Transportation

1901es
An ACT to incorporate the Central railway of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 commonwealth, 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 amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 8, of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in Gainesville district of Prince William county, and approved February 25, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 1, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled 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 said county
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 8 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt county, approved March 4, 1896.
An ACT validating, ratifying, confirming, and approving an ordinance of the city council of Alexandria passed December 11, 1900, and approved by the mayor of the city of Alexandria.
An ACT to provide a method by which moneys appropriated by the board of supervisors of Rockingham county, upon the order of the county court of said county, for opening new roads and building bridges in said county shall be paid by the county treasurer.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company.
An ACT validating, ratifying, confirming, and approving an ordinance of the city council, passed December 11, 1900, and approved by the mayor of the city of Alexandria, on December 13, 1900, authorizing the Washington Southern railway company to construct, maintain, and operate a switch or side track in and upon St. Asaph street, between Madison and Pendleton streets in the city of Alexandria and to connect each end of said switch or side track with its main track in said street; and to construct, maintain, and operate turnouts or spur tracks connecting its main line of railway or said switch or side track at any point or points between the streets aforesaid with the property of Robert Portner brewing company, and endowing and vesting the said the Washington Southern railway company with the right, power, and authority to construct, maintain, and operate the switch or side track, and turnouts or spur tracks in said ordinance mentioned and provided for.
An ACT to authorize George W. Richardson and W. P. Richardson to erect a wharf, dock, or pier on their lots situated in the town of West Point, King William county, on the Pamunkey river, and known on the map of said town as numbers 53 and 59.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of New Kent county to build, construct, and maintain a wharf on the York river, at some point on the New Kent shore of Fork river, between Plum point and Weir creek.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1373 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the public ferry across the Curotoman river in the county of Lancaster.
An ACT to provide for altering and vacating certain streets and alleys in Norfolk county not lying within the limits of any city or town, and to validate and confirm proceedings heretofore had in the county court of said county for the purpose of altering or vacating any such streets or alleys, and to limit the time within which remedies in respect thereto or to the closing or attempted closing thereof may be had.
An ACT to authorize the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company to convey certain land situated in Stafford county to the board of supervisors of Stafford county for a public highway.
An ACT in relation to levy of taxes for road purposes in Halifax
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of an act approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order, building, and maintaining the public roads and bridges in the county of Scott, the opening and establishment of new roads, and to provide the funds therefor, approved February 14, 1898.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Northern railroad company.
An ACT to make the corporation of the town of Clintwood a separate road district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Tidewater and West Virginia railroad company
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act for working and keeping in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy of taxes for that purpose
An ACT to incorporate Holston river and Eastern railway.
An ACT to amend the charter of the trustees of the Upper Appomattox company, and to render the property of the said company subject to state, county, and municipal taxation, and for other purposes.
An ACT to incorporate the Charlotte and Prince Edward electric railway and improvement company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Westhampton park railway company, approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to transfer to the board of supervisors of Frederick county the state’s interest in the north Frederick turnpike.
An ACT to amend section 4 of an act entitled “an act to incor-porate the Leesburg and Point of Rocks turnpike company in the county of Loudoun and to authorize the road board of Leesburg district to appropriate road taxes to said turnpike company,” approved February 17, 1898, so as to authorize said company to appropriate, use and occupy the public roadbed between Leesburg and Point of Rocks as the roadbed of said company’s turnpike road.
An ACT to incorporate the Radford water-power company.
An ACT to authorize J. W. Hurley to erect a breakwater in the Rappahannock river, in the county of Middlesex.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to require railroad companies to provide separate cars for white and colored passengers, approved January 30, 1900, relating to the persons to whom the act shall not apply.
An ACT to authorize R. E. Richardson to erect a wharf, dock or pier on his lot in the town of West Point, King William county, on the Pamunkey river, and known on the map of said town as number 55.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia equipment company.
An ACT authorizing the Ohio river and Charleston railway company, as the successor of the Ohio river and Charleston railroad company, to complete the construction of and operate its road; prescribing the terms thereof; and authorizing a change in the name of the company.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Carroll county to purchase a lot or lots of land in the town of Hillsville for the purpose of tying horses and other animals and standing vehicles; and to lay a levy to pay for same.
An ACT declaring Lawson creek, in Halifax county, to be a highway.
An ACT to authorize the county court of Pulaski county to acquire for highway and road purposes from the Norfolk and Western railway company part or parts of the right of way of its railroad between New River depot and Back Creek, in Pulaski county, and to authorize the board of directors of the Norfolk and Western railway company to abandon the same for railroad purposes.
An ACT providing for taking the sense of the qualified voters of Slate river magisterial district of Buckingham county, on the question whether the board of supervisors of said county shall negotiate a loan and issue bonds of said county for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a bridge across James river, at or near Scottsville, and shall levy a special district tax in said district to pay said bonds and interest thereon, and authorizing the board of supervisors of said county to issue said bonds and a sinking fund to pay said bonds by a tax to be levied in said district.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk county railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Mount Rogers and Eastern railroad company, to grant said corporation certain privileges, and authorize the counties through which said road may be constructed to aid the construction thereof.

1902/1903
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose, approved February 21, 1900.
An ACT to repeal an aet entitled an act to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Patrick county, approved March 7, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Caroline county.
An ACT providing mileage to the members of the general assembly, clerks, officers, and pages of same for attending the reconvening of the general assembly in the city of Richmond on the 12th day of November, 1902.
An ACT to provide for the repair, construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads and bridges of Newport magisterial district, in the county of Warwick; to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to borrow money therefor by the issue of bonds, and to create a commission to have charge of the proceeds of the sale thereof; and to submit the question of issuing bonds to the freehold voters of said magisterial district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act. to require city street railway companies to run vestibule fronts on all cars on their lines during the months of December, January, February, and March of each vear, approved February 1, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act in effect from and after December 24, 1899, so as to require said railway companies to run vestibule fronts on all motor cars on their lines during the months of November, December, January, February, March, and April of each vear.
An ACT providing for the appointment of a commission of three persons by the circuit court of Spotsylvania county, to be known as the board of public roads for Spotsylvania county, and for holding an election to take the sense of the qualified voters of said county upon the question of bonding same for an amount not exceeding $100,000 for the purpose of permanently improving the public roads thereof.
An ACT to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles, and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, and motor bicycles and tricycles, along or over the public highways of the State and the avenues, streets, and alleys of the cities.
An ACT to authorize and empower the town of Smithfield, in Isle of Wight county, to borrow money for street improvement.
An ACT to authorize J. W. Massey and T. H. Massey to erect
An ACT to amend and re-enact. an act approved January 26, 1903, en- titled an act to allow the board of supervisors of the county of Campbell to purchase the Lynchburg and Campbell Courthouse turnpike, and to operate the same as a turnpike, or in its discretion convert it into a public road, allowing said board out of the county levy to maintain said read as a public road.
An ACT to allow the board of supervisors of the county of Campbell to purchase the Lynchburg and Campbell courthouse turnpike, and to operate the same as a turnpike, or in its discretion convert it into a public road.
An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Warren county to borrow $12,000, to be used in the building of a bridge and approaches thereto over the south branch of the Shenandoah river at or near Carson’s ford, in said county.
An ACT to legalize a certain election held by the qualified voters Prince Edward county, Virginia, for the purpose of subscribing to the stock the Charlotte, Farmville and James River Valley Railway Company; to empower and direct the supervisors of said county to subscribe to the capital stock said railway company to an amount not exceeding $57,000 in the said county bonds, or $3,000 per mile in the said county’s bonds, par value, upon the term and conditions prescribed in the order of court under which said election was held.
An ACT to prevent the encroachment on or the ehanging of the lines or direction of any public road without permission of the court, and to pre- scribe a penalty therefor.
An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Luray to borrow money and increase levy for street and road purposes.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to issue and sell bonds to an amount not exceeding the sum of $50,000 in the aggregate, the proceeds to be used for the repair and maintenance of the public roads and bridges of said county, and appointing commissioners to disburse such moneys.
An ACT to legalize an election held in Charlotte county for the purpose of subscribing to the capital stock of the Charlotte, Farmville and James River Valley Railway Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 73 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved April 28, 1887, entitled an act to amend an act for working the public roads of Fairfax county
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to transfer to the eountyw of Shenandoah the State’s interest in the Mt. Jackson and Howard Lick Turnpike Company.
An ACT to authorize the city of Charlottesville to close a street in said city known as Fifth street.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to create a general road fund, and to provide for the permanent improvement of roads, approved April 2, 1902, and to create an advisory road board and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Clarke county to issue bonds of the county to macadamize the public roads of the several magisterial districts of the county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Gloucester county to borrow money.
An ACT to put, into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment and organization of the “State Corporation Commission,” its jurisdiction, powers, functions and duties; the qualification of the members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its offices, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders, findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and judgments, and its expenses, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 573 of the acts 1891 and 1892, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as amended by an act passed March 2, 1892, as amended by an act passed January 25, 1898, as amended by an act passed February 28, 1898, as amended by an act passed March 6, 1900, as to the limit of the road levy in Pulaski county, and the distribution of the funds derived thereunder.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to borrow money for the construction of highway bridges in the Pulaski road district, in Pulaski county.
An ACT to apportion the obligation and costs of maintaining, keeping in repair and rebuilding certain bridges over Blackwater river, the dividing line between the counties of Isle of Wight and Southampton, between the said counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 21, 26, and 40 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads of Greene and Madison
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in the county of Essex, and providing what tax shall be used for keeping the same in order.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to borrow $9,000 for the purpose of building a bridge across James river in that county, approved March 29, 1902, so as to authorize the said board to borrow $12,000 for the purpose aforesaid and to issue bonds of the said county therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose
An ACT to provide for the support, maintenance, and instruction of the Virginia volunteers, and for their maintenance and pay when called into service in aid of the civil authorities or by the governor and commander-in-chief, and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT to provide for an election in Orange county for the purpose of taking the sense of the qualified voters upon the question of issuing bonds to build maeadamized publie roads; to appoint road commissioners, prescribe their powers and duties, and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to issue and negotiate said bonds,
An ACT to establish a “good roads commission” for Culpeper county and to provide for the expenses thereof.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads and bridges in the county of Fluvanna.
An ACT to empower the several road boards of Clarke county to purchase rock crushers for their respective districts, and to make provision for the payment thereof.
An ACT to provide a road law for Appomattox county, and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Luray, Virginia, to appropriate certain money to construct a bridge across the Hawksbill creek, in said town.
An ACT to provide for the improvement of public roads in Shenandoah county, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 4 1896, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the counties of Northumberland and Westmoreland.
An ACT to provide for the permanent improvement of the public roads of Charlotte county, and to authorize the issue of bonds for that purpose.
An ACT to amend section 16 of an act entitled an act for working the roads of Loudoun county, approved February 16, 1880, so as to authorize the boards of commissioners of roads of Loudoun county to increase the road levy to an amount not to exceed forty cents on the dollar of the amount of State tax and a like percentage on licenses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and macadamize the roads in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question, approved April 2, 1902.
An ACT to prescribe the jurisdiction of the several boards of supervisors of the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Page, and Shenandoah, on and after the first day of February, 1904, in matters pertaining to county roads, toll roads, bridges, ferries, mills, fences, stock laws, and apprentices.
An ACT to empower the boards of supervisors of the counties of Halifax, Charlotte, Prince Edward, Cumberland, and Powhatan to declare streams in their counties public highways, to provide rules and regulations for keeping the banks and channels of the same free from obstructions, and to provide penalties for failures to comply therewith.
An ACT providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in Cumberland eounty.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 4 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 4, 1896, entitled “an act providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Lunenburg, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in said county.
An ACT to establish Jonesville high school district, in Lee county, Virginia, providing the mode of appointing trustees, levying tax for district school purposes therein, and authorizing the trustees to apply the money collected for district school purposes to the payment of teachers’ salaries, the purchasing, renting, or building of school-houses, apparatus, furniture, appliances,
An ACT prescribing the liability of common carriers, railroads, or transportation companies for any loss, damage, or injury to property caused by its negligence, or the negligence of any other common carrier, railroad, or transportation company to which such property may be delivered, or over whose lines such property may pass.
An ACT to authorize John D. Armstrong to erect a dock, pier, or watch-house upon his oyster ground in James river.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lancaster county to effect a loan for county road purposes, and to disburse the same.
An ACT to authorize the city of Petersburg to acquire land necessary to construct a channel for diverting the freshet water from the Appomattox river at Petersburg, Virginia, so as to improve the harbor and channel of said river.
An ACT to require the State Corporation Commission to fix and pre- prescribe storage, demurrage, and car service charges which may be collected by railroad and other transportation companies on freight transported, or to be transported by them, and to be paid by them on freight delayed and cars not promptly furnished or placed by them, with rules and regulations governing same.
An ACT to authorize, empower, and direct the board of supervisors of Clarke county to build, construct, and maintain a toll-bridge at or near Castleman’s ferry, in said county, and to build, construct, and maintain a toll-bridge at or near Berry's ferry, in said county of Clarke, over the Shenandoah river; to issue county bonds to the extent of forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of raising money for the construction of said bridges; to receive any subscriptions that may be made for said purpose; to provide for the collection, custody, and application of said tolls; and to validate an election held in the county of Clarke, November 4, 1902, approving an issue of the bonds of said county, to the amount of forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of constructing the said toll-bridges.

1902/1904
An ACT to provide for an election in Orange county for the purpose of taking the sense of the qualified voters upon the question of issuing bonds to build macadamized public roads; to appoint road commissioners, prescribe their powers and duties, and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to issue and negotiate said bonds.
An ACT to establish a “good roads commission” for Culpeper county, and to provide for the expenses thereof.
An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads and bridges in the county of Fluvanna.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act authorizing the qualified voters of Prince Edward county to vote upon the question of issuing the bonds of said county to secure money for the purpose of purchasing road machinery and improving the public roads of said county, and authorizing the board of supervisors to issue the bonds of the county for said purpose, if the vote shall be in favor thereof
An ACT to empower the several road boards of Clarke county to purchase rock crushers for their respective districts, and to make provision for the payment thereof.
An ACT to provide a road law for Appomattox county, and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.