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1874
An ACT to authorize the Richmond, York River and Chesapeake Railroad Company to subscribe to the Stock of the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Richmond Steamboat Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the Ist section of an Act Entitled an Act to Incorporate The Brock’s Gap, Hardy and Hampshire Railroad Company, Approved March 381, 1878, and to Change its Name.
An ACT to dispense with security and regulate the trial of certain controversies between the State and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the New River and Piedmont Narrow Guage Railroad Company.
An ACT to authorize the legal Voters of certain Counties to vote upon the question of Negotiating a Loan or Loans, and to issue Bonds for and in the nameof said Counties, for the pur of estab- lishing a Steamboat Line between the Landings on the Rappahannock River and the City of Baltimore, Maryland, or Norfolk, or both.
An ACT to Prescribe the pay of Road Commissioners in Nelson County, for 1874, 1875 and 1876.
An ACT to Authorize The Lynchburg and Campbell Courthouse Turnpike Company to Transfer to the City of Lynchburg, the portion of said Turnpike road which lies within the limits of said city.
An ACT to Incorporate The Columbia, Fairfax and Prince William Railroad Company.
An ACT Authorizing D. A. Plecker to Erect a Toll-bridge across North River at Mount Crawford, in Rockingham County.
1874/1875
An ACT to confer on the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs Company the Rights and Franchises of the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs Railroad Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an Act approved March 25th, 1872, declaring Certain Streams in Charlotte County, to be Highways.
An ACT to authorize the Raleigh Coal and Iron Company to build a Toll Bridge across Jackson’s River, at or near Clifton Forge, in the County of Alleghany.
An ACT to incorporate The Virginia Deep Run Mining Company.
An ACT to create a Board of Harbor Commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and for the Preservation and Improvement of the Harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
An ACT authorizing Griffin Hoffman of Accomac County, to erect a Wharf on Pungoteague Creek in said County.
An ACT in relation to a Vote of the People of Richmond on the question of Subscription to the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act authorizing D. A. Plecker to erect a Toll Bridge across North river at Mt. Crawford, in Rockingham county, approved March 6, 1874.
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, ratified the 20th day of January, 1870, and an Act supplemental thereto, ratified the 24th day of January, 1872.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth sections of an Act to authorize the Formation of the New River Railroad, Mining and Manufacturing Company, approved March 7th, as amended by an Act approved April 2d, 1873.
An ACT to secure Iron Ship-building Yards in, and Steam-ship Communication between the State of Virginia and Europe.
An ACT to protect the city of Richmond in making a subscription to the capital stock of the Richmond and Trans-Alleghany Narrow-Gauge Railway Company.
An ACT to authorize the Washington and Ohio Railroad Company to Issue Certificates of Indebtedness in Payment of Claims against the Company.
An ACT to incorporate The Border Grange Warehouse and Supply Company.
An ACT to authorize a Subscription of the City of Richmond to the Capital Stock of the Richmond and Trans-Alleghany Narrow-Gauge Railway Company, on Certain Conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24 of chaptor 56 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1878, in relation to the conditions wpon which the Streets and Alleys of a City or Town may be croesed er occupied by Internal Improvement Companies.
JOINT RESOLUTION memorializing the Congress of the United States for an Appropriation to Deepen the Waters in the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers.
An ACT to amend sections 2 and 4 of an Act entitled an Act to incorporate The Richmond, Craighton and Hanover Turnpike Company, in the Counties of Henrico and Hanover
An ACT to authorize the City of Richmond to subscribe to Western Railroad Connections with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25 of chapter 56 of the Code of Virginia 1878, in relation to the alteration of Roads, Canals and Streams.
An ACT for the Appointment of Directors and Proxies for the States of Virginia and West Virginia in the Cross-Road and Summit Point Turnpike Company.
An ACT to incorporate The Richmond and Mecklenburg Railroad Company.
An ACT to authorize The James River and Kanawha Company to execute a Mortgage, and to subscribe to the Capital Stock of The Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railroad Company, and to authorize the City of Richmond to guarantee such subscription, in whole or in part.
An ACT to authorize a new election in the Town of Farmville, Virginia, on the question of a Subscription to the Farmville, Charlottesville and Stanardsville Narrow Gauge Railroad.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the seventh section of chapter 61, Code of 1873, in relation to Turnpikes.
An ACT to authorize the Chesterfield Land and Improvement Company to Construct a Railroad.
An ACT to authorize D. A. Plecker and others to Construct a Tram or Narrow-Gauge Railroad, at or near Mount Crawford to Bridgewater.
An ACT to authorize the County of Middlesex to vote on the question of the purchase of the Urbanna Toll-Bridge, in order to make it a Free Bridge.
JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the Congress of the United States to make an Appropriation to the Dismal Swamp Canal.
An ACT to incorporate The Newport and Blacksburg Turnpike Company.
An ACT to authorize the Formation of the James River and New River Railroad Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for Working the Roads of Loudoun County, passed 1856, and to repeal certain acts amendatory thercof.
An ACT to incorporate The Norfolk and Princess Anne Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company.
An ACT to require Steam Vessels Navigating James River to Sound their Steam Whistles on Approaching the Bends thereof.
An ACT to incorporate The Old Deminion Telezrar!: Company.
An ACT to incorporate The Virginia Land and Colonization Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Pickett’s Harbor Wharf Company, within the limits of the County of Northampton.
An ACT for the Relief of the Leesburg and Aldie Turnpike Company.
An ACT to incorporate The Virginia Midland, Mining and Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to incorporate The Northern Immigration and Colonizing Association of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for more specific Reports of the Transportation of Produce on the Railroads and Canals of this State.
An ACT to incorporate The Laurel Fork and Ore Knob Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, in the County of Washington.
An ACT to repeal an Act passed April 27, 1874, entitled an Act to Provide for Warking the Public Roads in Princess Anne, Charles City and New Kent Counties.
An ACT to provide for the Establishment of a True Meridian Line in each County of the Commonwealth, East of the Alleghany Mountains.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 29th section of chapter 64, Code of 1873, in reference to Tolls on Ferries and Bridges.
An ACT to provide for Working and Keeping in Order the Roads of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend the first section of an act approved March 16, 1875, entitled an act to incorporate The Norfolk and Princess Anne Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an Act entitled an Act to Provide for the Relinquishment to the United States, in certain cases, of Title to and Jurisdiction over Lands, for Sites of Lighthouses, Beacons, and other aids to Navigation, in the Waters of this State
An ACT to incorporate The Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company.
An ACT to Regulate the Mode of Subscribing to the Stock of the Richmond and Trans-Alleghany Railroad Company by Counties, Cities, and Towns.
An ACT to authorize the Counties of King and Queen and King William to negotiate a loan or loans for the purpose of purchasing a Steamboat.
An ACT to incorporate The Marion and Jefferson Turnpike in the County of Smyth.
An ACT to incorporate The Roanoke Valley Railroad Company.
An ACT allowing C. Beverly Turner to Erect a Pier or Wharf, at Burwell’s Bay, on James River.
An ACT to incorporate The Lawrenceville Tram-Road Company.
An Act to incorporate the Petersburg Building and Improvement Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 23, 24, and 26, of chapter 61, Code of 1873, in relation to Common Carriers.
1875/1876
An ACT to provide for the Disposition of the Proceeds of Norfolk County Ferries.
An ACT to authorize the Qualified Voters of Pulaski County to Vote on the Question of the Construction of a Free Bridge across New River.
An ACT to amend the Charter of the Valley Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate The Milton and Sutherlin
An ACT to amend and re-enact an Act entitled an Act to amend and re-enact the second section of an Act authorizing D. A. Plecker to erect a Toll-bridge across North River at Mount Crawford, in Rockingham County
An ACT to incorporate the Charlottesville and Rapidan railroad.
An ACT to incorporate The Southwest Virginia Land, Colonization, and Improvement Company.
An ACT to amend the Charter of the Milton and Sutherlin Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of chapter ninety-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and to amend and re-enact section one of an act in reference to Obstructions to Highways and Hindrances to Travelers, approved February seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
An ACT directing the Sale of the State’s Interest in the Thornton’s Gap Turnpike Company.
An ACT to authorize the Supervisors of Bath County to Build a Turnpike Road in said County.
An ACT to provide for the Working of Roads in the Counties of Shenandoah, Page, and Rockingham.
An ACT to change the name of the Fredericksburg and Gordonsville Railroad Company to the Potomac, Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five of an Act entitled an Act to Incorporate the Roanoke Valley Railroad Company
An ACT to incorporate The Broad Creek Toll Bridge and Turnpike Road Company.
An ACT to authorize Joseph C. Boggs, of Accomac County, to Erect a Wharf on Andua Creek in said County.
An ACT to incorporate the Orange Courthouse and Harrisonburg Railroad Company
An ACT to provide for the Working of Roads in the County of Fauquier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the third section of chapter eighty-nine of the Act of General Assembly, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to authorize the Board of Supervisors for Wythe County to Contract for Keeping in Repair Certain Public Roads in said County.
An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Isle of Wight, in their discretion, to Contract for and Direct a Bridge to be built across Jones’ Creek, leading from Smithfield to Smith’s Neck, in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the forty-second section of the Act approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled an Act to provide for Working and Keeping in Order the Roads of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to Incorporate the Manchester Railway and Land Improvement Company.
An ACT to prevent Obstructions to Travel on Highways and Streets by Railroad Freight Trains.
An ACT to incorporate the Surry Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company, and to enable the James River and Kanawha Company to Subscribe to the Capital Stock thereof.
An ACT to repeal the twenty-third section, chapter ninety-one of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Pilots.
An ACT to authorize the Richmond Light Infantry Blues to adopt a uniform for company purposes in addition to that prescribed by law.
An ACT to provide for Working and Keeping the Public Roads in Order in Fairfax County.
An ACT to amend section two, chapter seventy-nine of an act entitled an act incorporating a Company to Construct a Turnpike Road across the Warm Springs Mountain
An ACT authorizing Raymond R. Hutchison, of Accomac county, his Heirs and Assigns, to Erect a Wharf on Pungoteague Creek in said county.
An ACT to amend an act.entitled an act to Incorporate a Company to Construct, on the Plan of James 8S. French, a Railroad between Alexandria and Washington City
AN ACT to authorize Joseph J. English, of Accomac county, to erect a Wharf on Chincoteague Channel in said county.
An ACT to define and set forth the Corporate Rights, Franchises, Privileges and Obligations of the Potomac, Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad Company, and to grant Additional Franchises to said Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section seventy-three, chapter sixty-one of Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Abandoned Turnpikes.