Utilities

1899/1900
An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of the Norfolk heat, light and power company.

1895/1896
An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to incorporate the Chesterfield transit company.
An ACT to incorporate the Manchester light and fuel company.
An ACT to allow William T. Lewis to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18, chapter 3, of an act entitled “‘ an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol, and provide a new charter for the same,”
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk electric light and power company.
An ACT to allow the Piedmont construction and improvement company to change its name to the Piedmont traction company, and to permit the said company to issue preferred stock, to hold stock in other companies, to dispose of its property, and to consolidate or merge with any other company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1145 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 'An act to amend and re-enact section 1145 of the code of Virginia as to how certain charters of incorporation granted, altered, or amended by circuit or corporation courts, and where to be recorded; validating all charters to build and operate railroads heretofore granted by a circuit or corporation court, but forbidding said courts to grant such charters in the future,' approved February 20, 1892, so as to forbid courts and judges to grant charters of incorporation to fire insurance companies or life insurance companies.
An ACT to allow S. Wilkins Matthews to erect a wharf on Powell’s bay, at Wishart Point, in Accomac county.
An ACT to incorporate the McCullough terminal railway, wharf warehouse company.
An ACT to incorporate the Tidewater telephone company.
An ACT to incorporate Basic City, Bridgewater and Piedmont railway company.
An ACT to empower the town council of Berryville to borrow money to construct an electric plant for lighting said town.
An ACT to provide for the working of roads in Fauquier county, Virginia.
An ACT to consolidate in one act all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to create a new charter for said city.
An ACT to incorporate the Frederick electric railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southwestern railroad company, approved February 27, 1894.
An ACT to authorize the city council of Fredericksburg to issue its coupon or registered bonds for the purpose of constructing and improving streets and for other purposes of internal improvements and benefit to the city.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to incorporate the Potomac river power company.
An ACT to re-instate and amend the charter of the Atlantic, Staunton and West Virginia railroad company.
An ACT to incorporate the Winchester telephone company.
An ACT authorizing inspectors of oysters to assign to the owners, managers, or lessees of hotels ground under the water for bathing ground.
An ACT to authorize and empower the city of Danville, Va., to extend its water main and pipes to the Danville military institute,in Pittsyl-vania county, Va., and supply the same with city water.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Cape Charles and legalize certain acts of the town council.
An ACT to incorporate the Pacific company.
An Act to incorporate the Sabine development company.
An ACT to incorporate the Southern improvement and terminal company.
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia state firemen’s association.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved Fehruary 23, 1888, as amended by an act entitled “ an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Waynesboro,” approved January 26, 1992, and to authorize said town to issue bonds for water and cemetery purposes.
An ACT to incorporate the Interstate railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2088 of the code of Virginia, in relation to hauling seines or setting traps in the waters of Accomac and Northampton counties,” approved March 3d, 1892.
An ACT to enable the rector and board of visitors of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college to procure a supply of water and to construct and maintain a system of water-works.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act passed by the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to incorporate the Bland county land, improvement, development and transportation company, approved February 22, 1890, and to amend and re-enact section 4 of said act approved February 22, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Bland county land, improvement, development and transportation company; to amend, re-enact and change the title of said last-named act, and to enlarge the powers of said company so that it may have and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of a railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2107 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to the inspection of dams and rivers by supervisors and councilmen.
An ACT to enable the rector and board of visitors of Virginia agricultural and mechanical college to procure a supply of water, and to construct and maintain a system of water works, and to appropriate money therefor, as a sinking fund.
An ACT to incorporate the Falls Church and Potomac railway company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 88 of an act entitled "an act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, and by an act approved the 17th day of March, 1876, and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved March 8, 1894."

1901/1902
An ACT to permit Newton Z. Oakley to erect a wharf on the Rappahannock river between Moratico and Farnham creeks, in Richmond county.
An ACT to provide for an election to take the sense of the qualified voters of Accomac county, or any magisterial district thereof, on the question of a stock law for the said county or district.
An ACT to incorporate the Manchester and Richmond Free Bridge Company, and granting certain powers to said company, and the city councils of the cities of Richmond and Manchester, for public purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 436 of the acts of assembly of 1897-8, entitled an act to incorporate the Botetourt Electric Railway and Power Company, in force February 21, 1898, so as to change the name of the said company.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Berkley Tunnel Company.
An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of Consumers Light, Heat and Ice Company, to give it additional powers, and in relation to the stock of said company.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Fredericksburg to determine the method of collecting the expenses of building sewers.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Berkley Bridge Company.
An ACT to authorize Morgan Treat, of West Point, to extend his wharf or pier in front of his lots in the town of West Point, King William county, on Mattaponi river, known as lots Nos. 388, 389, 390, and 393.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Onancock and Drummondtown Electric Railway, Light and Power Company
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia-Carolina Telephone Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Berkley Street Railway Company
An ACT to incorporate the Battletown Gas Company.
An ACT to encourage the planting of oysters in the deep waters of Chesapeake bay, and to provide the mode of obtaining and holding assignments therein.
An ACT to incorporate Faulkland Development Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-division 5 of section 19 of chapter 3 of the act entitled “an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond,” approved May 24, 1870, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend sub-division 5 of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond, approved May 24, 1870,” approved February 24, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 15, 23, 87, and 94 and sub-divisions 5 and 6 of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond,” approved February 25, 1892, enlarging the powers of the city council in regard to maintaining or improving water works, gas works, and electric plants owned by the city of Richmond.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto.
An ACT to authorize the city of Bristol, Virginia, to make an additional issue of bonds for water works.
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk County Industrial Company.
An ACT to incorporate Staunton Falls Company.
An ACT to encourage the planting of oysters in the deep waters of Chesapeake bay, and to provide the mode of obtaining and holding assignments
An ACT to incorporate the Citizens Rapid Transit Company.
An ACT to incorporate The Middlebrook and Newport Railway and Electric Company.
An ACT to confirm the union, merger, and consolidation of the Lynchburg Traction and Light Company and the Lynchburg Electric Railway and Light Company into one corporation under the name of the Lynchburg Traction and Light Company, and to confirm the agreement of consolidation and all acts and contracts of said consolidated company, and all deeds, mortgages, and trust deeds executed by it, and to amend and enlarge its charter.
An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the Portsmouth and Suffolk Water Company, the Berkley and South Norfolk Water and Electric Light Company, and the Nansemond Water Company, under the name of the Portsmouth, Berkley and Suffolk Water Company.
An ACT to incorporate Norfolk Chamber of Commerce.
An ACT to incorporate the Home Telephone Company.
An ACT to authorize the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue $200,000 of bonds to lay a water main.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the James River Railway Company, in effect February 22, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act approved November 22, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Stuart, in the county of Patrick, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 7 of the charter for the town of Stuart, in Patrick county, approved March 5, 1900.
An ACT to incorporate the South Richmond Electric Railway Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act to create Northside district, in Brookland magisterial district, in the county of Henrico, and to provide for lighting and sewerage in said Northside district, and for making and maintaining other improvements of a public nature therein
An ACT to incorporate the town of Urbanna, in the county of Middlesex.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Westhampton Park Railway Company
An ACT to permit the Queen Annes Railroad Company to construct and operate its railway in Virginia, and to grant to it the franchises and powers of a Virginia corporation, subject to the laws of Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Newport News and Elizabeth City Railway and Electric Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Independence and Comer’s Rock Telephone Exchange.
An ACT to incorporate the Appalachian Conduit Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Craig Telephone Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the Crystal Ice and Power Company, granted by the judge of the corporation court of Danville, Virginia, on March 8, 1900.
An ACT to permit Charles B. Merritt to erect a wharf or pier on Lewis creek, on Chincoteague island, Accomac county, Virginia.
An ACT to validate a certain contract entered into February 15, 1902, by the town of Berryville, Virginia, and Herbert B. Warde for establishing in said town an acetylene gas plant for lighting purposes.
An ACT to amend sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Baliston Railroad, approved February 23, 1900.
An ACT to allow the town of Front Royal to supply said town and its inhabitants in the vicinity of said town with water, and to issue bonds of said town to effect said purpose.
An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth Suburban Water Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Harrisonburg Mutual Telephone Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Armstrong Land and Improvement Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Citizens Railway, Light and Power Company, approved February 9, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1079 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to proceedings for ascertaining the value of land wanted for the purpose of any internal improvement company, county, city, town, institution, or asylum, and providing for the vesting of an interest or estate in land less than the fee in certain cases.
An ACT to incorporate the Merchants and Truckers Ferry Company, of Norfolk, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the city council of Staunton, Virginia, to issue and sell bonds not exceeding $125,000, for the purpose of raising funds for the purchasing of existing street railways and electric and gas plants, or to erect and operate other electric and gas plants and street railways, and providing that the same be submitted to the vote of the people.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 5, and 6 of an act entitled an act to authorize the consolidation of the Port Norfolk Electric Railway Company, the Portsmouth and Smithfield Railroad Company, and the Portsmouth, Pig’s Point and Newport News Railway, Ferry and Hotel Company into a corporation to be known as the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News Railway Company, and to define its powers
An ACT to authorize the board of fisheries to declare certain land within the limits of the Baylor survey, on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac county, to be barren area and open for planting oysters thereon, and to authorize the assignment of the same for planting purposes.

1901es
An ACT to more fully define the powers and limitations of the council of Basic City, Virginia, in regard to laying water mains, pipes, and other water fixtures, and so forth.
An ACT to empower the town of Suffolk to borrow money and issue bonds to complete sewerage.
An ACT authorizing the city of Bristol, Virginia, to issue bonds for water works and street improvements and other improvements.
An ACT to provide a method by which moneys appropriated by the board of supervisors of Rockingham county, upon the order of the county court of said county, for opening new roads and building bridges in said county shall be paid by the county treasurer.
An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the long distance telephone company of Virginia, and to give it additional powers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section first of the charter of the Pocahontas light and water company, giving to said company the power of condemnation and confirming said charter in all other respects.
An ACT to incorporate the Charlotte and Prince Edward electric railway and improvement company.
An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Stuart to erect a stand-pipe or tank and tower on One corner of the Courthouse Square in Patrick county.
An ACT to authorize the city council of Fredericksburg to issue coupon or registered bonds of the city for the purpose of constructing sewers and improving the streets.