Property

1897/1898
An ACT to amend section seventeen of the charter of the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT to authorize the school trustees of Chatham school in Pittsylvania county to sell and convey certain land to the author Chatham cemetery lot.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1258, code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to railroad companies enclosing their roadbeds with fences and cattle guards.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 2, 1804, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1875, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1870, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30, 1875, and as further amended by an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to amend section 7 of chapter 316 of the acts of assembly, session 1874-75, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax.
An ACT to authorize the beneficial equitable owner of a claim or chose in action, for the enforcement of which a court of equity has jurisdiction, to maintain a suit in equity, either in the name of the holder of the legal title for his benefit or in his own name.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3603 and 3604 of the code of Virginia relative to proceedings by interrogatories to ascertain the estate of debtor on which a fieri facias or a judgment may be alien, and to compel an examination of such debtor and his debtor or bailee and the delivery of the estate.
An ACT to change and amend charter of the Farmers’ mutual benefit assuciation.
An ACT to prevent the unlawful use of telephone and telegraph tines and instruments and to protect them from injury and prescribe a penalty therefor.
An ACT for the relief of Matilda Sutherland of the county of Franklin.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands in the counties of Dinwiddie, Prince George and Chesterfield, and the city of Petersburg.
An ACT to permit Peter Bonawell to erect a wharf on the west side
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to make one special levy to provide for the payment of the interest and principal of the bonded indebtedness of Catalpa school district in said county, and to authorize the board of school trustees for said district to apply the proceeds thereof to said indebtedness.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the collection of fees of the commissioner of the revenue
An ACT to incorporate the Union indemnity league.
An ACT for the relief of the estate of John H. Knowles, deceased.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled an act to amend an act passed March 29, 1848, entitled an act to establish the town of Montercy as the seat of justice for Highland county, approved March 17, 1876.
An ACT to allow John J. Jones to erect a wharf on a creek running along the western side of Chincoteague island, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to purchase lands on the south branch of the Elizabeth river, adjoining the Gosport navy yard.
An ACT to regulate the method of disbursing the fund provided by an act of the general assembly, approved February 26, 1877, for the protection of sheep in the county of Fairfax.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending respectively on September 30, 1898, and September 30, 1899.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3585 of the code of Virginia in relation to killing trees near highways, injuring bridges, obstructing roads, and riding or driving animals or vehicles on sidewalks, &c.; how punished.
An ACT to charter the Hill City benevolent relief association, of Lynchburg, Virginia.
An ACT to regulate the killing, capturing, hunting, buying, selling, or offering for sale of partridges (or quail), wild turkeys and native pheasants, in the county of Albemarle, and to prohibit the catching of same in traps or the destruction of the eggs of same in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 35d section of the charter of the city of Alexandria
An ACT authorizing the Leemont Baptist church, in Accomac county, to sell and convey their church lot, with the buildings thereon, and to reinvest the same.
An ACT to confirm and quiet the title of Milton Taylor, J. P. Shafer and George W. Shafer, Sr., trustees for Smith's creek regular Baptist church, in the lot of land, one hundred feet by three hundred and forty feet, more or less, at the northwest corner of Congress and Abram streets, In the town of New Market, Shenandoah county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia-Alaska gold mining company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3001 of the code of Virginia, in relation to indemnifying bonds to officers, their penalties and conditions.
AN ACT to authorize the school board of the Evansham school district of the county of Wythe to borrow money and to secure payment of it by deed of trust upon its real estate.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the code of Virginia in relation to satisfaction of lien to be entered by creditor; how signed; how owner of real estate may have lien released
An ACT to authorize J. R. Knight and others to erect a pier or wharf
An ACT to revise, arrange and consolidate into one act the laws relating to negotiable instruments (being an act to establish a law uniform with the laws of other states on that subject).
An ACT to confirm and quict the title of John Elson and those claiming under him in the lot of land fronting forty-two feet by one hundred and thirty seven feet, more or less, at the northwest corner of Broad and Third streets, in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
An ACT for the protection of assignees, transferees or endorsers of debts secured on real estate by mortgage, deed of trust, vendor’s or mechanic's lien.
An ACT to incorporate the Mutual fire insurance company
An ACT to authorize the sale of an estate, real or personal, given by deed or will to a person for life, with a vested remainder to another, whether the vested remainderman be an infant or adult.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2033 of the code of Virginia as to limitation of suits
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3567 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the time from which a judgment is to be a lien on all the real estate of debtor.
An ACT to prohibit hogs from running at large upon public roads in that section south of Clinch river in the county of Russell.
AN ACT authorizing the Gladeville school district in the county of Wise to Issue bonds for the payment of the cost of building free school-house for said school district, at Norton, Wise county, Virginia.
An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase by the United States of certain real estate in the county of Norfolk and exempting the same from taxation.
An ACT to incorporate the Mutual benefit insurance association of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating the town of Grundy, in Buchanan county, Virginia, approved March 3, 1879.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 27 and 28 of chapter 577 of the acts of the assembly of Virginia 1895-96 entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Waynesboro.
An ACT to define and prescribe the effect as evidence of deeds conveying property heretofore or hereafter sold under deed of trust or mortgages, or under any judicial proceedings.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 494, 496, 497 and 498 of chapter 24 of the code of Virginia relating to the assessment and valuation of personal property.
An ACT to permit J. C. Ninde and John Garnett to erect a wharf and breakwater at the farm of said John Garnett, in King George county, on the upper Machodoc creek.
An ACT for the protection of sheep in the counties of Northumberland, Westmoreland and Rappahannock, by making owner, &c., of dog killing, maiming, or worrying sheep, liable for damages not exceeding assessed value of sheep.
An ACT to authorize R. O. Clarke to erect a wharf at Pheebus, in the county of Elizabeth City.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper.
An ACT to suspend the operation of section 666 of the code of 1887 as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 29, 1896, in relation to delinquent land purchased in the name of the commonwealth for a period of 60 days.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 622 of the code of Virginia in reference to the property that may be distrained for taxes, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended and re enacted by an act approved January 23, 1896, and to provide for the collection of unpaid tuxes by renting real estate.
An ACT to allow A. Markle, R. C. Keefer, F. C. Stout, J. B. Emory and others to erect a wharf on their land on Wallop’s island, in Chincoteague Inlet, Accomac county, Va.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Suffolk.
An ACT to create Northside district in Brookland magisterial district, in the county of Henrico, and to provide for lighting and sewerage in said Northside district, and for making and maintaining other improvements of a public nature therein.
An ACT to provide for the collection of delinquent taxes and levies in the county of Isle of Wight on property other than real estate.
An ACT to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to keep in its clerk’s office a register of the securities under the control of the court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act continuing in force the corporation of the town of Pearisburg, county of Giles, and defining and prescribing the rights and powers thereof, approved March 25, 1872, to extend the corporate limits of said town of Pearisburg and to provide a new charter for said town.
An ACT to amend charter granted "Citizens exchange bank" by the judge of the circuit court of the city of Richmond, Va., January 13, 180s, and to give said bank also the powers of a trust, guarantee and safe deposit company.
An ACT determining the respective interests of the county and corporation of Alexandria in the half square of ground in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, bounded by Columbus, Queen and Princess streets, upon which stands the courthouse, and the half square of ground in said city, bounded by St. Asaph, Princess and Pitt streets, upon which stands the jail, and authorizing the partition of said properties between the county and corporation of Alexandria, and of the sale of the courthouse property.
An ACT to require the return of distress warrants and to provide for process of sale thereunder when necessary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the code of Virginia
An ACT to prevent the obstruction of public roads in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson.
An ACT to declare Tye river a lawful fence in Nelson county from its mouth to Gulf ford.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Newport News shipbuilding and dry dock company by amending and re-enacting section 4 of chapter 51, acts of assembly, 1885-1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Chesapeake dry dock and construction company, etc.
An ACT to submit the question of a hog law to the voters of Coles district, Prince William county.
An ACT to authorize the county treasurer of Accomac and Northampton counties to levy upon and sell for unpaid taxes any property of the telegraph line in Accomac and Northampton extending along the line of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 664 of the code of Virginia in relation to redemption of delinquent lands
An ACT to ratify and confirm the erection by John R. Dos Passos, of a wharf at Lynch’s point, in the Yeocomico river, in the county of Westmoreland
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2038 of the code, defining a lawful fence for the county of Accumac.
An ACT to provide for levving on seed cotton in the fie ld in Greenesville and Sussex counties.
An ACT to remove rafts and other obstructions in the bed of Hyco river, in the county of Halifax.

1899/1900
An ACT to provide for the working and repairing of public roads of Sussex county.
AN ACT to grant to C. W. Powers, late treasurer of Dickenson county, further time to make sale of delinquent lands.
An ACT to amend section 1, chapter 517, acts 1897-’98, to prevent hogs from running at large in the county of Russell.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to extend the corporate limits of the city of Richmond, approved February 19, 1892, relating to the assessments against property owners for public improvements within the territory known as Lee district.
An ACT to permit Isaac J. Savage and Isaac H. Savage to erect a wharf or pier on their land on a creek on the western side of Chincoteague island, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of estate of D. B. Long from certain delinquent taxes.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Fauquier county to levy a tax on dogs and to enforce collection of said tax, with certain penalties in case of failure to pay the same.
An ACT for the relief of J. Massie Smith
An ACT to declare the lines of landowners in a portion of Nelson county a lawful fence.
An ACT to authorize Sarah Willing and W. L. Messick to erect a wharf on Carter’s creek, in the county of Lancaster.
An ACT to allow the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight, in its discretion, to pay to J. R. Jordan the value of a pair of mules drowned by the alleged default of the said county, in permitting one of its bridges to be out of repair and dangerous.
An ACT to authorize and empower the trustees of the parsonage property, located at Batesville, Virginia, of the Batesville circuit of the Virginia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, to sell and convey its old parsonage; to collect and re-invest the proceeds in another parsonage.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Phebus, in Elizabeth City county.
An ACT to suspend for forty days the operation of section 666 of the code of 1887, as amended by an act approved February 11, 1898, in relation to delinquent lands purchased in the name of the auditor of the commonwealth.
An ACT to incorporate the independent order of Galilean fishermen.
An ACT to authorize and empower the governor of Virginia to issue another grant to Winfield Liggett on land office treasury warrant number 30,496, in lieu of the grant rescinded by this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 and sub-sections 6, 7, and 9 of section 19, and section 25 of the act approved May 24, 1870, providing a charter for the city of Richmond, and the several acts of the general assembly amendatory thereof, concerning the powers of the city council, and relating to actions against the city to recover damages from it for negligence in the construction or maintenance of its streets, alleys or parks, where any person is liable with the city for such negligence.
An ACT to incorporate the west end cemetery company of Manassas.
An ACT to incorporate the Pulaski and Giles insurance company
An ACT to incorporate Hampton lodge, number 366, benevolent protective order of elks, Hampton, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the reinstatement of a cause after a final decree, to appoint a commissioner in the stead of one who has died, or become otherwise incapacitated, to make the conveyance.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Fannie C. Sexton, of Smyth county, from erroneous assessment.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the citizens’ telephone and telegraph company, and to give it additional powers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 27, 1894.
An ACT to provide for the working and repairing of public roads in Greenesville county.
An ACT relating to district school number 5, Norfolk county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 661 of the code of Virginia, so as to provide additional grounds on which the title of certain purchases may be defeated and to limit the time within which suit may be brought for the purpose.
An ACT for the relief of John C. Heinbuch from erroneous assessment of land in Alexandria county.