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1897/1898

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Chapter 401

An ACT requiring treasurers to deduct any taxes due by party in whose favor the warrant is drawn.
Taxation

Chapter 402

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 952 of the acts of assembly of 1895-'6, 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,”
Fishing

Chapter 403

An ACT to incorporate the Benevolent investment and relief association of Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 404

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2033 of the code of Virginia as to limitation of suits
Amendments, Judicial, Property, Debt

Chapter 405

An ACT to authorize the councils of the city of Norfolk to Issue bonds for the erection, repair or rebuilding of a bridge over Smith’s creek.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 406

An ACT to prohibit the use of trading stamps, trading checks, and similar gift enterprises, and providing a punishment for those who use them.
Business

Chapter 407

An ACT to permit J. C. Ninde and John Garnett to erect a wharf and breakwater at the farm of said John Garnett, in King George county, on the upper Machodoc creek.
Property, Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 408

An ACT to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to keep in its clerk’s office a register of the securities under the control of the court.
Judicial, Property

Chapter 409

An ACT to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to keep in its clerk’s office a book showing the amount of money and notes under the control or subject to the order of said court.
Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 410

An ACT to provide for the garnishment of and levy of execution on wages and salaries of all city, town and county officials, clerks and employees.
Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 411

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor
Amendments, Incorporation, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 412

An ACT to incorporate the Washington terminal railroad company
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 413

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Pittsv!vania to allow Company J memorial association to erect a monument on the public square of said county.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 414

An ACT to compensate school trustees other than clerks in the county of Grayson.
Education, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 415

An ACT tor working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Appomattox.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Jails, Taxation

Chapter 416

An ACT to authorize the county treasurer of Accomac and Northampton counties to levy upon and sell for unpaid taxes any property of the telegraph line in Accomac and Northampton extending along the line of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 417

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved March 5, 1804, as amended by an act approved February 24, 1896, entitled an act to Incorporate the Chesterfield transit company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 418

An ACT to legalize primary elections and conventions in Newport News
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 419

An ACT to refund to R. T. Sear an amount overpaid to the common-wealth.
Public expenditures, Bonds, Debt

Chapter 420

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of the Joseph H. Sands division, No. 401, of the Grand international brotherhood of locomotive engineers.
Amendments, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Labor, Property

Chapter 421

An ACT to ascertain and establish the boundary line between the state of Virginia and the state of North Carolina, so far as the said boundary line divides the county of Mecklenburg, in the state of Virginia, from the counties of Granville, Warren and Vance, in the state of North Carolina, and to reject the report of the commission appointed under act of the general assembly, approved March 5, 1894.
Boundaries

Chapter 422

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

Chapter 423

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act authorizing the judge of the county court of Giles county to appoint a board of county road commissioners for Giles county, approved March 5, 1804, excepting from the management and control of said road commissioners any town that is now or may hereafter be incorporated in said county of Giles.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 424

An ACT to compensate school trustees other than clerks in Lancaster county.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 425

AN ACT to provide for imposing a specific license tax on slot machines into which are dropped pennies or nickels or coins of other denominations and used in the state to dispose of cigars, cigarettes, chewing gum or other articles of merchandise, and on musical devices, &c., which operate on the nickel in the slot principle to increase the revenues of the state.
Amusement, Gambling, Taxation, Business

Chapter 426

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Gladeville, in Wise county, to issue bonds in aid of the construction and equipment of the main line of the Gladeville railroad company.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 427

An ACT to amend and re-enact subdivision 6 of section 184 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the salaries of the judges of the corporatior courts of the cities of Lynchburg and Staunton.
Judicial, Salaries, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 428

An ACT for the protection of game and birds in the counties o!
Hunting

Chapter 429

An ACT for the preservation of game in the counties of Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William.
Hunting

Chapter 430

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Luray to borrow money for the purpose of retiring and refunding the present outstanding indebtedness of the town, issued under the act approved February 17, 1890.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 431

An ACT to provide for a read law for Spotsylvania county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 432

An ACT to incorporate the Tidewater mutual insurance company
Business, Property

Chapter 433

An ACT to incorporate the McGill Catholic union.
Incorporation, Religious Institutions, Charity, Amendments

Chapter 434

An ACT to incorporate the Staunton and Augusta railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 435

An ACT to incorporate the Harper’s Ferry power company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 436

An ACT to incorporate the Botetourt electric railway and power company.
Utilities, Transportation, Industry, Business

Chapter 437

An ACT to incorporate the Peninsula railway company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Public officers

Chapter 438

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and West Virginia railroad company.
Transportation, Business, Judicial, Public expenditures, Incorporation

Chapter 439

AN ACT to prohibit hogs or swine from running at large in the Warm Springs valley and in the valley of the Hot Springs branch, county of Bath.
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 440

An ACT to relieve the Baltimore, Cincinnati and Western railway company from any forfeiture which may have accrued from failure to commence and complete its railway within the time limited in its act of incorporation and subsequent acts of assembly amending the same, and to extend the time within which the said company may commence and complete its railway in this state.
Transportation, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 441

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘ 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, Municipal charters

Chapter 442

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the school trustees of Clintwood school district in Dickenson county to issue bonds upon said school district for the purpose of completing the school house in said district, &c.
Amendments, Bonds, Education, Taxation

Chapter 443

An ACT to impose a tax on corporations chartered and organized as social clubs desiring to keep liquors at their club-house or other place of meeting, to be sold or given away to the members of the corporation, for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to prescribe the mode of paying such tax and penalty for its non-payment; to define the privileges of such clubs and to prescribe in what cases their charters may be revoked.
Alcohol, Business, Taxation

Chapter 444

An ACT to authorize the Petersburg railroad company to straighten its road.
Transportation

Chapter 445

An ACT to incorporate the American annuity order.
Incorporation, Charity, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 446

An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Essex county.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 447

An ACT to incorporate the Lexington street railway, light and power company.
Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities, Business

Chapter 448

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as school trustees.
Amendments, Judicial, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 449

An ACT to prescribe the amount of license tax to be paid by peddlers of manufactured implements and machines other than sewing machines, and by peddlers of cooking stoves and ranges and clocks.
Business, Taxation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 450

An ACT to require each bank or banking institution in the state to report to the auditor of public accounts all money deposited in such bank or banking institution by order of any court.
Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 451

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2476 of the code of Virginia in relation to perfection of mechanics’ lien record, and notice of lien, as amended by an act approved January 16, 1806, and as further amended by an act approved March 5, 1896, and to amend and re-enact section 2477 of the code of Virginia in relation to the perfection of lien by sub-contractors and extent. of liens, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1894, and as further amended by an act approved March 5, 1896.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 452

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2562 code of Virginia in relation to Jurisdiction of partition of land.
Property, Judicial

Chapter 453

An ACT to provide for taxation of shares of stock issued by banks located in towns
Taxation, Business

Chapter 454

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to strike from the constitution the second clause of article ten and providing for publishing and certifying the same to the next general assembly of Virginia.
Amendments, Taxation, Business

Chapter 455

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1767, of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1767 and 1774 as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 18.4, reluting to the practice of dentistry
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Amendments

Chapter 456

An ACT to authorize the second auditor to issue a coupon bond, act of February 20, 1892, in lien of coupon bond No. 6826 for $500 of the same issue which has been destroyed.
Bonds

Chapter 457

An ACT to incorporate the Truitt lumber company.
Business

Chapter 458

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2547 of the code providing for the recordation of wills.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 459

An ACT to provide that the governor of the commonwealth shall have the right and authority, in certain cases, to pardon minors convicted and committed to the custody and control of the Prison association of Virginia, and to release said minors from such custody and control.
Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Prisons, Civil Rights

Chapter 460

An ACT to prevent the adulteration of flour
Agriculture

Chapter 461

An ACT relating to the support and maintenance, In certain cases, of minors committed to the Prison association of Virginia.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Vagrancy, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 462

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of the code of Virginia in relation to jail inspection.
Jails, Judicial, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 463

AN ACT to incorporate the Virginia electric company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business

Chapter 464

An ACT for the relief of the Orange and Keysville railroad company.
Transportation, Amendments, Business

Chapter 465

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Franklin to provide for repairing and keeping in order the roads and bridges in that county.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 466

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Stonewall district council, Jr. O. U. A. M., of Richmond county, Va.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Property

Chapter 467

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Smyth county to increase the county levy for road purposes.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 468

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1371 of the code of Virginia in relation to the management and leasing of the Norfolk county ferries.
Transportation

Chapter 469

An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands in the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania and Orange, and the city of Fredericksburg.
Monuments and memorials, Public spaces, Property, Public expenditures, Civil Rights

Chapter 470

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3603 and 3604 of the code of Virginia relative to proceedings by interrogatories to ascertain the estate of debtor on which a fieri facias or a judgment may be alien, and to compel an examination of such debtor and his debtor or bailee and the delivery of the estate.
Debt, Judicial, Property

Chapter 471

An ACT to allow John J. Jones to erect a wharf on a creek running along the western side of Chincoteague island, Accomac county, Virginia.
Property, Transportation, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 472

An ACT to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of James City, and the keeping of the same in proper repair.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 473

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3001 of the code of Virginia, in relation to indemnifying bonds to officers, their penalties and conditions.
Judicial, Property

Chapter 474

AN ACT to prevent the injuring, destroying, or removing of any switch-lamp, flag-lamp or other signal used by any railroad, and to provide punishment therefor.
Transportation

Chapter 475

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5560 of the code of Virginia in reference to the docketing of Judgments.
Judicial

Chapter 476

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3567 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the time from which a judgment is to be a lien on all the real estate of debtor.
Debt, Judicial, Property

Chapter 477

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3283 of the code of Virginia in reference to judgments and decrees in vacation.
Judicial

Chapter 478

An ACT for the protection of sheep in the counties of Northumberland, Westmoreland and Rappahannock, by making owner, &c., of dog killing, maiming, or worrying sheep, liable for damages not exceeding assessed value of sheep.
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 479

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to compensate Justices of the peace of the city of Norfolk for acknowledgment of bail in certain cases
Judicial, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 480

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1197 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1197 of the code of Virginia, in regard to tolls, approved February 2, 1892, so as to regulate tolls on the Valley turnpike.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 481

An ACT to preserve the purity of all field and garden seed and to define the hability of the sellers of all seed as guarantors that all such seed are true to kind and name as represented at the time of sale.
Agriculture

Chapter 482

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act continuing in force the corporation of the town of Pearisburg, county of Giles, and defining and prescribing the rights and powers thereof, approved March 25, 1872, to extend the corporate limits of said town of Pearisburg and to provide a new charter for said town.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Taxation, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Property

Chapter 483

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 664 of the code of Virginia in relation to redemption of delinquent lands
Property, Taxation

Chapter 484

An ACT to require the courts of this commonwealth having jurisdiction of suits for the sale of lands to satisfy debts to specify in the decree directing the account of debts to be taken, that the commissioner to whom the decree is referred shall ascertain and report all delinquent taxes upon said lands, and if sold for said taxes to whom, &c.
Debt, Property, Taxation

Chapter 485

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 366 of the code of Virginia in relation to the term of enlistment.
Amendments, Armed forces, Employment and labor

Chapter 486

An ACT to incorporate the Fairview turnpike company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Industry

Chapter 487

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2935 of the code of Virginia in relation of proceedings to enforce deeds of trust, mortgages and vendors’ liens.
Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 488

An ACT to prohibit hogs running at large upon the streets or roads within certain prescribed limits at Accomac Courthouse, county of Accomac
Agriculture, Amendments, Boundaries, Property

Chapter 489

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled an act In relation to commitment of minors to Prison association of Virginia and their custody
Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Prisons, Custody of children

Chapter 490

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 492 of the code of Virginia ; by whom property is to be listed ; to whom taxed.
Taxation, Property, Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 491

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1913 of chapter 86 of the code of Virginia, relating to the standard of cord measure and of agricultural products, in relation to standard weight of cotton seed.
Agriculture

Chapter 492

An ACT to require junk dealers to keep certain books and exhibit the same, to make report of certain articles received or purchased by them and prescribing penalties for failing to do so.
Business, Law Enforcement

Chapter 493

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 12, 18 and 20 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Berkley in the county of Norfolk
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Public spaces, Budget, Bonds, Death and burial, Cemeteries

Chapter 494

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2042 of the code of Virginia, in relation to damages for trespass by animals, forfeiture, &c.
Agriculture, Property, Judicial

Chapter 495

An ACT requiring railroad companies to transport live stock on their main and branch lines and providing a remedy and penalty for the refusal of any such company to receive, transport or deliver such live stock.
Transportation, Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 496

An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Section 10 of Chapter 1 of an Act to Provide for the Assessment of Taxes on Persons, Property and Incomes, and on Licenses to Transact Business, and Imposing Taxes Thereon for the Support of the Government and Public Free Schools and to Pay the Interest on the Public Debt, and Prescribing the Mode of Obtaining Licenses to Sell Wine, Ardent Spirits, Malt Liquors or Any Mixture Thereof, in Cases Where a Court Certificate Is Required.
Taxation, Business, Agriculture

Chapter 497

An ACT to incorporate the Londoun county savings bank and trust company.
Business, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 498

An ACT to submit to the voters of Grayson county the question of a subscription to the capital stock of the Grayson and Carroll electric railway company.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 499

A RESOLUTION making it the duty of the attorney-general to notify commonwealth’s attorneys of defects and inaccuracies as to certain official bonds
Bonds, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 500

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act prohibiting the running at large of hogs and sheep within a certain district in Prince William county
Agriculture, Boundaries, Property
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