Transportation

1878/79
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia aud Statesville Narrow-Gauge railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to authorize the construction of a turnpike road in Princess Anne and Norfolk counties
An ACT to authorize the county court of Giles county to exempt residents of the town of Newport from working on the public roads outside of said town.
An ACT to incorporate the Bangens Hydraulic Mining and Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 67th section of the charter of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to incorporate the North and Southside Virginia Mining and Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to assist the Manchester free-bridge commissioners in keeping the free bridge in repair.
An ACT to incorporate the Central Virginia Mining Company.
An ACT to authorize the construction of a turnpike road from Fincastle to Blue Ridge Springs, Botetourt county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 15 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Marble and Mining Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the sixteenth section of an act approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT to empower the county court of Essex county and the county court of Richmond county to grant to any person or persons the right to establish a ferry across the Rappahannock river at Tappahannock.
An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase by the government of the United States of land in Alexandria county for the abutment of and the necessary approaches to the bridge proposed to be constructed across the Potomac river at or near the Three Sisters’ island, and the building of such abutment and approaches upon such land, and ceding jurisdiction over the same.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 14 of the charter of the city of Danville.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 thereof
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the working of the public roads in the counties of Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield, and Lancaster.
An ACT to provide for working and repairing the roads and bridges in the county of Smyth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to authorize the construction, alteration, and repair of roads in the counties of Carroll and Grayson, approved February 13, 1877, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1878.
An ACT to authorize the James River and Kanawha Company to make sale and transfer of all its works, property, and franchises to the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company, and to define the powers and duties of the Board of Public Works in respect thereto.
An ACT to authorize BE, A. Jeffreys to erect a wharf upon his land on Chincoteague, in the county of Accomac.
An ACT to authorize W. L. Cook to erect a wharf upon his land on York river.

1879/80
An ACT to tax railroads in certain cases for county and school purposes.
An Act to amend the charter of the Richmond and Mecklenburg railroad company
An ACT to incorporate the Baltimore, Cincinnati and Western Railway Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia in relation to turnpike companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for working the roads of the county of Loudoun, passed 1856, and to repeal certain acts amendatory thereof, approved February 2, 1875, and February 1, 1879.
An ACT to authorize the erection of a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in the county of Accomac.
An ACT to prevent obstruction in Louisa fork of Sandy river.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Dan Valley and Yadkin River Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company
An ACT to establish and define the limits of the harbor of Franklin City, in the county of Accomac, and to protect the same.
An ACT to define the authority of the Council of Portsmouth over the streets and alleys of said city.
An ACT to amend the sixth section of an act entitled 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 authorizing the Board of Public Works to adjust the claims of the James River and Kanawha Company, and appropriating the proceeds, and providing for the safe-keeping of certain deposits, and authorizing the said James River and Kanawha Company to sell and convey its works and franchises to the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company.
An ACT to amend an act passed February 27, 1880 entitled an act for appointment of powder officer for the harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
An ACT to incorporate the Luray Iron Company.
An ACT to provide for the continued use of convict labor by the James River and Kanawha Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and North Carolina Mining and Transportation Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to enable the Board of Supervisors of Chesterfield county to assist the Manchester Free-Bridge Commissioners in keeping the Free Bridge in repair
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 10 of an act to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Clarke county
An ACT to confirm the donation by the town of Charlottesville to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, and to validate the bonds which have been or may be issued for the purpose.
An ACT to incorporate the Iron Company of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the: White Rock Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg, Massanutta and Toledo Railway Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Warrenton and Fauquier White Sulphur Springs Turnpike Company.
An ACT to incorporate a joint stock company for constructing a railroad from some point on the Richmond and Danville railroad in the county of Halifax, to Shady Grove in the county of Franklin, to be called the Halifax and Pittsylvania railroad.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Portsmouth Terminal Railway, Wharf and Warehouse Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Jeffersonville and Marion Turnpike and Telegraph Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and the amendatory acts thereto, and to change the name of the corporation to the Broad Creek and London Bridge Turnpike Company.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing and directing the Attorney-General to test before the Supreme Court of the United States so much of the act of incorporation of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad as relates to debts due the State of Virginia by the divisional lines of said railway.
An ACT to authorize James II. Fletcher to erect a wharf on his lands on Pokomoke river in the county of Accomac.
An ACT to incorporate the Shenandoah Valley Mining Company
An ACT to incorporate the Mineral and Lumber Railway Company
An ACT to incorporate the Mount Vernon Railroad Company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company.
An ACT to authorize the Richmond, York River and Chesapeake railroad to borrow money.
An ACT to authorize the James River and Kanawha Company to construct and maintain a railway, in whole or in part, along its line, and to execute mortgages on its works, property and franchises.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and Deep Creek Turnpike Company.
An ACT requiring the attorney-general to institute the necessary proceedings in the proper court to ascertain whether the charter of the Arlington Turnpike Company has been forfeited, and repeal a joint resolution upon the same subject, approved March 1879.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Broad Creek Toll Bridge and Turnpike Company
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 of chapter 108 of the Code of 1873, in reference to public lands.
An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United States of title to and jurisdiction over Sewell’s Point Spit. for the purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital and erecting a building for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels.
An ACT to authorize the Potomac and Ohio railroad company to record mortgages and deeds of trust under certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section first of the act to authorize the formation of the New River Railroad Mining and Manufacturing Company, as amended by acts approved 2d April, 1873, and 15th March, 1875, and to change the name of said company to the New River Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Southwestern Railway Company.
An ACT to amend section 8 of the charter of the Warm Springs Valley Railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the James River and Kanawha Company and the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company.
An ACT defining the conditions of conveyance and recordation under any sale the James River and Kanawha Company may make of its works and franchises.
An ACT to incorporate Walker’s Creek Bridge and Turnpike Company.
An ACT to ascertain whether or not the charters of the Lynchburg and Salem, Lynchburg and Campbell Courthouse, and Lynchburg and Concord Turnpike companies have been complied with, and if not, to provide a mode for forfeiting the same.
An ACT to incorporate the Staunton and West Augusta Railroad Company.
An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company to construct and work a branch of its line of railroad from a point near Hanover Junction to deep water on the Chesapeake bay near Piankatank or elsewhere.
An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the county of Greensville to issue bonds to build a bridge.
An ACT to authorize G. W. Bishop, of Maryland, to erect a wharf on his premises at Franklin City, Accomac county.
An ACT to legalize the organization of the Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Light Infantry Building Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Seaboard Cotton Compress Company.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Middletown, in the county of Frederick.
An ACT to authorize a change in the site of the terminal station in Richmond of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company.
An ACT to amend section 5 of chapter 61 of the Code of 1873, in reference to the construction of branch railroads or lateral works.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 8 of an act approved January 11, 1877, enlarging the powers of the Royal Land Company so as to secure a connection for its railroad with the city of Richmond and otherwise to enlarge its powers.
An ACT to authorize the legally qualified voters of the county of Augusta to empower the supervisors of said county to borrow money for the purpose of macadamizing certain public roads in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 65 of the Code of 1873, in relation to telegraph companies.
An ACT to repeal the act entitled an act to amend the charter of the Valley Railroad Company, approved April 2, 1879.
An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company and the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company, or the acquisition by the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company of the works, property and franchises of the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in order the public roads in Alexandria county
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act to incorporate the Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company

1879es
An ACT declaring certain streams in Nottoway county to be highways.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to levy a tax to pay subscription to the Danville and New River railroad
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the transportation of convicts and Insane persons and their guards at reduced rates
An ACT to provide convict labor for the Virginia and Statesville Air-Line Narrow-Gauge Railroad.
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act Entitled An Act to Incorporate the Richmond and Mecklenburg Railroad Company, Approved March 25, 1875.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act to provide for working the roads in the county of Fairfax
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 12th section of an act approved Apiil 4th, 1877, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads and repairing bridges in the county of Rappahannock.
An ACT to authorize the counties of Greene and Madison to subscribe to the stock of the Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad Company, on certain conditions.
An ACT to authorize the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company to record mortgages and deeds of trust under certain conditions,
An ACT to incorporate the Cumberland and Willis River Railroad Company.
An ACT to authorize the James River and Kanawha Company to make sale and transfer of all its works, property, and franchises, and to invest the purchaser or purchasers With certain corporate rights, powers and franchises.
An ACT to incorporate the Fork Ferry Company, and to authorize it to establish a ferry across the south branch of the Shenandoah river in Warren county.