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1897/1898
An ACT to incorporate the Fairview turnpike company.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Henrico county to require osage orange hedges bordering on public roads of said county to be trimmed by owners of such hedges and to impose a fine for failure to comply.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 12, 18 and 20 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Berkley in the county of Norfolk
An ACT to incorporate the Prince William horseman’s association
An ACT to enlarge the criminal jurisdiction of the courts of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to allow A. Markle, R. C. Keefer, F. C. Stout, J. B. Emory and others to erect a wharf on their land on Wallop’s island, in Chincoteague Inlet, Accomac county, Va.
An ACT to prohibit hogs from running at large upon public roads in that section south of Clinch river in the county of Russell.
An ACT to prevent the obstruction of public roads in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson.
An ACT to authorize the county court and board of supervisors of Orange county to allow a monument to the Confederate dead to be erected on the public square.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Emporia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper.
An ACT to allow the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to contract with Robert L. Gardner for the construction of a walkway on the court green.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Fredericksburg and adjacent national battle-field memorial park association of Virginia in relation to condem- nation of land and transfer of same to United States.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 27 and 28 of chapter 577 of the acts of the assembly of Virginia 1895-96 entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Waynesboro.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Berryville.
An ACT to authorize the owners of addition numbers one and two to the town of Richlands in the county of Tazewell to close the streets and alleys of said addition.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands in the counties of Dinwiddie, Prince George and Chesterfield, and the city of Petersburg.
An ACT to allow J. W. Clarkson and C. P. Garrett to erect a pier in the Rappahannock river.
An ACT to incorporate the House rock wheel club.
An ACT to Incorporate the Fredericksburg and adjacent national battlefields memorial park association of Virginia
An ACT to prevent placing obstructions in the public roads of the county of Pittsylvania
An ACT to authorize Richard Franklin, George Wagner and L. B. Wagner to build a pier head in Rappahannock river, near Urbanna creek, in Middlesex county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the county court of Cumberland county and the judge thereof in vacation to take charge and control of the clerk’s office, courthouse public square and Jail, and lot around the jail of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 5 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac
An ACT to permit J. C. Ninde and John Garnett to erect a wharf and breakwater at the farm of said John Garnett, in King George county, on the upper Machodoc creek.
An ACT to permit T. E. Trotman to erect a wharf on his land, at 'Lone Pine Point,' on the Nansemond river, in Nansemond county.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands in the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania and Orange, and the city of Fredericksburg.

1899/1900
An ACT to provide for the erection and maintaining of watering troughs for the use of horses and cattle on public roads of the county of Bedford, and providing penalties for injury and destruction of same.
An ACT to authorize the councils of the city of Norfolk to close the canal lying west of Granby street and between it and Randolph street, or between it and Newton street, and convert the same into a public street.
An ACT to allow Captain N. B. Rich to erect a wharf or pier in Assateague harbor, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to allow Captain John R. Thomas and William T. Bloxom to erect a wharf or pier in Holden’s creek, in Accomac county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8, 12, and 17 of an act entitled an act to create Northside district, in Brookland magisterial district, in the county of Henrico, and to provide for lighting and sewerage in said northside district, and for making and maintaining other improvements of a public nature therein
An ACT to permit N. Z. Oakley to erect a wharf in Moratico creek, in Richmond county.
An ACT to allow M. L. Price to build a wharf in Machodoc creek
An ACT to prevent riotous or disorderly conduct in any car or a caboose, or any part of a train carrying passengers or employees of any railroad or street passenger railway, and prescribing the powers of agents and employees of railroads or street passenger railway companies in the premises.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Round Hill, in the county of Loudoun.
An ACT to allow Levin Lynch to erect a wharf in Chincoteague bay, Accomac county.
An ACT to provide for the separate accommodation of white and colored passengers in the sitting, sleeping, and eating apartments of steamboats plying in the waters within the jurisdiction of the common-wealth, and to provide certain police powers for captains, pursers, and other officers in command to enforce such regulations and to prevent and suppress disorderly conduct on said boats.
An ACT to provide for the construction and maintenance of tramways and railways of mining, manufacturing, and lumber-getting persons, firms, and companies along or across public highways.
An ACT to protect wooden bridges in the county of Rockbridge from fire by steam engines passing over the same.
An ACT to authorize and permit D. S. Jones to erect wharves and piers and to construct bulkheads in James river along the water-fronts of the land owned by him in the counties of Warwick and Elizabeth City.
An ACT to amend sections 13, 17, and 18 of the charter of the town of Suffolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 and section 11 of an act of the general assembly, entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Winchester, approved April 2, 1874, as amended in the eleventh section thereof by an act approved February 26, 1896.
An ACT to authorize the school trustees of school district number 5, in Norfolk county, to sell and convey certain school-houses and lots in the town of Berkley and the village of South Norfolk.
An ACT to permit George F. Parramore to build a bridge across King's creek, in the county of Northampton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the code in relation to fish ladders, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the code of 1887, touching fish ladders,
An ACT to incorporate the town of Holland, in the county of Nansemond.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Honaker, in Russell county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22, chapter 95, acts of assembly of 1876-’77, of an act approved February 17, 1877, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Clarke county.
An ACT declaring Birch creek, in Halifax county, to be a highway.
An ACT to authorize Octavius W. Hudson to erect a wharf on the Yeocomico river, in the county of Northumberland.
An ACT providing a charter for the town of West Clifton Forge, in the county of Alleghany.
An ACT to allow A. S. Mitchell and A. Somers to build a pier in Rappahannock river, near Whealton wharf, in Lancaster county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 13, and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide for a new charter for the town of Farmville
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act approved January 16, 1896, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
JOINT RESOLUTION setting apart the birthday of Jefferson Davis as a day of recreation in the public schools, etc.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to declare Mud Fork, in the county of Tazewell, navigable for a certain distance.
An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of the Norfolk electric company.
An ACT to allow Peyton Hundley to erect a pier in the Rappahannock river, and to build a house thereon.
An ACT giving power to the councils of the city of Norfolk to require owners of property abutting on streets, or to require the city to pave or keep in repair, or both pave and keep in repair, the sidewalks, and giving the councils power, acting through a board or committee, after notice to the owner or occupant that the owner shall build or repair, and his neglect to do so, to build or repair the walk and have the costs thereof assessed as a lien against the property and imposing a penalty for violation of ordinances passed in pursuance thereof.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Mount Vernon avenue association
An ACT to amend section 1, chapter 517, acts 1897-’98, to prevent hogs from running at large in the county of Russell.
An ACT to authorize F. M. Thrift to erect a wharf on Yeocomico

1895/1896
An ACT to provide for the better preservation of order at race-courses, fair-grounds, base-ball and foot-ball parks, and other places where athletic sports are held.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 22, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Marion, Va.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to allow Asher L. Matthews and Benjamin F. Collins to erect a wharf on the Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
An ACT to prevent gambling and selling or making books, pools or mutuals within the commonwealth of Virginia.
An ACT to allow Elva A. Jefferys to erect a wharf on the Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
An ACT to allow George W. Glenn to erect a pier in Pocomoke sound, in Accomac county.
An ACT toempower George Booker to erect a pavilion in Hamp-
An ACT for the relief of Wm. Henry Harrison Cawood.
An ACT to consolidate in one act all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to create a new charter for said city.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years
An ACT to permit S. Grenell to erect a breakwater alongside of the wharf at North End on Rappahannock river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 40 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 22, 1871, and by an act approved the 17th day of March, 1876. and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved March 8, 1894.”
An ACT authorizing inspectors of oysters to assign to the owners, managers, or lessees of hotels ground under the water for bathing ground.
An ACT to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Cape Charles and legalize certain acts of the town council.
An ACT authorizing the commissioner of direct taxes for the county of Prince George to pay over to the board of supervisors of said county any balance of direct tax fund in his hands to be used in improvement of public roads of said county, and providing for enforcing payment of same and for refunding any of said fund to persons entitled thereto.
An ACT to authorize J. E. Blakemore, J. C. Towles, and V. E. Towles, or any one of them, to erect a pier head in the Rappahannock river, near Towles’ point.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 88 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 22, 1871, and by an act approved the 17th day of March, 1876, and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved March 8, 1894."
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 20 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Berkley, in the county of Norfolk
An ACT to punish as for a misdemeanor a person using abusive language to another.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Winchester, approved April 2, 1874.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 33d section of the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, and by an act approved 17th day of March, 1876, and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved March 8, 1894.
An ACT authorizing M. A. Finch to erect a wharf opposite her land in Newport News, Virginia, on the north side of James river.
An ACT protecting and enlarging the powers of the Pulaski agricultural and mechanical society.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2107 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to the inspection of dams and rivers by supervisors and councilmen.
An ACT prescribing how a person riding a bicycle shall pass a vehicle or person on horseback on the public highways and bridges, and providing penalties.
An ACT to allow Charles T. Jester to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay in Accomac county.

1901/1902
An ACT to authorize Beach Park and Hotel Company, of West Point, to erect wharves, docks, or piers on its lots, in the town of West Point, King William county, on the York river, known as a part of the Beach lot, and to erect thereon sheds and houses for public entertainment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 21, 1901, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the Country Club, of Norfolk, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Wakefield.
An ACT in regard to notice by publication of the codification of ordinances of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto.
An ACT to permit Robert Y. Blake, of Middlesex county, to erect an oyster house and breakwater on Rappahannock river.
An ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Roanoke to issue bonds or certificates of debt to the amount of $25,000 for the purpose of purchasing, improving, and maintaining a public park and cemetery in the city of Roanoke.