Transportation

1885/1886
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of chapter 352 of the Acts of 1883-’84, in relation to providing for the working and repairing of public roads and bridges.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and Northwestern railroad company.
An ACT to allow the Atlantic and Danville railway company credit ‘for the amount already paid as a tax on its mortgage recorded, as to part of the line, in the payment of the tax on a mortgage as to the whole line.
An ACT to incorporate the Surry and Smithfield railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake, Norfolk and Carolina railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Surry, Sussex and Southampton Railway.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in order the public roads of Albemarle county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act to incorporate the Salem and Southwestern Railroad company
An ACT to incorporate the Ideal Beach railroad company, from Norfolk city to Sand bridge, in the county of Princess Anne.
An ACT to authorize Jos. E. Brodwater to construct a bridge across Muddy creek in Accomack county.
An ACT to give 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.
An ACT to repeal an act approved March 3, 1884, in regard to working roads in Bland county.
An ACT to allow Thomas C. Kellam to erect a wharf for shipping produce on a tributary of Wachapreague inlet, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Construction Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Prince George Lumber and Transportation Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section four of the charter of the New River and Chambers Valley railroad company.
An ACT for opening and keeping in repair roads and bridges in the county of Amelia.
An ACT regulating ferries, with relation to the town of Mercer Ferry, near Fredericksburg.
An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake Dry-Dock and Construction Company.

1887es
An ACT authorizing the West-end land company of Norfolk city, to construct a toll-bridge across Smith’s and Glebe creeks in Norfolk county.
An Act to incorporate the Mount Pony granite and railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New River Narrow Gauge railroad company, approved March 29, 1873, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1877, and as further amended by an act approved March 6, 1882, and also to amend and re-enact section 7 of the same act as amended by an act approved March 6, 1886.
An ACT to authorize the town of Farmville to vote a subscription to the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
An ACT to authorize D.S. Jones to ercet a pier in James river opposite the Blow estate in James City county, Virginia, just above Mulberry island.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 280 of Acts of 1883-4, to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth to issue paving bonds.
An ACT to amend sections one and five of Acts of Extra Session, 1887, to incorporate the Dinwiddie and Brunswick lumber and transportation company.
An ACT to incorporate the Spotsylvania railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Abingdon coal and iron railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Pulaski water company.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth street railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact. an act entitled an act to provide for building bridges, opening, working, and keeping in order the roads of Charlotte county, approved March 3, 1886.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 177, Acts of Assembly 1883-4, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the Farmville and Staunton river railroad company, as amended by section 2, chapter 200, Acts of Assembly 1885-6.
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond railway connecting and wharf company.
An ACT to incorporate the New York and Southern Construction company.
An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Belt railroad company.
An ACT to legalize certain subscriptions of the town of Goodson, Virginia, to the South Atlantic and Ohio railroad company upon certain conditions.
An ACT authorizing an increase in the capital stock of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
An ACT to incorporate the Suburban and City railway and improvement company
An ACT to incorporate the Mineral railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia and Kentucky railroad company, approved March 3, 1884, and to authorize the said company to consolidate with, lease its lines to, or lease the lines of any railroad connected with it.
An ACT to authorize the Tennessee and North Carolina railroad company in this State, to construct its road to any mines in Washington, Smythe, and Gravson counties, and to issue and use its stocks and bonds in payment for rights of way, work, materials, and supplies by contract.
An ACT directing the board of public works to deliver to the Chesapeake and Olio railway company certain maps and papers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act approved February twenty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled an act to incorporate the Culpeper, Sperryville, Washington, and Fort Royal telephone company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of an act approved May 6, 1887, to incorporate the Portsmouth street railway company.
An ACT to authorize the governor to furnish convict labor for the construction of the Richmond and Tide-water railroad.
An ACT to incorporate the Fredericksburg Street railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 3 section of an act approved February 26, 1854, entitled an act to amend the charter of the Edenton and Norfolk railroad company, and to change the name of said company to that of the Carolina and Chesapeake railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henrico, Virginia, to convey to the United States the right of way for a certain road.
An ACT to authorize the county of Buckingham to subscribe to the stock of the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Charlottesville and University street railway company.
An ACT to revive, amend and re-enact the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Pamunky mining and navigation company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henrico, Virginia, to condemn stone, gravel, or earth, for use upon the roads of said county.
An ACT to provide for a division of the Norfolk county ferries between the city of Portsmouth and county of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act for working the public roads of Fairfax county.
An ACT to incorporate the West Norfolk and Carolina railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Dinwiddie and Brunswick lumber and transportation company.
An ACT to incorporate the Rich Valley railroad company.
An ACT to amend the second section of an act entitled an act to prescribe the manner in which the Norfolk and Cincinnati railroad company shall pay its tax on its mortgage to secure bonds hereafter to be issued, and to enlarge the powers of said Norfolk and Cincinnati railroad company
An ACT to transfer to the board of road commissioners of Back Creek magisterial district, Frederick county, the State’s interest in the Hardy and Winchester turnpike.
An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Richmond Union Passenger Railway Company
An ACT to authorize the county of Franklin to votea subscription to the Roanvke and Southern railroad company, and to issue bonds for the payment of the same.
An ACT to incorporate the Clinch Valley railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Holy Neck lumber and transportation company.
An ACT to incorporate the Northern Virginia Land and Improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bermuda Hundred construction company.
An ACT to authorize the Lynchburg, Halifax and North Carolina railroad company to consolidate with the Roxboro’ railroad company, the Durham and Roxboro’ railroad company, and any other railroad company in the State of North Carolina.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol-Goodson street railway company.
An ACT to authorize a subscription by the county of Chesterfield to the stock of the Petersburg and Chesterfield railroad company and its branches.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and Seaboard railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Mineral Development company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 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 repeal an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Halifax to let public roads to contract, approved March 1, 1884, and to amend and re-enact section 27 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and repairing public roads and bridges.
An ACT to incorporate the Chowan and Southern railroad company.
An ACT to empower the People’s telegraph company, incorporated by the State of North Carolina, to construct, operate, and maintain its line or lines of telegraph to any point or points within the State of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville, Wytheville, and Southwestern construction company.
An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke and Northwestern railroad company.
An ACT to authorize and enable the Fredericksburg and Chesapeake railroad company to consolidate or merge its stock, property, and franchises with those of any company authorized to operate a connecting line of railroads.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act enti-
An ACT to incorporate the Walkerton and Mattaponi bridge company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the New River and Chambers Valley railroad, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1886, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of the charter of the New River and Chambers Valley railroad.
An ACT to provide for working the public reads in the county of Bedford.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Western Branch railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 5, and 7 of an act incorporating the Petersburg and Chesterfield railroad company,
An ACT to authorize the board of commissioners of roads of Lovettsville district, in the county of Loudoun, to make an additional levy for road expenditures.
An ACT to incorporate the Bland county railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Suffolk street railway company.
An ACT to amend the second section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the City and Suburban railway and improvement company, approved May 2, 1887.
An ACT to authorize the issue of bonds and preferred stock by the Richmond and Alleghany railroad company
An ACT to amend section 2 of chapter 197 of the Acts of 1885-6, in reference to funds appropriated by the town of Danville for railroad purposes, &c.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Roanoke and Southern railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 9 of an act to incorporate the Atlantic and Danville Narrow Gauge railroad company, approved April 21, 1882, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 24, 1886, and to confer certain additional powers on said company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 9, 1880, in relation to turnpike companies.
An ACT to incorporate the Warrenton and Marshall road company.
An ACT to incorporate the Dickenson county railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Buck Horn iron and improvement company.
An ACT to secure the removal of certain dams on the James river and its tributaries.
An ACT for working and repairing the public roads of Grayson and Patrick counties.
An ACT to incorporate the Clarkesville and North Carolina railroad company.
An ACT to allow B. A. Rowe and others to erect a pier in York river in Gloucester county.