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Municipal charters

1878/79
An ACT to authorize BE, A. Jeffreys to erect a wharf upon his land on Chincoteague, in the county of Accomac.
An ACT to authorize the corporation of Farmville to borrow money
An ACT to incorporate the town of Madison in the county of Amherst.
An ACT in relation to the assessment of real property for purposes of municipal taxation in the city of Alexandria, and to exempt and except said city from the operation of an act entitled an act to provide a basis of municipal taxation on the real property in cities and towns, approved March 29, 1877.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Daniel, in the county of Campbell.
An ACT to authorize the city 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 interest On such bonds may be enforced
An Act to allow Barnes Brothers, of New Kent, to erect a pier in Chickahominy river, below Binn’s bar.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the limits of and provide for electing trustees for the town of Marion, in the county of Smyth, investing them with certain corporate powers
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Gladeville, In the county of Wise, approved February 24, 1874, with reference to the boundary lines of said corporation.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Portsmouth
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1878-79.
An ACT to amend the first section of an act to amend and re-enact an act passed March 15, 1849, entitled an act to extend the limits and provide for electing trustees for the town of Marion, ta the county of Smyth, investing them with ceftain corporate powers.
An ACT for working the roads in the counties of Powhatan, Cumberland, and Goochland.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Marion with reference to the election, duties, and powers of councilmen, by adding an additional section thereto.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Bangs, in Montgomery county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to fix the times of holding cirenit courts in the fourteenth judicial circuit,
An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Goochland county to permit W. B. W. Brooklug to erect a store and warehouse on the public land at Cedar Point, in the county of Goochland.
An Act to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8, 11 and 34 of an act entitled An Act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20th, 1871
An ACT to incorporate the town of Waverly, in the county of Sussex
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for working the roads of Loudoun county, passed 1856, and to repeal certain acts amendatory thereof
1879/80
An ACT to provide for taking the sense of the people of Norfolk county in regard to changing the site of the courthouse of said county.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Potomac.
An ACT to incorporate the Baltimore, Cincinnati and Western Railway Company.
An ACT to amend section 67 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 11th, 1873.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in order the public roads in Alexandria county
An ACT to repeal chapter 64 of the Acts of 1874, in relation to granting licenses in Bland and Giles counties
An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act to provide a charter for the town of Front Royal, approved November Ist, 1870.
An ACT giving the consent of this state to the acquisi-tion by the government of the United States of so inuch land as may be necessary for a public building in the city of Danville.
An ACT to define the authority of the Council of Portsmouth over the streets and alleys of said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to provide more effectually for the control and investment of the Glebe fund of the county of Northampton.
An ACT appointing certain trustees to sell and convey the old site of the Buck-Mountain church in Albemarle county.
An ACT to amend an act approved February 3, 1871, entitled an act to authorize the city of Portsmouth to lease out the ends of certain streets.
An ACT to establish the county of Dickenson out of parts of Russell, Wise and Buchanan.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Hillsboro, in the county of Loudoun.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24 of an act approved April 29, 1870, entitled an act to change the name of Fairfax to Culpeper, and to provide a new charter for the same, and to amend the 28th section of said act as amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 29th, 1874.
An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the county of Frederick to release such interest as Frederick may have in certain portions of the Public Square in the city of Winchester.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Lovettsville, in the county of Loudoun
An ACT to submit to the voters of Madison, in Amherst county, the question of the repeal of the act to incorporate said town, approved March 3, 1879, and repealing said act if a majority of the voters should be in favor of said repeal.
1879es
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 57 of an act providing a charter for the city of Manchester.
An ACT to authorize the councilmen of first and third wards in the city of Manchester to determine their respective terms of office by lot.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed March 24, 1871, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Luray, in the county of Page, and an act approved April 30, 1874, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section five of an act to incorporate the town of Luray.
An ACT to authorize the counties of Greene and Madison to subscribe to the stock of the Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad Company, on certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 10 and 11 of chapter 181, Acts of 1874-5, approved March 20, 1875, to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth
An ACT concerning the town of Newtown-Stephensburg, Frederick county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92, and repeal section 93 of the charter of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to refund a sum of money improperly assessed on the buildings of the Central Lunatic Asylum.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Newbern.
An Act to attach the school districts of Dan River, Tunstall and North Danville, in Pittsylvania county, to the city of Danville for purposes of school supervision.
An Act to authorize the city of Fredericksburg to provide for supplying the city with water.