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1899/1900

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 1483

Chapter 101

An ACT to allow Joseph W. Taylor to erect a wharf or pier on Watts bay in Accomac county.
Property, Transportation

Chapter 102

An ACT authorizing A. W. Houchins, ex-deputy treasurer of Patrick county, to levy and distrain for the collection of certain uncollected taxes and levies assessed in Smith’s River district for the year of 1894.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 103

An ACT to authorize and permit the old dominion land company to erect wharves or piers, and to construct bulkheads in the James river along the water fronts of the lands owned by it in the city of Newport News, Virginia, and to issue bonds and negotiable notes secured by mortgage or deeds of trust to pay for the same.
Bonds, Business, Property, Transportation

Chapter 104

An ACT to enable the city of Fredericksburg to enforce the collection of delinquent taxes and levies due the city against real estate sold by the state and bought by the auditor for delinquent state taxes.
Taxation, Property, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 105

An ACT authorizing the councils of the city of Norfolk to appoint a collector of delinquent personal taxes for the city of Norfolk, and fixing his duties, powers, term of office and compensation.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 106

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia conference orphanage of the Methodist Episcopal church, south.
Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Religious Institutions, Education

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to declare Clinch river and Clinch mountain a lawful fence in the county of Russell, approved March 3, 1898.
Fence Laws

Chapter 108

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 387 of the acts of 1889-90 approved February 23, 1890, entitled an act to increase the salary of the judge of Tazewell county.
Salaries, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 109

An Act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton
Amendments, Taxation, Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 110

An ACT to authorize the superintendents of the state hospitals for the insane to grant furloughs to inmates thereof.
Healthcare

Chapter 111

An ACT to authorize the county school boards of Hanover and Henrico counties to pay the treasurers of said counties two per centum for disbursing the school fund of said counties.
Education, Budget

Chapter 112

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3073 of the code in relation to the terms of the hustings court of the city of Richmond.
Judicial

Chapter 113

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Woodstock to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of establishing a system of water-works for said town, and for other purposes.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 114

An ACT to provide for the reduction of the capital stock and the issue of special stock of the southern railway company.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 115

An ACT to authorize the Low Moor iron company of Virginia to construct and use a railway to cross the county roads on Jackson's river and Pott’s creek, in Alleghany county.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 116

An ACT to provide, that in addition to the present indebtedness of the city of Newport News, and to the certificate of debt or bonds, in which the council is now authorized by law to issue, the common council of said city shall be empowered to cause to be issued for and in the name of the said city other certificates of debt or bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Voting, Municipal charters

Chapter 117

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3351 of the code of Virginia, and to provide how party having adverse interest or an adverse witness may be examined.
Judicial

Chapter 118

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Dickenson county to appoint a commissioner to take and state the accounts of ex-county officials with the county.
Public officers, Budget

Chapter 119

An ACT to authorize and empower the trustees of Clintwood Primitive Baptist church to sell and convey a lot of land.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 120

An ACT to allow Coulbourn brothers to build a pier in Rappahannock river, near Whealton wharf, in Lancaster county.
Amendments, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 121

An ACT to allow F. W. Lewis, A. E. Tull, R. L. Bass, and James P. Saunders to build a pier or piers in Rappahannock river, near Whealton wharf, in Lancaster county.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Property, Recreation

Chapter 122

An ACT to allow A. S. Mitchell and A. Somers to build a pier in Rappahannock river, near Whealton wharf, in Lancaster county.
Business, Property, Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 123

An ACT to charter Rawlings institute.
Education, Religious Institutions, Charity, Incorporation, Wards

Chapter 124

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to legalize primary elections and conventions in the counties of Clarke and Warren.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 125

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 19 1880, entitled an act to amend an act approved February 3, 1871, entitled an act to authorize the city of Portsmouth to lease out the ends of certain streets.
Municipal charters

Chapter 126

An ACT to permit E. E. Slaight to erect a wharf on Back creek, in the county of York.
Property, Business, Transportation

Chapter 127

An ACT defining a lawful fence for Charlemont district, Bedford county.
Fence Laws

Chapter 128

An ACT to provide for the relief of ‘battery “C,” first battalion artillery, Virginia volunteers (Grimes battery), Norfolk and Virginia Beach railway company, Dr. R. S. Spilman, C. R. Warren, W. E. Simons, for services rendered in aid of the civil authorities of the commonwealth of Virginia in preventing the spread of yellow fever.
Armed forces, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 129

An ACT to authorize the town of Lexington to impose a license tax on the manufacture or distillation or sale of wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, within the corporate limits of the town of Lexington, or within one mile of the corporate limits of the said town.
Alcohol, Taxation, Business

Chapter 130

AN ACT to grant to C. W. Powers, late treasurer of Dickenson county, further time to make sale of delinquent lands.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 131

An ACT to incorporate the independent order of Galilean fishermen.
Charity, Cemeteries, Incorporation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 132

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1497 of the code of Virginia prescribing the subjects to be taught in the public free schools.
Education, Alcohol, Public officers

Chapter 133

AN ACT allowing Joseph T. Fudge, treasurer of Alleghany county, and his deputies, further time within which to distrain, levy, and collect certain tax tickets and license taxes for which he has heretofore accounted to the state.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 134

An ACT authorizing the county school board of Elizabeth City county to borrow ten thousand dollars ($10,000), and issue bonds therefor.
Budget, Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 135

An ACT to provide for the issue of one hundred thousand dollars’ emergency bonds by the city of Newport News.
Bonds, Budget, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 136

An ACT for the relief of John C. Heinbuch from erroneous assessment of land in Alexandria county.
Property

Chapter 137

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 104 of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor," approved January 16, 1896.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 138

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 12, 1892, entitled an act to make the bridge at Shenandoah, Virginia, a toll bridge, etc.
Transportation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 139

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the code of Virginia in relation to the collection of fees of the commissioner of the revenue.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 140

An ACT to amend section 3 of the charter granted the Manchester paper twine company by the judge of the hustings court of the city of Manchester on the 30th day of May, 1891, during the vacation of said court, so as to authorize said company to issue twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars of its second mortgage bonds and a like amount of its authorized capital stock at a price or for a consideration below the par value of said bonds and stock in payment for the repair and restoration of its plant; and to declare the stock so issued fully paid and non-assessable.
Business, Bonds

Chapter 141

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, and 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Lawrenceville, Virginia, approved April 29, 1874, and to add two additional sections to said act.
Incorporation, Boundaries, Taxation, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 142

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to issue bonds for the purpose of purchasing additional real estate for the use of the Norfolk county ferries and for enlarging the clerk’s office.
Bonds, Budget, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 143

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to acquire by purchase or condemnation land in the city of Portsmouth to be used for the clerk’s office of Norfolk county court.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Property

Chapter 144

An ACT to authorize the Carter’s creek fish-guano company to erect a wharf on Carter’s creek, in Lancaster county.
Business, Fishing, Utilities

Chapter 145

An ACT to repeal an act approved February 2, 1898, entitled an act to provide for working a certain road in Fairfax county, and to make applicable thereto the provisions of an act approved February 20, 1896.
Repeal of legislation, Transportation

Chapter 146

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the southside railway and development company
Incorporation, Business, Transportation

Chapter 147

An ACT to allow Peyton Hundley to erect a pier in the Rappahannock river, and to build a house thereon.
Agriculture, Fishing, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 148

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 the same in traps or nets, and to prohibit the taking or destruction of eggs of same in said county.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 149

An ACT to authorize the town of Scottsville to contribute towards the erection of a bridge across James river at or near said town, and to negotiate a loan and issue its bonds for that purpose.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 150

An ACT to incorporate the Great Falls and old dominion railway company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 151

An ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Winchester to borrow money and to issue bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 152

An ACT to incorporate the Cross Keys home mutual fire insurance company.
Business, Public officers

Chapter 153

An ACT for the issue of bonds to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars for the purpose of refunding the bonds heretofore issued by the board of supervisors of Warwick county, the payment of which was assumed by the city of Newport News.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 154

An ACT for the issue of thirty thousand dollars of bonds for the benefit of the fire department of the city of Newport News, and the estab- lishment of a garbage plant in said city.
Bonds, Public officers, Budget, Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 155

An ACT to confirm and amend a charter granted to the young men’s Christian association of Staunton, Virginia
Charity, Incorporation, Religious Institutions

Chapter 156

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 4, 1896, Vitel an act to provide for the working of roads in Fauquier county.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 157

An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds to continue paving and grading of streets, for the erection of a public building, and to redeem certain bonds.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 158

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 159

An ACT to regulate the hunting or capturing of partridges (or quail) in the county of Princess Anne.
Hunting

Chapter 160

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

Chapter 161

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Richmond
Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 162

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March 6, 1882, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1894, and as amended by an act approved January 27, 1898.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Healthcare, Death and burial, Alcohol

Chapter 163

An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title and jurisdiction to a tract of land in the county of Norfolk, on the southern branch of the Elizabeth river.
Property, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 164

An ACT to empower the counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, and Fluvanna to construct a bridge across James river, at or near the town of Scottsville, and to collect tolls thereon, and to authorize and empower said counties to negotiate a loan and issue bonds for that purpose, and to repeal section 1388 of the code of Virginia in so far as it applies, to such bridge.
Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 165

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 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 mixtures thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required
Taxation, Business, Alcohol, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 166

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

Chapter 167

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to enlarge the powers of the Richmond traction company
Business, Amendments

Chapter 168

An ACT to authorize and empower the school board of Big Stone Gap school district, in Wise county, to issue bonds to erect a building for a graded school.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 169

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to require city and street railway companies to use vestibuled fronts on all cars run on their lines during the months of December, January, February, and March of each year
Transportation

Chapter 170

An ACT to amend section 1414 code of Virginia 1887, in relation to cemeteries in Henrico county, and giving the town of Barton Heights the authority to regulate by proper ordinances the burial of dead bodies in the cemeteries adjoining the town of Barton Heights and known as plat Cedarwood, Union Mechanics’, Methodist, Ebenezer, and Sycamore cemeteries.
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law)

Chapter 171

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Budget, Public spaces, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Jails, Vagrancy, Alcohol

Chapter 172

An ACT to provide for the payment of charter fees, when charters granted by the courts are ratified in whole or in part by the general assembly of Virginia.
Business

Chapter 173

An ACT to authorize the school boards of Dinwiddie county to compensate its school trustees.
Education, Public expenditures, Salaries

Chapter 174

An ACT to authorize the school boards of Isle of Wight county to pay its school trustees.
Education

Chapter 175

An ACT to incorporate Big Sandy and Cumberland railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Property

Chapter 176

An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks of district school boards, in Culpeper county, and also to compensate the clerk and members of the county school board.
Education, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 177

An ACT to amend section 1, chapter 517, acts 1897-’98, to prevent hogs from running at large in the county of Russell.
Agriculture, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 178

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

Chapter 179

An ACT requiring the district school boards of Western Branch, Tanners Creek, and Washington districts to hold monthly meetings, and to receive compensation for the same.
Education, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 180

An ACT to authorize and empower the governor of Virginia to issue another grant to Winfield Liggett on land office treasury warrant number 30,496, in lieu of the grant rescinded by this act.
Property

Chapter 181

An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of the Norfolk county water company, and to give it additional powers.
Business, Utilities, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 182

An ACT to authorize the school board of Southampton county to compensate its school trustees.
Education

Chapter 183

An ACT to incorporate the eastern shore of Virginia produce exchange.
Business, Agriculture, Incorporation

Chapter 184

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulat killing, capturing, hunting, buying, selling, or offering for sale of partridges (or quail), wild turkeys, hares, robin redbreast, and all native pheasants in the county of Albemarle, and to prohibit the catching of same in traps, or the destruction of the eggs of the same in said county, approvec January 25, 1898, and to apply the provisions of the same to the city of Charlottesville.
Hunting, Wildlife, Amendments

Chapter 185

An ACT to submit the question of a stock law to the voters of Manassas district, in the county of Prince William.
Agriculture, Property, Voting, Stock Law

Chapter 186

An ACT to provide for the erection and maintaining of watering troughs for the use of horses and cattle on public roads of the county of Bedford, and providing penalties for injury and destruction of same.
Agriculture, Public spaces, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 187

An ACT creating and establishing a teachers’ retirement fund in the city of Richmond.
Education, Pensions, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 188

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14, 17, 19, 21 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900.
Amendments, Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 189

An ACT authorizing the city of Manchester to construct, lay down, and operate its water-works, water-mains, and pipes in the county of Chesterfield
Utilities

Chapter 190

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Mathews county, their successors in office, or their agent to bid for and purchase certain real estate, now advertised for sale by the sheriff of Mathews county, belonging to Walter Hudgins, Elijah Buchanan, W. J. Callis, and Laban Hudgins, and if they should purchase to resell and make to the purchaser a good and valid deed.
Property

Chapter 191

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 614 of the code of Virginia as amended by an act approved February 29, 1888, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1888, in relation to the compensation of county and city treasurers.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 192

An ACT for the relief of A. W. Talley by repaying to him the amount of a tax twice paid.
Taxation

Chapter 193

An ACT to ratify and confirm the action of the board of supervisors of Greenesville county regarding lawful fence in the Belfield magisterial district.
Boundaries, Fence Laws

Chapter 194

An ACT for the sale of a house and lot belonging to the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in Lee county.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 195

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to define a lawful fence for the county of Warwick
Fence Laws

Chapter 196

An ACT for the relief of A. F. Stone, late treasurer of Smyth county, and to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit said treasurer with lost school warrant.
Public expenditures, Education, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 197

An ACT to allow Captain N. B. Rich to erect a wharf or pier in Assateague harbor, Accomac county, Virginia.
Public spaces, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 198

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to issue bonds for the purpose of redeeming the outstanding bonds of said county.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 199

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 7th section of an act entitled an act to provide for the reorganization of the institution for the deaf and dumb and blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the deaf, dumb, and blind institute, at Staunton, Virginia
Education

Chapter 200

An ACT to confirm the action of the city council of Alexandria of May 12, 1868, granting permission to construct the side-track or switch on Wilkes street, between Washington street and Saint Asaph street, Alexandria, Virginia
Transportation, Business, Municipal charters
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