Business

1893/1894
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Essex county to subscribe to the capital stock of the Tidewater agricultural stock association.
An ACT to incorporate the W. J. Dance company, of Danville, Virginia.
An ACT to change the name of the Virginia mercantile and safe deposit company of Richmond, Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act to incorporate the Virginia mercantile and safe deposit company of Richmond, Virginia, approved January 24, 1890.
An ACT to incorporate the United States tobacco company.
An ACT to restrain and suppress the illegal and unlawful sale of ardent spirits on Sunday in the county of Warwick.
An ACT to confirm the merger and consolidation of the Lynchburg street railway company and the Lynchburg electric company.
An ACT to change the name of the Pulaski development company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk safe deposit and trust company, approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Berkley ferry company.
An ACT to allow Henry C. Farinholt to erect a pier or wharf near Jones’ Point, in the Rappahannock river.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 3225, code of Virginia, 1887—on whom process against or notice to a corporation may be served.
An ACT imposing a tax on building and loan associations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorpo- rate the Virginia, Washington and Maryland ferry company, approved February 16, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 6 and 10 of an act entitled an act to protect and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers, and the guarantee and condition upon which they are to be sold, and fixing the penalties incurred for violation to the same, approved February 24, 1890.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Roanoke county, the councils of Roanoke city and of the town of Salem to adjust and determine the amounts which said county, city, and town shall respectively assume and pay on account of any liability arising from any subscription which may have been or may be made or authorized by the county of Roanoke to the capital stock of the Valley railroad company, and to provide for the payment of the same.
An ACT to incorporate the Keystone coal, iron and land company.
An ACT to charter the Virginia coal and coke company.
An ACT to incorporate the Pan-American investment company.
An ACT to define the power and limitations of building and loan associations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 10 and 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Portsmouth, Smithfield and Western railway company, approved March 2, 1692, and to add an independent section thereto.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia rotary steam engine company.
An ACT to incorporate the McCullough terminal railway, wharf and warehouse company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and on licenses to transact business, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required
An ACT to incorporate the Consolidated coal, iron and land company.
An ACT to incorporate the South Norfolk street railway company
An act to amend an act to incorporate the Cardwell machine company, approved February 28, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1892, and to validate all acts and transactions of said Cardwell machine company.
An ACT to incorporate the Southwestern railroad company of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 822 of the code of Virginia, in relation to what officers are forbidden to have interest in contracts with or claims against their counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1875, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1879, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 4 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30, 1875, and as further amended by an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to amend section 7 of chapter 316 of the acts of assembly, session of 1874-75, an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax.
An ACT to allow S. K. Martin and W. T. Mason to erect a wharf and marine railway on Pungoteague creek, in the county of Accomac.
An ACT to regulate the tax on real estate agents.
An ACT to incorporate the Home investment company.
An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke mineral belt-line railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Farmers bank of Floyd.
An ACT to confirm and amend the charter of the Virginia pyrites mining company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 21, 1882, entitled an act to allow Abel A. Lake to erect a wharf at Franklin City, in Accomac county.
An ACT to authorize railroad companies terminating on navigable waters to guarantee bonds of companies building or owning steamboats or vessels used or to be used in connection with the business of the railroad, and to confirm all such guarantees heretofore made.
An ACT to empower and instruct the board of sinking fund commissioners to sell the state’s interest in the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company and to invest the proceeds of sale in century bonds, and to repeal the act approved March 19, 1873 entitled an act directing the board of public works to sell the state’s interest in the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria county light, water and power company.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Blue Ridge railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Saltville and Mendota railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Seaboard and Western railroad company.
An ACT to amend sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Merchants bank of Danville
An ACT to incorporate the Peninsula gas-light, fuel and power company.
An ACT to ratify, validate, approve and confirm the charter of the Deis manufacturing company, and to make valid and binding all acts of said company and all contracts made by or with said company since April 16, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, &c., and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, &c., of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, &c.
An ACT to incorporate the Graham-Bluefield electric railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Elizabeth River terminal company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Gladeville, in Wise
An ACT to incorporate the Dominion building and loan company of Lynchburg.
An ACT to change the name of the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, and to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 9 of an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, and also to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 5 and 15 of an act approved January 19, 1892, entitled an act to amend sections 2, 3, 5, 11 and 15 of an act to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, approved March 4, 1890.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and Maryland steam ferry company.
An ACT to authorize the union of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company and the Buckingham railroad company by lease, purchase, consolidation, merger or otherwise, in accordance with the terms of any contract which may have been or may be entered into by and between said companies.
An ACT making it lawful to adopt marks of designation for saw-logs, piles, hewn timber or square timber, and for the protection of the owners thereof.
An ACT in relation to buying or receiving certain goods with intent to defraud.
An ACT to permit the registration of J. F. Adams as a pharmacist
An ACT to incorporate the New York mining and manufacturing company
An ACT to incorporate the Bridgewater construction company.
An ACT to impose a special license on dealers in cast-off clothing in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
An ACT to authorize Henry Battaile to erect a wharf on Pungo-teague creek, in Accomac county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 5 and 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Potomac and Great Falls railroad company
An ACT to incorporate the Montgomery electric company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 7 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Empire transportation company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109 of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and on licenses to transact business, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquor, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required; in relation to licenses to agents for the sale of manufactured implements or machines by retail, other than sewing machines
An ACT to protect the owners of timber and logs from depreda-tion.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2481 of the code of Virginia as amended by an act approved February 7, 1890, and section 2484 of the code of Virginia, relating to the limitation and enforcement of mechanics liens.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bristol and Northern railroad company, approved March 1, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bridgewater and forge granite and lumber company
An ACT to authorize the Ashland land and improvement company to wind up its affairs, in whole or in part, and to distribute its assets.
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Northern railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Security trust company of Newport News, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the Altoona coal and iron company to make or carry out contracts with the Bertha zinc and mineral company, and to ratify the same.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in Mecklenburg county.
An ACT to incorporate the Madison and Orange railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8226 of the code of Virginia, relating to service of process or notice on corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to allow notaries public or other officers who hold stock in companies to take acknowledgments to deeds or other writings which said companies execute: provided said notaries or other officers are in no otherwise interested
An ACT to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Lancaster railroad company.
An ACT to regulate and control guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity and other like companies having for their purpose or one of their purposes to become security for the faithful performance of any trust, duty, contract, agreement or bond, public or private, official or otherwise, or to assume any duty or obligation of like nature as principal or otherwise, or to become fiduciary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 106 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 6, 1890, in relation to licenses to be paid by persons keeping livery stables.
An ACT for the relief of L. R. Dodd from erroneous assessment.
An ACT to incorporate the Hooven mercantile company.
An ACT relating to the receiving of deposits by insolvent bankers, brokers or an officer of a bank.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed on the 2d of April, 1573, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Manassas, as amended by an act approved 18th of March, 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 43 of an act entitled 'an act to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville,' approved February 26, 1886, acts of 1885-'86, chapter 263, page 293; and section 8 of an act entitled 'an act to amend the charter of the town of Wytheville, defining the jurisdiction and power of certain officers, and extend the corporate limits,' approved February 25, 1892, acts 1891-'92, chapter 402, page 854.
An ACT to require the attorney-general to ascertain whether the charter of the Washington and Alexandria turnpike company, in Alexandria county, has been forfeited.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1767 and 1774 of the code of Virginia, relating to the practice of dentistry.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia state veterinary medical association.
An ACT authorizing the Loudoun national brick, paint and manufacturing company to construct and operate a railroad to its property from the existing railroad, near Leesburg, Virginia, by building such road or contracting with some other company therefor.
An ACT to incorporate the Pennington Gap railroad company, in the county, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of Charles P. Finney, James T. Weaver, Walter F. Broadwater, James E. Anderton, William J. Barnes, John C. Justice, Samuel J. Davis, Solomon Warner and Southey Lee Milliner, oyster inspectors of Accomac county.
An ACT to incorporate the Powell’s mountain mineral railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Ohio river and Charleston railroad company as the successor of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad company.
An ACT authorizing the purchasers of the Richmond and Danville railroad, their assigns and successors, to become and be a corporation, to adopt a name therefor, and to possess and exercise general powers; and authorizing the leasing to or by, and the consolidation therewith of, other corporations.
An ACT to amend section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to require the payment of fees on certain charters
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company, approved January 28, 1892.
AN ACT for the relief of George A. Wilson, late treasurer of Norfolk county.
An ACT to incorporate the River-Front railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia transit company, and to authorize it to engage in mining, manufacturing and storage.
An ACT to regulate the sale of cider.
An ACT to change the name of the town of East Big Stone Gap, in Wise county, to East Stone Gap, and to amend and re-enact an act approved March 5, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the town of East Ligstone Gap, in Wise county, Virginia.