Business

1899/1900
An ACT to incorporate the century banking and safe deposit company.
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg and Claremont terminal railroad and improvement company, and to define its powers.
An ACT to incorporate the Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown railroad company.
An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of the Norfolk-Hampton Roads company.
An ACT to incorporate the colonial coal and coke company.
An ACT for the relief of Caroline Pool and her sureties from the payment of fines imposed by a justice of the peace of Grayson county, and confirmed by the county court of said county, for selling spirituous liquors without a state license so to do.
An ACT to change the name of the Petersburg perpetual building and loan company, and to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 4, 7, ana 10, and to repeal sections 8 and 9 of an act approved May 10, 1887, entitled an act to incorporate the Petersburg perpetual building and loan company, and to add independent sections to the said act to confer additional powers upon the said company.
An ACT to incorporate the Rappahannock valley railway company.
An ACT authorizing the courts of this commonwealth to require no security, other than its own obligation, of the Lynchburg trust and savings bank, when under the provisions of its charter it is appointed by any such court, executor, administrator, guardian, committee, receiver, trustee or other fiduciary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1292 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the delivery and forwarding of dispatches by telegraph and telephone companies.
An ACT to incorporate the Newport News trust and safe deposit company.
An ACT to incorporate the Coeburn, Clinch Valley, and Nickelsville telephone company.
An ACT to authorize the Carter’s creek fish-guano company to erect a wharf on Carter’s creek, in Lancaster county.
An ACT authorizing and directing the board of pharmacy to register C. B. Gibson as a pharmacist, and allowing him to compound and sell drugs, etc., in Lee county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Gladeville railroad company, in Wise county, approved February 20, 1892.
An ACT to regulate the sale of cider in Loudoun county.
An ACT to authorize Octavius W. Hudson to erect a wharf on the Yeocomico river, in the county of Northumberland.
An ACT to ratify and confirm charter of the Richmond union stock-yards company.
An ACT to incorporate the Waverly telephone and telegraph company.
An ACT to change the name of the title and trust company to southern trust company, and to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to incorporate the Virginia mercantile and safe deposit company, of Richmond, Virginia, approved January 24, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 22, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 2, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 32, chapter 1, of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, and incomes, and on license to transact business, and in paying 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, or malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required, approved March 6, 1890, relating to sale by peddlers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13 and to repeal section 15 of an act entitled an act to provide for the protection of domestic animals, and to authorize and empower the board of control of the experiment station of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college, at Blacksburg, to establish live stock quarantine lines, rules and regulations, and to provide penalties for violating the same, approved February 18, 1896, authorizing board of supervisors to quarantine against other counties under certain conditions, and fixing the penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.
An ACT for the relief of W. J. B. Duncan, of the city of Alexandria, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Chincoteague, Accomac
An ACT to amend the charter of the guarantee building, loan and trust company, of Richmond, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the southside railway and development company
An ACT to incorporate the Newport News and Richmond telephone and telegraph company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 54 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor
An ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorpo-
An ACT to incorporate the Russell Fork and eastern railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section six of an act incorporating the Norfolk and Kempsville turnpike company, approved the third day of March, 1898, so as to allow the issue of preferred stock, and to authorize the commissioners therein named to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said company without necessity of giving any public notice of the time and places at which books will be opened for subscriptions.
An ACT to incorporate the southern investment company.
An ACT to provide for submitting the question of liquor license
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved M entitled an act to provide for state banks of circulation
An ACT to incorporate the Blackstone and southern railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 6, 1890, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1898, 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 in relation to the tax on bonds, notes and other evidences of debt, and on stocks, and so as to impose a tax on ground rents as personal property.
An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of the Norfolk heat, light and power company.

1895/1896
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bridgewater and forge granite and lumber company, approved March 3, 1892, as amended by an act approved January 22, 1894, and to amend the title thereto, so as to read the Fredericksburg lumber and granite company.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and Riverside railway company.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the ‘‘ Roanoke underwriters’ agency ” of Roanoke, Va.
An ACT to authorize the construction by the Piedmont soapstone company of tramways or railroad not exceeding twenty-five miles in length, and the encumbering and disposal of the same.
An ACT to ratify, confirm, and approve charters, incorporating joint stock companies granted by the circuit or corporation courts of this state, or by the judge of any such court in vacation, in which the capital stock is not in excess of ten thousand dollars, and the directors, including the president, are fixed at three.
An ACT to fix the number of the board of directors in a joint stock company where the capital stock does not exceed ten thousand dollars.
An ACT to amend the charter of the State building and loan company, granted by the circuit court of the city of Richmond on the seventh day of June, 1894.
An ACT to incorporate the Winchester telephone company.
An ACT in relation to the fraudulent sale, negotiation, pledge or hypothecation of licensed warehouse or other licensed storage receipts, and to provide punishment in respect thereto.
An ACT to authorize the increase of the capital stock of the Portsmouth street railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to authorize the county of Powhatan to change the form of the bonds subscribed to the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company, approved December 19, 1889; and to amend the same so as to allow the board of supervisors of said county to refund the conditional bonds and the interest thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 8,4 and5of an act approved May 6, 1887, entitled "an act to incorporate the Portsmouth street railway company," and to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 4 of an act approved May 21, 1887, entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of act approved May 6, 1887, to incorporate the Portsmouth street railway company," and to authorize the county courts of Norfolk, Nansemond and Isle of Wight counties to regulate the use of county roads by the said company in those counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 21 of the acts of the extra session of the general assembly of 1887, approved March 30, 1887, incorporating the Mercantile club, and to change the name to the Jefferson club.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the National City Fire Insurance Company, which was granted by the corporation court of the city of Alexandria on the 19th day of March, 1894, under section 1145 of the code of Virginia and acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the Virginia farmers insurance company of Norfolk, Virginia, which was granted by the judge of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, on the 9th day of August, 1893, under section 1145 of the code of Virginia and amendatory acts.
An ACT to incorporate the American telautograph company.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the issue by the city of Fredericksburg of $80,000 of 5 per cent. water bonds, and also confirming the executi by said city of a deed of trust to secure the payment of said bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bridgewater construction company
An ACT to incorporate the Grayson county farmers mutual benevolent fire insurance company.
An ACT for the relief of J. H. Hickey and H. F. Jackson.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled “an act to create a board of excise commissioners for Alexandria county,”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1842 of the code, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 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 amend and re-enact section 2465 of the code of Virginia in relation to contracts, deeds, &c., that are void as to creditors and purchasers unless recorded.
An ACT to incorporate the Mineral belt railway and tramway company.
An ACT toempower George Booker to erect a pavilion in Hamp-
An ACT to repeal the charter of the Potomac insurance company of Alexandria, Va., which was granted by the corporation court of the city of Alexandria on the 25th day of March, 1893, under section 1145 of the code of Virginia and acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the Norfolk fire and marine insurance company of Norfolk, Virginia, which was granted by the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, on the 25th day of May, 1893, under section 1146 of the code of Virginia and amendatory acts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to facilitate
An ACT to authorize the Numsen manufacturing company to erect a wharf or wharves along its water front on Urbanna creek, at Urbanna, in Middlesex county, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of the Orient company, of Hartford, Con-
An ACT to allow the Piedmont construction and improvement company to change its name to the Piedmont traction company, and to permit the said company to issue preferred stock, to hold stock in other companies, to dispose of its property, and to consolidate or merge with any other company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 36 of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes, etc., for the support of government, approved March 86, 1890, as to sale by agents, and add thereto.
An ACT to amend sections 2475 and 2476 of the code of Virginia with reference to lien for work done and materials furnished by artisans, mechanics, lumber dealers and others.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 556 of the code, prescribing when commissioners to return lists of licenses to auditor, and what list to contain.
An ACT to impose a special license on dealers in pistols and pistol-cartridges in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 6 of an act entitled an act to protect. and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers and the guarantee and conditions upon which they are to be sold, and fixing the penalties incurred for violations of the same
An ACT to incorporate Basic City, Bridgewater and Piedmont railway company.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the Farmers and mechanics insurance company of Alexandria, Va.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1916 of the code, in relation to the duties of the sealer of weights and measures, approved February 9, 1892.
An ACT to incorporate Alberene railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Blue Ridge club.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 8, 9, 10 and 25 of an act entitled 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, approved March 5, 1894
An ACT to incorporate the McCullough terminal railway, wharf warehouse company.
An ACT for the relief of John H. Remine, a dentist of Washington county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act passed by the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to incorporate the Bland county land, improvement, development and transportation company, approved February 22, 1890, and to amend and re-enact section 4 of said act approved February 22, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Bland county land, improvement, development and transportation company; to amend, re-enact and change the title of said last-named act, and to enlarge the powers of said company so that it may have and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of a railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Citizens deposit bank of Waynesboro, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Halifax building and loan company
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 70 and 71 of an act approved March 6, 1890, 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 schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses, &c., so as to exempt from the license tax boarding-house keepers who keep boarders for a period not exceeding two months.
An ACT entitled an act to confirm and validate the charter of the People’s perpetual loan and building association of Roanoke, Va.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the National home insurance company of America
An ACT to incorporate the Odd-Fellows’ joint stock company of Alexandria, Va., and to authorize the conveyance to said company of certain real estate in the city of Alexandria, Va., purchased for its use and benefit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2467 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the admission of writings to record.
An ACT to incorporate the Home mutual insurance company of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Hampton in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, approved May 23, 1881, and to further amend and re-enact the said act by the adding of two additional sections thereto, to be known as sections 14 and 15 respectively, and to further amend and re-enact said act by changing the numbers of sections 14 and 15 in said act to 16 and 17 respectively, approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to regulate the granting of licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in the town of Blackstone, Nottoway county, Virginia, or in two miles thereof.
An ACT to incorporate the Falls Church, Fairfax and Manassas railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Broadwater oyster association for the following purposes: To promote by the application of scientific methods, by experimental research, and by all other appropriate means, the propagation, cultivation, and improvement of the oyster; to plant oysters in Virginia waters on the east or ocean side of Northampton county; to fatten oysters in the artificial parks and elsewhere; to shuck and prepare oysters for the market, and to take, buy, sell, and deal in oysters, clams, and other shell fish.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2 of an act approved March 6, 1890, 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, and to repeal section 9 of chapter 2 of this act relating to liquor licenses.
An ACT protecting and enlarging the powers of the Pulaski agricultural and mechanical society.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Roanoke mineral belt line railroad company, acts of 1893-’94, chapter 189.
An ACT governing the location of toll-gates on the Front Royal turnpike company’s road, in the counties of Frederick and Clarke.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the United fire insurance company
An ACT to consolidate the Hampton and Old Point railway company and the Newport News street railway company, and thereby create a corporation to be known as the Newport News, Hampton and Old Point railway company.