Public expenditures

1872/1873
An ACT to Provide for the Payment of the Amount due from the State on account of her Subscription to the Saltville and Laurel Turnpike Company.
An ACT to Authorize the County Court of Norfolk County to appoint Commissioners to divide the Roads of the various Townships in said County into Convenient Road Districts, and to Contract Annu-ally for keeping in repair the Public Roads in said County.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section one of an Act passed February 2d, 1865, entitled an Act to Authorize Express and other Transportation Companies to sell Unclaimed Freights.
An ACT to Authorize the Board of Public Works to sell the State’s Interest in the Lynchburg and Salem Turnpike Company.
An ACT to Provide for the Collection of the Revenue of the City of Norfolk for the Year eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 33 of Chapter 162 of the Code of 1860, and Section 10 of Chapter 208 of said Code, as amended by an Act in force February 1, 1872, in Relation to the Pay of Jurors.
An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of William M. Hume, deceased, late Sheriff of Fauquier County.
An ACT to Amend the Act in force February 7th, 1872, in relation to the Investment of the Proceeds arising from the Sale of the Land Scrip donated by Congress to Virginia.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 63 of Chapter 385 of Acts of 1871-'72, as to Collection of Tax on Coupons.
An ACT to set apart the Revenue received for Public Free School purposes, and to apply the same to the support of the Public Free Schools of the State.
An ACT Authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Elizabeth City County to Borrow Money to Rebuild the Court-house of said County, Destroyed by Fire during the late War.
An ACT to Authorize the Board of Snvervisors of the Sev-eral Counties to Appoint a Physician and Nurse to Attend the Poor, and to Kegulate their Compensation.
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the Senators in Congress from Virginia to Vote against the Repeal of the Bankrupt Law, and requesting the Representatives from Virginia to unite their efforts with said Senators therein, &c.
An ACT Giving the Consent of the State for the Purchase by the United States of Land within this State for the Erection of Light Houses
An ACT directing the Board of Public Works to Sell the State’s Interest in the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company.
An ACT to Extend the time for the Completion of its Road by the Fredericksburg, Orange and Charlottesville Railroad Company, to Provide for Constructing a Branch and Extension of said Road, and to Prescribe what may be Done to Complete same in case of Forfeiture Incurred by said Company.
An ACT to Authorize the Corporate Authorities of the Town of Liberty to borrow Money.
An ACT Appropriating a Sum of Money for the Protection of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum from Destruction by Fire.
An ACT for the Relief of William P. Bogle, Elias Harman and Franklin G. Helvey.
JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the Governor to give Official Notice to the Creditors of the State.
An ACT to Incorporate the Isle of Wight Land and Lumber Company.
An ACT supplemental to an Act to Appropriate the Income arising from the Proceeds of the Land Scrip accruing to Virginia under Act of Congress of July 2d, 1862, and an Act amendatory thereof, approved March 10th, 1872.
An ACT to Authorize the Common Council of the Town of Danville to Borrow Money.
JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Governor to Appoint Commissioners from Virginia to the Vienna Exposition
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Charter of the Town of Salem, in the County of Roanoke.
An Act to Establish a High School in the Town of Jeffersonville, and to Constitute said Town and the County for Three Miles around the same a Sub-School District, and for other purposes.
AN ACT to authorize the County Court of Bedford County to order the Sale of certain Lands in said County, and apply the proceeds thereof to the completion of a Church.
An ACT to Repeal an Act entitled ‘* An Act to provide for the payment of Interest on the Public Debt.”
An ACT Requiring the Joint Committee for the Norfolk County Ferries to Report and make Annual Settlements.
An ACT to Incorporate the Richmond and Henrico Turnpike Company.
An ACT to Amend Sections 4, 23 and 25 of an Act in Relation to Working the Roads in Loudoun County.
An Act to Amend the fifty-eighth Section of the Act passed at the Present Session of the General Assembly, entitled an Act for the Preservation of Oysters and to Obtain a Revenue for the Privilege of taking them Within the Waters of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to Amend Section 13, Chapter 86, Code of 1860, in Relation to the Vaccine Agent of the State.
JOINT RESOLUTION in Relation to the sale of the State’s Interest in the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company or other Internal Improvement Companies in the State.
JOINT RESOLUTION to appoint a Committee to adjust the State Debt.
JOINT RESOLUTION Instructing the Second Auditor to Pay Interest on State Bonds held by the School Trustees of Prince William County.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act Providing for the Re-assessment of Lands in the Commonwealth, Passed February 1, 1872, so as to Enable those Counties in the State which Failed to Avail themselves of the Provisions of said Act to do so.
JOINT RESOLUTION in Regard to the Public Debt
An ACT for the Relief of A. W. Vaughan, Collector of Francisco Township, in Buckingham County, in the year 1871.
An ACT to Amend an Act entitled ‘‘An Act Authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Buckingham County, Virginia, to Borrow Money to Rebuild the Courthouse of said County, Destroyed by Fire 1868,” approved March 15th, 1871.
An ACT to Incorporate the Brock’s Gap, Hardy and Hampshire Railroad Company.
An ACT to Incorporate the Boston Wharf and Warehouse Company of Norfolk.
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the Auditor of Public Accounts to subject the property of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company to the Payment of Taxes due and in arrear
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the first Section of an Act approved March 25th, 1871, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact the Ist and 4th Sections of an Act entitled an Act to Authorize the City of Norfolk to Construct Water Works for the use of the People of said Oity, passed January 14th, 1867.
An ACT to Provide for the Payment of Interest on the Public Debt.
An ACT to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of Bath County to Borrow Money to Vefray the Cost of Erecting a Bridge over the Cowpasture River.
An ACT for the Relief of Joseph T. Griffith and others, Sureties of Charles A. Milton, late Collector of Battletown Township, County of Clarke.
An ACT to Authorize the Revocation of Subscriptions to the Valley Railroad Company, and the Transfer of the same on Certain Conditions.
An ACT for the Relief of Joel L. Walker, Administrator of the Estate of David Bruce, deceased.
AN ACT in Relation to the Aaron Hall Free School Fund of the County of Hanover.
An ACT to amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act for the Relief of the late Sheriffs of the Commonwealth
An ACT to Authorize James Duncan and others to Erect a Pier Head in Ware River, in the County of Gloucester.
An ACT for the Relief of G. Guvernator, C. Wendlinger and E. Lohman, Securities of Fernando King, Late Sheriff of Surry County.
An ACT to Authorize the Corporate Authorities of Winchester to Borrow Money.
An ACT to Regulate the Working of the Roads of Rockbridge and Lee Counties
An ACT Authorizing the Rector and Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia to Expend a Certain sum of Money.
An ACT to Incorporate the Rockbridge McAdam Road Company
An ACT Directing the Auditor of Public Accounts to Receive from the Sureties of Robert F. Vaughan, late Sheriff of Goochland County, Coupon Bonds of the State in Payment of their Liabilities as such Sureties.
An ACT Authorizing the Old Dominion Coal Company to Construct a Railroad from their Coal Mines, in Powhatan county, to James river.
An ACT for the Protection of Fish in Smith’s River, in the County of Henry.
JOINT RESOLUTION Instructing the Attorney-General to Inquire whether any Dividends were Due the State on Stock held by the State in the Petersburg and Roanoke Railroad Company before the Date
An ACT to Authorize the Issue of Certificates of State Debt to the Executors of Jacquelin P. Taylor for Principal and Interest on certain Lost Coupon Bonds.
An ACT to Incorporate the Nansemond and Norfolk County Turnpike Company
An ACT to Incorporate the Danville and New River Narrow Gauge Railroad.
AN ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of John Thompson, late Sheriff of Tazewell County.
An ACT to Incorporate the Powell’s River Navigation Company and to Prescribe the Duties thereof.
An ACT for the Relief of Robert M. Heterick, late Superintendent of Schools for Rappahannock County.
An Act to Prevent the Conversion of Moneys received by the Collecting Officers of the Commonwealth into Coupons, and for other purposes.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Approved March 23, 1872, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact the ninth Section of the Act approved March 31st, 1871, to Incorporate the Richmond and Henrico Railroad, Turnpike and Graded Road Company.
JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Board of Public Works to Audit the Claim of Cock & Collier for Work done on the Danville and Wytheville Turnpike.
An ACT to Authorize the Second Auditor to Issue Duplicates of certain Warrants on the Treasury Lost or Destroyed before Payment.
An Act to Authorize the Trustees of Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Danville, to borrow Money.
An ACT for the Preservation of Oysters and to Obtain Revenue for the Privilege of taking them Within the Waters of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the first, second and third Sections of the Act to Authorize the Formation of the New River Railroad, Mining and Manufacturing Company
An ACT to Authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Halifax to vote on the Question of the Purchase of the Toll Bridge at South Boston in that County, in order to make it a Free Bridge.
An ACT to Encourage Donations to the University of Virginia and to Constitute the State of Virginia the Trustee thereof.
An ACT to Authorize the Sureties of James S. Barksdale, as late Sheriff of Albemarle, to Discharge the Judgment against them in Favor of the Commonwealth with the Bonds of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to Authorize the Board of Public Works to Sell the State’s Interest in the Upper Appomattox Company.
An ACT to Authorize the Trustees of the Town of Manchester to issue Bonds for Improvements in said Town.
An ACT to Authorize the County of Surry to Borrow Money to Rebuild the Jail Recently Destroyed by Fire.
An ACT Incorporating Leesburg and Goose Oreek Bridge Company.
An ACT Providing for Working and Keeping in Proper Repair the Roads of Fauquier County.
An ACT for the Payment of the Funeral Expenses of Wm. S. Rohr, late an Officer of the Senate.
An ACT to Authorize the Common Council of Petersburg to Issue Bonds of the City, to the Amount of Forty Thousand Dollars, for Public School Purposes.
An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of H. G. Wax, Township Collector in the Estillville Township, Scott County.
An Act to Provide Artificial Limbs for Citizens of the Commonwealth who Lost their Limbs during the War
AN ACT to Incorporate the Richmond and Fair Oaks Turnpike Company, in the County of Henrico.
AN ACT to Authorize the City of Richmond to Contribute to the Building of a Railroad from Keysville to Clarksville.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Second Section of an Act entitled ‘An Act authorizing an Increase of the Capital Stock of the Kanawha Coal Company, and for other purposes,” passed March Ist, 1858.
An ACT to Authorize the Common Council of Petersburg to issue Bonds to the amount of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars, for the purpose of Paying off the Indebtedness of said City.
An ACT to Empower the Circuit Court of Wise County to Direct the Sale of certain Lands belonging to the State of Virginia, situated in said County of Wise, and Providing for the Conveyance of the same to the Purchasers thereof, and for other purposes.
An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Louisa, in Louisa County.
An ACT for the Relief of William E. Grigsby, of King George County.
An ACT Providing for the Preservation of Historical Papers
An ACT to Authorize the Town of Manchester to Construct a Free Bridge over James River.
An ACT Authorizing the Board of Education to Fund the Bonds of Virginia Belonging to the Literary Fund.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 3rd Clause of the 57th Section of an Act entitled an Act to Regulate the Imposition, Assessment and Collection of Taxes for the Support of Public Free Schools, by Counties and School Districts, and for this Purpose to Repeal the 2nd Clause of the 14th Section and the 44th Section, and to Amend and Re-enact the 8th Clause of the 24th Section, and the 2nd and 3rd Clauses of the 57th Section, and the 59th and 64th Sections of Chapter 259 of Acts of 1869-70, entitled an Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools
An ACT to Provide for Placing on the Commissioners’ Books the Lands in the Commonwealth and to Amend Sections 2, 18, 20, 25 and 28 of Chapter 37, Code of 1860, in Relation to the Sales of Forfeited and Delinquent Lands, and for other Purposes,
JOINT RESOLUTION Instructing the Treasurer to Issue a Duplicate of Check No. 2,572 to J. H. Greenlee.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS to Authorize the Board of Public Works to Receive the Amount Due by the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad Company, and to Extend the Time for the Completion of the Washington and Ohio Railroad to the Town of Winchester