Transportation

1899/1900
An ACT to repeal chapter 230 of acts 1893 and 1894, approved February 12, 1894, entitled an act to authorize Floyd, Carroll, and Grayson to vote subscriptions to the Blue Ridge railroad company, in so far as it applies to Carroll county.
An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title and jurisdiction to a tract of land in the county of Norfolk, on the southern branch of the Elizabeth river.
An ACT to incorporate the consolidated turnpike company of Norfolk, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the town of Berryville, Virginia, to borrow twenty-five thousand dollars to construct water-works for said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amen and re-enact section 1258, code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to railrog companies enclosing their road-beds with fences and erecting cattle-guard
An ACT to authorize Octavius W. Hudson to erect a wharf on the Yeocomico river, in the county of Northumberland.
An ACT to allow W. S. Embrey to build a wharf and pier in James river near Scotland, in Surry county, Virginia.
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 provide a harbor-master for the city of Newport News, and to prescribe his jurisdiction, duties, and fees.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to issue bonds of the said county for the purpose of erecting bridges therein.
An ACT confirming the action of the city council of Alexandria, Virginia, authorizing the use of certain of its streets by the southern railway company and other railroad companies for the tracks, switches, and turnouts of said companies, and confirming to certain firms, individuals, and corporations rights with respect to the same, as herein particularly set forth.
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 for working and Sepik in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy cf taxes for that purpose.
An ACT to authorize and regulate the erection and maintenance of wires for telephone, telegraph, electric railway, and other purposes over or across the works of any company chartered as a work of internal improvement, or over or across the wires of any telephone, telegraph, electric railway, or electric company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act to determine to whom the title to the Falmouth bridge, in the county of Stafford, shall be conveyed
An ACT to empower the counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, and Fluvanna to construct a bridge across James river, at or near the town of Scottsville, and to collect tolls thereon, and to authorize and empower said counties to negotiate a loan and issue bonds for that purpose, and to repeal section 1388 of the code of Virginia in so far as it applies, to such bridge.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the Danville street-car company, and to change its name.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and repairing the public roads and bridges of Isle of Wight county
An ACT to incorporate the Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Russell Fork and eastern railroad company.
An ACT to authorize F. M. Thrift to erect a wharf on Yeocomico
An ACT to incorporate and enlarge the powers of the Richmond passenger and power company.
An ACT to authorize a bridge across Little Hog Island creek, in the county of Northampton.
An ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Richmond and Petersburg railway company, approved March 8, 1898, entitled in said act the Richmond and Petersburg electric railway company, so as to declare the time in which it operates.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Stafford,
An ACT to incorporate the Seawright lithia spring and Augusta railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Elizabeth City railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 7, 1894, which amended and re-enacted section 106 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1890, in relation to license to be paid by persons keeping livery stables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Falls Church, Fairfax and Manassas railway company"
An ACT to incorporate the Charlotte county railway company.
An ACT to repeal section 8 of an act approved February 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 598 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 8, 1894, entitled an act in relation to making and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Alexandria county, as amended by an act approved March 38, 1896, and to prohibit the use of money derived from the sale of bonds under an act approved December 19, 1899, from being used in the construction, making, or opening new roads, and providing that all work done and materials required upon the said roads shall be by contract after advertisement, and the same let to the lowest responsible bidder; and to authorize the board of supervisors to levy a tax not exceeding fifty cents upon the one hundred dollars’ value of such property; and providing how the money derived from the sale of the said bonds, under the act approved December 19, 1899, shall be expended and apportioned among the magisterial districts of the county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to employ a competent civil engineer, and to authorize the judge of the county court to appoint a board of audit, and to prescribe their duties.
An ACT to incorporate citizens’ railway, light and power company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases, approved March 2, 1892.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges, and to regulate the manner of opening new roads in the county of Montgomery.
An ACT to incorporate the Yorktown, Poquoson and Hampton railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved January 22, 1894, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 13 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Lancaster railroad company, approved February 12, 1896.
An ACT to authorize a bridge across Swan’s gut, in the county
An ACT to amend the title to and re-enact an act entitled an act to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to borrow money
An ACT to incorporate the Onancock electric railway, light and power company
An ACT to incorporate the Blackstone and southern railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act
An ACT providing for the working and keeping in order, building, and maintaining the public roads and bridges in the county of Scott.
An ACT to authorize the county of Carroll to vote to rebate taxes on the Atlantic and Western railroad, in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to require city and street railway companies to use vestibuled fronts on all cars run on their lines during the months of December, January, February, and March of each year
An ACT to incorporate the Spotsylvania mining company.
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 incorporate the Fallsburg power and manufacturing company.
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 allow B. L. Farinholt to enlarge the area of the pier-head to his wharf at Monaskon, on the Rappahannock river.
An ACT to provide for the repair and maintenance of the public roads in Princess Anne county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Atlantic and western railroad company, approved March 4, 1898.
An ACT to prevent persons trespassing on a train or car from jumping on or off.
An ACT to incorporate the Rappahannock valley railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Brunswick and Lunenburg railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the Maysville magisterial district, and other magisterial districts of Buckingham county, to vote a subscription towards the construction and extension of the Buckingham branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway to Buckingham courthouse
An ACT authorizing and empowering the Washington and Alexandria turnpike company to dispose of its property and surrender its charter and franchises.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 11, 1898, entitled an act to impose additional duties upon the examiner of records of the several judicial circuits, with reference to ships, tug-boats, barges, boats, or other water craft.
An ACT to incorporate Big Sandy and Cumberland railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 24 and 25 of an act approved January 25, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads, and to provide for the erecting and maintaining of bridges in the county of Culpeper.
An ACT to permit Daniel T. Whealton to erect a wharf or pier on his land on Chincoteague island, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the Norfolk and western railway company to locate and construct or purchase certain branches
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair, opening, and discontinuing the public roads in the county of Brunswick, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in the said county.
an ACT declaring certain streams in Powhatan county to be highways.
An ACT to allow Levin Lynch to erect a wharf in Chincoteague bay, Accomac county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Petersburg and Claremont terminal railroad and improvement company and to define its powers, approved February, 1900, authorizing an extension of its line of railroad.
An ACT to incorporate the Tidewater and West Virginia railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the sulphur mining and railroad company.
An ACT to provide for the working and repairing of public roads in Greenesville county.
An ACT to authorize the city of Bristol, Virginia, to issue bonds for street, water-works system, and other improvements, and to provide the mode of issuing the same, and to provide for the disposition of the funds arising from the sale of the same.
An ACT to incorporate the Piedmont railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Westhampton park railway company.
An ACT to provide for the reduction of the capital stock and the issue of special stock of the southern railway company.
An ACT to authorize the Atlantic coast line railroad company of Virginia to change its name, and to increase the number of its directors and officers: to authorize said company to increase its capital stock, and to issue bonds and secure the same by one or more mortgages, and to authorize the leasing by it and the consolidation therewith of other corporations; and otherwise to enlarge its powers.
An ACT to allow M. L. Price to build a wharf in Machodoc creek
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to expend all or any part of the road tax or levy, arising from certain property within the limits of the seaboard magisterial district, in said county, for improvements upon the roads, streets, alleys, and walkways at Virginia Beach, in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia electrical railway and development company, approved February 7, 1898, designated as chapter 212 of the acts of 1897.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia northern development and railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Smithfield and Norfolk steamboat company.
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 provide for the improvement of reads in Wythe county.
An ACT for the relief of the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Brock’s Gap railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled a ory incorporate the Ballston railroad company, approved February
An ACT incorporating the Buckingham tram-road company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act approved February 4, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the metropolitan western railroad of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1892, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 30, 1896, and as amended by an act approved March 2, 1898.
An ACT to allow Joseph W. Taylor to erect a wharf or pier on Watts bay in Accomac county.
An ACT to authorize the Low Moor iron company of Virginia to construct and use a railway to cross the county roads on Jackson's river and Pott’s creek, in Alleghany county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14, 17, 19, 21 of an act of the general assembly, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roads of the county of Tazewell, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in said county, approved February 29, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 216, acts of 1881-1882, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the James river and Blackwater railroad and lumber company, approved March 6, 1882, authorizing it to construct branch lines not exceeding twenty miles in length.
An ACT to authorize and permit M. A. Finch to erect wharves or piers, and to construct bulkheads in the James river along the water fronts of her lands owned by her in the city of Newport News, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12, chapter 6, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville
An ACT to incorporate the Ballston railroad company.
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 incorporate the Virginia automobile company.
An ACT to allow Thomas W. Taylor to construct a movable boom across Pamunkey river.
An ACT to authorize Sarah Willing and W. L. Messick to erect a wharf on Carter’s creek, in the county of Lancaster.
An ACT to give the consent of the commonwealth to the purchase or acquisition of real estate by the United States government, in the city of Portsmouth, for a site of a public building for the accommodation of the United States post-office, internal revenue, and other offices.
An ACT to authorize the Norfolk and Southern railroad to purchase or consolidate other railroad properties and franchises and to sell its own.
An ACT to incorporate the Wise terminal company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3586 (should be 3856) of the code of Virginia, in relation to killing trees near highways, injuring bridges, obstructing roads, and riding or driving animals or vehicles on sidewalks, &c.; how punished