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Legislative Amendments

1897/1898
An ACT to permit Peter Bonawell to erect a wharf on the west side
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to provide for the reorganization of the institutions for the deaf and dumb and blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, dumb and blind institute at Staunton, Va., approved May 14, 1887, approved March 4, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3063 of the code of Virginia, relating to the pay of Judge of one circuit sitting in another to hold special term.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1759 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the practice of pharmacy, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 56 and 9 of an act entitled an act to provide for a method of voting by ballot
1899/1900
An Act Providing for the Appointment of a State Board of Health, and of Local Boards of Health, Defining the Duties and Powers and Compensation Thereof, and of Their Members, Officers, and Agents, in Connection with the Preservation of Public Health
An ACT authorizing the Dan river power and manufacturing company to sell, transfer and dispose of its property, assets and rights, and thereupon surrender its charter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2298 of the code of Virginia in relation to the remedies for or against married women.
An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said magisterial district.
AN ACT for the relief of Mrs. Clay Mays, widow of Clay Mays, a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the Port Norfolk electric railway company, the Portsmouth and Smithfield railroad company, and the Portsmouth, Pig’s Point and Newport News railway, ferry and hotel company into a corporation to be known as the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News railway company, and to define its powers.
An ACT for the relief of Benjamin T. Gunter, junior, of Accomac county.
An ACT to provide for the submission to the people of the proposed amendments to sections 1 and 2 of article 7 of the constitution of Virginia, and providing for the consolidation of the spring elections for county and district officers held on the fourth Thursday in May, and providing said elections to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to legalize primary elections and conventions in the counties of Clarke and Warren.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3192 of the code
An ACT for the relief of Caroline Pool and her sureties from the payment of fines imposed by a justice of the peace of Grayson county, and confirmed by the county court of said county, for selling spirituous liquors without a state license so to do.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section first of section 184 concerning the salary of members and officers of the general assembly.
AN ACT for the relief of Mrs. Quincy G. Dunn, widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth subdivision of section 834, code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Southampton and Isle of Wight counties to have the lands of all persons in said counties, or in selected portions thereof, or of individuals who may request it, processioned.
An ACT in relation to the commitment of minors to the custody of the prison association and their detention and discharge by said association.
An ACT for the relief of Jacob Yearout, a private Confederate soldier.
An ACT for the relief of Charles Richardson from the payment of certain fines.
An ACT to commission officers of cadets of Newport News military academy.
An ACT to extend the time in which R. D. Buford, ex-clerk of Bedford county court, may collect fee bills.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled 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 sections 4, 5, 8, and 12 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, passed by both houses and became a law on the 21st day of January, 1900, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto.
An ACT to prevent any fire insurance company, association or partnership authorized to do business in this state from entering into any compact or combination with other fire insurance companies, associations or partnerships, to make or require their agents or employees to enter into any compact, agreement or pledge for the purpose of governing or controlling the commissions or compensation paid said agents.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 848 of chapter 36 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the compensation of supervisors, approved March 5, 1894, and by an act entitled an act in reference to compensation of supervisors of Lee county, Virginia, approved February 14, 1896, and by an act entitled an act in reference to the compensation of supervisors of Lee county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled "an act to repeal section 2 of an act approved January 28, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1871, and to amend and re-enact section 7 of said act as amended by an act approved January 31, 1888; also to amend and re-enact sections 31, 32, and $5 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1871; and also to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville, approved March 3, 1892," approved February 9, 1894.
An ACT to authorize the city council of Fredericksburg to issue its coupons or registered bonds for the purpose of obtaining an electric plant for lighting the city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 315 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Cape Charles, in the county of Northampton, approved March 1, 1886.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 186 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the increase of salaries of judges of certain cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, and incomes, and on licenses to transact business, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixtures thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required
An ACT to provide for the recordation by clerks of the county or corporation courts of lists of conveyances and partitions that may have been returned thereto by the clerk of the general court, and may now be found therein, and declaring the effect to be given said lists when so recorded.
An ACT to allow H. L. Newbill to erect an oyster-house or pier
An ACT to authorize the governor to appoint a board of commissioners for the promotion of the uniformity of legislation in the United States.
An ACT to prescribe the duties of the register of the land office and fix his salary.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to declare Mud Fork, in the county of Tazewell, navigable for a certain distance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 1 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Graham, in the county of Tazewell, approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT for the relief of S. G. Robinson & Company, assignee of M. C. Stoneman.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3271 of the code of Virginia, in relation to demurrer.
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 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 sub-section 7 of section 3214, code of Virginia, edition of 1887, providing how judge of a circuit court may be sued, or where sued before he is elected judge, when the suit may be removed to any county or corporation in an adjoining circuit.
An ACT for the relief of Johnson & Early, assignees of Mag. Crockett.
An ACT for the relief of S. H. Coleman, Sr., a disabled Confederate soldier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the code of Virginia, in reference to clerks’ offices.
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 amend and re-enact section 3435 of the code of Virginia relating to the bill of review.
An ACT for the relief of James A. Armistead.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 387 of the acts of 1889-90 approved February 23, 1890, entitled an act to increase the salary of the judge of Tazewell county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Fredericksburg and adjacent national battlefields memorial park association of Virginia, approved February 12, 1898, and to add to the incorporators thereof.
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 legalize primary elections in the county of York.
An Act for the relief of John E. Morris, of Newport News, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of James E. Bullock, a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to prohibit telegraph companies operating in the state of Virginia from contracting against their own negligence.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1271 of the code of 1887, in relation to the securities to be deposited with the treasurer by foreign and home insurance companies.
An ACT to incorporate the Northern Virginia telephone and telegraph company.
An ACT to repeal section 1043 of the code of Virginia as amended, &c.
An ACT to suspend for forty days the operation of section 666 of the code of 1887, as amended by an act approved February 11, 1898, in relation to delinquent lands purchased in the name of the auditor of the commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as notaries, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as school trustees, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, approved February 23, 1898, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as justices.
An ACT to allow G. W. Mercer and sons to build a wharf in Rappahannock river, near Cherry Point, Lancaster county.
An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of the state the question of calling a constitutional convention, to be held for the purpose of revising and amending the present constitution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act approved February 4, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the metropolitan western railroad of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1892, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 30, 1896, and as amended by an act approved March 2, 1898.
An ACT to allow Frank McKay to erect a oyster or guard-house in Mesango creek, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of Kretol chemical company.
An ACT to allow the Michie company to publish certain reports of the decisions of the court of appeals of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 64 of the code of 1887, in relation to the election by the general assembly of electoral boards.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 661 of the code of Virginia, so as to provide additional grounds on which the title of certain purchases may be defeated and to limit the time within which suit may be brought for the purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1890. entitled an act to incorporate the town of Ridgeway, in the county of Henry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 65 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, approved January 16, 1806.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 67 and 71 of the code of 1887, in relation to the appointment of registrars and the registration of voters.
1895/1896
An ACT to amend section 1 of the charter of the town of Tazewell.
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.”
An ACT to allow A. S. Matthews to erect a wharf on Pocomoke sound in Accomac county.
An ACT providing for the appointment and removal of coroners, and for the enacting and re-enacting of section 891 of the code of Virginia, 1887.
An ACT to confirm the organization and corporate existence of and to grant certain powers to the Washington, Arlington, and Falls Church railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to amend the following acts: An act to incorporate the town of Rocky Mount, approved February 17, 1873; an act to amend the act of February 17, 1873, approved April 28, 1874, and an act amending and re-enacting section 2 of the act approved April 28, 1874, approved March 4, 1884, approved February 18, 1888.
An ACT to have the boundaries of certain natural oyster beds, rocks and shoals, in Mathews county, surveyed, and plots made of the same.
An ACT to incorporate the Frederick electric railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 6, 1886, entitled “An act to authorize the judge of the county court of Warwick to appoint a quarantine officer at Newport News,” by placing the appointing power with the governor, and defining the duties of said officer, and adding thereto sections 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, and 8
An ACT for the relief of Robert S. Robertson, a disabled Confederate soldier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 177 of the code in relation to bonds taken by courts and officers.
An ACT ratifying and confirming a resolution of the council of the city of Portsmouth adopted in relation to the terms of its members.
An ACT to repeal subdivision ninth of section 19 of chapter 3 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 3, 1894, entitled an act to provide a new charter of the town of Clintwood in Dickenson county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to prescribe the mode of applying for and obtaining a license (other than a license for which the certificate of a court is required by law before it is granted) the tax on which, but for this act would be fifty dollars or more were it issued for the period of one year, approved February twenty-two, eighteen hundred and ninety.
An ACT to place H. C. Harover, of Prince William county, on the pension list of the state of Virginia.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Chesapeake land and improvement company.
An ACT to prevent the extermination of game in Clarke county.
An ACT to incorporate the Winchester telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Citizens deposit bank of Waynesboro, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of Granville Kelly, a disabled Confederate
An ACT to repeal the charter of the National City Fire Insurance Company, which was granted by the corporation court of the city of Alexandria on the 19th day of March, 1894, under section 1145 of the code of Virginia and acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to legaiize the primary elections in the county of Henrico.
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 incorporate the town of Mount Crawford, in the county of Rockingham.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, 2 and 4 of an act entitled an “Act to ee a board of trustees for the Virginia female institute at Staunton, an rovide for the future government of said institute, approved March 14, 1874,
An ACT to repeal the charter of the Potomac insurance company of Alexandria, Va., which was granted by the corporation court of the city of Alexandria on the 25th day of March, 1893, under section 1145 of the code of Virginia and acts amendatory thereof.