Industry

1893/1894
An ACT to authorize the Buffalo river soapstone company to construct and operate a railroad or tramroad not exceeding twenty miles in length in Nelson county.
An ACT to incorporate the Culpeper and Fredericksburg railway company.
An ACT to authorize the Altoona coal and iron company to make or carry out contracts with the Bertha zinc and mineral company, and to ratify the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Lynnhaven railroad and terminal company, approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to incorporate the Eureka power and manufacturing company.
An ACT to incorporate the Keystone coal, iron and land company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Central and Western railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the United States tobacco company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia mining railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled “An act incorporating the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company,” approved March 8, 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2185, 2187, 2148, and the independent sections 3, 5,8 and 10, and to repeal section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 21385, 2187, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2148, 2144, 2145 and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, approved February 25, 1892, and to amend and re-enact sections 2150, 2164 and 2182 of the code of Virginia, and to add independent sections thereto, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2148, 2151, 2153 and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2145 and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, approved February 25, 1892, which was approved March 2, 1894.
An ACT to incorporate the South Norfolk street railway company
An ACT to incorporate the Appalachian iron and steel company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond and Rappahannock Valley railroad company
An ACT to amend section 5 of an act approved March 1, 1892, entitled “An act to incorporate the Rockingham and West Virginia railway, mining and manufacturing company.”
An ACT to incorporate the Shenandoah and North River electric railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Home investment company.
An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Roanoke street railway company.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bedford and James River railroad company, approved March 1, 1892.
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Northern railway company.
An ACT to charter the Virginia coal and coke company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 12 of an act to incorporate the Metropolitan Western railroad of Virginia
An ACT to incorporate the Graham-Bluefield electric light and power company.
An ACT to confirm and amend the charter of the Virginia pyrites mining company.
An ACT to incorporate the Culpeper, Rappahannock and Madison railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2131 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2181, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2161, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145 and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto.
An ACT to incorporate the Chesterfield transit company.
An ACT making it lawful to adopt marks of designation for saw-logs, piles, hewn timber or square timber, and for the protection of the owners thereof.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia rotary steam engine company.

1897/1898
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 340 of the acts of 1891-92 entitled an act to repeal chapter 324 of the acts of extra session 1887, and to put in full force section 1189 of the code of Virginia in relation to branch roads and lateral works.
An ACT in relation to working coal and other mineral veins in the counties of Henrico and Goochland.
An ACT to create the Board of Fisheries of Virginia, define its duties and fix the salary of its members.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and Smithfield railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Montgomery railroad and mining company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact: section 14 of an act incorporating the Falls Church and Potomac railway company, approved February 26, 1506.
An ACT to incorporate the Phoebus and Fox Hill railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved February 16, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Surry, Sussex and Southampton railway Company
An ACT to incorporate the Radford southern railroad and mining company.
An ACT to incorporate the Atlantic and Western railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Mineral belt railway and tramway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Old Dominion electrical development and power company.
An ACT to amend, ratify and confirm the charter of incorporation granted by C. W. Hill, judge of the First judicial circuit of Virginia, on March 14, 1894, incorporating ‘the Courtland lumber company, and to extend its powers.
An ACT to incorporate the Botetourt electric railway and power company.
An ACT to incorporate the Peninsula railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Fairview turnpike company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 to 14, both inclusive, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southeastern and Atlantic railroad company, approved March 4, 1896, and to change the name of said company.
An ACT to revive, amend and re-enact an act entitled "An aet te an. corporate the Richmond, Gavton and southside railroad company"
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the time for the completion of the Virginia Western coal and iron railroad company, approved March 4, 1806, so as to change the name to the Virginia Carolina railway Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for a bureau of labor and industrial statistics, and for defining the duties of said bureau
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act to incorporate the Metropolitan western railroad of Virginia, approved February 4, 1890, as amended, &c.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia-Alaska gold mining company.
An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Richmond gas company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 24, 1896, entitled an act to incorporate the Blacksburg railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Old dominion mining, chemical and electrical company.

1899/1900
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Falls Church, Fairfax and Manassas railway company"
An ACT to incorporate the colonial coal and coke company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to incorporate Big Sandy and Cumberland railroad company
An ACT to authorize the Low Moor iron company of Virginia to construct and use a railway to cross the county roads on Jackson's river and Pott’s creek, in Alleghany county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 and section 7 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Potts Valley railroad and iron company
An ACT to incorporate the Seawright lithia spring and Augusta railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate Big Sandy and Cumberland railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved January 22, 1894, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 13 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Lancaster railroad company, approved February 12, 1896.
An ACT to incorporate the Brunswick and Lunenburg railroad company.
An ACT to renew, re-enact, and extend the charter of the Longdale iron company for the period of thirty years from the expiration thereof.
An ACT to provide for the construction and maintenance of tramways and railways of mining, manufacturing, and lumber-getting persons, firms, and companies along or across public highways.
An ACT to authorize the Norfolk and Southern railroad to purchase or consolidate other railroad properties and franchises and to sell its own.
An ACT to incorporate the Spotsylvania mining company.
An ACT to empower and instruct the board of sinking fund commissioners to sell the state’s interest in the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad, and to repeal an act entitled ‘‘an act to empower and instruct the board of sinking fund commissioners to sell the state's interest in the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company and to invest the proceeds of sale in century bonds
An ACT to incorporate the Elizabeth City railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 216, acts of 1881-1882, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the James river and Blackwater railroad and lumber company, approved March 6, 1882, authorizing it to construct branch lines not exceeding twenty miles in length.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Atlantic and western railroad company, approved March 4, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the Maysville magisterial district, and other magisterial districts of Buckingham county, to vote a subscription towards the construction and extension of the Buckingham branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway to Buckingham courthouse
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3, chapter 743, of the acts of 1893 and 1894, in relation to time of assessing for taxation of oysters, shells, etc.
An ACT to incorporate Dumps creek railroad and mining company.
An ACT incorporating the Buckingham tram-road company.
An ACT to confer upon the Atlantic and Danville railway company additional powers and privileges.
An ACT to authorize the Big Stone Gap fron company to build branch railroads not exceeding twenty miles in length in the counties of Lee, Scott, and Wise.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Lynnhaven railroad and terminal company.
An ACT to allow J. H. Whealton and E. B. Blackman to erect a breakwater on lower or eastern side of Whealton wharf, Rappahannock river.
An ACT to authorize the Richmond standard steel spike and iron company to construct a railway across the county road in Dunlap’s Creek Valley in Alleghany county, upon such terms as may be prescribed by the board of supervisors of Alleghany county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the ninth section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the mineral development company, approved May 23, 1887, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Abingdon coal and iron railroad company, approved April 11, 1887, and to extend the time for the completion of line of road by the Virginia Carolina railway company, which has succeeded to all the property, rights, and franchises of said Abingdon coal and iron railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Black mountain coal and coke company.
An ACT to incorporate the Fallsburg power and manufacturing company.
An ACT for the relief of the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News railway company.
An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the Norfolk and western railway company to locate and construct or purchase certain branches
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia water power company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to authorize the construction by the Piedmont soapstone company of tramways or railroads not exceeding twenty-five miles in length, and the encumbering and disposal of the same, approved February 6, 1896, and to confirm the charter of the said company and authorize a change of its name.
An ACT to incorporate the Onancock electric railway, light and power company
An ACT to incorporate the Russell Fork and eastern railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the sulphur mining and railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the Danville and Riverside railway company, approved January 30, 1896.
An ACT to incorporate the Brock’s Gap railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the James river railway company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Newport News ship-building and dry-dock company by amending and re-enacting section 2 thereof as amended and re-enacted by the act approved January 11, 1896, SO as to authorize said Newport News ship-building and dry-dock company to issue preferred as well as common stock: and by adding an independent section to said charter authorizing and permitting said Newport News ship-building and dry-dock company and its successors to manufacture steel and iron and the products thereof, and armor and arms, carriages and ammunition, and to erect and maintain piers, docks, bulkheads, and other properties and works in the James river westerly trom and in front of the property owned or which may be owned by said company or its successors at Newport News.

1895/1896
An ACT to incorporate the Salem and Blacksburg electric railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and northwestern railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Potomac river power company.
An ACT to incorporate the Wythe county railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth, Pig’s Point, and Newport News railway, ferry, and hotel company.