Jails
| An ACT Concerning the City Serg:ant of Alexandr a. |
| An ACT Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of County |
| An ACT to Aathorize the Urganization of Chain-Gangs in the Cities, Towns, and Counties of the State. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Chapter 85 of the Code of Virginia, in Relation to Insane Persons. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 37, Chapter 184 ot the Code of Virginia, with Regard to Jailors’ Fees. |
| An ACT to Authorize the Corporation of Farmville to Borrow Money for the Purpose of Erecting a Courthouse, Clerk’s Office, and Jail, in said Town. |
| An ACT to Amend the 138th Section of Chapter 207 of the Code, with Regard to Discharge of Accused from Imprisonment, if not Indicted in a Certain Time. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 4 and 5, Chapter 50, Code of 1860, in Relation to Inspection of Jails. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 19, 25, and 38, of Chapter 162 of the Code of 1860, and to Repea! Sections 3 and 9 of said Chapter, as to Juries Generally. |
| An ACT Appropriating a Sum of Money for Heating the Building of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum by Steam |
| An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Russell County to Borrow Money to Re-build the Court-house and Jail of said County. |
| An ACT for the Relief of Thomas Jennings, Acting Jailor of Pittsylvania County. |
| An ACT Allowing Incorporated Towns of this Commonwealth to use the County Jails. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Fourteen of Chapter Two Hundred and Nine of an Act passed April 27th, 1867, Entitled an Act to Revise and Amend the Criminal Procedure. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section ten of Chapter one hundred and ninety-nine of the Code of 1860, concerning Crimes and Punishments. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 5 and 13 of the Act in force March 22d, 1872, Entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact Certain Acts in Relation to the Town of Fincastle, in the County of Botetourt, and to Extend the Corporate Limits of said Town. |
| AN ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section four of Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-five of the Code of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty, in Relation to the Maintenance of Illegitimate Children. |
| An ACT to Authorize the County of Surry to Borrow Money to Rebuild the Jail Recently Destroyed by Fire. |
| An ACT to amend the Charter of the Town of Chatham, in Pittsylvania County. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 14 and 17, of Chapter 82, Code of 1878, in reference to examination of lunatics. |
| An ACT for tho Relief of Philip Timbers, of Culpeper County. |
| An ACT for the Relief of M. C. Miles, Jailor of Lee County |
| An ACT to Establish a Separate Circuit Court in and for the City of Fredericksburg, and to Prescribe where the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Spotsylvania County shall be kept. |
| An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Elizabeth City county to Borrow Money to Repair and Rebuild the Court-house and Jail of said county. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION to ascertain the Number of Lunatics Confined in the Jails of the Several Counties. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section three, chapter two hundred and four of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Allowances to Physicians in Criminal Cases. |
| An ACT to enable and authorize the council of Danville to levy a special tax for the purpose of building a town jail, and paying the floating debt of said town. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county to borrow money to rebuild: their jail. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the 20th section of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth |
| An ACT for the protection of wild water-fowl in Accomac county. |
| An ACT to regulate the use of the public wharf or landing at Totuskey bridge, in Marshall magisterial district, in Richmond county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide for the transportation of convicts and insane persons and their guards at reduced rates. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of New Kent county to borrow money to rebuild the jail. |
| An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Buchanan county to borrow money and issue bonds for the same. |
| An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Warwick county, to borrow money to repair and rebuild the courthouse and jail of said county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved Murch 24, 1871, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Luray, in the county of Page, and an act approved April 30, 1874, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act to incorporate the town of Luray, approved March 28, 1879. |
| An ACT to authorize the Boards of Supervisors of the counties of Albemarle and Augusta to allow the Sheriff of said counties a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for fuel used at Jails of said counties. |
| An ACT to incorporate the town of Stuart, in the county of Patrick. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to allow the jailer of the said county compensation for fuel furnished the jail of said county. |
| An ACT to pay H. Hughes’ administrator fifty-nine dol- |
| 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 amend and re-enact section twenty of chapter fifty-one of Code of 1873, relating to beggars and vagrants. |
| An ACT to authorize the governor to provide for the sup- |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Loudoun county to borrow money to build a jail. |
| An ACT to provine payment out of the public treasury to William T. Fitzpatric deputy sheriff, the amount of expense incurred by him in behalf of the commonwealth. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Clarke county to appropriate a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars from the county levy for the purchase of fuel for the county jail. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8582 of the code of Virginia, in relation to fees of a jailer. |
| An ACT for the relief of G. T. Burgess and the heirs of S. B. Burgess (deceased), sureties of E. Burgess, late treasurer of Northumberland county. |
| An ACT in relation to the control of prisoners in jail. |
| An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds for the redemption of paving bonds as they mature and for other purposes. |
| An ACT for the relief of M. P. Fulcher, Tobias Phillips, and Beauford Akers. |
| An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Chesterfield to raise money by the issue and gale of bonds to pay for the new county jail and to pay for repairing and building bridges in said county. |
| An ACT to provide a charter for the city of Buena Vista. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4128, 4124, 4152, 4159, 4160, 4161, 4162, 4163, 4164, 4167 and 4173, of chapter 202, code of Virginia, in relation to rules governing the management of the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Clarke county to borrow money to build a jail for said county. |
| An Act authorizing the removal of the jail of Norfolk county and the city of Portsmouth and the sale of the present jail property. |
| An ACT to empower the council of the town of Cape Charles to borrow money and issue bonds therefor to build a jail. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4130, 4182, 4183 and 4136 of code of Virginia, and sections 4137 and 4138 of code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1890, and sections 4160 and 4167 of code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, relating to rules governing the penitentiary. |
| An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Pulaski to issue bonds. |
| An ACT authorizing boards of supervisors to contract loans for the erection of court-houses, clerk’s office and jails. |
| An ACT to incorporate the town of Coeburn, in Wise county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Appomattox county to borrow three thousand dollars. |
| An ACT to provide for working vagrants on public roads in the county of Henrico. |
| An ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Newport News to cause to be issued for and in the name of the said city certificates of debt or bonds in addition to these authorized by section JOL of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter theretor, approved January 16, 1806, or any amendment thereto now existing or hereafter enacted, and in addition to the present indebtedness of the said city. |
| An ACT tor working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Appomattox. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of the code of Virginia in relation to jail inspection. |
| An ACT to provide for working vagrants on public roads in the counties of Franklin, Warren, Clarke, Augusta and the city of Staunton. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Shenandoah county to lease or sell and convey certain portions of lots upon which the courthouse and jail now stand. |
| An ACT determining the respective interests of the county and corporation of Alexandria in the half square of ground in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, bounded by Columbus, Queen and Princess streets, upon which stands the courthouse, and the half square of ground in said city, bounded by St. Asaph, Princess and Pitt streets, upon which stands the jail, and authorizing the partition of said properties between the county and corporation of Alexandria, and of the sale of the courthouse property. |
| An ACT to repeal an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to allow the jailer of the said county compensation for fuel furnished the jail of said county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 717 and 718 of the code of Virginia relating to fines and costs before justices of the peace. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the county court of Cumberland county and the judge thereof in vacation to take charge and control of the clerk’s office, courthouse public square and Jail, and lot around the jail of said county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3532 of the code of Virginia in relation to fees of a jailor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15 and 19 of the act in force March 22, 1872, entitled an act to amend and re-enact certain acts in relation to the town of Fincastle, in the county of Botetourt, and to extend the corporate limits of the said town. |
| An ACT for working and Sepik in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy cf taxes for that purpose. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3152 of the code of Virginia, in relation to how courts may discharge jurors or dispense with their attendance and provide for the time of service of jurors, and how any person may be disqualified to serve on any jury. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to authorize the governor to grant a conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 717 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898, relating to tines and costs before justices of the peace, so as to give effect to judgments for fines and costs imposed by mayors of towns incorporated under the general laws for violation of a town ordinance. |
| An ACT to allow the supervisors of Washington county to purchase fuel for the county jail. |
| An ACT to authorize the mayor and the council of the town of Smithfield to borrow money by issuing bonds for a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars to pave and repair the streets, and to build a jail for the town. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3830 of the code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to require sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this state to report to the courts of their respective counties and cities the number of prisoners confined in their respective jails. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4144 of the code of Virginia, entitled record to be kept of conduct of convicts; to have credit for good conduct. |
| An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Page county to apply any surplus that may arise from what is known as the railroad tax to the payment of the amount expended by said board in the erection of a jailer’s residence and jail in said county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 16 and 21 of an act approved February 12, 1892, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act passed March 21, 1836, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in Botetourt county (now in Roanoke county), and all acts amendatory thereto.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 83 of the acts of 1889 and 1890, in relation to the control of prisoners in jail. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4071, 4074, and 4075 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the confinement in’ jail and release therefrom of persons sentenced or directed by a court or justice to be confined therein, in default of the payment of a fine or fine and cost, or cost where there is no fine, or until such fine, or fine and cost be paid, and the release from jail of persons in jail under capias pro fine. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Amherst county to borrow $1,000. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION calling upon the superintendent of the penitentiary for information concerning guards employed at that institution. |
| An ACT to authorize the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac, to borrow money. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4079 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the appointment of a physician to attend prisoners in the jail of Warwick county. |
| An ACT for relief of R. F. Ragland. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of chapter 42 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 23, 1898, and entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 929 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to jail inspection,” and allowing certain compensation for such inspection at the jail in the city of Richmond, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 15 of an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Manassas, approved April 2, 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1884, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1894, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and to enact two additional sections thereto, numbered 28 and 29. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act authorizing boards of supervisors to contract loans for the erection of court-houses, clerks’ offices, and jails |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth county to, in their discretion, pay the sheriff the amount annually required to heat and light the county jail. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Warwick, in their discretion, to pay the sheriff of said county annually such an amount as may be necessary to cover the costs of fuel for heating the county jail. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Hanover, in their discretion, to pay the jailer of said county annually such an amount as may be necessary to cover the costs of fuel for heating the county jail. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Frederick county and the common council of the city of Winchester to reimburse the sheriff of said county for money paid out by him for supplies furnished the county jail. |
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