1891/1892

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Chapter 503

An ACT to authorize and empower the East Hampton development company to construct a bridge across Hampton river, in the county of Elizabeth City, and to construct, equip, and operate a railroad from its lands in said county across said bridge into the town of Hampton.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Industry

Chapter 504

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3122 of the code of Virginia in relation to the opening-of a court and making provision for its sessions where it fails to meet on the day appointed or to which it adjourned.

Judicial

Chapter 505

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to expend the surplus fund in the hands of the county treasurer due the county, and not otherwize appropriated, in the improvement of the public highways of said county.

Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 506

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts in the several counties composing the fifteenth judicial circuit of Virginia.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 507

An ACT to incorporate the Elizabeth and Pasquotank railway company.

Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 508

An ACT to incorporate the River View and Southside bridge company.

Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 509

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorpo- the Lynchburg belt railroad company, approved May 21,

Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 510

An ACT to suppress tippling houses, the illegal and unlawful traffic in ardent spirits in the counties of Lee, Pulaski, Scott, Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan, Bland, and Russell.

Alcohol, Gambling, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 511

An ACT to protect the oyster industry of the commonwealth.

Agriculture, Industry, Public expenditures, Fishing

Chapter 512

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Tazewell, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for the permanent improvement of the roads in said county.

Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 513

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 5, 21, and 31 of chapter 148 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1889-'90, touching the road law for Warren county.

Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 514

An ACT to allow all county treasurers and deputy treasurers of this state further time to collect certain tax tickets in their hands for years 1887, ’88, ’89 and 1890.

Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 515

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia manganese, iron and coal company.

Incorporation, Business, Industry, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 516

An ACT for the relief of Thomas P. Darracott, M.D., of certain fines.

Business, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 517

An ACT appropriating the sum of $5,000 to the Prison association of Virginia for the purpose of erecting and equipping workabops and buildings for the use of its school at Laurel for each of the fiscal years 1892 and 1893.

Prisons, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 518

An ACT to allow the voters of Shenandoah county or any magisterial district thereof to vote on a stock law.

Stock Law, Voting, Agriculture, Property

Chapter 519

An ACT to grant to the Association for the preservation of Virginia antiquities all the title and interest of the State in certain portions of Jamestown island, and to confer upon said association the power to condemn lands.

Cemeteries, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 520

An ACT to correct an error in the title and to give effect to an act entitled ‘an act to amend an act incorporating the Ladies’ memorial association of Fredericksburg of April 4th, 1874, approved January 11th, 1892, being chapter 47 of the acts of the present general assembly of Virginia.

Amendments, Incorporation, Charity, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 521

An ACT to allow T. W. Taylor to erect a wharf on Mattaponi river.

Transportation, Industry, Public spaces

Chapter 522

An ACT to confirm and ratify a charter granted by the judge of the thirteenth judicial circuit, incorporating the Virginia iron and railway company, and to amend the same.

Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Property, Bonds, Business

Chapter 523

An ACT to incorporate the Rockingham and West Virginia railway, mining, and manufacturing company.

Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Utilities

Chapter 524

AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to levy a tax to complete the Floyd and Bent mountain turnpike in said county.

Transportation

Chapter 525

An ACT to empower the council of the town of Cape Charles to borrow money and issue bonds therefor to build a jail.

Bonds, Jails, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 526

An ACT to prevent the adulteration of butter and cheese, and the sale of the same and preserve the public health.

Agriculture, Business

Chapter 527

An ACT to amend chapter 412, acts of 1887 and 1888, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Estillville, in the county of Scott

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 528

An ACT to provide that all fines collected for offences committed against the state shall be paid and collected only in lawful money of the United States, and shall be paid in the treasury to the credit of the literary fund.

Public expenditures, Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 529

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘an act to incorporate the Portsmouth park railway and development company’’

Transportation, Incorporation, Public spaces

Chapter 530

An ACT to make Blackwater river from Brooks’ mill, in Franklin county, to the point at which it empties into Stanton river, a lawful fence.

Property, Reformatories

Chapter 531

An ACT to repeal section 22 of an act entitled “an act to provide a charter for the town of West Point, Virginia”

Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 532

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorpo-

Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 533

An ACT to provide for a re-registration of the voters of the city of Roanoke.

Voting

Chapter 534

An ACT to amend section 8 of an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the Northwest and southeast railroad company, extending the time for commencing the construction of said railroad and authorizing the company to begin work in any of the counties named in said act.

Transportation, Amendments, Industry

Chapter 535

An ACT to impose a tax upon that proportion of the capital stock of all Pullman sleeping, palace, or dining-car companies which is invested and used in this state.

Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 536

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of “an act to give aid to soldiers, sailors and marines of Virginia maimed or disabled in the war between the states, and to the widows of Virginia soldiers, sailors and marines who lost their lives in said war in the military service”

Armed forces, Amendments, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 537

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter and to extend and define the boundaries of the city of Norfolk

Amendments, Boundaries, Property, Public expenditures, Business, Utilities

Chapter 538

An ACT to incorporate the Bristol and Northern railroad company.

Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public officers, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 539

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Warwick county to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to provide for the payment thereof.

Bonds, Budget, Property

Chapter 540

An ACT for the further relief of the sureties of C. H. Ingles, late treasurer of Henry county.

Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 541

An ACT to incorporate the Radford street railway company.

Amendments, Business, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 542

An ACT for the relief of C. W. Hardin.

Property, Taxation

Chapter 543

An ACT to authorize the clerk of Radford school board to take a census of Radford district.

Education, Children -- Institutional care, Public officers

Chapter 544

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3796 of the code of Virginia, in reference to punishment of the offence of cruelty to animals.

Legislative Amendments

Chapter 545

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of the charter of the city of Richmond in relation to publication of city ordinances.

Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 546

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bedford county to levy a tax on dogs.

Taxation, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 547

An ACT to authorize the Fairview cemetery company, of Roanoke county, to appoint police agents.

Cemeteries, Law Enforcement, Public spaces

Chapter 548

An ACT making the middle and south fork of Holston river a lawful fence in certain portions of Washington county.

Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 549

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1591 of the code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of visitors to the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 6, 1890.

Agriculture, Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 550

An ACT to provide for the copying and preserving the old records of certain counties in the state of Virginia, and to make an appropriation therefor.

Public expenditures, Libraries

Chapter 551

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the United States government to acquire title and jurisdiction to five acres of land extending to high-water mark on Fisherman’s island, in the county of Northampton, for the establishment of a quarantine station

Amendments, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 552

An ACT to amend chapter 526 of session acts of 1889-90 entitled an act to prevent obstruction of streams in the county of Mecklenburg.

Amendments, Property

Chapter 553

An ACT to establish a market day for cattle in Richmond.

Agriculture

Chapter 554

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia farming company.

Agriculture, Business, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 555

An ACT for the relief of James C. Haynes, treasurer of Montgomery county.

Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 556

An ACT in relation to shooting wild fowl on the east side of Northampton county.

Hunting

Chapter 557

An ACT to allow the board of supervisors of Bath county to borrow money to build a bridge.

Budget, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 558

An ACT to allow counsel for the commonwealth and the prisoner, on the trial of all cases of felony and misdemeanor, to make an opening statement.

Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 559

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3807 and 3810 of the code of Virginia, 1887, relating to the profession of religious meetings and meetings for the promotion of the cause of temperance.

Alcohol, Legislative Amendments, Religious Institutions, Public spaces

Chapter 560

An ACT to repeal an act passed on November 27, 1884, to provide for removing obstructions in Little Roanoke creek in Charlotte county, Virginia.

Repeal of legislation, Public spaces

Chapter 561

An ACT to allow J. H. Whealton to erect a wharf on the Rappahannock river.

Transportation

Chapter 562

An ACT to amend section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company

Transportation, Amendments, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 563

An ACT to provide for cleaning out and removing obstructions from the Appomattox river, between the county of Prince Edward and the counties of Buckingham and Cumberland.

Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 564

An ACT for the relief of the Chesterfield land and improvement company.

Property

Chapter 565

An ACT to allow W. S. Summers, deputy treasurer of Broad Run district, Loudoun county, additional time to levy for and collect county levies and state taxes, tax tickets therefor held by said deputy treasurer, which he has settled with the auditor and with the board of supervisors of the said county without returning the same delinquent.

Taxation

Chapter 566

An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 567

An ACT to regulate hunting in the county of Orange.

Hunting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 568

An ACT to incorporate the Ingram institute.

Education, Public officers, Amendments, Alcohol

Chapter 569

An ACT to amend the special road laws in the counties of Scott and Lee, and to provide for the working of roads in the counties of Scott, Lee, and Wise.

Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 570

AN ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the roads in Lunenburg county.

Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Budget, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 571

An ACT repealing the act making Neabsco and Powell’s creeks, in Prince William county, a lawful fence.

Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 572

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8796 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the punishment of the offence of cruelty to animals.

Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 573

An ACT to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Employment and labor, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 574

An ACT for the relief of Henry A. Slaven

Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 575

An ACT for the relief of William A. Mountcastle, of Richmond city.

Amendments, Judicial, Debt, Public officers

Chapter 576

An ACT to provide for working the roads in Northampton county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Labor, Taxation

Chapter 577

An ACT to extend the Puriediction of the police authorities of the city of Richmond

Law Enforcement, Agriculture, Municipal charters

Chapter 578

An ACT regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases.

Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law), Healthcare, Transportation

Chapter 579

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia central railroad and navigation company.

Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 580

An ACT to amend an act to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Prince Edward county

Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 581

An ACT to provide a charter for the Veteran cavalry association of the army of northern Virginia.

Armed forces, Fraternal organizations, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 582

An ACT for the relief of W. W. Hudson, of King George county, from the payment of a fine imposed by the county court of King George county.

Judicial

Chapter 583

An ACT for the relief of W. O. Yager, treasurer of Page county.

Budget, Public officers

Chapter 584

An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter granted by D. W. Bolen, judge of the fifteenth judicial circuit of Virginia, incorporating the Eldorado mining, manufacturing and improvement company of Virginia, and for other purposes.

Business, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 585

An ACT to amend section 2 of an act to incorporate the Cardwell machine company and to repeal section 3.of said act.

Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 586

An ACT to authorize E. W. Milligan, F. Stratner, J. E N. Sterling, W. H. Sterling and W. C. Truitt, partners trading under the firm name and style of Milligan, Stratner, Sterling and company, to erect a wharf upon the land leased by them of J.8 Darling in Elizabeth City county.

Business, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 587

An ACT for the protection of stock breeders and owners of licensed stallions.

Agriculture

Chapter 588

An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth, Smithfield and western railway company.

Transportation, Industry, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Business

Chapter 589

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Salem and Craig railway and mining company

Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 590

An ACT to confirm and legalize a deed made by the trustees of the M. E. church, south, to the Surry lumber company.

Religious Institutions, Property, Business

Chapter 591

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to expend the surplus fund in the bands of the county treasurer due the county, and not otherwise appropriated, in the improvement of the public highways of said county.

Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 592

An ACT to give H. C. Joyner, treasurer of Amherst county, and his deputies power of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax tickets now in his hands.