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1897/1898

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Chapter 602

An Act to repeal section 3433 of the code of Virginia providing for clerks of circuit and corporation courts to file in papers of cause copies of decrees and orders made therein, and to fix their fees therefor.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 603

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2945 and 2919 of the code relating to warrants for small claims.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 604

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3994 of the code of Virginia relating to what number of offences may be charged in prosecution for embezzlement if committed within six months; what description of money sufficient in prosecution for embezzlement; what for larceny.
Amendments, Business

Chapter 605

An ACT to incorporate the Angusta and Nelson railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 606

An ACT to protect black bass and pond bass in the Rappahannock river above tidewater, and in its tributaries above tidewater, including the North Fork, Rapidan and Robinson rivers, and their tributaries.
Fishing

Chapter 607

An ACT to authorize the supervisors of the counties of Rappahannock, Madison, Culpeper, Greene, Orange, Warren and Spotsylvania, or any of them, to aid in the construction of the Piedmont railway company.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 608

An ACT to incorporate the Piedmont railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 609

An ACT to provide a charter for the Consolidated railway and electric power company of Roanuke.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 610

An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of the county of Northampton to vote upon the removal of the courthouse, clerk's office, jail, and other buildings pertaining to the court of Northampton county, from their present location at Eastville to the town of Cape Charles, and to appropriate a part of the glebe fund of said county towards erecting new buildings in case of removal, and to improve and enlarge the courthouse by appropriating two thousand dollars of said glebe fund.
Judicial, Public officers, Voting, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 611

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2038 of the code, defining a lawful fence for the county of Accumac.
Agriculture, Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 612

An ACT to incorporate the Deep run railway and electric company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 613

An ACT to repeal an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to allow the jailer of the said county compensation for fuel furnished the jail of said county.
Jails, Repeal of legislation, Public officers

Chapter 614

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the code of Virginia relating to the compensation of supervisors
Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 615

An ACT for the relief of W. N. McAnge
Agriculture, Fishing, Property

Chapter 616

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 192 of the acts of 1893 and 1894, entitled an act for the protection of game in the county of Roanoke, approved February 9, 1894, also chapter 847, acts of 1885-06, approved March 4, or so much thereof as refers to the killing of deer in the county of Roanoke.
Hunting

Chapter 617

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3820 of the code of Virginia, in relation to a keeper ofan ordinary, house of entertainment, or bar-room, per- miting unlawful gaming at his house, &e., and how punished.
Amendments, Gambling, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 618

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the General athletic association of the University of Virginia.
Amendments, Education, Charity, Business, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 619

An ACT in relation to what lines in the county of Pittsylvania shall be a lawful fence.
Fence Laws

Chapter 620

An ACT to incorporate the Maryland and central Virginia railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Utilities, Business

Chapter 621

An ACT to provide that if the plaintiff in a warrant upon a contract...
Business, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 622

An ACT to impose a specific license on dealers in cigarettes in the county of Accomac.
Business, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 623

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the time for the completion of the Virginia Western coal and iron railroad company, approved March 4, 1806, so as to change the name to the Virginia Carolina railway Company.
Transportation, Amendments, Industry

Chapter 624

An ACT to repeal chapter 676 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session of 1898-’04, approved March 4, 1804
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 625

An ACT to incorporate the Southern branch drawbridge company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 626

An ACT to incorporate the Real estate loan and savings bank of Martinsville, Virginia
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 627

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3430 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to payment of money into treasury when deposited in banks.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 628

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 286 of the acts of assembly of 1895-’96, entitled an act for the protection of laboring men who are householders against being deprived of the exemption to which they are entitled under section 3052 of the code of Virginia.
Employment and labor, Debt, Amendments

Chapter 629

An ACT to repeal an act approved February 4, 1890, so far as it affects the county of Dinwiddie in relation to the appointinent of superintendent of the poor,
Charity, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 630

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35, chapter 4, and section 40 of chapter 5, of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville, approved February 26, 1886.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 631

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Wytheville to appoint an officer to audit accounts, manage expenditures, and refund bonded indebtedness.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 632

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 603 of the code, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 4, 1898
Taxation

Chapter 633

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 717 and 718 of the code of Virginia relating to fines and costs before justices of the peace.
Amendments, Judicial, Jails, Public expenditures

Chapter 634

An ACT to allow a remedy by motion for judgment in the county court, after ten days’ notice, whenever a person is entitled to recover money or specific personal property, by action in the circuit court or by warrant before a justice of the peace, where the claim exceeds twenty dollars and does not exceed one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest.
Judicial, Debt, Civil Rights, Property

Chapter 635

An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the Richmond and Petersburg railroad company and the Petersburg railroad company, and to authorize the consolidated company to change its name to the Atlantic Coast Line railroad company of Virginia.
Transportation, Business, Property, Taxation

Chapter 636

An ACT to make Big Falling river, in the county of Campbell, a lawful fence
Fence Laws

Chapter 637

An ACT to authorize the town council of Norton, in Wise county, Virginia, from and after the expiration of the term of the present incumbent to appoint a town sergeant fur said town annually.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 638

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 101 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor
Bonds, Budget, Business, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 639

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to require the payment of fees on certain charters
Business, Incorporation, Taxation

Chapter 640

An ACT to incorporate the Clarksville toll bridge company.
Business, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 641

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3669 of the code of Virginia in relation to attempts to poison and how punished.
Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 642

An ACT to repeal section 493 of the code of Virginia in relation to certain forms to be furnished clerks of courts and filed by them under oath.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 643

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of the charter of the town of Colonial Beach, in the county of Westmoreland, approved February 25, 1892.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 644

An ACT to prevent fire insurance companies, associations or partnerships doing business in this state, or the agents of said companies, associations or partnerships from entering into combinations to Take or control rates for fire insurance on property in this state and providing a punishment for violation of this act.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 645

An ACT to amend and re-enact section eighty-seven of an act entitled 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
Amendments, Alcohol, Amusement, Business, Taxation

Chapter 646

An ACT for working and keeping in repair the public roads in the county of Henry.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Property

Chapter 647

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1759 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the practice of pharmacy, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1894.
Business, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 648

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3419 of the code of Virginia
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Property

Chapter 649

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 106 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act of assembly approved February 20, 1892, in relation to filling of vacancies in county, corporation and district offices.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 650

An ACT to amend and re-enact subdivision second of section 5 of the code of Virginia with respect to the rules to be observed in the construction of statutes.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 651

An ACT to amend the charter of the Richmond eye, ear and throat dispensary and infirmary.
Charity, Healthcare, Amendments

Chapter 652

An ACT to legalize primary elections and conventions in the counties of Clarke and Warren.
Voting

Chapter 653

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 March 5, 1804.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 654

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to let to contract the public roads of that county and levy a tax to keep the same in repair,
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation, Budget

Chapter 655

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts for the First judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 656

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the counties of Gloucester and Mathews to make a special levy to be Known as the Confederate relief fund.
Charity, Civil Rights, Confederate, Pensions

Chapter 657

An ACT to confirm and quiet the title of the vestry of Saint Andrew’s church, in Grammer Parish, in the county of Brunswick, Virginia, to the one acre of land upon which said church stands in the town of Lawrenceville, in
Religious Institutions

Chapter 658

An ACT to refund W. E. Varner and others taxes improperly paid by them.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 659

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 660

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act to incorporate the Metropolitan western railroad of Virginia, approved February 4, 1890, as amended, &c.
Transportation, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Industry

Chapter 661

An ACT to incorporate the Home for friendless children.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Education, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 662

An ACT to incorporate Newport News dry dock beneficial association in the city of Newport News, Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 663

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of the charter of the town of Hampton.
Amendments, Business, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 664

AN ACT to provide for the annual meeting of the county school board in Franklin county and their report to the superintendent of public instruction.
Education, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 665

An ACT to authorize the appointment of trustees for the Spiller academy of Hampton, Virginia.
Education, Incorporation, Public officers, Charity

Chapter 666

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prevent the extermination of game in the counties of Orange, Culpeper, Louisa, Spotsylvania, King George and Stafford, and the protection of the same
Hunting

Chapter 667

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4084 of the code of Virginia in relation to the allowance of fees in criminal cases and the manner of certifying same,
Judicial, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 668

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 120 of the code of Virginia with reference to the form of poll-books.
Voting, Amendments

Chapter 669

An ACT authorizing the county school board of Elizabeth City to issue bonds for improving, enlarging and building schoolhouses and purchasing land and furniture for same.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 670

An ACT to amend the charter of the Fredericksburg and adjacent national battle-field memorial park association of Virginia in relation to condem- nation of land and transfer of same to United States.
Amendments, Incorporation, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces

Chapter 671

An ACT for the relief of William Arche. Head, of Scott county.
Business, Healthcare

Chapter 672

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to redeem the outstanding bonds of the said county.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 673

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of chapter 244 of an act approved March 6, 1890, imposing a tax on peddlers of coal and wood in the city of Richmond.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 674

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to prohibit the running at large of certain animals on Pott’s creek and imposing a fine therefor.
Agriculture

Chapter 675

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Highland county to increase the county school levy for Stonewall district.
Education

Chapter 676

An ACT for the relief of Matilda Sutherland of the county of Franklin.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 677

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2853 of the code of Virginia, with regard to upon what note or bill, and when an action of debt or assumpsit may be brought, and against whom, and to make the same apply to all negotiable instruments.
Amendments, Debt, Business

Chapter 678

An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending respectively on September 30, 1898, and September 30, 1899.
Budget, Public expenditures, Pensions, Healthcare, Education, Agriculture, Judicial, Civil Rights, Property, Utilities

Chapter 679

An ACT to incorporate the Howardsville toll bridge company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 680

An ACT to provide a circuit court for the city of Bristol, Virginia.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 681

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved March 25, 1872, declaring certain streams in Chariotte county to be highways, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1579, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1878, and as amended by an act approved March 3, 1879, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 27, 1S.
Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 682

An ACT to incorporate the Machapungo bridge company.
Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 683

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

Chapter 684

An ACT to prohibit changes in books, other than histories, of the United States, which may be adopted and used in public schvols until used aiter adoption for a period of not less than four years.
Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 685

An ACT to authorize the governor to grant a conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution.
Prisons, Judicial

Chapter 686

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled “An act to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton”
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 687

An ACT to protect wild turkeys in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
Wildlife, Hunting

Chapter 688

An ACT to define and regulate fraternal beneficiary associations, orders or societies.
Fraternal organizations, Charity, Business, Taxation

Chapter 689

An ACT for the protection of game and to prohibit the discharge of firearms between the hours of sunset and sunrise upon the waters of the commonwealth in the counties of Chesterfield, Prince George and Charles City.
Hunting, Wildlife, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 690

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 1 and 2 of article seven of the constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 691

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2671 of the code of Virginia in relation to commissioners of accounts, their appointments and duties.
Amendments

Chapter 692

An ACT to fix and regulate the time for holding elections or taking a vote to ascertain the sense of the qualified voters of a county or counties out of which a new county is sought to be created and established.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 693

An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Richmond gas company.
Industry, Utilities, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 694

An ACT to enable married women to sue in their own name in all cases where they were required to sue by their next friend.
Marriage, Civil Rights, Equality before the law, Judicial

Chapter 695

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

Chapter 696

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved March 5, 1888, for the preservation of oysters, and to obtain revenue for the privilege of taking oysters from the waters of the commonwealth, and to amend and re-enact section 2148 of an act approved March 6, 1804, in relation to oysters and to add independent sections.
Amendments, Fishing

Chapter 697

An ACT for the relief of the securities of C. H. Ingles, late treasurer of Henry county.
Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 698

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1281 of the eade of Virginia relative to the verifications and publication of the annual reports of lmsurance companies.
Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 699

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase by the United States of certain real estate in the county of Norfolk and exempting the same from taxation.
Property, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 700

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of E. S. Moorman, late treasurer of Campbell county, so as to allow them to pay only 6 per centum interest on the several Judgments obtained in the circuit court of Richmond by the commonwealth of Virginia against the said E. S. Moorman and the said sureties.
Debt

Chapter 701

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia sugar refining company and to prescribe the powers, rights and privileges, and to encourage the sugar-beet industry of the state of Virginia.
Agriculture, Business, Employment and labor, Prisons, Public expenditures
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