Law Enforcement

1893/1894
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, and 40 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, and by an act approved the 17th day of March, 1876, and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act approved February 25, 1892,
An ACT to define and punish the offence of cruelty to animals, and to prescribe the rights, duties and powers of all legally incorporated societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals in this state, and the officers and agents thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3888, code of Virginia 1887, entitled "how attempts to commit offences punished."
An ACT to incorporate the town of Clinchport, in Scott county.
An ACT to prevent the escape of persons in the custody of the rison association of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4 and 5 of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Gordonsville, Virginia, approve: July 9, 1870, and to repeal chapter 352 of the acts of assembly of 1889-'90.”
An ACT to incorporate the town of Timberville, in Rockingham county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to add another chapter to the charter of said city creating the office of police justice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Staunton, in force March 22, 1872, as amended by sundry subsequent acts.
An ACT to authorize the superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary to enlarge the prison enclosure and erect a building on the stable lot.
An ACT to charter and incorporate the town of Neapolis, in Pittsylvania county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3705 of the code of Virginia—entering dwelling-house, or other house, vessel or car in the night, with intent to commit murder, rape or robbery
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 890 of the code of Virginia, concerning the sheriff of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 6 and 7 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 16, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Claremont, in the county of Surry.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Washington, in the county of Rappahannock.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to authorize the sheriff of Albemarle to execute process and to serve notices in the city of Charlottesville
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1033, code of Virginia of 1887, entitled mayor and council, their powers, duties and jurisdiction; appeals allowed to county courts.

1897/1898
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski.
An ACT to enlarge the criminal jurisdiction of the courts of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to modify the existing statutes defining and establishing the criminal jurisdiction of the corporation court of the city of Winchester, of the county court of the county of Frederick, and of the several Justices of the city of Winchester and of the county of Frederick.
An ACT to provide for the better preservation of order at race-courses, fair-grounds, base-ball and foot-ball parks, and other places where athletic sports are held in the county of Henrico.
An ACT providing that the lot of land belonging to the county of Henrico, located on the southwest corner of Twenty-second and Main streets, shall be declared to be a part of Henrico county, with power in the courts of said county to hold their sessions and transact their business at said place.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4106 of the code of Virginia in relation to the jurisdiction of police justices and justices of the peace as to the trial of offenders in certain cases.
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Augusta to submit to the vote of the people the question of building a new courthouse and clerks’ offices for said county and of issuing bonds of said county for the purpose of raising funds to be used in the erection of said courthouse and clerks’ offices, and to give said board the power of building said courthouse and clerks’ offices, if the vote results favorably thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4107 of the code of Virginia in relation to the right of appeal to court from the judgments of police justices and justices of the peace in criminal cases, to provide for the disposition of the accused unless let to bail; the issue of a new warrant or the amendment of the original warrant by the county, corporation or hustings court, and to fix the rule of procedure on these Warrants in the said county, hustings or corporation court.
An ACT to prevent the unlawful use of telephone and telegraph tines and instruments and to protect them from injury and prescribe a penalty therefor.
An ACT to prescribe the powers and duties of the police force of the cities and towns of the commonwealth of Virginia, and to regulate the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3909 of the code of Virginia, edition of 1887, with reference to clerks keeping registers and descriptive lists of persons convicted of felony and copy of Hsts, to be evidence of identity, furin of register and such reference to taking photographs.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Clarksville, and to authorize the issue of bonds by said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3798 of the code of Virginia, prohibiting profane swearing and drunkenness.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3820 of the code of Virginia, in relation to a keeper ofan ordinary, house of entertainment, or bar-room, per- miting unlawful gaming at his house, &e., and how punished.
An ACT to amend and re-cnact sections 3999 and 5956 of the code of Virginia, in relation to process for the arrest of persons charged with crime.
An ACT for the protection of game and to prohibit the discharge of firearms between the hours of sunset and sunrise upon the waters of the commonwealth in the counties of Chesterfield, Prince George and Charles City.
An ACT to provide for working vagrants on public roads in the county of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2 in relation to the mayor; sections 6 and 7 of chapter 3 in relation to the common council; sections 2, 8, 9 and 10 of chapter 4 in relation to finance; section 11 of chapter 5 in relation to the city officers; and to add an independent section, in relation to omitted assessments, to said chapter of an act entitled, ‘‘An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg,” approved March 11, 1875, as amended by an act approved April 4, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1890.
An ACT to incorporate the Police benevolent association of Richmond, Virgimia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4082 of the code of Virginia, as to payment of witnesses in misdemeanor cases.
An ACT to allow the corporation court of the city of Fredericksburg to appoint one or more constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3527 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section $927 of the code of Virginia, in relation to payment of fees to officers out of the treasury in criminal cases
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Fredericksburg, in relation to justices of the peace, police justice, constables, and the police of said city, and in relation to the office of mayor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the code of Virginia in relation to fees of the sheriff, sergeant, coroner, crier, or constable.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of article 1 and section 7 of article 4 of an act entitled 'an act incorporating the town of Barton Heights, in Henrico county'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of the code of Virginia in relation to jail inspection.
AN ACT for the protection of mountain trout in the waters of Pig Piney river in Amherst and Nelson counties.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tazewell county to rent law offices located on courthouse square in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act continuing in force the corporation of the town of Pearisburg, county of Giles, and defining and prescribing the rights and powers thereof, approved March 25, 1872, to extend the corporate limits of said town of Pearisburg and to provide a new charter for said town.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Martinsville in Henry county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating the town of Grundy, in Buchanan county, Virginia, approved March 3, 1879.
An ACT to require junk dealers to keep certain books and exhibit the same, to make report of certain articles received or purchased by them and prescribing penalties for failing to do so.
An ACT to make the night-watchman of Chincoteague island, Accomac county, a conservator of the peace on suid island.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Emporia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3768 of the code of Virginia in relation to contempts, to define what are direct and what are indirect contempts, and to provide a mode of procedure in such class of cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3532 of the code of Virginia in relation to fees of a jailor.

1899/1900
An ACT authorizing the sureties of Joshua G. Bray, ex-deputy treasurer of Gloucester county, to levy and distrain for the collection of certain uncollected tax tickets in Abingdon district.
An ACT to authorize the president of the Tredegar company to appoint, with the approbation of the hustings court of Richmond, a police agent, who shall be authorized to act as conservator of the peace upon the premises of the said company.
An ACT for the relief of C. L. Kennedy, ex-sheriff of Stafford county, Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts or charters in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3838 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1890, in relation to attorney fees.
An ACT to amend section sixty-two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News in the county of Warwick, and provide a new charter therefor.
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 increase the jurisdiction of justices of the peace for the city of Richmond.
An ACT to allow the supervisors of Washington county to purchase fuel for the county jail.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Holland, in the county of Nansemond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3752 and 3753 of the code of Virginia in relation to how officers suffering prisoners to escape shall be punished.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter for the city of Williamsburg
An ACT to provide payment out of the public treasury to Stafford county of the amount of criminal expenses erroneously paid by said county.
An ACT to amend sections 13, 17, and 18 of the charter of the town of Suffolk.
An ACT to give the consent of the commonwealth to the purchase or acquisition of real estate by the United States government, in the city of Portsmouth, for a site of a public building for the accommodation of the United States post-office, internal revenue, and other offices.
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 amend and re-enact an act approved February 19, 1894, entitled an act to provide police for Newport magisterial district, in the county of Warwick.
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 to amend and re-enact sections 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 313 of chapter 21 of the code, in relation to the formation of battalions, regiments, brigades and divisions, approved March 3, 1894; 314, 317, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 317 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the increase of the number of regimental staff officers, of the state militia, approved February 17, 1898; 318, 319, 320, 321, 323, 324, 338, 340, 357, 358, 359, 360, 365, 370 and 371 of chapter 21 of the code of Virginia.
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 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 2 and 7 of an act approved July 11, 1870, entitled an act for the incorporation of the town of Bowling Green, in the county of Caroline.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Honaker, in Russell county.
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 to enable commissioners in chancery to adjourn proceedings before them from their own county or corporation to any other county or corporation, and there continue such proceedings and take depositions and other evidence and compel attendance of witnesses.
An ACT to amend, consolidate and re-enact chapter thirty-one (31), acts of 1872-73, approved January 16, 1873, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and chapter 774, acts of 1895-96, approved March 4, 1896, entitled an act authorizing the election of a town assessor for the town of Covington, in Alleghany county, Virginia, relating to the charter and corporate limits of the town of Covington, and to extend the corporate limits of said town and enlarge its powers.
An ACT to authorize courts to exclude from all trials of felony or misdemeanor cases any or all persons whose presence is not deemed necessary.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon
An ACT to amend the ninth and eleventh sections of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to amend the charter of the town of Warrenton, passed April 9, 1852.
An ACT to allow sheriffs, sergeants, or constables a fee for making return on executions delivered to them by the clerks of courts in cases when no levy is made or forthcoming bond is taken.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Mount Vernon avenue association
An ACT providing a charter for the town of West Clifton Forge, in the county of Alleghany.
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 for the relief of Charles S. Snider, late deputy sheriff of Smyth county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the code of Virginia relating to state depositaries.
An ACT for the protection of fish and game in Occupacia creek, the county of Essex, and to prevent obstruction to navigation in said creek.
An ACT to authorize the president of the Jefferson hotel company
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 and sub-sections 6, 7, and 9 of section 19, and section 25 of the act approved May 24, 1870, providing a charter for the city of Richmond, and the several acts of the general assembly amendatory thereof, concerning the powers of the city council, and relating to actions against the city to recover damages from it for negligence in the construction or maintenance of its streets, alleys or parks, where any person is liable with the city for such negligence.
An ACT to prevent riotous or disorderly conduct in any car or a caboose, or any part of a train carrying passengers or employees of any railroad or street passenger railway, and prescribing the powers of agents and employees of railroads or street passenger railway companies in the premises.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Virgilina, in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 94 and 97 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896; and creating the office of city attorney and authorizing the common council to fill said office.

1895/1896
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 amend and re-enact section 3705 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3705 of the code of Virginia—entering dwelling-house or other house, vessel or car, in the night, &c., with intent to commit murder, rape or robbery, &c.
An ACT authorizing board of supervisors of Accomac county to levy a tax on real and personal property in Island district, for the erection of a lock-up on Chincoteague island, Accomac county.