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1899/1900

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 301

An ACT to authorize the county court and the board of supervisors of Tazewell county to allow a monument to the Confederate dead to be erected, maintained, and cared for on the public square of Tazewell, in said county.
Confederate

Chapter 302

An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks of dis- district boards in Craig county and members of the county school board of said county.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 303

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and repairing the public roads and bridges of Isle of Wight county
Transportation

Chapter 304

An ACT to protect the Mongolian and the cross between the Mongolian and the English pheasant in the counties of Louisa, Albemarle, Loudoun, Fauquier, Alleghany, Bath, Highland, Culpeper, Prince William, Bedford, Augusta, and Montgomery, and the city of Charlottesville.
Wildlife

Chapter 305

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3838 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1890, in relation to attorney fees.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Lawyers

Chapter 306

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 54 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, Business, Public officers

Chapter 307

An ACT to incorporate citizens’ railway, light and power company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 308

An ACT to provide for the payment of twenty dollars to H. H. Dickinson, assignee of J. F. Smith, out of state school fund of Irventon school district, in the county of Dickenson.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 309

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 January 16, 1890, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1894, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, and to provide for the collection of unpaid taxes by renting real estate, and to fix the fees and charges in connection with proceedings under this act.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to constitute the town of Salem and adjoining territory a separate school district.
Education, Public expenditures, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 311

An ACT to increase the jurisdiction of justices of the peace for the city of Richmond.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Amendments

Chapter 312

An ACT to provide for the separate accommodation of white and colored passengers in the sitting, sleeping, and eating apartments of steamboats plying in the waters within the jurisdiction of the common-wealth, and to provide certain police powers for captains, pursers, and other officers in command to enforce such regulations and to prevent and suppress disorderly conduct on said boats.
Civil Rights, Segregation, Transportation, Public spaces, Amendments

Chapter 313

An ACT to impose fine for trespass of swine and other stock in Rockfish district, Nelson county.
Property, Agriculture

Chapter 314

An ACT to permit Daniel T. Whealton to erect a wharf or pier on his land on Chincoteague island, Accomac county, Virginia.
Property, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 315

An ACT to incorporate the Piedmont lumber and warehous company.
Business, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 316

An ACT for the relief of George B. Keezell, Pembroke Pettit, and John A. Curtis.
Public expenditures

Chapter 317

An ACT to allow W. S. Summers further time within which to distrain, levy, and collect certain tax tickets for which he has accounted to the state.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 318

An ACT to protect the spawning beds of fish in the waters of Alexandria county, in the Potomac river and its tributaries, in tide-water and above tide-water.
Fishing

Chapter 319

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to expend all or any part of the road tax or levy, arising from certain property within the limits of the seaboard magisterial district, in said county, for improvements upon the roads, streets, alleys, and walkways at Virginia Beach, in said county.
Transportation

Chapter 320

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Nottoway county to remit the amount due said county by Herman Jackson, its late clerk.
Public officers, Debt, Amendments, Budget

Chapter 321

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend and define the boundaries of the city of Lynchburg, approved December 19, 1870, so as to further extend the boundaries of the said city, provided it assume a just proportion of the bonded debt of Campbell county; and to provide for the ascertainment, by the Circuit Court of the said city, or of the said county, of the amount of the bonded debt of the said county which the said city should assume.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 322

An ACT to incorporate the town of Stanley, in Page county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Alcohol, Boundaries

Chapter 323

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Smyth county to issue bonds, etc.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Healthcare

Chapter 324

An ACT to incorporate the Radford colored orphanage and educational reformatory school.
Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Education, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3752 and 3753 of the code of Virginia in relation to how officers suffering prisoners to escape shall be punished.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Prisons

Chapter 326

An ACT to authorize and permit M. A. Finch to erect wharves or piers, and to construct bulkheads in the James river along the water fronts of her lands owned by her in the city of Newport News, Virginia.
Property, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 327

An ACT to authorize A. B. Dye, James H. Thompson, J. B. Ashbrook, Jonas Rasnake, H. J. Tate, J. N. Smith, and Thomas D. Fugate.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 328

An ACT defining the duty and prescribing the liability of those operating railroads as to overhead bridges and structures.
Transportation

Chapter 329

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3214, code of Virginia, in relation to the county or corporation in which actions at law or suits in equity may be brought.
Judicial, Public officers, Business

Chapter 330

An ACT for the protection of partridges and quail in Lee county, Virginia.
Hunting

Chapter 331

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to borrow money by the issue of bonds, to pay off indebtedness incurred on account of expenditures for small-pox, and improvements to public roads of said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 332

An ACT to permit Isaac J. Savage and Isaac H. Savage to erect a wharf or pier on their land on a creek on the western side of Chincoteague island, Accomac county, Virginia.
Property, Transportation

Chapter 333

An ACT to permit Isaac J. Savage and Isaac H. Savage to erect a wharf or pier on their land on a creek on the western side of Chincoteague island, Accomac county, Virginia.
Property, Municipal charters, Recreation, Transportation

Chapter 334

An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the lumbermen’s marine insurance company.
Business

Chapter 335

An ACT to incorporate the west end cemetery company of Manassas.
Cemeteries, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 336

An ACT to incorporate the Newport News general hospital association.
Healthcare, Charity, Public expenditures, Incorporation

Chapter 337

An ACT to allow J. H. Whealton and E. B. Blackman to erect a breakwater on lower or eastern side of Whealton wharf, Rappahannock river.
Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 338

An ACT to prohibit the taking of fish in Goose creek, in the counties of Fauquier and Loudoun, above Oatlands, with a seine or other device except hook and line or dip-net.
Fishing

Chapter 339

An ACT to protect wooden bridges in the county of Rockbridge from fire by steam engines passing over the same.
Transportation, Public spaces, Fire fighters

Chapter 340

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to let the repairs and improvements to the county roads of the said county by contract.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 341

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Buena Vista to issue bonds, and to provide for the payment of the same.
Bonds

Chapter 342

An ACT for the relief of Abram P. Myers, a veterinarian of the county of Rockingham.
Business, Healthcare

Chapter 343

An ACT for the protection of partridges or quails, pheasants or ruffed grouse, wild turkeys, woodcock, and hares in the counties of Caroline, Hanover, and Henrico.
Hunting

Chapter 344

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 1, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter and extend and define the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, approved April 6, 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 13 of an act to amend the charter and extend and define the boundaries of the city, approved April 6, 1887, approved March 3, 1890.
Amendments, Boundaries, Budget, Business, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 345

An ACT to allow H. G. Chesley, treasurer of the county of Stafford, Virginia, and his deputies further time to collect unpaid tax tickets now in their hands.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 346

An ACT to prohibit telegraph companies operating in the state of Virginia from contracting against their own negligence.
Business, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 347

An ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Clarke county to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 348

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county, in their discretion, to levy a tax, not exceeding fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars’ taxable values in any of the magisterial districts of said county, for district school purposes.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 349

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Shenandoah county, in their discretion, to levy a tax not exceeding twenty cents on the one hundred dollars of the taxable value of said county for public school purposes.
Education, Taxation

Chapter 350

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as notaries, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, approved February 23, 1898, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as justices.
Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Armed forces, Judicial

Chapter 351

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 6 of an act to incorporate the town of Coeburn, in Wise county, approved February 23, 1894.
Incorporation, Business, Alcohol, Taxation

Chapter 352

An ACT to give county courts jurisdiction upon scire facias or motion to revive judgments of justices of the peace.
Judicial, Property

Chapter 353

An ACT to amend sections 13, 17, and 18 of the charter of the town of Suffolk.
Municipal charters, Budget, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures, Business, Public spaces, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, Death and burial

Chapter 354

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 8, and 13 of an act approved January 22, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Marion, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Voting, Taxation, Boundaries

Chapter 355

An ACT to provide for a rcad law for Stafford county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 356

An ACT to fix the salary of the board of supervisors of Fauquier
Budget, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 357

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Abingdon coal and iron railroad company, approved April 11, 1887, and to extend the time for the completion of line of road by the Virginia Carolina railway company, which has succeeded to all the property, rights, and franchises of said Abingdon coal and iron railroad company.
Incorporation, Bonds, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 358

An ACT for the relief of Kretol chemical company.
Incorporation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 359

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Orange county to aid in the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead of said county, on the court-house square, by contributing thereto a sum not exceeding six hundred ($600) dollars.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 360

An ACT to allow the directors of the Ohio and Big Sandy coal company to change the name of said company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 361

An ACT to allow Edward O. Gladstone, late deputy treasurer of Northampton county, further time in which to collect certain tax tickets in his hands not returned delinquent.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 362

An ACT for the relief of R. K. Gillespie, late treasurer of Tazewell county, and his sureties.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 363

An ACT to allow the voters of union hall magisterial district, in Franklin county, to vote upon the question of the no-fence law, and to fix the rights of all parties concerned, should it be adopted.
Fence Laws

Chapter 364

An ACT to amend chapter 128, acts of 1897 and 1898, entitled an act for the protection of partridges in the county of Roanoke.
Hunting

Chapter 365

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 847, acts 1895 and 1896, amending chapter 192, acts 1895 and 1896, entitled an act for the protection of game in Roanoke county.
Hunting

Chapter 366

An ACT to give George M. Muse, treasurer of Roanoke county, and his deputies, further time in which to collect uncollected tax tickets
Taxation

Chapter 367

An ACT to vest the absolute fee simple title to certain church property in the county of Russell, known as Willis chapel, in trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and their successors in office.
Religious Institutions, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 368

An ACT to authorize the Manassas district school board of Prince William county to receive donations of books and funds for a public library, and to provide suitable room and conveniences for same.
Education, Libraries, Public expenditures

Chapter 369

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 15, and to repeal section 11 of an act entitled an act to create Fairmount district, in Fairfield magisterial district, in the county of Henrico, etc.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 370

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to fix the compensation of the overseer of the poor of Lexington magisterial district, in the said county.
Charity, Public expenditures, Public officers, Wards

Chapter 371

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1890. entitled an act to incorporate the town of Ridgeway, in the county of Henry.
Municipal charters, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 372

An ACT for the relief of W. C. Sanders, late treasurer of Wyth county.
Taxation

Chapter 373

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amen and re-enact section 1258, code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to railrog companies enclosing their road-beds with fences and erecting cattle-guard
Amendments, Transportation, Property

Chapter 374

An ACT providing for holding terms of court in second judicial
Judicial

Chapter 375

An ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Campbell county to compromise the indebtedness of John J. Hughes, a surety on the bond of E. S. Moorman, former treasurer of Campbell county.
Debt, Bonds, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 376

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Wise county to settle, by compromise or otherwise, delinquent county and district taxes charged against the Fayette land company and successors in interest.
Property, Business, Budget

Chapter 377

An ACT to authorize the Jefferson Davis monument association to transfer and deliver all its funds, assets, and property to the united daughters of the Confederacy.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 378

An ACT for the relief of the personal representative and estate of William M. Flanagan.
Death and burial, Inheritance and succession, Children -- Institutional care, Judicial

Chapter 379

An ACT to authorize and empower chancery courts to confirm sales of land when the purchase price is not sufficient to pay the taxes, levies and assessments returned delinquent, and to confirm any sales heretofore made.
Property, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 380

An ACT authorizing the Dan river power and manufacturing company to sell, transfer and dispose of its property, assets and rights, and thereupon surrender its charter.
Business, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 381

An ACT to incorporate the Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 382

An ACT to regulate the sale of cider in Loudoun county.
Alcohol, Business, Recreation

Chapter 383

An ACT for the relief of R. B. Seay, late treasurer of Lunenburg county, and his deputies.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 384

An ACT for the relief of E. W. Maxwell, late treasurer of Wise county, and securities on his official bond, from excess of interest over six per centum.
Debt, Public officers

Chapter 385

An ACT to allow J. B. Wise, treasurer of Northampton county, further time in which to collect certain tax tickets in his hands not returned delinquent.
Taxation

Chapter 386

An ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorpo-
Agriculture, Business, Amendments

Chapter 387

An ACT to incorporate Fredericksburg college.
Education, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 388

An ACT to confirm and vest in Lebanon Methodist Episcopal church, south, of Spotsylvania county, Virginia, title to church lot occupied by said church since 1810.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 389

An ACT to incorporate the state council of Virginia, junior order of united American mechanics of the state of Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Employment and labor, Death and burial, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 390

An ACT allowing the city of Norfolk to increase the salary of the judge of the court of law and chancery of said city, and to still further increase the salary of the judge of the corporation court of said city.
Salaries, Judicial

Chapter 391

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the trustees of the funds of the Protestant Episcopal church, in the diocese of Virginia
Religious Institutions, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 392

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the code of Virginia: relating to the compensation of supervisors, as amended and re-enacted by: an act approved March 2, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 26, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 13, 1897, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 1, 1898, fixing the per diem and mileage of supervisors in certain counties of the state.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 393

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases, approved March 2, 1892.
Death and burial, Transportation, Healthcare, Coroner

Chapter 394

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

Chapter 395

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 447 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 18, 1890, relating to the manner in which taxes shall be extended.
Taxation

Chapter 396

An ACT to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield, and to grant a new charter to the said town.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 397

An ACT to incorporate the Fallsburg power and manufacturing company.
Incorporation, Industry, Utilities, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 398

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia union university, approved March 4, 1896, and to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond institute, in the city of Richmond, approved February 5 1886.
Amendments, Education, Incorporation, Public officers, Religious Institutions

Chapter 399

An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the Norfolk and western railway company to locate and construct or purchase certain branches
Transportation, Industry, Business

Chapter 400

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