointing a joint committee to confer with a joint committee from Maryland legislature, to establish boundary line between Maryland and Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved March 5, 1888, entitled an act providing for the sub-division of tracts of lands into lots or parcels, and for the record of plats thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1842 of the code of Virginia, in relation to sale by samplers and others of unclaimed tobacco in warehouses of the city of Richmond, and disposition of the proceeds.
An ACT to prohibit the loading and unloading of steamships’ and steamboate’ cargoes on a Sunday.
An ACT to exempt marine insurance companies from making a deposit of securities with the treasurer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1124 of the code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to selling the capital stock of chartered companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 733 of chapter 31, code of Virginia, providing fees to clerks of courts in cases of fines.
An ACT giving the consent of the State of Virginia to the erection of a hotel at Fortress Monroe
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled 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 licenses to transact any business in this state, and prescribing the amount to be paid as a condition precedent to the right to transact such business
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 852 of the code of 1887, in relation to compensation to clerks of board of supervisors.
An ACT for the relief of J. T. Lucas, of Giles county.
An ACT to protect the owners of bottles, boxes, syphons, and kegs used in the sale of soda water, mineral, or aerated waters, porter, ale, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, small beer, weiss beer, lager beer, white beer, or other beverages, medicine, and perfumery
AN ACT to provide fire-escapes from buildings of over three stories.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1148 of the code of Virginia, in relation to chartered companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1227 of the code of Virginia, in relation to penalty for passing on company's work without paying toll.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of W. G. Miller, late treasurer of Rappahannock county.
An Act for the relief of John C Hall, treasurer of Franklin county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the code of 1887, touching fish ladders.
An Act authorizing deposits by life insurance companies and associations chartered in the state with the treasurer.
An ACT to prescribe the mode of applying for and obtaining a license (other than a license for which the certificate of a court is required by law before it is granted), the tax on which, but for this act, would be fifty dollars or more were it issued for the period of one year.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of chapter 163 code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of commissioners in chancery as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 4, 1890.
An ACT relating to building and loan association: not incorporated in the state.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act of the General Assembly, approved February 10, 1890, entitled an act to require the payment of fees on certain charters
An ACT to provide for the payment of a judgment in favor of Feaac Davenport, Jr., Thomas Moore, and Constance R. Moore against the Central lunatic asylum, entered in Henrico circuit court, December 14, 1888.
An ACT to remove the political disabilities of A. H. Christian, junior, Frank Lee, R. H. Lee, W. E. Owen, James E. Andrews, and H. W. Booker.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2961 of the code of Virginia relative to attachments.
An ACT to amend section 2462 of the code of Virginia in regard to reservation of title to goods and chattels sold upon condition.
An ACT concerning judgments in behalf of the commonwealth and executions thereon, under the act entitled ‘an act to provide for the recovery by motion of taxes and certain debts due the commonwealth, for the payment of which papers purporting to be genuine coupons of the commonwealth have been tendered’
An ACT providing for the taxation of shares of stock issued by banks located in counties and cities.
An ACT to enable certain mining and manufacturing corporations of other States or countries to conduct operations in this State.

1891/1892
An ACT to incorporate the Crystal Spring street railway company, and to make valid the acts of said company under a charter heretofore granted to it by the judge of the hustings court of the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1916 of the code in relation to the duties of the sealer of weights and measures.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved February 12, 1876, entitled an act to incorporate the Chamber of commerce of Richmond.