Industry

1895/1896
An ACT to ratify, confirm and enlarge the charter of the Norfolk wharf, warehouse and terminal company, to confer upon it the rights and obligations of a railway and transportation company as prescribed, and to change the name thereof to the Norfolk terminal and transportation company.
An ACT to allow W. P. Wilson and W.T. Fergusson to erect a pier or wharf at Fergusson’s wharf, in James river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 14, 1892, entitled an act to incorporate the Empire transportation company.
An ACT to incorporate the Blacksburg railway company.
An ACT to incorporate Alberene railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to regulate and protect the crabbing industry, and to prohibit non residents from catcb-<br />ing crabs in the waters of Virginia,” approved March 7, 1894, and to repeal ao act entitled “An act to protect the crab industry of the commonwealth.<br />approved May 12, 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Ohio river and Charleston railroad company as the successor of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad company
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia mineral railway company.
An ACT to permit any railroad or transportation company...
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Mineral belt railway and tramway company
An ACT to incorporate the Piedmont mining and manufacturing company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia state agricultural and mechanical society, approved February 8, 1888.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2486 of code of 1887, as amended by an act to amend and re-enact sections 2485 and 2486 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the lien of employees, &c., of transportation, mining and manufacturing companies, on franchises and property of said companies, and how the same may be perfected and enforced
An ACT to extend the time for the completion of the Virginia western coal and iron railroad company.
An ACT to revive, amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Portsmouth, Smithfield and Western railway company, approved March 2, 1892, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1,10,and 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Portsmouth, Smithfield and Western railway company, approved March 2, 1892, and to add an independent section thereto, approved March 2, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 7, and 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Madison and Orange railroad company
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bristol and northern railroad company.
An ACT to amend section 2 of a charter granted to The John G. Hurkamp Company on the 7th day of August, 1895, by the judge of the circuit court of Fredericksburg, in vacation, and to confirm and approve and ratify such charter, as amended, and all its provisions.
An ACT to incorporate the Hinton, New river and western railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act of general assembly, approved January 24, 1894, entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond, Gayton and southside railroad company, approved January 26, 18¥.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizin the board of supervisors of Pittsylvania county to issue the bonds of said county for the purpose of raising money to pay off bonds of said county, approved February 7, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 30, 1895.
An ACT to incorporate the American milk company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bridgewater construction company
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1890.
An ACT to incorporate the Fairmount traction company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia transit company and to authorize it to engage in mining, manufacturing, and storage.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bridgewater and forge granite and lumber company, approved March 3, 1892, as amended by an act approved January 22, 1894, and to amend the title thereto, so as to read the Fredericksburg lumber and granite company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act, approved December 17, 1891, entitled an act to incorporate the Marion and Rye Valley railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk, Willoughby Spit and Old Point railroad company.

1901/1902
An ACT to authorize and empower the Princess Iron Company to lay out, construct, and operate a railroad from a point at or near its mines, at North Mountain, in Botetourt county, Virginia, to a point on the Chesapeake and Ohio railway (James River division), at or near Gala, in said county.
An ACT to incorporate the New River and Northern Railroad.
An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke Industrial and Agricultural Association.
An ACT to incorporate James River Railway and Lumber Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Newport News and Elizabeth City Railway and Electric Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 12 of an act approved February 4, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Metropolitan Western Railroad of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1892, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 30, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1898, as amended by an act approved January 22, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 5, 1890, entitled an act to enable certain mining and manufacturing corporations of other States or countries to conduct operations in this State.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Anthracite Coal and Railway Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Progressive Mutual Live-Stock Association, of Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk County Industrial Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 17, and 18 of an act to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, approved March 9, 1880; said act further amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, in force from January 28, 1884; said act further amended by an act entitled an act to change the name of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company to the Pocahontas Collieries Company, approved February 9, 1901; said act further amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section \| of an act entitled an act to change the name of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company to the Pocahontas Collieries Company, approved December 17, 1901.
An ACT to incorporate Copper Range Southern Railway Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Lick Creek and Lake Erie Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Armstrong Land and Improvement Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Pamunkey Game Club.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, 9, 11, and 12 of an act approved March 2, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond and Tidewater Railroad Company, approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to incorporate Steel Ores Railway.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to legalize a certain election held by the qualified voters of Floyd county, Virginia, for the purpose of subscribing to the stock of the Mount Rogers and Eastern Railroad Company, and to empower and direct the board of supervisors of said county to subscribe to the preferred capital stock of said railroad company to the amount of $150,000, par value, upon the terms and under the conditions prescribed in the order of the county court under which the said election was held.
An ACT to incorporate the Northern Neck Industrial Academy.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 9, and 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Radford-Southern Railroad and Mining Company, approved February 14, 1898.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Central Railway of Virginia,
An ACT to permit George V. Wagenen, of Middlesex county, Virginia, to erect a pierhead and breakwater on the Rappahannock river.
An ACT to allow the firm of Cralle, Hubbard & James to build a Wharf in Lawson's bay, Rappahannock river, in Lancaster county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Citizens Railway, Light and Power Company, approved February 9, 1900.
An ACT to permit W. T. Henley to construct and use a wharf in the Mattaponi river.
An ACT to incorporate Norfolk-Hampton Roads Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 5, and 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Electrical Railway and Development Company, approved February 7, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Holston River and Eastern Railway, approved February 12, 1901.
An ACT to incorporate the Greenesville and Dinwiddie Railway Company.
An ACT to amend the charter of Birchfield Coal and Coke Company, and change its name to Stonegap Colliery Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Berkley Tunnel Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Dan River Railway Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act in force January 28, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 9 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway Company
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the James River Railway Company, in effect February 22, 1900.
An ACT to incorporate Eastern and Northwestern Railway Company.
An ACT to incorporate Staunton Falls Company.
An ACT to authorize an increase of the capital stock of Virginia Carolina Railway Company, to authorize said company to acquire, hold, or guarantee the stocks and bonds, or either, of other corporations; to authorize an extension of its main line, and to build lateral branches; to issue bonds and secure same by deed or deeds of trust, mortgage or mortgages; to repeal section 4 of the act entitled “an act to incorporate the Abingdon Coal and Iron Railroad Company,” approved April 11, 1887, and to amend and re-enact the act entitled “an act to authorize the Virginia-Carolina Railway Company to sell or lease its railroad and franchises to, and to consolidate or merge its stock, railroad property, and franchises with, any other railroad company operating or authorized to operate, a connecting line of railroad, and to lease from any such railroad company its property, rights, and franchises,” approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Elizabeth River Railroad Company,” approved December 20, 1901.
An ACT to incorporate the South and Western Railway Company.
An ACT to authorize the increase of the capital stock of the Old Dominion Railway Company.
An ACT to permit Dr. W. W. Kerns to erect a wharf or pier on land fronting his oyster houses on Santa creek, in Old Woman’s bay, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to change the name and increase the capital stock of the Gladeville Railroad Company, in Wise county, and to amend and enlarge its charter, as incorporated by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 20, 1892, as amended by chapter 238 of the acts of the “general assembly of Virginia of 1895 and 1896, approved February 5, 1896, and as amended by chapter 299 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1899 and 1900, approved February 9, 1900.
An ACT to incorporate the Catawba Valley Railway and Mining Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 16, 1901, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Rappahannock Railway Company, approved February 7,

1901es
An ACT to incorporate the Indian creek and Pound river railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Northern railroad company.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of all kinds of cider in the county of Essex, except apple cider, without a license, and prescribe a penalty therefor.
An ACT to incorporate the Central railway of Virginia.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Virginia sugar refining company
An ACT to incorporate the Hollins internal improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Portland railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Tidewater and West Virginia railroad company
An ACT to charter the Blue Ridge railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Mount Rogers and Eastern railroad company, to grant said corporation certain privileges, and authorize the counties through which said road may be constructed to aid the construction thereof.
An ACT to change the name of the Southwest Virginia improvement company to the Pocahontas collieries company.
An ACT to allow the Chuckatuck, Newport News, and Norfolk steamboat company to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek, in Nansemond county, Virginia.
An ACT validating, ratifying, confirming, and approving an ordinance of the city council, passed December 11, 1900, and approved by the mayor of the city of Alexandria, on December 13, 1900, authorizing the Washington Southern railway company to construct, maintain, and operate a switch or side track in and upon St. Asaph street, between Madison and Pendleton streets in the city of Alexandria and to connect each end of said switch or side track with its main track in said street; and to construct, maintain, and operate turnouts or spur tracks connecting its main line of railway or said switch or side track at any point or points between the streets aforesaid with the property of Robert Portner brewing company, and endowing and vesting the said the Washington Southern railway company with the right, power, and authority to construct, maintain, and operate the switch or side track, and turnouts or spur tracks in said ordinance mentioned and provided for.
An ACT to incorporate Holston river and Eastern railway.
An ACT to incorporate Doran coal and railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Radford water-power company.
An ACT to amend sections 1, 5, and 6 of the charter of the American development company of the United States, approved January 29, 1898.

1902/1903
An ACT to authorize the city of Petersburg to acquire land necessary to construct a channel for diverting the freshet water from the Appomattox river at Petersburg, Virginia, so as to improve the harbor and channel of said river.
An ACT to provide for the special and separate assessment of taxes on mineral lands and on the improvements, fixtures, and machinery thereon.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Clarke county to issue bonds of the county to macadamize the public roads of the several magisterial districts of the county.
An ACT to provide for an industrial and commercial exhibit: by the Commonwealth of Virginia at the Louisiana purchase exposition, and to appropriate money for the same
An ACT to provide for an election in Orange county for the purpose of taking the sense of the qualified voters upon the question of issuing bonds to build maeadamized publie roads; to appoint road commissioners, prescribe their powers and duties, and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to issue and negotiate said bonds,

1902/1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots.
An ACT to provide for an industrial and commercial exhibit by the Commonwealth of Virginia at the Louisiana purchase exposition, and to appropriate money for the same.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000, to be used in the erection of a State building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

1904
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $165,000 to provide buildings, equipment, and improvement for the Virginia polytechnic institute.