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1901/1902

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Chapter 403

An ACT to amend charter of the Bay Shore Terminal Company as proposed.

Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 404

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Smyth county to issue bonds and borrow money for the building and repairing of the roads in said county, and to authorize the judge of the county court to order an election to ascertain the sense of the qualified voters of said county on the question.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 405

An ACT to provide for the incorporation of associations or societies for charitable and benevolent purposes, and for the care, custody, and maintenance of and for the prevention of cruelty to children.

Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Custody of children

Chapter 406

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to borrow $9,000 for the purpose of building a bridge across James river in that county.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 407

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of an act. entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Emporia, approved January 31, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 28, 1898.

Municipal charters, Taxation, Budget, Business

Chapter 408

An ACT to permit the Queen Annes Railroad Company to construct and operate its railway in Virginia, and to grant to it the franchises and powers of a Virginia corporation, subject to the laws of Virginia.

Transportation, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Judicial, Utilities

Chapter 409

An ACT to incorporate the Craig Telephone Company.

Incorporation, Business, Property, Public officers, Budget, Utilities

Chapter 410

An ACT to incorporate the Church Erection and Missionary Board of the German Baptist Brethren Church for the Second District of Virginia, and to authorize and empower said corporation to use its funds to assist congregations financially unable to erect church buildings and support a minister by grants or donations to them of its funds.

Religious Institutions, Charity, Education, Amendments

Chapter 411

An ACT to authorize the police commissioners of the city of Rich-

Pensions, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 412

An ACT to amend sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Baliston Railroad, approved February 23, 1900.

Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 413

An ACT to incorporate the Harrisonburg Mutual Telephone Company.

Business, Utilities, Incorporation

Chapter 414

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Warrenton

Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries

Chapter 415

An ACT for the relief of Taylor Cook

Property, Taxation

Chapter 416

An ACT to enable the sheriff and constables of Clarke county to collect their ferriage expenses.

Transportation

Chapter 417

An ACT for the protection of quail or partridges and pheasants in the county of Washington.

Hunting

Chapter 418

An ACT for the relief of C. H. Ergenbright.

Property, Taxation

Chapter 419

An ACT to protect game in the county of James City and the town of Williamsburg.

Hunting, Wildlife, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 420

An ACT to relieve William E. Taylor, late treasurer of Scott county, and his sureties on his official bond as treasurer of Scott county, Virginia.

Budget, Bonds, Public officers

Chapter 421

An ACT to amend an act providing for the appointment of a State board of health and of local boards of health, defining the duties and powers and compensation thereof, and of their members, officers, and agents, in connection with the preservation of public health, and prescribing penalties against witnesses failing to obey subpenas issued by said State board of health, or any authorized member thereof, for refusing to testify or otherwise acting in contempt of said board, or its duly authorized members, approved March 7, 1900, to amend said act so as to prevent any person infected with a dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease from going about, and to prevent the spread of such disease, and prescribing penalties therefor.

Healthcare

Chapter 422

An ACT to prohibit the sale or the keeping in stock by any merchant, or other dealer under a merchant’s license, or by any other person, within the corporate limits of the town of Berryville, Clarke county, Virginia, or within one mile thereof, of squibs, fire-crackers, Roman candles, cannon-crackers, or fireworks of any kind, without a written permit from the council of the town of Berryville, issued in pursuance of a resolution passed by said council.

Business, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 423

An ACT compensating school trustees other than clerks in the county of Caroline.

Education, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 424

An ACT to allow the trustees of School District No. 3, in the county of Charlotte, known as Roanoke school district, and the trustees of School District No. 4, in the county of Charlotte, known as Madison school district, to apply funds raised by district levy to the payment of salaries of teachers.

Education

Chapter 425

An ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to divide equally for road purposes among all the isterial districts of said county the district road tax on and collected from the Southern Railway Company in and for Stevensburg, Catalpa, and Cedar Mountain dis- tricts, in said county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 426

An ACT to regulate and fix the fees of the sheriff and his deputies for services rendered in guarding juries in criminal cases.

Law Enforcement, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 427

An ACT to empower the judge and board of supervisors to allow monument to be erected at Madison, etc.

Confederate, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 428

An ACT to authorize the district school board of Poquoson school and magisterial district, of York county, to borrow the sum of $1,000, and to issue bonds therefor, for the building and equipment of a new school-house in said district.

Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 429

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the hunting and killing or capturing of hares in the county of Norfolk

Hunting

Chapter 430

An ACT for the relief of S. C. Williams and E. F. Hodges, of Halifax county.

Property, Taxation, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 431

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3567, 3570, and 3576, and to repeal section 3568 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the lien of a judgment.

Judicial, Debt, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 432

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1079 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to proceedings for ascertaining the value of land wanted for the purpose of any internal improvement company, county, city, town, institution, or asylum, and providing for the vesting of an interest or estate in land less than the fee in certain cases.

Property, Amendments, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 433

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria and Little Falls Railroad Company.

Incorporation, Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 434

An ACT to authorize and empower Walter N. Wayman to practice dentistry.

Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 435

An ACT to amend section 2 of an act of the general assembly, in force January 30, 1900, to incorporate the Century Banking and Safe Deposit Company, and to permit said company to increase its board of directors from five (5) to fifteen (15) members, and permitting the appointment of a finance committee with certain powers.

Amendments, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 436

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the Code of Virginia, and other acts amendatory thereto.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 437

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 8 of the revised charter of the city of Lynchburg (acts 1895-6)

Budget, Bonds, Debt, Municipal charters

Chapter 438

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county.

Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 439

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 5, and 6 of an act entitled an act to authorize the consolidation of the Port Norfolk Electric Railway Company, the Portsmouth and Smithfield Railroad Company, and the Portsmouth, Pig’s Point and Newport News Railway, Ferry and Hotel Company into a corporation to be known as the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News Railway Company, and to define its powers

Amendments, Business, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 440

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Highland county to issue bonds and borrow money to redeem and pay off bonds of said county now outstanding.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 441

An ACT for the relief of E. W. Carpenter, treasurer of Rockinghan county, and his deputies, granting further time for collection of taxes, ete.

Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 442

An ACT for the relief of George L. Barton and Charles W. Denni from the payment of taxes on property in Nansemond county, Virginia, formerly belonging to Jerome Moltz.

Taxation, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 443

An ACT to provide for an election to take the sense of the qualified voters of Accomac county, or any magisterial district thereof, on the question of a stock law for the said county or district.

Agriculture, Boundaries, Property, Voting, Public expenditures, Recreation, Utilities

Chapter 444

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Berkley Tunnel Company.

Business, Transportation, Utilities, Industry

Chapter 445

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 21, 1901, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia.

Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public spaces, Alcohol, Education, Property, Judicial

Chapter 446

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Metompkin school district, in Accomac county, to borrow money and issue bonds.

Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 447

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Maysville school district, in Buckingham, to borrow money and issue bonds.

Budget, Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 448

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Berkley Bridge Company.

Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 449

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Taylor school district, in Orange county, to transfer money from their district school fund to the county school fund for payment of teachers.

Education

Chapter 450

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 9 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway Company

Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 451

An ACT to amend charter of Chesapeake Transit Company.

Business, Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 452

An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on September 30, 1902, and September 30, 1903.

Budget, Public expenditures, Pensions, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Education, Civil Rights, Judicial, Prisons

Chapter 453

An ACT to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war, or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service, or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act.

Armed forces, Pensions, Civil Rights, Healthcare

Chapter 454

An ACT requiring the Richmond and Petersburg Electric Railway Company to provide separate accommodations for the white and colored passengers upon its line between Hull street, in the city of Manchester, and Old street, in the city of Petersburg, and conferring upon its conductors and motormen powers of conservators of the peace and policemen upon its cars and right of way.

Segregation, Transportation, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement

Chapter 455

An ACT to grant Charles S. Patterson and John A. Patterson further time within which to have erroneous assessment of land corrected.

Property

Chapter 456

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 1, 1894, entitled an act to amend an act to provide for working the roads in Northampton county, approved March 2, 1892, and section 4 of said act, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1896.

Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 457

An ACT to allow Samuel Carson to erect, build, maintain, and operate a boom across the Shenandoah river.

Property, Transportation

Chapter 458

An ACT to authorize the county court of Warwick county to correct an alleged erroneous assessment of lands of D. S. Jones in said county, being a part of the Whitehead tract, and the taxes assessed thereon.

Property

Chapter 459

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to charter the Blue Ridge Railway Company

Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Incorporation, Bonds

Chapter 460

An ACT to authorize the county court of Warwick county to correct an alleged erroneous assessment of lands of John Pembroke Jones and Mary S. Jones in said county.

Property, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 461

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia-Carolina Telephone Company.

Incorporation, Business, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 462

An ACT to encourage the planting of oysters in the deep waters of Chesapeake bay, and to provide the mode of obtaining and holding assignments therein.

Agriculture, Fishing, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 463

An ACT to permit the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company to use curtains for partitions to separate white and colored passengers on the nine miles of railroad owned and operated by said company in the State of Virginia.

Segregation

Chapter 464

An ACT to incorporate the town of Nicholsville, in the county of

Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 465

An ACT to incorporate the town of Wakefield.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Salaries, Public officers, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Public spaces, Healthcare, Marriage, Employment and labor, Judicial

Chapter 466

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to legalize primary elections in the county of Prince William

Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Civil Rights

Chapter 467

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto.

Municipal charters, Boundaries, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Pensions, Taxation, Property, Public spaces, Utilities, Fire fighters, Transportation, Judicial, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Charity

Chapter 468

An ACT to incorporate Staunton Falls Company.

Business, Industry, Utilities, Transportation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 469

An ACT to incorporate the South and Western Railway Company.

Transportation, Industry, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 470

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the Code of 1887, relating to the compensation of judges and clerks of election.

Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 471

An ACT to change the name and increase the capital stock of the Gladeville Railroad Company, in Wise county, and to amend and enlarge its charter, as incorporated by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 20, 1892, as amended by chapter 238 of the acts of the “general assembly of Virginia of 1895 and 1896, approved February 5, 1896, and as amended by chapter 299 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1899 and 1900, approved February 9, 1900.

Amendments, Transportation, Industry, Property

Chapter 472

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Warrenton, in the county of Fauquier, 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 of 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 one mile of its corporate limits, the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as provided therein.

Alcohol, Municipal charters, Voting, Business, Property

Chapter 473

An ACT to authorize the clerks of the county and corporation courts to receive taxes on real estate, the-sale of which to the Commonwealth for de- linquent taxes thereon has been declared irregular and void.

Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 474

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county, approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county, and directing the disbursement of the county’s road fund.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 475

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Onancock, Accomac county, Virginia.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Alcohol, Education

Chapter 476

An ACT to incorporate Richmond Lodge, No. 45, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Richmond, Virginia.

Charity, Fraternal organizations, Incorporation, Property, Taxation

Chapter 477

An ACT to incorporate the town of Mineral, in the county of Louisa.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Alcohol, Taxation, Voting, Business, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Recreation

Chapter 478

An ACT to incorporate the Warrenton and Waterloo Road Company.

Incorporation, Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 479

An ACT to quiet the title of a tract of land in Culpeper county assessed in the name of William H. Ward’s estate, and containing 443 acres.

Property, Taxation

Chapter 480

An ACT for the relief of the Home Land Company from an erroneous assessment of land in Warwick county.

Business, Property

Chapter 481

An ACT authorizing the county court of Campbell county to hear and dispose of an application of John C. Featherston to be released from the payment of certain taxes assessed upon a tract of land located in James River magisterial district, in said county, formerly owned by the Washington Zinc Company, but now owned by him.

Property, Taxation

Chapter 482

An ACT ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within this State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof.

Property, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 483

An ACT to exonerate, relieve, and forever discharge William Lark

Judicial

Chapter 484

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “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,” approved February 28, 1898.

Agriculture

Chapter 485

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3706 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the punishment for house-breaking.

Amendments, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Property

Chapter 486

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 270 of an act approved February 3, 1900, entitled an act to provide that a convict in the penitentiary of Virginia whose term expires on Sunday shall be discharged by the superintendent on the preceding day, so as to provide for their discharge on the day before legal holidays.

Prisons

Chapter 487

An ACT to authorize the sale of church property in the county of Lee.

Religious Institutions

Chapter 488

An ACT to allow R. J. Palmer, treasurer of King William county, further time in which to collect certain tax bills.

Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 489

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 16, 1901, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Rappahannock Railway Company, approved February 7,

Transportation, Industry, Business, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 490

An ACT directing the library committee to have certain books, papers, and publications removed from the garret of the capitol, and authorizing the payment of cost of such removal, and directing the register of the land office to provide room for the storage of such books, etc., and appropriating money for such purpose.

Libraries

Chapter 491

An ACT for the protection of deer in the county of Giles

Hunting

Chapter 492

An ACT to prohibit the sale of certain ciders in the county of Louisa.

Alcohol, Business, Public officers

Chapter 493

An ACT for the protection of partridges, pheasants, and wild turkeys

Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 494

An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke Orphan Asylum.

Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Education, Incorporation

Chapter 495

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to impose additional duties upon the examiners of records of the several judicial circuits, etc.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 496

An ACT to incorporate the New River and Northern Railroad.

Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 497

An ACT to prescribe a penalty for persons who, under the provisions of sections 3932 and 3934 of the Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in chain-gangs and escape, or attempt to escape, from the person in whose custody they lawfully are.

Prisons, Labor, Judicial

Chapter 498

An ACT allowing Thomas C. Miller, treasurer of Wytheville, Virginia, further time for the collection of taxes for the years 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, and 1900.

Taxation

Chapter 499

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for making, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county

Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 500

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2042 of the Code of Virginia,

Agriculture, Amendments, Property, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces, Death and burial

Chapter 502

An ACT for the relief of J. T. Mills

Property

Chapter 503

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, approved February 28, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, approved February 5, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays, approved February 19, 1896.

Amendments, Business, Legislative Amendments