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1893/1894

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Chapter 205

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Staunton, in force March 22, 1872, as amended by sundry subsequent acts.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation, Property, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Public spaces, Utilities, Law Enforcement, Gambling, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 206

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3707 of code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3707 of the code of Virginia, approved February 28, 1890—grand and petit larceny defined.
Amendments, Judicial, Property

Chapter 207

An ACT to make the north folk of Holston river in the county of Scott, between certain points, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws

Chapter 208

An ACT for the protection of certain game in the county of Elizabeth City.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 209

An ACT for the protection of fish in Roanoke county.
Fishing

Chapter 210

An ACT relating to the receiving of deposits by insolvent bankers, brokers or an officer of a bank.
Business, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend section 4025 of the code of Virginia, with reference to when jury not to be kept together; when so kept to be boarded; rate of board; how paid.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 212

An ACT to establish the law and equity court of the city of Richmond, and to define its jurisdiction and relation to the other courts of said city.
Judicial

Chapter 213

An ACT to authorize the recordation in the clerk’s office of the corporation court of the city of Buena Vista of certain writings, papers and records heretofore recorded in the clerk’s office of the county court of Rockbridge county, by copying the same from the books in said last named clerk’s office, in which said writings are now recorded.
Property, Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 214

An ACT for the relief of the tax-payers of Alleghany county.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 215

An ACT providing for the sale of lands returned delinquent for the years 1859 and 1890, by A. J. Farish, late treasurer of Albemarle county.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 216

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the time for making returns of assessments for the city of Richmond and for the county of Henrico
Amendments, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 217

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3705 of the code of Virginia—entering dwelling-house, or other house, vessel or car in the night, with intent to commit murder, rape or robbery
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Property

Chapter 218

An ACT to incorporate the Ohio river and Charleston railroad company as the successor of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1733, code of 1887, in relation to compulsory vaccination.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 220

An ACT to extend the powers of the board of supervisors of Hanover county, with reference to keeping in order the public roads of said county, and to ratify and make valid any contracts or purchases heretofore made by said board for the purposes indicated in this act.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 221

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders.
Judicial

Chapter 222

An ACT to supplement an act entitled an act to incorporate the Berlin and Lovettsville bridge company.
Business, Bonds, Incorporation, Transportation

Chapter 223

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act approved January 15, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Portsmouth and Smithfield railway company, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1892.
Transportation

Chapter 224

An ACT to enable commissioners in chancery to compel the attendance of witnesses before them.
Judicial

Chapter 225

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3122 of the code of Virginia of 1887, making provisions for opening a court or for its sitting where it fails to meet on the day appointed or to which it adjourns, as amended by an act approved February 29, 1802.
Judicial

Chapter 226

An ACT to incorporate the town of Washington, in the county of Rappahannock.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Voting, Law Enforcement, Taxation, Public officers, Public spaces, Prisons, Recreation

Chapter 227

An ACT to ratify, validate and confirm the payment of certain fees heretofore paid to the state for and in connection with certain charters granted by the courts.
Amendments, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 228

An ACT to provide for the submission to the people of the proposed amendment to the tenth clause of article one of the constitution of Virginia, in relation to the mode of trial in criminal or capital prosecutions.
Amendments, Judicial, Voting, Civil Rights

Chapter 229

An ACT to incorporate the St. John’s Academy, in Alexandria city.
Education, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 230

An ACT to authorize the counties of Floyd, Carroll and Grayson to vote subscription to the Blue Ridge railroad company.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 231

An ACT to establish an additional court for the city of Norfolk and to define its jurisdiction.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers

Chapter 232

A JOINT RESOLUTION agreeing to amendment to the constitution of Virginia in respect to the mode of trial in capital or criminal prosecutions.
Amendments, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 233

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk public library.
Incorporation, Libraries, Public expenditures

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6 and 7 of an act entitled an act to disband the Richmond light infantry blues and to incorporate the Richmond light infantry blues’ association
Armed forces, Amendments

Chapter 235

An ACT to protect Mongolian or English pheasants in Spotsylvania and Caroline counties.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 236

An Act to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Albemarle
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 237

An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg traction company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Utilities, Business, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 239

An ACT to repeal an act approved February 16, 1892, entitled an act to create a road board for the county of Buckingham and to provide for working the roads of said county.
Repeal of legislation, Transportation

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 of an act of the general assembly entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roads of the county of Tazewell, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in said county, approved February 29, 1892.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 241

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 420 and 421 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the use by the commissioners of the sinking fund of any surplus money in the treasury in the purchase of bonds of the state issued under the acts of February 14, 1882, and February 20, 1892.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 242

An ACT for the relief of R. Wachsmann
Property, Public expenditures, Agriculture

Chapter 243

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1230 of the code of Virginia, providing for the appointment of police agents and making certain persons conservators of the peace.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Transportation, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 244

An ACT to ngcrpOrars. the town of Tappahannock, county of Essex.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 245

An ACT relating to the entry and riding or driving of horses at places where purses, premiums or stakes are competed for.
Agriculture, Amusement, Gambling, Public expenditures

Chapter 246

An ACT for the protection of fish in Bland, Tazewell and Smyth
Fishing

Chapter 247

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 5, 7, 9 and 14, and to repeal section 61 of an act entitled an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol, and to provide a new charter for the same
Municipal charters, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 248

An ACT to compensate R. W. Shultice for professional services rendered in circuit court of Mathews county.
Taxation

Chapter 249

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4016 of the code of Virginia, in relation to where criminal offences committed in counties are to be tried, and when and by whom the venire facias is to be issued.
Judicial

Chapter 250

An ACT to create Barton district in Brookland magisterial district, in the county of Henrico, and to provide for the opening, improving, grading, paving and maintaining of roads, streets, alleys and sidewalks in said Barton district, and for making and maintaining other improvements of a public nature therein.
Budget, Business, Property, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 251

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia boat club.
Incorporation, Recreation

Chapter 252

An ACT to authorize the deputies of A. J. Farish, late treasurer of Albemarle county, to collect by distress unpaid tax-tickets in their hands, and extending for one year the time for making such collections.
Taxation

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1163 of the code of Virginia, in relation to banks holding real estate.
Property, Debt, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 254

An ACT for the relief of William M. Beaton.
Property

Chapter 255

An ACT to protect partridges and woodcock in the county of King George
Hunting

Chapter 256

An ACT to amend the charter of the Chesapeake agricultural association.
Agriculture

Chapter 257

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Pulaski county reimburse the town of Pulaski for money expended by it in caring for persons afflicted with small-pox in said county, &c.
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend chapter 218 of the acts of 1887-88, touching the killing of partridges in the counties of Clarke and Warren, as amended by chapter 47 of the acts of 1889-’90.
Hunting

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as notaries.
Amendments, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 260

An ACT to incorporate the State Executive Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of the State of Virginia.
Religious Institutions, Charity, Education

Chapter 261

An ACT for the relief of John M. Peddicord
Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 262

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to increase the salary of the judge of said county.
Salaries

Chapter 263

An ACT to incorporate the Halifax Episcopal male academy.
Education

Chapter 264

An ACT to give J. P. Gilliam, treasurer of Chesterfield county, power of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax-tickets in his hands.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 265

An ACT to place George C. Robinson, of Prince William county, on the pension list of the state of Virginia.
Pensions, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 266

An ACT To incorporate the Roanoke and Northern railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 267

An ACT to change the name of the Pulaski development company.
Business

Chapter 268

An ACT to incorporate the Keystone coal, iron and land company.
Incorporation, Industry, Business, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 269

An ACT to provide that process for a witness during the trial of a criminal prosecution in a court of record may be executed by the officer of the court from which the process issues in any county or corporation of the state.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 270

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia mining railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 271

An ACT to incorporate the South Norfolk street railway company
Transportation, Industry, Business, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 272

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 751 of the code of Virginia, in relation to when suits may not be brought.
Amendments, Judicial, Civil Rights, Marriage, Voting

Chapter 273

An ACT to incorporate the Farmers bank of Floyd.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 274

An ACT to amend sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Merchants bank of Danville
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 275

An ACT to give R. N. Turner, treasurer of Goochland county, power of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax-tickets in his hands.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 276

An ACT to incorporate the town of Norton, in Wise county.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 277

An Act to authorize the county court of Norfolk county to take evidence and, in its discretion, correct any alleged erroneous assessment of the lands of A. Q. Philpots and C. C. Cruser in said county, and taxes assessed thereon.
Property, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 278

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Ashland
Municipal charters, Judicial, Property, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Bonds, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 279

An ACT to authorize the union of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company and the Buckingham railroad company by lease, purchase, consolidation, merger or otherwise, in accordance with the terms of any contract which may have been or may be entered into by and between said companies.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 280

An ACT to allow a pension to Ellen C. Holler, of Shenandoah county.
Pensions, Confederate, Death and burial

Chapter 281

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in Mecklenburg county.
Alcohol, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 282

An ACT to remove the political disabilities of Jefferson Wallace, Charles M. Wallace, Jr., and John D. Sadler.
Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 283

An ACT to relieve P. C. Langdon.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 284

An ACT to refund money improperly paid into the treasury by P. S. Hunter, trustee, of the county of Essex.
Public expenditures

Chapter 285

An ACT for the relief of James M. Clift, of King George county.
Armed forces, Confederate, Healthcare, Pensions

Chapter 286

An ACT to provide special police for Newport magisterial district, in the county of Warwick.
Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 287

An ACT for the relief of Emily Pointer, of King William county, the widow of a Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions, Death and burial

Chapter 288

An ACT for the relief of J. W. Rogers, of Craig county, from the payment of a fine imposed by the county court of Alleghany county.
Amendments, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 289

An ACT for the relief of M. C. Morris and A. H. Griffin.
Law Enforcement

Chapter 290

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 4, 1892, in relation to the time for holding the courts in the fourteenth judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 291

An ACT to amend section 246 of the code of Virginia, with reference to furnishing the report to reporter and judges.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 292

An ACT for the relief of indigent persons suffering from disease of the eye.
Healthcare, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 293

An ACT to place David Bradley, a disabled Confederate soldier, on pension list.
Pensions, Confederate, Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 295

AN ACT to prohibit hogs, sheep and goats from running at large upon the public roads or unenclosed lands in the county of Augusta.
Agriculture, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 296

AN ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed on the 2d of April, 1573, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Manassas, as amended by an act approved 18th of March, 1884.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Property, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Fire fighters, Business, Amendments

Chapter 297

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Abingdon, Va.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Property, Taxation, Vagrancy, Law Enforcement

Chapter 298

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Voting, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Utilities, Recreation, Cemeteries, Public spaces

Chapter 299

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Blackstone, in Nottoway county, Virginia, approved February 23, 1888.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Taxation, Property, Pensions, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, Public spaces, Cemeteries

Chapter 300

An ACT authorizing boards of supervisors to contract loans for the erection of court-houses, clerk’s office and jails.
Bonds, Jails, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 301

An ACT for the relief of Edwin Cumbie,a disabled Confederate soldier of Halifax county, Va.
Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 302

An ACT authorizing the purchasers of the Richmond and Danville railroad, their assigns and successors, to become and be a corporation, to adopt a name therefor, and to possess and exercise general powers; and authorizing the leasing to or by, and the consolidation therewith of, other corporations.
Transportation, Business, Judicial, Taxation

Chapter 303

An ACT in relation to the sale of certain church property belonging to the Reformed church, in Woodstock, Shenandoah county.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 304

An ACT to declare Rockfish river, in Nelson county, between certain points, a lawful fence.
Property, Agriculture

Chapter 305

An ACT to define the liability of infants for debts under certain circumstances.
Business, Debt, Equality before the law

Chapter 306

An ACT to authorize and direct the governor to appoint a commission to co-operate with the national commission in ascertaining the position occupied by the Virginia troops on the battle-field of Chickamauga and Chattanooga.
Civil Rights, Confederate, Monuments and memorials
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