Public expenditures

1876/1877
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg and North Carolina railroad company.
An ACT to provide for erecting, rebuilding and repairing bridges in Fairfax county.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Clarke county.
An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Rockbridge.
An ACT to confirm and make valid the purchase, by the city of Portsmouth, of a certain tract of land, for a ‘‘pest-house,’’ and to authorize the council of said city to sell certain real estate, held by said city, and for other purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 37th section of the 4th chapter of the Code, edition 1873, so as to provide for the publication of statements of expenditures authorized by judges of the circuit and corporation courts.
An ACT to authorize the secretary of the commonwealth to furnish the clerks of the county courts of Accomack, Northumberland, Westmoreland, King George, Stafford, Prince William, Fairfax, Alexandria, Middlesex, Mathews, Gloucester, and Loudoun, with copies of the map returned by the commissioners to arbitrate the boundary line between Virginia and Maryland.
An ACT for the relief of George Ben Johnston, of Wash-ington county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-two, chapter one hundred and eighty-one of Acts eighteen hundred and seventy-four and seventy-five, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, approved March twentieth, cighteen hundred and seventy-five, so as to provide for garnisheeing road tines.
An ACT to authorize Joseph T. Kenny to erect a wharf upon his land on Chincoteague island.
An ACT allowing John H. Sears, treasurer of Mathews county, time to make his return of delinquents and insolvents in the revenue of 1875.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New river railroad
An ACT to amend section 14, chapter 40, of Code of Virginia, in relation to sale of land for debts due the commonwealth.
An ACT to establish a department of agriculture, mining, and manufacturing, for the stato.
An ACT prescribing the compensation to commissioners of the revenue and treasurers, for services under the act imposing a tax, and prescribing the mode of collecting the same, on the privilege of selling wine, ardent spirits, or malt liquors, within the limits of the commonwealth, for the support of the government, and to pay the interest on the public debt
An ACT for the formation of the New river mining and manufacturing company.
An ACT making an appropriation for the ventilation of the hall of the House of Delegates, and the clerk's office thereof.
An ACT to require commissioners of the revenue to keep the school tax in each school district separate, where two or more districts are included in the same commissioner’s district.
An ACT requiring owners of mill-dums, on the Shenandoah river, to construct shoots, dr sluices, fur the passage of boats and fish.
An ACT to authorize the board of publie works to sell the state’s interest in the Jackson’s river turnpike company.
An ACT providing for submitting to the voters of Warren county, on fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the adoption or rejection of a law for working and keeping the public roads in order in said county.
An ACT to authorize the directors of the Baldwin Augusta county fair to borrow money.
An ACT requesting the governor to appoint two inspecturs of tobacco for the public warehouse in the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Edinburg, Shenandoah county, Virginia.

1877/1878
An ACT to regulate the working of the public roads in the counties of Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield, and Lancaster.
An ACT to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
An ACT to provide for keeping the paupers in the counties of Scott, Lee, Grayson, Carroll, Floyd, Goochland, Bedford, Mathews, Rockbridge, and Amherst, and to repeal an act approved March 29, 1877, for keeping the paupers in the counties of Scott, Lee, and Grayson.
An ACT requiring the auditor of public accounts to make quarterly payments to the second auditor on account of arrearages due the public school fund.
An ACT to authorize the construction of a turnpike road in Princess Anne and Norfolk counties.
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing Senators and requesting Representatives in the Congress of the United States to vote for the remonetization of silver.
An ACT to amend section 19 of chapter 118, of an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874.
An ACT for the relief of Samuel Bailey
An ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Prince William county to borrow money.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Fairfax
An ACT for the relief of Harvey Lambert.
An ACT to amend section 68 of chapter 34 of the Code of 1878, as amended and re-enacted by acts approved February 13th, and April 14th, 1877, in reference to insurance compunies.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Straight-shoot railroad company, to change its name to the Richmond and Alleghany railroad company, and to extend its limits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first sub-division of the 15th section of the act for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, licenses, &c., and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt
An ACT confirming the purchase of a lot of land by the Boydton Baptist Church, and authorizing the sale of the same,,or a portion thereof; and authorizing the trustees to borrow money to erect a house of worship.
An ACT to amend and re-enact paragraph 4th of section 16, chapter 77, Code of 1873, in relation to the number of students to be apportioned to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical college.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of certain school property in the town of Marion, Smyth county, to make a good and sufficient title to M. E. church, South, of a portion of the school lot.
An ACT to incorporate the Rappahannock Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
An ACT to furnish convict labor to the counties of Wythe, Carroll, and Grayson, to work upon the Raleigh and Grayson turnpike and Wythe and Grayson turnpike roads.
An ACT for the relief of Eliza Callis from an erroneous assessment.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of S. F. G. Beale, late treasurer of Fauquier county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section fourteen of chapter thirty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to taxes collected by the clerks of courts, notaries public, and the secretary of the commonwealth.
An ACT to allow the Artillery Greys and Guards of Petersburg to take and utilize certain brick belonging to the commonwealth.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to issue a certain amount of county bonds to build a bridge.
An ACT for the relief J. C. Conway, of Washington county.
An ACT for the relief of the heirs of James Baynes and John B. Baynes, deceased, late of the firm of James Baynes and Son, of Baltimore, Maryland.
An ACT incorporating the Pittsylvania and Franklin railroad company.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the encourage-ment of land purchasers and actual settlers in Virginia, and to repeal an act approved March 29, 1873, entitled an act for the encourage-ment of immigration and to dispose of the books and pamphlets in the possession of the board of immigration.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia general manufacturing and produce shipping company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, approved March 20th, 1875, so as to authorize the county of Warren to levy a tax, not to exceed fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars of property.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of Methodist Episcopal parsonage, Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, to borrow money.
An ACT for the relief of Thomas M. Carter, John J. Pritchett, Willinm A. J. Finney, Hezekiah Pigs, E. T. Jones, Frank C. Hubbard, and Gideon BE. Keen, suretics of Charles L. Powell, late sheriff of Pittsylvania county.
An ACT allowing further time to Wm. E. Boisseau, sergeant of Danville, to make his return of delinquents and insolvents for the year 1876.
An ACT to authorize the city of Manchester to purchase Mayo’s bridge.
JOINT RESOLUTION to authorize the attorney-general
An ACT to authorize the city council of Alexandria to compromise the debt of the city, and to issue bonds in accordance with the terms of such compromise, and prescribing the mode in which the payment of the interest on such bonds may be enforced.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act approved March 18th, 1872, relative to the forfeiture of the rights and franchises of the trustees of Willis river and the incorporation of Willis navigation company.
An ACT to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the county of Rockbridge.
An ACT to provide for working and repairing the roads and bridges in the county of Buckingham.
An ACT to incorporate the Whitetop turnpike company
JOINT RESOLUTION directing auditor of public accounts to collect statistical information, to tabulate the same, and to keep the same in printed form in his office for public use.
An ACT to provide for repairing the Rivanna canal with convict labor.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Middlesex county to levy for and collect, and to invest certain school funds in Middlesex county.
An ACT to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the counties of Pulaski and Wythe.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 19th, 1876, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 28, chapter 78 of the Code of 1873, to provide for taking the census of school population.
An ACT allowing further time to William M. Field, treasurer of Dinwiddie county, to make his return of delinquents and insolvents for 1876.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Baldwin-Augusta Fair.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of chapter 84, of Code of 1873, in relation to the duties and salary of the vaccine agent.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act approved March 20, 1875, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth.
An ACT to amend the tenth section of an act to incorporate the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company, and to enable the James River and Kanawha Company to subscribe to the capital stock thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 20th section, 79th chapter, Code of 1873, in regard to duties of city councils to make appropriations for school purposes.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of New Kent county to borrow money to rebuild the jail.
An ACT for the relief of Gideon W. Jones, of Warren
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Rockbridge, approved March 5, 1877, and to provide for the disposition of the taxes and levies collected or assessed under the same.
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the McCormick telescope.
An ACT for the relief of John O'Keefe
An ACT to provide for the transportation of convicts and insane persons and their guards at reduced rates.
An ACT to authorize the Potomac, Fredericksburg, and Piedmont railroad to extend its road, to receive donations, and to change its name.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 25 of an act for working the roads of Loudoun county
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Shenandoah and Page
An ACT providing for the lease of the penitentiary, and the hiring of the convict labor.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Conquest and Guilford’s Circuit Parsonage property to borrow money.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, of chapter 148, of the Code of 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 26, 1877, in relation to attachments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working of roads and repairing bridges in the county of Rappahannock, with reference to the collection and application of the road tax in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 22d, 26th, and 27th sections of an act entitled an act amending the charter of the town of Danville, passed March 4th, 1844, and incorporating into one all acts amendatory thereof, passed December Lith, 1465, and to amend and re-enact the 7th and 8th sections of the act amendatory of the same, approved March 25th, 1872.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds for the purpose of redeeming certain outstanding bonds of said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to contract for the erection of a bridge across Jones’ creek in said county
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to authorize the construction, alteration, and repair of roads in the counties of Carroll and Grayson
An ACT for the relief of Samuel C. Adams, of Pittsylvania county.
JOINT RESOLUTION declaring the First National Bank of Richmond, and the Union Bank of Richmond, depositories of public moneys.
An ACT to amend the act for the protection of sheep in the county of Powhatan.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth
An Act to constitute the town of Warrenton and surrounding territory a separate school district.
An ACT to incorporate the Meherrin Valley railroad company.
An ACT to provide for working the roads in the counties of Shenandoah and Page.
An ACT to provide for the use of convict labor on the James river and Kanawha canal.