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1899/1900

Laws in Volume
Displaying 701 - 800 of 1483

Chapter 701

An ACT to amend the title to and re-enact an act entitled an act to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to borrow money
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 702

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

Chapter 703

An ACT to provide for submitting the question of liquor license
Alcohol, Voting, Business

Chapter 704

An ACT to permit the qualified voters of any magisterial district of Floyd county to vote on a fence law.
Fence Laws

Chapter 705

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 15, 1900, so as to regulate the location of cemeteries in Henrico county and confer certain authority upon the town council of Barton Heights.
Cemeteries

Chapter 706

An ACT to incorporate the Black mountain coal and coke company.
Business, Industry, Utilities

Chapter 707

An ACT to allow R. N. Turner, late treasurer of Goochland county, further time to collect taxes and levies uncollected, but accounted for by him.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 708

An ACT to provide for the better enforcement and collection of the tax now imposed by law upon shares of stock in corporations and joint stock companies by requiring sworn lists of the stockholders of said corporations or companies resident in this state to be filed with the auditor of public accounts, and to direct the disposition of said lists, and to prescribe penalties for the failure or refusal to file said lists or the furnishing of a false list.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 709

An ACT for the relief of Miss Carrie C. Sexton, of smyth county, from erroneous assessment.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 710

An ACT to prevent persons trespassing on a train or car from jumping on or off.
Transportation

Chapter 711

An ACT to incorporate the Tidewater and West Virginia railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 712

An ACT to authorize and empower the school trustees of Chesterfield school district of Tazewell county, Virginia, to sell and convey certain school property.
Education, Property

Chapter 713

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to issue bonds to raise money for the purpose of providing for and erecting the necessary buildings for a poorhouse.
Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 714

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to protect mountain trout in the waters of Rockingham county
Fishing, Wildlife

Chapter 715

An ACT to re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of fish with seines, weirs, and nets in lake Drummond
Fishing

Chapter 716

An ACT to provide for better school facilities in the county of Craig, and a levy of special tax therefor.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 717

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Farmville, approved February 10, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 13, and 21 of the charter of the town of Farmville, approved February 20, 1900.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 718

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 719

An ACT for the relief of the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News railway company.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 720

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to impose fine for trespass of swine and other stock in Rockfish district, Nelson county
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 721

An ACT to authorize Sarah Willing and W. L. Messick to erect a wharf on Carter’s creek, in the county of Lancaster.
Transportation, Property, Amendments

Chapter 722

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 1 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Graham, in the county of Tazewell, approved February 29, 1892.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 723

An ACT to amend section 2513 of the code of Virginia, in relation to who may not make wills, with a saving as to infants of eighteen years of age, or upwards.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 724

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 8, 1898, in reference to the pay of judges of election, so far as it relates to the counties of Prince William, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Warwick, Prince George, Surry, Amherst, Greene, Madison, Campbell, Tazewell, Scott, Mecklenburg, Amelia, Buckingham, Cumberland, Prince Edward, Russell, Culpeper, Pittsylvania, and Frederick.
Judicial, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 725

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 33, of chapter 244, imposing a tax on peddlers of coal and wood.
Business, Taxation

Chapter 726

An ACT to authorize the school board of Lipps district, in Wise county, to issue bonds to the amount of $4,000 to erect and equip school building at Coeburn, in Wise county.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 727

An ACT to incorporate Bay Shore terminal company.
Business, Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 728

An ACT to authorize the road board of Amherst county to borrow money, to be used in working the public roads in Pedlar magisterial district of said county.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 729

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia water power company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Industry, Public expenditures, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 730

An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the citizens’ telephone and telegraph company, and to give it additional powers.
Business, Municipal charters, Utilities, Property

Chapter 731

An ACT to ratify and confirm an order entered in the circuit court of the city of Richmond March 6, 1894, permitting James Grant and Mary Grant, his wife, to adopt as their own child Kate Woods, a female minor child under the age of fourteen, changing her name to Annie Grant, and to change the name of said female minor child to Annie Grant, and to declare the said Annie Grant to all legal intents and purposes the child of the said James Grant and Mary Grant.
Children -- Institutional care, Marriage

Chapter 732

An ACT to incorporate the Independence and Grayson railroad company.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Budget, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 733

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

Chapter 734

An ACT for the relief of Mary E. Sawyer.
Taxation

Chapter 735

An ACT to authorize and empower Mrs. Laura C. Webb-Peploe to dispose of certain real estate and to make valid title thereto.
Property, Marriage, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 736

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 7 of section 3214, code of Virginia, edition of 1887, providing how judge of a circuit court may be sued, or where sued before he is elected judge, when the suit may be removed to any county or corporation in an adjoining circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 737

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2615 of the code of Virginia in relation to how leases on behalf of persons under disability may be made.
Amendments, Property, Judicial, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 738

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3435 of the code of Virginia relating to the bill of review.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 739

An ACT for the relief of C. W. Powers, late treasurer of Dickenson county.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 740

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41, chapter 5, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Radford, Virginia
Municipal charters

Chapter 741

An ACT to amend and re-enact the seventh sub-section of section 19, and section 38 of the charter of the city of Manchester, as enacted by the general assembly of Virginia by an act entitled “an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester,” approved March 20, 1874.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Taxation, Property

Chapter 742

An ACT to provide for a special appropriation to the Southwestern State Hospital.
Healthcare

Chapter 743

An ACT to authorize and permit D. S. Jones to erect wharves and piers and to construct bulkheads in James river along the water-fronts of the land owned by him in the counties of Warwick and Elizabeth City.
Property, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 744

An ACT for the relief of the Virginia military institute.
Armed forces, Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 745

An ACT to prevent trespassing upon railroad trains.
Transportation

Chapter 746

An ACT for the relief of D. Mott Robertson, of Appomattox county.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 747

An ACT to authorize the enlargement of corporate limits of the city of Staunton, when approved by vote of the people affected, and providing for taking such vote.
Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 748

An ACT to relieve the heirs of Adeline V. Hall from erroneous assessment of land.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 749

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter for the city of Williamsburg
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Cemeteries, Law Enforcement, Budget, Healthcare, Recreation

Chapter 750

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 6f chapter 712 of the acts of 1897 and 1898, approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to incorporate the Princess Anne, Cape Henry and Lynnhaven bay railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation

Chapter 751

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper
Transportation

Chapter 752

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

Chapter 753

An ACT for the relief of R. M. Robinette, of the city of Roanoke, from the payment of a fine imposed by the hustings court of Roanoke city.
Judicial

Chapter 754

An ACT to authorize the judge of the county court of Stafford to grant and convey land for a site to build a monument to the memory of the Confederate dead of said county.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 755

An ACT authorizing the town of Emporia to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of establishing a system of water-works for said town, supplying and maintaining electric lights for said town, for improvements of the streets of said town, and for establishing a system of sewerage for said town.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Utilities

Chapter 756

An ACT to approve and confirm the acts and resolutions of the council of the city of Portsmouth in reference to the issue of bonds under an act approved January 25, 1898, and to ratify the said bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 757

An ACT to lease for a term of years ten acres of land lying under the waters of the York river, below low-water mark, in the county of Gloucester, including an artesian well thereon, and to provide for a survey of same and for fixing the price to be paid therefor per annum; and to permit said company to erect buildings and make improvements thereon, and to provide for the determination of all proper questions which may arise between the parties to any suit brought under this act.
Property, Utilities, Business, Budget

Chapter 758

An ACT to refund to Byrd Willis $104, illegally withheld from him by superintendent of penitentiary.
Prisons, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 759

An ACT confirming the action of the city council of Alexandria, Virginia, authorizing the use of certain of its streets by the southern railway company and other railroad companies for the tracks, switches, and turnouts of said companies, and confirming to certain firms, individuals, and corporations rights with respect to the same, as herein particularly set forth.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 760

An ACT to incorporate the town of Hillsville.
Incorporation, Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 761

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3830 of the code of Virginia.
Amendments, Business, Debt, Jails

Chapter 762

An ACT to incorporate the Onancock electric railway, light and power company
Incorporation, Transportation, Utilities, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 763

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Henrico county, Virginia, to adopt sanitary rules and regulations for that portion of the said county lying within three-fourths of a mile of the corporate limits of the city of Richmond, approved February 20, 1896, as amended by an act approved January 8, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8 of said act above stated.
Public expenditures

Chapter 764

An ACT to incorporate the farmers’ fair association.
Agriculture, Business, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 765

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

Chapter 766

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 and section 11 of an act of the general assembly, entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Winchester, approved April 2, 1874, as amended in the eleventh section thereof by an act approved February 26, 1896.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 767

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 2, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 32, chapter 1, of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, and incomes, and on license to transact business, and in paying 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, or malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required, approved March 6, 1890, relating to sale by peddlers.
Amendments, Alcohol, Business, Taxation

Chapter 768

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved M entitled an act to provide for state banks of circulation
Business, Budget

Chapter 769

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of the charter of the town of Buchanan, in the county of Botetourt, approved March 4, 1898.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries

Chapter 770

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

Chapter 771

An ACT to legalize primary elections in the county of York.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 772

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 2, 1898, entitled 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.
Healthcare

Chapter 773

An ACT to incorporate the New river telephone company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 774

An ACT to direct and authorize county and corporation courts to strike from the lists of lands returned delinquent for non-payment of taxes, levies, &c., such as are erroneously thereon.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 775

An ACT to incorporate the sulphur mining and railroad company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 776

An ACT to incorporate the Brock’s Gap railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 777

An ACT to incorporate the Northern Virginia telephone and telegraph company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 778

An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of the state the question of calling a constitutional convention, to be held for the purpose of revising and amending the present constitution.
Amendments, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 779

An ACT to give the consent of the commonwealth to the purchase or acquisition of real estate by the United States government, in the city of Portsmouth, for a site of a public building for the accommodation of the United States post-office, internal revenue, and other offices.
Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 780

An ACT to allow the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight, in its discretion, to pay to J. R. Jordan the value of a pair of mules drowned by the alleged default of the said county, in permitting one of its bridges to be out of repair and dangerous.
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 781

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4106 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 23, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1896, in relation to the jurisdiction of police justices and justices of the peace as to the trial of offenders in certain cases, approved February. 9, 1898, providing for the prosecution of misdemeanors and the compensation of commonwealth’s attorneys for such services.
Judicial

Chapter 782

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 27, 1894.
Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 783

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3526 of the code of Virginia, in relation to fees of attorneys for the commonwealth
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 784

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the code in relation to fish ladders, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the code of 1887, touching fish ladders,
Fishing, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 785

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 64 of the code of 1887, in relation to the election by the general assembly of electoral boards.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 786

An ACT to enable the rector and the board of visitors of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college and polytechnic institute to provide needed accommodations and equipment for students, and to appropriate money for interest and a sinking fund.
Agriculture, Education, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 787

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 3, 1900, entitled an act to incorporate the Independence and Grayson railroad company.
Amendments, Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 788

An ACT to provide for a bond issue in the city of Staunton for a water supply when approved by a vote of the people.
Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 789

An ACT to authorize the county of Powhatan to change the form of the bonds subscribed to the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company, and to allow the board of supervisors of said county to refund the conditional bonds.
Bonds

Chapter 790

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts, approved January 22, 1894, so as to provide for an increase in the compensation of the guards at said farm.
Prisons, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 791

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to incorporate Big Sandy and Cumberland railroad company
Industry, Transportation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 792

An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds, leases, and contracts taken by certain commissioners in chancery of the county courts of this state or the judges thereof.
Property, Judicial

Chapter 793

An ACT to repeal sections 2194, 2195, 2196, 2198, 2199, 2200, 2201, 2202, 2203, 2204, 2205, 2206, 2207, 2208, 2209, 2210, 2211, 2212, 2213 of the code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2214 of the code of Virginia with reference to inspection of cattle brought into the state from south of state or federal quarantine line.
Agriculture

Chapter 794

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 666 of the code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to sale of delinquent lands purchased in the name of the auditor.
Property, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 795

An ACT to prohibit the raking, scraping and roughing of natural oyster rocks on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac county.
Fishing

Chapter 796

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28, as heretofore amended, 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 wines, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixtures thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required, approved March 6, 1890, in relation to merchants’ licenses and tax on capital stock of corporations doing the business of a merchant.
Taxation, Business, Alcohol

Chapter 797

An ACT to authorize the common council of the town of Chatham to issue bonds.
Bonds, Voting, Public expenditures

Chapter 798

An ACT for the relief of G. R. Nichols, deputy for John W. Clay, treasurer of Campbell county.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 799

An ACT to provide for taxation of dogs in county of Rappahanock and protection of sheep therein.
Taxation, Agriculture, Property

Chapter 800

An ACT to provide a road law for Campbell county.
Transportation
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