Law Enforcement

1885/1886
An ACT to extend and declare the criminal and police jurisdiction of the corporation court and authorities of the city of Fredericksburg.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Claremont, in Surry county.
An ACT for the relief of clerks, banks, &c.

1887es
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate AH town of Milford in the county of Caroline
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 84 and 86 of the charter of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapters 4 and 5 of an act approved March 3, 1580, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities, and compensation of certain county officers, providing for the collection of taxes and for the repeal of chapters thirty-seven and forty-six, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three
An ACT to incorporate the town of Emporia.

1887/1888
An ACT to empower the judge of the county court of Augusta county to appoint one or more policemen for the various magisterial districts of said county.
An ACT to empower the judge of the county court of Southampton county to appoint one or more policemen for the various magisterial districts of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 54 of the charter of the city of Manchester.
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 for the gd of Jacob Fisher and Robert E. Stuart.
An ACT for the relief G. S. Healy, sheriff of Middlesex county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to amend sections 16, 21, 23, 26, and 28 of the charter of Suffolk.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Big Stone Gap, in Wise county.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Blackstone, in Nottoway county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town
An ACT granting the superintendent of any fair grounds or cemetery the same powers as a constable for certain purposes in such fair grounds or cemetery.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prescribe a fence law for Newport News election precinct in the county of Warwick, approved May 2, 1887, and to add an additional section thereto.

1889/1890 Public Laws
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8582 of the code of Virginia, in relation to fees of a jailer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act in relation to insurance companies and associations upon the assessment plan
An ACT to refund to John L. Dawson, of Albemarle county, fifty-four dollars for state taxes erroneously paid by him.
An ACT to provide for the collection, by motion of money for debts, dues and demands, including fines and recognizances due or to become due to the commonwealth, in payment of which coupons shall have been or may hereafter be tendered, and not accepted as payment and not otherwise paid.
An ACT to re-enact chapter 49, code of Assembly 1874, for the relief of sheriffs in the service of civil process in other counties than the one in which they reside.
An ACT to punish the destruction, in whole or in part, of certain property by the use of dynamite, nitro-glycerine or other explosive substances.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of W. G. Miller, late treasurer of Rappahannock county.

1891/1892
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15, 28, 87, and 94, and subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years, ending respectively, the 80th day of September, 1892, and the 30th day of September, 1893.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Graham, in the county of Tazewell.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the code of Virginia in relation to exemption from jury duty.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Waverly.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of William H. Gills, late treasurer of Appomattox county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Waynesboro’.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 of chapter 4 of an act approved February the 12th, 1890, entitled an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol, Virginia, and to provide a new charter for the same.
An ACT to authorize and direct the auditor of public accounts to pay N. J. Horn the sum of twenty dollars for expenses paid for conveying a prisoner from the state of Ohio to the jail of Wise county.
An ACT authorizing the auditor of public accounts to pay a reward offered by the governor of this state to S. W. Wax for the arrest of Jack Ramey.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3717 of the code of Virginia in relation to embezzlement of public funds by public officers.
An ACT to amend the ninth section of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to amend the charter of the town of Warrenton
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Basic City, approved March 3, 1890.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Glasgow.
An ACT for the relief of W. H. Eanes, of the city of Petersburg, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of John Q. Adams, of Nelson county.
An ACT to suppress tippling houses, the illegal and unlawful traffic in ardent spirits in the counties of Lee, Pulaski, Scott, Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan, Bland, and Russell.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Marion, Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend chapter 412, acts of 1887 and 1888, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Estillville, in the county of Scott
An ACT to incorporate the city of Radford.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed March 21, 1836, entitled "an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in the county of Botetourt," and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to authorize the Fairview cemetery company, of Roanoke county, to appoint police agents.
An ACT to charter the town of Richlands.
An ACT to provide a charter for the city of Buena Vista.
An ACT to allow counsel for the commonwealth and the prisoner, on the trial of all cases of felony and misdemeanor, to make an opening statement.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Abingdon.
An ACT to extend the Puriediction of the police authorities of the city of Richmond
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 20, 24, 25, 28 and 29 of an act approved February 28, 1890, entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Big Stone Gap, and to legalize certain acts of the town council.
An ACT to further regulate and control common carriers doing business in this state and further defining the duties of the railroad commissioner in relation thereto.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Shendun, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3912 of the code of Virginia, so as to make county surveyors conservators of the peace within their counties.
An ACT to authorize the sheriff of Norfolk county to execute process and to serve notices in the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville,
An ACT to incorporate the town of Emporia.
An ACT for the protection of game in the county of Hanover.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4099 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in reference to how penalty remitted, when in an action or scire facias on a recognizance, the penalty is adjudged to be forfeited.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry.

1893/1894
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1230 of the code of Virginia, providing for the appointment of police agents and making certain persons conservators of the peace.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Coeburn, in Wise county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Crewe, in the county of Nottoway.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 5, 7, 9 and 14, and to repeal section 61 of an act entitled an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol, and to provide a new charter for the same
An ACT to incorporate Bondtown, in Wise county.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county.
An ACT to provide that process for a witness during the trial of a criminal prosecution in a court of record may be executed by the officer of the court from which the process issues in any county or corporation of the state.
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 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.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Norton, in Wise county.
An ACT to incorporate the town of North Tazewell, in the county of Tazewell.
An ACT for the relief of Robert K. Burns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Ashland
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3530 of the code of Virginia, relative to the fees of justices.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Gladeville, in Wise
An ACT to provide special police for Newport magisterial district, in the county of Warwick.
An ACT to amend section 3988 of the code of Virginia, in relation to giving information of the violation of penal laws to the attorney for the commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 24 and 47 of an act entitled an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol and provide a new charter for same, approved February 12, 1890, and to add independent sections thereto.
An ACT for the relief of M. C. Morris and A. H. Griffin.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2850 of the code of Virginia, in relation to protest as evidence.
An ACT to restrain and suppress the illegal and unlawful sale of ardent spirits on Sunday in the county of Warwick.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed on the 2d of April, 1573, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Manassas, as amended by an act approved 18th of March, 1884.
An ACT for the relief of George W. Whittaker, of Giles county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the code of Virginia in regard to board of supervisors sitting with open doors; sheriff to attend
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Abingdon, Va.
An ACT to amend sections 10, 13 and 14 of an act entitled an act to regulate municipal elections in the city of Winchester, approved March 6, 1890.
An ACT for the benefit of W. B. Kilburn, of Wise county.
An ACT to authorize the payment to George E. Sangster, late sheriff of Fairfax county, of the sum of forty dollars.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Blackstone, in Nottoway county, Virginia, approved February 23, 1888.
An ACT in relation to buying or receiving certain goods with intent to defraud.
An ACT to provide reciprocal rights and powers between the state of Maryland and Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of J. L. Garland, sheriff of Botetourt county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3451 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the correction of errors in judgment or decrees by default so as to require written notice of the motion.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3675 of the code of Virginia, in reference to extorting money, &c., by threats.