Public expenditures

1887/1888
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Cape Henry railroad and hotel company.
An ACT to incorporate the James River Valley Construction company.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to legalize certain subscriptions of the town of Goodson, Virginia, to the South Atlantic and Ohio railroad company upon certain conditions
An ACT to incorporate the Pocahontas Towing and Transportation company.
An ACT to authorize Theodore Haughwont to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and Pennsylvania Iron and Coal company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 33 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved January 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871 and by an act approved March 17, 1876, and by an act approved March 20, 1879, and by an act approved March 25, 1879.
An ACT to incorporate the New River Plateau railway company.
An ACT to submit the question of increasing the levy for district school purposes, including lengthening of school term, to the qualified voters of Occoquan district, Prince William county.
An ACT for the relief of R. H. Downman
An ACT to allow the district school board of Buchanan district, Botetourt county, to purchase Blue Ridge hall, and for conveyance of same.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Halifax county to issue its warrant on the treasurer of said county in favor of Joseph C. Walker for the sum of thirty-five dollars, with interest from February 9, 1871.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of D. B. Baldwin,
An ACT to incorporate the Montrose Land and Improvement company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the South Atlantic and Ohio railroad company, and to legalize subscriptions and contracts and all corporate acts which the said company may have performed since the first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act approved March 8, 1884, entitled an act to provide for the working of public roads and bridges.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 75 of chapter 78 of the Code of 1873, in regard to unexpended school funds.
An ACT to incorporate the Greenleaf Johnson lumber company.
An ACT to provide for making, changing, and working roads in the county of Rockingham.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Estillville in the county of Scott.
An ACT to incorporate the Norma Iron railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act to amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the public printing and binding, and defining the duties of the superintendent of public printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the Acts of Assembly of 1879-80.
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Richmond county to appropriate one hundred dollars of the county school fund to the erection of a school-house in Stonewall school district of said county.

1889/1890 Public Laws
An ACT to extend the time for making returns of assessment for the city of Norfolk and county of Norfolk.
An ACT to provide for the sale of certain land in the county of Henrico belonging to the state.
REPORT from the committee on general laws and resolutions, appointing a joint committee to confer with a joint committee from Maryland legislature, to establish boundary line between Maryland and Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the payment of a judgment in favor of Feaac Davenport, Jr., Thomas Moore, and Constance R. Moore against the Central lunatic asylum, entered in Henrico circuit court, December 14, 1888.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1842 of the code of Virginia, in relation to sale by samplers and others of unclaimed tobacco in warehouses of the city of Richmond, and disposition of the proceeds.
An ACT for the payment to John H. Wise, sheriff of Accomac county, of balance due him for board and care of lunatics.
An Act directing the secretary of the commonwealth to affix the seal of the commonwealth to certain bonds.
An ACT to authorize judgments and decrees of the circuit and district courts of the United States to be docketed and indexed in the clerk’s office of the courts of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 733 of chapter 31, code of Virginia, providing fees to clerks of courts in cases of fines.
An act to prevent the manufacture and sale of adulterated cider vinegar.
An ACT for the relief of G. T. Burgess and the heirs of S. B. Burgess (deceased), sureties of E. Burgess, late treasurer of Northumberland county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved March 5, 1888, entitled an act providing for the sub-division of tracts of lands into lots or parcels, and for the record of plats thereof.
An ACT making an appropriation to the building committee of the Virginia normal collegiate institute for the payment of balance due contractors.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Kate E. Muse, of Gloucester county.
An ACT to prohibit the loading and unloading of steamships’ and steamboate’ cargoes on a Sunday.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of chapter 163 code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of commissioners in chancery as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 4, 1890.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of C. H. Ingles, late treasurer of Henry county.
An ACT repealing chapter 124, session acts 1887-’8, entitled an act declaring certain grounds under water, known as Hog Island flats, open and eligible for the planting and sowing oysters.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of John C Gray, late treasurer of Washington county.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title and jurisdiction to lands at the mouth of Chesapeake bay for sites for fortifications for defense thereof.
An ACT giving the consent of the State of Virginia to the erection of a hotel at Fortress Monroe
An ACT to authorize the owners of Elizabeth Park, in Princess Anne county, to control its water front and riparian ownership.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide for the mode of applying for licenses to transact any business in this state, and prescribing the amount to be paid as a condition precedent to the right to transact such business
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 875 of chapter 38, code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to compensation of superintendents of the poor.
An ACT to refund taxes improperly paid by John Hofman.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 504 of the code of 1887 in relation to personal Property books—how they shall be made up and what they shall contain.
An ACT for the relief of Miss Ann E. Millan, of Culpeper county.
An ACT to provide for the sale of delinquent lands in the county of Nottoway for the years 1884—-85-86-87.
An ACT to amend section 3933 of the code for the government of persons consigned to chain gangs, established by order of the council of any city or town by the board of supervisors of a county, or by the judge of a county or corporation court of any county.
An ACT to amend section 2071 of the code of 1887 in relation to unlawful hunting, &c., on another’s lands.
An ACT to amend section 2462 of the code of Virginia in regard to reservation of title to goods and chattels sold upon condition.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1227 of the code of Virginia, in relation to penalty for passing on company's work without paying toll.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 447, chapter 23, of the code of Virginia, relating to the manner in which taxes for the year 1891, and every fifth year thereafter shall be extended.
An ACT for the relief of John Q. Petit, of Prince William.
An Act for the relief of John C Hall, treasurer of Franklin county.
An ACT in relation to the control of prisoners in jail.
An ACT to refund to John L. Dawson, of Albemarle county, fifty-four dollars for state taxes erroneously paid by him.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title and jurisdiction to lands at the mouth of Chesapeake bay for sites for fortifications for defense thereof.
An ACT to require the clerk of any circuit, county, or corporation court to remit to the auditor whenever funds in their hands shall amount to five hundred
An ACT for the relief of V. B. Gilmer, treasurer of Russell county.
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the public debt
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. E. A. Pittman and Migs S. C. Pittman.

1891/1892
An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Virginia central railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake light and power company.
An ACT to authorize the town of Covington to issue bonds and borrow money.
An Act to amend and confirm the charter of the Mutual annuity company
An ACT to extend the corporate limits of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 10, of the charter of the Newport News light and water company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2099 of the EE code of Virginia, 1887, with relation to license required for catching fish for oil or manure.
An ACT for the relief of Frederick Jenkins, James Jenkins, James West, George Hogg and W. C. Hogg.
An ACT amending and re-enacting section 7 of chapter 10 of the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to allow all county treasurers and deputy treasurers of this state further time to collect certain tax tickets in their hands for years 1887, ’88, ’89 and 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the United States government to acquire title and jurisdiction to five acres of land extending to high-water mark on Fisherman’s island, in the county of Northampton, for the establishment of a quarantine station
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg street railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Brookland railway and improvement company in Henrico county
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to issue bonds for the purpose of building and repairing the public roads in said county.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia, Shenandoah and Western railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the city of Radford.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Camden railroad.
An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg electric company.
An ACT to incorporate the Atlantic, Staunton and West Virginia railway compary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of an act approved March 3, 1890, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Liberty to extend its limits, and to change its name to Bedford City and validate bonds already issued by the town of Bedford City.
An ACT to authorize the mayor and common council of the town of Chatham, in the county of Pittsylvania, to borrow money for public improvements.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act to provide for the working of the roads in the county of Russell
An ACT to provide for the working of roads in Gainesville district of Prince William county.
An Act to amend section 2 of an act entitled an act to authorize the mayor and common council of the town of Chatham, in the county of Pittsylvania, to borrow money for public improvements.
An ACT to incorporate the Blue Ridge Springs and Fincastle railroad company.
An ACT for the relief of Thomas P. Darracott, M.D., of certain fines.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia farming company.
An ACT to ratify and confirm and amend the charter of the Norfolk company.
An ACT to incorporate the Salem and Southern railway company.
An ACT appropriating three thousand two hundred dollars to the Confederate soldiers’ and sailors’ monument association.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of William H. Gills, late treasurer of Appomattox county.
An ACT to provide for the better Working and keeping in repair of the county roads in the county of Norfolk.
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to make a loan and issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of erecting a new court-house and clerks’ offices for said county.
An Act in regard to lighting the capitol building and the governor’s mansion.
An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg-Edison electric company.