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1877/1878
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 Alleghany Mining and Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Rockbridge, approved March 5, 1877, and to provide for the disposition of the taxes and levies collected or assessed under the same.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio Railroad Company.
An ACT to provide for repairing the Rivanna canal with convict labor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of the act incorporating the Bristol coal and iron narrow-gauge railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Berkeley railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Warm Springs Valley Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Meherrin Valley railroad company.
An ACT to authorize the county of Rappahannock to unite with the counties of Fauquier and Culpeper in constructing a bridge over the Rappahannock river.
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.
An ACT to amend and re enact an act approved March 22d, 1871, entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Fluvanna to construct a ferry across the Rivanna river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5 of an act to incorporate the Virginia Midland mining and manufacturing company
An ACT to enable the James River and Kanawha company to contract with the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway company for the use of convict labor, granted to said first-named company by act approved December 12th, 1877.
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 authorizing Shields and Brother to construct a wharf on Occahannock creek.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act to incorporate the Charlottesville and Rapid Ann Railroad Company
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 3rd section of an act to constitute one quarantine district of the Elizabeth river and its branches, and to create a board of quarantine commissioners and a quarantine medical officer for said district, approved February 26th, 1877.
An ACT to amend section one of an act approved March 25, 1872, declaring certain streams in Charlotte county to be highways, approved March 20, 1875.
An ACT to provide for the establishment of ferries in the county of Carroll
An ACT to provide for working the roads in the county of Fairfax.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to issue a certain amount of county bonds to build a bridge.
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 authorize Charles T. Lipes, of Botetourt county, to establish a ferry across James river in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Shenandoah and Page
An ACT to authorize Henry C. Douthat, of Botetourt county, to establish a ferry across James river in said county.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the roads in the county of Hanover.
An ACT to provide for working the roads in the counties of Shenandoah and Page.
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 44 of 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 incorporating the Pittsylvania and Franklin railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to contract for the erection of a bridge across Jones’ creek in said county
An ACT to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
An ACT to authorize the city of Manchester to purchase Mayo’s bridge.
An ACT to define the limits of tide-water on the south side of James river.
An ACT to provide for the transportation of convicts and insane persons and their guards at reduced rates.
An ACT to authorize the Potomac, Fredericksburg, and Piedmont railroad to extend its road, to receive donations, and to change its name.
An ACT to authorize Samuel J. Shields and Brother to construct a bridge across Occahannock creek, in Accomac county.
An ACT to incorporate the Whitetop turnpike company
An ACT to provide for working and repairing the roads and bridges in the county of Buckingham.
An ACT to regulate prices and expenditures in regard to the working of roads in the county of Floyd.
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 Powell’s Fort mining company.
An ACT to provide for the use of convict labor on the James river and Kanawha canal.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 meeting the expense thereof
An ACT to authorize George G. Tyler to erect a boom in the Mattaponi river.
An ACT to provide for the use of convict labor on the New river railroad.
An ACT to regulate the working of the public roads in the counties of Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield, and Lancaster.
An ACT to empower the city of Petersburg to organize a board of railroad commissioners, and to acquire the control or ownership of the Petersburg railroad.
An ACT to empower the county court of Warren county to authorize Carson and Sons to establish a ferry across the north branch of the Shenandoah river, and also at the junction of the north and south branches of the said river, in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of penitentiary convicts on the Danville and New river railroad, approved March 27, 1876, and to repeal the second section of the said act, and to furnish penitentiary convicts to any company which may construct a railroad in the counties of Henry and Patrick, or either of them; to the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis narrow-gauge railroad, the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike, the Upper Appomattox company, and the Bristol coal and iron narrow-gauge railroad company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Straight-shoot railroad company, to change its name to the Richmond and Alleghany railroad company, and to extend its limits.
An ACT to furnish convict labor to the counties of Wythe, Carroll, and Grayson, to work upon the Raleigh and Grayson turnpike and Wythe and Grayson turnpike roads.
An ACT to enable the cities of Richmond and Lynchburg to aid in the repair of the James River and Kanawha Canal.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act approved March 18th, 1872, relative to the forfeiture of the rights and franchises of the trustees of Willis river and the incorporation of Willis navigation company.

1881/1882
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the supervisors of Bath county to build a turnpike road in said county.
An ACT to allow Abel A. Lake to erect a wharf at Franklin city, in Accomac county, on Chincoteague bay, for the purpose of shipping oysters.
An ACT to incorporate Scottsville Wollen Manufacturing Company.
An ACT in relation to the Peninsula Railroad Company.
An ACT cunfirming the issue of the capital stock of the Norfolk and Western railroad.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and West Virginia Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Narrows Bridge and Ferry Company.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prescribe a tence law for the district of Guilford, in the county of Surry
An ACT appropriating the public revenues for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-one-two, and eighteen hundred and eighty-two-three.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Gold Belt Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act to incorporate the Virginia Mineral and Gypsum Railroad Company, and to change the name of the said company.
An ACT to authorize Leigh street Baptist church in the city of Richmond, to borrow money and execute deeds of trust.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two, five, six, seven, and eight of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Carolina Turnpike Company.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Amherst and Nelson counties.
to authorize the trustees of Guests river Methodist church, in the county of Wise, to sell their church property and invest the proceeds in a new church.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one, four, six, and seven of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New River Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.
An ACT to incorporate the Farmville and Staunton River Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the New River and Southwest Virginia Mining and Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Terminal Company.
An ACT to provide for laying out and working roads in Henrico county.
An ACT to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the counties of Bedford and Frederick.
An ACT authorizing the county of Pittsylvania to sell its stock in the Virginia Midland Railroad Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Henrico Railroad Company.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the consolidation of the Richmond and Southwestern Railway Company with the Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, under the name of the Richmond and Louisville Railroad Company, and to increase the capital stock and enlarge the powers of said Richmond and Louisville Railroad Company.
An ACT to refund to Silas J. Lawson, of Halifax, a license tax paid by him.
An ACT to establish and define the boundaries of the town of Wytheville.
An ACT to empower and authorize the city of Lynchburg to convey property to the United States government for certain purposes.
An ACT to repeal chapter two hundred and twenty-five of the Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven-eight, in relation to working roads and repairing bridges in the county of Buckingham.
An ACT to establish a Ferry or Bridge across the Rappahannock river at or near the town of Falmouth.
An ACT to establish a Board of River and Harbor Commissioners for Nansemond river.
An ACT to incorporate the Estillville Virginia Marble Company.
An ACT ratifying the sale by the Board of Public Works of the claim of the state against the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio railroad.
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the Attorney-General
An ACT to establish a ferry or bridge across the Rappahanock river, at or near the town of Falmouth.
An ACT to incorporate the United States Beacon Light and Signal Company.
An ACT to authorize the formation of the Iron Belt Railroad Company.
An ACT to change the location of the courthouse of Dickenson county.
An ACT to authorize the Washington, Cincinnati, and St. Louis railroad company to adopt a standard gauge.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-three of chapter one hundred and eighty-one, Acts of 1874-75, approved March 20, 1875, to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, so far as applicable to the county of Albemarle.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section nineteen of chapter seven of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and sixty, in relation to vacancies in the office of judge.
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company.
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the senators and representatives in congress from Virginia to procure an impost duty levied on foreign sumac.
JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the purchase of Temple farm and Moore house.