Monuments and memorials
| An ACT making an Appropriation for the Removal of the Re- mains of Virginia Soldiers from Gettysburg to Hollywood Cemetery. |
| JOINT RESOLUTIONS Relative to the Death of General Robert E. Lee. |
| An ACT making an appropriation for the erection of an Railing around the Washington Monument |
| An ACT to defray the expenses of transporting and the erection on the monument of the statues of Marshall, Lewis, Nelson and the trophies and ornaments for the same, |
| Joint Resolution appointing Commissioners to resurvey, re-trace, locate and erect monuments on the boundary line between Maryland and Virginia, on the Eastern Shore. |
| An ACT to provide for the erection of the Jetlerson Statue at the University of Virginia. |
| An ACT in Relation to the Repairing, Refitting, and Returning to the Hall of the House of Delegates the Portraits of Thomas Jefferson and William Pitt. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION for the Purchase, by the State, of Elder’s Portrait of General R. E. Lee. |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Lee Memorial Association |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Lee Monument Association |
| JOINT RESOLUTION Appropriating a sum of Money to Replace Houdon’s Statue of Washington in the Rotunda of the Capitol. |
| JOINT RESOLUTIONS in relation to the Death of General Edward Johnson. |
| An ACT to Establish the Seals and Flags of the Commonwealth. |
| An ACT Authorizing the Rector and Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia to Expend a Certain sum of Money. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Ladies Memorial Association of Fredericksburg. |
| An ACT to incorporate The Jackson Memorial Association. |
| An ACT to incorporate The Gloucester Monument Association. |
| An ACT to incorporate The Ladies’ Memorial Association of Northumberland County. |
| An ACT making an Appropriation for Receiving and Placing in position the Bronze Statue of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, tendered to the State by English Citizens. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION in reference to the Statue of General Thomas J. Jackson, Tendered to the State by A. J. Beresford Hope, Esq., M. P., of England. |
| An ACT to incorporate The Ladies Memorial Association of Westmoreland County. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION tendering the Acknowledgments of the General Assembly of Virginia to the United States Authorities for their action in reference to the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Fort Deleware. |
| An ACT to authorize the investment of moneys belonging to the Lee Monument Association in state bonds. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Association of Confederate Soldiers of Lynchburg and Campbell. |
| An ACT to renovate and repair the statue of Clay in the capitol grounds. |
| An ACT to amend the act entitled an act to incorporate the Lee monument association, approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. |
| An ACT to repeal sections 1 and 2, chapter 57, Acts of Assembly, 1877-78, in relation to the sale of cotton in Sussex and Greenesville counties. |
| An ACT to repeal chapter two hundred and twenty-five of the Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven-eight, in relation to working roads and repairing bridges in the county of Buckingham. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Grand Lodge of the Sons of Zion Benevolent Society of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-three of chapter one hundred and eighty-one, Acts of 1874-75, approved March 20, 1875, to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, so far as applicable to the county of Albemarle. |
| An ACT to appropriate $800 for the repair and preservation of the statue of Henry Clay. |
| An ACT giving the consent of the state of Virginia for the purchase, by the United States, of a tract of land at Yorktown, for the purpose of the erection thereon by the United States, of a monument to commemorate the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and his forces, to the allied army commanded by General George Washington, in October, 1781. |
| An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase by the United States of two parcels of land in the county of Westmoreland, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a monument to mark the site of the birthplace of George Washington; ceding jurisdiction over the same, and exempting the same from taxation. |
| An ACT directing the governor to convey to the United States the title of the commonwealth to certain real estate in Westmoreland county, and ceding jurisdiction over the same to the United States, and exempting the same from taxation. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION to provide for the removal of the statue of Henry Clay from the capitol grounds to the rotunda of the capitol, and to provide fur the preservation of the same. |
| An ACT authorizing the payment to Randolph Rogers, Esq., of all amounts for Statuary for the Washington Monument, as the same may become due. |
| An ACT giving the consent of the state to the purchase by the United States of certain real estate in the city of Fredcricksburg, and exempting the same from taxation. |
| An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Lee Monument Association, approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended by acts approved December twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, by the addition of sections thereto. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the governor to have the great seal of the commonwealth engraved on the Washington Monument. |
| An ACT for repuiring the wall and enclosure around the building occupied by the Court of Appeals, in Richmond, and in cleaning Houdon’s Statue of Washington, in the rotunda of the Capitol. |
| An ACT to authorize the redemption of certain state securities held by the Lee Monument Association. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Hines Memorial Association of the Knights of Pythias. |
| An ACT to incorporate the association of the survivors of the Clarke cavalry. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Clarke county to sell and convey to the association of the survivors of the Clarke cavalry a part of the public square in Berryville in said county. |
| An ACT for the relief of the Ladies Memorial Association of Manassas |
| An ACT to ratify and validate the voluntary consolidation heretofore made of the Lee monument association with the Ladies Lee monument association. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association. |
| An ACT for the relief of the sureties of John C Gray, late treasurer of Washington county. |
| An ACT to provide for the collection, by motion of money for debts, dues and demands, including fines and recognizances due or to become due to the commonwealth, in payment of which coupons shall have been or may hereafter be tendered, and not accepted as payment and not otherwise paid. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION fixing a site on the capitol grounds for the statue of General Williams C. Wickham. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Robert M. T. Hunter association. |
| An ACT to amend an act incorporating the Ladies’ memorial association of Fredericksburg, approved April 4, 1874. |
| An ACT to correct an error in the title and to give effect to an act entitled ‘an act to amend an act incorporating the Ladies’ memorial association of Fredericksburg of April 4th, 1874, approved January 11th, 1892, being chapter 47 of the acts of the present general assembly of Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide a charter for the Veteran cavalry association of the army of northern Virginia. |
| An ACT incorporating the Association for the preservation of Virginia antiquities. |
| An ACT appropriating three thousand two hundred dollars to the Confederate soldiers’ and sailors’ monument association. |
| An ACT to authorize and direct the governor to appoint a commission to co-operate with the national commission in ascertaining the position occupied by the Virginia troops on the battle-field of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. |
| An ACT to authorize the Confederate memorial association of Nottoway to deed their monument to the county of Nottoway. |
| An ACT to authorize the county court and board of supervisors of Orange county to allow a monument to the Confederate dead to be erected on the public square. |
| An ACT to amend the charter of the Fredericksburg and adjacent national battle-field memorial park association of Virginia in relation to condem- nation of land and transfer of same to United States. |
| An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands in the counties of Dinwiddie, Prince George and Chesterfield, and the city of Petersburg. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the county court and the board of supervisors of Rappahannock county to grant the right to erect a monument to the Confederate dead of said county on the public square. |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Fredericksburg and adjacent national battlefields memorial park association of Virginia |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Pittsv!vania to allow Company J memorial association to erect a monument on the public square of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands in the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania and Orange, and the city of Fredericksburg. |
| An ACT to authorize the county court and board of supervisors of Page county to erect a monument to the Confederate dead of said county on the court-house square. |
| An ACT to authorize the county court and board of supervisors of Cumberland county to allow a monument to the Confederate dead to be erected on the public square of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize the county court and board of supervisors of Pulaski county to grant the right to erect a monument to the Confederate dead of said county on the court-house square, or upon such other lot as may be selected by said board, and to authorize the board to levy a tax to pay for such lot. |
| An ACT to incorporate the John Marshall memorial association. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Southampton county to aid in the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead of said county, on the court-house square, by contributing thereto a sum not exceeding five hundred ($500) dollars. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Prince Edward to make an appropriation for the purpose of aiding in erecting a monument to the memory of the Confederate dead. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Charles City county, Virginia, to aid in the erection of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of said county by assigning a location on the court-house green and by contributing thereto a sum not exceeding $300. |
| An ACT to authorize the judge of the county court of Stafford to grant and convey land for a site to build a monument to the memory of the Confederate dead of said county. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Stonewall Jackson memorial association. |
| An ACT to authorize school district number 1 in the county of Tazewell, a corporation, to allow a monument to the Confederate dead to be erected, maintained, and cared for on the grounds connected with and a part of the Tazewell high school property. |
| 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 authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Orange county to aid in the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead of said county, on the court-house square, by contributing thereto a sum not exceeding six hundred ($600) dollars. |
| An ACT to authorize the Jefferson Davis monument association to transfer and deliver all its funds, assets, and property to the united daughters of the Confederacy. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county and the council of the city of Charlottesville to contribute to the erection of a Confederate monument, and to levy a special tax for the purpose. |
| An ACT to appropriate money for the purpose of needed improvements around the Lee monument, in the city of Richmond, on the property of the state of Virginia. |
| An ACT directing the librarian to turn over certain relics to the Confederate memorial literary society. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Powhatan troop association. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the judge of the county court of Powhatan to convey a plot of land forty feet square in the court green of the aforesaid county to the Powhatan troop association. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Woman's Monument Association, of Essex county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to ratify and confirm the action of the council of the city of Richmond in passing an ordinance, approved January 18, 1902, to authorize the Jefferson Davis Monument Association to erect and maintain a memorial arch to President Jefferson Davis over Broad street and across it at its intersection with Twelfth street, to be of such design as may be selected by the said Jefferson Davis Monument Association and approved by the committee on streets and city engineer. |
| An ACT to authorize the county court and board of supervisors of Essex county to allow a monument to the Confederate dead to be erected on the public square of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Isle of Wight county, Virginia, to contribute to erection of a monument to confederate dead of Isle of Wight county. |
| An ACT to empower the board of supervisors and judge of the county of Smyth to authorize the Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a monument on the courthouse or public square at Marion, Virginia, to the memory of the Confederate dead of said county, and to appropriate, in their discretion, not less than $250 nor more than $500 to aid in the erection of said monument. |
| An ACT to authorize the erection of a statue of Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire on the capitol square, in the city of Richmond. |
| An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Louisa county to erect a monument to the Confederate dead. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Appomattox county to make an appropriation for the purpose of aiding in erecting a monument in memory of the Confederate dead. |
| An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to appropriate money and materials to aid in building a Confederate monument on the courthouse lot of Chesterfield county. |
| 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 to authorize the county court and board of supervisors of Appomattox county to allow a monument to the Confederate dead to be erected on the public square of said county. |
| An ACT to empower the judge and board of supervisors to allow monument to be erected at Madison, etc. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2042 of the Code of Virginia, |
| An ACT directing the return of the portrait of William Pitt, earl of Chatham, which now hangs in the hall of the house of delegates, to the authorities of Westmoreland county. |
| An ACT to authorize the Clinton Hatcher camp of Confederate veterans of Loudoun county, the sons of Confederate veterans of Loudoun county, and the daughters of the Confederacy of Loudoun county to erect a monument to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of Loudoun county on the southwest corner of the courthouse square in Leesburg, Loudoun county, and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to contribute to the erection of said monument. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Isle of Wight Confederate memorial association. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to contract for the erection and ownership by the county of a monument to the memory of Confederate soldiers of said county, on the public square of said county and to make payment on account of same out of the funds of the county. |
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