Property

1899/1900
An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of the Norfolk county water company, and to give it additional powers.
An ACT making the contingent right of dower of a woman in real estate, in which her husband has no interest, estate, and authorizing her to dispose of the same by her sole
An ACT to give county courts jurisdiction upon scire facias or motion to revive judgments of justices of the peace.
An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of the Norfolk-Hampton Roads company.
An ACT to amend the ninth and eleventh sections of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to amend the charter of the town of Warrenton, passed April 9, 1852.
An ACT for the relief of J. H. Reubush, of the county of Rockingham, from improper assessments.
An ACT to incorporate Dumps creek railroad and mining company.
An ACT to authorize and empower Mrs. Laura C. Webb-Peploe to dispose of certain real estate and to make valid title thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to incorporate Big Sandy and Cumberland railroad company
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 16, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 2, 1888, entitled an act to grant the right and privilege for a period of twenty years, of occupancy of certain flats and water-fronts on James river upon certain conditions, and to more definitely define said flats and water-fronts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3711 of the code of Virginia
An ACT to incorporate the Bohemian-Slavonic farmers’ mutual benefit insurance society of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1806, as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1806, as further amended by an act approved February 7, 1898, and as further amended by an act approved January 24, 1900, in relation to the collection of the fees of the commissioner of the revenue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 12, 1892, entitled an act to make the bridge at Shenandoah, Virginia, a toll bridge, etc.
An ACT to submit the question of a stock law to the voters of Manassas district, in the county of Prince William.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2131 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2131 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters and to add independent sections thereto
An ACT to amend sections 13, 17, and 18 of the charter of the town of Suffolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 13, and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide for a new charter for the town of Farmville
An ACT giving power to the councils of the city of Norfolk to require owners of property abutting on streets, or to require the city to pave or keep in repair, or both pave and keep in repair, the sidewalks, and giving the councils power, acting through a board or committee, after notice to the owner or occupant that the owner shall build or repair, and his neglect to do so, to build or repair the walk and have the costs thereof assessed as a lien against the property and imposing a penalty for violation of ordinances passed in pursuance thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3874 of the Virginia code of 1887, in relation to the landowners in Rockingham county keeping streams flowing through their lands free from obstructions.
An ACT for the relief of Frank Stringfellow.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2615 of the code of Virginia in relation to how leases on behalf of persons under disability may be made.
An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds, leases, and contracts taken by certain commissioners in chancery of the county courts of this state or the judges thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of session 1897 and 1898, making Tye river, in Nelson county, a lawful fence from its mouth to Gulf ford.
An ACT providing for the working and keeping in order, building, and maintaining the public roads and bridges in the county of Scott.
An ACT to allow Joseph W. Taylor to erect a wharf or pier on Watts bay in Accomac county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2048 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act of the general assembly, approved February 26, 1896, so as to omit the words “ except the county of Alleghany.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, and 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Lawrenceville, Virginia, approved April 29, 1874, and to add two additional sections to said act.
An ACT to provide for the erection and maintaining of watering troughs for the use of horses and cattle on public roads of the county of Bedford, and providing penalties for injury and destruction of same.
An ACT to authorize the district school board of trustees of Ashland school district of Hanover county, Virginia, to sell certain land bought by them and not needed for public-school purposes.
An ACT to vest the absolute fee simple title to certain church property in the county of Russell, known as Willis chapel, in trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and their successors in office.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Fredericksburg to apportion the expense of street and other local improvements between the city treasury and the real estate benefited thereby.
An ACT to allow G. W. Mercer and sons to build a wharf in Rappahannock river, near Cherry Point, Lancaster county.
An ACT to allow John M. McCarty to erect a pier on the Rappahannock river, and to build a house thereon.
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Farmville to vacate and close so much of Spruce street as lies between High and Chambers streets.
An ACT to amend section 2498 of the code of Virginia, as here- tofore amended in relation to the release and satisfaction of liens.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 666 of the code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to sale of delinquent lands purchased in the name of the auditor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 82, and 83 of the act approved May 24, 1870, providing a charter for the city of Richmond and the acts amendatory thereof, relating to the lien of the city for taxes assessed on real estate, and to the sale thereof for non-payment of taxes.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Chincoteague, Accomac
An ACT to authorize the school trustees of school district number 5, in Norfolk county, to sell and convey certain school-houses and lots in the town of Berkley and the village of South Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 499 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the listing of dogs for taxation.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to issue bonds for the purpose of purchasing additional real estate for the use of the Norfolk county ferries and for enlarging the clerk’s office.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Mathews county, their successors in office, or their agent to bid for and purchase certain real estate, now advertised for sale by the sheriff of Mathews county, belonging to Walter Hudgins, Elijah Buchanan, W. J. Callis, and Laban Hudgins, and if they should purchase to resell and make to the purchaser a good and valid deed.
An ACT regulating appointment of assessors of lands and lots in the county of Warwick, and providing compensation for same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 15, and to repeal section 11 of an act entitled an act to create Fairmount district, in Fairfield magisterial district, in the county of Henrico, etc.
An ACT to provide for the indexing of deeds and other records in Wise, Dickenson, and Buchanan county.
An ACT to incorporate the Eta chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity of the University of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Nomini Baptist church of Christ, in Westmoreland county, to sell and convey the Antioch meeting-house and the lot of land on which it stands.
An ACT to refund to the American cement company excess of tax for recordation of deed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the seventh sub-section of section 19, and section 38 of the charter of the city of Manchester, as enacted by the general assembly of Virginia by an act entitled “an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester,” approved March 20, 1874.
An ACT to provide for taxation of dogs in county of Rappahanock and protection of sheep therein.
An ACT to permit C. W. Grandy, of the city of Norfolk, to erect, maintain and rebuild a wharf on James river, in Charles City county, Virginia.
An ACT creating a special board for Buckingham county, and defining its duties.
An ACT empowering the trustees of the parsonage property of Covington Methodist Episcopal church, south, to sell and convey said property, and to dispose of the proceeds of such sale and reinvest the same.
An ACT in relation to the property rights of married women, declaring how they may acquire and dispose of property; make contracts, sue and be sued; and to amend sections 2291, 2293, 2294, and 2296, chapter 103 of the code of Virginia; and to repeal sections 2284, 2285, 2286, 2287, oe hance i 2292, and 2295 as amended by acts of 1895 and 1896 on page
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to acquire by purchase or condemnation land in the city of Portsmouth to be used for the clerk’s office of Norfolk county court.
An ACT to incorporate the century banking and safe deposit company.
An ACT to provide a special fence law for the county of Lee, state of Virginia.
An ACT to empower the trustees of the Bell home to receive land for the use of the said Bell home, in the county of Westmoreland, Virginia.
An ACT in relation to judgments, &c., in Appomattox county.
An ACT to allow W. S. Embrey to build a wharf and pier in James river near Scotland, in Surry county, Virginia.
An ACT to create Fairmount district, in Fairfield magisterial district, in the county of Henrico; to provide for the establishment of a board of improvement commissioners; to empower them to make a special levy on the property of said Fairmount district, and to disburse same and road tax or levy, made by the supervisors of Henrico county, on the property of said Fairmount district; to prescribe the method whereby said funds shall come within their control, and to authorize and direct the use of said funds for lights, sewerage, and other improvements of a public nature.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Manassas.
An ACT to authorize and permit D. S. Jones to erect wharves and piers and to construct bulkheads in James river along the water-fronts of the land owned by him in the counties of Warwick and Elizabeth City.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Alexandria county to enforce the lien for all county, road, and school taxes that may now be due or may hereafter become due by suit in equity, and to empower the circuit court of Alexandria county to entertain such suit and enforce the provisions of this act by sale of the real estate upon which said taxes are a lien.
An ACT to permit A. A. McAllister, of the county of Alleghany, to change the bed of Dunlap’s creek, near its mouth, through his own lands, near the town of Covington, in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3586 (should be 3856) 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 provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2136 of the code of Virginia, as to right of owners to plant oysters in any creek, &c., within his survey.
An ACT to allow Peyton Hundley to erect a pier in the Rappahannock river, and to build a house thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg
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 January 16, 1890, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1894, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, and to provide for the collection of unpaid taxes by renting real estate, and to fix the fees and charges in connection with proceedings under this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1890. entitled an act to incorporate the town of Ridgeway, in the county of Henry.
An ACT to refund to Thomas J. Vaughan and Sallie A. Vaughan double taxes, paid to the state by them on certain lots in Atlantic City ward, Norfolk city, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize F. M. Thrift to erect a wharf on Yeocomico
An ACT to allow Levin Lynch to erect a wharf in Chincoteague bay, Accomac county.
An ACT to prohibit hogs from running at large in the county of Rappahannock.
An ACT to authorize the enlargement of corporate limits of the city of Staunton, when approved by vote of the people affected, and providing for taking such vote.
An ACT to provide for the establishment, alteration, discon- tinuance, and working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Giles county, and to punish obstructions of the road commissioners in the dis- charge of their duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 957 of the code of Virginia, in relation to pay of viewers, commissioners, surveyors, and chain carriers.
An ACT to provide for local assessments in cities and towns.
An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of trusts taken by clerks of county courts who were trustees in said deeds.
An ACT for the relief of Jacob Yearout, a private Confederate soldier.
An ACT extending and defining the boundaries of the town of Hampton, upon conditions.
An ACT to authorize the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds from time to time, not exceeding a total of $75,000 of principal, predicated upon the assessed valuation of the property of Brambleton ward.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amen and re-enact section 1258, code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to railrog companies enclosing their road-beds with fences and erecting cattle-guard
An ACT to allow J. H. Whealton and E. B. Blackman to build a pier in Rappahannock river near Whealton, at or near the mouth of Moratico creek.
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to sell and convey and make title to the poorhouse farm, in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2298 of the code of Virginia in relation to the remedies for or against married women.
An ACT to declare Hughes’ river a lawful fence from Mitchell’s ford to Nethers’ mills, in Rappahannock and Madison counties.
An ACT to relieve the heirs of Adeline V. Hall from erroneous assessment of land.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2564 of the code of Virginia, in relation to when partition cannot be made there may be allotment or sale; proceedings in case of sale; how proceedings distributed or invested, and effect of sale on right of dower.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2465 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, in relation to contracts, deeds, &c., that are void as to creditors and purchasers unless recorded.
An ACT to authorize and permit the old dominion land company to erect wharves or piers, and to construct bulkheads in the James river along the water fronts of the lands owned by it in the city of Newport News, Virginia, and to issue bonds and negotiable notes secured by mortgage or deeds of trust to pay for the same.
An ACT to authorize clerks to enter record on delinquent land books when lands are redeemed from purchaser.
An ACT for the issue of bonds to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars for the purpose of refunding the bonds heretofore issued by the board of supervisors of Warwick county, the payment of which was assumed by the city of Newport News.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8, 12, and 17 of an act entitled 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 impose fine for trespass of swine and other stock in Rockfish district, Nelson county.
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Wise county to settle, by compromise or otherwise, delinquent county and district taxes charged against the Fayette land company and successors in interest.
An ACT to incorporate the Albemarle orchard company.