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1899/1900
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts in the thirteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT prescribing recess for the circuit court of the city of Fredericksburg during any term.
An ACT providing for holding terms of court in second judicial
An ACT requesting the state board of health and vital statistics to report as to the proper mode and place for inflicting the death penalty.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 740 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session of 1897 and 1898, entitled an act for the relief of Wiley W. Duncan.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3526 of the code of Virginia, in relation to fees of attorneys for the commonwealth
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Goochland county to increase the salary of the county judge.
An ACT to authorize the justices of the peace of the city of Danville to issue and try criminal warrants for offenses committed within the corporate limits of said city, notwithstanding the presence of the mayor.
An ACT to require railroad companies to provide separate cars for white and colored passengers.
An ACT for the relief of the personal representative and estate of William M. Flanagan.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the circuit court for the eighth judicial circuit, and to regulate the compensation of the judge thereof
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Washington county, Virginia, to compromise and settle a judgment against the securities of the late John G. Gray, late treasurer of Washington county, Virginia, in favor of Washington county.
An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds, leases, and contracts taken by certain commissioners in chancery of the county courts of this state or the judges thereof.
An ACT for the relief of Warren S. Sholes from the payment of a fine imposed by the corporation court of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3073 of the code in relation to the terms of the hustings court of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clifton Forge,
An ACT to authorize and empower chancery courts to confirm sales of land when the purchase price is not sufficient to pay the taxes, levies and assessments returned delinquent, and to confirm any sales heretofore made.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to establish a corporation court for the city of Newport News
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4018 of the code of Virginia, in relation to writs of venire facias in cases of felony, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 666 of the code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to sale of delinquent lands purchased in the name of the auditor.
An ACT for the relief of Johnson & Early, assignees of C. M. Edwards.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1806, as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1806, as further amended by an act approved February 7, 1898, and as further amended by an act approved January 24, 1900, in relation to the collection of the fees of the commissioner of the revenue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved December 21, 1891, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3044 of the code of Virginia in relation to the counties and districts of the county court judges.
An ACT allowing the city of Norfolk to increase the salary of the judge of the court of law and chancery of said city, and to still further increase the salary of the judge of the corporation court of said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of an act entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, in force January 21, 1884, as to the election of a police justice and other justices of the peace.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Portsmouth bar association.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Alexandria county to enforce the lien for all county, road, and school taxes that may now be due or may hereafter become due by suit in equity, and to empower the circuit court of Alexandria county to entertain such suit and enforce the provisions of this act by sale of the real estate upon which said taxes are a lien.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1660 to 1712, inclusive, of the code of Virginia in relation to state hospitals for the Insane and the commitment of insane persons.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3089 of the code of Virginia, and section 3090 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 18, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 112, 638, 674, 2588, 3045, 3053, 3080, 3091, 3455, 3492, 4048, and 4049 of an act entitled an act to revise and arrange and consolidate into a code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1897.
An ACT authorizing the auditor of public accounts to issue a warrant to F. Sale and J. W. Austin for the payment of twenty-five dollars for services rendered by them in making an autopsy on the body of Edward Smith, deceased.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield, and to grant a new charter to the said town.
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 amend and re-enact section 84 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of special prosecuting attorneys in proper cases
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3195 and 3196 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3197 of same code, in reference to disbarring attorneys at law.
1895/1896
An ACT to authorize the circuit court of Clarke county, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint an additional commissioner in chancery.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4018 of the code of Virginia, in relation to venire facias in case of felony; what to command; number of persons to be summoned and how selected.
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts of the Sixth judicial circuit since the addition thereto of the counties of Amherst and Nelson, as provided by an act approved February 5, 1896.
An ACT to locate the court-house, clerk’s office, and jail of the county of Warwick.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for holding courts in the Third judicial circuit
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the salary of the police justice of the city of Norfolk
An ACT for the relief of Patrick Fox from certain fines and costs
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3004 of the code in relation to the place where writs of prohibition or mandamus from the Court of Appeals shall issue and be tried.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Eliza B. Burch, of Petersburg, Va.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 525, 3518 and 3519 of the code of Virginia, in relation to fee bills.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3056 of the code of Virginia, 1887, providing for the establishment of circuit courts, and also to amend and re-enact subdivision 8, section 3057 of said code, constituting eighth judicial circuit.
An ACT providing for the working, opening and keeping the roads in the county of Cumberland, and for the building and repair the bridges in said county.
An ACT to regulate the granting of injunctions in certain cases.
An ACT for the relief of the estate of William W. Larkin, deceased, from a forfeited recognizance.
An ACT to prescribe times for holding courts in Fourteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to establish an additional court for the city of Norfolk, and to define its jurisdiction.
An ACT to regulate the salary of the police justice of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2726 and 2728 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the action of ejectment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3044 of the code of Virginia in relation to the counties and districts of the county court judges
An ACT for the relief of J. H. Wingfield.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4106 of the code of Virginia, touching the jurisdiction of police justices and justices of the peace as to the trial of offenders in certain cases
An ACT to establish a corporation court for the city of Newport News.
An ACT in relation to the third, fourth, fifth and sixth judicial circuits, and the salaries of the judges thereof.
An ACT empowering the board of supervisors of Dickenson county to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1065 chapter 45 of the code of Virginia in relation to the duties of fire marshals in cities and town.
An ACT to require corporations to furnish for record in the clerk’s office of the county court of Wythe county the names of their officers and directors, and prescribing the penalty for failure to do so.
An ACT to punish the illicit traffic in intoxicating liquors in the counties of Wythe, Carroll and Grayson.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1890.
An ACT giving a defendant in any case of misdemeanor the right to waive trial by jury.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2954 of the code of Virginia, in regard to proceedings before-a justice for release to claimant of property taken under distress warrant, or levied on under execution on judgment of a justice, and when and how appeal allowed.
An ACT to dispense with formal warrants in certain cases before the police justices and justices of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the code as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 10, 1890, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the code, in relation to certificates of acknowledgment.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3526 of the code of Virginia, in relation to fees of attorneys for the commonwealth.
An ACT to provide for a method for the better assessment of personal property under the control of fiduciaries and the several courts of the commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3969 of the code of Virginia, with reference to when a justice to discharge an accused person who is before him for examination, and what to do when there is sufficient cause to charge him.
An ACT to permit Thos. Gant Alderson to obtain license to practice law in the courts of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2919 of the code as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1888, in relation to the limitation of suits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section nine of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 3d, 1894, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county.
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts in the Ninth judicial circuit.
An ACT to require the judges of courts and the clerks to certify to the auditor of public accounts lists of all allowances made by courts.
An ACT to require the clerk of the circuit court of Brunswick county to keep his office open for the transaction of business.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8725 of the code of Virginia, as to obstructing or injuring canals, &c., how punished
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3428 of the code of Virginia in relation to power of judge in vacation to enforce obedience to decree: and orders.
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 amend and re-enact sections 7, 8, 9, 10 and 25 of an act entitled an act to regulate and control guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, and other like companies having for their purpose, or one of their purposes, to become security for the faithful performance of any trust, duty, contract, agreement, or bond, public or private, official or otherwise, or to assume any duty or obligation of like nature as principal or otherwise, or to become fiduciary, approved March 5, 1894
An ACT for the relief of W. P. McGinnis, a dentist of Grayson county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3680 of the code of Virginia in reference to rape and its punishment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the courts in the Eighth judicial circuit
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 197 and 198 of the code of Virginia, relative to exemption of members of general assembly from arrest or obedience to civil process of courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the code of Virginia in relation to how a chancery cause, submitted for decision in vacation; how the decree certified and entered; its effect.
An ACT in relation to unlawful detainer in the city of Alexandria.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 2, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the code of Virginia, relating to the licensing of persons to practice law in this state.
An ACT to fix the salary of the judge of the counties of Elizabeth City and Warwick, as judge of the county court of the said county of Warwick, and to provide for the payment of the same.
An ACT to amend and ,re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide for the payment of debts.due by commission merchants,” approved February 27, 1894, and to provide remedies in respect thereto.
An ACT to provide for the making and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Charlotte county.
An ACT in relation to officers and teachers of public free schools having any pecuniary benefit in furnishing books, &c., to public free schools in this state.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the code of Virginia, in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3034 of the code of Virginia, with reference to the judgment of a court or judge trying a writ of habeas corpus.
An ACT to provide for working roads in Rappahannock county.
An ACT to prescribe the time for holding the circuit courts in the fourth judicial circuit since the addition thereto of the city of Lynchburg and county of Campbell, as provided by an act approved February 5, 1896.
An ACT for the relief M. P. Fulcher of the county of Floyd.
An ACT to punish as for a misdemeanor a person using abusive language to another.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 615 and 616 of the code of Virginia in reference to the proceedings against delinquent treasurers and their sureties and the liens of judgments and executions against such treasurers and their sureties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 177 of the code in relation to bonds taken by courts and officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8991, code of Virginia, 1887 entitled “Name of prosecutor to be written on indictment, &c., for mis- demeanor when required to give security for costs.”