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1897/1898

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Chapter 803

An ACT for the protection of trout in the county of Henrico
Fishing

Chapter 804

An ACT to incorporate the Old dominion mining, chemical and electrical company.
Incorporation, Business, Industry

Chapter 805

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Sussex county to provide for the payment of interest on bonds of said county issued pursuant to an act approved February 10, 1808S, and to provide a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 806

An ACT to provide for the collection of taxes and levies, funds, securities, moneys and other property under the control of the fiduciaries and the several courts of the commonwealth.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 807

An ACT to incorporate the National construction company
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 808

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to authorize the voters of Mayo river district, Patrick county, to vote on the fence law
Fence Laws

Chapter 809

An ACT to provide for the appointment of viewers for turnpikes or toll roads, any part of which are lying and situate in the county of Frederick, Virginia; to define the duties of said viewers, and to define and prescribe the duties of the several turnpike companies or owners of toll roads, any part of which is lying or situate in said county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 810

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4082 of the code of Virginia, as to payment of witnesses in misdemeanor cases.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Amendments

Chapter 811

An ACT to make South river, in the county of Augusta, between certain points, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 812

An ACT to provide for the protection of partridges or quail in Henry county.
Hunting

Chapter 813

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, and 3 of an act for the protection of game in Rockingham county, Virginia
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 814

An ACT for the protection of partridges, wild turkeys and the county of Southampton
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 815

An ACT to incorporate the Alleghany mutual fire insurance company.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 816

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Protestant Episcopal theological seminary and high school in Virginia to acquire and hold additional real property.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 817

An ACT to require all companies, other than those incorporated for works of internal improvement, incorporated under the general incorporation laws of this commonwealth, to file annually a list of their officers and directors, and in cases when the officers and directors are not residents of the county or corporation where the principal office of the company is located, to appoint resident attorneys or agents, and to prohibit them from exercising their charter privileges until the requirements of this act shall have been complied with.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 818

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2465 of the code of Virginia, in relation to what contracts, deeds, and other writings are void as to creditors and purchasers unless recorded.
Business, Property, Amendments

Chapter 819

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Berryville.
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Voting, Pensions, Legislative Amendments, Public spaces

Chapter 820

An ACT to provide that the district boards of school trustees in the county of Franklin shall not contract to expend in any one year an amount in excess of the approximate amount certified to them by the county superintendent.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 821

An ACT to provide for destruction of certain poll-books and ballots in the clerk’s office of the county and corporation courts.
Voting

Chapter 822

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4093, code of Virginia, in regard to recognizances.
Judicial

Chapter 823

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 606 of the code of Virginia in reference to the form of list and oath to be made by the treasurer in returning lists of uncollected taxes and delinquent.
Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 824

An ACT to prescribe the mode in which clerks of courts shall keep a record of all taxes and other public moneys collected by them, and to require them to pay the same into the treasury.
Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 825

An ACT for relief of M. A. Woodson
Armed forces, Confederate, Pensions, Civil Rights

Chapter 826

An ACT for the relief of Martha Willams, of Hanover county.
Amendments, Judicial, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 827

An ACT directing that the board of supervisors of the county of Alleghany shall apply the road fund in the several districts to the district from which the same is realized.
Transportation

Chapter 828

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1202 of the code of Virginia in relation to rates of toll on railroads.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 829

An ACT to provide for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Patrick, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in the same county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Labor, Municipal charters

Chapter 830

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia railroad and mining company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 831

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 56 and 9 of an act entitled an act to provide for a method of voting by ballot
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 832

An Act to amend and re-enact section 117 of the code of Virginia, with reference to how judges of election appointed, failing to attend, who to act.
Voting, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 833

An ACT to empower any judge or justice of the commonwealth before whom a minor under sixteen years of age is convicted of a misdemeanor to substitute stripes in lieu of fine and imprisonment, or of either, with the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor.
Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Custody of children, Civil Rights

Chapter 834

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

Chapter 835

An ACT to submit question of hog law to the voters of Pungoteague district. in the county of Accomac
Agriculture, Property, Voting

Chapter 836

An ACT for the relief of R. J. Harrington, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions, Public officers

Chapter 837

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1245 of the code of Virginia allowing the qualified voters of Floyd county to vote a subscription to the Blue Ridge railway company.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 838

An ACT in relation to working coal and other mineral veins in the counties of Henrico and Goochland.
Property, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 839

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, in relation to fishing in the waters of the commonwealth of Virginia, to provide for levying a tax on fishing devices, and to provide for collecting the same.
Fishing

Chapter 840

An ACT authorizing an election in the county of Buckingham upon the question of the removal of the courthouse of the said county.
Bonds

Chapter 841

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3527 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section $927 of the code of Virginia, in relation to payment of fees to officers out of the treasury in criminal cases
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 842

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the code of Virginia in relation to fees of the sheriff, sergeant, coroner, crier, or constable.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Prisons

Chapter 843

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3828 of the code of Virginia, in relation to an sale of Ttoxdeat- Ing liquors to minors or certain students, approved February 4, 1sd6, and to reg- ulate the sale, barter, giving or furnishing of spirituous or Pruderscl oui ing or malt hquors to such minors and students
Alcohol, Children -- Institutional care, Education

Chapter 844

An ACT to declare Clinch river and Clinch mountain a lawful fence
Fence Laws

Chapter 845

AN ACT for the protection of mountain trout in the waters of Pig Piney river in Amherst and Nelson counties.
Fishing, Wildlife, Law Enforcement

Chapter 846

An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and Smithfield railroad company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 847

An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth subdivision of section S34, code of Virginia
Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 848

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Mountain Dale Lodge, No. 49, Independent Order Odd Fellows, of Roanoke city, to issue building bonds
Bonds, Business, Public officers

Chapter 849

An ACT to amend an act entitled ‘An aet to allow the qualified voters of Charlemont district, in Bedford county, to vote on a fence law, approved February 12, 189s.
Voting, Public officers

Chapter 850

An ACT for the relief of Alex. Duval, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 852

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 7 of an act entitled ‘An act to establish a corporation court for the city of Bristol, in Washington county,' approved February 12, 1890.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 853

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1894, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Nelson county as amended by an act approved February 26, 1896.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 854

An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in order all the public roads and bridges in the county of Hanover, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of a road commissioner in each magisterial district in Hanover county, and to define his duties and powers, approved February 25, 1802, and to repeal all acts inconsistent with this act.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 855

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 412 of the acts of 1S91-"92 titled an act to provide for the time of holding the terms of the Second Judicial circuit
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 856

An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands in the counties of Dinwiddie, Prince George and Chesterfield, and the city of Petersburg.
Property, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces

Chapter 857

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Tidewater railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 858

An ACT to incorporate the Grayson and Carroll electric railway company
Incorporation, Business, Transportation, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 859

An ACT to incorporate the Southside railway and development company
Incorporation, Utilities, Transportation, Business

Chapter 860

An Act to amend and re-enact section 18 of chapter 2 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, 1800, 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
Alcohol, Taxation, Business

Chapter 861

An ACT for the relief of Dr. J. Hartwell Smith.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 862

An ACT to lay off, designate, and survey the natural oyster-beds, rocks, and shuals in York river, in the county of King and Queen.
Fishing

Chapter 863

An ACT to provide for a Bureau of labor and industrial statistics and for defining the duties of said bureau.
Labor, Employment and labor, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 864

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3585 of the code of Virginia in relation to killing trees near highways, injuring bridges, obstructing roads, and riding or driving animals or vehicles on sidewalks, &c.; how punished.
Amendments, Property

Chapter 865

An ACT to establish a circuit court for the city of Buena Vista.
Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 866

An ACT to revise, arrange and consolidate into one act the laws relating to negotiable instruments (being an act to establish a law uniform with the laws of other states on that subject).
Business, Debt, Judicial, Property

Chapter 867

An ACT to authorize building and loan associations and other similar institutions to change trustees in deeds of trust, and conferring the same powers and rights upon the substituted trustees as were vested in the original trustees.
Business

Chapter 868

An ACT to refund to John W. Burke, of Rockingham county, certain taxes paid by him in the purchase of delinquent lands improperly sold.
Taxation

Chapter 869

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled ‘‘An act to authorize the district school boards in the county of Rockingham to use district school funds for the payment of teachers’’
Education, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 870

An ACT for the relief of Henry Sharpe Throckmorton.
Pensions, Armed forces, Civil Rights

Chapter 871

An ACT to incorporate the Mutual benefit insurance association of Virginia
Business, Property, Public officers

Chapter 872

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one thousand five hundred and fifty-one of the code of Virginia in relation to professors’ salaries, fees and houses at the University of Virginia.
Education, Employment and labor

Chapter 873

Confederate

Chapter 874

An ACT to incorporate the House rock wheel club.
Incorporation, Recreation, Public spaces, Business

Chapter 875

An ACT for the relief of certain Confederate soldiers and widows of Confederate soldiers.
Confederate, Pensions

Chapter 876

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Kempsville turnpike company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 877

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 358 of acts of assembly of 1893-4, in relation to fees to be paid by applicants to practice medicine in the state of Virginia.
Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 878

An ACT to amend and re-enact: section 14 of an act incorporating the Falls Church and Potomac railway company, approved February 26, 1506.
Transportation, Legislative Amendments, Industry

Chapter 879

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 923 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 923 of the code of Virginia, in regard to the appointment and qualification of notaries public.
Amendments, Business

Chapter 880

An ACT to provide for the appointment of special prosecuting attorneys In proper cases.
Judicial

Chapter 881

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1453 of the code so as to provide for five school trustees for each school district in the county of Norfolk.
Education

Chapter 882

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 9, 1598S, entitled an act to allow the voters of Chesterfield county to vote on a fence law.
Agriculture, Fence Laws, Voting

Chapter 883

An ACT to provide for the payment of allowances made by the circuit and county courts of Scott county, or the judges thereof, for suitable furniture and other equipments for their respective clerks’ offices, and to order such repairs and improvements of the courthouse grounds and buildings as may be necessary.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 884

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 622 of the code of Virginia in reference to the property that may be distrained for taxes, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended and re enacted by an act approved January 23, 1896, and to provide for the collection of unpaid tuxes by renting real estate.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 885

An ACT to allow William F. Ward and C. C. Ward to construct a vessel railway in Urbanna creek, in Middlesex county.
Business, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 886

An ACT to terminate and declare vacant the offices of judges of election at a certain date.
Judicial, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 887

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth Grady, a widow of a Confederate soldier.
Pensions, Confederate, Death and burial

Chapter 888

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 24, 1898, entitled an act to preserve the purity of all field and garden seed, and to define the ability of the sellers of all such seed as guarantors that all such seed are true to kind and name as represented at the time of sale.
Agriculture

Chapter 889

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2600 of the code of Virginia to authorize a minor over 14 years nominating in writing his guardian to acknowledge the same before any person competent to take acknowledgment of deeds.
Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 890

An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake transit company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 891

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the code of Virginia
Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 892

An ACT to authorize the county of Culpeper to subscribe to the capital stock of railroad companies.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Employment and labor, Voting, Municipal charters

Chapter 893

An ACT to authorize certain counties to subscribe to the stock of the Madison and Orange railroad on certain conditions.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Voting

Chapter 894

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Martinsville in Henry county.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget, Taxation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 895

An ACT to provide for ascertaining and publishing a statement of the annual receipts and disbursements of the countics and cities of the common-wealth.
Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 896

An ACT to remove rafts and other obstructions in the bed of Hyco river, in the county of Halifax.
Property, Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 897

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3381 of the code of Virginia in relation to the trial of an issue out of chancery.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 898

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2910 of the code of Virginia in relation to warrants for small claims as amended and re-enacted by chapter 74 of the acts of assembly 1889-90, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 541 of the acts of assembly of 1893-94.
Amendments, Business, Judicial

Chapter 899

An ACT to provide for a change of name of the Washington, Arlington and Falls Church railway company.
Transportation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 900

An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke mineral railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 901

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 8, 1898, entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Amherst county to issue bonds for the purpose of refunding the county debt.
Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 902

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 72 of the code of Virginia with reference to how vacancies in electoral boards to be filled in certain cases by the cuurt.
Judicial, Voting, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 903

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act providing for the working and keeping in order, maintaining the public roads and bridges in the counties of Scott and Lee, the opening and establishing of new roads, and to provide the funds therefor
Public expenditures, Taxation, Transportation
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