Legislative Amendments

1895/1896
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 repeal chapter 73 of acts of general assembly of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a method of voting by ballot, approved March 6, 1894.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Roanoke mineral belt line railroad company, acts of 1893-’94, chapter 189.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the Farmers and mechanics insurance company of Alexandria, Va.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3225 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the service of process against or notice to a corporation
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 to provide for the reorganization of the institution for the deaf and dumb and the 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, Virginia,” approved May 14, 1887.
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 repeal the charter of the Potomac fire and marine insurance company of Alexandria, Virginia, which was granted by the corporation court of the city of Alexandria, on the 24th day of January, 1895, under section 1145 of the code of Virginia and amendatory acts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1894, in relation to the power of the courts to order a suit in equity or action at law to abate as to any improperly joined plaintiff or defendant, and to proceed hereafter by or against the others as if such misjoinders had not been made, &c.
An ACT to incorporate the Falls Church, Fairfax and Manassas railway company.
A RESOLUTION to appoint a committee to investigate and report upon a certain survey made under an act approved February 26, 1804, with reference to the riparian rights on Fox island, in Accomac county.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled “ An act to provide for the estab- lishment of a high school for Bedford county,” approved March 8, 1894.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the German-American fire insurance company of Virginia, which was eramiec by the judge of the circuit court of the city of Richmond, on the 7th day of July, 1892, under section 1145 of the code of Virginia and amendatory acts.
An ACT to remove the political disabilities of James L. Bishop.
An ACT for the relief of J. M. Hill.
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 incorporate the Italian beneficial and social society of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the Old Dominion fire insurance company of Portsmouth, Virginia, which was granted by the judge of the court of hustings for the city of Portsmouth, on the 20th day of July, 169°.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the fishing of purse nets and pound nets in the tributaries of the Potomac river within the jurisdiction of the counties of Stafford, King George, Westmoreland, and Northumberland, and in the Rappahannock river
An ACT entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved July 9, 1870, and to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 21, 1877, and to amend and re-enact an act, approved February 17, 1890, and to re-enact an act, approved January 29, 1894, relating to the charter of the town of Harrisonburg.
An ACT to take the sense of the people upon the call of a convention to revise and amend the constitution.
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 repeal the charter of the Commonwealth fire insurance company of Winchester, Virginia, which was granted by the judge of the corporation court of the city of Winchester, on the 17th day of July, 1883, under section 1145 of the code of Virginia and amendatory acts.
An ACT to incorporate the Blacksburg railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled “ An act incorporating the town of Barton Heights, in Henrico county,” approved January 30, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act of general assembly, approved January 24, 1894, entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond, Gayton and southside railroad company, approved January 26, 18¥.
An ACT to allow Asher L. Matthews and Benjamin F. Collins to erect a wharf on the Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
An ACT to extend the time for commencing and completing the construction of the Saltville and Mendota railroad company, and to legalize the payment made by said railroad company of the fee required by law.
An ACT to allow William T. Lewis to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
An ACT to fix the price at which the code of 1887 shall be sold.
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 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 to amend and re-enact the 14th section of an act entitled an act to amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the public printing, and binding and defining the duties of the superintendent of public printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the acts of assembly of 1879-’80, approved May 23, 1887.
An ACT to incorporate the Grayson county farmers mutual benevolent fire insurance company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1894, prescribing the time for holding the circuits courts in the several counties comprising the Fifteenth judicial circuit of Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of J. J. Ellis
An ACT to permit certain county officers of the county of Warwick, who have been named and designated in a bill to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, for the like offices for the city of Newport News, to serve as such until the Ist day of July, 1596, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “ an act to amend Section 848 of the code of Virginia in relation to compensation of supervisors,” approved March 5, 1894,
An ACT in relation to commitment of minors to Prison association of Virginia and their custody.
An ACT for the relief of William Gunter, a disabled Confederate
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Edward Starkey, the widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2224 of the code of Virginia relating to the prohibition of marriage within certain degrees.
An ACT to incorporate the Home mutual insurance company of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section eight of an act entitled “ an act to incorporate the Potomac and Great Falls railroad company”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 814 of the code, as amended by acts of assembly 1893-’94, in relation to bonds of officers.
An ACT to amend section 2486 of chapter 18, code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1894, in relation to the secretary of the commonwealth furnishing reports of the decisions of the court of appeals.
An ACT to permit Thos. Gant Alderson to obtain license to practice law in the courts of Virginia.
An ACT to relieve Mrs. Catherine Sweeny from effects of erroneous taxation for the years 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1895.
An ACT to permit Dr. Z. B. Moorman to practice dentistry in Virginia.
An ACT to legalize primary conventions in the counties of Acco-
An ACT to incorporate the Tobacco warehousing and trading company.

1901/1902
An ACT to validate certain deeds in the clerk’s office of Southampton county court made to trustees of Black Creek Baptist Church.
An ACT to empower the county court of Chesterfield to authorize and permit a Confederate monument to be erected on the courthouse lot of said county.
An ACT in relation to the printing and binding of the Virginia reports of decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
An ACT to incorporate the Schuyler Railway Company, and authorize and empower it to lease, acquire, hold, and dispose of real and personal estate.
An ACT to amend and reenact an act in relation to the preservation of order at the pells
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 1, 1884, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 23, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1900, so as to allow foremen, quartermen, ete.
An ACT for the relief of J. C. Hicks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3567, 3570, and 3576, and to repeal section 3568 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the lien of a judgment.
An ACT for the relief of Charles Minor Caldwell
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth Suburban Water Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the Code of Virginia, and other acts amendatory thereto.
An ACT in relation to the printing and binding of the Virginia reports of decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 54 of the act approved Marcn 6, 1890, 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 mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required, in relation to the tax on tobacco auctioneers.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county.
An ACT to enable Aubrey G. Weaver, of Warren county, Virgima to appear before the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
An ACT to incorporate Eastern and Northwestern Railway Company.
An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment taken by persons styling themselves officers authorized by law to take and certify acknowledgments, but whose terms of office had expired prior to the taking and certifying thereof.
An ACT to ratify the contract between the joint library committee of the general assembly of Virginia, dated February 21, 1900, and the Michie Company, and to provide for similar contracts with other persons.
An ACT to incorporate the Home Protective Insurance Company.
An ACT to enable Eldridge M. Gathright, of Louisa county, Virginia, to stand an examination by the Court of Appeals for a license to practice law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 655 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to when deed made to purchaser; clerk to make it; what to contain; fee of clerk.
JOINT RESOLUTION directing the clerk of the house of delegates and keeper of the rolls of Virginia to provide a safer place for the keeping of the rolls, and directing the register of the land office to have the necessary work done.
An ACT for the relief of A. G. L. Van Lear, M. D., a disabled Confederate soldier, from payment of license tax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to legalize primary elections in the county of Prince William
An ACT to allow J. T. Chandler to erect a wharf or pier on Long Reach, Aecomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to validate the recordation of a deed of record in the clerk’ office of Elizabeth City county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to impose additional duties upon the examiners of records of the several judicial circuits, etc.
An ACT to ratify, confirm, and validate the action of the council of the city of Danville, Virginia, in passing an ordinance on the 12th day of November, 1901, providing for a special election on the 19th day of November, 1901, to take the sense of the qualified voters of said city as to whether the city of Danville should subscribe to the Mount Rogers and Eastern Railroad Company, and also all acts done thereunder.
An ACT for the relief of W. K. Donald, a Confederate soldier of Rockbridge county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, approved February 28, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, approved February 5, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, approved February 19, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 4, of the charter of the city of Lynchburg in reference to the eligibility of persons who may be elected to the offices of city engineer, city surveyor, and city electrician.
An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act authorizing the filing of a petition in a pending chancery cause in the clerk’s office, and to mature the same at rules
An ACT to authorize the board of fisheries to readjust the Baylor survey on the ocean side of the counties of Accomac and Northampton, and include therein any omitted natural rocks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, approved November 24, 1884, as amended by act approved February 14, 1901.
An ACT to permit Charles H. Gurney, Jr., a person under the age of 21 years, to obtain a license to practice law in the courts of the State of Virginia,
An ACT to authorize the county court of Warwick county to correct an alleged erroneous assessment of lands of Washington McLean’s estate in said county, and the taxes assessed thereon.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Fairmount, in Henrico county.
An ACT declaring all applications for the purchase of lands returned delinquent and purchased by the Commonwealth under section 666 of the Code, and amendments thereo, prior to the act of March 5, 1900, chapter 794 of acts of 1899-1900, which have not been perfected as required by law, to be null and void unless so perfected within sixty days from the passage of this act.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act for the incorporation of the town of Bowling Green, in the county of Caroline.
An ACT in regard to notice by publication of the codification of ordinances of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act in regard to notice by publication of the codification of ordinances of the city of Norfolk
An ACT to incorporate the Newport News and Elizabeth City Railway and Electric Company.
An ACT requiring notaries within this State to affix to certificates of acknowledgment hereafter taken by them upon writings which are admitted to record the date when their terms of office shall expire.
An ACT authorizing and empowering Dove Commandery, No. 7, Knights Templar, of Danville, to borrow money, issue bonds, and secure same by mortgage, deed of trust, or other lien on its personal property and validating certain bonds heretofore issued.
An ACT to empower the governor to appoint, in the States of the United States, the Philippine Islands, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and other newly-acquired territory of the United States, commissioners.
An ACT to permit Orren Lyne Shackleford, of Warsaw, to appear before the Court of Appeals of Virginia and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 5 of an act of the general assembly, approved February 23, 1888, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Blackstone, in Nottoway county, Virginia.