Business

1901es
An ACT to incorporate the Brookneal mill and power company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2148 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 743 of the acts of 1893 and 94, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, and the independent sections 3, 5, 8, and 10, and to repeal section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, and 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, and to repeal an act entitled 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, 2135, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2145, 2147 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto.
An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to make sale and transfer to the William R. Trigg company of the Richmond dock and so much of its real estate as may be necessary and appurtenant to the use thereof, lying and being in the city of Richmond, Virginia, east of the eastern face of the masonry of the first lock above the ship-lock.
An ACT to incorporate the Union terminal company.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of all kinds of cider in Concord precinct, Campbell county, except apple cider, without liquor license, and to prescribe the penalty therefor.
An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Boydton, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, and within one mile of the corporate limits of the said town, to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter or exchange such liquors in said town, and within one mile of the corporate limits thereof, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said town, and the country within one mile of its corporate limits.
An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Virginia agricultural and live stock association.
An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to acquire or acquire an interest in extensions and additions to its system of railroads within and without this state, and to acquire, hold, or guarantee the stock and bonds, or either, of other corporations.
An ACT to charter the Blue Ridge railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 48 of an act approved March 5, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to define the corporate limits and charter for the city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884
An ACT to amend the charter of the Virginia sugar refining company
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and Louisa improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Giles and Bland county transportation and development company.
An ACT to incorporate the Fairfax, Potomac, and Washington electric railway company.
An ACT validating, ratifying, confirming, and approving an ordinance of the city council of Alexandria passed December 11, 1900, and approved by the mayor of the city of Alexandria.
An ACT to incorporate the Appomattox banking and trust company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3, of chapter 727, entitled an act to incorporate Bay Shore terminal company
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Northern railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the payment of charter fees, when charters granted by the courts are ratified in whole or in part by the General Assembly, so as to provide for additional fee when court charter or any of its provisions are ratified or amended.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Portland railway company.
An ACT authorizing the Ohio river and Charleston railway company, as the successor of the Ohio river and Charleston railroad company, to complete the construction of and operate its road; prescribing the terms thereof; and authorizing a change in the name of the company.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the long distance telephone company of Virginia, and to give it additional powers.
An ACT to incorporate the Lewis Ginter land and improvement company.
An ACT to provide for winding up abandoned, insolvent, or unprofitable corporations at the suit of stockholders.
An ACT to give to S. B. Hardwick, late treasurer of Westmoreland county, power of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax tickets in his hands.
An ACT to incorporate the Charlotte and Prince Edward electric railway and improvement company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Westhampton park railway company, approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to incorporate the West Point, Urbana and Yorktown railway and development company.
An ACT to authorize the Newport News ship-building and dry dock company to sell or otherwise dispose of and convey its properties and franchises, or any thereof, to any person or persons, or any corporation or corporations, or any association or associations created by, or existing under the laws of the state of Virginia, or of any other state or of the United States, or created by and existing under the laws of any foreign government.
An ACT to incorporate Hollins institute.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the “Peoples Telephone Company,” and to give it additional powers.
An ACT to convert the woman’s club of Richmond, Virginia, from a joint stock company into a social corporation without stock, to extinguish the stock of said corporation, to declare those now entitled to membership to be members of said corporation, to continue and to validate said corporation, its acts and contracts, and to enlarge its powers.
An ACT to change the name of the Southwest Virginia improvement company to the Pocahontas collieries company.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth dime savings bank.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the Ocean View pleasure pier company.
An ACT to include and embrace the county of Surry within the oyster territory of the state, and to lay off, designate, and survey the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals in James river in said county, and to provide for an oyster inspector in said county.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia internal improvement company.
An ACT to authorize and empower the law and equity court of the city of Richmond, or any other court of competent jurisdiction, to adjust and settle the accounts of Jacob Reed’s Sons against certain companies of Virginia volunteers, and to order payment to Jacob Reed's Sons under certain conditions.
An ACT to incorporate the Hanover and Henrico telephone and telegraph company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section first of the charter of the Pocahontas light and water company, giving to said company the power of condemnation and confirming said charter in all other respects.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of the charter of the Peninsula water company.
An ACT to incorporate the Hermitage golf club.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of all kinds of cider in the county of Essex, except apple cider, without a license, and prescribe a penalty therefor.
An ACT for the relief of Harry Howard, of Newport News, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia equipment company.
An ACT to incorporate the Clinchport telephone company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the trustees of the Upper Appomattox company, and to render the property of the said company subject to state, county, and municipal taxation, and for other purposes.
An ACT making it a fine to put less than 196 pounds of flour in a barrel in this State, and to cause the correct number of pounds of flour contained in each barrel shipped into the State to be plainly stamped on one head.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act amending an act — incorporate the Fredericksburg aqueduct company, passed February 28, 1833.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 1901, entitled an act to incorporate the New River, Holston and Western railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the farmer’s mutual fire insurance company.
An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Farmville magisterial district, Prince Edward county, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said magisterial district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved February 2, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1900, 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 incorporate the Virginia artesian water company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incor-porate the Fredericksburg and Rappahannock railway company
An ACT to incorporate the Radford water-power company.

1902/1903
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act incorporating the ‘Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute,’ and to provide for the support of the same,” approved May 20, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 29, 1902.
An ACT to authorize and direct the auditor of public accounts to pay to James E. Phillips, his heirs, assigns, or personal representatives a sum of $5,000 out of any money in the treasury of the Commonwealth of Virginia, not otherwise appropriated, for material furnished and work done on the buildings at the University of Virginia.
An ACT defining the powers and duties of the board of agriculture and immigration, and providing for an election of a commissioner of agriculture and immigration, and for repealing all acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT regulating the grant of franchise, et cetera, by cities and towns, and providing for the advertisement thereof and the public reception of bids therefor, and providing for the enforcement of the obligations of the grantees, grantors or owners of franchises, and providing penalties for the usurpation of or violation of the terms and provisions of franchises.
An ACT to authorize J. W. Massey and T. H. Massey to erect
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $500, or so much thereof as may be needed, to be used by the secretary of the Commonwealth to prepare a list of charters in his office to be furnished to the State Corporation Commission.
An ACT to prohibit the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors
An ACT to legalize a certain election held by the qualified voters Prince Edward county, Virginia, for the purpose of subscribing to the stock the Charlotte, Farmville and James River Valley Railway Company; to empower and direct the supervisors of said county to subscribe to the capital stock said railway company to an amount not exceeding $57,000 in the said county bonds, or $3,000 per mile in the said county’s bonds, par value, upon the term and conditions prescribed in the order of court under which said election was held.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to allow notaries or other officers who hold stock in companies to take acknowledgments to deeds or other writing which said companies execute, provided said notaries or other officer are in no otherwise interested,
An ACT to put, into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment and organization of the “State Corporation Commission,” its jurisdiction, powers, functions and duties; the qualification of the members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its offices, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders, findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and judgments, and its expenses, etc.
An ACT to legalize an election held in Charlotte county for the purpose of subscribing to the capital stock of the Charlotte, Farmville and James River Valley Railway Company.
An ACT to prevent the fraudulent sale in bulk of merchandise, or any portion thereof, otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade.
An ACT to raise revenue for support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Mayville, in Dumfries magisterial district, Prince William county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act for the relief of J. T. Mills.
An ACT to confer upon all the city and municipal corporations additional and full power to regulate and control the sale of wine, malt liquor, ardent spirits, and all intoxicant liquors.
An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Manassas, in the county of Prince William, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquor therein, and in the event of a majority of those voting at said election vote for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter, within said town, or within one mile of its corporate limits, the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors, by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as provided herein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code as amended by an act approved January 22, 1894, in relation to the number of commissioners of the revenue, so as to provide for one commissioner for each magisterial district of the county of Caroline.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 22 of the charter of the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 83 of an act entitled “an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution,” approved April 16, 1903, relating to insurance brokers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 70 of the Code of 1887 as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, as amended by act approved March 1, 1892, relating to appointment of visitors, and by act approved February 23, 1894, giving the assent of Virginia to certain endowments provided by act of congress, and by act approved March 5, 1896, amending sections 1586 and 1592 of the Code in relation to payment of interest and declaring the board of visitors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1750 of the Code of Virginia, regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1104 and 1105 of the Code of Virginia, relative to incorporated companies, so as to provide for the licensing of foreign corporations, and to prescribe penalties against such corporations transacting business in the State without a license, and to provide for the enforcement of such penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 51 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
An ACT authorizing the assignment of life insurance policies.
An ACT authorizing mutual life insurance companies chartered in this State to re-incorporate as stock companies under their existing corporate names.
An ACT to require the owners or proprietors of hotels, inns, houses of private entertainment, and other houses kept for the lodging and entertainment of the public, where gas is used for the purposes of illumination or heating, to post notices containing a warning and directions for the use of the same for the guidance of their guests.
An ACT to provide for the extension, through the State Corporation Commission, of charters of corporations which have complied with the provisions of the ordinance adopted by the Constitutional Convention on the 26th day of June, 1902.
An ACT prescribing the liability of common carriers, railroads, or transportation companies for any loss, damage, or injury to property caused by its negligence, or the negligence of any other common carrier, railroad, or transportation company to which such property may be delivered, or over whose lines such property may pass.
An ACT to provide for an industrial and commercial exhibit: by the Commonwealth of Virginia at the Louisiana purchase exposition, and to appropriate money for the same
An ACT to protect persons, firms, corporations, associations, or unions of workingmen in the use of their labels, trade marks, terms, designs, devices, and forms of advertisements, and to provide for the registry thereof.
An ACT to require the State Corporation Commission to fix and pre- prescribe storage, demurrage, and car service charges which may be collected by railroad and other transportation companies on freight transported, or to be transported by them, and to be paid by them on freight delayed and cars not promptly furnished or placed by them, with rules and regulations governing same.
An ACT to compensate the heirs of J. J. Moran for services rendered
An ACT appropriating the sum of $200,000 to the Jamestown Exposition Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887) in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled “an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact chanter 402 of the acts of assembly, session POT 2, entitled an act to pretect sheep and other stock in the counties of this State
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia.
An ACT concerning corporations.
An ACT to amend sections 2864, 2805, 2871, as amended, and section 2875 of the Code of Virginia in relation to Limited partnerships
An ACT to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this Commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 50 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government. and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 1759 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the practice of pharmacy, as amended and re-enacted by an act
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, in relation to fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth; to provide for levying a license tax on fishing devices, and for the collection thereof, and to extend the provisions of said act to all the waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1900, and as amended by an act approved March 14, 1902.
An ACT to allow a manufacturer of wines who shall have a manufactory in any county, district, or corporation which may vote or has voted against liquor license therein, to sell therein such wines, provided delivery thereof be made to a common carrier to be transported out of such county, district, or corporation.