Transportation

1887/1888
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond by adding additional sections to chapter 4 concerning city officers, so as to provide for the appointment of a board of public interests.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8 of an act entitled an act to establish a board of river and harbor commissioners for Nansemond river, approved February 9, 1882.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of chapter 181 of the Acts of Assembly of 1874-5, to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, approved March 20, 1875, so far as applies to Northumberland county.
An ACT to authorize the town of Goodson to subscribe to the capital stock of the Bristol and Danville railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Lexington Street railway company.
An ACT to make Nansemond river in the county of Nansemond, between certain points, a lawful fence.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and North Carolina railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the North Amherst railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to establish a ferry over James river at or near Glenwood depot.
An ACT to amend section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and reduce into one act the several acts for opening and extending the navigation of the Appomattox river
An ACT to extend the charter and franchises of the Southern improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Old Dominion Boom and Log company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norma Iron railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Abingdon railway company.
An ACT authorizing the counties of Cumberland and Powhatan to change the form of bonds subscribed to the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and East Tennessee railroad company.
An ACT to authorize Theodore Haughwont to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek.
An ACT for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in Spotsylvania.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Midlothian, Manchester, and Richmond railway and mining company.
An ACT to authorize Princess Anne county to vote on the question of issuing bonds to build a road, and on the question whether such road shall be a free or toll road, and to provide for locating and constructing said road.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and South Mills railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to confirm a law passed by the Legislature of North Carolina, entitled an act to incorporate the Elizabeth City and Norfolk railroad company (now the Norfolk Southern railroad company)
An ACT to authorize the issue of bonds and stock by the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Buck- uigham, Prince George, and Surry counties, to let to contract the public roads, and levy a tax to keep the same in order.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act approved March 8, 1884, entitled an act to provide for the working of public roads and bridges.
An ACT to authorize county subscriptions to the capital stock of Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Big Stone Gap construction company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the fifth section of the charter of the Farmville and Charlottsville railroad company as amended and re-enacted by an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved on the 13th day of January, 1888.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 196, Acts 1883-4, entitled an act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges, and opening new roads in the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, and Augusta.
An ACT incorporating the Berkley and Currituck turnpike company.
An ACT for working and repairing the public roads in Nottoway county.
An ACT to incorporate the Mecklenburg Toll-bridge company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and North Carolina construction company.
An ACT to work and keep in order the public roads in the county of Pittsylvania.
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg and Asylum railway
An ACT to authorize the Elizabeth Park and Land company to construct a toll bridge across Broad creek, between the counties of Norfolk and Princess Anne.
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg, Ettrick, and Matoaco railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Berkley Street railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section let of an act approved May 18, 1887, entitled an act to authorize a subscription by the county of Chesterfield to the stock of the Petersburg and Chesterfield Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol and Danville railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act to empower the board of supervisors of Bath county, to repair a part of the Warm Springs and Huntersville turnpike road, and to borrow money therefor
An ACT supplementary to the laws now in force for working the roads and repairing and rebuilding bridges in the county of Caroline.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 125 of an act to incorporate the West Norfolk and Carolina railroad company
An ACT to incorporate the Falls Church and Potomac railway company.
An ACT to consolidate the Brighthope railway company with the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Cape Henry railroad and hotel company.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Page county, for opening new roads and changing the location of existing roads.
An ACT to relieve the Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Western railway company from any forfeiture which may have accrued from failure to commence and complete its road within the time limited in its act of incorporation, and to reinvest the said company with all the powers, privileges, and franchises granted by said act approved March 8, 1880, entitled an act to incorporate the Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Western railway company, and for other purposes.
An ACT for working and keeping in repair the roads in Tazewell county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Craig company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and ten of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Surry and Smithfield railroad company, approved March 6th, 1886.
An ACT to incorporate the railway reform rolling stock company.
An ACT to authorize the extension of the Powell’s Valley railroad from the Tennessee state line across the southwest corner of Virginia to the Kentucky state line at or near Cumberland Gap.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 30. 1887, as amended by an act approved May 21, 1887, and to amend and re-enact section 12 of said chapter 61 in relation to turnpike companies.
An ACT to incorporate the Loudoun county and Frederick bridge company for the purpose of constructing a bridge at Point of Rocks in Frederick county, Maryland, across the Potomac river to Loudoun county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Mount Vernon Avenue association.
An ACT to incorporate the Copperhonk Springs company.
An ACT to incorporate the Lambert’s Point turnpike company.
An ACT to incorporate the Great Southern railway company.
An ACT to allow George R. Dalby and Labon J. Belote to erect a wharf on Nassowodux creek in Northampton county.
An ACT to authorize T. E. Henshaw and W. H. Ruark to place a boom in Mattaponi river.
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond city and Seven Pines railway company.
An ACT to amend an act entitled 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 to incorporate the Pocahontas Towing and Transportation company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Staunton.
An ACT declaring the James river, the main track of the Richmond and Alleghany railroad, and the boundary lines of the farms within certain limits in the county of Amherst, a lawful fence.
An ACT to incorporate the Danville and Great Western railroad company.
An ACT to amend section 26 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt
An ACT to incorporate the Fauquier and Rappahannock railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the county of Madison to subscribe to the stock of the Madison courthouse and Orange railroad on certain conditions.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the sale of the state’s interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the South Atlantic and Ohio railroad company, and to legalize subscriptions and contracts and all corporate acts which the said company may have performed since the first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 22, 27, and 28 of chapien 181 of Acts of 1874-5, so far as they relate to the county of luanna.
An ACT to incorporate the Princess Anne county railway company.
An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Richmond city railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Shenandoah Valley railroad company, and to issue preferred stock or convertible under any plan of reorganization thereof
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10, chapter 228, Acts of Assembly, 1883 and 1884, entitled an act incorporating the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the Madison Courthouse and Orange railroad company
An ACT to incorporate the Green Springs Tramway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Middletown and Capon Springs turnpike company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of the act approved March 3, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the Pittsburg and Virginia railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and five of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Chowan and Southern railroad company, approved May 5th, 1887, and to authorize the stockholders of said company to change its name to the Norfolk and Carolina railroad company.
An ACT to amend the eighth section of an act to incorporate the James river bridge company.
An ACT to amend an act to authorize the city of Fredericksburg and certain districts in Stafford and King George counties, to purchase or lease Scott’s bridge and make the same a free bridge.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections seventeen and twenty-one of an act approved April second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in the counties of Culpeper and Buckingham.
An ACT to authorize Christian Hanson to erect a wharf in front of his shore for shipping oysters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, and 18 of chapter 264 of Acts of Assembly 1878-9, as amended by chapter 61 of Acts of Assembly 1885-6, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Prince Edward county.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the governor to hire convicts to the Abingdon Coal and Iron railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act in force February 23, 1882, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia and Carolina railroad company, amended by an act approved ch 6, 1886.
An ACT to incorporate the Big Stone Gap mining, transportation, and development company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol and South Atlantic railroad company.
JOINT RESOLUTION transferring a certain claim of the state of Virginia against the government of the United States, to the Mount Vernon avenue association, chartered by this state.
An ACT for the relief of Henry Mahany
An ACT to allow the Eastern Shore steamboat company of Maryland, to acquire, hold, and dispose of a certain tract of land in Northampton county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 5th and 7th sections of the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville Railroad Company as amended and re-enacted by the Act of Assembly, approved the 18th day of May, 1887.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 907 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887, relative to the sale of mules, work oxen, and horses under levy in the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Gentlemen’s driving club.
An ACT to provide for working and altering roads, and building and repairing bridges in the county of Mecklenburg.
An ACT to incorporate the New River Plateau railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Washington, Western and Southwestern railroad company.