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1901/1902

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Chapter 202

An ACT for the relief of J. F. Duke, deputy treasurer of Louisa county.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 203

An ACT for the protection of certain birds in the counties of Roanoke, Craig, and Bedford.
Wildlife

Chapter 204

An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of the Monticello Realty Company and its financial plan, and to give it additional powers.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 205

An ACT to amend the charter of the Central Railway of Virginia,
Transportation, Industry, Municipal charters

Chapter 206

An ACT to repeal chapter 883 of acts of assembly of session of 1897-8, in relation to allowances for furnishing clerks’ ollices, ete., in the county of Scott.
Repeal of legislation, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 207

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of chapter 42 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 23, 1898, and entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 929 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to jail inspection,” and allowing certain compensation for such inspection at the jail in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
Jails, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 208

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 54 of the act approved Marcn 6, 1890, 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 wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required, in relation to the tax on tobacco auctioneers.
Taxation, Business, Agriculture, Alcohol, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 209

An ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of north fork of Holston river, in the county of Scott.
Fishing

Chapter 210

An ACT to permit Hudson Mench to erect a wharf on his land at the mouth of Warwick river, in Warwick county, Virginia.
Property, Transportation

Chapter 211

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, Virginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein, and in the event a majority of those voting at said election vote for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and the conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter within said town, or within the magisterial district in which said town is situated, the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as provided herein.
Alcohol, Voting, Business, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 212

An ACT to incorporate the Big Sandy Railway Company of Virginia.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 213

An ACT to authorize the erection of a statue of Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire on the capitol square, in the city of Richmond.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 214

An ACT to allow E. K. Boyd, treasurer of Buchanan county, and his deputies further time within which to distrain and collect certain tax tickets for which they have accounted to the State and county.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 215

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 15 of an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Manassas, approved April 2, 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1884, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1894, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and to enact two additional sections thereto, numbered 28 and 29.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Debt, Jails, Law Enforcement, Property, Taxation

Chapter 216

An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the public treasury in aid of Confederate memorial associations having in charge cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers.
Cemeteries, Confederate, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 217

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the tenth sub-division of section 183, chapter 14, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the salaries of the superintendent of the penitentiary, surgeon, assistant keepers and clerks
Salaries, Public officers, Prisons

Chapter 218

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Citizens Railway, Light and Power Company, approved February 9, 1900.
Incorporation, Utilities, Public officers, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 5, and 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Electrical Railway and Development Company, approved February 7, 1898.
Amendments, Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 220

An ACT to allow Joseph T. Fudge, treasurer of Alleghany county, further time to distrain, levy, and collect certain tax tickets for which he has accounted to the State and the board of supervisors of said county.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 221

An ACT to authorize the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities to erect a wharf at Jamestown.
Property, Public spaces

Chapter 222

An ACT to amend section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to State depositories.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 223

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1832.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Cemeteries, Healthcare, Taxation

Chapter 224

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties and the councils of the cities and towns of the Commonwealth to subscribe to the capital stock of the Jamestown Exposition Company, and to contribute to the objects for which the said company has been incorporated.
Business

Chapter 225

An ACT to permit Andrew H. G. Mears, of Accomac county, to erect and maintain a wharf on his land, in Wachapreague.
Property, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 226

An ACT amending the charter for the town of Bond Town, in Wise
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Alcohol, Public officers, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Billiard parlors

Chapter 227

An ACT authorizing and directing the board of pharmacy to register C. F. Bruce as a pharmacist, and allowing him to compound and sell drugs in the town of Wise, in Wise county, and not elsewhere.
Healthcare, Business

Chapter 228

An ACT authorizing the qualified voters of Prince Edward county to vote upon the question of issuing the bonds of said county to secure money for the purpose of purchasing road machinery and improving the public roads of said county, and authorizing the board of supervisors to issue the bonds of the county for said purpose, if the vote shall be in favor thereof.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 229

An ACT to incorporate the Bedford Library Association.
Libraries, Incorporation, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 230

An ACT for the relief of the Rappahannock Mining and Milling Company, of Stafford county, Virginia.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 231

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 22, 1898, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 16, 1901, entitled an act to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, approved February 2, 1898, and to amend and re-enact section 5 of said act, approved February 2, 1898, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Property

Chapter 232

An ACT to amend the charter of Birchfield Coal and Coke Company, and change its name to Stonegap Colliery Company.
Amendments, Business, Incorporation, Industry, Taxation

Chapter 233

An ACT to close certain streets and alleys formerly laid off through a plat of land now owned by the Riverview cemetery and other lands adjoining now used as farming lands.
Cemeteries, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 234

An ACT to incorporate the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority of the State Female Normal School, of Farmville, Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Education

Chapter 235

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Frederick county and the common council of the city of Winchester to appropriate money for the benefit of Winchester Memorial Hospital.
Healthcare

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act in force January 28, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company.
Business, Bonds, Industry

Chapter 237

An ACT to incorporate the town of Windsor, in the county of Isle of Wight.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Voting, Education, Law Enforcement, Property

Chapter 238

An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Academy, at Pulaski, Virginia.
Education, Civil Rights, Public officers, Incorporation

Chapter 239

An ACT to authorize the appointment of two additional commissioners in chancery for the circuit court of Alexandria county.
Judicial

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Elizabeth River Railroad Company,” approved December 20, 1901.
Transportation, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 241

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 and to repeal section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the registration of any person, being a resident of this State, who desires to take or catch oysters, for sale or planting, from the natural rocks or shoals on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac and Northampton counties, and prescribing a fine for so taking oysters without being registered, and for the registration of any skiff, scow, bateau, or other small craft used in so taking and catching oysters, providing for a fine for a failure to register the same if the owner be known, and for the sale thereof if the owner be unknown, and to provide for the policing of the waters of the said eastern or ocean side of Accomac and Northampton counties, so as to require a license tax from such persons
Fishing, Public officers

Chapter 242

An ACT to authorize the city council of Staunton, Virginia, to issue and sell bonds not exceeding $125,000, for the purpose of raising funds for the purchasing of existing street railways and electric and gas plants, or to erect and operate other electric and gas plants and street railways, and providing that the same be submitted to the vote of the people.
Bonds, Utilities, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 243

An ACT to permit Newton Z. Oakley to erect a wharf on the Rappahannock river between Moratico and Farnham creeks, in Richmond county.
Property, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 244

An ACT to sell church property in Lee county.
Religious Institutions, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 245

An ACT to permit Dr. W. W. Kerns to erect a wharf or pier on land fronting his oyster houses on Santa creek, in Old Woman’s bay, Accomac county, Virginia.
Agriculture, Business, Industry, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 246

An ACT to incorporate the Home Protective Insurance Company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 247

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of South Boston, in Halifax county, Virginia.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 248

An ACT for the relief of the treasurer of Campbell county and his deputies, granting further time for collection of taxes, etc.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 249

An ACT for the relief of A. G. L. Van Lear, M. D., a disabled Confederate soldier, from payment of license tax.
Amendments, Armed forces, Charity, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments, Pensions

Chapter 250

An ACT to incorporate the Catawba Valley Railway and Mining Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 251

An ACT to allow John O. Bradley, treasurer of Washington county and his deputies further time to collect unpaid tax tickets now in their hands.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 252

An ACT to validate the recordation of a deed of record in the clerk’ office of Elizabeth City county.
Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 253

An ACT to incorporate Virginia-Carolina Trust Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 436 of the acts of assembly of 1897-8, entitled an act to incorporate the Botetourt Electric Railway and Power Company, in force February 21, 1898, so as to change the name of the said company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 255

An ACT for the relief of W. K. Donald, a Confederate soldier of Rockbridge county.
Confederate, Pensions, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 256

An ACT for relief of Joseph R. Bunting
Judicial, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 257

An ACT to enable the stockholders of the Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company to fix the date for the annual meeting of said Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company, and of the stockholders thereof.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 258

An ACT for the relief of John S. Swift, late deputy treasurer of Louisa county.
Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 259

An ACT for the relief of the estate of P. A. Baylor, deceased.
Property, Taxation, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 260

An ACT to incorporate the Emporia Land and Investment Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Taxation

Chapter 261

An ACT to authorize certain of the sureties of L. C. Thomas, late treasurer of Mathews county, to levy and distrain for the collection of certain tax bills in their hands.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 262

An ACT to incorporate Norfolk and Lake Drummond Railway Company.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation

Chapter 263

An ACT to allow Floyd E. Snidow, deputy treasurer of Giles county, further time for collecting taxes.
Taxation

Chapter 264

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Fredericksburg to determine the method of collecting the expenses of building sewers.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 265

An ACT to authorize and empower the Princess Iron Company to lay out, construct, and operate a railroad from a point at or near its mines, at North Mountain, in Botetourt county, Virginia, to a point on the Chesapeake and Ohio railway (James River division), at or near Gala, in said county.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 266

An ACT to allow City Trust Company, of Newport News, to change
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 267

An ACT to change the name of the Security Trust Company, of Newport News, Virginia, to Security Trust and Savings Bank, of Newport News, Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 14, and 16 of chapter 113 of acts of assembly 1893-4, entitled an act to incorporate the Security Trust Company, of Newport News, Virginia, approved January 31, 1894.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 268

An ACT for the relief of R. W. Hutchinson, deputy treasurer of Loudoun county.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 269

An ACT to incorporate the Benevolent Aid and Relief Association of Virginia.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Education, Healthcare, Amendments

Chapter 270

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 or insolvent.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 271

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Onancock and Drummondtown Electric Railway, Light and Power Company
Incorporation, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 272

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2038 of the Code, defining a lawful fence.
Agriculture, Property, Fence Laws

Chapter 273

An ACT to protect partridges and wild turkeys in the county of Richmond
Hunting

Chapter 274

An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act authorizing the filing of a petition in a pending chancery cause in the clerk’s office, and to mature the same at rules
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 275

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to protect game and song birds in the county of King William, and to prescribe a penalty for violation of this act
Hunting

Chapter 276

An ACT to amend section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Marble Company, approved March 30, 1870.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 277

An ACT to incorporate the Battletown Gas Company.
Incorporation, Business, Utilities, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 278

An ACT to validate the bequest and devise made by A. H. Wilson to the trustees of Muhlenberg Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 279

An ACT to incorporate the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to children.
Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Custody of children, Civil Rights, Healthcare, Education

Chapter 280

An ACT for the better protection of consumers of coal
Business

Chapter 281

An ACT to make the boundary lines of lots and tracts of land in Greenesville county a lawful fence.
Boundaries, Fence Laws

Chapter 282

An ACT to permit A. E. ‘Thurston to construct and use a pierhead in Rappahannock river.
Agriculture, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 283

An ACT to provide for a lawful fence in the county of Russell.
Fence Laws

Chapter 284

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-division 5 of section 19 of chapter 3 of the act entitled “an act providing a charter for the city of Richmond,” approved May 24, 1870, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend sub-division 5 of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond, approved May 24, 1870,” approved February 24, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 15, 23, 87, and 94 and sub-divisions 5 and 6 of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond,” approved February 25, 1892, enlarging the powers of the city council in regard to maintaining or improving water works, gas works, and electric plants owned by the city of Richmond.
Municipal charters, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 285

An ACT to vacate and close the streets, avenues, and alleys in the projected town of Minneapolis, in the county of Russell.
Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 286

An ACT to allow Marion Marshall, ex-deputy treasurer of Carroll county, further time within which to distrain and collect certain tax tickets for which he has accounted to the State.
Taxation

Chapter 287

An ACT declaring a part of Deep creek, a stream in the county of Cumberland, to be a public highway.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 288

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to tax sale of liquor in said county
Alcohol, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 289

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to prohibit hogs from running at large in the county of Warren
Agriculture

Chapter 290

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Smyth county to issue bonds for the purpose of building bridges in said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 291

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Clarke county to build, construct, and maintain a bridge over the Shenandoah river at or near Castleman’s ferry, and one over the Shenandoah river at or near Berry’s ferry, in Clarke county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 292

An ACT to authorize the town council of Lebanon, in Russell county, to issue bonds and borrow money to improve its streets and sidewalks.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 293

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

Chapter 294

An ACT to declare certain grounds in James river, in the county of Isle of Wight, in the State of Virginia, known as Day’s Point Long Rock, to be a natural oyster rock, bed or shoal.
Fishing, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 295

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2505 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an aet approved March 3, 1890, in relation to the indexing of deeds and other writings admitted to record by the clerks of the courts of the Commonwealth.
Amendments, Property, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 296

An ACT authorizing and directing the State Board of Veterinary Examiners to register William M. Turlington and James B. Taylor as veterinary surgeons, with permission to practice veterinary surgery in Accomac and Northampton counties, and not elsewhere.
Agriculture

Chapter 297

An ACT to incorporate James River Railway and Lumber Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Bonds, Property

Chapter 298

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 5, 1890, entitled an act to enable certain mining and manufacturing corporations of other States or countries to conduct operations in this State.
Industry, Business, Property

Chapter 299

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk County Industrial Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Utilities, Public expenditures, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 300

An ACT to incorporate the Executive Committee on Ministerial Relief of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
Religious Institutions, Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 301

An ACT to incorporate the Phi Mu Gamma Fraternity of Hollins Institute, Virginia.
Fraternal organizations
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