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Legislative Amendments

1889/1890 Public Laws
An ACT making an appropriation to the building committee of the Virginia normal collegiate institute for the payment of balance due contractors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 447, chapter 23, of the code of Virginia, relating to the manner in which taxes for the year 1891, and every fifth year thereafter shall be extended.
An ACT to amend section 64 of the code of Virginia in relation to electoral.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 1 of the act of Assembly of 1875-'76, approved December 22, 1875, prescribing the time for holding the circuit courts in the first judicial circuit.
1891/1892
An ACT authorizing the sale of the real estate of a married woman who is a minor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 34 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria
An ACT to repeal section 22 of an act entitled “an act to provide a charter for the town of West Point, Virginia”
An ACT to extend the time for the organization of the Bertha mining and improvement company for the further period of two years.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Metropolitan Western railroad of Virginia, approved February 4, 1890.
An ACT to authorize Tomlin Braxton to erect a wharf on his property, on Pamunkey river, in King William county.
An ACT to incorporate the Radford street railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the city of Radford.
An ACT to require the payment of fees on certain charters.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors and boards of commissioners of roads of Rockingham and Culpeper counties to provide for the further improvement of making, changing, and working roads in Rockingham and Culpeper counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3796 of the code of Virginia, in reference to punishment of the offence of cruelty to animals.
An ACT to fix the times for holding the terms of the corporation court of the city of Charlottesville, and the trial of appeals from magistrates in the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved February 12, 1876, entitled an act to incorporate the Chamber of commerce of Richmond.
An ACT to provide for the working of roads in Gainesville district of Prince William county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of the charter of the city of Richmond in relation to publication of city ordinances.
An ACT to amend section 992 of chapter 438 of code of Virginia, in reference to proposals for public work by commissioners.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Wytheville, define the jurisdiction and powers of certain officers, and extend the corporate limits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1591 of the code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of visitors to the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 6, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 172 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the qualification of public officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act passed February 18, 1888, 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, 1878, 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 amend and re-enact sections 3807 and 3810 of the code of Virginia, 1887, relating to the profession of religious meetings and meetings for the promotion of the cause of temperance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Commonwealth club, approved March 3, 1890.
An ACT authorizing the Lynchburg and Durham railroad company and certain other railroad companies to make and carry out contracts for the sale of the railroad property and franchises of the Lynchburg and Durham railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 30, 1888, entitled an act to prescribe the times for holding the courts in the sixteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to regulate hunting in the county of Orange.
An ACT to amend section 3 of an act approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to establish Boards of commissioners of excise and to define their duties and powers.
An ACT to remove political disabilities of B. F. Hudgins, Jr.
An ACT to allow C U. Warner to erect a wharf on the Yeocomico river, in the county of Northumberland.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8796 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the punishment of the offence of cruelty to animals.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8191 of the code of Virginia, relating to attorneys at law generally.
An ACT to advance the agricultural and industrial interests of the state by providing for the assaying by the state board of agriculture for the benefit of the owners thereof of any minerals found in the state.
An ACT to relieve the Max Meadows land and improvement company, Max Meadows iron company, Park land company, Crockett land company and A. C. Denniston, against an improper and erroneous assessment of their respective lands made in the year 1891, and to enable them to apply to the county court of Wythe county for a correction of said assessments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 remove the political disabilities of Seyar Whiting and Geo Fitchett
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 25, 1884, entitled an act to provide a corporation court for the city of Roanoke.
An Act to Compensate James C. Baker and Edward S. Conrad for Professional Services Rendered in Behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
An ACT to further regulate and control common carriers doing business in this state and further defining the duties of the railroad commissioner in relation thereto.
An ACT to authorize the Board of trustees of Margaret academy, in the county of Accomac, to make sale of property held by them in trust.
An ACT amending sections 58, 59 and 60, of the cod of Virginia, in relation to a re-apportionment of representations in the general assembly.
An ACT to quiet titles to real estate in the commonwealth.
An ACT for the relief of John B. Frazier, of Pulaski county, Virginia.
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 and 1880.
An ACT for the relief of James T. Southward.
An ACT to incorporate the Winchester, Fredericksburg and Norfolk railroad.
AN ACT for the relief of John M. Kinney, of Augusta county.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts and the register of the land office to deliver to the state of West Virginia certain of the original title papers respecting lands in the state of West Virginia, and to authorize the said state to obpel coples of such title papers to lands as cannot be properly so
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of King William county to increase the salary of the county judge of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3174, of code of Virginia, in relation to clerks of courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of the act entitled an act to incorporate the Pittsburgh and Virginia railroad company, as amended by the act approved February 24, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8 of the act approved March 3, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the Pittsburgh and Virginia railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake light and power company.
An ACT for the relief of John F. Rison
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts in the several counties composing the fifteenth judicial circuit of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg, Keysville and Atlantic railway company.
An ACT to give the consent of the commonwealth to the purchase or acquisition of real estate by the United States government, in the city of Roanoke, for a site for a public building for the accommodation of the United States court-room, post-office and other offices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subdivision 6 of section 185 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the salary of the judge of the corporation court of the city of Manchester.
An ACT entitled an act to amend the title of an act, approved February 22, 1890, entitled “an act to incorporate the Norfolk belt line railway company.”
An ACT to provide for the expenses of the boards of visitors of the institutions of learning.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 50 of chapter 7 of the code of Virginia, in relation to apportionment of representation in congress.
An Act to Provide a Mode by which the Liens Created under the Old State Bank Act may be Released in Pursuance of the Act of the General Assembly, Approved February 12, 1866, so far as the same Applies to the Bank of Rockbridge.
An ACT to provide that all fines collected for offences committed against the state shall be paid and collected only in lawful money of the United States, and shall be paid in the treasury to the credit of the literary fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of chapter 168, code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of commissioners in chancery, as amended and fe-enacted by an act approved February 4, 1890, and by an act approved February 24, 1890.
1893/1894
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 420 and 421 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the use by the commissioners of the sinking fund of any surplus money in the treasury in the purchase of bonds of the state issued under the acts of February 14, 1882, and February 20, 1892.
An ACT to incorporate the Norton street railway company, in Wise county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, chapter 331, of the acts of assembly, 1887, extra session, in reference to the publication and distribution of the code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Warwick county to increase the salary of the clerk of the county court of the said county.
An ACT to ngcrpOrars. the town of Tappahannock, county of Essex.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3846 of the code of Virginia, in relation to closing bar-rooms on election days.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3315 of the code of 1887, in relation to removal by county court on motion, after notice, of suits, «c.., pending therein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the code of Virginia in regard to board of supervisors sitting with open doors; sheriff to attend
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1163 of the code of Virginia, in relation to banks holding real estate.
An ACT to create a board of excise commissioners for Alexandria county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 64 of the code of Virginia as amended by an act approved February 29, 1890, in relation to the election of electoral boards.
An ACT to repeal chapter 585 of the session acts of 1889~-’90, and to revise and re-enact section 2038 of the code of 1887, so far as repealed by same.
An ACT to change the name of the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, and to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 9 of an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, and also to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 5 and 15 of an act approved January 19, 1892, entitled an act to amend sections 2, 3, 5, 11 and 15 of an act to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, approved March 4, 1890.
An ACT to incorporate the South Norfolk street railway company
An Act to amend and re-enact section 3225, code of Virginia, 1887—on whom process against or notice to a corporation may be served.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 67 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of registrars.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 250 of the code of Virginia, providing for donations to universities and colleges having law schools.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2065 of the code of Virginia, in relation to whom attachments may be directed and where returnable.
An ACT to remove the political disabilities of Jefferson Wallace, Charles M. Wallace, Jr., and John D. Sadler.
An ACT to remove certain records in the surveyor’s office in Washington county to the clerk’s office of the county court of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3379 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the docketing of chancery cases, motions, &c.
An ACT to provide ne organization of state banks of circu-
An ACT extending the time for commencing the construction of the Baltimore, Richmond and Southern railroad company.
An ACT to amend section 246 of the code of Virginia, with reference to furnishing the report to reporter and judges.
An ACT to empower and instruct the board of sinking fund commissioners to sell the state’s interest in the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company and to invest the proceeds of sale in century bonds, and to repeal the act approved March 19, 1873 entitled an act directing the board of public works to sell the state’s interest in the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company.
An ACT for the relief of Daniel Conley, a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 8, 1892, entitled an act prescribing the terms for the eighteenth judicial circuit; fixing the times for holding the same, and for an increase of the salary of the judge thereof.
An ACT to incorporate the Hooven mercantile company.
An ACT to legalize primary elections and conventions in the city of Richmond.
AN ACT for the relief of Jessee P. Holloway, of Sussex county, disabled soldier.
An ACT providing for the election of two commissioners of the revenue for the county of Nottoway.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the Normal and collegiate institute, and to provide for the due support of the same, approved March 86, 1882, and in lieu thereof provide anew for the incorporation of said Normal and collegiate institute, and for the support of the same, approved May 20, 1887.
An ACT for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3199 of the code of Virginia, in relation to certain officers forbidden to practice law in particular courts.
An ACT to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Lancaster railroad company.