Legislative Amendments

1871/1872
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Five of Chapter Fifteen of the Code of Fightcen Hundred and Sixty, Concerning the Duties and Privileges of Members of the General Assembly.
JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting the Commissioners on Boundary Lines to make a Written Report to the General Assembly by January 1st, 1873, of their Operations and Expenditures in carrying out the Objects of the Commission.
An ACT for the Relief of Simon Hirsh.
An ACT to Authorize the Formation of the New River Railroad, Mining and Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Fifty, of Chapte: Seventy-six, of the Acts of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-nine-Seventy in relation to the Publication of Election Returns in Newspapers in ths City of Richmond.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 32 of an Act Enti-
An ACT to Authorize the Sale of the Land Scrip donated to Virginia by the Congress of the United States, and Providing for the Investment of the Proceeds thereof.
JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Present Session of the General Assembly
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 3d Section of Chapter 48, of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Compensation of Justices of the Peace.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 9, Chapter 179 of the Code, in Reference to Injunctions
An ACT Respecting Special Meetings of the Board of Directors of the Valley Railroad Company, and to make Valid certain Acts of said Company.
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 Allowing Incorporated Towns of this Commonwealth to use the County Jails.
An ACT to Amend Chapter 175, Section 2 of the Code of 1860, with Reference to Commissioners in Chancery.
JOINT RESOLUTION for a Recess of the General Assembly
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Eight of Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-six of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Judgment Liens.
An ACT for the Relief of Elizabeth T. Marshall
An ACT to Prevent Lobbying with the General Assembly of this State.
JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting and Memorializing the Congress of the United States to Refund the Tax Collected on Raw Cotton in 1865, 1866, and 1867, to those who paid it.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 5, 7, 9 and 12 of an Act Approved April 12th, 1870, Entitled an Act to Provide for the General Registration of Voters.
An ACT to Appropriate the Income Arising from the Proceeds of the Land Scrip accruing to Virginia under Act of Congress of July 2, 1862, and the Acts Amendatory 'Thereof.
JOINT RESOLUTION in Relation to Mileage of the Members of the General Assembly for the Present Session.
An ACT to Establish a State Board of Health.
An ACT to Provide for the Collection of Taxes for the Year Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-one, in Towns not having a separate organization as contemplated by the Constitution for Towns of Five Thousand or more Inhabitants, and to have such Towns embraced within Township Limits
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
JOINT RESOLUTION Concerning Per Diem of Members of the General Assembly.
JOINT RESOLUTION to Suspend Sale of Property Claimed as Exempt under Homestead Provision of the Constitution until Question of Constitutionality is Decided by the Court of Appeals.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 17, Chapter 157, of the Code of 1860, in Reference to Jurisdiction of County Courts.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 10 of Chapter 1! of the Code of Virginia, (Edition of 1860), with Regard to Pay of Clerks of Court of Appeals and of the Circuit Court of Richmond. as Amended by Chapter 359, Acts 1869-70, Approved October 31st, 1870.
An ACT Imposing Taxes for the Support of the Governme and Free Schools, and to Pay the Interest on the Public Debt.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Sixteen of an Act entitled an Act in Relation to the Public Printing and Public Printer
An ACT Authorizing the Appointment of Deputies of County and Township Officers in Term Time or Vacation, and Repealing Section 15, Chapter 49, and Section 8, Chapter 163, of Code of 1860.
An ACT to Repeal Section 1, and Amend and Re-enact Section 2, of Chapter 174, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the Removal of Causes.
JOINT RESOLUTION in Relation to the Election of an Additional Elector for President and Vice-President of the United States.
AN ACT to Authorize Election of Officers in the Town of Tappahannock.
An ACT Providing a Charter for the City of Staunton.
Joint Resolution Authorizing a Joint Sub-committee to visit the Eastern and Western Lunatic Asylums.
An ACT to Protect the Oyster Beds in the Waters of the Commonwealth.
An ACT for the Relief of Sheriffs and other Officers whose Official Papers were lost or Destroyed During the late War.
An ACT Amending Section 14 of Chapter 161 of the Code of 1860 in Relation to the Meetings and Adjournment of Circuit, County or Corporation Courts.
Joint Resolution Asking Congress to Amend the Bankrupt Act of the United States in such Manner as will Allow Persons Taking its Benefits in Virginia an Exemption equal in amount to that Allowed Under the Homestead Act of the State.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section nine of Chapter eighty-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, as amended by act of April twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled ‘An Act to amend certain sections of chapter eighty-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, and in relation to the Inspection of Tobacco’
An ACT to Extend the Time for L. R. Edwards to Qualify as Clerk of the Courts of Southampton County.
An ACT to Provide for the Organization of County School Boards and Prescribing the Powers and Duties of said Boards, and to Amend and Re-Enact 40th Section of the Act entitled an Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools
An ACT to Provide for a Re-division of Certain Counties into Townships
An ACT Providing for Furnishing to the Colleges of the State, in which Law Schools are Established, Surplus Law Publications.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 1 of an Act approved March 28, 1871, in Relation to the Protection of Religious Meetings and Preservation of Order at the same.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, in Relation to the Rule days for County and Corporation Courts; and Declaring when Office Judgments shall be final.
An ACT to Apportion the Representation of the State of Virginia in the Congress of the United States.
An ACT to Provide for the Repair of the State Capitol.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 10, Chapter 208 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Jurors in Criminal Cases.

1872/1873
An ACT to Amend Section 3, Chapter 16, Code of Virginia of 1860, in Reference to the time when the Acts of the General Assembly shall take effect.
An ACT to Change and Define the Corporate Limits of the Town of Stanardsville, in the County of Greene, and for other Pur-poses.
An ACT to Amend the first Section of an Act entitled ‘‘An Act to Amend an Act to Incorporate the Valley Railroad Company,”
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 5 of an Act entitled an Act to Prescribe the Times for Holding the Circuit Courts of the State
An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal year 1872-73.
JOINT RESOLUTION Memorializing Congress to Abolish the Internal Tax on all Liquors made from Fruit.
An ACT to Amend the 1st Section of Chapter 115 of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860), as Amended by Chapter 203 of an Act passed February 16th, 1867, in Relation to Aliens.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Act approved March 21st, 1872, to Fix the Times for Holding the Circuit Courts of the State.
An ACT relating to the Public Printing, and Defining the Duties of the Superintendent of Public Printing.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the first Section of an Act approved April 2nd, 1870, to District the State for County Judges
JOINT RESOLUTION Expressing the Sense of the General Assembly of Virginia on the state of Public Affairs in Louisiana.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section twenty-four of the Act approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an Act to Provide for a General Election.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section four of Chapter one hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) in Regard to Writs of Mandamus, Prohibition and Certiorari.
An ACT to Authorize the Corporate Authorities of Winchester to Borrow Money.
JOINT RESOLUTION Directing a Distribution of the New Code when Published
An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section seventy-two of an Act entitled an Act to Provide for a General Election, approved May 11th, 1870.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section one of Chapter twenty-one of the Code of 1860, Concerning the Superintendent of Public Buildings.
An ACT for the Relief of the Representatives of William Debusk, deceased, as one of the Sureties of Leonidas Love, Executor of Solomon G. Barrick, deceased.
JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the Superintendent of Public Printing to Print Two Thousand Copies of the Act to Regulate and Define the Jurisdiction of the Circuit and County Courts, the Act Relating to Certain Bonds and Recognizances and the Act in Reference to Criminal Prosecutions in certain Cases, &c.
An ACT to Provide for the Publication of the New Edition of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to Provide for Placing on the Commissioners’ Books the Lands in the Commonwealth and to Amend Sections 2, 18, 20, 25 and 28 of Chapter 37, Code of 1860, in Relation to the Sales of Forfeited and Delinquent Lands, and for other Purposes,
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section one of Chapter fifteen of the Code, as Amended and Re-enacted by an Act approved November 1st, 1870, in Relation to the Times of Meeting of the General Assembly.
An ACT to allow Judges of Certain Corporation or Hastings Courts to Practice Law
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the third Section of the Act passed July 9th, 1870, Incorporating the Fairfax County Narrow Gauge Elevated Railroad Company.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 7th Section of the 170th Chapter of the Code of 1860 in relation to the Service of Process or Notice to a Corporation.
An ACT to Prohibit the voters within the Corporate Limits of the City of Lynchburg from Voting for County Officers for the County of Campbell.
An ACT to Encourage Donations to the University of Virginia and to Constitute the State of Virginia the Trustee thereof.
An ACT to Establish the Seals and Flags of the Commonwealth.
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the Senators in Congress from Virginia to Vote against the Repeal of the Bankrupt Law, and requesting the Representatives from Virginia to unite their efforts with said Senators therein, &c.
JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Present Session of the General Assembly
An ACT for the Encouragement of Immigration.
An ACT to Remove certain Causes commenced in the County Courts to the Circuit Courts, and for other Purposes
An ACT to Amend Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 254, Acts of 1855-'56, passed December 20th, 1855, in relation to the Town of Upperville
An ACT to Provide for a Re-division of the County of Fairfax into Townships.
An Act to Amend and Re-enact the fourth and seventh Sections of Chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the Code of Virginia, (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty, ) and all Acts Amendatory thereof, in Relation to the Taking of Acknowledgments of Deeds.
An ACT to Authorize the Issue of Duplicate Land Warrants, &c., where the Originals have been Lost or Destroyed.
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Covington, in the County of Alleghany.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the fifth Section of an Act to appropriate the income arising from the proceeds of the land scrip accruing to Virginia under Act of Congress of July 2d, 1862, and the Acts amendatory thereof, approved March 19th, 1872, and March 26th, 1872.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the First Section of Chapter 120 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1860, as Amended and Re-enacted by the Act approved January 14th, 1873, in relation to Notaries Public.
An ACT to Amend the Title of an Act approved March 19th, 1873, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact sections 6, 14 and 27 of an Act Providing a Charter for the City of Norfolk, in force March 16th, 1871, as Amended by an Act in force March 4th, 1872.
An ACT to Preserve all Rights and Remedies Imperilled or Destroyed by the Loss or Destruction, during the Late War, of Papers Filed in the Various Public Offices of the Commonwealth.

1874
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section the Terms of the Circuit Courts.
An ACT authorizing Register of Land Office to correct Error in Land Warrant.
An ACT for the Appointment of Trustees
An ACT making Additional Appropriation to the Central
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 14 of the Code of 1873, in relation to the Meeting of the General Assembly.
An ACT Prescribing the manner in which Records for the Supreme Court of Appeals shall be Printed, and Providing for Letting the Same to Contract.
Joint Resolutions Reaffirming the Third Resolution of the Conservative Platform of 1878, and Protesting against the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, now pending in the Congress of the United States.
AN ACT to Render Valid the Charter of Incorporation of The People’s Savings Bank at Lynchburg, Virginia, and to Legalize all Acts done Under and in Accordance with the Original Charter.