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1874/1875
An ACT to authorize the Auditor of Public Accounts to withhold for a limited time Execution on a Judgment when obtained against the Sureties of Jasper C. Hughes, late Sheriff of Gloucester County, and to receive the Principal and six per centum interest and costs in Satisfaction of said Judgment.
An ACT to incorporate the State Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria, No. 6, of the State of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate The Hamilton Institute.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 10 of Chapter 84 of Code of Virginia, edition of 18738, in Reference to the Propagation of Small-Pox.
An ACT to authorize the Township Board of Columbian Grove Township, in Lunenburg county, to Pay a Claim Due Dr. George E. Gee against said Township.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the third section of an Act entitled an Act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of York County to Borrow Money to Rebuild the Courthouse, Jail, and Clerk's Office of said County.
An ACT to provide for determining the respective terms of office of the several Members of the City Council of the City of Manchester.
An ACT to authorize the Chesterfield Land and Improvement Company to Construct a Railroad.
An ACT Providing for Submitting of Repeal of Fence Law in Centreville Bistrict, in whole or in part to Voters of Fuirfa:
An ACT to provide for a New Registration of Voters in Torrence’s Store Voting District, in the County of Chesterfield.
An ACT to incorporate the Town Hall and Temperance Lodge Relief Association of the Town of Fincastle.
An ACT to provide for the Establishment of a True Meridian Line in each County of the Commonwealth, East of the Alleghany Mountains.
An ACT for the relief of William T. Albright, late Sheriff
An ACT to provide for the Division of the Counties of the Commonwealth into Magisterial Districts.
An ACT to provide a Charter for the City of Petersburg.
An ACT for the Relief of A. F. Creel and his Sureties
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 13 of the Code of 1878, in relation to Salaries of certain Officers of Government.
An ACT to incorporate The British Association of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 162 of the Code of 1873, in relation to Printing the Reports of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
An ACT prescribing the Duties, Powers, Liabilities, and Compensation of certain County Officers, providing for the Collection of Taxes, and for the Repeal of chapters 37 and 46 of the Code of 1873.
An ACT to amend an Act approved March 27, 1873, entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act, passed the twenty-ninth of May, 1852, entitled an Act to Prescribe the Mode of Electing Trustees for the Town of Farmville, in the County of Prince Edward, and vesting them with Corporate Privileges, approved July.11, 1870, to Provide for the Election of Certain Officers by the Town Council.
JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Time for the Final Settlement of the Treasurer of the City of Richmond with the Auditor of Public Accounts.
JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the Courts of the Counties of Charles City and Albemarle, which have charge of the Marriage License Bond of Thomas Jefferson, and the Will of Thaddeus Kosciusko, to transfer those Documents to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, for preservation among the Historical Documents in the State Library.
An ACT prescribing the Duties, Powers, Liabilities, and Compensation of District Officers, and to repeal chapter 47 and section Ist of chapter 48 of the Code of 1873.
An ACT to incorporate The Grand United Sons and Daughters of the Living Council of the Cross, No. 1, in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the Virginia Military Institute to borrow money, and to secure the same by creating a lien on its real estate.
1875/1876
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections twenty-four and twenty-five of chapter one hundred and eighty, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, with reference to the collection of officers’ fees.
An ACT to incorporate the Friendly Aid Society of Halifax County.
An ACT to authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Chesterfield to Vote on the Question of Removal of the County Court-house.
An ACT to incorporate the Commercial Bank located in the city of Danville.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections fifteen and thirty of an Act approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, prescribing the Duties, Powers, Liabilities and Compensation of certain County Officers, providing for the Collection of Taxes, and for the Repeal of Chapters thirty-seven and forty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
An ACT to incorporate The Woodland Cemetery Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville Female College in the City of Danville.
An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal Year eighteen hundred and seventy-five-seventy-six.
An ACT to amend the Charter of Blacksburg.
An ACT modifying the Charter of Washington and Lee University
An ACT to Establish a Separate Election Precinct in the County of Northampton.
An ACT to incorporate the West Point Commercial Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-five, chapter two hundred and seventy-three, Session Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-one and seventy-two, entitled an Act Providing a Charter for the City of Staunton.
An ACT to incorporate the Grand United Order of Van-guard of Freedom and Temperance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act approved January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled an act to provide for the Registration of the Voters of the City of Danville.
An ACT prescribing the number of votes to which the stockholders of the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society are entitled in the meetings of the company.
An ACT to provide for a Special Election for an Attorney for the Commonwealth in Prince William County.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Town of Waterford, in Loudoun County, approved March eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.
An ACT to amend the Charter of The Richmond Male Orphan Society.
An ACT for the Relief of the late Sheriff of Charles City.
An ACT to revise and amend the Charter of The Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum.
JOINT RESOLUTION to ascertain the Number of Lunatics Confined in the Jails of the Several Counties.
An ACT for the Relief of John W. Plunket, late Collector of Blacksburg Township, in the County of Montgomery.
An ACT to provide for the Working of Roads in the County of Fauquier.
An ACT to authorize the Publication of Laws in Nelson and Amherst counties.
An ACT for the relief of the Sureties of James W. Modesitt, former Sheriff of Page County.
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 Thomas C. Cooke, late Collector of Ware Township, in Gloucester County.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section one of an act to incorporate the Greene Humane Society and for other purposes, passed March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of chapter seventy-six, Acts eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled an act to provide for the division of the counties of the commonwealth into Magisterial Districts.
An ACT to incorporate The Newbern Benevolent Society
An ACT to amend and re-enact section ten of an act to provide for the Election and Qualification of County Officers, approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.
An ACT to provide for the Election or Appointment of additional District Officers.
An ACT to prohibit the Sale, Exchange and Purchase of Corporate Property by the Board of Supervisors of any County, except with the Approval and Ratification of the County Court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the tenth section of chapter eighty of the Code, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to the University of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an Act approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the Relief of Township Creditors.
An ACT to amend an act approved July ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond Educational Association.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twelve of an act approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled an act providing a Charter for the City of Manchester.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section nineteen of chapter seventy-seven of the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three), concerning the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Agricultural aud Mechanical College, and the Board of Curators of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of the Charter of the Town of Chatham, Pittsylvania County.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-seven of chapter one hundred and eighty-nine, Sessions Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-two-seventy-three, the title to which act was amended by section one, chapter three hundred and sixteen, Sessions Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-two-seventy-three, to read as follows: An act to amend and re-enact sections twelve and twenty-four of an act Providing a Charter for the City of Norfolk, in force March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and to amend and re-enact sections six, fourteen and twenty-seven of the same act, as amended by an act in force March four, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and to repeal sections thirty-nine and forty of said act Providing a Charter for the City of Norfolk, in force March sixteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.
An ACT for the relief of the Sureties of William T. Payne, late Collector of Aquia Township, Stafford County.
An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of Lone Star Lodge, Number thirteen hundred and forty of the Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows of the City of Richmond.
An ACT to require release of Trust Deed and other obligations to be noted upon the margin of the record of such Deed or obligation.
An ACT for the Relief of Joseph H. Nelson, administrator of William M. Hume, deceased, late Sheriff of Fauquier County.
An ACT to authorize the Recordation by the Register of the Land Office, of Copies of Papers Recorded in Clerks’ Offices of the Commonwealth.
1876/1877
An ACT incorporating the town of Burkeville, in the county of Nottoway.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 249, Acts of Assembly 1856-7, in relation to the time of holding the elections for town officers in the town of Smithfield, in Isle of Wight county.
An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Norfolk county, to make an allowance to the clerk of the circuit court of said county, from the treasury thereof, for services rendered by him.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of chapter 269 of Acts of 1874-’75, fixing the time for county treasurer to settle county levy.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act approved March 29, 1875, as amended by an act approved March 29, 1876, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 15 and 80 of an act approved March 29, 1876, prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities, and compensation of certain county officers, providing for the collection of taxes, and for the repeal of chapters 37 and 46 of the Code of 1873.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18 and 19 of chapter 13 of the Code of 1873, in relation to pay and mileage of members of the general assembly.
An ACT to prohibit and prevent the officers and agents of corporations from becoming contractors with the said corporations.
JOINT RESOLUTION returning thanks to W. W. Corcoran, Esq., of Washington city, for his munificent gift to the University of Virginia.
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to a suit brought by the United States against Judge E. H. Fitzhugh.
An ACT to amend sections 22 and 32, chapter 36, Code of 1873, in reference to foreign insurance companies.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1876-77.
An ACT concerning the appointment of Curators of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, and to amend and re-enact section thirty, chapter seventy-seven, Code of 1878.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 20, 21, and 34 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 17, 1876.
An ACT to create a railroad commissioner for the state of Virginia, and to define his duties.
An ACT to provide for the working of roads and repairing bridges in the county of Rappahannock.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Methodist church, south, of Sydney, to sell and purchase property and to borrow money.
An ACT allowing William H. Bloxom, treasurer of Accomack county, time to make his return of delinquents and insolvents in the revenue of 1875.
An ACT to authorize Elzey Evans, of Accomack county, to erect a wharf on his land lying on Pungoteague creek in said county.
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.
JOINT RESOLUTION directing the attorney-general to appear as counsel for certain parties who were officers of the state in April, 1865, in a suit instituted against them in the United States district court.
An ACT to disband the Richmond Light Infantry Blues and to incorporate the Richmond Light Infantry Blues Association.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 8 of the Code of 1873, with regard to Election Districts.
An ACT to incorporate Churehland grange, No. 10, in Norfolk county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 2d section of chapter 4, Code of 1873, with reference to the sheriff of the city of Richmond.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the attorney-general to proceed aguinst commissioners of sinking fund for the defalcation in 1873-74.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 10, 1876, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 27, 1876, entitled an act for the relief of township creditors.
An ACT to incorporate the New Rawley Springs Company.