Utilities
| An ACT Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of County |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Augusta Fire Company of the Town of Staunton. |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Virginia Telegraph Company. |
| An ACT Authorizing the Board of Public Works to Sell the Armory Buildings, Lots, and Water-power. |
| An ACT Directing the Superintendent of Public Buildings to have Certain Repairs Done to the Capitol, and Making an Appropriation for the Same. |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Hillsboro’ Water Company. |
| An Act to Incorporate the James River Bridge Company. |
| An ACT to regulate Express transportation over the Railroads of the Commonwealth |
| An ACT to incorporate the Portsmonth and Lake Drummand and Marine Water Company. |
| An ACT to revise and amend the Criminal Procedure. |
| An ACT to authorize the Superintendent and Directors of the Penitentiary to hire the Convicts to the City of Richmond |
| An ACT incorporating the Radford Iron Company, and for other purposes. |
| An ACT amending an act entitled an act amending the 68th chapter of the Code (edition of 1860), in relation to the Assessment of Taxes on Licenses |
| An ACT to incorporate the Washington Manufacturing Company. |
| An ACT to Authorize the City of Lynchburg to Build a Dam Across James River, and to Improve the Water Level Below the Same, and to Issue Bonds for the Purpose of Paying the Same. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Ist and 4th Sections of an Act, Entitled an Act to Authorize the City of Norfolk to Construct Water Works for the Use of the People of said City |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Atlantic Milling, Manufacturing, Warehousing, and Guaranty Company. |
| An ACT Directing the Board of Public Works to Sell the State’s Interest in the Various Internal Improvement Companies of the Commonwealth. |
| An ACT to ‘Amend and Re-enact the Eighth Section of an Act Entitled an Act Incorporating a Company for Improving the Navigation of the Rivanna River, Passed March 2, 1827. |
| An ACT to Protect the Oyster Beds in the Waters of the Commonwealth. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of Vertain Township Officers, Approved July 11th, 1870, and Acts Amendatory Thereof. |
| An ACT to Authorize the Common Council of the Town of Harrisonburg to submit the Question of Levying a Special Tax for Water Purposes, to the voters of said Town. |
| An ACT to Provide for the Repair of the State Capitol. |
| An ACT Imposing Taxes for the Support of the Governme and Free Schools, and to Pay the Interest on the Public Debt. |
| An ACT to Amend the Charter of the City Gas-light Company of Norfolk |
| An ACT in Relation to the Disposition of the Interest of the State in the James River and Kanawha Company. |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Potomac Land and Improvement Company. |
| An ACT to Amend the Act entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled An Act to Charter the Richmond and Peninsula Railway Company. |
| An ACT Appropriating a Sum of Money for Heating the Building of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum by Steam |
| An ACT to Authorize the Corporate Authorities of Winchester to Borrow Money to Enlarge Water Works, &c. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Chapter 281, Acts of 1866-’67, and Chapter 252, Acts of 1869-’70, in Relation to the Clinch River Navigation Company and for other Purposes. |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Mangorike Wharf Company, on the Rappahannock River |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the first Section of an Act approved March 25th, 1871, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact the Ist and 4th Sections of an Act entitled an Act to Authorize the City of Norfolk to Construct Water Works for the use of the People of said Oity, passed January 14th, 1867. |
| An ACT Giving the Consent of the State for the Purchase by the United States of Land within this State for the Erection of Light Houses |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Approved March 23, 1872, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact the ninth Section of the Act approved March 31st, 1871, to Incorporate the Richmond and Henrico Railroad, Turnpike and Graded Road Company. |
| An ACT to Authorize the Board of Public Works to Sell the State’s Interest in the Upper Appomattox Company. |
| An ACT to Increase the Capital Stock of the Petersburg Gas Light Company. |
| An ACT to Authorize the Common Council of the Town of Danville to Borrow Money. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 6, 10 and 11 of an Act approved the 5th day of February, 1873, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Richmond Building and Improvement Company, and to Repeal the 5th Section of said Act. |
| An ACT to Amend Sections 4 and 5 of an Act of the General Assembly approved March 6th, 1871, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Dublin, in the County of Pulaski |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Piedmont Farmers’ Association. |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Westham Granite Company of Virginia. |
| An ACT to Incorporate The Virginia and Tennessee Border Fair Association in Washington County. |
| An ACT for the Assessment, Levy and Collection of Taxes. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Lexington Gas Company. |
| An ACT to authorize the Councils of Norfolk City to drain, or otherwise improve, certain low or marsh land, and to change Back Creek in said City. |
| An ACT to prevent obstructions to the Free Passage of Fish in the Streams of the State. |
| An ACT to Extend a Credit of Twelve and Twenty-four months from the Ratification of a Sale and to confer interest in The Upper Appomattox Company, to the Board of Superintendents of said Company, and to Ratify and Confirm all Acts done in Pursuance of the Provisions of the Act Approved March 20, 1878. |
| An ACT to Incorporate The Richmond and Trans-Alleghany Railway Company. |
| An ACT to authorize the Sale of the Commons belonsisz |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, and to repeal section 7 of an Act approved April 16, 1874, entitled an Act to prescribe how Hypothecations of Products and Commodities shall be made. and to Prohibit the Hypothecation of Consignments, except on Conditions, so as to place Unmanufactured Tobacco on the same footing with all other Property Proposed to be Hypothecated. |
| An ACT to incorporate The Roanoke Valley 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 providing for the issue of two hundred thousand dollars of bonds of the city of Petersburg, for the purpose of retiring the bonds of said city to fall due in August, 1875, and to pay for laying water pipe and introducing water into the fifth ward of said city. |
| 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 to Incorporate the Consolidated Abattoir Company of Alexandria, Washington and Georgetown. |
| An ACT to extend the Charter of the Wythe Watering Company. |
| An ACT to incorporate The Southwest Virginia Land, Colonization, and Improvement Company. |
| AN ACT to amend the act approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled an act to amend the Charter of the Town of Danville, by the addition of a new section, to come in after section thirty-one of said Charter, as amended by act of the General Assembly, passed December fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, by the addition of a section to come in after the said new section of said act. |
| An ACT making Appropriation for new Heating Apparatus in the Capitol. |
| 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 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 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 amending and re-enacting section one of an act to extend a credit of twelve and twenty-four months from the ratification of the sale of the state’s interest in the Upper Appomattox company to the board of superintendents of said company, and to ratify and confirm all acts done in pursuance of the provisions of the act approved March 20, 1873, approved February 11, 1874; also, the act to confirm the action of the stockholders of the Upper Appomattox company in regard to the issue of certain bonds, approved March 29, 1875. |
| An ACT to create a railroad commissioner for the state of Virginia, and to define his duties. |
| An ACT authorizing the corporate authorities of Charlottesville to erect dams and reservoirs and lay pipes to supply said town with water, and to acquire land by purchase or condemnation for said purposes. |
| An ACT to confirm the purchase by the town of Charlottesville of the property, corporate franchises and privileges of the Charlottesville and University Gas-Light Company; to authorize the corporate authorities of said town to negotiate a loan to carry into effect said purchase; to validate the bonds which have been or may be issued for that purpose; and to vest in the town all the rights, privileges and franchises which by act of assembly passed March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, were conferred upon the Charlottesville and University Gas-Light Company. |
| An ACT to authorize the Virginia telegraph company to sell and convey all the franchises of said company. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the fifth section of an act to incorporate the Virginia Manganese Company |
| An ACT to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the counties of Pulaski and Wythe. |
| An ACT appointing a board of directors for a certain section of the Tazewell Courthouse and Fancy Gap turnpike road, in the county of Wythe, and empowering said board to keep the same in legal repair. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Illuminating company. |
| An ACT for the relief of the Petersburg Aqueduct 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 to provide for the compensation of Special House committee and their clerks appointed by resolution of the House cf Delegates of Virginia, adopted March Yth, 1880. |
| An ACT to tax Telegraph companies for county and schoo! |
| An ACT to incorporate the Arcadia Iron Works Company. |
| An ACT confirming to John C. Olinger, and those claiming under him, the title to a certain tract of Jand purchased at a tax sale. |
| An ACT to authorize the mayor and common council of the town of Liberty, in the county of Bedford, to borrow money. |
| An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company to ext-nd the water-works dam at Lynchburg, and to condemn such lands as may be necessary to enable it to do so |
| An ACT to establish and define the boundaries of the town of Wytheville. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Louisa county to borrow a sum of money for certain purposes. |
| 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 amend and re-enact sections three and eight of an act appropriating the proceeds of the Glebe lands and other property belonging to the parishes of Abingdon, Ware, and Petsworth, in the county of Gloucester, and fur other purposes, passed January 26th, 1814, Session Acts, 1818-14, chapter 56. |
| 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 the sixth section of an act entitled an act to authorize the city of Fredericksburg to provide for supplying the city with water |
| An ACT for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, and licenses, 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 incorporate the Equitable Gas Company of Norfolk city. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the city of Norfolk. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Dock Company. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Water Works Manufacturing Company. |
| An ACT relating to the Improvement of the Great Kanawha river. |
| An ACT in relation to Mechanics’ Liens in the City of Norfolk. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth Water Company. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Hydraulion Steam Fire Engine Company of Alexandria. |
| An ACT amending and re-enacting the 7th and 8th sections of an act passed February 18, 1856, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the Norfolk City Water Company. |
| An ACT to authorize the City of Norfolk to Construct Water Works for the use of the people of the said city. |
| An ACT incorporating the North fork of Holston Coal and Iron Mining and Salt Manufacturing Company. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10, 18, 14 and 17 of the charter of the town of Danville. |
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