Industry

1885/1886
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond, Petersburg and Manchester Railway Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Fuel-Gas Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Dan River Mining Company.
An Act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6,9 and 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Atlantic and Danville Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, approved April 21, 1882; and also to amend and re-enact the title of said act.
An ACT to incorporate the Culpeper, Sperryville, Washington and Front Royal Telephone Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Boom and Log Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Prince George Lumber and Transportation Company.

1887es
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 3 section of an act approved February 26, 1854, entitled an act to amend the charter of the Edenton and Norfolk railroad company, and to change the name of said company to that of the Carolina and Chesapeake railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville, Wytheville, and Southwestern construction company.
An ACT supplementary to an act approved March 17, 1884, entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the Virginia Mineral railway company, approved March 6, 1880.
An ACT to authorize the governor to furnish convict labor for the construction of the Richmond and Tide-water railroad.
An ACT to incorporate the Round Mountain mining and manufacturing company.
An ACT to incorporate the Rich Valley iron and Gypsum mining and manufacturing company.
An ACT in relation to the establishment of certain foundaries by the government of the United States within the State of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and Tennessee coal and iron company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Stock Creek coal and iron company
An ACT to incorporate the Kent’s Ridge coal and iron company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act enti-
An ACT to incorporate the Cripple Creek Iron and Steel company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Western Branch railway company.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the lease of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway to the Newport News and Mississippi Valley company.
An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Virginia mining company.
An ACT to revive and re-enact an act to incorporate the Balcony Falls company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 9 of an act to incorporate the Atlantic and Danville Narrow Gauge railroad company, approved April 21, 1882, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 24, 1886, and to confer certain additional powers on said company.
An ACT to authorize and enable the Louisville and Nashville railroad company, a corporation created and organized under the laws of Kentucky, to construct and operate an extension of its line of railroad into and within the State of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate Reed Island iron company.
An ACT to incorporate the Abingdon coal and iron railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Rockbridge company.
An ACT to change the name of the Flat Top coal company to the Old Dominion mining and railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Staley’s Creek manganese and iron company.
An ACT authorizing an increase in the capital stock of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
An ACT to allow Edwin T. Melvin and others to erect a wharf at Franklin city, Accomack county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the Tennessee and North Carolina railroad company in this State, to construct its road to any mines in Washington, Smythe, and Gravson counties, and to issue and use its stocks and bonds in payment for rights of way, work, materials, and supplies by contract.
An ACT to incorporate the Lyon manufacturing company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia mining company.
An Act to incorporate the Mount Pony granite and railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke and Northwestern railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Blue Ridge mineral railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Byrd creek iron company of Virginia.
An ACT to extend the charter of the Buckingham Mining and Development company.
An ACT to amend sections one and five of Acts of Extra Session, 1887, to incorporate the Dinwiddie and Brunswick lumber and transportation company.
An ACT to incorporate the Mineral railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 3, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Western railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol coal and iron company.
An ACT to incorporate the James River Mineral Developing company.
An ACT to incorporate the Dinwiddie and Brunswick lumber and transportation company.
An ACT to authorize D.S. Jones to ercet a pier in James river opposite the Blow estate in James City county, Virginia, just above Mulberry island.
An ACT to incorporate the Mineral Development company.
An ACT to incorporate the New River Tron and Coal company,
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 5, and 7 of an act incorporating the Petersburg and Chesterfield railroad company,
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond railway connecting and wharf company.
An ACT to amend the Wythe Lead and Zinc mining company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Steel company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Mining and Improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke cotton mills.
An ACT to incorporate the Salisbury coal mining and manufacturing Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act approved February 8, 1586, entitled an act to incorporate the Morotock manufacturing company.
An ACT to incorporate the Buena Vista company.
An ACT to incorporate the Suffolk street railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Rustin land, mining, and manufacturing company.
An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke Rolling Mill company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New River Narrow Gauge railroad company, approved March 29, 1873, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1877, and as further amended by an act approved March 6, 1882, and also to amend and re-enact section 7 of the same act as amended by an act approved March 6, 1886.
An ACT to incorporate the Buck Horn iron and improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Mineral Belt Steam Tramway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Suburban and City railway and improvement company
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia and Kentucky railroad company, approved March 3, 1884, and to authorize the said company to consolidate with, lease its lines to, or lease the lines of any railroad connected with it.
An ACT to incorporate the Warm Spring Valley improvement company.
An ACT declaring Stony creek and its tributaries, and Staunton’s creek in the county of Scott, public highways.

1887/1888
An ACT to amend an act approved February 19th, 1886, to incorporate the Mineral Springs railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Craig company.
JOINT RESOLUTION transferring a certain claim of the state of Virginia against the government of the United States, to the Mount Vernon avenue association, chartered by this state.
An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Cotton Mill and Improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Dinwiddie granite company
An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Tazewell coal and iron company
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol and Danville railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and five of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Chowan and Southern railroad company, approved May 5th, 1887, and to authorize the stockholders of said company to change its name to the Norfolk and Carolina railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Isle of Wight and Nansemond lumber and transportation company.
An ACT to relieve the Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Western railway company from any forfeiture which may have accrued from failure to commence and complete its road within the time limited in its act of incorporation, and to reinvest the said company with all the powers, privileges, and franchises granted by said act approved March 8, 1880, entitled an act to incorporate the Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Western railway company, and for other purposes.
An ACT to incorporate the Big Stone Gap mining, transportation, and development company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norma Iron railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the South Atlantic and Ohio railroad company, and to legalize subscriptions and contracts and all corporate acts which the said company may have performed since the first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
An ACT to provide for working and altering roads, and building and repairing bridges in the county of Mecklenburg.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and South Mills railway company.
An ACT to regulate the construction of railroads through mountain passes and defiles.
An ACT to incorporate the Greenleaf Johnson lumber company.
An ACT to authorize the extension of the Powell’s Valley railroad from the Tennessee state line across the southwest corner of Virginia to the Kentucky state line at or near Cumberland Gap.
An ACT to incorporate the Bessemer Steel and Iron company.
An ACT to extend the charter and franchises of the Southern improvement company.
An ACT to authorize T. E. Henshaw and W. H. Ruark to place a boom in Mattaponi river.
An ACT to incorporate the James River Valley Construction company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and North Carolina construction company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Midlothian, Manchester, and Richmond railway and mining company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10, chapter 228, Acts of Assembly, 1883 and 1884, entitled an act incorporating the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Spotsylvania Mining and Manufacturing Company
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of the act approved March 3, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the Pittsburg and Virginia railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and ten of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Surry and Smithfield railroad company, approved March 6th, 1886.
An ACT to incorporate the Manchester Manufacturing company.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and North Carolina railroad company.
An ACT to change the name of the Lynchburg agricultural and mechanical society.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol and South Atlantic railroad company.