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1875/1876
An Act to Incorporate the Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, and to transfer to it certain Franchises, Rights, Privileges and Properties of the Virginia and Kentucky Railroad Company.
An act for the Relief of the Sureties of Samuel J. Spindle
An ACT to provide for the Working of Penitentiary Convicts on the Danville and New River Railroad.
An ACT to authorize the Qualified Voters of Halifax County to vote on the Question of the Purchase or Construction of a Bridge at South Boston, in that County.
1876/1877
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17, 19, 20, 37, 60, 71, 72, 78, 98, 95, 107, and 114 of the act for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, licenses, &c., and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 3d, oth, 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bristol coal and iron narrow-gauge railroad company, and to transfer to it certain franchises, rights, privileges, and properties of the Virginia and Kentucky railroad company.
An ACT providing for submitting to the voters of Warren county, on fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the adoption or rejection of a law for working and keeping the public roads in order in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the counties of Buckingham, Rockbridge, Smyth and Pulaski
An ACT to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Clarke county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 22 and 23 of an act entitled an act for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, licenses, &c., and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt
An ACT to authorize the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad company to record mortgages and deeds of trust under certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act passed 24th March, 1848, in reference to the Lynchburg and Tennessee railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Broad creek toll-bridge and turnpike road company
JOINT RESOLUTION in regard to the sale of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
AN ACT to provide for the working of roads and repairing bridges in the county of Culpeper.
An ACT to secure the payment of wages or salaries to certain employees of railway, canal, steamboat, and other corporations.
An ACT to authorize the Worcester railroad company, in Virginia, to consolidate with certain companies in the states of Delaware and Maryland.
An ACT to incorporate the Fauquier White sulphur springs company
An ACT to amend section 1, chapter 224, Acts of 1875-’76, authorizing the board of supervisors of Bath county to build a turnpike road.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the ninth section of an act approved March 15th, 1872, entitled an act to incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad company, as amended by an act approved April 15th, 1874, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the first and ninth sections of the act entitled an act to incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad company, so as to exempt the county of Rappahannock from the operation of said acts.
An ACT to amend section 1 of an act approved January 11th, 1877, enlarging the corporate powers of the Royal land company.
An ACT to provide for the payment of claims due by the state on account of the construction of the Covington and Ohio and Blue Ridge railroads.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 4th and 9th sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Brock’s gap, Hardy and Hampshire railroad company, approved March 31, 1873, and first section of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled un act to incorporate the Brock’s Gap, Hardy and Hampshire railroad company, approved March 31, 1873, and to change its name, approved April 2, 1874.
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the attorney-general to defend the interests of the State in the case of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad company and the case of J. W. McCready against the commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New river railroad
An ACT to incorporate the Wytheville mining, manufacturing and hotel company.
An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Orange and Madison counties to become the purchasers of such parts of any turnpike road as may lie within the limits of said counties.
An ACT for the working and keeping in order the public roads in Alexandria county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and five of an act to provide for the working of roads in the counties of Shenandoah, Page and Rockingham.
An ACT requiring owners of mill-dums, on the Shenandoah river, to construct shoots, dr sluices, fur the passage of boats and fish.
An ACT to authorize the board of publie works to sell the state’s interest in the Jackson’s river turnpike company.
An ACT to confirm the charter of the New Market river bridge company.
An ACT to amend an act in relation to the election of commissioners of roads in Loudoun county.
An ACT in relation to the Winchester and Strasburg Railroad Company, and for its relief.
An ACT to authorize the erection of a boom in the Mattaponi river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati and Saint Louis railroad company, approved March 15, 1872.
An ACT to incorporate the Staffordsville bridge and turnpike company, in Giles county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five of chapter one hundred and forty-eight of the Code of 1873, in relation to attachments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 7 of an act entitled an act to authorize the formation of the James river and New river railroad company, approved February 29, 1875.
An ACT to authorize Elzey Evans, of Accomack county, to erect a wharf on his land lying on Pungoteague creek in said county.
An ACT to provide for the working of the roads in the county of Washington.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1876-77.
An ACT to provide for erecting, rebuilding and repairing bridges in Fairfax county.
An ACT to incorporate the Portan wharf company, in the county of Gloucester.
An ACT to prevent the obstruction of navigable waters in the counties of Accomack, Lancaster and Northampton.
An ACT to authorize the town council of Falls Church, Fairfax county, to take charge of that portion of the Fairfax and Georgetown turnpike lying within the corporate limits of said town.
An ACT to provide for the working of roads and repairing bridges in the county of Rappahannock.
JOINT RESOLUTION to extend the time for the completion of the Washington and Ohio railroad to Winchester.
An ACT to provide for the working of roads in the counties of Scott, Wise, Lee and Buchanan.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 10th section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati and Saint Louis railroad company
An ACT to amend the charter of the Richmond and Henrico railroad, and turnpike and graded road company.
JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the Roanoke navigation company to report certain information to the next general assembly.
An ACT to authorize J. W. Wheatton, D. J. Wheatton and S. J. Mumford to erect wharves on their lands on Chincoteague channel, in Accomack county.
An ACT to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the counties of Buckingham, Rockbridge, Smyth, and Pulaski.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the roads in the county of Louisa.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Brambleton railroad company.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the board of public works to take proper steps to protect the interest of the state in the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad.
An ACT to incorporate the Hampton and Fort Monroe railroad company.
An ACT to authorize Henry F. Jones and Thomas Newman to erect a pier-head on York river, near Skimanon creek, in York county.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Royal Land Company of Virginia, and to enlarge the corporate powers and franchises, so as to enable it to purchase, construct and operate a railroad from its lands to the Potomac river, and ship from the terminus thereof minerals and merchandise.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections first and sixth of chapter forty-five of Acts of Assembly approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to authorize the qualified voters of Halifax county to vote on the question of the purchase or construction of a bridge at South Boston, in that county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad company
An ACT to authorize and empower the Old Dominion steamship company to hold land in the state of Virginia.
An ACT prescribing the width of roads in Wythe county.
An ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Eastern Branch turnpike and toll-bridge company, approved March 14, 1872.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Frederick county.
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg and North Carolina railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the construction, alteration and repair of roads in the counties of Carroll and Grayson.
An ACT to authorize the Eastern Shore steamboat company to purchase and hold land in the county of Accomack, and to erect a wharf on the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the forty-second section of an act approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as amended by an act approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, in regard to working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth.
An ACT to authorize the secretary of the commonwealth to furnish the clerks of the county courts of Accomack, Northumberland, Westmoreland, King George, Stafford, Prince William, Fairfax, Alexandria, Middlesex, Mathews, Gloucester, and Loudoun, with copies of the map returned by the commissioners to arbitrate the boundary line between Virginia and Maryland.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-two, chapter one hundred and eighty-one of Acts eighteen hundred and seventy-four and seventy-five, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, approved March twentieth, cighteen hundred and seventy-five, so as to provide for garnisheeing road tines.
An ACT to authorize the city of Winchester to subscribe to the capital stock of the Martinsburg and Potomac railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25 of an act for working the roads of Loudoun county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henrico, to hire convicts for the purpose of improving the public roads in the county of Henrico, and to make provisions for ineeting the expense thereof.
An ACT to authorize Witham, Gladden, and Jarman, to erect a wharf on their lund on Messongo creek, in the county of Accomack
An ACT for the formation of the New river mining and manufacturing company.
An ACT to authorize the county court of Clarke to establish a toll-gate on the Ashby’s Gap turnpike.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 23, 24, 25, and 26 of an act approved February 24, 1876, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the Potomac and Manassas railroad company
An ACT to create a railroad commissioner for the state of Virginia, and to define his duties.
An ACT to amend certain sections of the act to authorize the formation of the New river railroad mining and manufacturing company, as amended by acts approved 2d April, 18738, and 15th March, 1875; and to change the name of the said company to that of the New river railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Clarke to issue new bonds for one hundred thousand dollars in lieu of those heretofore issued by said board for the subscription of said board to the capital stock of the Shenandoah Valley railroad company.
1877/1878
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act approved March 20, 1875, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth.
An ACT to incorporate the Peninsula Railroad Company.
An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Amherst county to issue bonds to aid in building a free bridge across the James river at Lynchburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati, and St. Louis railroad company, approved March 15th, 1872, as amended by an act approved March 21, 1877, as amended by an act approved April 4, 1877, in reference to times and places of holding meetings of stockholders.
An ACT to regulate prices and expenditures in regard to the working of roads in the county of Floyd.
An ACT to provide for working and repairing the roads and bridges in the county of Buckingham.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors to hire convicts for the purpose of improving the public roads in the county of Henrico, and to make provision for meeting the expenses thereof.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio Railroad Company.
An ACT to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
An ACT to provide for the transportation of convicts and insane persons and their guards at reduced rates.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Richmond to loan a certain sum in bonds or money to the James river and Kanawha company.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bath county to borrow money to defray the cost of erecting a bridge over the Cowpasture river.
An ACT to provide for the use of convict labor on the James river and Kanawha canal.
An ACT to regulate the use of the public wharf or landing at Totuskey bridge, in Marshall magisterial district, in Richmond county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, of chapter 148, of the Code of 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 26, 1877, in relation to attachments.
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the attorney-general to institute proceedings in the proper courts to ascertain whether the charter of the Roanoke navigation company has been forfeited.
An ACT to authorize William T. Ferguson to erect a pierhead or wharf at Booth’s landing on James river.