Transportation

1899/1900
An ACT to protect the interest of the state of Virginia in the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company, by inhibiting the execution of certain traffic contracts.
An ACT to allow Coulbourn brothers to build a pier in Rappahannock river, near Whealton wharf, in Lancaster county.
An ACT authorizing the Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina railroad company, as successor of the Virginia and Carolina railroad company, to exercise the franchises, powers, and privileges of the Virginia and Carolina railroad company, to change its name, and to possess and exercise general powers, and authorize leases, purchases, sales, or consolidations between it and other railroad or transportation companies.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and Pinner’s Point bridge company.
An ACT defining the duty and prescribing the liability of those operating railroads as to overhead bridges and structures.
An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the Port Norfolk electric railway company, the Portsmouth and Smithfield railroad company, and the Portsmouth, Pig’s Point and Newport News railway, ferry and hotel company into a corporation to be known as the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News railway company, and to define its powers.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to borrow the sum of $2,500 to be expended in opening and constructing a public road, to execute the bonds of the county therefor, and levy a tax to pay the same.
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 incorporate the New River, Holston and western railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate Dumps creek railroad and mining company.
An ACT to incorporate Bay Shore terminal company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 3, 1900, entitled an act to incorporate the Independence and Grayson railroad company.
An ACT to permit C. W. Grandy, of Norfolk, Virginia, to erect and maintain a wharf on James river in Charles City county, Virginia, opposite the land called Kennon’s or Neilson’s landing.
An ACT to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Patrick county.
An act to amend and re-enact section two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Point Comfort Beach railway company
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 allow Captain N. B. Rich to erect a wharf or pier in Assateague harbor, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 and sub-sections 6, 7, and 9 of section 19, and section 25 of the act approved May 24, 1870, providing a charter for the city of Richmond, and the several acts of the general assembly amendatory thereof, concerning the powers of the city council, and relating to actions against the city to recover damages from it for negligence in the construction or maintenance of its streets, alleys or parks, where any person is liable with the city for such negligence.
An ACT to permit Isaac J. Savage and Isaac H. Savage to erect a wharf or pier on their land on a creek on the western side of Chincoteague island, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Tidewater transportation company.
An ACT to incorporate Hampton Roads railway and electric company.
An ACT to permit N. Z. Oakley to erect a wharf in Moratico creek, in Richmond county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1002, code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to roads abandoned by turnpike companies; how kept in order, &c.
An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds to construct sewerage and to continue the paving and grading the streets in the fifth ward.
An ACT to authorize the road board of Amherst county to borrow money, to be used in working the public roads in Pedlar magisterial district of said county.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Newport News ship-building and dry-dock company by amending and re-enacting section 2 thereof as amended and re-enacted by the act approved January 11, 1896, SO as to authorize said Newport News ship-building and dry-dock company to issue preferred as well as common stock: and by adding an independent section to said charter authorizing and permitting said Newport News ship-building and dry-dock company and its successors to manufacture steel and iron and the products thereof, and armor and arms, carriages and ammunition, and to erect and maintain piers, docks, bulkheads, and other properties and works in the James river westerly trom and in front of the property owned or which may be owned by said company or its successors at Newport News.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Onancock and Drummondtown electric railway, light and power company
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Lynnhaven railroad and terminal company.

1895/1896
An ACT to incorporate the Wythe county railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Potts Valley railroad and iron company, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 140 of the session acts of 1893-’84
An ACT to incorporate the Piedmont mining and manufacturing company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 chapter 73 of the acts of assembly for the extra session of 1887, entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act for working the public roads of Fairfax county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to incorporate the Chesterfield transit company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia seaboard and western railroad company
An ACT authorizing the purchasers of the railroads and property of the Norfolk and Western railroad company, sold by foreclosure of a deed of trust or mortgage thereon, to become and be a corporation, to adopt a name therefor, and to possess and exercise general and other powers.
An ACT to authorize the increase of the capital stock of the Portsmouth street railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of the county of Louisa.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1890.
An ACT to ratify, confirm and enlarge the charter of the Norfolk wharf, warehouse and terminal company, to confer upon it the rights and obligations of a railway and transportation company as prescribed, and to change the name thereof to the Norfolk terminal and transportation company.
An ACT to re-instate and amend the charter of the Atlantic, Staunton and West Virginia railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Lexington and Goshen railroad company.
An ACT to provide for working and defining the boundaries of certain roads in Fairfax county.
An ACT to incorporate the Blacksburg railway company.
An ACT to authorize the Winchester and Potomac railroad company to borrow money, execute mortgages on its property to secure it, to fix the recording tax, and to confirm the existing lease to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the Petersburg railroad company to discon- tinue the maintenance and use of its station and any portion of its present line of railway within the city of Petersburg, upon certain conditions.
An ACT to incorporate the ‘Southeastern and Atlantic railroad company.
An ACT making it lawful for the county courts and justices in Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Southampton, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to sentence certain criminals to work upon the roads, farms, or other public works in said counties, or on the streets of any town in said counties, and prescribing penalty for persons thus sentenced who escape or attempt to escape.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia transit company and to authorize it to engage in mining, manufacturing, and storage.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 3, 9 and 10 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to incorporate the Buckroe, Phoebus and Hampton railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Herndon and Aldie railway company
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 18 of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Lancaster railroad company,” approved January 22, 1894.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Giles county to issue bonds for the purpose of building a bridge or bridges in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in Nansemond county
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1886, entitled an act to authorize the road board of Central district, in Rockingham county, to establish a toll-gate on the Dry river road, in said county.
An ACT to extend the time for the completion of the Virginia western coal and iron railroad company.
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 amend section 31 of an act approved February 29, 1896, to provide for opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper.
An ACT to incorporate the Chesterfield railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of “an act entitled an act to incorporate the Gladeville railroad company, in Wise county,” approved February 20, 1892.
An ACT to authorize the Numsen manufacturing company to erect a wharf or wharves along its water front on Urbanna creek, at Urbanna, in Middlesex county, Virginia.
An ACT to improve the main thoroughfares of the county of Orange.
An ACT to allow Charles T. Jester to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay in Accomac county.
An ACT to allow George W. Glenn to erect a pier in Pocomoke sound, in Accomac county.
An ACT to authorize E. W. Warburton to erect a wharf, dock or pier on his tract of land called “Fish House,” in James City county, on james river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 7, and 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Madison and Orange railroad company
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt county.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Roanoke mineral belt line railroad company, acts of 1893-’94, chapter 189.
An ACT in relation to the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Middlesex county to borrow money to build a public free bridge over Urbanna creek.
An ACT to authorize the construction by the Piedmont soapstone company of tramways or railroad not exceeding twenty-five miles in length, and the encumbering and disposal of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2486 of code of 1887, as amended by an act to amend and re-enact sections 2485 and 2486 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the lien of employees, &c., of transportation, mining and manufacturing companies, on franchises and property of said companies, and how the same may be perfected and enforced
An ACT to provide for working roads in Rappahannock county.
An ACT to authorize the Port Norfolk electric railway company to extend its tracks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 5 and 8 of an act approved February 1, 1894, entitled an act to provide for working the roads in Northampton county, approved March 2, 1892, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1894.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia mineral railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the roads in King George county, approved February 29, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled a: act to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the public roads in King George county, approved February 26, 1894.
An ACT to incorporate the Lake Drummond railway and hotel company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8725 of the code of Virginia, as to obstructing or injuring canals, &c., how punished
An ACT to enable the supervisors of Hanover county, if they deem it expedient, to construct a road from Chickahominy swamp, between the Mechanicsville and the Richmond and Henrico turnpikes, to the city of Richmond, and to appropriate funds for that purpose out of the county levy of said county of Hanover.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Middlesex county to build a public free bridge over Urbanna creek.
An ACT to work the public roads of Middlesex county, Virginia.
An ACT to revive, amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Portsmouth, Smithfield and Western railway company, approved March 2, 1892, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1,10,and 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Portsmouth, Smithfield and Western railway company, approved March 2, 1892, and to add an independent section thereto, approved March 2, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Alexandria and Fairfax passenger railway company,” approved February 18, 1890, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact the first section of an act approved February 18, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Alexandria and Fairfax passenger railway company,” approved February 25, 1892.
An ACT to incorporate the McCullough terminal railway, wharf warehouse company.
An ACT to incorporate the Falls Church, Fairfax and Manassas railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 598 of the act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 3, 1894, entitled "an act in relation to working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Alexandria county."
An ACT to amend section 2 of a charter granted to The John G. Hurkamp Company on the 7th day of August, 1895, by the judge of the circuit court of Fredericksburg, in vacation, and to confirm and approve and ratify such charter, as amended, and all its provisions.
An ACT to provide for the working of roads in Fauquier county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act, approved January 22, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company, approved January 28, 1892.
An ACT to allow William N. Conaut to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
An ACT to allow the Charlottesville and University street-railway company to change its name to the Charlottesville city and suburban railway company.
An ACT to incorporate Alberene railroad company.
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 incorporate the Fairmount traction company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to improve the main thoroughfares of Rappahannock county
An ACT to authorize the county of Madison to subscribe to the stock of the Madison and Orange railroad company on certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act passed by the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to incorporate the Bland county land, improvement, development and transportation company, approved February 22, 1890, and to amend and re-enact section 4 of said act approved February 22, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Bland county land, improvement, development and transportation company; to amend, re-enact and change the title of said last-named act, and to enlarge the powers of said company so that it may have and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of a railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to confer upon the council of the town of Danville authority to build, purchase, repair and keep up a free bridge or free bridges across Dan river, and to confer upon the said corporation the power to increase its bonded indebtedness for public improvements
An ACT to confirm the organization and corporate existence of and to grant certain powers to the Washington, Arlington, and Falls Church railway company.