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1891/1892

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to make a loan and issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of erecting a new court-house and clerks’ offices for said county.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 2

A JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the acceptance of the direct tax to be refunded by the United States to the State of Virginia.
Taxation

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 25, 1884, entitled an act to provide a corporation court for the city of Roanoke.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 4

An ACT to authorize the surviving corporators of St. Paul’s church home of Petersburg, to convey a lot of land on Guarantee street, in the city of Petersburg, to the Petersburg home for the sick.
Charity, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Municipal charters

Chapter 5

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Greenesville county to increase the salary of the county judge to five hundred dollars.
Salaries, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 6

An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg street railway company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 7

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the acqui-
Taxation

Chapter 8

An ACT changing the time for commencing the construction of the railroad authorized under the act of the general assembly, approved December 20, 1889, incorporating the Washington and Western railroad company and completing the main line referred to therein.
Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 9

An ACT to confirm an amend the charter of the Basic City school desk and furniture manufacturing company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 10

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Surry to compromise certain claims due said county.
Debt, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 11

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds for the redemption of paving bonds as they mature and for other purposes.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Jails, Public expenditures

Chapter 12

An ACT to incorporate the Rivermont street railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Utilities, Business

Chapter 13

An ACT to incorporate the Marion and Rye Valley railroad company.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 14

An ACT to remove the political disabilities of Seyar Whiting and Geo Fitchett
Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Basic City, approved March 3, 1890.
Municipal charters, Property, Law Enforcement, Taxation, Cemeteries, Alcohol

Chapter 16

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections three, seven, eleven and fourteen of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Franklin, Southampton county, Virginia, approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and amended as to section fourteen, by act approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and to add two additional sections to the said act.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 129, Extra Session 1887, for the protection of terrapins.
Wildlife, Fishing, Property

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3044 of the code of Virginia in relation to the counties and districts of county court judges.
Judicial

Chapter 19

An ACT to authorize the issue of additional bonds and stock by the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company, and defining the purposes to which they may be applied.
Bonds, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 20

An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to construct or acquire branches or extensions and to issue its mortgage bonds thereon, or to hold stock in and guarantee the bonds of corporations owning such branches or extensions.
Transportation, Bonds, Industry

Chapter 21

An ACT to give the consent of the commonwealth to the purchase or acquisition of real estate by the United States government, in the city of Roanoke, for a site for a public building for the accommodation of the United States court-room, post-office and other offices.
Public expenditures, Property, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 22

An ACT to amend the charter of the Newport News ship-building and dry dock company
Incorporation, Industry, Business

Chapter 23

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorpo-
Amendments, Incorporation, Repeal of legislation, Public officers

Chapter 24

An ACT to incorporate the Rapid transit and improvement company of Norfolk, Virginia.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Bonds

Chapter 25

An ACT to incorporate the Russell fork coal and lumber company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Taxation

Chapter 26

An ACT to amend sections 1 and 2 of an act to incorporate the Douglas land company of Virginia, approved March th, 1890, and to substitute incorporators named in said act, and to extend the time within which the said company may be organized.
Incorporation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 27

An ACT to appropriate the sum of eight thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty-four cents to pay off the indebtedness of the Southwestern lunatic asylum of Virginia.
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 28

An ACT to incorporate the Port Norfolk electric railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 29

An ACT to authorize the Virginia pyrites mining company to construct a railroad or railroads connecting its mines and lands with other railroads.
Transportation, Industry, Amendments

Chapter 30

An ACT amending sections 58, 59 and 60, of the cod of Virginia, in relation to a re-apportionment of representations in the general assembly.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 31

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia investment association.
Incorporation, Business, Bonds, Property, Public officers

Chapter 32

An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth electric railway company.
Business, Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 33

An ACT to authorize the Old Dominion land company to guarantee the bonds and to subscribe to, purchase, or otherwise acquire the stock of any joint stock company located or doing business at or near Newport News, in the county of Warwick, state of Virginia, and confirming the guarantee of the bonds and the subscription to or Purchase of the stock of any such joint stock company heretofore made by it.
Bonds, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 34

An ACT for the relief of John F. Rison
Business, Incorporation, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 10, of the charter of the Newport News light and water company.
Business, Utilities, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 36

An ACT to change the name of the Valley street railway company, of Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
Transportation

Chapter 37

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first and eleventh sections of an act approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to incorporate the Georgetown and Falls Church railway company, and to extend the time for the commencement of the construction of the road therein mentioned.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 38

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of the charter of the Lexington development company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 39

An ACT to authorize the Glasgow manganese and mineral company to change its name.
Business

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘an act to incorporate the Midlothian, Manchester, and Richmond railway and mining company’
Amendments, Transportation, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 41

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-division sixth of section one hundred and eighty-five of the code of Virginia in reference to the salaries of the Judges of the corporation courts of the cities of Lynchburg and Staunton.
Judicial, Salaries, Amendments

Chapter 42

An ACT to incorporate the Presbyterian home of Lexington, Virginia.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Incorporation

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to extend the charter and franchises of the Southern improvement company, approved March 1, 1888.
Amendments, Business, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 44

An ACT to incorporate the Ryland institute.
Education

Chapter 45

An ACT to allow C U. Warner to erect a wharf on the Yeocomico river, in the county of Northumberland.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 46

An ACT to authorize the rector and board of visitors of the University of Virginia to commute the legacy to said University under the will of Arthur W. Austin.
Education

Chapter 47

An ACT to amend an act incorporating the Ladies’ memorial association of Fredericksburg, approved April 4, 1874.
Incorporation, Monuments and memorials, Confederate

Chapter 48

An ACT to ratify and confirm the consolidation of the Norfolk and Virginia Beach railroad company, and the Danville and Seaboard railroad company, under the name of the Norfolk, Albemarle and Atlantic railroad company.
Transportation, Industry, Business

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend the fifth and sixth sections of an act entitled ‘an act to incorporate the Big Stone Gap steel and iron company,’ approved February 14, 1888.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3174, of code of Virginia, in relation to clerks of courts.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 51

An ACT to amend and confirm the charter of the Basic City mining, manufacturing and land company, granted by the judge of the circuit court of Augusta county, the 7th day of December, 1889.
Business, Amendments, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 52

An ACT entitled an act to amend the title of an act, approved February 22, 1890, entitled “an act to incorporate the Norfolk belt line railway company.”
Incorporation, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2, chapter 183, acts of assembly 1885, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Southwest Virginia institute.
Education, Incorporation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 54

An ACT changing the name of the Luther coal and iron company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 55

An ACT extending the time for commencing the construction of the railroad of the Dickenson county railway company, and completing its main line.
Transportation

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 8 and 9 of an act approved March 3. 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Roanoke, Fincastle and Clifton Forge railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation

Chapter 57

An ACT for the relief of M. W. Jones, treasurer of Clarke county.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 58

An ACT to incorporate the Empire transportation company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 59

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Union cemetery company of Leesburg, Loudoun county, Virginia, to sell portion of their land.
Cemeteries, Property

Chapter 60

An ACT to ratify and confirm and amend the charter of the Norfolk company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 61

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 277, code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to the printing of acts of general assembly
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 62

An ACT to incorporate the Big Stony railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 63

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Accomac county to pay the draftsman of a proposed road law for said county.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 64

An ACT to incorporate the Salem and Southern railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 65

An ACT to incorporate the Salem and Craig railway and mining company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 66

An ACT to incorporate the Norton street railway company, in Wise county.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 67

An ACT to authorize and empower the Alleghany iron company to construct and operate a railroad under certain limitations.
Transportation, Industry, Bonds, Public officers

Chapter 68

An ACT appropriating three thousand two hundred dollars to the Confederate soldiers’ and sailors’ monument association.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 69

An Act to Amend Sections 2, 3, 5, 11 and 15 of an Act to Incorporate the Virginia Safe Deposit and Fidelity Company
Business, Incorporation, Bonds

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend sections 1747 and 1750 of the code of Virginia, of 1887, in regard to the examination of applicants for the practice of medicine and surgery.
Amendments, Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 71

An ACT for the relief of J. R. Whitehead, treasurer of Pittsylvania county.
Education, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 72

An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake, Shendun and Western railroad company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of the act approved January 14, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8 of the act approved March 3, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia western railroad company.
Transportation, Amendments, Industry

Chapter 74

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act incorporating the Falls Church and Potomac railway company
Incorporation, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 75

An ACT to permit Campagnie Francaise du Telegraphe de Paris a New York, to land sub-marine cables on the coast of the state of Virginia, and to admit the same to be connected with all lines for transmitting intelligence in said state, and to acquire and hold the necessary land and property there
Business, Utilities

Chapter 76

An Act to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 50 of sessions acts of 1889-1890, 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, and section 48 of said act as amended by an act approved March 3, 1890.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Debt, Budget

Chapter 77

An ACT to incorporate the Continental savings and loan company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Taxation

Chapter 78

An ACT to amend the ninth section of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to amend the charter of the town of Warrenton
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public spaces, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 246 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the distribution of the Virginia reports.
Judicial

Chapter 80

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Broadway, Rockingham county, to borrow the sum of five thousand dollars, and to pledge the revenues of said corporation for the payment thereof.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 81

An ACT to allow Charles M. Shannon, late deputy treasurer of Smyth county, and B. F. Petree, late deputy treasurer of Bland county, further time to distrain for and collect certain tax tickets in their hands.
Taxation

Chapter 82

An ACT to revive, amend, and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Irish creek company
Incorporation, Business, Bonds, Utilities

Chapter 83

An ACT for the relief of W. H. Eanes, of the city of Petersburg, Virginia.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 84

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Marion, Virginia.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 85

An ACT to incorporate the city of Radford.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Public expenditures, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Taxation, Property, Public spaces, Cemeteries, Healthcare, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor

Chapter 86

An ACT to provide for the better Working and keeping in repair of the county roads in the county of Norfolk.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 87

An ACT to extend time to W. G. Scott’s administrator to collect certain tax tickets in his hands.
Taxation

Chapter 88

An ACT authorizing the council of the city of Lynchburg for and in behalf of said city to appropriate money to improve bridges and highways outside of the city limits leading to and from the said city.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 89

An ACT to fix the times for holding the terms of the corporation court of the city of Charlottesville, and the trial of appeals from magistrates in the same.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 90

An ACT to enable the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad company to construct, maintain, and operate a double railroad track on certain streets in the city of Portsmouth, in accordance with a contract with said city, dated March 4, 1890.
Transportation

Chapter 91

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond, Gayton and Southside railroad company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 92

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of the act approved February, 7, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Chesapeake, Fredericksburg and Western railroad company, extending the time for the construction of said road.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 93

An ACT to incorporate the Chesterfield agricultural society.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 94

An ACT to charter the town of Richlands.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Taxation, Alcohol, Property, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Labor

Chapter 95

An ACT to approve and ratify a charter of incorporation granted by the congress of the United States, approved February 28, 1891, entitled an act to incorporate the Washington and Arlington railway company of the District of Columbia, so far as it relates to its proposed railway line within the limits of the state of Virginia.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 96

An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title and jurisdiction to land on Hog island, in the county of Northampton, for the erection of the lighthouse station.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 97

An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title and jurisdiction to land on Smith’s island, in the county of Northampton, as a site for a lighthouse station.
Property, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 98

An ACT to make the boundary lines of lots and tracts of land in Lunenburg county a lawful fence.
Boundaries, Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 99

An ACT to incorporate the Potomac and Great Falls Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 100

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Commonwealth club, approved March 3, 1890.
Incorporation, Business, Legislative Amendments
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