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1895/1896

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Chapter 501

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 50 of chapter 5 of the acts of the general assembly 1885-’86, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville,” approved February 26, 1886.
Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 502

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1894, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Chesapeake and West Virginia railroad company, approved February 16, 1892.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 503

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 22, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Marion, Va.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Fire fighters

Chapter 504

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act. entitled "An act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, and by an act approved the 17th day of March, 1876, and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act approved February 25, 1892, and an act approved March 8, 1894."
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 505

An ACT to allow Joel Shelly, late deputy treasurer of Scott county, further time of one year to distrain and levy for taxes for the year 1892
Taxation

Chapter 506

An ACT to provide for the auditing and payment of claims in connection with public free schools in school district No. 1, in the county of Warwick and the city of Newport News.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 507

An ACT in relation to commitment of minors to Prison association of Virginia and their custody.
Custody of children, Prisons, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 508

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1065 chapter 45 of the code of Virginia in relation to the duties of fire marshals in cities and town.
Fire fighters, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 509

An ACT to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the state of Virginia.
Healthcare, Business

Chapter 510

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 revenue.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Property

Chapter 511

An ACT to amend re-enact certain sections of the charter of the town of Culpeper.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Property, Taxation

Chapter 512

An ACT for the relief of Dr. B. F. Rowles.
Healthcare

Chapter 513

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Lee county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 514

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2065, code of Virginia, in regard to estrays.
Property, Agriculture

Chapter 515

An ACT to permit Dr. Z. B. Moorman to practice dentistry in Virginia.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 516

An ACT for the protection of fish in Smyth and Washington
Fishing

Chapter 517

An ACT to incorporate the Wakefield cemetery.
Cemeteries, Incorporation, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 518

An ACT to allow A. S. Matthews to erect a wharf on Pocomoke sound in Accomac county.
Business, Property, Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 519

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 16 and 21 of an act approved February 12, 1892, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act passed March 21, 1836, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in Botetourt county (now in Roanoke county), and all acts amendatory thereto.”
Municipal charters, Jails, Prisons, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 520

An ACT to provide a new charter for the Iron Belt building and loan association of Roanoke, Virginia.
Incorporation, Business, Amendments, Property, Charity

Chapter 521

An ACT to repeal subdivision ninth of section 19 of chapter 3 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 3, 1894, entitled an act to provide a new charter of the town of Clintwood in Dickenson county.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 522

An ACT to fix the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of Rockbridge county, require every sixty days’ statement of collections and payment into the treasurv of the state’s revenue, and to empower the county board of supervisors to demand new or additional bond.
Budget, Public officers, Bonds

Chapter 523

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3810 of the code of Virginia, entitled appointment of police for religious meetings.
Religious Institutions, Law Enforcement

Chapter 524

An ACT to incorporate the Potomac river railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 525

An ACT to authorize the president and faculty of Luray college, Luray, Virginia, to confer certificates of distinction and to award diplomas.
Education

Chapter 526

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the code as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 10, 1890, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the code, in relation to certificates of acknowledgment.”
Amendments, Business, Judicial

Chapter 527

An ACT to incorporate the Eastern midland railway company.
Business, Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 528

An ACT to authorize the district school board of trustees of Petsworth district, Gloucester county, Virginia, to sell certain land bought by them, but not needed for public school purposes.
Education, Property

Chapter 529

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3693 code of Virginia, as to prize fighters, how punished, and to prohibit prize fighting and pugilism and fights between men and animals.
Gambling, Amendments

Chapter 530

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Bristol to issue bonds to pay its bonded indebtedness.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 531

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts in the Ninth judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 533

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Budget, Taxation, Public spaces, Cemeteries, Slavery, Public expenditures, Utilities, Healthcare, Property

Chapter 534

An ACT to incorporate the Winchester telephone company.
Business, Utilities, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 535

An ACT to authorize the Winchester and Potomac railroad company to borrow money, execute mortgages on its property to secure it, to fix the recording tax, and to confirm the existing lease to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company.
Transportation, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 536

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the code of Virginia, in relation to entering on record payment or satisfaction of certain incumbrances and liens
Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 537

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in Nansemond county
Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 538

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3890 of the code of Virginia, in relation to offences committed without and made punishable within the state where prosecuted, and making liable to punishment persons committing robbery beyond the state and bringing the stolen property within the same.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Property

Chapter 539

An ACT to prevent pool seiling, and so forth, upon the results of any trials of speed of any animals or beasts taking place without the limits of the commonwealth.
Gambling

Chapter 540

An ACT for the relief of J. H. Hickey and H. F. Jackson.
Healthcare, Business, Employment and labor

Chapter 541

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 36 of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes, etc., for the support of government, approved March 86, 1890, as to sale by agents, and add thereto.
Taxation, Business, Alcohol

Chapter 542

An ACT for the relief of John H. Remine, a dentist of Washington county, Virginia.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Business

Chapter 543

An ACT for the relief of W. P. McGinnis, a dentist of Grayson county.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Judicial

Chapter 544

An ACT to refund to Gilbert J. Hunt the sum of fourteen dollars thirty-five cents erroneously paid by him on church property in the city of Richmond.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Taxation

Chapter 545

An ACT to prevent gambling and selling or making books, pools or mutuals within the commonwealth of Virginia.
Gambling, Agriculture, Public spaces, Amendments

Chapter 546

An ACT to fix the salary of the judge of the counties of Elizabeth City and Warwick, as judge of the county court of the said county of Warwick, and to provide for the payment of the same.
Judicial, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 547

An ACT to repeal chapter 73 of acts of general assembly of Virginia
Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 548

An ACT to allow George W. Glenn to erect a pier in Pocomoke sound, in Accomac county.
Property, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 549

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act authorizing the board of supervisors of each county in the state to levy a tax on dogs and to enforce collection of said tax with certain penal tee in case of failure to pay the same
Taxation

Chapter 550

An ACT to release the land of Peter McLaren, in Bath county, from the payment of taxes and levies illegally assessed thereon for the years 1890, 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1895.
Taxation

Chapter 551

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 83 of the acts of 1889 and 1890, in relation to the control of prisoners in jail.
Jails

Chapter 552

An ACT to prescribe the time for holding the circuit courts in the fourth judicial circuit since the addition thereto of the city of Lynchburg and county of Campbell, as provided by an act approved February 5, 1896.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 553

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 5 and 8 of an act approved February 1, 1894, entitled an act to provide for working the roads in Northampton county, approved March 2, 1892, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1894.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 554

An ACT to incorporate the Falls Church, Fairfax and Manassas railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 555

An ACT for the protection of sheep, hogs and turkeys in the counties of King William and New Kent by making the owner of dogs that kill, maim or worry the same liable for damages.
Agriculture

Chapter 556

An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of Alexandria county to vote on the question of the removal of the court-house from Alexandria city to some point within Alexandria county.
Municipal charters, Budget, Property, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 557

An ACT to authorize and empower the city of Danville, Va., to extend its water main and pipes to the Danville military institute,in Pittsyl-vania county, Va., and supply the same with city water.
Utilities

Chapter 558

An ACT to authorize the county of Madison to subscribe to the stock of the Madison and Orange railroad company on certain conditions.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 559

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15 and 16 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax
Municipal charters, Charity, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 560

An ACT for the relief of William E. Teasley, dentist.
Healthcare

Chapter 561

An ACT for the relief of Wm. Henry Harrison Cawood.
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Public spaces

Chapter 562

An ACT to extend the limits of the city of Danville so as to embrace the town of Neapolis, in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, and to annex and unite said city and said town in one city under the name of “ City of Danville,” and to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 1, sections 2 and 3 of chapter 3, sections 1 and 2 of chapter 4, and section 5 of chapter 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February
Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Voting, Transportation, Education

Chapter 563

An ACT to incorporate the Pacific company.
Incorporation, Business, Utilities, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 564

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled “ an act to amend and re-enact section 2134 of code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2185, 21387, 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 sectiuns theretuv, approved February 25, 1892, and to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 7 of the said act, approved February 25, 1892, approved March 5, 1894.
Amendments, Property

Chapter 565

JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of James G. Field
Judicial, Lawyers, Public expenditures, Salaries, Amendments

Chapter 566

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2961 of the code of Virginia, relative to attachments,
Amendments, Debt, Property, Judicial

Chapter 567

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to compensate school trustees, other than clerks, in the counties of Campbell, Appomattox and Buckingham, approved February 29, 1892, so as to include the county of Cumberland, providing the rate of compensation.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 568

An ACT for the relief of W. J. Mills, a disabled Confederate soldier, of Hanover county.
Armed forces, Confederate, Pensions, Healthcare

Chapter 569

An ACT to incorporate the Southern improvement and terminal company.
Business, Transportation, Utilities, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 570

An ACT providing that when a mortal wound or injury is inflicted by a person within the state upon one outside the same, or upon one in this state who afterwards dies from the effects of the same outside of the state, that the offender shall be amenable to punishment, and where he may be prosecuted.
Judicial

Chapter 571

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Nansemond county to have the lands of all persons in said county, or in selected portions thereof, or of individuals who may request it, processioned.
Property

Chapter 572

An ACT for the relief of J. M. Hill.
Employment and labor, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 573

An ACT for the relief of James L. Grant, a dentist of Washington county, Virginia.
Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 574

An ACT for the relief of Dr. S. H. Speer.
Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 575

An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years
Budget, Public expenditures, Pensions, Education, Healthcare, Judicial, Civil Rights, Agriculture, Cemeteries, Public spaces

Chapter 576

An ACT entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved July 9, 1870, and to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 21, 1877, and to amend and re-enact an act, approved February 17, 1890, and to re-enact an act, approved January 29, 1894, relating to the charter of the town of Harrisonburg.
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Judicial, Public expenditures, Recreation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 577

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved Fehruary 23, 1888, as amended by an act entitled “ an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Waynesboro,” approved January 26, 1992, and to authorize said town to issue bonds for water and cemetery purposes.
Amendments, Bonds, Cemeteries, Business, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Pensions, Taxation, Utilities, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 578

An ACT to provide for opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges : the county of Culpeper.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 579

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 40 of an act entitled “ an act to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1871, and by an act approved the 17th day of March, 1876. and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved January 25, 1879, and by an act approved March 1, 1888, and by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved March 8, 1894.”
Municipal charters, Public spaces, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 580

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled “ An act incorporating the town of Barton Heights, in Henrico county,” approved January 30, 1896.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 581

An ACT to fix the price at which the code of 1887 shall be sold.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 582

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act 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 counties,” approved March 3d, 1892.
Fishing, Utilities

Chapter 583

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of a charter granted to the Chase City mineral water and development company on the 16th day of June, 1890, by the judge of the circuit court of Mecklenburg county in vacation.
Business

Chapter 584

An ACT to enable the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to borrow money to meet the current expenses of the said county for the year 1896.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 585

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1894, prescribing the time for holding the circuits courts in the several counties comprising the Fifteenth judicial circuit of Virginia.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 586

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bland county to levy a tax for the purpose of repairing the public roads in said county.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 587

An ACT suspending time of redeeming lands sold for delinquent taxes and bought by the auditor in cases where proceedings in equity have been instituted by parties interested in such lands.
Taxation, Property, Judicial

Chapter 588

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Campbell county to issue bonds for the purpose of refunding the debt incurred by said county in subscribing to the stock of the Lynchburg, Halifax and North Carolina railroad under act of February 12, 1886.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 589

An ACT to incorporate the American stemming machine company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 590

An ACT to increase the number of governors for the Masonic home of Virginia.
Charity

Chapter 591

An ACT to authorize the Petersburg railroad company to discon- tinue the maintenance and use of its station and any portion of its present line of railway within the city of Petersburg, upon certain conditions.
Transportation

Chapter 592

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled "an act to authorize certain persons, when arrested or convicted, to be committed to the custody of the Prison association of Virginia"
Custody of children, Prisons, Vagrancy, Unclassified

Chapter 593

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for holding courts in the Third judicial circuit
Judicial

Chapter 594

An ACT providing for the working, opening and keeping the roads in the county of Cumberland, and for the building and repair the bridges in said county.
Judicial, Vagrancy

Chapter 595

An ACT to amend section 7 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Masonic home of Virginia, approved January 7, 1890.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 596

An ACT to incorporate the Citizen’s league of America.
Amendments, Business, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Property

Chapter 597

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1886, entitled an act to authorize the road board of Central district, in Rockingham county, to establish a toll-gate on the Dry river road, in said county.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 598

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Waverly to establish cemeteries or burial places within or without said town and to validate a certain deed conveying land to said town for that purpose.
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 599

An ACT for the relief of George W. Bledsoe, of Madison county, Virginia.
Pensions, Armed forces, Civil Rights, Reformatories

Chapter 600

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of W. S. Graveley, late treasurer of Henry county.
Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 601

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. E. S. Howard, widow of a Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Charity, Pensions, Death and burial
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