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1895/1896

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Chapter 702

An ACT to provide for the reorganization of the institution for the deaf and dumb and the blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled “an act to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the deaf, dumb and blind institute at Staunton, Virginia,” approved May 14, 1887.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 703

An ACT to appropriate money for the purpose of needed improvements around the Lee monument, in the city of Richmond, on the property of the state of Virginia.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 704

A RESOLUTION to appoint a committee to investigate and report upon a certain survey made under an act approved February 26, 1804, with reference to the riparian rights on Fox island, in Accomac county.
Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 705

An ACT to provide for a method for the better assessment of personal property under the control of fiduciaries and the several courts of the commonwealth.
Judicial, Taxation, Property, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 706

An ACT to incorporate the ‘Southeastern and Atlantic railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 707

An ACT to extend the time for the completion of the Virginia western coal and iron railroad company.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 708

An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts and governor to fix the compensation to be paid to the special agent of the state for instituting suits and superintending the collection of amounts due the state from two of the former treasurers of Bedford county.
Public expenditures, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 709

An ACT to incorporate the Manchester light and fuel company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 710

An ACT to place on the pension list the name of J. M. Craghead.
Pensions, Confederate

Chapter 711

An Act to put on the pension list the name of J. W. Lawhorn, a wounded Confederate soldier, of Bedford county.
Pensions, Confederate, Employment and labor

Chapter 712

An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to charter and incorporate the town of Neapolis, in Pittsylvania county, Virginia,” approved March 9
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 713

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 7, and 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Madison and Orange railroad company
Amendments, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 714

An ACT to incorporate the Northern Neck mutual union, in Westmoreland county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 715

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the roads in King George county, approved February 29, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled a: act to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the public roads in King George county, approved February 26, 1894.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 716

An ACT to amend section 2 of a charter granted to The John G. Hurkamp Company on the 7th day of August, 1895, by the judge of the circuit court of Fredericksburg, in vacation, and to confirm and approve and ratify such charter, as amended, and all its provisions.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 717

An ACT to incorporate the Fredericksburg telephone company
Business

Chapter 718

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to confer upon the council of the town of Danville authority to build, purchase, repair and keep up a free bridge or free bridges across Dan river, and to confer upon the said corporation the power to increase its bonded indebtedness for public improvements
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 719

An ACT to incorporate the Mount Vernon military institute.
Amendments, Armed forces, Education, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 720

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk lumber company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 721

An ACT to incorporate the American annuity order of the city of Richmond.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Charity

Chapter 722

An ACT providing for working public roads in Prince Edward
Transportation, Public expenditures, Vagrancy, Prisons, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 723

An ACT for the relief of John A. Buchanan, a Confederate veteran,
Confederate, Pensions, Public expenditures

Chapter 724

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18, chapter 3, of an act entitled “‘ an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol, and provide a new charter for the same,”
Amendments, Municipal charters, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 725

An ACT to require the clerk of the circuit court of Brunswick county to keep his office open for the transaction of business.
Judicial

Chapter 726

An ACT to take the sense of the people upon the call of a convention to revise and amend the constitution.
Amendments, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 727

JOINT RESOLUTION calling upon the superintendent of the penitentiary for information concerning guards employed at that institution.
Jails, Prisons, Salaries

Chapter 728

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the courts in the Eighth judicial circuit
Judicial

Chapter 729

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1043 of the code of Virginia in order to provide for local assessment.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 730

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia union university, in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
Education, Incorporation, Religious Institutions, Civil Rights, Charity

Chapter 731

An ACT to provide for the making and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Charlotte county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 732

An ACT to punish as for a misdemeanor a person using abusive language to another.
Civil Rights, Public spaces, Judicial

Chapter 733

An ACT to protect game in the county of Bedford.
Hunting

Chapter 734

An ACT to incorporate the Southside finance company of Virginia
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 735

An ACT for working, keeping in repair, and building the roads and bridges in Buckingham county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Labor, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 736

An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the counties of Northumberland and Westmoreland.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 737

An ACT to prohibit the catching of fish by any person other than the owner in any private pond or stream in Southampton county.
Fishing, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 738

An ACT to authorize the trustees to sell the Boring’s chapel church property in Lee county.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 739

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of chapter 244 of an act approved March 6, 1890, imposing a tax on peddlers of coal and wood in the city of Richmond and Henrico county.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 740

An ACT to incorporate the Tidewater telephone company.
Incorporation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 741

An ACT to regulate and license pawnbrokers, and to regulate junkdealers and dealers in second-hand personal property in the cities of Virginia and county of Henrico.
Business

Chapter 742

An ACT to incorporate the Northern Neck mutual fire insurance company of Virginia.
Incorporation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 743

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 814 of the code of Virginia as amended by an act approved 23d February, 1894, prescribing the penalties of bonds of county officials.
Amendments, Bonds, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 744

An ACT to authorize the governor to appoint a board of commissioners for the promotion of the uniformity of legislation in the United States.
Marriage, Divorce, Property, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 745

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780 of the code in relation to carrying concealed weapons.
Armed forces, Law Enforcement

Chapter 746

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3160 of the code of Virginia in relation to the pay and mileage of jurors.
Judicial

Chapter 747

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to authorize the county of Powhatan to change the form of the bonds subscribed to the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company, approved December 19, 1889; and to amend the same so as to allow the board of supervisors of said county to refund the conditional bonds and the interest thereon.
Bonds, Budget, Business, Transportation

Chapter 748

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28th, 1894, to regulate the killing or capturing of game in the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Highland and Augusta.
Hunting

Chapter 749

An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks of district school boards, in Dickenson, Buchanan, Wise, Scott, Lee, and Tazewell counties.
Education, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 750

An ACT to prohibit hogs from running at large upon the streets or roads on Chincoteague island, in Accomac county.
Agriculture, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 751

An ACT to incorporate the Smithville cemetery company, in Charlotte county.
Cemeteries, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 752

An ACT providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Lunenburg, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in said county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Labor, Vagrancy, Municipal charters

Chapter 753

An ACT to regulate the sale of cider and other intoxicants in the village of Lovingston, in Nelson county.
Alcohol, Gambling

Chapter 754

An ACT to authorize the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomac, to borrow money.
Bonds, Jails, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 755

An ACT to protect hares (or rabbits) in Essex county.
Hunting

Chapter 756

ACT to provide that the Clintwood subdistrict, in Dickenson county, be, and the same is hereby, made a school district, to be known as the Clintwood school district, and to provide for building a school-house and raising funds for same.
Education, Taxation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 757

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 33d section of 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 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.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 758

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2465 of the code of Virginia in relation to contracts, deeds, &c., that are void as to creditors and purchasers unless recorded.
Property, Business

Chapter 759

JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the reception of patients at the several state hospitals.
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 760

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

Chapter 761

An ACT to provide for the trial of cases pending in the county court of Warwick county.
Judicial

Chapter 762

An ACT for the relief of James J. Johnson, of Greenesville county, Virginia, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Confederate

Chapter 763

An ACT to appropriate five thousand dollars in addition to appropriation already made to Lee camp soldiers’ home.
Charity

Chapter 764

An ACT to relieve Green Jones, of Brunswick county.
Pensions, Armed forces, Healthcare

Chapter 765

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Stephen Jones, the widow of a Confederate soldier.
Pensions, Confederate

Chapter 766

An ACT for the relief of A. K. Milam, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions

Chapter 767

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Edward Starkey, the widow of a Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions, Legislative Amendments, Employment and labor

Chapter 768

An ACT to amend section 8 of an act entitled an act for working and Keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894.
Amendments, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 769

An ACT to provide for the payment out of the treasury for losses sustained by destruction of property and expenses incurred to prevent the spread of small-pox from an epidemic of that disease prevalent in the Indian reservation of the Pamunkey tribe of Indians.
Healthcare, Indigenous peoples, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 770

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of the county of Louisa.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 771

An ACT to authorize the board of school trustees for Newport school district, of Warwick county, to use the district school fund to pay teachers for the session of 1895-’96, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Education

Chapter 772

An ACT to impose a special license on dealers in pistols and pistol-cartridges in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
Business, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 773

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 605 of the code, entitled treasurers to return lists of uncollected taxes and delinquents
Taxation

Chapter 774

An ACT authorizing the election of a town assessor for the town of Covington, in Alleghany county, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 775

An ACT to incorporate the Halifax building and loan company
Business, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 776

An ACT to incorporate the Society of the sons of the revolution in the state of Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Civil Rights

Chapter 777

An ACT to amend section 2486 of chapter 18, code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1894, in relation to the secretary of the commonwealth furnishing reports of the decisions of the court of appeals.
Judicial, Lawyers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 778

An ACT protecting and enlarging the powers of the Pulaski agricultural and mechanical society.
Agriculture, Alcohol, Amusement, Business, Law Enforcement, Public spaces

Chapter 779

An ACT to fix the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of Bedford county, requiring every sixty days statement of collections and payment into the treasury of the state revenues, and to empower the board of supervisors Ld meds to the county court that it demand a new or additional
Bonds, Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 780

An ACT to incorporate the Nassawadox lumber and barrel manufacturing and building company, in the county of Northampton.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Taxation

Chapter 781

An Act to prohibit winter racing in the state of Virginia.
Amusement, Agriculture, Gambling, Recreation

Chapter 782

An ACT requiring superintendent of penitentiary to keep account of all expenses incurred in delivering convicts to the penitentiary.
Prisons, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 783

An ACT to provide more effectually for the punishment of vagrants
Vagrancy

Chapter 784

An ACT prescribing certain additional duties to be performed by the superintendent of the poor in Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Clarke, and Fauquier counties.
Public officers, Employment and labor, Charity, Reformatories

Chapter 785

An ACT making it lawful for the county courts and justices in Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Southampton, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to sentence certain criminals to work upon the roads, farms, or other public works in said counties, or on the streets of any town in said counties, and prescribing penalty for persons thus sentenced who escape or attempt to escape.
Labor, Judicial, Transportation, Prisons

Chapter 786

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to make rules concerning the working of criminals sentenced to work on the public roads or farms, or other public works of said counties, and to provide suitable buildings for the care and custody of said criminals.
Labor, Prisons, Public expenditures, Custody of children, Reformatories

Chapter 787

An ACT to prohibit the killing or capturing for sale, or offering to sell, or buying in the county of Page any partridges (or quail) for shipment beyond the limits of said county.
Hunting

Chapter 788

An ACT prescribing how a person riding a bicycle shall pass a vehicle or person on horseback on the public highways and bridges, and providing penalties.
Transportation, Public spaces, Recreation

Chapter 789

An ACT to incorporate the Tobacco warehousing and trading company.
Business, Agriculture, Alcohol, Taxation, Public expenditures, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 790

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of deer in the counties of Shenandoah and Frederick, approved February 24, 1888, to apply only to the county of Shenandoah.
Hunting, Wildlife, Public officers

Chapter 791

An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt county.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 792

An ACT to incorporate the Lake Drummond railway and hotel company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 793

An ACT to provide for the working of roads in Fauquier county, Virginia.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Public officers, Utilities, Property

Chapter 794

An ACT to incorporate the town of Potomac, in Prince William county.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Voting, Education

Chapter 795

An ACT to change the name of Millners voting precinct, in Amherst county, to Allwood voting precinct.
Voting

Chapter 796

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Smyth county to increase the salary of county judge.
Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 797

An ACT to confirm the organization and corporate existence of and to grant certain powers to the Washington, Arlington, and Falls Church railway company.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 798

An ACT to place the ferry across New river, at Ripplemead, Giles county, Virginia, commonly known as Snidow’s and Mason’s ferry, under the control of the general laws governing ferries in this state.
Transportation

Chapter 799

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southwestern railroad company, approved February 27, 1894.
Amendments, Business, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 800

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

Chapter 801

An ACT to authorize E. A. Morrison, of the city of Petersburg, to erect a wharf on Rappahannock river, in Westmoreland county.
Transportation, Property
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