Public expenditures

1879/80
An ACT to establish the county of Dickenson out of parts of Russell, Wise and Buchanan.
An ACT to incorporate the Warrenton and Fauquier White Sulphur Springs Turnpike Company.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing and directing the Attorney-General to test before the Supreme Court of the United States so much of the act of incorporation of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad as relates to debts due the State of Virginia by the divisional lines of said railway.
An ACT to incorporate the Staunton and West Augusta Railroad Company.
An ACT to authorize the board of trustees of Roanoke College to borrow money.
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg, Massanutta and Toledo Railway Company.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of A. F. Creel
An ACT to appropriate $3,000 for the purchase of the patent known as the McDonald Fish-Way.
An ACT for the relief of C. H. Ingles, treasurer of Henry county.
An ACT to incorporate the United States Commercial Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Jeffersonville and Marion Turnpike and Telegraph Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and the amendatory acts thereto, and to change the name of the corporation to the Broad Creek and London Bridge Turnpike Company.
An ACT to pay to P. L. W. Thornton, of Prince William county, the sum of fifteen dollars and sixty-six cents.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the congregation Beth Ahaba, of the city of Richmond, to borrow money.
An ACT to tax railroads in certain cases for county and school purposes.
An Act authorizing the governor to appoint a special agent to collect claims due the state of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the James River and Kanawha Company to construct and maintain a railway, in whole or in part, along its line, and to execute mortgages on its works, property and franchises.
An ACT to authorize the town of Culpeper to borrow money.
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 the county of Loudoun, passed 1856, and to repeal certain acts amendatory thereof, approved February 2, 1875, and February 1, 1879.
An ACT giving the consent of this state to the acquisi-tion by the government of the United States of so inuch land as may be necessary for a public building in the city of Danville.
An ACT imposing a tax and prescribing regulations for collecting the same on the privilege of selling wine, ardent spirits or malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, within the limits of the commonwealth for the support of the government, and to pay the interest on the public debt.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the auditor of public accounts to borrow money to pay arrearages to lunatic asylums and the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution, &e.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and Deep Creek Turnpike Company.
An ACT making an appropriation for the ventilation of the hall of the House of Delegates.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 24th section of chapter 40 of the Code of 1873, in relation to the auditor’s power to adjust old claims.
An ACT to authorize the Richmond, York River and Chesapeake railroad to borrow money.
An ACT authorizing and directing the Auditor of Public Accounts to collect the sum of one hundred dollars, paid to the Sheriff of Wythe county by Alonzo Grinnell, surety of Alexander Corvin, indicted for felony upon a forfeited recognizance, and to refund the same to the said Alonzo Grinnell when so collected, and releasing the said Grinnell from the payment of twenty-five dollars, balance of said judgment.
An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United States of title to and jurisdiction over Sewell’s Point Spit. for the purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital and erecting a building for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels.
JOINT RESOLUTION directing the secretary of the commonwealth to furnish each member of the general assembly with five copies of Hotchkiss’ Geological and Geographical Report.
An ACT to authorize the erection of a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in the county of Accomac.
JOINT RESOLUTION rescinding certain portions of joint resolution providing for the destruction of certain bonds of the commonwealth now in the treasury
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Southwestern Railway Company.
An Act for the relief of R. H. Fisher.
An ACT to provide more effectually for the control and investment of the Glebe fund of the county of Northampton.
An ACT to provide for the payment of the salaries of the extra clerks in the offices of the treasurer and second auditor employed in funding the public debt.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section first of the act to authorize the formation of the New River Railroad Mining and Manufacturing Company, as amended by acts approved 2d April, 1873, and 15th March, 1875, and to change the name of said company to the New River Railroad Company.
An ACT for the relief of Sallie E. Pickett, widow of General George E. Pickett, deceased.
An ACT to ascertain whether or not the charters of the Lynchburg and Salem, Lynchburg and Campbell Courthouse, and Lynchburg and Concord Turnpike companies have been complied with, and if not, to provide a mode for forfeiting the same.
An ACT authorizing the conveyance of the state’s Interest in a lot of land in Alexandria county, of which James Hilton died seized, and which has escheated to the commonwealth, to said county for poor-house purposes.

1879es
An ACT to refund a sum of money improperly assessed on the buildings of the Central Lunatic Asylum.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24 of chapter 61 of the Code of 1878, as amended by section 1 of an act approved March 31, 1875, in relation to works of internal improvement.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the Ist and 21 sections of an act approved March 21, 1877, entitled an act to secure the payment of the wages or salaries to certain employees of railway, canal, steamboat and other transportation companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 12th section of an act approved Apiil 4th, 1877, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads and repairing bridges in the county of Rappahannock.
An ACT to provide a plan of settlement of the public debt.
An ACT to prohibit the board of supervisors of Highland county from levying a tax to pay subscription to the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad until certain conditions are complied with, and authorizing said board to levy a tax to defend suits on the same.
AN ACT authorizing the state treasurer to procure coupon registers.
An ACT to incorporate the Roxboro’, Leasburg and Danville ‘Turnpike Company.
An ACT in relation to the boundary line between Virginia and Maryland.
An ACT to furnish material and convict labor in aid of the Lee Monument Association.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of Liberty church, in the county of Goochland, to make sale of its property.
An Act to Authorize Payment to Arthur Stephens for Judicial Services in Greene County
An ACT to incorporate the Shenandoah Seminary at Dayton, Rockingham county.
An ACT declaring certain streams in Nottoway county to be highways.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30, chapter 78 of the Code of 1878, so as to reduce the pay of school district clerks
An ACT concerning certain state bonds donated by William W. Corcoran to the University of Virginia, for the endowment of a professorship of natural science therein
An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Doe Hill, Highland county, to dispose of real estate belonging to said society, the proceeds to be applied to the improvement of said church property.
An ACT for the relief of A. S. Grigsby, late assistant to the treasurer of Campbell county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act to provide for working the roads in the county of Fairfax
An ACT to refund to N. Rensch, of Pittsylvania county, a license tax.
An ACT to authorize the counties of Greene and Madison to subscribe to the stock of the Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad Company, on certain conditions.
An ACT for the relief of W. B. Beach, of Prince Edward county.
An ACT to incorporate the Cumberland and Willis River Railroad Company.
An ACT to authorize the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company to record mortgages and deeds of trust under certain conditions,
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 10 and 11 of chapter 181, Acts of 1874-5, approved March 20, 1875, to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth
An Act authorizing the payment of eighty-three dollars and twenty-five cents to James A. Lipscomb, of Manchester.
An ACT to work and keep in repair the public roads in the county of Orange, and authorizing the qualified voters to vote upon its acceptance or rejection.
An ACT to secure the southern wall of the capitol.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act preseribing the duties, powers, liabilities and compensation of cer-
An ACT to permit and authorize the city of Lynchburg to issue bonds for the purpose of retiring its outstanding funded indebtedness
An ACT to regulate the collection of charges for transportation by canal, steamboat, and railroad companies.
An ACT for the relief of Ira F. Jordan & Co., of Louisa county.
An ACT for the relief of the Union Car-Works’ Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Buchingham Railroad Company.
An ACT to provide for an inspection of cattle
An Act to authorize the city of Fredericksburg to provide for supplying the city with water.
An ACT for the relief of Dr, G. N. Warren, of Mechlenburg county.