Public expenditures

1897/1898
An ACT to incorporate the Clinch river and Big Sandy railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 to 14, both inclusive, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southeastern and Atlantic railroad company, approved March 4, 1896, and to change the name of said company.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Greene county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of the charter of the town of Colonial Beach, in the county of Westmoreland, approved February 25, 1892.
An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Richmond gas company.
An ACT to incorporate the Warehouse company of Richmond, Va.
An ACT to provide for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Patrick, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in the same county.
An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake transit company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 730 of the code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 24, 1896, entitled an act to incorporate the Blacksburg railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county.
An ACT to incorporate Virginia electrical railway and development company.
An ACT to declare a certain portion of ground in York river to be a natural oyster rock.
An ACT to incorporate the Phoebus and Fox Hill railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an aet entitled an act to authorize the county of Madison to subscribe to the stock of the Madison and Orange railroad company on certain conditions
An ACT to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to keep in its clerk’s office a book showing the amount of money and notes under the control or subject to the order of said court.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Essex county.
An ACT to authorize the town of Big Stone Gap to receive and disburse road taxes, and to provide for a settlement with the Richmond magisterial district in Wise county.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Stafford.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper.
An ACT for working and keeping in repair the public roads in the county of Henry.
An ACT for the relief of the securities of C. H. Ingles, late treasurer of Henry county.
An ACT for relief of R. D. Wells
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Richmond.
An ACT to authorize the county of Culpeper to subscribe to the capital stock of railroad companies.
An ACT to give W. F. Templeton, a former deputy treasurer of Rockbridge county, Virginia, power of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax tickets.
An ACT to provide for the expenses of the boards of directors of the several state hospitals, and the boards of visitors of the various institutions of learning receiving aid from the state.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Halifax county to provide for the payment of the interest on the bonds of said county issued pursuant to an act approved December 9, 1807, and to provide a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds.
AN ACT for the relief of Emory and Henry College
An ACT to empower the trustees of the Virginia female institute to issue bonds, borrow thereon money, and to secure the payment of the same.
An ACT to compensate school trustees other than clerks of district school boards in Prince George and Surry counties, and also members of county school boards.
An ACT to provide for working vagrants on public roads in the county of Norfolk.
An ACT to provide for the garnishment of and levy of execution on wages and salaries of all city, town and county officials, clerks and employees.
An ACT to incorporate the Lexington street railway, light and power company.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to purchase lands on the south branch of the Elizabeth river, adjoining the Gosport navy yard.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Cedar Grove school property to sell said property and dispose of and invest the proceeds according to the provisions of this act.
An ACT determining the respective interests of the county and corporation of Alexandria in the half square of ground in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, bounded by Columbus, Queen and Princess streets, upon which stands the courthouse, and the half square of ground in said city, bounded by St. Asaph, Princess and Pitt streets, upon which stands the jail, and authorizing the partition of said properties between the county and corporation of Alexandria, and of the sale of the courthouse property.
An ACT to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges, and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, and repealing so much of the acts as affects the county of Augusta, approved March 5, 1804.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1281 of the eade of Virginia relative to the verifications and publication of the annual reports of lmsurance companies.
AN ACT for the relief of Mrs. Angeline Bruce, widow of a Confederate soldier.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia railroad and mining company.
An ACT to authorize certain counties to subscribe to the stock of the Madison and Orange railroad on certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3, chapter 743, of acts of 1893-’94 in relation to time of assessing for taxation oysters and shells, &e.
An ACT to incorporate the Campbell county mutual fire insurance company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 340 of the acts of 1891-92 entitled an act to repeal chapter 324 of the acts of extra session 1887, and to put in full force section 1189 of the code of Virginia in relation to branch roads and lateral works.
An ACT to authorize and empower the mavor and council of the town of South Boston to issue bonds, &e.
An ACT for the relief of C. B. Beamer, S. J. Fisher, M. Goldberg, Ella Morgan, L. Shere and J. W. Richardson.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the third section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk, Willoughby Spit and Old Point railroad company
An ACT to incorporate the Leesburg and Point of Rocks turnpike company in the county of Loudoun and to authorize the road board of Leesburg district to appropriate road taxes to said turnpike company.
An ACT to incorporate the Washington terminal railroad company
An ACT to prescribe the amount of license tax to be paid by peddlers of manufactured implements and machines other than sewing machines, and by peddlers of cooking stoves and ranges and clocks.
AN ACT to authorize the school board of the Evansham school district of the county of Wythe to borrow money and to secure payment of it by deed of trust upon its real estate.
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Augusta to submit to the vote of the people the question of building a new courthouse and clerks’ offices for said county and of issuing bonds of said county for the purpose of raising funds to be used in the erection of said courthouse and clerks’ offices, and to give said board the power of building said courthouse and clerks’ offices, if the vote results favorably thereto.
An ACT to require fire insurance companies doing business in this state to refund to policy-holders a certain proportion of the premiums paid in certain cases.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to let to contract the public roads of that county and levy a tax to keep the same in repair,
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia sugar refining company and to prescribe the powers, rights and privileges, and to encourage the sugar-beet industry of the state of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2 in relation to the mayor; sections 6 and 7 of chapter 3 in relation to the common council; sections 2, 8, 9 and 10 of chapter 4 in relation to finance; section 11 of chapter 5 in relation to the city officers; and to add an independent section, in relation to omitted assessments, to said chapter of an act entitled, ‘‘An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg,” approved March 11, 1875, as amended by an act approved April 4, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1245 of the code of Virginia allowing the qualified voters of Floyd county to vote a subscription to the Blue Ridge railway company.
An ACT to provide for ascertaining and publishing a statement of the annual receipts and disbursements of the countics and cities of the common-wealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3532 of the code of Virginia in relation to fees of a jailor.
An ACT to amend section seventeen of the charter of the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT to incorporate the Point Comfort Beach railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 35d section of the charter of the city of Alexandria
An ACT to incorporate the Laurel railway company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money and issue bonds to rebuild Gloucester Point wharf.
An ACT to provide for the collection of delinquent taxes and levies in the county of Isle of Wight on property other than real estate.
An ACT to compensate school trustees other than clerks in the county of Grayson.
An ACT to require each bank or banking institution in the state to report to the auditor of public accounts all money deposited in such bank or banking institution by order of any court.
An ACT for the relief of the Sheltering arms hospital from collateral inheritance tax, under bequests made said hospital by the late James H. Farish and Elizabeth C. Waller, and to relieve the Woman’s Christian association and the Virginia hospital from the collateral inheritance tax under bequests made said association and said Virginia hospital by the late Elizabeth C. Waller.
An ACT to authorize the county school boards of Highland, Bath and Alleghany counties to compensate school trustees.
An ACT to authorize the supervisors of the counties of Rappahannock, Madison, Culpeper, Greene, Orange, Warren and Spotsylvania, or any of them, to aid in the construction of the Piedmont railway company.
An ACT to refund W. E. Varner and others taxes improperly paid by them.
An Act to require a record of money under control of courts and to provide for the assessment and payment of taxes thereon.
An ACT to extend the time within which the Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company may commence to construct, and within which it may finish the toll bridge over Tanner’s creek, permitted and authorized by chapter 80 of the acts of assembly 1895 and 1896, approved January 18, 1896.
An ACT in relation to working coal and other mineral veins in the counties of Henrico and Goochland.
An ACT to remove rafts and other obstructions in the bed of Hyco river, in the county of Halifax.
An ACT for the relief of Wm. Ayres, a disabled Confederate soldier of Patrick county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to make one special levy to provide for the payment of the interest and principal of the bonded indebtedness of Catalpa school district in said county, and to authorize the board of school trustees for said district to apply the proceeds thereof to said indebtedness.
An ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Newport News to cause to be issued for and in the name of the said city certificates of debt or bonds in addition to these authorized by section JOL of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter theretor, approved January 16, 1806, or any amendment thereto now existing or hereafter enacted, and in addition to the present indebtedness of the said city.
An ACT to provide for the establishing, altering and building the public roads and bridges in the county of Shenandoah and for working and keeping the same in repair.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twelve of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Ashland
An ACT to allow William P. Shelton, treasurer of the county of Hanover ke irginia, and his deputies further time to collect unpaid tax tickets now in their hands.
An ACT to validate and confirm an ordinance of the town of Berkley as to taxes omitted to be assessed in the mode prescribed by its charter for the years 1800, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896 and 1897.
An ACT tor working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Appomattox.
An ACT relating to the support and maintenance, In certain cases, of minors committed to the Prison association of Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of J. M. Curtis, treasurer of Warwick county, to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit said treasurer with lost school warrant.
An ACT to regulate the method of disbursing the fund provided by an act of the general assembly, approved February 26, 1877, for the protection of sheep in the county of Fairfax.
An ACT to provide a charter for the Consolidated railway and electric power company of Roanuke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county.
An ACT to incorporate the Princess Anne, Cape Henry and Lynnhaven Bay railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia state fair and agricultural association.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and Smithfield railroad company.
An ACT to amend section one, chapter eight, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville
An ACT to charter the Hill City benevolent relief association, of Lynchburg, Virginia.
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to provide certain machinery, tools, implements, and teams, to be used in working the public roads of the said county, and to authorize them to make requisition for penitentiary convicts to be employed in the operation thereof, and to regulate the use of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1220 of the code of Virginia which provides a penalty upon any corporation, Company, association, or any agent or employee of either, or any other person, for violating sections 1210, 1216, 1217, 1218 and 1219 of the code of Virginia.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the consolidation of the City gaslight company of Norfolk and the Norfolk gas and electric company under the name of the City gas company of Norfolk.
An ACT for the protection of assignees, transferees or endorsers of debts secured on real estate by mortgage, deed of trust, vendor’s or mechanic's lien.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 603 of the code in reference to when and where each county and city treasurer shall receive the taxes and levies.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Alexandria county, Virginia, to build court-house, clerk’s office and jail at Fort Myer heights, Alexandria county, Virginia, and to issue bonds to pay for the same, and to levy a special tax to pay the principal and interest on said bonds.