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Municipal charters

1887es
An ACT to incorporate the town of McDowell, in the county of Highland.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved March 20, 1875, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Winchester, and to authorize said city to increase its public debt.
An ACT to incorporate the Northern Virginia Land and Improvement company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 7, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of North Danville, and section 8 of an act approved February 26, 1886, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 8 of an act approved March 7, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of North Danville, as amended by an act approved August 23, 1884.
An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of Norfolk county
An ACT to amend section 2 of chapter 197 of the Acts of 1885-6, in reference to funds appropriated by the town of Danville for railroad purposes, &c.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 70, 71, 72, and 73 of chapter 9, of anact entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, in force January 21, 1ss4.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the tenth section of an act approved February 20, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Broadway, in the county of Rockingham, and to repeal chapter 246 of the Acts of 1879-80.
An ACT to authorize the town of Farmville to vote a subscription to the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Dumfries.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in order the roads of Appomattox county.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate AH town of Milford in the county of Caroline
An ACT to incorporate the Boys’ Home of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Falls Church in the county of Fairfax.
An ACT to incorporate the Manchester railway and improvement company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county to order a special election upon the question of building or purchase of a house in Clarksville magisterial district for the purpose of holding magisterial courts.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Banister in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 413, Session Acts, 1885-6, entitled an act to prescribe the time for the holding of the terms of the courts of the eighth judicial circuit, approved March 3, 1886.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the several school districts in the counties of Hanover, Henry, Franklin, and Charlotte, to expend the county school fund apportioned to their respective districts in the erection and repair of public school buildings.
An ACT to provide for the removal of obstructions from the Chickahominy river, and to punish the obstruction of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of Stephen City, Frederick county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Damascus enterprise company
An ACT to amend and re-enact the act passed by the general assembly of Virginia as amended by an act approved February 19, 1884, to provide for the election of the trustees of the town of Orange biennially.
1887/1888
An ACT to incorporate the town of Mount Jackson, in the county of Shenandoah.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Staunton.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the town of Hillsville.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to confirm a law passed by the Legislature of North Carolina, entitled an act to incorporate the Elizabeth City and Norfolk railroad company (now the Norfolk Southern railroad company)
An ACT to amend the following acts: An act to inco: incorporate the town of Rocky Mount, approved February 17, 1873; an act to amend the act of February 17, 1873, approved April 28, 1874, and an act amending and re-enacting section 2 of the act approved April 28, 1874, approved March 4, 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 22, 27, and 28 of chapien 181 of Acts of 1874-5, so far as they relate to the county of luanna.
An ACT to authorize conveyances by the county of Frederick and the city of Winchester to each other of certain rights in the public square situated in Winchester.
An ACT to authorize and empower the Tunis Lumber company of Baltimore city, to hold land in the state of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Suburban and Exposition railway Company
An ACT for the relief of A. J. Bishop from the payment
An ACT to empower and authorize the local board of improvement of Brambleton Ward, city of Norfolk, by and with the consent of the select and common councils of the city of Norfolk to borrow money.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to adjudicate, adjust, and allow certain claims and demands of George W. Cooper and the executors of P. C. Smith, deceased, against said county for repairing and keeping in order certain sections of the public roads of said county.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and East Tennessee railroad company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond by adding additional sections to chapter 4 concerning city officers, so as to provide for the appointment of a board of public interests.
An ACT authorizing and empowering the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds for the purpose of erecting a city market-house.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 16, 17, 20, and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1873, the act amending section 2, approved February 23, 1875, and the acts amending sections 4 and 17, approved April 28, 1874, and February 23, 1875, respectively.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and common council of the town of Liberty to borrow for said corporation a sum of money not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for the purpose of completing or making permanent improvements.
An ACT to authorize the surviving trustees of Union academy, of Appomattox county, to fill vacancies,
An ACT to repeal the charter of the town of Emporia
An ACT to relieve the Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Western railway company from any forfeiture which may have accrued from failure to commence and complete its road within the time limited in its act of incorporation, and to reinvest the said company with all the powers, privileges, and franchises granted by said act approved March 8, 1880, entitled an act to incorporate the Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Western railway company, and for other purposes.
An ACT for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in Spotsylvania.
An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of Warwick county to vote upon the question of the removal of the courthouse of said county.
An ACT to incorporate the Mount Vernon Avenue association.
An ACT to work and keep in order the public roads in the county of Pittsylvania.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Estillville in the county of Scott.
An ACT to constitute the town of Salem and adjoining territory a seperate school district.
An ACT supplementary to the laws now in force for working the roads and repairing and rebuilding bridges in the county of Caroline.
An ACT to amend an act to authorize the city of Fredericksburg and certain districts in Stafford and King George counties, to purchase or lease Scott’s bridge and make the same a free bridge.
An ACT to provide for the payment of expenses of the circuit court for Frederick county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 192 of the Acts of 1885-6, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski City, in the county of Pulaski.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 196, Acts 1883-4, entitled an act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges, and opening new roads in the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, and Augusta.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 907 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887, relative to the sale of mules, work oxen, and horses under levy in the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and five of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Chowan and Southern railroad company, approved May 5th, 1887, and to authorize the stockholders of said company to change its name to the Norfolk and Carolina railroad company.
An ACT to define and extend the powers of the council of the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk Fuel and Gas Light company of Norfolk, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 33 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved January 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871 and by an act approved March 17, 1876, and by an act approved March 20, 1879, and by an act approved March 25, 1879.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Norfolk county, in their discretion, to pay over to the city collector of Norfolk city, for the use of Brambleton ward, in said city, a portion of the taxes collected from citizens of said ward by the treasurer of Norfolk county for the year 1887.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Big Stone Gap, in Wise county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 54 of the charter of the city of Manchester.
An ACT providing for the sub-division of tracts of land into lots or parcels, and for the record of plats thereof.
An ACT to incorporate the Warwick Park Transportation company.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Blackstone, in Nottoway county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Courtland in the county of Southampton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Charlottesville
An ACT for working and repairing the public roads in Nottoway county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Charlottes-
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections seventeen and twenty-one of an act approved April second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in the counties of Culpeper and Buckingham.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section let of an act approved May 18, 1887, entitled an act to authorize a subscription by the county of Chesterfield to the stock of the Petersburg and Chesterfield Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Owl Club, No. 1, of Norfolk, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol and South Atlantic railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 5th and 7th sections of the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville Railroad Company as amended and re-enacted by the Act of Assembly, approved the 18th day of May, 1887.
An ACT for working and keeping in repair the roads in Tazewell county.
An ACT to incorporate the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order True Reformers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, and 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads in the counties of Alleghany, Bath, and Highland, and to amend and re-enact section 5 of same act, and to add independent section.
1891/1892
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 33, acts of 1889, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 192, acts 1885, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of an act approved March 3, 1890, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Liberty to extend its limits, and to change its name to Bedford City and validate bonds already issued by the town of Bedford City.
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.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Waverly.
An ACT amending and re-enacting section 7 of chapter 10 of the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 14, 1879, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax.
An Act to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 50 of sessions acts of 1889-1890, entitled an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol, and provide a new charter for the same, and section 48 of said act as amended by an act approved March 3, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 815 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Cape Charles in the county of Northampton
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act to amend the following acts: An act to incorporate the town of Rocky Mount, approved February 17th, 1873; an act to amend the act of February 17th, 1873, approved April 28, 1874, and an act amendatory and re-enacting section 2 of the act approved April 28, 1874, approved March 4th, 1884, so as to enlarge the corporate limits of the town of Rocky Mount.
An ACT making it lawful for the board of supervisors of Loudoun county to pay George F. Earnick a certain sum out of the county levy.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled ‘‘an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, approved May 23. 1881,’ and to further amend and re-enact the said act by the adding of two additional sections thereto, to be known as sections 14 and 15, respectively, and to further amend and re-enact said act by changing the numbers of sections 14 and 15 in said act to 16 and 17, respectively.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to continue the salary of the county judge at the same amount allowed him under the census of 1880.
An ACT appointing trustees for the town of York, in the county of York.
An ACT to amend the ninth section of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to amend the charter of the town of Warrenton
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of Prince William county to vote on the question of the removal of the court-house from Brentsville to Manassas; to authorize the town of Manassas to issue bonds, and also directing the board of supervisors of the said county to levy a special tax, and issue bonds in case such removal be agreed to by a majority of the voters of said county.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Colonial Beach, in the county of Westmoreland.
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the public roads of said county, and levy a tax to keep the same in order.
An ACT to provide for the working of the public roads in King George county.
An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of Appomattox county to vote upon the question of the removal of the court-house of said county.