Public expenditures

1897/1898
AN ACT authorizing the Gladeville school district in the county of Wise to Issue bonds for the payment of the cost of building free school-house for said school district, at Norton, Wise county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3430 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to payment of money into treasury when deposited in banks.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to redeem the outstanding bonds of the said county.
An ACT for the relief of Thomas W. Pritchett.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6 and 7, of an act entitle an act to provide for the erection, rebuilding and repairing bridges in Fairfax county
An ACT to provide for a Bureau of labor and industrial statistics and for defining the duties of said bureau.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to dispose of certain old material and furniture belonging to said county at either public or private sale.
An ACT to amend sections 2 and 5 of the act extending the boundaries of the city of Portsmouth, approved February 23, 1894.
An ACT to provide for working vagrants on public roads in the county of Henrico.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski.
An ACT to incorporate the Montgomery railroad and mining company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 881, code of Virginia, in reference to poor to be kept at poorhouse, and when and how assistance to be given at their homes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 2, 1804, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1875, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1870, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30, 1875, and as further amended by an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to amend section 7 of chapter 316 of the acts of assembly, session 1874-75, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax.
An ACT to protect the public health of the city of Fredericksburg.
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Luray to borrow money for the purpose of retiring and refunding the present outstanding indebtedness of the town, issued under the act approved February 17, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act continuing in force the corporation of the town of Pearisburg, county of Giles, and defining and prescribing the rights and powers thereof, approved March 25, 1872, to extend the corporate limits of said town of Pearisburg and to provide a new charter for said town.
An ACT to incorporate the Accomac Tribe, No. 90, Improved order of Red Men.
An ACT to amend an act approved January 31, 1898, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Emporia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35, chapter 4, and section 40 of chapter 5, of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville, approved February 26, 1886.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of chapter 244 of an act approved March 6, 1890, imposing a tax on peddlers of coal and wood in the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and on licenses to transact business and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and the public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a commissioner’s certificate is required, approved March 6, 1880.
An ACT to authorize the city council of the city of Roanoke, Virginia, to redeem the bonds of the town of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled ‘‘An act to authorize the district school boards in the county of Rockingham to use district school funds for the payment of teachers’’
An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Culpeper to fund its bonded indebtedness.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Goochland.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 5, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections seventy and seventy-one of an act approved March 6, 1890, entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, and incomes, and on licenses to transact business, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses, etc., so as to define who shall be deemed boarding house keepers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the public roads of said county, and levy a tax to keep them in order
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Amherst county to issue bonds for the purpose of repairing and macadamizing the public roads of the county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Sussex county to issue bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the first subdivision of section 8, chapter 1, of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and on licenses to transact business, 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 prescribe the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to borrow money to redeem bonds of the said county.
An ACT to provide for a read law for Spotsylvania county.
An ACT to incorporate the Fairview turnpike company.
An Act to amend and re-enact section TP oof an act entitled an act to establish a ferry or bridge across the Rappahannock river at or near the town of Falmouth
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 375, acts of 1891-’92, entitled an act for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Wythe.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Wytheville to appoint an officer to audit accounts, manage expenditures, and refund bonded indebtedness.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending respectively on September 30, 1898, and September 30, 1899.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Sallie M. Foster, widow of Samuel Booker Foster, a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to provide that the district boards of school trustees in the county of Franklin shall not contract to expend in any one year an amount in excess of the approximate amount certified to them by the county superintendent.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia central railroad company.
An ACT for relief of George W. Bledsoe, a disabled Confederate soldier, of Madison county.
An ACT to incorporate the South Boston tobacco company.
An ACT to ratify, confirm and amend the charter of the Monticello company and its financial plan, and to give it additional powers.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Page county, and for opening new roads and changing the location of existing roads.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Suffolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 598 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 3, 184, entitled an act in relation to working and keeping In repair the roads and bridges of Alexandria county, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1896.
An ACT to incorporate the Mineral belt railway and tramway company.
An ACT to provide for a road commission for Capeville magisterial district in the county of Northampton.
An ACT to incorporate the Staunton and Augusta railroad company.
An ACT requiring railroad companies to transport live stock on their main and branch lines and providing a remedy and penalty for the refusal of any such company to receive, transport or deliver such live stock.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to establish a ferry or bridge across the Rappahannock river at or near the town of Falmouth
An ACT to provide for the classification of and working of roads in Bedford county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 717 and 718 of the code of Virginia relating to fines and costs before justices of the peace.
An ACT to incorporate the Howardsville toll bridge company.
An ACT for the relief of Elizabeth Cornett
An ACT to prescribe the mode in which clerks of courts shall keep a record of all taxes and other public moneys collected by them, and to require them to pay the same into the treasury.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Kempsville turnpike company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 573, Acts of 1891-92, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski County and to amend and re-enact chapter 494, Acts of 1895-06, entitled an act to amend the 3d, 15th, and 19th sections, and to repeal and re-enact sections J. and 17 of an act passed March 2, 1802, entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county.
An ACT requiring the commissioners of roads in the county of Russell to settle their accounts before the board of supervisors of Russell county each year at such time as the board may prescribe.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating the town of Grundy, in Buchanan county, Virginia, approved March 3, 1879.
An ACT to authorize the Norfolk and Western railway company to construct and operate a branch railroad to the Potomac river and into the city of Washington.
An ACT to extend the time for commencing and completing the construction of the railroad authorized under the act of the general assembly approved March 5, 1896, incorporating the Blue Ridge railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the registration books of the city of Charlottesville to be purged prior to the special vote to be taken in said city on the 1st of January, 1898.
An ACT to incorporate the Martin and Mason building and supply company of Aeecomac county.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia-Alaska gold mining company.
An ACT to incorporate the Harper’s Ferry power company.
An ACT to submit to the voters of Grayson county the question of a subscription to the capital stock of the Grayson and Carroll electric railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section Poof an act entitled ‘ An act to impose a tax on collateral inheritances, and regulate the collection of same, approved February 14, 186
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 5 of an act authorizing the judge of the county court of Giles county to appoint a board of county road commissioners for Giles county
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 101 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor
An ACT to incorporate the Machapungo bridge company.
An ACT for the relief of John A. Osborne
An ACT for the relief of Martha Willams, of Hanover county.
An ACT to provide for the payment of allowances made by the circuit and county courts of Scott county, or the judges thereof, for suitable furniture and other equipments for their respective clerks’ offices, and to order such repairs and improvements of the courthouse grounds and buildings as may be necessary.
An ACT to incorporate the Newport News terminal and warehouse company.
An ACT to authorize the town of Suffolk to borrow money.
An ACT to empower the boards of supervisors of Giles, Pulaski, Craig, Lee, Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan and Scott counties to require old fines and costs to be worked out upon the public roads and streets of the towns of said counties, and providing rules and regulations therefor.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk bicycle road company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 23, 61, 108, 109 of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled ‘An act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.’
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3798 of the code of Virginia, prohibiting profane swearing and drunkenness.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Craig county.
An ACT to incorporate the Benevolent investment and relief association of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Peninsula railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Walkerton and Mattaponi bridge company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 5 of chapter 656 of the acts of 1895-’96 entitled an act providing for the working, opening and keeping in repair the roads in the counties of Brunswick, Nottoway and Amelia, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges of said counties
An ACT amending creek laws in Charlotte county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Clarksville toll bridge company.
An ACT to authorize J. R. Knight and others to erect a pier or wharf
An ACT for relief of J. Wright
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1202 of the code of Virginia in relation to rates of toll on railroads.
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 March 2, 1894, and as further amended and re enacted by an act approved January 23, 1896, and to provide for the collection of unpaid tuxes by renting real estate.
An ACT to pay Thomas T. Upshur the sum of $45.99 for services rendered copying old records of the county of Northampton.
An ACT to incorporate the Cherrystone normal, agricultural and mechanical stitute.
An ACT to incorporate the American development company of the United States.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the collection of fees of the commissioner of the revenue
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Botetourt to borrow $8,000 to pay for a bridge across James river in that county.
An ACT to provide for the working, keeping in repair, and letting out the public roads, bridges and ferries in Nansemond county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 886 of the code of Virginia relating to payment of costs and expenses in prosecutions for vagrancy.
An ACT to authorize the councils of the city of Norfolk to Issue bonds for the erection, repair or rebuilding of a bridge over Smith’s creek.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and West Virginia railroad company.