Death and burial

1893/1894
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county.
An ACT to establish a state board of embalming, to provide for the better protection of life and health, to prevent the spread of contagious diseases, and to regulate the practice of embalming and the care and disposition of the dead.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2906 of the code of Virginia, with respect to the survival of the right of action to the plaintiff’s representatives in actions for tort when the plaintiff dies pending the action.

1897/1898
An ACT providing for the relief of H. J. Swindall, Fd. Tall, and John Hall, administrators of John Branham, deceased, all of Wise county of Virginia
An ACT to incorporate the Danville mutual aid and benefit society.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 92 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia of 1803-'94 entitled ‘An act to Incorporate the American mutual benefit society,’ approved January, 1804, by changing its name to the Mutual benefit fraternity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 5 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac
An ACT to authorize the sale of certain church property in the county of Lee.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 12, 18 and 20 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Berkley in the county of Norfolk
An ACT to incorporate the Accomac Tribe, No. 90, Improved order of Red Men.
An ACT for relief of Julia W. Johnson.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth Grady, a widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT for the relief of Sallie Gibson, the widow of a Confederate soldier, of Bath county.
An ACT to place the name of Mildred A. Field on the pension rolls of the state of Virginia.
An ACT to charter the Hill City benevolent relief association, of Lynchburg, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of Mistress Mary F. Lochard, widow of a Confederate soldier of Franklin county, Virginia.
An ACT to repeal sections 2254. 2255, 2256, 2287, 2238, 2245, 2244,
An ACT to allow a pension to Sarah Right, of Patrick county.

1899/1900
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Martha Ann Aliff.
An ACT authorizing the auditor of public accounts to issue a warrant to F. Sale and J. W. Austin for the payment of twenty-five dollars for services rendered by them in making an autopsy on the body of Edward Smith, deceased.
An ACT for the relief of Mary English, widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT for the relief of Nancy A. Johnson, widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to incorporate the golden chain society of Westmoreland county, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of Mildred A. Lewis, of Appomattox.
An ACT for the relief of Eliza A. Tinder, a Confederate soldier's widow.
An ACT for the relief of C. L. Kennedy, ex-sheriff of Stafford county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1660 to 1712, inclusive, of the code of Virginia in relation to state hospitals for the Insane and the commitment of insane persons.
An ACT for the relief of Lucy Robinson, the widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to amend sections 13, 17, and 18 of the charter of the town of Suffolk.
An ACT for the relief of Willie Ann Durham, widow of a deceased Confederate soldier.
An ACT for the relief of the personal representative and estate of William M. Flanagan.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville,
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. M. J. Bell, widow of N. W. Bell, a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to incorporate the state council of Virginia, junior order of united American mechanics of the state of Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Virginia F. Gayle, the widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to pension Mrs. Margaret E. Jennings, widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases, approved March 2, 1892.
An ACT for the relief of Louisa J. Barron, widow of a Confederate soldier, of Wise county.
An ACT for the relief of Florentine Kasy, the widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to incorporate the Samaritan endowment association.
An ACT to give aid to soldiers, sailors, and marines disabled in the war between the states, and to every such soldier, sailor, or marine who by disease or other infirmities of age, is disabled from earning or is without the means of procuring a support, and to the widows of Virginia soldiers, sailors or marines who lost their lives in said war in the military or naval service, or whose husbands have died since the war.
An ACT for the relief of Gustina A. Grubbs, widow of William W. Grubbs, a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to approve, ratify, and confirm the charter of the peace and light society, of King George county, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of Jacob H. Rinker.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Margaret S. White, of Richmond, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the sons and daughters of liberty in Westmoreland county, Virginia.
AN ACT for the relief of Mrs. Clay Mays, widow of Clay Mays, a Confederate soldier.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Abram Altic
An ACT to incorporate the union brothers, a colored organization, with powers to care for its sick and to bury its dead.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Naoma Crawford.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Hardin Hodges
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 13, and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide for a new charter for the town of Farmville
An ACT for the relief of Mattie H. Martin, widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. M. H. Chandler, widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT requesting the state board of health and vital statistics to report as to the proper mode and place for inflicting the death penalty.
An ACT for the relief of Rebecca Greiner, widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT for the relief of Jacob Yearout, a private Confederate soldier.
An ACT to incorporate the sons and daughters of Solomon, of King George county, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of Lucy Terry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March 6, 1882, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1894, and as amended by an act approved January 27, 1898.
An ACT to incorporate the imperial union of the city of Rich-
An ACT for the relief of Ann E. Hillsman, widow of William H. Hillsman, a deceased Confederate soldier.
An ACT to amend section 1414 code of Virginia 1887, in relation to cemeteries in Henrico county, and giving the town of Barton Heights the authority to regulate by proper ordinances the burial of dead bodies in the cemeteries adjoining the town of Barton Heights and known as plat Cedarwood, Union Mechanics’, Methodist, Ebenezer, and Sycamore cemeteries.
An ACT for the relief of the congregation and members of Madison station Methodist Episcopal church south, in Amherst county, authorizing the establishment of Meade memorial burial ground and defin- ing the duties and powers of the trustees thereof.

1895/1896
An ACT to allow a pension to Susan A. Rickman, of Halifax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3680 of the code of Virginia in reference to rape and its punishment.
An ACT to incorporate the Border mutual benefit association of Danville, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Northern Neck mutual union, in Westmoreland county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the True friend’s aid society.
An ACT to provide for the payment out of the treasury for losses sustained by destruction of property and expenses incurred to prevent the spread of small-pox from an epidemic of that disease prevalent in the Indian reservation of the Pamunkey tribe of Indians.
An ACT to incorporate the Sons and daughters of Zion of the county of Louisa.
An ACT to amend an re-enact section 2197 of code of Virginia, 1887, relating to burial of hogs and fowls that die from contagious disease.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 3 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Graham, in the county of Tazewell, approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to establish public places of interment for the remains of citizens and residents of Tazewell county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Kecoughtan Lodge, No. 29, Knights of Pythias, of Hampton, Va.
An ACT to incorporate the Draper’s benevolent society, in Pulask county, Va.
An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Warwick Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 72.
An ACT to incorporate the Wakefield cemetery.
An ACT for the relief of Wm. Henry Harrison Cawood.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Waverly to establish cemeteries or burial places within or without said town and to validate a certain deed conveying land to said town for that purpose.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. E. S. Howard, widow of a Confederate soldier.

1901/1902
An ACT to incorporate Virginia Savings Bank and Trust Company.
An ACT to refund to James M. Habel and George W. Habel taxes erroneously paid by them to the State of Virginia and the county of Bedford.
An ACT to incorporate the Dixie Beneficial Association.
An ACT for the relief of W. R. Crockett, administrator of W. W. Hounshell, deceased, of Wythe county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2042 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3650 in chapter 178 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in regard to exemptions.
An ACT to refund to Mary A. Yancey, administratrix of W. L. Yancey, deceased, of Harrisonburg, a certain license tax paid by said W. L. Yancey in his lifetime as an attorney at law.

1901es
An ACT to incorporate the Independent Baptist aid society of Westmoreland courity, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Oxford Presbyterian church, in the county of Rockbridge, to sell certain lots for burial purposes.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia casket, cemetery, burial and crematory company.

1902/1903
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of removing the remains of the wife and of the daughter of James Monroe from Oakhill, in Loudoun county, to Hollywood, in the city of Richmond.
An ACT to compensate the heirs of J. J. Moran for services rendered
An ACT providing for payment of State tax by party on whose motion the estate of a decedent is committed to the sheriff of any county or corporation, or the sergeant of the corporation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, 10, and 14 of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to establish a State board of embalming; to provide for the better protection of life and health; to prevent the spread of contagious diseases; to regulate the practice of embalming, and the care and disposition of the dead; and to add additional section 15 thereto
An ACT to validate all acts done under chapter 453 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1901- 1902, approved April 2, 1902, providing pensions for soldiers, sailors, and marines of Virginia who were wounded or disabled in the war between the States, and for widows of soldiers, sailors, and marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service, or by reason of wounds received or disease contracted therein.

1902/1904
An ACT to regulate the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the estates of decedents, and the appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators, committees by the clerks of circuit courts.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of removing the remains of the wife and of the daughter of James Monroe from Oakhill, in Loudoun county, to Hollywood, in the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2636, 2637, 2639, 2640, 2642, 2645, and 2647 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2644 of said Code as amended and re-enacted by act approved February 12, 1892, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact. section 2644 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to the marriage of a female personal representative.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1894, and to amend and re-enact sections 2534 and 2538 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend section 2547 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1898, in relation to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills.