Municipal charters

1901es
An ACT to authorize the city of Winchester to increase its debt and to issue bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 72 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or charters in conflict therewith
An ACT authorizing the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds not exceeding $25,000 for public school purposes in Atlantic City ward.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 92 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick.
An ACT to allow the Chuckatuck, Newport News, and Norfolk steamboat company to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek, in Nansemond county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend the charter of the trustees of the Upper Appomattox company, and to render the property of the said company subject to state, county, and municipal taxation, and for other purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 14, 1900, and entitled ‘‘an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 1, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter and extend and define the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, approved April 6, 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 13 of an act to amend the charter and extend and define the boundaries of the city, approved April 6, 1887, approved March 3, 1890.”
An ACT to incorporate the town of South Hill, Mecklenburg county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the counties of Northumberland and Westmoreland
An ACT to allow the Chuckatuck, Newport News, and Norfolk steamboat company to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek, in Nansemond county, Virginia.
An ACT to repeal an act approved February 27, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to establish a corporation court for the city of Bristol, in Washington county, approved February 12, 1890.
An ACT to incorporate the town of La Crosse, Mecklenburg county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to improve any street, avenue, road or sidewalk within the limits of any piece or plot of land that has or may hereafter be plotted and laid off into lots, streets, avenues, roads and sidewalks by plot thereof, duly recorded in the clerk’s office of the county court of said county, and to levy a tax for the purpose of making such improvements against the lots abutting on the streets, avenues, roads and sidewalks to be so improved.
An ACT to allow the town of Abingdon to supply said town and its inhabitants with water, gas and electric light, and to issue bonds of said town to effect said purpose.
An ACT to extend the time one year to collect by distress the taxes of 1898, assessed against the taxable persons and property of the corporation of Lebanon, in Russell county.
An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Farmville magisterial district, Prince Edward county, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said magisterial district.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Elba, Pittsylvania county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to increase
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 8, of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1900.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, Tazewell county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 1, of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved Fepruary 29, 1892, being an act to provide a new charter for the town cf Graham, in the county of Tazewell, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 1, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45, 49, 50, 52, and 53 of an act in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, in relation to the lien of the city for taxes assessed on real estate, and to the sale thereof for non-payment of taxes.
An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, approved February 2, 1898.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company.
An ACT authorizing the council of the town of Hampton to borrow money and issue bonds therefor to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars.
An ACT to amend the charter for the town of Front Royal.
An ACT in regard to the number of councilmen for the city of Norfolk.
An ACT cuthorizing the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, approved November 24, 1884.
An ACT to authorize the town of Abingdon to issue bonds to pay its bonded indebtedness.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 7, 1835, providing a charter for the town of Bridgewater, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1884, and as amended by an act approved August 26, 1884, and all other acts amendatory thereof on condition.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of the charter of the town of Farmville.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act entitled an act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield and to grant a new charter to the said town, which took effect February 17, 1900.
An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to make sale and transfer to the William R. Trigg company of the Richmond dock and so much of its real estate as may be necessary and appurtenant to the use thereof, lying and being in the city of Richmond, Virginia, east of the eastern face of the masonry of the first lock above the ship-lock.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend, consolidate, and re-enact chapter 31, acts of 1872-73, approved January 16, 1873, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and chapter 774, acts of 1895-96, approved March 4, 1896, entitled an act authorizing the election of a town assessor for the town of Covington, in Alleghany county, Virginia, relating to the charter and corporate limits of the town of Covington, and to extend the corporate limits of said town and enlarge its powers, as amended by an act approved February 21, 1900.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Centennial Baptist church, of the town of Tappahannock, county of Essex, to sell and convey a certain lot of land in said town and county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 48 of an act approved March 5, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to define the corporate limits and charter for the city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884
An ACT to authorize the justices of the peace of the Washing-
An ACT to allow school district number one, of Norfolk county, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
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.
An ACT to authorize and empower the town council of the town of Clintwood to make assessments upon all abutting land owners on Main street of said town of Clintwood for sidewalks and provide mode for collecting same.
An ACT validating, ratifying, confirming, and approving an ordinance of the city council of Alexandria passed December 11, 1900, and approved by the mayor of the city of Alexandria.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Basic City to close up and abandon a part of Essex avenue in said town and convey to a private corporation or individual the fee simple or other less title in the part of said street so closed.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Augusta county to issue warrants to pay for building, furnishing the court-house and clerk's and other offices, and improving the grounds, and to pay interest thereon.
An ACT to renew the charter of the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county, and to appoint officers for same.
An ACT to make the corporation of the town of Clintwood a separate road district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of an act to incorporate the town of Elba, Pittsylvania county, approved February 2, 1901.
An ACT to accept the cession by the state of Tennessee to the state of Virginia, of a certain narrow strip of territory claimed as belonging to the state of Tennessee, and described as lying between the northern boundary line of the city of Bristol, in the county of Sullivan, state of ‘Tennessee, and the southern boundary line of the city of Bristol, in the county of Washington, state of Virginia, being the northern half of the Main street of the said two cities.

1902/1903
An ACT to add an additional section to an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Courtland, in the county of Southampton, approved January 27, 1888.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia.
An ACT to provide a road law for Appomattox county, and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to provide for the permanent improvement of the public roads of Charlotte county, and to authorize the issue of bonds for that purpose.
An ACT regulating the grant of franchise, et cetera, by cities and towns, and providing for the advertisement thereof and the public reception of bids therefor, and providing for the enforcement of the obligations of the grantees, grantors or owners of franchises, and providing penalties for the usurpation of or violation of the terms and provisions of franchises.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 5, and 11 of an act approved March 4, 1898, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Buchanan and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the towns of Buchanan and Pattonsburg, in the county of Botetourt, approved January 19, 1882, and amendatory thereof, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and enact an act entitled an act to enlarge the powers of the town of Buchanan, in the county of Botetourt, approved March 3, 1890, approved February 25, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to authorize the mayor and town council of West. Point to borrow money for public improve-ments
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 4 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 4, 1896, entitled “an act providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Lunenburg, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in said county.
An ACT to authorize the city of Charlottesville to close a street in said city known as Fifth street.
An ACT to provide fuel, light, and ice for the capitol and libratr buildings and the governor's mansion, and to appropriate money therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 21, and 29, and to repeal sections 9, 11, 19, and 24 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Big Stone Gap, and to legalize certain acts of the town council, approved February 28, 1890, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact. sections 4, 11, 15, and 17, and to repeal sections 12 and 13 of said original act, approved February 24, 1898.
An ACT to give the consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the acquisition of real estate in the city of Fredericksburg for a site for the Mercer monument, and authorizing the city to grant and condemn land therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of the charter of the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874.
An ACT to establish Norton school district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and macadamize the roads in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question, approved April 2, 1902.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7, chapter 4. of the revised charter of the city of Lynchburg, relating to the bonds of the city officials.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the town of Bowling Green, in the county of Caroline.
An ACT to amend section 3 of an act amending the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Hampton to borrow $25,000, and issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city-of Portsmouth to issue bonds for the paving and grading of the streets of the city.
An ACT incorporating the town of Bowling Green, in the county of Caroline.
An ACT providing that all dogs in this State which have been assessed with a license tax pursuant to an act entitled "an act to amend and reenaet chapter 402 of the acts of assembly, — session PO 1-2 entitled an act. to protect sheep and other stock in the counties of the State, and to amend the title thereof so as to provide for imposing a lieense tax on dows," approved February 12, 1903, upon which said license tax is not delinquent, or which have been assessed with a Heense tax or other tax pursuant to any ordinance of any incorporated city or town of this State now or hereafter having municipal law providing for or imposing a license tax or other tax on dogs, or pursuant to any special dog tax law of any county, and upon which said license tax or other tax is not delinquent, shall be deemed personal property, and may be the subject of Jareeny and malicious or unlawful trespass: and repealing section 499 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section 499 of the Code oF Virginia in relation to the listing of dogs for taxation." approved Mareh 7, 1900, and sections 500 and 501 of the Code of Vi irginia, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith,
An ACT to provide for the issuance of $30,000 bonds by the city of Newport News for the payment of damage to property in the construction of the Twenty-eighth-street bridge.
An ACT to provide for the issue of bonds for the payment of the balance of the contract price for paving Washington avenue and Twenty-fifth street, Newport News.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Drakes Branch, in the county of Charlotte.
An ACT to create a board of sinking fund commissioners for the town of Gladeville, in Wise county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Caroline county.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Salem, in Roanoke county, to retire and refund certain bonds of said town.
An ACT to apportion the obligation and costs of maintaining, keeping in repair and rebuilding certain bridges over Blackwater river, the dividing line between the counties of Isle of Wight and Southampton, between the said counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved May 10, 1887, authorizing and making provision for the leasing and operating of the New London Academy as a public free school for the benefit of the counties of Bedford and Campbell.
An ACT permitting the town council of the town of Emporia to levy an additional capitation tax for street purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Franklin, Southampton county. Virginia, approved March To. VS76, as amended by an act approved December 19, T8891, and to amend and re-enact section TP? of the charter of the said town, as amended by an act approved February 19, 180, and to create a sinking fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3090 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by the act of the general assembly approved January 18, 1888, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, so as to place the county of Craig with those counties west of the Blue Ridge, whose causes in the court of appeals are heard in Staunton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35, chapter 4, of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville.
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of Blackstone, Nottoway county, Virginia, to appoint an assessor and have the real estate within the limits of said town assessed as a basis of taxation for State, county, and town purposes for the year 1903, and thereafter until the next regular assessment: provided, the aggregate amount of the said assessment shall not be less than the aggregate amount of the last assessment.
An ACT to authorize municipal corporations to issue bonds for the redemption of outstanding bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 11 of an act to amend and re-enact chapter 256 of the acts of assembly of 1855-’56, as amended by chapter 123 of the acts of assembly of 1883-84, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Orange, and to enable the said town to borrow money
An ACT to confer upon all the city and municipal corporations additional and full power to regulate and control the sale of wine, malt liquor, ardent spirits, and all intoxicant liquors.
An ACT to repeal chapter 153 of the acts of assembly of Virginia extra session 1901, approved February 14, 1901, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 554 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1899-1900 entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 65 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, approved February 27, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, and corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said district.
An ACT to authorize the taking of a census in the city of Manchester.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Lancaster to acquire by purchase or condemnation for public purposes a lot of land not exceeding two acres, adjoining the lot on which the courthouse now stands.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 1, of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, so as to include in one act the entire description of the corporate lines of the said city, and to thus present the said lines as a whole; to render accurate some ambiguities in the courses of the lines of the town of Neapolis, annexed to the city of Danville, by an act entitled an act to extend the limits of the city of Danville, approved 2d day of March, 1896, and to include the description set forth in an act entitled an act to extend the limits of the town of Danville, approved 28th January, 1867, and the description set forth in said act, approved 2d March, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 136 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts, or parts of acts, or charters in conflict therewith
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 11 of an act. entitled an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to lease to the National Bank of Fairfax the old clerk's office building on the public square in the town of Fairfax.
An ACT to provide for changing the boundaries of wards in cities, and for increasing or diminishing the number thereof.
An ACT to provide for the settlement of any controversy or uncertainty as to the existence, or as to the limits and boundaries, of any public road in Alexandria county, and for recording a plat of said road and marking its boundaries, and for limiting the time in which the existence or boundaries of any such road may be drawn in question.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to create a general road fund, and to provide for the permanent improvement of roads, approved April 2, 1902, and to create an advisory road board and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads.
An ACT to provide rooms for the accommodation of the State Corporation Commission, and to appropriate money for the rent of the same.
An ACT to provide for the representation of the several wards of cities in the councils thereof, and for the reapportionment of such representation.
An ACT for the issuing of $100,000 of bonds, to purchase land, and to build and erect thereon a market-house, armory, council chamber, and city offices, or otherwise acquire the same, and to provide a circuit court-room in the present courthouse building, and provide a fire-proof vault for the records of the corporation and circuit courts, and for the furnishing and equipping of the said new buildings in the city of Newport News.