Education

1889/1890 Public Laws
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 465 of the code of Virginia of 1887 in relation to what the table of lands in counties shall contain.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1767 and 1774 of chapter 79, code of Virginia of 1887, relating to the practice of dentistry.
An ACT to authorize judgments and decrees of the circuit and district courts of the United States to be docketed and indexed in the clerk’s office of the courts of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2961 of the code of Virginia relative to attachments.
An ACT to prohibit the loading and unloading of steamships’ and steamboate’ cargoes on a Sunday.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1582 of chapter 22 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the government of the Virginia military institute.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the code of 1887, touching fish ladders.
An ACT making an appropriation to the building committee of the Virginia normal collegiate institute for the payment of balance due contractors.
An ACT for the relief of V. B. Gilmer, treasurer of Russell county.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title and jurisdiction to lands at the mouth of Chesapeake bay for sites for fortifications for defense thereof.
An ACT to regulate the hours of labor in factories where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives.
An ACT to protect schools, literary societies, é&c.

1891/1892
An ACT to empower the Trustees of the district school board of Union Hall school district, Franklin county, to use any surplus county public school funds belonging to said district for the purpose of purchasing or erecting buildings for school purposes, or discharging any indebtedness of the said district.
An ACT to advance money to the treasurer of Floyd county for use of public schools.
An ACT to impose a tax upon that proportion of the capital stock of all Pullman sleeping, palace, or dining-car companies which is invested and used in this state.
An ACT establishing a special school district in Scott county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the Board of trustees of Margaret academy, in the county of Accomac, to make sale of property held by them in trust.
An ACT to amend an act incorporating the trustees of Union theological seminary, in Virginia
An ACT to authorize the clerk of Radford school board to take a census of Radford district.
An ACT to incorporate the Tazewell college.
An ACT authorizing the district school boards of Luray and Springfield districts, in the county of Page, to use a portion of the district school fund for the purpose of paying teachers.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bedford county to levy a tax on dogs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 586 of acts of assembly 1889-'90, page 945, to compensate school trustees other than clerks of district school boards, in the counties of Goochland, Chesterfield, Powhatan, and the city of Manchester.
An ACT to incorporate the Botetourt normal college
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1591 of the code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of visitors to the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 6, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 33, acts of 1889, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 192, acts 1885, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski
An ACT to incorporate the Ryland institute.
An ACT to incorporate the Ingram institute.
An ACT to authorize the school trustees of Newport school district, in the county of Warwick, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to authorize the sale of certain public school property in Salem, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate Woodlawn male and female academy.
An ACT to incorporate Blackstone female institute.
An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks, in the counties of Campbell, Appomattox and Buckingham.
An ACT to provide for the erection of a fire-proof state library building, and also for the accommodation of the court of appeals, the auditor of public accounts, second auditor, treasurer, commissioner of agriculture, railroad commissioner, superintendent of public instruction, adjutant-general, superintendent of public printing and attorney-general and state laboratory.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia christian female seminary.
An ACT to authorize the rector and board of visitors of the University of Virginia to commute the legacy to said University under the will of Arthur W. Austin.
An ACT to authorize the school trustees of Abingdon district, in the county of Gloucester, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2597 of the code of Virginia, in regard to testamentary guardians.
An ACT for the relief the Berkley school district in Spotsylvania county.
An ACT authorizing the Waverly district school trustees of the county of Sussex to sell land, etc.
An ACT to authorize the school trustees of New Garden district, in Russell county, to sell certain school property in said district.
An ACT to provide for the election of school trustees in the county of Frederick.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and councilmen of the town of Abingdon to borrow money and issue bonds therefor for the purpose of building a suitable and sufficient school-house for the Cave City school district.
An ACT for the relief of Rappahannock school district, in King George county.
An ACT to empower the council of the town of Cape Charles to borrow money and issue bonds therefor to erect or contribute to the erection of an academy of learning.
An ACT to incorporate the Hamilton institute, in the county of Washington.
An ACT to authorize the school trustees of New Garden district, in Russell county, to sell certain school property in said district.
An ACT to provide for a new census of the school population of the city of Buena Vista.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years, ending respectively, the 80th day of September, 1892, and the 30th day of September, 1893.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of Suffolk female institute for the purpose of changing the name to Suffolk college.
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 provide for the expenses of the boards of visitors of the institutions of learning.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 586 of acts of assembly 1889-’90, page 945, to compensate school trustees other than clerks of district school boards in the county of Shenandoah.
An ACT for the retirement of bonds held by schools and colleges, and the issuing of registered certificates therefor, and providing for the payment of interest thereon.
An ACT appropriating the sum of $5,000 to the Prison association of Virginia for the purpose of erecting and equipping workabops and buildings for the use of its school at Laurel for each of the fiscal years 1892 and 1893.
An ACT to provide for the printing and distribution of the school laws and regulations of the school board of the state of Virginia.
An ACT to amend the third section of an act incorporating the Plummer memorial female college of Wytheville
An ACT to incorporate the James river academy.
An ACT to provide that all fines collected for offences committed against the state shall be paid and collected only in lawful money of the United States, and shall be paid in the treasury to the credit of the literary fund.
An ACT for the relief of J. R. Whitehead, treasurer of Pittsylvania county.
An ACT to incorporate the Berkeley collegiate institute.
An ACT to apportion the school fund of Russell county among the several school districts according to school population.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2, chapter 183, acts of assembly 1885, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Southwest Virginia institute.
An ACT to incorporate the Hampton training school for nurses.

1893/1894
An ACT to incorporate the State Executive Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved January 8, 1875, entitled “An act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal education society in Virginia.”
An ACT to legalize the issue of certain bonds of the city of Roanoke
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the fifth section of article ten of the constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Henrico county to compensate school trustees.
An ACT to incorporate the Halifax Episcopal male academy.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Jefferson township, in Culpeper county, to borrow money.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit the treasurer of Northampton county with lost or misplaced school warrants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the Normal and collegiate institute, and to provide for the due support of the same, approved March 86, 1882, and in lieu thereof provide anew for the incorporation of said Normal and collegiate institute, and for the support of the same, approved May 20, 1887.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit Samuel H. Dunkley, treasurer of Patrick county, with lost or misplaced school warrants.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Catalpa district, Culpeper county, to fund the indebtedness of the district incurred under the act approved February 18, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act to incorporate the Hampton normal and agricultural institute, approved June 4, 1870.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 15, 1692, entitled an act to incorporate the Blackstone female institute.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Ashland
An ACT requiring the trustees of the will of James L. Shoemaker, deceased, to give security and file accounts as to endowment fund for educational purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764, 1765 and 1766 of chapter 78 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the practice of pharmacy, as amended by an act approved May 6, 1887, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 12 of an act approved March 3, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia pharmaceutical association, and to regulate the practice of pharmacy, and to guard the sale of poisons in the state of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the government of schools in the county of Frederick.
An ACT to incorporate the General athletic association of the Uni-
An ACT to authorize and empower the school districts of Scott county to make appropriation to aid in building Shoemaker college.
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 authorize the council of the town of Salem to order an election to take the sense of the qualified voters of said town as to the subscription by said town of money to the summer school of methods, and to authorize said council to make said subscription if same be authorized by the vote in said election.
An ACT to incorporate the Assembly’s home and school at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Young ladies’ college, for the education of young ladies, at Buena Vista.
An ACT to authorize and empower the school trustees of Russell county to sell and convey school property.
An ACT to incorporate Wartburg seminary, in Tazewell county.
An ACT providing for the retirement of bonds held by the trustees of St. Joseph’s academy, and orphan asylum of Richmond, and the issuing of registered certificates therefor.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit E. J. McCulloch, late treasurer of Botetourt county, with a lost school warrant for 1890, upon production of satisfactory evidence.
An ACT to permit city and county school boards to change the depositaries of school funds, to prescribe the methods therefor, and to fix the compensation, duties and responsibilities of such depositaries.
An ACT to incorporate the Woman’s college of Richmond.
An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Valley Baptist association of Virginia.
An ACT for a charter for the Spiller academy, at Hampton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 13 of chapter 94, entitled an act to charter the town of Richlands, in the county of Tazewell, in reference to levy for public schools, &c.
An ACT to authorize the boards of trustees of Ruckersville and Monroe districts of Greene county to contribute of their district funds towards the erection of a suitable school building in the Stanardsville central school district of said county.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Catalpa district, Culpeper county, to fund the indebtedness of the district incurred under the act approved February 18, 1890.
An ACT to incorporate the Shoemaker college, in Scott county.