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Public expenditures

1877/1878
An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Rockbridge.
An ACT allowing further time to R. W. Adams, treasurer of the City of Fredericksburg, to make his return of delinquents and insolvents for 1876.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1877-78.
An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Amherst county to issue bonds to aid in building a free bridge across the James river at Lynchburg.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the roads in the county of Hanover.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henrico to hire convicts for the purpose of improving the public roads in the county of Henrico, and to make provisions for meeting the expense thereof
An ACT to regulate prices and expenditures in regard to the working of roads in the county of Floyd.
An ACT to compensate John A. Ashby for the capture of an escaped penitentiary convict.
An ACT to incorporate the Warm Springs Valley Railroad Company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors to hire convicts for the purpose of improving the public roads in the county of Henrico, and to make provision for meeting the expenses thereof.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio Railroad Company.
An ACT to provide for the control and investment of the Glebe fund in the county of Northampton.
An ACT to provide for the division of school districts into sub-districts, and for the appointment of school directors.
An ACT to authorize Grace Memorial Church, of Lynchburg, to borrow money and execute one or more deeds of trust.
An ACT to provide for the consolidation of the public debt, and the payment of an uniform rate of interest thereupon.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Richmond to loan a certain sum in bonds or money to the James river and Kanawha company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bath county to borrow money to defray the cost of erecting a bridge over the Cowpasture river.
1881/1882
An ACT to incorporate Scottsville Wollen Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to authorize the county of Elizabeth City to procure and grant the right of way for a railroad through said county from Newport News to the centre of the chunnel of Mill creek.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one, chapter 106, Acts 1879-80, taxing railroads in certain cases fur county and school
An ACT to provide for repairing the guvernor’s mansion and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT to establish a ferry or bridge across the Rappahanock river, at or near the town of Falmouth.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Amherst and Nelson counties.
An ACT to incorporate the Arcadia Iron Works Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section eleven of an act approved fifteenth February, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in relation to public roads in Amherst and Nelson counties.
Joint Resolution of Instruction to Senators and Members of Congress from Virginia
An ACT to incorporate the United States Beacon Light and Signal Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two, five, six, seven, and eight of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Wesleyan Female Institute, at Staunton, Virginia, to borrow money and secure the same by mortgage or otherwise.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Bethel Presbyterian Church, in Washington county, to sell and convey certain real estate.
An ACT to provide for the more efficient collection of the revenue to support government, maintain the public schools, and to pay interest on the public debt.
An ACT to authorize the formation of the Iron Belt Railroad Company.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Pine street Baptist church, of the city of Richmond, to borrow money and execute deeds of trust.
An ACT to incorporate the Nansemond and Isle of Wight Draw-Bridge Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing and directing the directors of the Central Lunatic Asylum to contract for the erection, near the city of Petersburg, of suitable buildings for the accommodation of the colored insane of the State.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Isle of Wight county to borrow money and issue bonds therefor for the pur- of building a bridge over Pagan creek.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-three of chapter one hundred and eighty-one, Acts of 1874-75, approved March 20, 1875, to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, so far as applicable to the county of Albemarle.
An ACT to allow Abel A. Lake to erect a wharf at Franklin city, in Accomac county, on Chincoteague bay, for the purpose of shipping oysters.
An ACT to presrrvo the endowments of the colleges and other literary institutions of this state, where they are held in the obligations of the stute.
An ACT to incorporate the Tagus Mill and Mining Company of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate a part of the Glebe Fund, in the county of Northampton, to build a Poorhouse in said county.
An ACT for the relief of the citizens of Carroll county.
An ACT to incorporate the Gladeville college, in the county of Wise, and to constitute the territory for three miles around said college a sub-school district.
An ACT to incorporate the Pilgrim Travelers’ Society.
An ACT to incorporate the Iron Belt Land, Mining, and Development Company, of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Big Lick, approved February 28, 1874, and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to authorize the Upper Appomattox Company to increase its capital stock.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Goodman’s chapel to sell real estate.
An ACT authorizing the voters of Dinwiddie county to vote for a fence law by magisterial district.
An ACT to incorporate the Lebanon and Buchanan turnpike company.
An ACT to authorize Henry N. Price to construct a tramway to Smithfield, in Isle of Wight county, Virginia.
JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the purchase of Temple farm and Moore house.
An ACT to tax Telegraph companies for county and schoo!
An ACT to amend the first, second, and third sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Saltville and Coal-mine railroad company, and to change the name to the Norfolk and Cincinnati railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one, four, six, and seven of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New River Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.
An ACT authorizing the town of Goodson to issue bonds
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Chatham.
An ACT to constitute the town of Abingdon, and a certain portion of the surrounding country, a separate school district.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol and Ervinton Turnpike Company.
An ACT to enable the people within the corporate limits of the town of Hillsville, in the county of Carroll, to take the sense of the qualified voters of said town upon the question of repealing the charter of said town.
An ACT to incorporate the Bar.k of Buchanan.
An ACT creating a Board of Harbor Commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and for the preservation of the harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
An ACT to incorporate the Farmville and Staunton River Railroad Company.
An ACT to repeal chapter two hundred and twenty-five of the Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven-eight, in relation to working roads and repairing bridges in the county of Buckingham.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Louisa county to borrow a sum of money for certain purposes.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to borrow money.
An ACT for the relief of William H. Bluxom, late treasurer of Accomac county.
An ACT to incorporate Cedar Bluff High School.
An ACT to incorporate the Big Quarry Slate Company.
An ACT appropriating the public revenues for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-one-two, and eighteen hundred and eighty-two-three.
JOINT RESOLUTION for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate the disaster at Midlothian coal mines, and provide for the better protection of miners.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and common council of the town of Liberty, in the county of Bedford, to borrow money.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Terminal Company.
An ACT to establish a Ferry or Bridge across the Rappahannock river at or near the town of Falmouth.
to authorize the trustees of Guests river Methodist church, in the county of Wise, to sell their church property and invest the proceeds in a new church.
An ACT to incorporate the Buckingham Mining and Water Company.
An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Boards of Supervisors in this state.
An ACT to provide for laying out and working roads in Henrico county.
An ACT to incorporate the Estillville Virginia Marble Company.
An ACT to authorize Leigh street Baptist church in the city of Richmond, to borrow money and execute deeds of trust.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Carolina Turnpike Company.
An ACT for the relief of Edwin S. Brent, late clerk of the circuit court of Frederick county.
An ACT to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the counties of Bedford and Frederick.
An ACT to incorporate the Grand Lodge of the Sons of Zion Benevolent Society of Virginia.
An ACT to repeal an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Powhatan.
An ACT for the relief of P. T. Johnson.
An ACT authorizing the county judge of Isle of Wight to make an allowance for George M. Waddill.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT ratifying the sale by the Board of Public Works of the claim of the state against the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio railroad.
An ACT to provide for the compensation of Special House committee and their clerks appointed by resolution of the House cf Delegates of Virginia, adopted March Yth, 1880.
An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United States of title to, and jurisdiction over a space within limits, to be determined by accurate survey, between certain latitude and longitude, for the purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital, and erecting a building for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels.
An ACT to renew the charter of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company.
An ACT authorizing the county of Pittsylvania to sell its stock in the Virginia Midland Railroad Company.
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the Attorney-General
1882es
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of A. F. Creel
An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Danville railroad company to discharge its indebtedness to the state.
An ACT for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, and licenses, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14, chapter 2, sections 5, 6, 7, 12, 18, 25, and 27, chapter 3; sections 10, 24, and 27, chapter 10; and section 22, chapter 18 of the criminal code, 1878, and to repeal section 29, chapter 10, and section 12, chapter 25 of said criminal code, and all acts and parts of acts relating to punishment by stripes, and to substitute other forms of punishment therefor.
An ACT to authorize D. M. Norton, Joshua Robert Ross, Robert Norton, John 8. Jones, and Zebedee Randall, of the county of York, to establish a ferry across York river, from a point at or near Yorktown to a point on the opposite shore, ator near Gloucester Point.
An ACT to appropriate $800 for the repair and preservation of the statue of Henry Clay.