Public expenditures

1878/79
An ACT to amend an act entitled an 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 for the relief of Joseph Wyche, of Brunswick county.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Portsmouth
An ACT for the relief of the tax-payers of the county of Orange.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1878-79.
An ACT to incorporate the Bangens Hydraulic Mining and Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 67th section of the charter of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Marion with reference to the election, duties, and powers of councilmen, by adding an additional section thereto.
An ACT appropriating one thousand dollars for necessary repairs to the Capitol.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Prince Edward county.
An ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to assist the Manchester free-bridge commissioners in keeping the free bridge in repair.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth water company.
An ACT for the protection of fish in certain waters of the commonwealth.
An ACT for the relief of A. T. Mooklar, late deputy sheriff of King William county.
An ACT for working the roads in the counties of Powhatan, Cumberland, and Goochland.
An Act to incorporate the Planters Savings Bank at Chatham, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the corporation of Farmville to borrow money
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Portsmouth Water Company
An ACT to amend and re-enact the sixteenth section of an act approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for working the roads of Loudoun county, passed 1856, and to repeal certain acts amendatory thereof
An ACT in relation to the assessment of real property for purposes of municipal taxation in the city of Alexandria, and to exempt and except said city from the operation of an act entitled an act to provide a basis of municipal taxation on the real property in cities and towns, approved March 29, 1877.
An ACT to authorize the Pulaski and Giles Turnpike Company to change the grade of their road.
An ACT for the relief of W. J. Shumate
An ACT authorizing the trustees of Andrew chapel congregation of the town of Harrisonburg to execute a deed of trust on its church property.
An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the Virginia Female Institute to borrow money to a limited amount, and to secure the same by trust deed or mortgage.
An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria and Fairfax Agricultural and Industrial Association.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Mineral and Gypsum Railroad Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act entitled an 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 authorizing the Governor to request the public creditors to meet the General Assembly for conference about a plan of settlement of the State debt.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to authorize the construction, alteration, and repair of roads in the counties of Carroll and Grayson, approved February 13, 1877, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1878.
An Act to empower the board of supervisors of Augusta county to levy a tax in aid of the Augusta Memorial Association for the Confederate dead
An Act instructing the Board of Public Works to enquire into the alleged contract heretofore existing between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and the Potomac Steamboat Company, and to take such action as may be necessary to protect the State’s interest in said railroad company.
JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the payment of the expenses of the committee appointed to accompany the remains of the late Dr. E. C. Robinson to his home.
An Act authorizing the Governor to extend the time for the conference with the public creditors
An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Bedford.
An Act to provide for the erection of suitable shoots for the passage of fish by the owners of mill-dams across the North Brauch of the Shenandoah river
An ACT to furnish convict labor to work on the public roads of Wythe county.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 14 of the charter of the city of Danville.
An ACT authorizing the committees to which was referred Senate bill 29, to permit counsel for claimants to said land, occupied by the Central Lunatic Asylum, to appear before them without paying the tax required by law of counsel appearing before legislative committees.
An ACT to authorize the colored Baptist church, of Liberty, Virginia, to borrow money and secure the payment of same by deed of trust on the church property.
An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase by the government of the United States of land in Alexandria county for the abutment of and the necessary approaches to the bridge proposed to be constructed across the Potomac river at or near the Three Sisters’ island, and the building of such abutment and approaches upon such land, and ceding jurisdiction over the same.
An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United States of tithe to and Jurisdiction over lands within the state of Virginia for sites of life-saving stiutious.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 4th section of an act approved March 12, 1878, in relation to office hours of certain officers and clerks of the state government
An ACT to amend and re-enact the Ist and 2d sections of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the roads in the counties of Scott, Wise and Buchanan
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Suffolk
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the working of the public roads in the counties of Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield, and Lancaster.
An ACT for the protection of the institutions of the State, public trusts and funds.
JOINYT RESOLUTION to provide for the assessment of property for taxation for the year 1879.
An ACT to incorporate the Dan Valley and Yadkin River Narrow-Gauge railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the governor to borrow money.
An ACT for the better protection of game in Alexandria and Fairfax counties.
An ACT to authorize the county court of Giles county to exempt residents of the town of Newport from working on the public roads outside of said town.
An ACT to provide for working and repairing the roads and bridges in the county of Smyth.
An ACT for the relief of J. B, Hylton, of Wise county
An ACT authorizing the classification of the stock of the Norfolk library association.
An ACT to allow H. C, Hudson, treasurer of Halifax county, extension of time to make his returns of delinquents and insolvents in the revenue for 1877.
An ACT to refund to Thomas I. Gravatt, of Caroline county, a license tax.
An ACT to provide for the use of convict labor on the public grounds of Richmond city
An ACT to provide an enclosure for the soldiers’ section in Hollywood cemetery.
An ACT to incorporate the Bank of Dublin
An ACT allowing further time to John H. Chichester, treasurer of Fairfax county, to make his return of delinquents and insolvents for eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Columbia, in Flu- Vanna county.
An ACT to enable the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to increase its capital stock for certain purposes.
An ACT to authorize the James River and Kanawha Company to make sale and transfer of all its works, property, and franchises to the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company, and to define the powers and duties of the Board of Public Works in respect thereto.
An ACT for the relief of James K. Lowry, late collector
An ACT to authorize BE, A. Jeffreys to erect a wharf upon his land on Chincoteague, in the county of Accomac.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia aud Statesville Narrow-Gauge railroad company.

1879/80
An ACT to ineorporate the Mutual Benefit Association of Southwest Virginia.
An ACT defining the conditions of conveyance and recordation under any sale the James River and Kanawha Company may make of its works and franchises.
An ACT to provide for taking the sense of the people of Norfolk county in regard to changing the site of the courthouse of said county.
An ACT to authorize the legally qualified voters of the county of Augusta to empower the supervisors of said county to borrow money for the purpose of macadamizing certain public roads in said county.
An ACT to amend the sixth section of an act entitled 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 authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company to construct and work a branch of its line of railroad from a point near Hanover Junction to deep water on the Chesapeake bay near Piankatank or elsewhere.
An ACT to incorporate Walker’s Creek Bridge and Turnpike Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in order the public roads in Alexandria county
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the securities of Charles 8S. Powell, late sheriff of Pittsylvania county.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to refund to N. Rensch, of Pittsylvania county, a license tax
An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the county of Greensville to issue bonds to build a bridge.
An ACT to extend the time for collection of taxes in the county of Buchanan for the years from 1875 to 1877, inclusive.
An ACT for the relief of the county of Henrico.
An Act appropriating fifteen hundred dollars to enable the governor to enforce the oyster laws in the waters of the Rappahannock river.
An ACT instructing the Governor to hire out the convicts at the Granite Company’s works to Messrs. Mason, Shannahan and Hoge, for the sum of thirty-five cents per day in addition to their maintenance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to enable the Board of Supervisors of Chesterfield county to assist the Manchester Free-Bridge Commissioners in keeping the Free Bridge in repair
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to authorize special elections for school purposes in the county of Alexandria.
An ACT to incorporate the Baltimore, Cincinnati and Western Railway Company.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the First (colored) Baptist Church of Manchester, Virginia, to borrow money and give a deed of trust.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 10 of an act to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Clarke county
An ACT to amend and consolidate into one act the laws prescribing the manner in which the public printing shall be executed, and defining the duties of the superintendent thereof.
An ACT to incorporate the Iron Company of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Portsmouth Terminal Railway, Wharf and Warehouse Company.
An ACT in relation to certain uncollected dog taxes in the county of Lee.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the African Episcopal Zion Church, of the city of Petersburg, to borrow money.
An ACT to incorporate a joint stock company for constructing a railroad from some point on the Richmond and Danville railroad in the county of Halifax, to Shady Grove in the county of Franklin, to be called the Halifax and Pittsylvania railroad.
An ACT to prevent and punish the misuse or misappropriation of public funds by public officers.
An ACT to re-enact and renew the charter of the Petersburg Gas-Light Company.
An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Warren.
An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Clarke county to borrow money.