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1899/1900

Laws in Volume
Displaying 801 - 900 of 1483

Chapter 801

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 67 and 71 of the code of 1887, in relation to the appointment of registrars and the registration of voters.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 802

An ACT enabling the personal representative of Sallie H. Kramer to pay certain moneys to the trustees of the Christian church in Strasburg, Virginia, under provisions of her will.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 803

An ACT for relief of W. L. Rye, of Halifax county.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 804

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Alexandria county to enforce the lien for all county, road, and school taxes that may now be due or may hereafter become due by suit in equity, and to empower the circuit court of Alexandria county to entertain such suit and enforce the provisions of this act by sale of the real estate upon which said taxes are a lien.
Taxation, Property, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 805

An ACT to transfer to the county of Shenandoah the state’s interest in the Mount Jackson and Howard Lick turnpike company.
Transportation

Chapter 806

An ACT for the protection of farmers, &c., in Buckingham county by requiring license of labor agents and imposing penalties for violation.
Agriculture, Employment and labor, Labor, Taxation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 807

An ACT to provide for the establishment, alteration, discon- tinuance, and working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Giles county, and to punish obstructions of the road commissioners in the dis- charge of their duties.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Property

Chapter 809

An ACT for the relief of James T. Noell, of the city of Radford
Business, Healthcare

Chapter 810

An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, corporations to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said magisterial district.
Alcohol, Public expenditures, Reformatories, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Business

Chapter 811

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2564 of the code of Virginia, in relation to when partition cannot be made there may be allotment or sale; proceedings in case of sale; how proceedings distributed or invested, and effect of sale on right of dower.
Property, Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 812

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15 and 19 of the act in force March 22, 1872, entitled an act to amend and re-enact certain acts in relation to the town of Fincastle, in the county of Botetourt, and to extend the corporate limits of the said town.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation, Jails, Law Enforcement, Budget

Chapter 813

An ACT to authorize courts to exclude from all trials of felony or misdemeanor cases any or all persons whose presence is not deemed necessary.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Amendments

Chapter 814

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to require the payment of fees on certain charters
Business

Chapter 815

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved December 19, 1893, entitled an act to change the name of the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, and to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 9 of an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, and also to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 5, and 15 of an act approved January 19, 1892, entitled an act to amend sections 2, 3, 5, 11, and 15 of an act to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, approved March 4, 1890, and also to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, and also to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 19, 1892, entitled an act to amend sections 2, 3, 6, 11, and 15 of an act to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, approved March 4, 1890.
Business, Incorporation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 816

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the counties of Gloucester and Mathews to make a special levy, to be known as the Confederate relief fund
Charity, Civil Rights, Confederate, Pensions, Property

Chapter 817

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order, building and maintaining the public roads and bridges in the county of Scott, the opening and establishment of new roads, and to provide the funds therefor
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget, Public officers, Property

Chapter 818

An ACT for the relief of John C. Hall, ex-treasurer of Franklin county, to give him and his former deputies powers of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax tickets now in his possession, and for which he has accounted to the proper fiscal agents.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 819

An ACT to allow the voters of Brown Hill 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 the same be adopted.
Fence Laws, Voting, Agriculture

Chapter 820

An ACT authorizing cities and towns to make city and town levies.
Budget, Property, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 821

An ACT to incorporate the Whitlock-Hanson pump-dredge company; to define its powers and privileges.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities, Taxation

Chapter 822

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 815 of the code of Virginia, in reference to bonds of city treasurers, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 815, code of Virginia
Bonds, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 823

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 709 of code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to compensation of agents.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 824

An ACT to prevent hogs from running at large upon the public streets and roads of the county of Montgomery, and to provide a penalty for the same.
Agriculture

Chapter 825

An ACT to provide for the settlement with West Virginia of the proportion of the public debt of the original state of Virginia proper to be borne by West Virginia, and for the due protection of the commonwealth of Virginia in the premises.
Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 826

An ACT to amend sections 5, 6, and 7 of the charter of the Piedmont lumber and warehouse company, approved February 10, 1900.
Business

Chapter 827

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22, chapter 95, acts of assembly of 1876-’77, of an act approved February 17, 1877, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Clarke county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments, Public spaces

Chapter 828

An ACT to incorporate the Tidewater insurance company of Virginia.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 829

An ACT to create Ettrick sub-school district, in Matoaca school district, of Chesterfield county.
Education, Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 830

An ACT to incorporate the Stonewall Jackson memorial association.
Charity, Monuments and memorials, Civil Rights

Chapter 831

An ACT to incorporate the Seawright lithia spring and Augusta railroad company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 832

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13 and to repeal section 15 of an act entitled an act to provide for the protection of domestic animals, and to authorize and empower the board of control of the experiment station of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college, at Blacksburg, to establish live stock quarantine lines, rules and regulations, and to provide penalties for violating the same, approved February 18, 1896, authorizing board of supervisors to quarantine against other counties under certain conditions, and fixing the penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 833

An ACT to incorporate the Blackstone and southern railroad company.
Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 834

An ACT to incorporate the Brunswick and Lunenburg railroad company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 835

An ACT to incorporate the Herndon and Leesburg telephone and telegraph company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 836

An ACT to incorporate the protective insurance company of Virginia.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 837

An ACT to incorporate the Buckingham warehouse company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 838

An ACT to declare the boundary line between the counties of Greene and Albemarle a lawful fence.
Boundaries, Fence Laws

Chapter 839

An ACT to provide for the submission to the people of the proposed amendments to sections 1 and 2 of article 7 of the constitution of Virginia, and providing for the consolidation of the spring elections for county and district officers held on the fourth Thursday in May, and providing said elections to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in
Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 840

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a roster of all the ex-Confederate soldiers living in the state of Virginia
Confederate, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 841

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section first of section 184 concerning the salary of members and officers of the general assembly.
Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 842

An ACT to provide a vacation for the guards of the Virginia penitentiary and state farm.
Employment and labor, Prisons, Public officers

Chapter 843

An ACT to authorize and empower the trustees of the parsonage property, located at Batesville, Virginia, of the Batesville circuit of the Virginia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, to sell and convey its old parsonage; to collect and re-invest the proceeds in another parsonage.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 844

An ACT in relation to the commitment of minors to the custody of the prison association and their detention and discharge by said association.
Custody of children, Prisons, Reformatories, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 845

An ACT to provide for the working and repairing of public roads in Greenesville county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Property

Chapter 846

An ACT to validate certain contracts made and entered into by and between the Farmville building and trust company, of Farmville, Virginia, and its members.
Business

Chapter 847

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled a ory incorporate the Ballston railroad company, approved February
Transportation, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 848

An ACT for the relief of R. T. Tucker, of Appomattox county.
Pensions, Confederate, Armed forces

Chapter 849

An ACT for the relief of John J. Hedderly, a wounded Confederate soldier of Halifax county.
Armed forces, Pensions, Confederate, Civil Rights

Chapter 850

An ACT for the relief of Henry E. Barksdale, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Armed forces, Pensions, Confederate

Chapter 851

An ACT to repeal an act to provide for the government of schools in the county of Frederick
Education

Chapter 852

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 90 of an act, approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to provide for the city of Roanoke, in relation to justices of the peace in said city.
Judicial

Chapter 853

An ACT to empower the town of Clarksville to subscribe to the capital stock of the Clarksville toll-bridge company, to issue bonds to pay such subscription, and to hold an election to determine whether or not such subscription shall be made, and to levy taxes to pay the interest and principal of said bonds.
Bonds, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 854

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 16, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 2, 1888, entitled an act to grant the right and privilege for a period of twenty years, of occupancy of certain flats and water-fronts on James river upon certain conditions, and to more definitely define said flats and water-fronts.
Amendments, Agriculture, Property

Chapter 855

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of session 1897 and 1898, making Tye river, in Nelson county, a lawful fence from its mouth to Gulf ford.
Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 856

An ACT to authorize William K. Perrin, treasurer of Gloucester county, and his deputies to levy and distrain for the collection of certain uncollected tax tickets.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 857

An ACT to permit J. E. Payne, of Bath county, Virginia, to register as a pharmacist without examination, and to practice pharmacy within the county of Bath.
Healthcare, Business

Chapter 858

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Greenesville county to relieve Mrs. S. V. Micheals from the payment of certain delinquent taxes due for county and district purposes.
Taxation

Chapter 859

An ACT to allow sheriffs, sergeants, or constables a fee for making return on executions delivered to them by the clerks of courts in cases when no levy is made or forthcoming bond is taken.
Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 860

An ACT to prohibit the hauling of seine in the counties of Prince George and Surry.
Fishing

Chapter 861

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Onancock and Drummondtown electric railway, light and power company
Incorporation, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 862

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight, Virginia, to appoint a special collector of delinquent county taxes and levies, and allow compensation for same.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 863

An ACT to provide for the issuing of bonds by Montgomery county to macadamize the road from Christiansburg to Blacksburg.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 864

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 82, and 83 of the act approved May 24, 1870, providing a charter for the city of Richmond and the acts amendatory thereof, relating to the lien of the city for taxes assessed on real estate, and to the sale thereof for non-payment of taxes.
Taxation, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 865

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of treasurers and deputy treasurers of Henry county, by extending the time of collection and levy and distress for taxes and levies which have been already accounted for to the Commonwealth and said county.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 866

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for working, keeping in repair, and building the roads and bridges in Buckingham county, approved March 4, 1896, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend the road law of Buckingham county, approved December 22, 1897.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 867

An ACT to legalize primary elections in the county of Culpeper.
Voting

Chapter 868

An ACT to provide for making, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 869

An ACT to regulate the sale of cider and other intoxicants in the village of Fork Union, Fluvanna county, Virginia.
Alcohol

Chapter 870

An ACT to authorize the several district school boards of the county of Nansemond to expend any part of the surplus district school fund for pay of teachers.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 871

An ACT to amend section 2 of an act incorporating the town of Luray.
Boundaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 872

An ACT for the relief of Mary J. Webb by refunding certain State taxes erroneously paid by her.
Taxation

Chapter 873

An ACT providing a charter for the town of West Clifton Forge, in the county of Alleghany.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 874

An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg development and loan company.
Business, Incorporation, Taxation

Chapter 875

An ACT to provide for the appointment of harbor master for the county of Warwick, and to fix his duties.
Transportation

Chapter 876

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk gas, light and fuel company of Norfolk, Virginia.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 877

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 17 of an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a method of voting by ballot, approved March 6, 1894.
Voting

Chapter 878

An ACT to authorize the principal of the King and Queen high school to grant and confer certificates, diplomas, &c.
Education

Chapter 879

An ACT to provide a road law for Rappahannock county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers, Labor

Chapter 880

An ACT providing for connection of railroads in the state of Virginia.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 881

An ACT for working and Sepik in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy cf taxes for that purpose.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation, Amendments, Municipal charters, Labor, Jails

Chapter 882

An ACT to incorporate the Elizabeth City railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 883

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 884

An ACT to incorporate the Newport News military academy.
Education, Incorporation

Chapter 885

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia sewerage company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business

Chapter 886

An ACT to extend the time in which R. D. Buford, ex-clerk of Bedford county court, may collect fee bills.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 887

An ACT to permit the registration of W. W. Childs as a pharmacist.
Healthcare, Business

Chapter 888

An ACT to permit A. A. McAllister, of the county of Alleghany, to change the bed of Dunlap’s creek, near its mouth, through his own lands, near the town of Covington, in said county.
Property, Amendments

Chapter 889

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 957 of the code of Virginia, in relation to pay of viewers, commissioners, surveyors, and chain carriers.
Budget, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 890

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the Maysville magisterial district, and other magisterial districts of Buckingham county, to vote a subscription towards the construction and extension of the Buckingham branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway to Buckingham courthouse
Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Industry

Chapter 891

An ACT for the relief of H. L. Stone, treasurer of Pulaski county.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 892

An ACT to incorporate the agricultural fair association of Northern Virginia.
Agriculture, Business, Recreation, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 893

An ACT to incorporate the first free school society of Alexandria, Virginia.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 894

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 848 of chapter 36 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the compensation of supervisors, approved March 5, 1894, and by an act entitled an act in reference to compensation of supervisors of Lee county, Virginia, approved February 14, 1896, and by an act entitled an act in reference to the compensation of supervisors of Lee county, Virginia.
Budget, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 895

An ACT to amend section 848 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898, entitled 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 18, 1897, fixing the per diem and mileage of supervisors in certain counties of the state.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 896

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act approved January 16, 1896, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Property, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 897

An ACT to legalize primary elections in the county of Elizabeth City.
Voting

Chapter 898

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1292 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the delivery and forwarding of dispatches by telegraph and telephone companies.
Amendments, Business, Utilities

Chapter 899

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3436 of the code of Virginia in reference to the jurisdiction of injunctions.
Judicial

Chapter 900

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3142 of the code of Virginia in relation to judges of county and corporation courts to prepare annually list of jurors.
Judicial

Chapter 901

An ACT to provide for weighing leaf tobacco in warehouses, requiring proprietors thereof to furnish itemized statements and fixing a penalty.
Agriculture
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