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1893/1894

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 608

An ACT to incorporate the River-Front railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 609

An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Fluvanna.
Agriculture, Property, Taxation

Chapter 610

An ACT for the protection of game in Rockingham county, Virginia.
Hunting, Wildlife, Transportation

Chapter 611

An Act Amending and Re-enacting Sections 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 15 of Act Approved May 2, 1887, Entitled an Act to Provide a Charter for the Town of West Point.
Amendments, Voting, Public officers, Property, Taxation

Chapter 612

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in Nansemond county.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 613

An ACT to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, and repealing so much of the acts as affects the county of Augusta, approved February 26, 1884, February 19, 1886, March 5, 1888, February 28, 1890.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 614

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 6, 8 and -18 of chapter 155 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1883-’84, approved February 25, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved November 1, 1870, and acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively November 4, 1871, and November 2, 1880, providing a charter for the town of Front Royal.
Amendments, Boundaries, Budget, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Utilities

Chapter 615

An ACT to incorporate the town of Crewe, in the county of Nottoway.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Budget, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 616

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county.
Municipal charters, Budget, Property, Public officers, Voting, Public spaces, Fire fighters, Healthcare, Education, Alcohol, Cemeteries, Gambling, Utilities, Law Enforcement, Labor, Public expenditures, Death and burial

Chapter 617

An ACT to provide for opening new roads and building bridges and working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Rockbridge county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 618

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764, 1765 and 1766 of chapter 78 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the practice of pharmacy, as amended by an act approved May 6, 1887, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 12 of an act approved March 3, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia pharmaceutical association, and to regulate the practice of pharmacy, and to guard the sale of poisons in the state of Virginia.
Business, Healthcare, Judicial, Education, Property

Chapter 619

An ACT to make husband and wife competent witnesses for or against each other in civil cases.
Marriage, Judicial, Divorce, Civil Rights

Chapter 620

An ACT to encourage immigration into the commonwealth of Virginia, and to promote sales of lands within the commonwealth to immigrants.
Business, Property, Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 621

An ACT to authorize the city councils of cities to adopt reasonable ordinances to prevent improper interference of scholars attending or boarding at any female school situated in cities.
Education, Civil Rights, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 622

An ACT to authorize the president of the board of directors of the Southwestern hospital to release to G. D. H. Killinger and wife, on certain conditions, any interest held by said asylum on a certain spring on the lands of said Killinger and wife, in Smyth county.
Property, Public expenditures, Healthcare

Chapter 623

An ACT for the relief of A. A. Woodson, a disabled Confederate soldier of Goochland county, Virginia.
Armed forces, Confederate, Pensions, Employment and labor

Chapter 624

An ACT for the relief of Edward O. F. Custis and E. E. Miles, of Accomac county.
Business, Debt, Property

Chapter 625

An ACT to establish a state board of embalming, to provide for the better protection of life and health, to prevent the spread of contagious diseases, and to regulate the practice of embalming and the care and disposition of the dead.
Healthcare, Death and burial, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 626

An ACT to authorize and empower the school trustees of Russell county to sell and convey school property.
Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 627

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 68 of the code of Virginia in relation to the meeting of electoral boards, &c.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 628

An ACT to change the name of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Norfolk and Portsmouth to the Young Men’s Christian Association of Norfolk.
Amendments, Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 629

An ACT to incorporate the Hampton artesian water company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business, Property, Public officers

Chapter 630

An ACT to transfer all amounts in the treasury to the credit of the internal improvement fund, and all amounts which may be collected on account of dividends from the state’s interest in works of internal improvement, to the commissioners of the sinking fund.
Budget, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 631

An ACT to incorporate the Chesterfield transit company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 632

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4179, code of Virginia, in regard to criminal proceedings against convicts, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4219, chapter 205, code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in regard to criminal proceedings against convicts
Amendments, Judicial, Prisons

Chapter 633

An ACT imposing a tax on building and loan associations.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 634

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia rotary steam engine company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Taxation

Chapter 635

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 666 of the code of Virginia, in relation to delinquent lands purchased in the name of auditor.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 636

An ACT to allow S. K. Martin and W. T. Mason to erect a wharf and marine railway on Pungoteague creek, in the county of Accomac.
Business, Transportation, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 637

An ACT to allow the Wharton grove camp-ground company to erect a wharf in front of its land-on Rappahannock river.
Utilities

Chapter 638

An ACT for the relief of J. E. Moore, of Chesterfield county, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Armed forces, Confederate, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 639

An ACT to permit city and county school boards to change the depositaries of school funds, to prescribe the methods therefor, and to fix the compensation, duties and responsibilities of such depositaries.
Education, Budget, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 640

An ACT to give D. Mott Robertson, treasurer of Appomattox county, and his deputies, power of levy and distress to collect certain tax-tickets now in his hands.
Taxation

Chapter 641

An ACT for the relief of Samuel R. Hubbard, of Appomattox county, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 642

An ACT to authorize the Confederate memorial association of Nottoway to deed their monument to the county of Nottoway.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Municipal charters, Property, Budget

Chapter 643

AN ACT to legalize certain local assessments for granolithic sidewalks or pavements by the council of the city of Bristol, and to provide a more efficient mode for collection of same.
Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Property, Transportation

Chapter 644

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria county light, water and power company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 645

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, chapter 331, of the acts of assembly, 1887, extra session, in reference to the publication and distribution of the code of Virginia.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 646

An ACT to incorporate the Elizabeth River terminal company.
Business, Transportation, Industry, Amendments, Utilities

Chapter 647

An ACT to provide for working and locating public roads and repairing and building bridges in Caroline county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 648

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3315 of the code of 1887, in relation to removal by county court on motion, after notice, of suits, «c.., pending therein.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 649

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to incorporate Lynchburg lodge, No. 1, independent order of Odd-Fellows, approved March 4, 1892.
Amendments, Incorporation, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 650

An ACT to direct the clerk of the hustings court of the city of Richmond to deliver delinquent capitation and personal property tax-tickets to the person appointed to collect same.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 651

An ACT regulating the appointment of assessors of lands and lots in the city of Norfolk, and providing for compensation of same.
Property, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 652

An ACT for the relief of R. A. Hood, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions, Armed forces, Civil Rights

Chapter 653

An ACT for the relief of John R. Lawrence, of Hanover county.
Armed forces, Civil Rights, Pensions

Chapter 654

An ACT for the relief of P. H. M. Bird, a Confederate veteran of Bland county, Virginia.
Confederate, Pensions, Judicial

Chapter 655

An ACT to require the board of supervisors of Warwick county to tax the sale of ardent spirits and malt liquors in Newport magisterial district, in said county.
Alcohol, Taxation, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 656

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the counties of Prince George and Surry to increase the salary of the judge of the county courts of said counties.
Judicial, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 657

An ACT for the protection of game in the county of Brunswick.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 658

An ACT to validate and confirm an ordinance of the town of Berkley as to taxes omitted to be assessed in the mode prescribed by its charter for the years 1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 659

An ACT for the relief of E. S. Moorman, treasurer of Campbell county; to authorize the auditor to credit the treasurer with lost school warrant.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 660

An ACT authorizing the transfer of insane from one hospital to another.
Healthcare

Chapter 661

An ACT to regulate and control guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity and other like companies having for their purpose or one of their purposes to become security for the faithful performance of any trust, duty, contract, agreement or bond, public or private, official or otherwise, or to assume any duty or obligation of like nature as principal or otherwise, or to become fiduciary.
Business, Bonds, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 662

An ACT to facilitate the giving of bonds required by law.
Bonds

Chapter 663

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 11 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the public roads in Cumberland county
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 664

An ACT authorizing the Loudoun national brick, paint and manufacturing company to construct and operate a railroad to its property from the existing railroad, near Leesburg, Virginia, by building such road or contracting with some other company therefor.
Transportation, Industry, Business

Chapter 665

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of Stafford county, or any magisterial district thereof, the question of a hog law.
Agriculture, Voting, Property

Chapter 666

An ACT to regulate the killing, capturing, hunting, buying or selling or offering for sale of partridges and wild turkeys in the county of Dinwiddie, and to prohibit the catching of same in traps or nets, and to prohibit the taking or destruction of eggs of same in said county.
Hunting

Chapter 667

An ACT to authorize the Prison association of Virginia to condemn for its purposes certain real estate in the county of Henrico.
Prisons, Property, Public expenditures, Reformatories

Chapter 668

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia transit company, and to authorize it to engage in mining, manufacturing and storage.
Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 669

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 1, 1892, in relation to public roads of Amherst county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 670

An ACT to repeal an act for the appointment of an inspector of staves in the city of Norfolk.
Repeal of legislation, Business

Chapter 671

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina mining and development company.
Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 672

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Charlottesville and University street railway company
Transportation, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 673

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to protect sheep in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 674

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 18, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 188, acts 1891-’92, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 366, acts of 1889-’90, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 192, acts of 1885-’86, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski City
Boundaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 675

An ACT for the relief of William C. Reynolds, of Spotsylvania
Healthcare, Business

Chapter 676

An ACT to prescribe the forms to be furnished by the auditor of public accounts to clerks of courts of record of this commonwealth, on which is to be entered the money received by them, and receipts to be given by them to those paying said money, and also to provide a more effectual method of collecting the revenue arising from the tax on deeds, wills, seals of courts and money arising from fines and delinquent lands.
Budget, Taxation, Public officers, Judicial, Public expenditures, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 677

An ACT for relief of James W. Dillow, of Bland.
Amendments, Business, Taxation

Chapter 678

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2134, code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2138, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, 2158, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 21438, 2144, 2145 and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, approved February 25, 1892, and to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 7 of the said act approved February 25, 1892.
Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 679

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the code of Virginia, in relation to unlawful fishing, &c.
Fishing

Chapter 680

An ACT to empower the court of Accomac county to authorize the construction and maintenance of a bridge across Messongo creek, in said county.
Transportation

Chapter 681

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of water commissioners of the city of Norfolk, Virginia, to collect taxes upon certain roadways in Princess Anne county, Virginia.
Utilities, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 682

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3818 of the code of 1887, in relation to betting or playing at faro, or at the said games, or at any game except, «c., at a public place; how punished.
Gambling

Chapter 683

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 64 of the code of Virginia as amended by an act approved February 29, 1890, in relation to the election of electoral boards.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 684

AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Giles county to increase the salary of the county judge.
Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 685

An ACT to incorporate the Great Falls power company.
Incorporation, Industry, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 686

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 42 of the charter of the town of Culpeper.
Utilities, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Debt, Budget

Chapter 687

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 67 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of registrars.
Voting, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 688

An ACT for the relief of James T. Gallaher, of Appomattox county, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 689

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3379 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the docketing of chancery cases, motions, &c.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 690

An ACT to incorporate the Culpeper and Fredericksburg railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 691

An ACT to incorporate the Mutual beneficial association of Rich-
Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 692

An ACT authorizing the county court of Giles county to charter a ferry across New river at a point near Eggleston springs.
Transportation

Chapter 693

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2934 of the code of Virginia in relation to limitation of actions.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 694

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of an act entitled an act for opening and keeping in order the public roads and for building and repairing bridges in the county of Accomac, approved March 2, 1892.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 695

An ACT authorizing the judge of the county court of Giles county to appoint a board of county road commissioners for Giles county.
Budget, Transportation

Chapter 696

An ACT to ascertain and establish, by monuments or otherwise, the boundary line between the state of Virginia and North Carolina, so far as the said boundary line divides the county of Mecklenburg, in Virginia, from the counties of Granville, Warren and Vance, in North Carolina.
Boundaries

Chapter 697

An ACT for the relief of Daniel Conley, a Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 698

An ACT to allow Louis Jones, late treasurer of Middlesex county, further time to distrain and levy for taxes, levies and licenses for the years 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 699

An ACT for the relief of Charles E. Bowen
Pensions, Armed forces, Healthcare

Chapter 700

An ACT to incorporate the Eastern Shore game protection association of Virginia.
Incorporation, Wildlife, Gambling, Recreation, Public officers

Chapter 701

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 95 of the code of Virginia.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 702

An ACT to regulate the sale of seed cotton in the county of Brunswick, Virginia.
Agriculture

Chapter 703

AN ACT allowing B. B. Redwine, late treasurer of Wise county further time for collecting uncollected taxes in Wise county.
Taxation

Chapter 704

An ACT to authorize and empower the corporate authorities of the incorporated cities and towns of this commonwealth to contract with any sewerage or water purification company to introduce, build, maintain and operate systems of sewerage and water purification for such cities and towns and to adopt and enforce such ordinances and regulations as may be necessary to establish and maintain proper and suitable sewerage and water purification systems for such cities and towns; and to regulate and compel the use of the same, and to fix the charges for connecting with, tapping or using the sewers, pipes and conduits of any such system of sewerage and water purification.
Utilities

Chapter 705

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond real estate and trust company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 706

An ACT for the relief of Robert K. Burns.
Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 707

An ACT to regulate the killing and capturing of deer in the county of Princess Anne.
Hunting
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