Education

1885/1886
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 3, 4 and 5, of an act approved March 7, 1884, entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Page.
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 provide for the erection of additional buildings, &c., for the State Female Normal school, and to make an appropriation therefor.
An ACT to incorporate The Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph’s Academy and Orphan Asylum of Richmond, Virginia.
An ACT authorizing the Secretary of the Commonwealth and State Librarian to transmit to W. A. Glasgow, at Fincastle, Virginia, one copy of each volume of the Calender of Virginia Historical Manuscripts.
An ACT to authorize a loan of muskets to the Wytheville Academy.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to pay to the public free schools the money set apart by the constitution aid laws for their benefit, and to repeal chapter 177 of the Acts of 1878-’9, approved March 6, 1882.
An ACT to incorporate the Preacher’s Home Association of the Virginia Annual Conference Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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 provide compensation for the teachers of schools where the average attendance of pupils shall not be less
An ACT to provide for the completion of the South- western Lunatic Asylum, and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT to submit the question of increasing the levy for district school purposes to the qualified voters of Monterey and Stonewall school districts of Highland county.
An ACT to allow the school trustees of Red Bank dis-
An ACT to enable the town of Fincastle to aid in founding and maintaining a high school for boys, at or near said town.
An ACT to incorporate Alleghany Institute.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of Z. T. Cecil, late treasurer of Lee county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 183 of Acts of Assembly of 1879-’80, entitled an act authorizing the School Trustees of Richmond District, Wise County, Virginia, to sell one acre of Cold Spring tract of land.
An ACT to regulate the practice of dentistry.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Richmond, to establish and maintain a house of reformation and work-house.
An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Institute.
JOINT RESOLUTION declaring when the office of county and city superintendents of schools shall be deemed vacant.
An ACT to authorize the district and county school boards of Bedford and Lunenburg counties to organize graded or intermediate schools.
An ACT for the relief of school teachers
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act providing for a new Board of Visitors for the University of Virginia, approved April 14th, 1882, and to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4 and 5, of chapter 80 of the Code of 1873.
An ACT appropriating public revenues for the fiscal years 1886 and 1887.
An ACT authorizing the Governor to loan to the Staunton Male Academy at Staunton, Virginia, and to the Fishburn Military School at Waynesboro, arms.
An ACT to allow the Board of School Trustees of Aquia District, Stafford county, to use a portion of the county fund to pay district expenses for the year 1885.
An ACT to authorize the school trustees of Newbern district, Pulaski county, to sell and convey certain property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 13th section of an act entitled an act to incorporate Cumberland College, in Lee County
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4, of an act approved April 22, 1882, constituting the town of Abingdon a separate school district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3, and to repeal section 8, of an act entitled an act to establish a State Female Normal School, and to add an independent section.
An ACT to authorize the Trustees of Falls Church District, Fairfax County, Va., to sell or exchange School lot at Bailey’s cross-roads.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Claremont, in Surry county.
An ACT to provide compensation to Wyndham R. Meredith for services rendered the Commonwealth.
An ACT to authorize the district school trustees of Dublin district, county of Pulaski, to sell and convey certain property.
An ACT to enable the trustees of the Danville Female Academy to sell the real estate and Academy building, and ‘turn over the proceeds of sale to the Ladies Benevolent Society of Danville.
An ACT to empower the trustees of the district school-board of Buchanan school district, Botetourt county, to use surplus county public school funds belonging to said district for the purpose of purchasing or erecting buildings for school purposes.

1887es
An ACT to repeal section four, chapter 340 of Acts of 1883-84, entitled an act providing for an eight weeks’ course of instruction for the colored teachers in the State.
An ACT to incorporate High Point academy, Grayson county.
An ACT to authorize the district school board of Marks- ville district, in the county of Page, to use a portion of the school fund of said district to pay teachers,
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the several school districts in the counties of Hanover, Henry, Franklin, and Charlotte, to expend the county school fund apportioned to their respective districts in the erection and repair of public school buildings.
An ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to make an appropriation for the public schools of said county.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Emporia.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of Barbour school district of Orange county to sell portion of lot belonging to school No. 3, in said district.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Tazewell high school to exchange any property held by them for other property more suitable for school purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, and 14 of chapter 54 of the Acts of the General Assembly, extra session of 1884, in relation to the appointment of a board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 70, 71, 72, and 73 of chapter 9, of anact entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, in force January 21, 1ss4.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Hampton normal and agricultural institute.
An ACT to authorize the district school board of Fauquier county, under certain conditions to use district school funds for the payment of teachers.
An ACT to amend and re-cnact the fifth section of the act approved February 26, 1886, entitled an act to repeal an act entitled an act providing fora new board of visitors for the University of Virginia, ap proved April 14, I8S2, and to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, and 5 of chapter $0 of the Code of 1873.
An ACT to relieve South river and Fork school districts in Warren county, from the payment of certain moneys borrowed from the county school fund, apportioned to said districts.
An ACT to authorize the auditor to credit David A. French, treasurer of Giles county, with lost school warrants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 81 of the Acts of 1874, as to the county of Clarke, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6 and 7 of an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Frederick, Clarke and Charlotte, approved March 6th, 1874, as to the county of Clarke, approved February 21st, 1882.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol-Goodson water company.
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 repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the Normal Collegiate institute, and to provide for the support of the same, approved March 6, 1882, and in lieu thereof provide anew for the incorporation of said Normal and Collegiate institute, and for the support of the same.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Buckingham to supplement the salary of the superintendent of public schools of said county.
An ACT to incorporate the Sherwood Female Seminary at Staunton, Virginia.
An ACT to confirm the sale of certain property by the school board of the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT to provide for a normal school in the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute.
An ACT to permit the board of supervisors of the county of Floyd to increase the district school levy.
An ACT to authorize and empower the school trustees of the Stonewall district in the county of Highland, to sell certain school property therein.
An ACT to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind institute at Staunton, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit James M. Binford, treasurer of the city of Portsmouth, with school warrant No, 1548, dated November 29, 1882, which was paid by him.
An ACT to provide for the appointment and removal of district school trustees, and to repeal chapted 158, Acts of Assembly 1883—4, and the acts amendatory thereof, chapters 38 and 121 of Acts 1ss3—4, and chapter 10 of Acts of Assembly 1885-6.
An ACT to provide for authorizing county and city school boards to sell or exchange public school property.
An ACT to consolidate the Franklin and Rocky Mount school districts in Franklin county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the relief of school teachers
An ACT to incorporate the Boys’ Home of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to extend the time within which the several treasurers and collectors of taxes due the State may make final settlements with the auditor of public accounts of the State taxes on real and personal property for the year 1886; and to provide for the payment of the free school teachers during the period of such extension, so far as may be necessary, out of the funds in the State treasury.

1887/1888
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 75 of chapter 78 of the Code of 1873, in regard to unexpended school funds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to provide for the purchase of certain property, an additional improvement for the State Normal school, and to make appropriation therefor.
An ACT to amend sections 2,3, and 8 of an act passed March 14, 1853, entitled an act to establish Roanoke college in the county of Roanoke.
An ACT to incorporate the South View orphan home.
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Richmond county to appropriate one hundred dollars of the county school fund to the erection of a school-house in Stonewall school district of said county.
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 granting a loan of arms of the state to the principal of Marion High school in the county of Smyth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 192 of the Acts of 1885-6, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski City, in the county of Pulaski.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Sherwood Female Seminary at Staunton, Virginia, approved May 21, 1887.
An ACT requiring educational institutions receiving state appropriations to make annual reports to the board of education.
An ACT to incorporate Liberty Hill high school.
An ACT to incorporate Tazewell Female seminary.
An ACT to authorize the loan of muskets to the Lofty Retreat Male Academy.
An ACT to constitute the town of Salem and adjoining territory a seperate school district.
An ACT to empower and authorize the local board of improvement of Brambleton Ward, city of Norfolk, by and with the consent of the select and common councils of the city of Norfolk to borrow money.
An ACT to authorize a special district school tax in Auburn school district of the county of Montgomery.
An ACT to authorize the sale of certain real estate now held by the county school board of King and Queen county, and to provide for the investment of the proceeds of sale.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act appropriating the proceeds of the Glebe lands and other property belonging to the parishes of Abingdon, Ware and Petsworth, in the county of Gloucester, and for other purposes
An ACT to submit the question of increasing the levy for district school purposes, including lengthening of school term, to the qualified voters of Occoquan district, Prince William county.
An ACT to authorize a loan of muskets to the Locust Dale male academy.
An ACT to establish a normal school at William and Mary college in connection with its collegiate course.
An ACT to authorize the city of Winchester to increase its bonded debt.
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Northumberland county to use a portion of the county school fund for the erection of school-houses in Lottsburg school district.
An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Baptist seminary.
An ACT to empower the trustees of the district school boards of Gill’s creek and Blackwater school districts, Franklin county to use any surplus county public school funds belonging to said districts, for the purpose of purchasing or erecting buildings for school purposes, or discharging any indebtedness of the said district.
An ACT to incorporate the trustees of the Mu Sigma Rho Library association of Chesterfield county, Virginia.
An ACT to allow the district school board of Buchanan district, Botetourt county, to purchase Blue Ridge hall, and for conveyance of same.
An ACT to authorize the surviving trustees of Union academy, of Appomattox county, to fill vacancies,
An ACT appropriating the public revenues for the fiscal years 1888 and 1889.