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Children -- Institutional care

1865 Extra Session
An act to make Fa ote for the support of the Lunatic Asylums at Williamsburg and Staunton, and of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and the Blind.
1869/1870
An ACT Concerning the Estate of Uriah P. Levy, the Management of the same by the Board of Education, and for Other Purposes.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 8, Chapter 84 of the Code of 1860, in Regard to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind.
An ACT making an Appropriation for the Support of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, at Staunton.
An ACT to establish the Central Lunatic Asylum.
An ACT Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of County
An ACT Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of certain Township Officers.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Three of an Act passed December twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Orange.
An ACT to Provide for Filling the Office of Superintendent of the Poor.
1867 Extra Session
An ACT to revise and amend the Criminal Procedure.
An ACT to amend the act entitled an act amending the Ist section of the charter of the St. Maryws Female Academy and Orphan Asvlum, inthe city of Norfolk, passed May 22d. 1852,
1870/1871
An ACT Appropriating Money for the Extension of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.
An ACT to Incorporate the Virginia Female Orphan Home.
An ACT to Incorporate the Conference of Saint Mary of the Society of Saint Vincent of Paul in the City of Alexandria.
An ACT for the Relief of Robert J. Echols, Guardian of Lewis P., Sterling C., and Susan V. London.
JOINT RESOLUTION to Suspend Certain Provisions of Sections 21 and 49 of an Act entitled an Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools
JOINT RESOLUTION Asking Congress to Aid by an Appropriation in the Establishment of the American Printing House for the Blind, and the American University for the Blind.
An ACT to Amend the Charter of the City of Alexandria.
1871/1872
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact certain Acts in Relation to the Town of Fincastle, in the County of Botetourt, and to Extend the Corporate Limits of said Town
An ACT to Incorporate the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans, in the City of Richmond.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 2 of an Act Enti-
An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal Year 1871-72
Joint Resolution Authorizing a Joint Sub-committee to visit the Eastern and Western Lunatic Asylums.
An ACT for the Relief of Thomas Davis, an Infant of Greene County.
1872/1873
AN ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section four of Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-five of the Code of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty, in Relation to the Maintenance of Illegitimate Children.
An ACT to Amend an Act passed February 19th, 1861, enti-
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 13, Chapter 127, of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860), and to Extend the Powers of Circuit Courts in relation to the Estates of Infants.
An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal year 1872-73.
1874
An ACT to incorporate Saint Paul’s Church Home of Petersburg.
An ACT to amend the Charter of the Female Humane Association of the City of Richmond.
1874/1875
An ACT to repeal chapter 121 of the Code of 1878, in relation to the Maintenance of Illegitimate Children.
An ACT to better enable the Principal of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution to Discover, in all parts of the State, the Objects of the Public Charity.
An Act to extend the corporate powers of the Germarm Banking Company of Alexandria, Virginia.
An ACT prescribing the Duties, Powers, Liabilities, and Compensation of District Officers, and to repeal chapter 47 and section Ist of chapter 48 of the Code of 1873.
An ACT to incorporate the State Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria, No. 6, of the State of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate The Grand United Sons and Daughters of the Living Council of the Cross, No. 1, in the State of Virginia.
An ACT for re-arranging the dates for the ending of the School Year, the making of Annual Reports by School Officera, and the holding of the Annual Meeting of the County School Board.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Masonic Widows’ and orphans’ Home.
An ACT authorizing the Division of School Districts into Sub-Districts, and to provide for the Management uf the Public Schools therein.
1875/1876
An ACT appropriating money for the Extension of the Western and Eastern Lunatic Asylums.
An ACT to amend the Charter of The Richmond Male Orphan Society.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the forty-seventh section of an Act entitled an Act prescribing the Duties, Powers, Liabilities and Compensation of certain County Officers, providing for the Collection of Taxes and the repeal of chapters thirty-seven and forty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, so as to empower the Superintendent of the Poor to appoint and discharge Nurses, Attendants and Servants employed at the Poor-house.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section eight of chapter one hundred and eighty-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Procuring Abortions and Miscarriages.
An ACT to revive and re-enact the act to Incorporate the Female Orphan Asylum of Fredericksburg.
An ACT to revise and amend the Charter of The Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum.
1876/1877
An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Jonathan Lodge, 1,434, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, of the village of Hampton.
An ACT to amend section fifty-eight of chapter seventy-eight of the Code of 1873, in regard to admission to the public free schools.
An ACT to provide for keeping the paupers in the counties of Scott, Lee and Grayeon.
1877/1878
An ACT to amend the third section of an act to incorporate St. Paul’s Church Home, passed February 19, 1861.
1881/1882
An ACT to provide for the compensation of Special House committee and their clerks appointed by resolution of the House cf Delegates of Virginia, adopted March Yth, 1880.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Chatham.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section nineteen, chapter eighty-four, of the Code of 1873, in relation to public health.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections three and six of chapter eighty-two of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three regulating lunatic asylums and the care of insane persons and their estates, and to add additional sections thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing and directing the directors of the Central Lunatic Asylum to contract for the erection, near the city of Petersburg, of suitable buildings for the accommodation of the colored insane of the State.
An ACT for the relief of Ella J. Jones, a person of un- sound mind.
1882es
An ACT for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, and licenses, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt.
An ACT to incorporate the Church home for infirm and disabled colored persons in the county of Brunswick.
JOINT RESOLUTION vacating the offices of the Visitors of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind institute, at Staunton, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of Ella J. Jones, a person of un- sound mind.
1866/1867
An ACT appropriating fifteen thousand dollars for restoring, repairing and refitting the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind.
An ACT concerning the Authority of Employers over Minors
An ACT to incorporate the Southern Orphan Association.
1883/1884
JOINT RESOLUTION directing the auditor of public accounts to pay to the Eastern and Western Lunatic Asylums the sum of twenty thousand dollars each.
An ACT providing for an eight weeks’ course of instruction for the colored teachers in this state.
An ACT to accept the provisions under the will of Lizzie H. Taylor, deceased, to designate the same as the Hoge School Fund of Loudoun county, and to dispose of the same for the education of the indigent children of said county.
An ACT to incorporate R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 81 of the Code of 1873, repealing the joint resolution approved April 7, 1882, and adding other sections touching the Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institute, at Staunton, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the Auditor of Public Accounts to pay to Harriett Lightfoot Brooke, widow of Francis T. Brooke, deceased, late superintendent of the Central Lunatic Asylum, the sum of four hundred and sixty-five dollars, one quarter’s pay of the late superintendent.
An ACT to incorporate Supreme Fountain Grand United Order of True Reformers.
1884es
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to tax-payers in cities and towns the right of public school education for their children
An ACT to appropriate money to complete the new asylum building near Petersburg, known as the Central lunatic asylum.
An ACT to provide for the establishment of the South-western lunatic asylum
1885/1886
An ACT to authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction to occupy the chapel and recitation-room of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, at Staunton, Virginia, for Summer Normals.
An ACT to incorporate the Bland County High School, in the town of Seddon, and to create a sub-school district in Bland county, and for other purposes.
An ACT to relieve William H. Cole, of Halifax county, from the payment of license tax.
An ACT to incorporate The Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph’s Academy and Orphan Asylum of Richmond, Virginia.
1887es
An ACT for the relief of W. H. Clark, of Pulaski county, from the payment of a fine.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph’s Academy and Orphan Asylum of Richmond, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of New London academy to lease said buildings to county superintendents of schools of Bedford and Campbell counties for school purposes.
An ACT to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind institute at Staunton, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Boys’ Home of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to incorporate the Working Man's Saving Association
1887/1888
An ACT to incorporate the Memorial asylum for infants
An ACT to incorporate the South View orphan home.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and three of an act passed January 23, 1861, entitled an act amending and re-enacting the act entitled an act to incorporate the Jackson Orphan Asylum of Norfolk, passed February 26, 1856.
An ACT to incorporate the Workingmen’s Association of Prince Edward county.
An ACT making an Pppropristion for furnishing the new addition to the Central Lunatic asylum and for the support of additional inmates and paying of arrearages.
1889/1890 Public Laws
An ACT to prevent ene or furnishing cigarettes or tobacco in any form, or Pee irks, or bowie-knives to minors under sixteen years o
An ACT to regulate the hours of labor in factories where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives.
1891/1892
An ACT to legalize the adoption of minor children
An ACT to incorporate the Foundling hospital of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to authorize the surviving corporators of St. Paul’s church home of Petersburg, to convey a lot of land on Guarantee street, in the city of Petersburg, to the Petersburg home for the sick.
An ACT to amend and re-enact clause 4 of section 1 of an act approved February 24, 1874, entitled an act to give effect to a compromise of the litigation in respect to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to establish the manual labor school provided for in the twenty-fifth clause of said will as amended by acts approved on the 2d day of April, 1877, and on the 19th day of February, 1884, respectively.
An ACT to authorize the clerk of Radford school board to take a census of Radford district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled ‘‘an act to incorporate the Prison association of Virginia,”
An ACT for the relief of William Isom, senior’s personal representative and estate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved January 31st, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Southern negro orphan asylum.
1893/1894
An ACT to provide for the establishment of a high school for Bedford county.
An ACT to authorize the city councils of cities to adopt reasonable ordinances to prevent improper interference of scholars attending or boarding at any female school situated in cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 5, 1892, entitled an act to legalize the adoption of minor children by adult persons.