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1899/1900

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 1483

Chapter 201

An ACT to incorporate the century banking and safe deposit company.
Business, Bonds, Property, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 202

An ACT to prescribe the duties of the register of the land office and fix his salary.
Public officers, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 203

An ACT to prohibit the killing of fish in Clinch river, in the county of Russell, with dynamite or other explosive, and to prescribe a punishment therefor.
Fishing

Chapter 204

An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks, of district school boards, in the counties of Greene and Madison.
Education

Chapter 205

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

Chapter 206

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

Chapter 207

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Voting, Law Enforcement

Chapter 208

An ACT to authorize Barbour district school board in Orange county to transfer the sum of five hundred dollars to the county school fund and to use said sum for the payment of teachers’ salaries.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 209

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the town of Berryville, Virginia, to borrow twenty-five thousand dollars to construct water-works
Budget, Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 210

An ACT authorizing and directing the board of pharmacy to register C. B. Gibson as a pharmacist, and allowing him to compound and sell drugs, etc., in Lee county.
Healthcare, Business

Chapter 211

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Brunswick county to issue the bonds of the county to be exchanged for or used in paying off the bonds of said county issued in payment for the stock of the Atlantic and Danville railway company, payable in 1915, and relieving the said board from the duty of providing a sinking fund for the payment of said outstanding bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 212

AN ACT for the protection of game in Bedford county.
Hunting

Chapter 213

An ACT to enable the town of Fincastle, in Botetourt county, to vote on the question of liquor license; and to extend the provisions of chapter 25 of the code of Virginia so as to apply to said town.
Alcohol

Chapter 214

An ACT extending and defining the boundaries of the town of Hampton, upon conditions.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Voting, Property

Chapter 215

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 19 of the charter of the town of Salem, in the county of Roanoke.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Boundaries

Chapter 216

An ACT to prescribe the time for holding the circuit court for the eighth judicial circuit, and to regulate the compensation of the judge thereof.
Judicial, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 217

AN ACT to amend and re-enact an act granting to M. C. Armstrong the right to establish a ferry from Blackbeard’s Point, on Hampton creek, in the county of Elizabeth City, to the opposite side of Hampton creek
Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 218

An ACT to authorize the town of Luray to borrow money.
Budget, Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the hunting or trapping of muskrats in the county of Accomac, approved December 20, 1897.
Hunting

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8, 12, and 17 of an act entitled an act to create Northside district, in Brookland magisterial district, in the county of Henrico, and to provide for lighting and sewerage in said northside district, and for making and maintaining other improvements of a public nature therein
Public expenditures, Public spaces, Municipal charters, Taxation, Property

Chapter 221

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 402 of the acts of 1897 and 1898, annulling and re-enacting section 2088 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 532 of the acts of assembly of 1895-’96, 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 222

An ACT to prescribe the time for holding the circuit courts in the tenth judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 223

An ACT prescribing recess for the circuit court of the city of Fredericksburg during any term.
Judicial

Chapter 224

An ACT to incorporate the Newport News and Richmond telephone and telegraph company.
Business, Utilities, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 225

An ACT to incorporate the children’s home society of Virginia.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Incorporation

Chapter 226

An ACT to require railroad companies to provide separate cars for white and colored passengers.
Civil Rights, Segregation, Transportation, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 227

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act approved March 2, 1898, 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.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 228

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Salem, of Roanoke county, Virginia, to issue new bonds of said town sufficient to retire the bonds issued under the power given it by its charter, known as improvement bonds of the town of Salem.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 229

An ACT to validate sewer assessments made by the council of the town of Salem
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 230

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for a charter of the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac, approved February 15, 1882; and to amend and re-enact section 5 of the above mentioned act as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act to provide charter for the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac, approved February 14, 1898.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 231

An ACT to incorporate Monroe encampment, number 27, independent order of odd-fellows, of Phcoebus, Elizabeth City county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 232

An ACT granting to Mary F. Armstrong the right to erect a breakwater and wharves on her property, on Hampton river.
Property, Transportation

Chapter 233

An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks, in the counties of Clarke and Warren.
Education, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Municipal charters

Chapter 234

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clifton Forge,
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Property, Pensions, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Labor, Judicial, Taxation, Education, Charity, Utilities

Chapter 235

An ACT to incorporate the consolidated turnpike company of Norfolk, Virginia.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the Danville street-car company, and to change its name.
Amendments, Business, Municipal charters, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 237

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved December 21, 1891, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3044 of the code of Virginia in relation to the counties and districts of the county court judges.
Judicial

Chapter 238

An ACT to repeal section 8 of an act approved February 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 598 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 8, 1894, entitled an act in relation to making and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Alexandria county, as amended by an act approved March 38, 1896, and to prohibit the use of money derived from the sale of bonds under an act approved December 19, 1899, from being used in the construction, making, or opening new roads, and providing that all work done and materials required upon the said roads shall be by contract after advertisement, and the same let to the lowest responsible bidder; and to authorize the board of supervisors to levy a tax not exceeding fifty cents upon the one hundred dollars’ value of such property; and providing how the money derived from the sale of the said bonds, under the act approved December 19, 1899, shall be expended and apportioned among the magisterial districts of the county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to employ a competent civil engineer, and to authorize the judge of the county court to appoint a board of audit, and to prescribe their duties.
Budget, Bonds, Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 239

An ACT authorizing the auditor of public accounts to issue a warrant to F. Sale and J. W. Austin for the payment of twenty-five dollars for services rendered by them in making an autopsy on the body of Edward Smith, deceased.
Death and burial, Healthcare, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 17 of an act approved February 20, 1892, in relation to the settlement of the public debt of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 25, 1898, extending the time for the funding of the outstanding evidences of debt due by the commonwealth not heretofore funded under the acts approved February 14, 1882, and February 20, 1892, as amended.
Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 241

An ACT to amend and re-enact independent section 11 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 21465, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto
Amendments, Fishing

Chapter 242

An ACT to regulate the taking and catching of clams for sale or planting in the waters of the commonwealth.
Fishing

Chapter 243

An ACT to provide for setting apart and designating crabbing grounds in the waters of the commonwealth.
Fishing

Chapter 244

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled 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
Amendments, Jails, Law Enforcement

Chapter 245

An ACT to incorporate the golden chain society of Westmoreland county, Virginia.
Charity, Healthcare, Death and burial, Incorporation

Chapter 246

An ACT to authorize the Southside railway and development company to change its corporate name.
Business

Chapter 247

An ACT to validate sales of certain infants’ lands.
Children -- Institutional care, Property

Chapter 248

An ACT to authorize the school trustees of Catalpa district, Culpeper county, to transfer any surplus school district funds, or portion thereof, to the county school fund of said district.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 249

An ACT to incorporate the Spotsylvania mining company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 250

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved February 24, 1888, entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Richmond, by adding additional sections to chapter 4, concerning city officers, so as to provide for the appointment of a board of public interests.
Municipal charters

Chapter 251

An ACT to authorize the several district school boards of the counties of Prince George and Surry to expend any part of the surplus district school fund for pay of teachers.
Education

Chapter 252

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Nansemond county to borrow ten thousand dollars ($10,000), and to issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 253

An ACT to allow M. L. Price to build a wharf in Machodoc creek
Transportation, Public spaces, Public officers

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 216, acts of 1881-1882, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the James river and Blackwater railroad and lumber company, approved March 6, 1882, authorizing it to construct branch lines not exceeding twenty miles in length.
Business, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 255

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved March 2, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1875, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1879, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 5, and 6, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30, 1875, and as further amended by an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to amend section 7 of chapter 316 of the acts of assembly, session of 1874-1875, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax.
Amendments, Business, Education, Property, Taxation

Chapter 256

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the code of Virginia relating to state depositaries.
Budget, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 257

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2229 of the code of Virginia relating to certificates to be issued by the clerk with marriage license, the return to be made by person celebrating the marriage.
Marriage

Chapter 258

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

Chapter 259

An ACT to compensate the school trustees, other than clerks of the boards, for services rendered in the county of Pittsylvania.
Education

Chapter 260

An ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Prince Edward county to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of said county.
Salaries, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 261

An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks, in the county of Carroll.
Education, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 262

An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and Pinner’s Point bridge company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Bonds

Chapter 263

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to extend the corporate limits of the city of Richmond, approved February 19, 1892, relating to the assessments against property owners for public improvements within the territory known as Lee district.
Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 and sub-sections 6, 7, and 9 of section 19, and section 25 of the act approved May 24, 1870, providing a charter for the city of Richmond, and the several acts of the general assembly amendatory thereof, concerning the powers of the city council, and relating to actions against the city to recover damages from it for negligence in the construction or maintenance of its streets, alleys or parks, where any person is liable with the city for such negligence.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Transportation, Budget, Law Enforcement

Chapter 265

An ACT to incorporate the citizens’ relief association of Richmond, Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 266

An ACT making the contingent right of dower of a woman in real estate, in which her husband has no interest, estate, and authorizing her to dispose of the same by her sole
Marriage, Property

Chapter 267

An ACT authorizing J. T. Houchins, surety for J. A. Adams, 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 of said county, for the years of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 268

An ACT to ratify and confirm an agreement entered into on June 20, 1899, between the young men’s Christian association of the Virginia polytechnic institute and the board of visitors of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute, as to the use of a building being erected on the grounds of the said institute.
Religious Institutions, Education, Amendments

Chapter 269

An ACT to authorize Thomas G. Wynne, treasurer of James county and the city of Williamsburg, further time for the collection of taxes for the years 1895, 1896, and 1897.
Taxation

Chapter 270

An ACT to provide that a convict in the penitentiary of Virginia Whose term expires on Sunday shall be discharged by the superintendent on the preceding day.
Prisons

Chapter 271

An ACT to incorporate the town of Virgilina, in the county of Halifax.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Taxation, Alcohol, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor

Chapter 272

An ACT to incorporate the town of Round Hill, in the county of Loudoun.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 273

An ACT in relation to the government of the negro reformatory association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment, and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the commonwealth for caring for such minors.
Armed forces, Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Custody of children, Labor, Prisons, Reformatories, Slavery, Vagrancy

Chapter 274

An ACT authorizing the sureties of Joshua G. Bray, ex-deputy treasurer of Gloucester county, to levy and distrain for the collection of certain uncollected tax tickets in Abingdon district.
Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 275

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 726 of the code of Virgini
Judicial, Debt

Chapter 276

An ACT to exonerate, relieve, and forever discharge James P. Keith from the payment of two fines and costs
Judicial

Chapter 277

An ACT for the relief of A. B. Cook.
Business

Chapter 278

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the code of Virginia, in reference to clerks’ offices.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 279

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2131 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2131 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters and to add independent sections thereto
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 280

An ACT to authorize and empower the state board of fisheries to employ a surveyor or surveyors, and making an appropriation for compensation of the same.
Public expenditures

Chapter 281

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3, chapter 743, of the acts of 1893 and 1894, in relation to time of assessing for taxation of oysters, shells, etc.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 282

An ACT to incorporate the southern seminary at Bowling Green, Virginia.
Education, Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 283

An ACT allowing the treasurer of Amherst county further time
Taxation

Chapter 284

An ACT to incorporate the Hairston mining company.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 285

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia club.
Incorporation, Business, Libraries

Chapter 286

An ACT to authorize school district number 1 in the county of Tazewell, a corporation, to allow a monument to the Confederate dead to be erected, maintained, and cared for on the grounds connected with and a part of the Tazewell high school property.
Monuments and memorials, Confederate, Education

Chapter 287

An ACT to authorize the town of Berryville to execute a deed of trust on the water-works of said town for the purpose of providing additional security for the payment of the principal and interest of bonds of said town to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.
Bonds, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 288

An ACT to confer upon the Atlantic and Danville railway company additional powers and privileges.
Industry, Bonds, Transportation, Business

Chapter 289

An ACT to authorize the district school board of trustees of Ashland school district of Hanover county, Virginia, to sell certain land bought by them and not needed for public-school purposes.
Education, Property

Chapter 290

An ACT regulating appointment of assessors of lands and lots in the county of Warwick, and providing compensation for same.
Property, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 291

An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg and Claremont terminal railroad and improvement company, and to define its powers.
Incorporation, Transportation, Utilities, Business

Chapter 292

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public road of the county of Goochland
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 293

An ACT to prescribe the weight of a barrel of apples
Agriculture

Chapter 294

An ACT for the relief of C. L. Kennedy, ex-sheriff of Stafford county, Virginia.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public expenditures, Death and burial

Chapter 295

An ACT repealing the act which was approved on March 3, 1898, authorizing an election in Buckingham county, upon the question of the removal of the court-house of the said county.
Municipal charters

Chapter 296

An ACT to authorize and empower the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad company to consolidate and merge with any other railroad company or companies, and to lease or purchase and operate any railroad, and also to purchase, own, sell, and dispose of the stocks, bonds, or Other securities of railroad companies.
Transportation

Chapter 297

An ACT for the relief of W. H. Purkins, treasurer of Middlesex county, to give him and his former deputies powers of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax tickets now in their possession, and for which they have accounted to the proper fiscal agents.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 298

An ACT to provide a special fence law for the county of Lee, state of Virginia.
Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 299

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Gladeville railroad company, in Wise county, approved February 20, 1892.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 300

An ACT to allow H. C. Wheatley, deputy treasurer of Culpeper county, further time in which to collect certain tax bills.
Taxation
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