Utilities

1883/1884
An ACT to incorporate the Nelson Improvement Company.
An ACT providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter
An ACT authorizing the town of Berryville, in Clarke county, to issue bonds and to levy a tax to provide a sinking fund for the purpose of providing water-works for said town.
An ACT to amend, enlarge, and re-enact the charter of the Norfolk Storage Company.
An ACT to provide for the sale of certain lands in the town of Buchanan and city of Richmond.
An ACT to incorporate the Electric Company of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the act approved March 3, 1880, entitled an act to re-enact and renew the charter of the Petersburg Gas Light Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Tazewell County Improvement Company.
An ACT to authorize tho common council of the city of Petersburg to adopt a system of sewerage for said city, &c.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Beach Canal Company.
An ACT to provide for removing obstructions in Bush river, in Prince Edward county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the city of Petersburg to purchase a control or all the stock of the Upper Appomattox company, or to contract for water with said company, and to issue bonds for that purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact, extend and renew the charter of the Portsmouth Gas Company, passed February 11, 1854.
An ACT to authorize the Council of the town of Char-
An ACT to authorize the city of Fredericksburg to borrow money and issue and negotiate bonds to the extent of $60,000 for the purpose of supplying said city with a suitable and adequate supply of water.
An ACT to amend section 6, chapter 56 of the Code of 1873, relating to the Condemnation of Lands.
An ACT to extend, renew and amend the charter of the City Gas Light Company of Norfolk.

1884es
An ACT incorporating the Willis River Improvement Company, for the purpose of the improvement and navigation of Willis river, in Cumberland county, Virginia.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Board of Public Works to pay for guarding the public storehouse.
An ACT to provide the manner in which the Neison Improvement Company may obtain a license to operate its telephone, and fix the amount to be paid therefor.
An ACT to confer additional powers upon the City Council of Lynchburg.

1885/1886
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville.
An ACT to allow the city of Fredericksburg to supply gas or electric light for use of said city, and to issue bonds of the city to effect said purpose.
An ACT to incorporate the Fauquier Telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Morotock Manufacturing Company.
An ACT to provide for the building of bridges and causeways, and the repairs thereof, and the opening, working and keeping in order the roads of the county of Charlotte.
An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke and Southern Railway Company.
An ACT relating to licensed warehousemen and others in this state, the storage of property therewith, and making certain warehouse and other receipts negotiable.
An ACT to incorporate the Suffolk Light and Water Company.
An ACT to amend, re-enact, extend and renew the charter of the Staunton Gas Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Fuel-Gas Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Patrick Henry telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Construction Company.
An ACT to employ convict labor on county roads and other works of internal improvement.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Mineral-Belt Railroad Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 8 of chapter 120 of Code of 1873, in relation to working and surveying mines.
An ACT to authorize the authorities of the City of Winchester to establish water-worls, and to incur a debt for that purpose.
An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake Dry-Dock and Construction Company.
An ACT to allow Robert A. Atkinson to erect a pier or wharf on James river, in the county of Isle of Wight.
An ACT to incorporate the Madison Courthouse and Gordonsville Telephone Company.
An ACT to authorize the town of Warrenton to erect water-works, and to borrow money therefor.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION for the construction of Telephones to the Capitol and Governor’s Mansion
An ACT to incorporate the Culpeper, Sperryville, Washington and Front Royal Telephone Company.
An ACT authorizing payment of the amount due the city of Richmond for gas used in the public buildings of the state.
An ACT to incorporate the Wythe, Bland, Carroll and Grayson Telephone Company.
An ACT to authorize the authorities of the city of Winchester to establish water-works, and to incur a debt for that purpose.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt.

1887es
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 1, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Fauquier telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond railway connecting and wharf company.
An ACT permitting and authorizing the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad company to construct and operate its road in Virginia.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to allow the city of Fredericksburg to supply gas or electric light for use of said city, and to issue bonds of the city to effect said purpose.
An ACT to incorporate the Marion Land Agency and Improvement company.
An ACT to amend the third and fourth sections of an act to incorporate the Virginia marble company, approved March 30, 1869, and to add additional sections thereto.
An ACT to empower the People’s telegraph company, incorporated by the State of North Carolina, to construct, operate, and maintain its line or lines of telegraph to any point or points within the State of Virginia.
An ACT to revive, amend and re-enact the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Arcola and Aldie Telephone company.
An ACT to authorize any corporation of this State to subscribe for, guarantee, or acquire the stock and bonds of the Roanoke water works.
An ACT to incorporate the People’s illuminating company of Norfolk city and county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 48 of an act entitled an act for the preservation of oysters, and to obtain a revenue for the privilege of taking them from the waters of this commonwealth, approved November 26, 1884; and to amend and re-enact section 17, and repeal sections 30 and 40 of an act entitled an act for the preservation of oysters, and to obtain revenue for the privilege of taking them within the waters of the commonwealth, approved March 4, 1884; and to provide for the payment of costs and expenses incurred in the execution of the oyster laws of the commonwealth.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Mining and Improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Albemarle telegraph and telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Trans-Atlantic Steamship Line, and to authorize it to purchase lands and build railways to connect therewith,
An ACT to incorporate the Farmville Water company.
An ACT to incorporate the North Loudoun telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Radford land and improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Irish Creek company.
An ACT to incorporate Hillsboro’ water company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act approved February twenty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled an act to incorporate the Culpeper, Sperryville, Washington, and Fort Royal telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Greene and Orange telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Gladesville and Mineral city telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate the Aldie and Leesburg telephone company.
An ACT to secure the removal of certain dams on the James river and its tributaries.
An ACT to incorporate the Central Virginia telephone company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act approved March 30, 1887.
An ACT to incorporate the Charlottesville and University street railway company.
An ACT to incorporate the Damascus enterprise company
An ACT to incorporate the Bland county railway company.
An ACT to amend the charter of the Winchester gas company.
An ACT to ineorporate the Norfolk Dock Improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Metropolitan quick transit bridge company.
An ACT to incorporate the Bristol coal and iron company.
An ACT to incorporate the Pulaski water company.
An ACT to incorporate the Northern Neck telegraph company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and Tennessee coal and iron company.
An ACT to incorporate the Northern Virginia Land and Improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and West Point land navigation company.
An ACT to amend section 2 of chapter 197 of the Acts of 1885-6, in reference to funds appropriated by the town of Danville for railroad purposes, &c.

1887/1888
An ACT to amend and re-enact the first and second sections of an act entitled an act to authorize the council of the town of Gordonsville to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing water-works
An ACT to incorporate the Wytheville Telephone company,and to authorize the merger of the charters of the Wythe,land, Carroll, and Grayson Telephone company, and the Wytheville Telephone Exchange in said company.
An ACT to incorporate Scott Telephone and Telegraph company in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT to authorize the Radford Land and Improvement company to erect a dam across New river.
An ACT to allow Mrs. Mary J. Young to erect a wharf, platform, shed, and other necessary buildings for conducting the business at Franklin City, Accomac county, Virginia, adjoining her land in Chincoteague bay
An ACT to facilitate the transfer of shares in the Upper Appomattox Company and to provide for changing the same from real to personal estate, and to authorize the said company to mortgage its property and franchise.
An ACT to incorporate the Big Stone Gap mining, transportation, and development company.
An ACT to allow the Charlottesville and University of Virginia Electric Light and Gas company to locate its poles and wires in, along and through the streets and alleys of the town of Charlottesville.
An ACT to incorporate Big Stone Gap water company.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Gordonsville to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing. water works.
An ACT to incorporate the Seaboard water company.
An ACT to incorporate the Big Stone Gap Improvement company.
An ACT to incorporate the Big Stone Gap construction company.