Religious Institutions

1887/1888
An ACT to release taxes due on the parsonage of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in Gloucester county.
An ACT to authorize the Northampton county court to pay to George T. Turner and others, trustees of Trinity church, the damages assessed them, on the petition of the New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk railroad company to acquire the real estate of said church for the use of said company.
An ACT to incorporate the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
An ACT to incorporate the trustees of the Baptist State Mission Board.
An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Baptist seminary.
An ACT to incorporate the South View orphan home.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and three of an act passed January 23, 1861, entitled an act amending and re-enacting the act entitled an act to incorporate the Jackson Orphan Asylum of Norfolk, passed February 26, 1856.
An ACT to refund certain taxes to R. M. Kirtley, erroneously assessed.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Diamond Hill Baptist church of Lynchburg, to borrow money and secure the same by deed of trust.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Christian church at Chatham, Virginia, to borrow money to complete their church.
An ACT to declare valid the deed from the trustees of St. Luke’s P. E. Church in Amherst county to G. D. Meriwether.
An ACT to relieve Rev. Isaac Long, of Rockingham county, of taxes improperly paid by him.
An ACT to exempt the property of the international committee of the Young Men’s christian association, located at the University of Virginia, from taxation.
An ACT to ingore the Young Men’s christian association of Portsmouth, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Presbyterian church at Roanoke City, to borrow money and secure by deed of trust.
An ACT to authorize the erection of a Washington Masonic Memorial Temple in Fredericksburg.
An ACT for the relief of Bethel Presbyterian church, Shemariah Presbyterian church, and St. John’s German Reform church in Augusta county.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Pisgah M. E. Church, south, in the county of Tazewell, to sell and convey their church property.

1889/1890 Public Laws
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1399 of the code of 1887, in regard to the appointment of trustees to effect or promote the purposes of conveyances for religious purposes.

1891/1892
An ACT to authorize a deed for a portion of the land belonging to the congregation of St. Peter’s church, at Churchville, in Augusta county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3807 and 3810 of the code of Virginia, 1887, relating to the profession of religious meetings and meetings for the promotion of the cause of temperance.
An ACT to confirm and legalize a deed made by the trustees of the M. E. church, south, to the Surry lumber 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 dedicate and convey all right and title of the State in certain lote situated in Bedford City, Virginia,
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the society of Friends to convey to John M. Silver, a certain lot in Frederick county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the funds of the Protestant Episcopal church in the diocese of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend section 2844, of the code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, approved February 28, 1890, and to amend and re-enact section 2847, of the code of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate Blackstone female institute.
An ACT to authorize the sale of certain church property in the county of Rockingham.
An ACT to release George W. Chewning from the payment of fines imposed upon him by the county court of Louisa.
An ACT to amend an act incorporating the trustees of Union theological seminary, in Virginia
An ACT to incorporate the Presbyterian home of Lexington, Virginia.
An ACT to dedicate and convey all right and title of the state in certain lots situated in Bedford City, Virginia, to parties to whom same have been heretofore conveyed.
An ACT to allow Grace Episcopal church, Radford, Virginia, to borrow money.
An ACT to incorporate the Disciples’ union of Richmond and Manchester.

1893/1894
An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Valley Baptist association of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the trustees of the Baptist ministers’ relief fund of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved January 8, 1875, entitled “An act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal education society in Virginia.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1406 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to the sale or encumbering of lands belonging to churches, &c.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Presbyterian church at Onancock to sell and convey said church and lot of land on which it is located, and invest the proceeds.
An ACT to vest the title to lot No. 4,square No. 13 of the town of Dunn-Loring, county of Fairfax, state of Virginia, in certain trustees, in trust for the benefit of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, of Dunn-Loring, Fairfax county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2 and 3 of an act approved February 24, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Baptist orphanage of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Reese Methodist Protestant church to sell and convey their church lot.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 15, 1692, entitled an act to incorporate the Blackstone female institute.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Reformed church, near Lovettsville, to sell or exchange their parsonage.
An ACT to incorporate Wartburg seminary, in Tazewell county.
An ACT to change the name of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Norfolk and Portsmouth to the Young Men’s Christian Association of Norfolk.
An ACT to incorporate the Woman’s college of Richmond.
An ACT to authorize the payment of certain bequests made in the will of William James Cussen, late of the city of Richmond, to Denny-street Methodist church, Fulton Baptist church and Weddell mission of the Episcopal church on Denny street, in Fulton, Richmond, Virginia.
An ACT to convey certain church and masonic property in the town of Jonesville, in Lee county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the parsonage and church pro-
An ACT to authorize the directors and managers of the Female orphan asylum at Fredericksburg, Virginia, to transfer, convey and deliver the real and personal property of that corporation to the Assembly’s home and school at Fredericksburg, Virginia, so soon as the last named corporation is organized under its charter.
An ACT to incorporate the State Executive Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of the State of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Assembly’s home and school at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
An ACT in relation to the sale of certain church property belonging to the Reformed church, in Woodstock, Shenandoah county.
An ACT incorporating the Trustees of the Episcopal church for diocese of southern Virginia.

1897/1898
An ACT to exonerate certain lands in Roanoke city from erroneous taxation and releasing Reverend J. W. Lynch from liability therefor.
An ACT authorizing the Leemont Baptist church, in Accomac county, to sell and convey their church lot, with the buildings thereon, and to reinvest the same.
An ACT to confirm and quiet the title of Milton Taylor, J. P. Shafer and George W. Shafer, Sr., trustees for Smith's creek regular Baptist church, in the lot of land, one hundred feet by three hundred and forty feet, more or less, at the northwest corner of Congress and Abram streets, In the town of New Market, Shenandoah county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the sale of certain church property in the county of Lee.
An ACT to vest in F. H. Holliday, Mrs. R. A. Campbell, E. T. Jenkins, Samuel N. Kersey, Mrs. A. G. Smith, I. A. Tignor and J. T. Wingfield, trustees for Slash Christian church, five acres of land situated in Hanover county.
An ACT to authorize the sale of certain church property in the county of Russell.
An ACT to incorporate the McGill Catholic union.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section Poof an act entitled ‘ An act to impose a tax on collateral inheritances, and regulate the collection of same, approved February 14, 186
An ACT to validate the bequest and devise made by Gideon Koiner, of Shenandoah county, to Dr. W. P. Crickenburger, Rev. J. S. Koiner, Newton G. Moore, D. F. Kagey, and C. W. Bennick, trustees, for the use and benefit of Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran church, a religious congregation worshipping in the town of New Market, Shenandoah county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter three hundred and thirty-nine of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1889-'90, entitled an act to incorporate the Baptist orphanage of Virginia, approved February 24, 1890, as amended by chapter 108 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1893-94, approved January 30, 1894.
An ACT to confirm and quiet the title of the vestry of Saint Andrew’s church, in Grammer Parish, in the county of Brunswick, Virginia, to the one acre of land upon which said church stands in the town of Lawrenceville, in
An ACT to authorize the circuit court of Chesterfield to dispose of the funds arising from the sale of Bethia Baptist church property and land as desired by the congregation of said church.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Protestant Episcopal theological seminary and high school in Virginia to acquire and hold additional real property.
An ACT to authorize the Winchester Presbyterian church of the United States to receive a gift or a bequest, or both, as the foundation of a scholarship.
AN ACT to incorporate the Old Point Comfort college.
An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Protestant Episcopal theological seminary and high school in Virginia to confer the degree of bachelor of divinity.
An ACT to amend section 1398 of the code and section 1399 of the code, as amended by an act approved January 31, 1890, as to what conveyances for religious purposes are valid.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Bethel (Methodist Episcopal) church in Page county, Virginia, to sell a church lot and invest proceeds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "An act to incorporate Chatham Female Episcopal institute," so as to change the name of said institute and define and establish its powers.
An ACT to authorize the extension of the title to certain church property in the county of Botetourt.

1899/1900
An ACT empowering the trustees of the parsonage property of Covington Methodist Episcopal church, south, to sell and convey said property, and to dispose of the proceeds of such sale and reinvest the same.
An ACT to incorporate Saint Leo’s Catholic club.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia conference orphanage of the Methodist Episcopal church, south.
An ACT for the purpose of giving jurisdiction to the circuit or corporation court of the city of Lynchburg, or the respective judges thereof in vacation, power to give effect to the action of the congregation of the Fifth-avenue church (Independent), Lynchburg, Virginia, in regard to its church property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to incorporate Old Point Comfort college.
An ACT to authorize the trustees of Nomini Baptist church of Christ, in Westmoreland county, to sell and convey the Antioch meeting-house and the lot of land on which it stands.
An ACT to authorize and empower the trustees of Clintwood Primitive Baptist church to sell and convey a lot of land.
An ACT for the relief of the congregation and members of Madison station Methodist Episcopal church south, in Amherst county, authorizing the establishment of Meade memorial burial ground and defin- ing the duties and powers of the trustees thereof.
An ACT to charter Rawlings institute.
An ACT to confirm and quiet the title of certain property owned
An ACT to authorize the Winchester Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, to receive a gift as the foundation of a scholarship.
An ACT enabling the personal representative of Sallie H. Kramer to pay certain moneys to the trustees of the Christian church in Strasburg, Virginia, under provisions of her will.
An ACT to confirm and amend a charter granted to the young men’s Christian association of Staunton, Virginia
An ACT to authorize and empower the trustees of the parsonage property, located at Batesville, Virginia, of the Batesville circuit of the Virginia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, to sell and convey its old parsonage; to collect and re-invest the proceeds in another parsonage.
An ACT for the sale of a house and lot belonging to the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in Lee county.
An ACT to ratify and confirm an agreement entered into on June 20, 1899, between the young men’s Christian association of the Virginia polytechnic institute and the board of visitors of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute, as to the use of a building being erected on the grounds of the said institute.
An ACT to quiet the title to that certain lot in the city of Winchester, known as the old Catholic cemetery, and to provide for the removal of the remains interred therein and the sale of said lot.
An ACT to vest the absolute fee simple title to certain church property in the county of Russell, known as Willis chapel, in trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and their successors in office.
An ACT to confirm and vest in Lebanon Methodist Episcopal church, south, of Spotsylvania county, Virginia, title to church lot occupied by said church since 1810.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the trustees of the funds of the Protestant Episcopal church, in the diocese of Virginia
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia union university, approved March 4, 1896, and to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond institute, in the city of Richmond, approved February 5 1886.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved February 25, 1892, entitled an act to amend an act incorporating the trustees of union theological seminary in Virginia, approved January 9, 1867, in relation to the power of conferring degrees by said seminary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3805 of the code of Virginia, in regard to the disturbances of religious worship, and how the same shall be punished.
An ACT to approve, ratify, and confirm the charter of the peace and light society, of King George county, Virginia.