Property

1889/1890 Private Laws
An ACT to incorporate the Southwest land and improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Progressive endowment guild of America.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6 and 13 of an act to amend the charter and to extend and define the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, approved April 6, 1887.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Safe Deposit and Fidelity Company.
An ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the county of Mecklenburg for the year 1889.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to borrow money by the issue of bonds to rebuild the county bridge across Hampton river, to repair or rebuild the court-house and clerk’s office of said county, and to repair the public roads of said county.
An ACT to incorporate the city of Danville
An ACT to incorporate the James river valley colonization and improvement company of Virginia.
An ACT to define a lawful fence for the county of Powhatan.
An ACT to make the Cowpasture river, in Bath county, from Lowman’s mill-dam to the Alleghany line, a lawful fence.
An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Virginia boom and log company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Portsmouth land and improvement company.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Central City, in Montgomery county, approved May 28, 1887, and to change the name of said town to Radford.
An ACT to make Aquia creek in the county of Staf.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Princess coal, iron, and steel company.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Church of Disciples, worshiping at Charlottesville, to borrow money, and to secure the same by deed of trust on their church lot.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Montgomery to issue bonds for the purpose of raising money to build a bridge over New river at or near Radford.
An ACT to incorporate the Cloverdale stock farm in Halifax county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Norfolk county to make an allowance to the assessors and assistant assessors for the county of Norfolk from the treasury thereof for services rendered by them.
An ACT to incorporate the Legislative investment company of Roanoke.
An ACT for removing obstructions from Big and Little Nottoway rivers.
An ACT to authorize the town of Liberty to donate a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars in the bonds of said town to the Baptist orphanage.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Berkeley in the county of Norfolk.
An ACT to incorporate the True Friends of Charity society, of Pittsylvania county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 48, chapter 5, of act approved February 13, 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18, chapter 3; sections 5, 9, 10, and 11, chapter 4, and sections 5 and 7, chapter 5 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended by act approved April 4, 1887, relative to the election of a collector of delinquent city taxes, prescribing the powers and duties of that officer; and as to the offices of street commissioner and city engineer for the said city.
An ACT to authorize the Radford land and improvement company to erect a dam across Little river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 307 of the acts of 1887-88, in relation to trespass by certain animals in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to allow Peter H. Davis to build a wharf at his place known as Davis’ wharf, and also at his place recently purchased of William S. Kellam, both on Occohannock creek.
An ACT to incorporate the East Big Stone Gap land and improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Shenandoah mining and land improvement company, of Milnes, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and North Carolina land, lumber, and quarry company.
An ACT to incorporate the Tacoma Improvement Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for working and keeping in order the public roads of Nansemond county, and for levying the necessary tax for said purposes
An ACT to incorporate the Valley land improvement company.
An ACT relating to the trespass of stock in vertain parts of Washington county.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth sewerage company.
An ACT to incorporate the Fincastle and Southern Botetourt development company.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Basic City.
An ACT to incorporate the Richlands land company.
An ACT to empower surveyors to collect road fines in Mathews county.

1878/79
An ACT to amend section 1, chapter 39, Code of 1873 in reference to the price paid for land warrants for waste land.
An Act to authorize the trustees of Rodes’ Methodist Episcopal Church South to convey to the heirs of Charles P. Rodes, deceased, of Nelson county, a lot of land
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1878-79.
An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Spotsylvania.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 86 of chapter 49 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1873, so as to authorize courts, or judges thereof in vacation, or justices of the peace, to order sales of personal property seized under writs of fieri facias or under distress warrant, in cases Where such property is expensive to keep or perishable.
An ACT to refund to Carroll and Beard, citizens of Rockbridge county, Virginia an amount of money improperly paid as taxes
An ACT to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Prince Edward county.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Suffolk
An ACT to incorporate the Lake Drummond Masonic Temple Association of Deep Creek, Norfolk county, Virginia.
An ACT declaring Meherrin river, North Meherrin river, South Meherrin river, and Middle Meherrin river, respectively, a lawful fence.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of Andrew chapel congregation of the town of Harrisonburg to execute a deed of trust on its church property.
An ACT providing for the assessment of a tract of land belonging to Henry A. Goodloe, of Rockbridge county, and for refunding taxes erroneously assessed thereon.
An ACT to authorize the Odd-Fellows’ Joint Stock Company of Alexandria, Virginia, to borrow money and execute one or more deeds of trust upon its property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 8, 1875, declaring South Anna river, in Louisa county, a lawful fence.
An ACT declaring the James river to condemnation line
An ACT to amend and re-enact the sixteenth section of an act approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT authorizing the committees to which was referred Senate bill 29, to permit counsel for claimants to said land, occupied by the Central Lunatic Asylum, to appear before them without paying the tax required by law of counsel appearing before legislative committees.
An ACT to declare a portion of Rockfish river, between Nelson and Albemarle counties, a lawful fence.
An ACT for the relief of W. J. Shumate
An ACT declaring New river a lawful fence in parts of Wythe, Carroll, and Grayson counties
An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase by the government of the United States of land in Alexandria county for the abutment of and the necessary approaches to the bridge proposed to be constructed across the Potomac river at or near the Three Sisters’ island, and the building of such abutment and approaches upon such land, and ceding jurisdiction over the same.
An ACT to reassess the lands of R. Shiflett, Mistress E. V. Little, and Mistress Emma Smith
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Saint Paul’s Episcopal church of Lynchburg, Virginia, to execute one or more deeds of trust or mortgages as security.
An ACT to incorporate and establish the Craig Agricultural and Mechanical Association
An ACT to incorporate the Clover Masonic Building Association.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 5th section, chapter 38, Code of 1878. in regard to the delivery of lists of delinquent lands to treasurers.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Portsmouth
An ACT for the relief of John F. Lewis and LL. L. Lewis, executors of S. H. Lewis, deceased.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 115 of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved March 31, 1875, relating to mechanics’ liens.
An Act for the relief of Emma A. Hodges, of the city of Portsmouth.
JOINYT RESOLUTION to provide for the assessment of property for taxation for the year 1879.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 15 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth
An ACT to empower the trustees of the Columbia Baptist church, in the town of Falls Chureh, in the county of Fairfax, to seli and convey church property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of the Black Lick Presbyterian church to make sale of certain property belonging to said church
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
An ACT to amend and re-cnaect section 1 of an act ap-
ACT to incorporate the Relief Society of the Poor of the Cumberland Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Norfolk, Virginia, and to provide a home for the same.
An ACT to incorporate Saloine cemetery company, near Middleburg, Loudoun county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 3d, 4th, ith, aud 6th sections of an act entitled an act to inesrporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30, 1875.
An ACT prohibiting non-residents hunting, shooting, trapping, or netting partridges in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
An ACT to incorporate Centreville Grange, No. 706, of Princess Anne county.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of Bethel Methodist Episcopal Chureh, South, in Westinoreland counts, to sell and pur- chase church property.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Cedarville Parsonage of Abingdon Circuit, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the county of Washington, to borrow money and secure payment of same by deed of trust on the said parsonage property.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of certain school property in the county of Roanoke to sell the same and re-invest the proceeds.
An ACT in relation to the records of Alexandria county.
An Act to allow Barnes Brothers, of New Kent, to erect a pier in Chickahominy river, below Binn’s bar.
An ACT to authorize the condemnation of the use of the land now occupied by the Central lunatic asylum.
An ACT providing for the rebinding books of record.
An ACT for the relief of Joseph A. Carr, of Loudoun county.
An ACT to authorize the county court to release G, S. Meem from payment of district road tax in Shenandoah county
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 17, 1876, entitled an act declaring liens on the baggage and effects of boarders.

1879/80
An ACT to authorize the Mutual Building Fund Association of Lychburg to hold real estate and convey the same.
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 authorize the Royal Oak Presbyterian Church to sell and convey certain property.
An ACT for the relief of John Milliner, administrator of Robert Milliner, deceased.
An ACT to incorporate the United States Commercial Company.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the churches in the Isle of Wight circuit to borrow money.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Staunton.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the governor to place at the disposal of the civil authorities of Lancaster, Middlesex and Mathews counties arms and ammunition for the enforcement of the oyster laws.