Municipal charters

1876/1877
An ACT in relation to the Winchester and Strasburg Railroad Company, and for its relief.
An ACT to release the state’s interest in certain real estate in the village of Onancock, in the county of Accomack.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 of the act approved March 28th, 1871, providing a new charter for the town of Charlottesville.

1877/1878
An ACT to empower the city of Petersburg to organize a board of railroad commissioners, and to acquire the control or ownership of the Petersburg railroad.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 75th section of the charter of the city of Richmond, as amended by an act approved March 29th, 1876.
An ACT to enable the cities of Richmond and Lynchburg to aid in the repair of the James River and Kanawha Canal.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Hillsville in the county of Carroll.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act concerning the town of Wytheville, in Wythe county, passed February 21st, 1808.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 22d, 26th, and 27th sections of an act entitled an act amending the charter of the town of Danville, passed March 4th, 1844, and incorporating into one all acts amendatory thereof, passed December Lith, 1465, and to amend and re-enact the 7th and 8th sections of the act amendatory of the same, approved March 25th, 1872.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, of Providence, Fairfax county, Virginia, to sell property and to borrow money.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the roads in the county of Hanover.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds for the purpose of redeeming certain outstanding bonds of said city.
An ACT to amend the seventh section of an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Goodson.
An ACT declaring the county of Spotsylvania a district for all the purposes of county organizution.
An ACT to incorporate Franklin City, in the county of Accomac.
An ACT to regulate prices and expenditures in regard to the working of roads in the county of Floyd.
An ACT to authorize the city council of Alexandria to compromise the debt of the city, and to issue bonds in accordance with the terms of such compromise, and prescribing the mode in which the payment of the interest on such bonds may be enforced.
An ACT to regulate the use of the public wharf or landing at Totuskey bridge, in Marshall magisterial district, in Richmond county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Shenandoah and Page
An ACT to authorize the county court of Montgomery to prevent the sale of malt and spirituous liquors at or near Blacksburg.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to extend the corporate limits of the town of Manchester.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 20th section, 79th chapter, Code of 1873, in regard to duties of city councils to make appropriations for school purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to authorize the construction, alteration, and repair of roads in the counties of Carroll and Grayson
An Act to constitute the town of Warrenton and surrounding territory a separate school district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 20th section of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth
An ACT to incorporate the Warm Springs Valley Railroad Company.
An ACT to regulate the working of the public roads in the counties of Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield, and Lancaster.
An ACT to authorize the city of Manchester to purchase Mayo’s bridge.
An ACT to amend section 19 of chapter 118, of an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874.
An ACT to amend section 7 of chapter 157 of the Code of Virginia, so as to fix the place of holding the circuit court of Henrico county.

1881/1882
An ACT providing for submission to the people of the proposed amendments to the Constitution of Virginia in reference to the elective franchise and qualifications to office.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Brentsville, in the county of Prince William.
An ACT creating a Board of Harbor Commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and for the preservation of the harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
An ACT to authorize the formation of the Iron Belt Railroad Company.
An ACT authorizing the payment of certain costs and expenses incurred by the state in the litigation for escheated property in Richmond.
An ACT to change the location of the courthouse of Dickenson county.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and common council of the town of Liberty, in the county of Bedford, to borrow money.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Berryville, in the county of Clarke.
An ACT to renew the charter of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Suffolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections fifty-five and sixty-four of an act entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, in force March 16, 1871.
An ACT to amend the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Portsmouth Terminal Railway, Wharf, and Warehouse Company, approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty.
An ACT to incorporate Cedar Bluff High School.
An ACT appropriating the public revenues for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-one-two, and eighteen hundred and eighty-two-three.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections three and eight of an act appropriating the proceeds of the Glebe lands and other property belonging to the parishes of Abingdon, Ware, and Petsworth, in the county of Gloucester, and fur other purposes, passed January 26th, 1814, Session Acts, 1818-14, chapter 56.
An ACT to incorporate the towns of Buchanan and Pattonsburg, in the county of Botetourt, under the name of the town of
An ACT to authorizo the Holston Valley Gypsum Com-
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Big Lick, approved February 28, 1874, and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT amending chapter 271, Acts 1879-80, incorporating the town of Middletown, of the county of Frederick.
An ACT to empower and authorize the city of Lynchburg to convey property to the United States government for certain purposes.
An ACT to incorporate the Gladeville college, in the county of Wise, and to constitute the territory for three miles around said college a sub-school district.
An ACT to enable the people within the corporate limits of the town of Hillsville, in the county of Carroll, to take the sense of the qualified voters of said town upon the question of repealing the charter of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Chatham.
An ACT to establish a Ferry or Bridge across the Rappahannock river at or near the town of Falmouth.
An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United States of title to, and jurisdiction over a space within limits, to be determined by accurate survey, between certain latitude and longitude, for the purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital, and erecting a building for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS proposing an amendment to the first section, Article 3 of the Cunstitution concerning the elective franchise.
An ACT to authorize the county of Elizabeth City to procure and grant the right of way for a railroad through said county from Newport News to the centre of the chunnel of Mill creek.
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the Attorney-General

1882es
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Suffolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the county of Botetourt, by adding thereto in the first section, the counties of Westmoreland and Northumberland.
An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Louisa county to allow compensation to Judge J. L. Cochran for holding terms of county court of Louisa, in place of Judge Lune, who was then sick.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Mineral City, in the county of Wise.
An ACT to incorporate Curry college, in Lee county.
An ACT to repeal chapter 91 of the Code of 1878, and all actes and parts of acts, in relation to pilots and piloting of vessels, and to enact a law to govern and regulate pilots and piloting of vessels in the waters of the state of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to provide for the working of roads in the counties of Culpeper and Buckingham.
An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth to issue coupon bonds.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Land and Improvement company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, and 11 of chapter 218 of the act entitled an act to provide for a charter for the town of Salem, in the county of Roanoke, approved March 28, 1871.
To incorporate the Manchester railway and land improvement company.

1866/1867
An ACT to incorporate the Town of Stanardsville, in the County of Greene.
An ACT to Extend and Define the Boundaries of the City of Richmond.
An ACT amending the Charter of the City of Lynchburg
An ACT to repeal an act passed March 3d, 1858, entitled an act to Incorporate the Town of Jacksonville.
An ACT for the relief of William M. Hume, late sheriff of Fauquier county,
An Act to amend the Charier of the Roanoke Valley Rail- road.
An ACT incorporating thé Manchester Insurance and Savings Company.
An ACT to create the Barrack Institute in the county of Washington.
An ACT to amend the 6th section of chapter 157 of Code of Virginia, (edition of 1860), so as to increase the number of Grand Jury Terms of the Hustings Court of the city of Petersburg.
An ACT to amend the 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th and 51st sections of chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1860.
An ACT authorizing certain Commissioners to sell a certain Lot of Land in Winchester, belonging to the Winchester Academy.
An ACT amending and re-enacting the 7th and 8th sections of an act passed February 18, 1856, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the Norfolk City Water Company.
An ACT to authorize the City of Norfolk to Construct Water Works for the use of the people of the said city.
An ACT to amend the Jaws relating to the Printing of the Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly.
An ACT to authorize the City of Portsmouth to issue Coupon Bonds.
An ACT to Extend the Limits of the Town of Danville.
An ACT to amend section 1-of an act authorizing the City Council of Alexandria to issue its bonds in satisfaction of arrears of interest on its Funded Debt
An ACT extending the corporate limits of the Town of Tappahannock.

1883/1884
An ACT to amend and re-enact the Charter of the Farmville and Staunton River railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and five of an act to incorporate the town of Abingdon, passed March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended and re-enacted by an act passed April 2d, 1877, and to extend the corporate limits of said town.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Albernarle county.
An ACT to promote Medicial Science, and to protect Graves and Cemeteries from desecration within the commonweulth of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Gladeville college, in the county of Wise, and to constitute the territory for three miles around said college, a sub-school district in relation to the southern portion of said sub-school district.
An ACT to establish eight voting precincts in the city of Norfolk and to provide for a registration of the voters therein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 8, 11, 18, and 16 of an act approved March 31, 1873, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Salem, in the county of Roanoke.
An ACT to incorporate the Poplar Spring Cemetery Company of Franklin.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Sulem Academy, in Salem, Roanoke county, Virginia, to convey to the Public School Trustees of Sulem Schoul District, in said county, the Academy Buildings and Grounds belunging to the same.
An ACT to provide a circuit court for the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to authorize the city of Petersburg to purchase a control or all the stock of the Upper Appomattox company, or to contract for water with said company, and to issue bonds for that purpose.