Civil Rights

1865 Extra Session
An act to amend and re-enact the First Section of an act entitled “An act extending the time for the qualification of certain civil officers of the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth,” passed, February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
An act prescribing means by which persons who have been disfranchised by the Third Article of the Constitution may be restored to the rights of voters.

1869/1870
An ACT to ratify the Joint Resolution of Congress, passed February 27, 1869, proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
An ACT to prescribe and define the Jurisdiction of the County and Corporation Courts of the Commonwealth, and the Times and Places of Holding the same.
JOINT RESOLUTION Petitioning Congress to Remove the Disabilities of Citizens of Virginia.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Ist, 8th, and 14th Sections of Chapter 156 of the Code of Virginia, in Relation to Writs of Habeas Corpus.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS Returning Thanks to Governor and Legislature of Mississippi for Resolutions Expressing Condolence in the Capitol Disaster.
An ACT to Secure Identification of Persons Convicted of Criminal Offences.
An ACT to establish the Central Lunatic Asylum.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 50, 31, 32, 33, 34. 85, 36, 37, 58, 09, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 48, of Chapter 52 of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860), so as to make the Provisions of the Chapter Conform to the Constitution.
An ACT to Amend the Provisions of the Code in regard to the Supreme Court of Appeals, so as to make them conform to the new Constitution.
An ACT to Provide for a General Election
An ACT Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of County
An ACT to Incorporate the Alexandria Catholic Beneficial Society of Alexandria, Virginia.
Joint Resolution Tendering the Thanks of the General Assembly to Conway Robinson, Esq., for Services as Counsel in the Cause of Paul vs. the State of Virginia.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Thirteen, Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Five of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to ratify the Joint Resolution of Congress, passed June 16, 1866, proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
An ACT Prescribing the Oath of Office.
JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the President of the United States to employ forces of the United States to assist the civil officers of this Commonwealth in enforcing the legal writs of the civil courts in certain counties.
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 Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal Year 1863-70.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS Relative to the Death of General Robert E. Lee.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 1, Chapter 12 of the Code of Virginia (1860), with Regard to Duelling.
An ACT to Amend Section 1, Chapter 3 of the Code of 1860, Defining who are Citizens of the State of Virginia.

1867 Extra Session
An ACT concerning Fiduciaries who qualified out of their counties or corporations during the late war.
An ACT to revise and amend the Criminal Procedure.
An ACT for receiving United States Registers of Marriage between Colored Persons
Joint Resolution in response to Communication of General Schofield
An ACT amending sections 7 and 10 of chapter 205 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to Examining Courts.
An ACT concerning Colored Persons as Witnesses

1870/1871
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Chapter 134 of the Code of Virginia, in Relation to the Recovery of the Possession of Real Estate.
An ACT Providing a Charter for the City of Norfolk
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 4 and 5, Chapter 50, Code of 1860, in Relation to Inspection of Jails.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 1, 4, 5, 9,14, 25, and 26, of Chapter 208 of the Code of Virginia, as to Juries in Criminal Cases and Change of Venue.
An ACT to Extend the Jurisdiction of Police Justices and Justices of the Peace in Certain Cases.
An ACT to Authorize the Recovery of Damages when Death is Caused by the Wrongful Act, Neglect, er Default of Another.
An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal Year 1870 and 1871.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 19, 25, and 38, of Chapter 162 of the Code of 1860, and to Repea! Sections 3 and 9 of said Chapter, as to Juries Generally.
An ACT to Repeal Chapter 15 of the Acts of 1865-’66, in Regard to Contracts for Labor Between White and Colored Persons, &c.

1871/1872
An ACT for the Assessment of Taxes on Persons, Property, Income, Licenses, &c.
An ACT to Protect the Oyster Beds in the Waters of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to Appropriate the Income Arising from the Proceeds of the Land Scrip accruing to Virginia under Act of Congress of July 2, 1862, and the Acts Amendatory 'Thereof.
An ACT for the Relief of Sheriffs and other Officers whose Official Papers were lost or Destroyed During the late War.
AN ACT to Amend and Re-enact the First Section of an Act Approved November Ist, 1870, Entitled an Act to Provide Artificial Legs for Citizens of the Commonwealth who lost their Legs During the late War.
An ACT Providing for the Payment of Dr. F. B. Watkins for Services as a Member of the Board Appointed by an Act of Assembly, entitled ‘‘ An Act to Provide Artificial Limbs for Citizens of the Commonwealth who lost their Limbs in the late War.”
An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal Year 1871-72
JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting and Memorializing the Congress of the United States to Refund the Tax Collected on Raw Cotton in 1865, 1866, and 1867, to those who paid it.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS Petitioning the Congress of the United States to Remove all Disabilities under the operation of the 14th Amendment.

1872/1873
An ACT to Prevent the Seduction of Females, and Amending and Re-enacting the 16th Section of Chapter 191, in reference to the Abduction of Females.
An Act to Provide Artificial Limbs for Citizens of the Commonwealth who Lost their Limbs during the War
An ACT to Authorize an Artificial Arm, or Commutation therefor, to be Issued to Moses Cavanaugh.
An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal year 1872-73.
JOINT RESOLUTION Expressing the Sense of the General Assembly of Virginia on the state of Public Affairs in Louisiana.
An Act to Amend and Re-enact Sections Five and Seven of an Act to Regulate and Define the Jurisdiction of the County and Circuit Courts, to Prescribe the Number of Terms of the Circuit Court, and to Fix the Pay of County Judges.
An ACT to Remove certain Causes commenced in the County Courts to the Circuit Courts, and for other Purposes
An Act to Amend and Re-enact the fourth and seventh Sections of Chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the Code of Virginia, (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty, ) and all Acts Amendatory thereof, in Relation to the Taking of Acknowledgments of Deeds.

1874
JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing Certain Amendments to the Constitution of Virginia, in Relation to County Organizations.
An ACT for the Assessment, Levy and Collection of Taxes.
An ACT to Provide a Charter for the Town of Lexington
An ACT to incorporate the Town of Lawrenceville, in Brunswick County.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact section 86 of chapter 18 of the Code of 1873, in relation to Pay of Sheriffs and Sergeants, and to Repeal section 50 of chapter 49 of the Code of 1873.
An ACT for the Relief of Sheriffs in the Service of Civil Process of other Counties than the one in which they Reside.
An ACT to Provide an Artificial Leg for A. J. Nunn.
Joint Resolutions Reaffirming the Third Resolution of the Conservative Platform of 1878, and Protesting against the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, now pending in the Congress of the United States.
An ACT Providing a Charter for the City of Manchester.
An ACT Amending section 24 of chapter 196 of the Code
An ACT to provide for a General Registration of the Voters of the City of Petersburg.
An ACT to Provide for Purging the Registration Books of Illegal Voters
An ACT to amend Section 21 of Chapter 196, Code of 1878, Concerning Conservators of the Peace.

1874/1875
An ACT to incorporate the Southern Historical Society
An ACT to incorporate the Town of Waterford, in Loudoun County.
JOINT RESOLUTION amending the Third Article of the Constitution.
An ACT to provide Commutation for an Artificial Leg
An ACT to provide an Artificial Leg for W. P. Smith.
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 provide Commutation for an Artificial Leg to James Womack of the County of Halifax.
An ACT to provide Artificial Legs for Edward A. Snellings.
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 to provide Artificial Legs or Commutation therefor for William R. Barham.

1875/1876
An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal Year eighteen hundred and seventy-five-seventy-six.
An ACT to incorporate the Grand United Order of Van-guard of Freedom and Temperance.
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 amend and re-enact section thirty, chapter one hundred and ninety of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Obstructing Justice by Threats or Force.
An ACT providing for the Submission to the People of the Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of Virginia, in reference to the Elective Franchise and Qualification for Office, and concerning the Legislative Department.

1876/1877
An ACT for the removal of the disabilities of James Barbour, of Culpeper, and others.
JOINT RESOLUTION in reference to the selection of a suitable site for locating an asylum for the colored insane of the state.
An ACT concerning the appointment of Curators of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, and to amend and re-enact section thirty, chapter seventy-seven, Code of 1878.
An ACT to disband the Richmond Light Infantry Blues and to incorporate the Richmond Light Infantry Blues Association.
An ACT for the relief of P. G. Coghlan and others.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 36, chapter 78, Code of 1873, in relation to the appointment of school trustees in incorporated towns of less than five thousand inhabitants.
An ACT to amend the thirty-fourth section of chapter two hundred and two, Code of 1873, as amended by an act entitled ‘an act to amend the thirty-fourth section of chapter two hundred and two, Code of 1873, with reference to the trial of felonies, approved January 26th, 1874.
An ACT to relieve William R. Johnston and others, of the city of Petersburg, from political disabilities.
An ACT for the relief of A. Lee McInteer, of Prince William county.
An ACT for the relief of R. J. Gaulding, sheriff of Charlotte county, Virginia.
An ACT providing for submitting to the voters of Warren county, on fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the adoption or rejection of a law for working and keeping the public roads in order in said county.
An ACT to enforce the constitutional amendments restricting the right of suffrage to citizens who shall have paid to the state before the day of election, the capitation tax required by law for the preceding year, and to amend and re-enact chapter 7 of the Code.
An ACT to remove the political disabilities of Valosko Vaiden, and others, of New Kent county, under the third clause of section first of article third of the constitution.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1876-77.
An ACT to provide for paying to Wilson Mealy, of Fluvanna, part of a fine imposed by the county court of said county.

1877/1878
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1877-78.