Legislative Amendments

1887es
An ACT to remove the political disabilities of Page McCarty and William L. Royall.
An ACT for the relief of Darling A. Bennett, a maimed confederate soldier of the county of Essex.
An ACT to attach the county of Dickenson to the second senatorial district.
JOINT RESOLUTION rescinding joint resolution here- tofore adopted relative to the granting of licenses, &c.
An ACT to incorporate American lodge No. 1789, Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows.
An ACT to provide for a new registration of voters at Stock Yards precinct in the county of Roanoke.
An ACT to authorize the Charlottesville woolen mills to increase its capital stuck and to legalize certain acts of said company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bermuda Hundred construction company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapters 4 and 5 of an act approved March 3, 1580, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing joint committee to confer with conunission of foreign bondholders and the joint com-
An ACT to authorize the trustees of New London academy to lease said buildings to county superintendents of schools of Bedford and Campbell counties for school purposes.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol-Goodson water company.
An ACT to incorporate the Clinch river construction company.
An ACT to provide for bringing suits against receivers in certain cases.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and Seaboard railroad company.
An ACT to legalize certain acts and proceedings of the board of supervisors of the county of Issex.
An ACT to allow the voters of Black Water voting precinct, in the county of Princess Anne, to vote on the question of continuing or repealing the present fence law.
An ACT to adopt and provide for the publication and distribution of the Code of Virginia; for the preparation and publication of the explanatory notes of the revisors of the Code, and for furnishing the revisors with an office and stationery.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the act passed by the general assembly of Virginia as amended by an act approved February 19, 1884, to provide for the election of the trustees of the town of Orange biennially.
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to room occupied by the Southern Historical society.
An ACT to provide for the suspension of treasurers of counties and cities in certain cases.
An ACT to incorporate the Fredericksburg Street railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Aldie and Leesburg telephone company.
An ACT to authorize the revisors of the Code to prepare an index of their work, and to supervise the printing of the same and to provide compensation to them for such work.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved January 17, 1871, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Warrenton, passed April 9, 1852.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 157 of the Code of 1873, as to what number of judges may hold a court, &c.
JOINT RESOLUTION appropriating money for publishing and distributing the new Code, &c.
An ACT to allow W. W. Allmond to erect a wharf on York river, in Gloucester county.
JOINT RESOLUTION declaring what shall be considered the enrolled copy of the Code.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 413, Session Acts, 1885-6, entitled an act to prescribe the time for the holding of the terms of the courts of the eighth judicial circuit, approved March 3, 1886.
An ACT to amend and re-cnact the fifth section of the act approved February 26, 1886, entitled an act to repeal an act entitled an act providing fora new board of visitors for the University of Virginia, ap proved April 14, I8S2, and to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, and 5 of chapter $0 of the Code of 1873.
An ACT to provide for the submitting the question of liquor license to the votets of Pedlar and Elon districts, in Amherst county.
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.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS prohibiting the granting of licenses for the transaction of any business or the pursuit of any occupation or profession, or the enjoyment of any privilege for which license is required by law for a longer period than from the date of the issuance of such license to the 1st day of June, 1887, and prescribing the amount to be paid for such licenses.
An ACT to consolidate the Franklin and Rocky Mount school districts in Franklin county.
An ACT concerning the offices of the second auditor and treasurer of the commonwealth.
An ACT to empower the board of directors of the Central Lunatic asylum to authorize the construction and operation of rail-ways upon the land belonging to said institution.
JOINT RESOLUTION making an appropriation to have text of Code printed
An ACT to provide for a new registration of the voters
An ACT to provide a modified oath to be taken by persons elected or appointed to any post or office under the laws of the commonwealth, who are unable to take the oath required under the Acts of Assembly approved April 21, 1882.
An ACT to authorize the town of Farmville to vote a subscription to the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company, and to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 200, Acts of mbly, 1885-6.
JOINT RESOLUTION allowing the sureties of Peyton R. Ford, of Charlotte county, further time to make settlement.
An ACT to prescribe the time for holding the courts of the fourteenth judicial circuit.

1887/1888
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, and 18 of chapter 264 of Acts of Assembly 1878-9, as amended by chapter 61 of Acts of Assembly 1885-6, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Prince Edward county.
An ACT to incorporate the Great Southern railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of 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.
An ACT to amend the following acts: An act to inco: 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.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and Great Western railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Charlottesville
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and East Tennessee railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the clerks of circuit courts to take acknowledgments to deeds and other writings, and to certify the same.
An ACT appropriating the public revenues for the fiscal years 1888 and 1889.
An ACT to provide for a new registration of voters for the city of Alexandria.
An ACT to prescribe the manner by which any internal improvement company may elect a part of its board of directors for a period of more than one year.
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the courts of the sixteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT for the relief of John Collins from the payment
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of chapter 321, Extra Session Acts 1887, approved May 20, 1887, entitled an act to prescribe the times for holding the courts of the second, sixteenth, and seventeenth judicial circuits.
An ACT to amend sections 2,3, and 8 of an act passed March 14, 1853, entitled an act to establish Roanoke college in the county of Roanoke.
JOINT RESOLUTION reepecting the quarters of the Southern Historical society
An ACT to amend section one of an act entitled an act to provide for a new registration of voters at Stock-Yards precinct, in the county of Roanoke, approved May 18, 1887.
An ACT to amend the second section of an act to incorporate the Warrenton and Marshall Road Company.
An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of the state the question of Constitutional Convention.
An ACT to provide for the payment of the members of the special joint committee of the general assembly of Virginia, acting under resolution of the 8th of February, 1886, and for the payment of the accountant of the said committee.
An ACT appropriating money to pay for publishing the Bien second, eighty-third, and eighty-fourth volumes of Virginia reports.
An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Gentlemen’s driving club.
An ACT to give aid to soldiers, sailors, and marines of Virginia maimed or disabled in the war between the states, and to the widows of Virginia soldiers, sailors, and marines who lost their lives in said war in the military service.
An ACT to authorize the Petersburg railroad company to lease its road.
An ACT to incorporate the Bank of Richmond.
JOINT RESOLUTION transferring a certain claim of the state of Virginia against the government of the United States, to the Mount Vernon avenue association, chartered by this state.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 331 of Acts of Assembly of 1887, entitled an act to adopt and provide for the publication and distribution of the Code of Virginia, for the preparation and gear of the explanatory notes of the revisors of the Code, and for furnishing the revisors with an office and stationery.
An ACT to provide for a Board of Agriculture of Virginia and making appropriation therefor.
An ACT to nema f the political disabilities of Daniel P. Curtis.
An ACT to amend section 1 of chapter 14 of an act to fix the times for holding the terms of the circuit court of Bedford county, approved 14th of January, 1882.
An ACT to provide for a new registration in the city of taunton.
An ACT for the relief of William H. Carter, of Washington county.
An ACT to facilitate the transfer of shares in the Upper Appomattox Company and to provide for changing the same from real to personal estate, and to authorize the said company to mortgage its property and franchise.
An ACT to provide for a new registration in the county of Appomattox.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 39, Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved February 15, 1879, and to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 39, Code of 1873, in reference to the price paid for land warrants, and the fees paid in the land office.
An ACT to remove the political disabilities of W. S. Mathews and others.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections four thousand two hundred and two, four thousand two hundred and three, and four thousand two hundred and four of the act entitled an act to revise, arrange and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.
An ACT directing the secretary of the commonwealth to affix the seal of the state to a certain deferred debt certificate.
An ACT to authorize the extension of the Powell’s Valley railroad from the Tennessee state line across the southwest corner of Virginia to the Kentucky state line at or near Cumberland Gap.
An ACT requiring educational institutions receiving state appropriations to make annual reports to the board of education.
An ACT to provide for a new registration in the county
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 376 of Acts of Assembly 1885-86, entitled an act to authorize the voters of Pittsylvania county to vote for or against the repeal of the present fence law by magisterial districts.

1889/1890 Public Laws
An ACT to provide for terminating the terms of office of county and city electoral board elected by the General Assembly at the session of 1887-88.
An ACT to establish boards of commissioners of excise and to define their duties and powers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act of the General Assembly, approved February 10, 1890, entitled an act to require the payment of fees on certain charters
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 277 code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to the printing of acts of general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 650, 653 654, 656, and 660 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the sale of returned delinquent for the non-payment of taxes and levies.
An ACT to amend section 2844 of the code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays.
REPORT from the committee on general laws and resolutions, appointing a joint committee to confer with a joint committee from Maryland legislature, to establish boundary line between Maryland and Virginia.
An ACT to exempt marine insurance companies from making a deposit of securities with the treasurer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of code of 1887, relative to the appointment of commissioners in chancery.
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the public debt
An ACT relating to the making out and certification of abstracts of votes and relating to the making out and delivery of certificates of election.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1124 of the code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to selling the capital stock of chartered companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 913 of the code of Virginia, in relation to who are disqualified to be county surveyor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 821 of chapter 35, code of 1887, in relation to the removal from office of county, city and district officers.
An ACT requiring the same waiver in recognizances