Municipal charters

1870/1871
An ACT Enlarging the Corporation of the Town of New Market, in the County of Shenandoah.
An ACT to Provide a New Charter for the Town of Charlottesville.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51 of Chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia, (Edition of 1860), to Authorize Subscriptions to Incorporated Companies by Counties, Cities, Towns, and Townships.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 5 and 14 of an Act Entitled an Act Providing a Charter for the City of Richmond, Approved May 24, 1870, as Amended by an Act Approved July 11, 1870.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Approved February 19, 1858, Entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Ashland, in the County of Hanover, and the Act Amendatory thereof, Approved January 11, 1864.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 3 of an Act Passed December 20, 1855, Entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Orange, as Amended by an Act Approved July 9, 1870.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 87, Chapter 188 ot Session Acts of 1869 and 1870, in Relation to Vacancies in Township Offices,
An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Town of Scottsville.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enaet an Act passed February 28, 1856, Amending an Act fur Working the Roads of Loudoun County.
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Strasburg, in the County of Shenandoah.
An ACT to Amend the 27th Section of the School Bill.
An ACT to Provide for a General Registration of the Voters or the City of Richmond.
An ACT to Provide for the Collection of Debts Due the City of Williamsburg, for which Notes were Taken, Payable to the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen, by the Present Corporation of said City.
An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Town of Culpeper.
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Lovingston, in the County of Nelson.
An ACT to Provide a System of Public Free Schools in the Cities of the Commonwealth, and to Repeal Section 66 of‘an Act Entitled an Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools
An ACT Authorizing the Governor to Cede to the United States Jurisdiction over a certain Bridge, with its Abutments, in the County of Elizabeth City.
An ACT to Extend and Define the Boundaries of the City of Lynchburg.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act to Amend the Charter of the Town of Warrenton, passed April 0, 1852.
JOINT RESOLUTION Legalizing the Order of the County Judge of Fluvanna County, made December 26, 1870, in Relation to Taking the Sense of the People of said County in Aid of Subscriptions to the Rivanna Navigation Company.
An ACT to Provide for a General Registration of the Voters of the City of Lynchburg.
An ACT Authorizing the Joint Committee for the Regulation of Norfolk County Ferries to Borrow Money on Behalf of Norfolk County and the City of Portsmouth, and for Other Purposes.
An ACT to Authorize the City of Portsmouth to Lease out the Ends of Certain Streets.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act to Authorize the City of Portsmouth to Issue Coupon Bonds
An ACT Modifying the Charter of Washington College, and Authorizing the Name thereof to be Changed to Washington and Lee University.
An ACT to Amend the Charter of the City of Alexandria.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 329 of the Acts of Assembly, approved 11th July, 1870, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of West Point, so as to ‘Sell Real Estate for Behuguent Taxes.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 5th Section of an Act, Entitled an Act to Provide a Charter for the Town of Front Royal
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 8 of the Act eutitled an Act to Authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Prince Edward to Vote on the Question of Removing the County Courthouse to the Town of Farmville.

1871/1872
An ACT Continuing in Force the Corporation of the Town of Pearisburg, County of Giles, and Defining and Prescribing the Rights and Powers thereof.
An ACT to Amend the Act Incorporating the James River Bridge Company.
An ACT to Incorporate the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans, in the City of Richmond.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 21 of an Act entitled ‘An Act to Amend and Ke-enact the Charter of the Town of Danville, and Incorporating into One all Acts Amendatory thereof,” passed 15th December, 1805.
An ACT to Amend the 21st Section of an Act Passed March the 38ist, 1860, entitled An Act to Amend an Act Incorporating the Town of Portsmouth as a City, passed March 1st, 1858.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Two of an Act entitled "An Act to Amend tho Charter of the Town of Winchester, in the County of Froderick"
An ACT to Provide for the Election of Certain Township Officers in the County of Hanover.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Approved March 30, 1871, Entitled ‘‘An Act to Amend the 27th Section of the School Bill.”
An ACT in Relation tv the Condemnation of Land in the City of Richmond.
An ACT to authorize the Common Council of the City of Petersburg to Borrow Money and Issue and Sell Bonds of said City to an Amount not exceeding $200,000, bearing Interest not exceeding Eight per centum per annum.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 7 and 8 of an Act entitled ‘ An Act to Amend and Re-enact Sections 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 21 of an Act Entitled ‘An Act to Amend and Re-enact the Charter of the Town of Danville, and Incorporating into one all the Acts Amendatory thereof, passed 15th December, 1865,’ approved March 25, 1872.
An ACT to Consolidate the Indebtedness of the City of Alexandria in one Uniform Issue of Stock.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act passed March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty, incorporating the Town of Powellton, in the County of Amherst.
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 Authorize the Qualitied Voters of the County of Amherst to Vote on the Question of Removing the Courthouse.
An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Town of Culpeper.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Charter of the Town of Leesburg, in the County of Loudoun
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 8th Section of an Act entitled ‘‘An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act passed February 19, 1858, entitled An Act to Incorporate the Town of Ashland, in the County of Hanover,” and the Act amendatory thereof, in force March 29, 1871.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 6, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 27, 28, 31, 34, 36, of Chapter 139, Session Acts 1870-71, entitled ‘An Act Providing a Charter for the City of Norfolk.”
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Newbern, and to Repeal Act of 27th of May, 1852, entitled 'An Act to Incorporate the Town of Newbern, in the County of Pulaski.'
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Newport, in the County of Giles.
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Mcunt Jackson, in the County of Shenandoah.
An ACT to Amend the Act entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled An Act to Charter the Richmond and Peninsula Railway Company.
An ACT to Provide for a Re-division of the County of Rockingham into ‘Townships.
An ACT Appropriating a Sum of Money for Heating the Building of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum by Steam
An ACT to Amend Section 33 of an Act cutitled “An Act to Provide a New Charter for the Town of Charlottesville,” approved March 2eth, 1871.
An ACT to Authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Prince William to Vote on the Question of Removing the County Court-house to Manassas.
An ACT to Authorize an Election of Certain Officers in the Town of Jeffersonville.
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 Authorize Election of Officers in the Town of Tappahannock.
An ACT to Provide for a Re-division of Certain Counties into Townships
An ACT Appointing Trustees for the Town of York, in the County of York.
An ACT to Authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Gloucester to Vote on the Question of Removing the Court-house and Other Public Buildings of said County.
An ACT to Provide a New Charter for the Town of Suffolk.
An ACT to Authorize the Township Board of Tanner's Creek Township in Norfolk County to use Surplus Funds for the Erection of Township House.
An ACT to Define and Extend the Corporate Limits of the Town of Farmville, in the County of Prince Edward.
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Edinburg, in the County of Shenandoah.
An ACT to Define the Boundary Line between the Counties of Albemarle and Fluvanna.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 3d Section of an Act Supplemental to an Act Entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Portsmouth, Passed 18th March, 1858, and to Provide for the Disposition of the Common Property of the County of Norfolk and City of Portsmouth, Passed March 25th 1858.
An ACT Providing a Charter for the City of Staunton.
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Seddon, in the County of Bland.
An ACT to Authorize the Board of Supervisors for the Counties of Elizabeth City and Warwick to Contract Annually for Keeping in Repair the Public Roads of said Counties.
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Dumfries, in the County of Prince William.
An ACT to Extend the Time for the Application of the Re-assessment of Lands in Richmond County and Alexandria City and County.
An ACT to Amend an Act Entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act Passed February 28th, 1856, Amending an Act for Working the Roads of Loudoun County.

1872/1873
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Louisa, in Louisa County.
An ACT Requiring the Joint Committee for the Norfolk County Ferries to Report and make Annual Settlements.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 5 and 13 of the Act in force March 22d, 1872, Entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact Certain Acts in Relation to the Town of Fincastle, in the County of Botetourt, and to Extend the Corporate Limits of said Town.
An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Town of Seddon, in the County of Bland.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections sixty-three and seventy-seven of an Act entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of Certain Township Officers
An ACT to Provide a New Charter for the City of Portsmouth.
An ACT to Repeal an Act passed May 19th, 1852, entitled an Act to Provide for the Election of Certain Officers of the City of Norfolk by the Qualified Voters thereof.
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of New Market, in the County of Shenandoah.
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 Annex a Portion of the Territory of the County of Franklin to the County of Floyd.
An ACT to Authorize the County Court of Norfolk County to appoint Commissioners to divide the Roads of the various Townships in said County into Convenient Road Districts, and to Contract Annu-ally for keeping in repair the Public Roads in said County.
An ACT to Amend Sections 4 and 5 of an Act of the General Assembly approved March 6th, 1871, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Dublin, in the County of Pulaski
An ACT to Amend the Charter of the City of Richmond.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 6, 14 and 27 of an Act Providing a Charter for the City of Norfolk
An ACT to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of Bath County to Borrow Money to Vefray the Cost of Erecting a Bridge over the Cowpasture River.
An ACT to Authorize the Corporate Authorities of Winchester to Borrow Money.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 7th Section of an Act approved April 2nd, 1870, to Provide for Dividing the several Counties of this State into Townships.
An ACT to Regulate the Working of the Roads of Rockbridge and Lee Counties
An ACT in Relation to the Records of Alexandria County.
An ACT to Authorize the Trustees of the Town of Manchester to issue Bonds for Improvements in said Town.
An ACT to Amend an Act entitled an Act to Amend an Act passed the 29th of May, 1852, entitled an Act to Prescribe the Mode of Electing Trustees for the Town of Farmville, in the County of Prince Edward, and Vesting them with Corporate Privileges, approved July 11th, 1870; to Provide for the Election of Certain Officers by the Town Council.
An ACT to Authorize the Town of Manchester to Construct a Free Bridge over James River.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the first, second, third, fourth and eighth Sections of an Act entitled an Act to Amend the Charter of the Richmond and Lynchburg Railroad Company, approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, so as to Change the Name of the said Company and Extend the Time within which it may Commence and Complete the said Railroad.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the second Section of an Act approved March 22d, 1871, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Blacksburg, in the County of Montgomery.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 6, 10 and 11 of an Act approved the 5th day of February, 1873, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Richmond Building and Improvement Company, and to Repeal the 5th Section of said Act.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section one of an Act entitled an Act to Provide for a New Charter for the Town of Charlottesville