Public expenditures

1895/1896
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Page county to apply any surplus that may arise from what is known as the railroad tax to the payment of the amount expended by said board in the erection of a jailer’s residence and jail in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 16 and 21 of an act approved February 12, 1892, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act passed March 21, 1836, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in Botetourt county (now in Roanoke county), and all acts amendatory thereto.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and nine of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Chesapeake bay and Great Western railway company, approved February 19, 1894.
An ACT to require the judges of courts and the clerks to certify to the auditor of public accounts lists of all allowances made by courts.
An ACT to authorize the increase of the capital stock of the Portsmouth street railway company.
An ACT for the relief of John A. Buchanan, a Confederate veteran,
An ACT to impose a special license on dealers in pistols and pistol-cartridges in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county, approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, approved March 9, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereof, approved February 29, 1892, and to add an independent section empowering the town council of said town to negotiate a loan not to exceed five thousand dollars.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to issue bonds for the recerspuon of cerry bonds issued under an act of the general assembly approved May 23, 1
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 14, 1892, entitled an act to incorporate the Empire transportation company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to increase the allowance of the county treasurer for his services in receiving and disbursing county and school levies, including all moneys collected by order of the county authorities for any purpose.
An ACT making an appropriation for completion of repairs at capitol.
An ACT to amend an re-enact section 2197 of code of Virginia, 1887, relating to burial of hogs and fowls that die from contagious disease.
An ACT to constitute capitation tax a lien upon real estate owned
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Alexandria and Fairfax passenger railway company,” approved February 18, 1890, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact the first section of an act approved February 18, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Alexandria and Fairfax passenger railway company,” approved February 25, 1892.
An ACT to give to John C. Hall, late treasurer of the county of Franklin, and his deputies, power of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax-tickets now in his hands.
An ACT to incorporate the Frederick electric railway company.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 598 of the act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 3, 1894, entitled "an act in relation to working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Alexandria county."
An ACT to provide for better school facilities in the county of Craig and a levy of a special tax therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18, chapter 3, of an act entitled “‘ an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol, and provide a new charter for the same,”
An ACT authorizing the election of a town assessor for the town of Covington, in Alleghany county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 6 of an act entitled an act to protect. and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers and the guarantee and conditions upon which they are to be sold, and fixing the penalties incurred for violations of the same
An ACT authorizing the town of Culpeper to borrow money.
An ACT entitled an act to confirm and validate the charter of the People’s perpetual loan and building association of Roanoke, Va.
An ACT requiring the auditor of public accounts to make a statement, annually, showing an accounting of the county and city treasurers with the state who are in arrears, and prescribing the manner in which the same shall be made public.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Saltville, and to repeal an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Saltville,’” approved March
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to construct, operate and maintain a branch or connecting line between its railroads, in the counties of Goochland and Henrico, or either of them.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginid telephone manufacturing company.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds for sewerage and other purposes in the Fifth or Brambleton ward of said city, and to submit the same to a vote of the electors of said city.
An ACT to incorporate the Fairmount traction company.
An ACT to incorporate the Blacksburg railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Potomac river railroad company.
An ACT entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved July 9, 1870, and to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 21, 1877, and to amend and re-enact an act, approved February 17, 1890, and to re-enact an act, approved January 29, 1894, relating to the charter of the town of Harrisonburg.
An ACT to allow W. J. Woods, treasurer of Giles county, and his deputies, further time for collecting uncollected taxes in Giles county.
An ACT to incorporate the Citizens deposit bank of Waynesboro, Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the making and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Charlotte county.
An ACT to incorporate the Halifax building and loan company
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 57 of the charter of the city of Manchester, and to validate all taxes and assessments in said city made prior to and including the years 1895 and 1896.
An ACT governing the location of toll-gates on the Front Royal turnpike company’s road, in the counties of Frederick and Clarke.
An ACT to allow Mrs. W. C. Corson to draw from the treasury of the state any salary due the estate of Wm. C. Corson, deceased, and to authorize the auditor of public accounts to pay the same.
An ACT for the relief of Thomas C. Miller, treasurer of the town of Wytheville.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 14th section of an act entitled 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, approved May 23, 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 3 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Graham, in the county of Tazewell, approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizin the board of supervisors of Pittsylvania county to issue the bonds of said county for the purpose of raising money to pay off bonds of said county, approved February 7, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 30, 1895.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Tazewell high school to sell and Convey any property held by them to the trustees of the Jeffersonville district free school board, to be held by the latter for free school purposes.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Giles county to issue bonds for the purpose of building a bridge or bridges in said county.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Bristol to issue bonds to pay its bonded indebtedness.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved Fehruary 23, 1888, as amended by an act entitled “ an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Waynesboro,” approved January 26, 1992, and to authorize said town to issue bonds for water and cemetery purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15 and 22 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Crewe, in the county of Nottoway, approved March 8, 1894.
An ACT extending further time to A. O. Burks, treasurer of the city of Buena Vista, for the collection of unpaid taxes due to the common-wealth and to said city.
An ACT for working, keeping in repair, and building the roads and bridges in Buckingham county.
An ACT to fix the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of Bedford county, requiring every sixty days statement of collections and payment into the treasury of the state revenues, and to empower the board of supervisors Ld meds to the county court that it demand a new or additional
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia transit company and to authorize it to engage in mining, manufacturing, and storage.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled “ An act to provide for the estab- lishment of a high school for Bedford county,” approved March 8, 1894.
An ACT to incorporate the Wythe county railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the charter of the city of Williamsburg and to authorize the common council to issue bonds for the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a school building for white children of said city.
An ACT for the relief of James H. Todd, of Augusta county, authorizing the auditor of public accounts to issue a duplicate warrant, the original having been lost, for allowance as assessor of lands in North River district, Augusta county.
An ACT for the relief of W. H. Ewing, treasurer of Prince Edward county.
An ACT prescribing the pay of the harbor master of Carter’s creek, in Lancaster county.
An ACT to authorize the city of Staunton to condemn the right of way through the grounds of the Virginia female institute in said city of Staunton, for the extension of Baldwin street.
An ACT to enable the rector and board of visitors of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college to procure a supply of water and to construct and maintain a system of water-works.
An ACT for compensation of William S. Jones and William T. Daougherty for services beyond the time allotted by law in assessing the lands of Elizabeth City county.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to provide for opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges : the county of Culpeper.
An ACT to incorporate the McDaniel and Farmville academy.
An ACT for the relief of R. T. Sears, one of the sureties of John H. Sears, late treasurer of Mathews county.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the counties of Northumberland and Westmoreland.
An ACT requiring superintendent of penitentiary to keep account of all expenses incurred in delivering convicts to the penitentiary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 22, 1871, to incorporate the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, and to provide a new charter for same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of the charter of the town of Luray, Va., as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, authorizing the town council to levy a tax for street and road purposes.
An ACT to ratify, confirm and enlarge the charter of the Norfolk wharf, warehouse and terminal company, to confer upon it the rights and obligations of a railway and transportation company as prescribed, and to change the name thereof to the Norfolk terminal and transportation company.
An ACT to consolidate the Hampton and Old Point railway company and the Newport News street railway company, and thereby create a corporation to be known as the Newport News, Hampton and Old Point railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the United land and investment company.
An ACT to incorporate the Lexington and Goshen railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol terminal company.
An ACT for the permanent improvement of roads in Stevensburg magisterial district of Culpeper county, and in such other districts as may adopt the same.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and northwestern railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the McCullough terminal railway, wharf warehouse company.
An ACT to incorporate the Winchester telephone company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 40 of an act entitled “ an act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, and by an act approved the 17th day of March, 1876. and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved March 8, 1894.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved February 22, 1890, entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, and to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 12 of said act, as amended by an act approved February 12, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 12 of an act entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, approved February 22, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 88 of an act entitled "an act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, and by an act approved the 17th day of March, 1876, and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved March 8, 1894."
An ACT to prohibit the catching of fish by any person other than the owner in any private pond or stream in Southampton county.
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to make rules concerning the working of criminals sentenced to work on the public roads or farms, or other public works of said counties, and to provide suitable buildings for the care and custody of said criminals.
An ACT to amend section 31 of an act approved February 29, 1896, to provide for opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk electric light and power company.
An ACT to empower the school board of Battletown district, Clarke county, to borrow money to erect a school-house.
An ACT to authorize the city council of Fredericksburg to issue its coupon or registered bonds for the purpose of constructing and improving streets and for other purposes of internal improvements and benefit to the city.
An ACT to extend the time for commencing and completing ths construction of the railroad authorized under the act of the general assembI
An ACT to ratify and confirm the issue by the city of Fredericksburg of $80,000 of 5 per cent. water bonds, and also confirming the executi by said city of a deed of trust to secure the payment of said bonds.
An ACT to protect sub-contractors, supply men and laborers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 875 of the code of Virginia 1887, in relation to the salary of the superintendent of the poor in Buckingham county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Winchester, approved April 2, 1874.
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Bath county to compensate school trustees.
An ACT to authorize the Winchester and Potomac railroad company to borrow money, execute mortgages on its property to secure it, to fix the recording tax, and to confirm the existing lease to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Elizabeth night-ferry company.
An ACT authorizing board of supervisors of Accomac county to levy a tax on real and personal property in Island district, for the erection of a lock-up on Chincoteague island, Accomac county.
An ACT to provide for the reorganization of the institution for the deaf and dumb and the blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled “an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the deaf, dumb and blind institute at Staunton, Virginia,” approved May 14, 1887.