Municipal charters

1902/1904
An Act to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, Virginia, to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of establishing a system of water works and fire department for said city.
An ACT to authorize the exchange of lots between the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the county of Albemarle.
An ACT to authorize and empower the town of Smithfield, in Isle of Wight county, to borrow money for street improvement.
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 acts amendatory thereof, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-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 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 amend and re-enact subsection “sixteen” of section 5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to construction of the words “city,” “town,” and “council.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 84 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 162, acts of assembly 1901-02, approved March 11, 1902, and to amend and re-enact sections 86 and 89 of said charter, all in regard to the police department of said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 60, chapter 7, of the charter of the city of Portsmouth in relation to city officers.

1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 28, 1903, in relation to changing the boundaries of wards in cities, and for increasing or diminishing the number thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Gladeville, in Wise county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24a of the charter of the city of Richmond, as prescribed by an act approved February 20, 1886, entitled ‘an act giving authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control roads to the Reservoir and Soldiers’ Home,’ so as to give authority to the city of Richmond to improve and control a road running east from the corporate limits along P street to Thirty-fourth street extended; thence northwardly along Thirty-fourth street extended to Oakwood avenue; thence along Oakwood avenue to Oakwood Cemetery; and to amend section 105 of the charter of the city of Richmond providing for the election of a police justice, as prescribed in an act approved July 11, 1870, amending certain sections of the city charter, so as to fix the term of office of said police justice at four years.
An ACT to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Parksley, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac, Virginia, to borrow money.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in the counties of Sussex and Greensville, and providing what tax shall be used for keeping the same in order.
An ACT to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Damascus, Virginia.
An ACT to allow the town of Front Royal to supply said town, the inhabitants thereof, and the inhabitants in the vicinity of said town, with light, and to issue bonds of said town to effect said purpose, and to hold an election therefor.
An act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Pulaski, in the county of Pulaski, Virginia; to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquor in said town, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act so far as they apply to said town.
An ACT to authorize the district school board of Franktown school district, in Northampton county, to borrow money for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a school-house near the town of Franktown, and to provide for the payment thereof.
An ACT to authorize the town of Blacksburg, in Montgomery county, to donate a sum not exceeding $1,000 for the purpose of erecting in said town a public school building.
An ACT to authorize the district school board of Blacksburg school district, in Montgomery county, to borrow money for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a school-house in the town of Blacksburg, and to provide for the payment thereof.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, in the county of Roanoke, and repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the
An ACT to authorize the governor of Virginia to lease such rooms and offices as may be necessary for the transaction of the public business by the governor, secretary of the Commonwealth, register of the land office, the public printer, the commissioner of labor, the clerk of the house of delegates, and keeper of the rolls, and any other official having offices in the capitol building, or any of them, and for the storage of public property and records, so far as such rooms or offices may be necessary during the time occupied in the enlargement, renovation and repair of the State capitol building, and appropriating money to pay the rentals thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol.
An ACT to allow the council of the town of Onancock to levy an additional capitation tax for the aid of the public schools of said town, or for such town purposes as the said town council shall determine.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to lease the old Commonwealth attorney’s office building, on the public square, in the town of Fairfax.
An ACT to legalize an election held in the corporation of Chase City, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, on the 9th of June, 1903, for the purpose of issuing bonds of the town for macadamizing streets and other town improvements and indebtedness.
An ACT to amend, revise, and re-enact sections 19, 26, and 28 of the charter of the town of Pocahontas, in Tazewell county. Virginia.
An ACT to amend and reenact section 443 of the Code of Virginia in relation to making copies of assessments and disposition of copies, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assessment of lands and lots, approved December 10, 1903, so as to provide additional time for returning assessments in cities having a population of over 50,000 by the last United States census.
An ACT to authorize the city of Roanoke to donate or sell real estate owned by it to any State institution.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Narrows, in Giles county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact article 10 of an act to incorporate the town of Phebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900," as amended by an act approved April 1902.
An ACT to create a road board for the county of Fauquier, and to provide for the working of the roads of said county.
An ACT to amend charter of town of LaCrosse, Mecklenburg county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Tazewell to borrow money.
An ACT to authorize the town of Salem and the county of Roanoke, or either, of them, to appropriate money for the purpose of securing the location of a State female normal school at or near the town of Salem, and to authorize the issue of bonds in connection therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 131 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, approved March 5, 1900, and to repeal sections 132 and 133 thereof.
An ACT to provide for opening, working, and changing the public roads in Rappahannock county and building and repairing bridges therein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 29, 1871, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 12, 1903, relating to the election of municipal officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 580 of the acts of the general assembly, extra session 1902-’03-’04, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 60, chapter 7, of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, in relation to city officers.”
An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to issue bonds for the payment of the balance of the contract price for paving Washington avenue and Twenty-fifth street, in said city, and to repeal all of the acts heretofore attempting to give this authority to said city.
An ACT to authorize the city of Charlottesville to close certain streets, to allow an overhead steel bridge over the lower end of Main street in said city, to permit the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company to erect a new passenger depot in said city, and to ascertain and pay damages, if any, resulting therefrom.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed March 21, 1836, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in the county of Botetourt (now in Roanoke county), and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Madison Heights, in Amherst county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act providing for the making, changing, and working of roads in the county of Rockingham," approved March 2, 1888, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 5, 1890; as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 25, 1892; as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 26, 1896.
An ACT to provide for the extension of the corporate limits of cities and towns.
An ACT to provide the establishment, proper construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair of all public roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves in the several counties of this State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for creating, working, and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county, and defining the boundaries of same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 61 of an act to provide a new charter for the town of Clifton Forge, in the county of Alleghany, approved February 3, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3055 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of the charter of the town of Luray, Page county, Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved
An ACT to empower the circuit court and board of supervisors of any county to authorize and permit the erection of a Confederate monument upon the public square at the county seat thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact article 10 of an act to incorporate the town of Phebus, in Elizabeth City county," approved January 22, 1900, and amended by an act approved April 2, 1902.
An ACT to allow the street mileage in the town of Chase City, county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, to be included in mileage of county public roads, and to receive its proratable share of county road levy.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 585 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 581 and 585 of the Code of Virginia, approved December 10, 1903.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 10 of an act entitled "an act to provide for the improvement and working of the roads of the county of Henrico, and for the construction and repair of the bridges therein, ete," and the acts amendatory thereof, and to repeal section 7 of said act
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-division “b” of section 8 of an act approved December 21, 1901, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia,’ as amended by an act approved March 29, 1902.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, in Tazewell county.

1906
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1035 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, with reference to the salary of mayors of towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled “an act to provide for the extension of the corporate limits of cities and towns”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1038 of an act entitled 'chapter 269, an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887), in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled 'an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns,' approved May 20, 1903.'
An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, Virginia, to dispose of the jail lot with the buildings thereon in said city, and to pass title to same.
An ACT to authorize the special board of directors of the Southwestern hospital to convey to the town of Marion a strip of land to be used as a public street.
An ACT to amend sections 3, 4, and 7 of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Colonial Beach, Virginia,” approved February 25, 1892.
An ACT ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within the city of Fredericksburg, in this State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof.
An ACT relating to the charter of the town of Port Royal, Va.
An ACT to provide for the transition of municipalities from the grade of cities of the second-class to the grade of cities of the first-class.
An ACT to validate the acknowledgment taken by mayors and members of councils who are ex-officio justices of the peace, and whose power to take such acknowledgments has been questioned.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Basic City to sell and convey the fee in a part of a certain street and alley.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled ‘an act incorporating the town of Burkeville, in the county of Nottoway, approved March 17, 1877,” and providing for the continuance in office of present officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 2, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 20, 1903, providing for the working and keeping in repair the roads, and the building and keeping in repair the bridges in the county of Essex, and providing what tax shall be used for keeping the same in order.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 11, and 12 of an act entitled “an act to provide the establishment, proper construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair of all public roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves in the several counties of this State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia,” approved March 12, 1904.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904 entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county,” approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county, and directing the disbursement of the county road fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 3, 1900, entitled an act to authorize the council of the town of New Market to borrow money for certain improvements.
An ACT to authorize the cities and towns of this Commonwealth to acquire, by purchase, gift, or condemnation, property adjoining parks, monuments, or other public property belonging to such cities or towns
An ACT to incorporate the town of Dendron, in the county of Surry, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the school board of Christiansburg district, No. 4, of the county of Montgomery, to borrow money for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a schoolhouse in or near the town of Christiansburg, and to provide for the payment of the amount which may be borrowed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 10 of an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the city of Danville.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to incor-porate the town of Manassas, as approved April 2, 1873; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1884; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1894; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1902."
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the roads of said county, and to levy a tax to keep the same in proper repair,” as amended by an act approved February 29, 1894, and February 2, 1892, and acts amendatory thereof, respectively, January 22, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Botetourt county, and to repeal an act entitled 'an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt county'
An ACT to authorize the town of Boydton, Virginia, to issue bonds not to exceed four thousand dollars, and to secure the payment thereof by a deed of trust conveying its lot of land with town hall thereon.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Galax, in the counties of Grayson and Carroll.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled 'an act to authorize the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds to build a schoolhouse and for other purposes.'
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections twenty, twenty-five, and twenty-seven of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas, approved March 24, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 90 of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled 'an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke,' in relation to justices of the peace in said city
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Suffolk to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 24, 1874, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the third section of an act entitled an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 31, 1875.
An ACT to declare the true and lawful confines of cities and towns of a certain class.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Dublin, in Pulaski county, Virginia.
An ACT to provide new charter for the town of Iron Gate, in the county of Alleghany.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of the charter of the town of Suffolk as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Edinburg to issue bonds and to borrow money for the purpose of establishing a system of water works for said town, and for other purposes.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Cambria, in Montgomery county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 11 of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke,” in relation to the appointment of certain municipal officers.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Independence, in Grayson county.
An ACT to authorize the town of Courtland, in Southampton county, Virginia, to issue bonds and secure same by deed of trust, and appropriate the proceeds thereof to the erection of a public school building in the said town.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled ‘an act to incorporate the town of Bangs, in Montgomery county,”
An ACT to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities.
An Act to empower the counties of Albemarle and Buckingham and the town of Scottsville to construct or aid in the construction of a bridge across James river at or near the town of Scottsville, and to authorize said counties and town to negotiate a loan or loans, and to issue bonds for that purpose.
An ACT to authorize the school board of the Big Stone Gap School district of the county of Wise to borrow money for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a schoolhouse in the town of Big Stone Gap, and to provide for the payment of the amount which may be borrowed.