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1876/1877
An ACT for the relief of Charles H. Marmaduke, late Collector of Potomac Township, in the County of King George, and his sureties.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Rustburg, in the county of Campbell.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the board of immigration to distribute the Geographical and Political Summary of Virginia, published by said board.
An ACT allowing further time to William E. Boisseau, sergeant of Danville, to make his return of delinquents and insolvents for 1875.
An ACT to constitute one quarantine district of the Elizabeth river and its branches, and to create a Board of Quarantine Commissioners and a Quarantine Medical Officer for said District.
An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of the counties of Elizabeth City and Warwick to increase the pay of the judge of the county court of said counties.
An ACT requiring the county judge of Stafford to submit the question of continuing or repealing the fence law to the voters of Aquia district, in said county.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the board of public works to take proper steps to protect the interest of the state in the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad.
An ACT to amend an act passed January 8, 1867, entitled an act authorizing the secretary of the commonwealth to distribute Session Acts, &c., in certain cases.
An ACT to incorporate the Christiansburg Bank.
An ACT for the relief of William H. Gills, treasurer of Appomattox county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18 and 20 of an act entitled 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, approved March 29, 1875, as amended by the act approved March 29, 1876.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18, chapter 3. and section 2, chapter 4 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, relative to appointment of city engineer, and taxation on city bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act entitled an act prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities, and compensation of District Officers, and to repeal chapter 47 and section 1 of chapter 48, of Code of 1873.
An ACT allowing E. C. Marshall, Jr., treasurer of Clarke county, time to make his return of delinquents and insolvents in the revenue of 1875
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 3d, oth, 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bristol coal and iron narrow-gauge railroad company, and to transfer to it certain franchises, rights, privileges, and properties of the Virginia and Kentucky railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the increase of the salary of the county judge of Westmoreland and Richmond counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-seven, chapter twenty-three, Code of 1873, fixing the pay of adjutant-general, and to repeal the twenty-eighth section of the said chapter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 10th section of chapter 80 of the Code, edition of 1878, in relation to the University of Virginia, as amended by act approved March 15th, 1876.
An ACT to incorporate the town of North Danville.
An ACT to provide a method of settling the accounts of the Banks of Rockingham and Berkeley, as to outstanding circula-tion
An ACT in relation to the judgment lien docket of the county clerk's office of the county of Albemarle.
An ACT in regard to the duties and salary of the attorney-general
An ACT to release certain citizens of Henrico county from the payment of fines and costs for violating section 1 of an act for the protection of fish in James river, approved March 20th, 1876.
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 twenty-one of an act approved July 9, 1870, entitled an act amending the charter of the town of Harrisonburg, in the county of Rockingham, and enlarging and extending the corporate limits of said town, and section twenty-two of said act as amended by an act in force February 10, 1875.
An ACT to amend and.re-enact section 30 of chapter 215 of the Acts of Assembly of 1875-76, in relation to the duties, powers, linbilities and compensation of certain county officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act to amend the act to incorporate the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union, passed March 19, 1858, and to add an additional section thereto.
JOINT RESOLUTION in regard to the sale of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
An ACT in regard to officers of the Virginia military institute.
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 amend and re-enact the 40th section of an act entitled 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 for the working and keeping in order the public roads in Alexandria county.
An ACT for the relief of William K. Alexander
An ACT to render valid the charter of Incorporation of the Gordonsville building association, and to legalize all acts done in pursuance thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16, chapter 8, Code of 1873, in relation to general and special elections.
An ACT to amend section fifty-eight of chapter seventy-eight of the Code of 1873, in regard to admission to the public free schools.
An ACT for the relief of James B. Eastham, late collector of Stonewall township, Rockingham county.
An ACT to amend sections 84 and 86 of the charter of the city of Richmond, passed July 11, 1870, changing the mode of electing the police commissioners of said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act prescribing general provisions in relation to commissioners of the revenue, and the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, licenses, &c.
An ACT to amend an act in relation to the election of commissioners of roads in Loudoun county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act incor-porating the Rockbridge savings institution.
An ACT concerning the trustees of Richmond Female Institute.
An ACT directing the governor to hire not more than fifty nor less than twenty-five convicts to president Upper Appomattox canal company.
An ACT making an appropriation for the ventilation of the hall of the House of Delegates, and the clerk's office thereof.
1877/1878
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Davis school district of the county of Shenandoah, to sell a certain lot of land, and to re-invest the proceeds thereof in the erection of a school-house.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 6th section, chapter 269 of the Acts of Assembly, 1874-75, entitled an act prescribing the duties, powers, abilities, 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 the tenth clause of the seventh section of chapter 78 of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved April 24th, 1874, in relation to pay of secretary of the board of education.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the roads in the county of Hanover.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 20th section of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth
An ACT authorizing and directing William E. Boisseau, sergeant of the town of Danville, to refund to E. M. Pace and others the amount paid by them on a fieri facias.
An ACT to provide for an inspection of the official bonds
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of A. F. Creel, late collector for Marshall township in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT to regulate the working of the public roads in the counties of Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield, and Lancaster.
An ACT allowing further time to R. W. Adams, treasurer of the City of Fredericksburg, to make his return of delinquents and insolvents for 1876.
An ACT appointing a board of directors for a certain section of the Tazewell Courthouse and Fancy Gap turnpike road, in the county of Wythe, and empowering said board to keep the same in legal repair.
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 to empower the city of Petersburg to organize a board of railroad commissioners, and to acquire the control or ownership of the Petersburg railroad.
An ACT for the relief of William McGonnigal, administrator of W. L. G. Kent, late collector of Tanner’s creek township, in Norfolk county, and A. T. Nichols and A. C. Moore, his sureties.
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 and re-enact the first section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Lebanon Academy, passed March 10th, 1851.
An ACT making an apportionment of Senators and Members of the House of Delegates.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of S. F. G. Beale, late treasurer of Fauquier county.
An ACT for the relief of R. H. Thompson, late collector of Goodson township, in the county of Washington.
An ACT to incorporate the United Ocean Club of Norfolk city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 14th section of chapter 13 of the Code of 1878, as amended by an act approved February 10th, 1876, and in reference to the pay of judges of the circuit, chancery, and hustings court of the city of Richmond, and hustings court of Norfolk, Petersburg, and Portsmouth, so as to authorize the council of the city of Danville to increase the salary and compensation of the judge of the hustings court of said city.
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 amend and re-enact section thirteen, chapter forty-seven of the Code of 1873, in relation to the duties and powers of county supervisors.
An ACT to authorize the beard of supervisors of Princess Anne county to inercase the salary of the county judge.
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 provide for working and repairing the roads and bridges in the county of Buckingham.
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the distribution of the Physical Survey of Virginia, No. 2, by Commodore M. F. Maury.
An ACT for the relief of John H. Silvers, late township collector of Auburn township, in Montgomery county, and his sureties.
An ACT for the relief of A. J. Farish, of Albemarle county.
An ACT to provide for a special election for a clerk of the circuit and county courts of Lunenburg county.
An ACT for the relief of Charles EK. Bishop, of the city of Petersburg.
An ACT to incorporate Chincoteague temperance association.
An ACT to provide for the election of three commissioners of the revenue for the county of Loudoun.
An ACT for the relief of Joseph Riggs, late collector of Metompkin township, county of Accomack.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Oregon Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Richmond, Virginia, to borrow money, and execute decds of trust to secure the same.
An ACT fixing the time for holding the county courts of Lunenburg
An ACT to allow the Artillery Greys and Guards of Petersburg to take and utilize certain brick belonging to the commonwealth.
An ACT for the relief of the sureties of W. W. Sage, late sheriff of Lee county.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1877-78.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12, chapter 21, Code of 1873, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 12, chapter 21, Code of 1873,-in relation to contributing members of volunteer companies of militia
An ACT for the relief of John B. Pitzer, treasurer of Alleghany county.
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.
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 allow the treasurer of the corporation of Winchester further time to make his return of his delinquent lists for eighteen hundred and seventy-six.
An ACT amending the eighteenth section of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1873), in relation to sureties on fiduciary bonds.
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 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 provide for the control and investment of the Glebe fund in the county of Northampton.
An ACT to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the county of Rockbridge.
An ACT to secure the valuable papers and books in the offices of the Treasurer and Second Auditor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 3rd section of an act to constitute one quarantine district of the Elizabeth river and its branches, and to create a board of quarantine commissioners and a quarantine medical officer for said district, approved February 26th, 1877.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved April 2, 1877, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 182, of the Code of 1878, as amended by an act, approved February 17, 1874, in reference to judgment liens.
An ACT to amend and re-enact certain sections of the Code of 1873, and certain Acts of Assembly amendatory thereof, and other Acts of Assembly in relation to the salaries of certain officers of the government and their employers; compensation of members and officers of the general assembly, mileage and other allowances; to define the salaries of certain officers, and to repeal chapter 153 of the Acts of I8T4; and section 27 of chapter 16; and sections 2, 4, and 5 of chapter 1613; and sections 5, 16, and 2tof chapter 13 of the Code of » 1873, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict.
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 town of Hillsville in the county of Carroll.