Legislative Amendments

1869/1870
An ACT Supplementary to an act passed June 27, 1870, entitled an Act to Prescribe in what Manner and on what Conditions a Householder or Head of a Family shall Set Apart and Hold a Homestead and Personal Property for Benefit of himself and Family Exempt from Sale for Debt.
An ACT authorizing the Auditor of Public Accounts to employ a Porter for the basement offices of the Capitol.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act Providing for the Reassessment of the Lands Throughout the Commonwealth
An ACT to Provide for a General Election
An ACT to provide for filling a vacancy in the office of Lieu-tenant-Governor or Attorney-General.
An ACT Imposing Taxes for the Support of Government and Free Schools, and to Pay the Interest on the Public Debt.
JOINT RESOLUTION Requiring the Superintendent of Public Printing to have Certain Acts of Assembly Bound in Paper Covers
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 1, Chapter 12 of the Code of Virginia (1860), with Regard to Duelling.
An ACT Preserving Certain Remedies from Loss by Lapse of Time.
JOINT RESOLUTION in regard to the Adjournment of the General Assembly to the Ballard House

1867 Extra Session
An ACT for the relief of James C. McCue, of the county of Albemarle.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the eighth section of an act
Joint Resolution in regard to a Recess of the General Assembly
An ACT to provide for an Index to the Statutes at Large
An ACT to incorporate the Giles County Savings Bank.
An ACT to amend the 5th section of the act passed February 12. 1866, entitled an act requiring the Banks of this Commonwealth to go into liquidation
An ACT te incorporate the Central Savines Bank of Southwest Virginia, at Central Depot, Montgomery county.
An ACT to provide for the pavment of a part of the interest upon the public debt.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond.
An ACT anthorizing the sale and lease of certain Public Pro-
An ACT disposing of the state’s interest in the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad, on certain conditions.
An ACT concerning Fiduciaries who qualified out of their counties or corporations during the late war.
An ACT to incorporate the Commercial and Savings Bank and Insurance Company of Fredericksburg.
An ACT to incorporate the National Insurance Company of Richmond, Virginia.
An ACT amending an act entitled an act amending the 68th chapter of the Code (edition of 1860), in relation to the Assessment of Taxes on Licenses
An ACT amending and re-enacting section 7. chapter 165, as heretofore amended, concerning Compensation of Commonwealth's Attorneys,
An ACT to incorporate the Citizens Bank in the city of Norfolk
An ACT to amend the 4th section of chapter 165 of the Code of Virvinia, edition of 1860, so as to provide an oftice for the Attorney General.
Joint Resolution appointing Commissioners to resurvey, re-trace, locate and erect monuments on the boundary line between Maryland and Virginia, on the Eastern Shore.
An ACT to amend an act passed April the 25d, 1867, in relation to the Salaries of certain Otlicers of Government.
Joint Resolution in regard to adjournment sine die
An ACT to amend the title of an aet concerning witnesses
An ACT to amend the act passed January 25th, 1867, in relation to salaries of certain officers of the government.
An ACT for receiving United States Registers of Marriage between Colored Persons
Joint Resolution in regard to the per diem of members of the General Assembly during the late Recess.
An Act to amend and re-enact the 3d section of chapter 182 of the Code of 1860, limiting the time within which certain appeals may be granted.
An ACT to incorporate the Piedmont Confederate Cemetery Association

1870/1871
JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting the Governor to Return Senate Bill No. 118.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 5 and 14 of an Act Entitled an Act Providing a Charter for the City of Richmond, Approved May 24, 1870, as Amended by an Act Approved July 11, 1870.
An ACT to Provide for a General Registration of the Voters of the City of Lynchburg.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Passed January 10.
An ACT to Provide for the Printing of the Reports of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and for Other Purposes Connected Therewith; and to Repeal Section 3 of Chapter 19 of the Code of 1860.
An ACT for the Relief of Clayton North, Commissioner of the Revenue for the City of Lynchburg, Allowing him Further Time to Qualify.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 1 and 44 of Chapter 171 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Rule Days for County and Corporation Courts, and Declaring When Office Judgments shall be Final.
An ACT to Amend Sections 7, 8, 9, and 11 of Chapter 161 of the Code of Virginia, as to Places of Holding Courts, &c.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act to Prescribe the Times for the Holding of the Terms of the Circuit Courts of the State
An ACT to Authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Hanover to Vote on the Question of Removing the County Courthouse to the Town of Ashland.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 28th Section of the Act
An ACT in Relation to the Boundary Lines Between the State of Virginia and the States of Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
An ACT to Amend the Third Section of an Act approved May 6, 1870, Fixing the Times for Holding Corporation Courts.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 11th Section of Chapter
Joint Resolution Tendering to West Virginia an Arbitration for the Apportionment of the Public Debt.
An ACT to Distribute and Apportion Representation in the General Assembly of Virginia.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Entitled an Act to Incorporate the Botetourt Savings Institution of Buchanan
JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Present Session of the General Assembly.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Liberty, in the County of Bedford.
An ACT to Authorize the Circuit Courts of the Commonwealth to Grant Charters of Incorporation and to Repeal Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of Chapter 65, and Section 34 of Chapter 57 of the Vode of Virginia, (Edition of 1860)
An ACT to Amend the Charter of the City of Alexandria.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 6, Chapter 250, of the Acts of 1869-’70, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Gordonsville.
An ACT to Provide for a General Registration of the Voters or the City of Richmond.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 3d Section of an Act enti-
JOINT RESOLUTION Instructing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to procure Census Returns for the State of Virginia.
An ACT in Relation to the Repairing, Refitting, and Returning to the Hall of the House of Delegates the Portraits of Thomas Jefferson and William Pitt.
An ACT in Relation to the Public Printing and the Public Printer.
JOINT RESOLUTION Appropriating Money for the Removal of the Remains of the Late Senator Riddick
An ACT to Amend and Re.enact Section 21 and to Repeal Section 20 of Chapter 1382 of the Code of 1860, in Regard to Reports of Commissioners in Chancery.
Joint Resolution Requesting the Governor to Return House Bill No, 188.
An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Town of Culpeper.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 2 of an Act entitled an Act to fix the time for Holding the Corporation Courts of the Commonwealth
An ACT for the Relief of the Southwestern Bank of Virginia.
JOINT RESOLUTION in Relation to a Recess of the General Assembly
Joint Resolutions Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Virginia, in Relation to the Clause in Respect to and Entitled Usury
An ACT amending Sections 8, 4, 5, and 9, of Act Incorporating the Albemarle Insurance Company.
JOINT RESOLUTION Fixing a Day for Election of United States Senator.
An ACT Extending the Time for the Land Assessors of Frederick County to Make their Returns.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Entitled an Act to Incorporate the Southern Protection Insurance Company of Alexandria, Virginia
An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railway Company in such Manner as to Secure a Continuous Railroad Connection from the End of the Long Bridge, Opposite Washington City, through Richmond and Danville, to Bristol, and to Construct a Branch thereof.
JOINT RESOLUTION in Relation to Rules for Government of the Two Houses in Joint Assembly for Election of United States Senator.
An ACT to Amend Section 9 of Chapter 184 of the Code, in Relation to the Fees of Commissioners in Chancery.
An ACT Authorizing the Governor to Cede to the United States Jurisdiction over a certain Bridge, with its Abutments, in the County of Elizabeth City.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Act passed February 21, 1867, entitled an Act Authorizing a Practicing Lawyer of the State of Virginia to decide causes, or preside at the trial thereof, under certain circumstances.
JOINT RESOLUTION Extending Session to March 31, 1871
An ACT Providing for the Assessment of the Shares of Banks or Banking Associations Authorized by the Laws of this State or cf the United States, and Imposing a Tax Thereon.
An ACT Authorizing the Dismal Swamp Canal Company to Issue Eight Per Cent. Bonds.
JOINT RESOLUTION in Regard to the Claim of the State of Virginia upon the United States, for Advances, &c., during the War of 1812.
An ACT to Provide for a Reporter to the Supreme Court of Appeals, and to Repeal Chapter 166 of Code of Virginia (edition of 1860)
JOINT RESOLUTIONS in Relation to a Recess of the Two Houses of the General Assembly.
An ACT to Incorporate the Lee Memorial Association
An ACT Amending Section 31, Chapter 184 of Code of Virginia (edition of 1860), in Relation to the Fees of Clerks in Criminal Cases.
An ACT to Provide for the Reorganization of the Militia.
An ACT Fixing the Fees of Clerks of .County and Corporation

1871/1872
An ACT to Amend Section 5 of Chapter 161 of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) in Relation to Records at Large of Courts.
An ACT Providing for New Grants where Title Papers are Lost or Destroyed.
An ACT to Provide for the Election of Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States.
Joint Resolution Whether a Recess of the Legislature is computed in the five days allowed the Governor to Consider a Bill or Resolution submitted to him for Approval or Rejection.
JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting Congress to Furnish Virginia her Quota of Arima.
JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Session of the General Assembly.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 24 of Chapter 42 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Auditor's Powers as to Claims in Favor of the Commonwealth.
AN ACT to Incorporate the Page County Bank.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS Petitioning the Congress of the United States to Remove all Disabilities under the operation of the 14th Amendment.