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1901/1902

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Chapter 504

An ACT to authorize the board of fisheries to readjust the Baylor survey on the ocean side of the counties of Accomac and Northampton, and include therein any omitted natural rocks.
Fishing, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 505

An ACT for relief of A. S. Barksdale, deputy treasurer for BE. F. Daniel, treasurer of Charlotte county, Virginia, allowing further time, ete.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 506

An ACT for the relief of H. G. Chesley and his deputies, of Stafford county.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 507

An ACT to provide for opening, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Caroline county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Vagrancy, Labor

Chapter 508

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 19, 1850, entitled ‘an act incorporating the Woodbine Cemetery Company, in the county of Rockingham.”
Cemeteries, Property

Chapter 509

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

Chapter 510

An ACT to authorize the county court of Campbell county to correct the assessment of certain land of Mrs. F. P. Dillon in the county of Campbell.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 511

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and<br />re-enact section 2616 and section 2620 of an act entitled an act to revise, ar-<br />range, and consolidate into a code the general statutes of the Commonwealth,<br />approved May 16, 1887, approved 23d February, 1888, and as further amended<br />by an act approved Sth March, 1888, so as to authorize the encumbrance of the<br />lands of infants and insane persons for the purpose of improving the same.
Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Property, Judicial

Chapter 512

An ACT to authorize and provide for a special election in the Dublin magisterial district, of Pulaski county, as to the purchase by the board of supervisors of said county of a one-third interest in the bridge across New river at the city of Radford
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 513

An ACT to incorporate St. Ann’s Benevolent Society of St. Peter’s Cathedral.
Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 514

An ACT for the protection of game in the county of York.
Hunting

Chapter 515

An ACT to work and keep in repair roads and bridges in the county
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget, Labor

Chapter 516

An ACT to suppress tippling houses, the illegal and unlawful sale or traffic in ardent spirits, in the counties of Lancaster, Richmond, Northumber- land, and Westmoreland, and to provide a penalty therefor.
Alcohol

Chapter 517

An ACT to constitute Tangier island, Accomac county, into a sepa-
Education, Municipal charters

Chapter 518

An ACT to prevent the shipping, transportation, or sale of partridges, quail, rabbits, hares, pheasants, ruffed grouse, wild turkeys, or squirrels killed, captured, or obtained in the county of Clarke.
Wildlife, Hunting, Amendments

Chapter 519

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Franklin County Telephone Company, so as to provide for an enlargement of the capital stock of said company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 520

An ACT to authorize the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue $200,000 of bonds to lay a water main.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 521

An ACT to prevent clamming in James river and Nansemond river
Fishing

Chapter 522

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to prohibit hogs from running at large in the county of Rappahannock.
Agriculture, Amendments, Property

Chapter 523

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for taxation of dogs and protection of sheep in the county of Rappahannock.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 524

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Margaret A. White, widow of W. T. White, formerly an officer at the penitentiary.
Prisons, Pensions, Public officers

Chapter 525

An ACT to allow Joseph C. Bristow, of Middlesex county, to take the State law examination.
Judicial

Chapter 526

An ACT to authorize the county court of Warwick county to correct an alleged erroneous assessment of lands of Washington McLean’s estate in said county, and the taxes assessed thereon.
Property, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 527

An ACT to declare Hughes river and Hazel river a lawful fence in the counties of Rappahannock and Culpeper.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 528

An ACT to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors within two miles of the village of Stony Creek, Sussex county, Virginia.
Alcohol

Chapter 529

An ACT to allow H. L. Pearson, of the city of Richmond, to take the law examination.
Education, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 530

An ACT for the relief of Harrison Robertson against an erroneous assessment in 1900 of lands owned by him in Botetourt county.
Property, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 531

An ACT to release taxes, levies, and charges improperly assessed against the estate of John Kelly, deceased, upon lands in Alleghany county, and returned delinquent for the years 1898, 1899, and 1900.
Taxation, Property, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 532

An ACT to allow J. B. Buhrman, treasurer of Botetourt county, further time to make settlement and return delinquents and to collect tax tickets.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 533

An ACT to authorize the county court of Botetourt county to correct the assessment of certain stone rights owned by Mrs. F. P. Dillon in Botetourt county.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 534

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act authorizing boards of supervisors to contract loans for the erection of court-houses, clerks’ offices, and jails
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Jails, Property, Taxation

Chapter 535

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 24, 1890.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 536

An ACT to allow John A. Allison to erect a pier on his oyster-planting ground in Moratico creek.
Property, Public spaces, Fishing

Chapter 537

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act for the incorporation of the town of Bowling Green, in the county of Caroline.
Municipal charters, Voting, Taxation, Public officers, Business, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 538

An ACT to incorporate the International Guarantee and Trust Company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 539

An ACT to incorporate Norfolk City and Suburban Railway Company.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 540

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act to create Northside district, in Brookland magisterial district, in the county of Henrico, and to provide for lighting and sewerage in said Northside district, and for making and maintaining other improvements of a public nature therein
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 541

An ACT to incorporate Roanoke Lodge, No. 197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Roanoke, Virginia.
Charity, Fraternal organizations, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 542

An ACT making it lawful for the county court and any justice of the peace of the county of Caroline, or any mayor of any town of said county, to sentence criminals to work upon the public roads or other public works or on the streets or other public works of the towns in said county, and prescribing a penalty for persons thus sentenced who escape or attempt to escape.
Prisons, Labor

Chapter 543

An ACT to authorize the Seaboard Real Estate Company to erect a wharf in front of its land on Hampton Roads, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia.
Property, Business, Transportation

Chapter 544

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 16, 17, and 20 of an act approved March 15, 1902, entitled 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 in 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, Judicial

Chapter 545

An ACT to allow H. C. Wheatley, deputy treasurer of Culpepe county, further time in which to collect certain tax bills.
Taxation

Chapter 546

An ACT aithorizing a new registration of voters in the city 0: Norfolk.
Voting

Chapter 547

An ACT to change the name of the Virginia and Louisa Improvement Company to the Virginia and Louisa Railway and Improvement Company, and to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 6 of chapter 268 of the acts of assembly of the extra session of 1901, entitled "an act to incorporate the Virginia and Louisa Improvement Company," approved February 16, 1901.
Business, Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 548

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3062 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 333 of the acts of the general assembly of 1897-8, page 371, and section 3065 of the Code of Virginia, requiring the governor, under certain circumstances, to designate a judge to hold regular or special terms of the courts.
Judicial

Chapter 549

An ACT to protect diamond-back terrapins
Wildlife, Fishing

Chapter 550

An ACT to incorporate the Newport News and Elizabeth City Railway and Electric Company.
Transportation, Utilities, Industry, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 551

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Anthracite Coal and Railway Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 552

An ACT to amend and re-enact article 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 553

An ACT to permit M. L. Price, of King George county, to erect a wharf or pierhead on “Strife Point bar,” in Upper Machodoc creek, in said county.
Transportation, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 554

An ACT to authorize and empower corporations or persons operating electric railroads or railways in the city of Alexandria and from the city of Alexandria to any point in the county of Alexandria, and from the city of Alexandria to any point in the county of Fairfax, to provide for the separation of white and colored passengers traveling upon cars and coaches upon their respective lines of railroad or railway, and to require passengers to obey the instructions and directions of the conductors or managers of such cars or coaches.
Segregation, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement

Chapter 555

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the Crystal Ice and Power Company, granted by the judge of the corporation court of Danville, Virginia, on March 8, 1900.
Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 556

An ACT to empower the governor to appoint, in the States of the United States, the Philippine Islands, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and other newly-acquired territory of the United States, commissioners.
Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 557

An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire title to and jurisdiction over certain lands situated on the Potomac river in Loudoun county, Virginia.
Property, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 558

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth county to, in their discretion, pay the sheriff the amount annually required to heat and light the county jail.
Jails, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 559

An ACT to permit John A. Palmer to erect a wharf at Fleet Point Cockrell’s creek, in Northumberland county.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 560

An ACT to incorporate the Real Estate Trust Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 561

An ACT to incorporate the Upper Rappahannock Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 562

An ACT to allow the town of Front Royal to supply said town and its inhabitants in the vicinity of said town with water, and to issue bonds of said town to effect said purpose.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Municipal charters

Chapter 563

An ACT to authorize the county school board of Greenesville county to borrow $1,000.
Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 564

An ACT to entitle Kh. G. Paxton to appear before a proper court of the county of Reekbridge and have said court correct an erroneous assessment of taxes upon Jand owned by her.
Property, Taxation, Agriculture

Chapter 565

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

Chapter 566

An ACT to incorporate the Potomac Western Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 567

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act amending sections 58, 59, and G0 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to a reapportionment of representation in the General Assembly
Legislative Amendments, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 568

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 17, and 18 of an act to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, approved March 9, 1880; said act further amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, in force from January 28, 1884; said act further amended by an act entitled an act to change the name of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company to the Pocahontas Collieries Company, approved February 9, 1901; said act further amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section | of an act entitled an act to change the name of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company to the Pocahontas Collieries Company, approved December 17, 1901.
Incorporation, Industry, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 569

An ACT to incorporate the Bowling Green Female Seminary, in the town of Bowling Green, Virginia.
Education, Religious Institutions, Incorporation

Chapter 570

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

Chapter 571

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled “an act to enlarge the powers of the Richmond Traction Company,” approved January 12, 1898.
Amendments, Business, Transportation

Chapter 572

An ACT to incorporate the Armstrong Land and Improvement Company.
Business, Property, Bonds, Utilities, Public expenditures, Industry, Debt

Chapter 573

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Grayson county to issue bonds and borrow money for the building und repairing of 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, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 574

An ACT to incorporate Steel Ores Railway.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 575

An ACT to incorporate the Alpha Chapter of the Kappa Delta Sorority of the State Female Normal School.
Incorporation, Education, Charity, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 576

An ACT to incorporate the Merchants and Truckers Ferry Company, of Norfolk, Virginia.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 577

An ACT to amend chapter 315, acts of 1885 and 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Cape Charles, in the county of Northampton, approved March 1, 1886, and to extend and enlarge the corporate limits of said town.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 578

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 9, and 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Radford-Southern Railroad and Mining Company, approved February 14, 1898.
Amendments, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 579

An ACT directing the return of the portrait of William Pitt, earl of Chatham, which now hangs in the hall of the house of delegates, to the authorities of Westmoreland county.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 580

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Negro Agricultural and Industrial Society of Virginia
Agriculture, Business, Incorporation, Amendments

Chapter 581

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 790 of an act entitled an act to authorize the superintendent of the penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm and erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts, approved March 5, 1900, so as to provide for board for the surgeon and his horse, and an increase in the compensation of the manager and provide board for himself and family at said farm.
Amendments, Prisons, Employment and labor

Chapter 582

An ACT to authorize the board of fisheries to declare certain land within the limits of the Baylor survey, on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac county, to be barren area and open for planting oysters thereon, and to authorize the assignment of the same for planting purposes.
Fishing, Public expenditures, Property, Utilities

Chapter 583

An ACT to incorporate the Charlotte, Farmville and James River Valley Railway Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Business, Property

Chapter 584

An ACT to provide for submitting to the voters of Buckingham county the question of subscribing to the stock of the Charlotte, Farmville and James River Valley Railway Company.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 585

An ACT authorizing and directing the board of pharmacy to register Horace T. Morrison as a pharmacist for the town of Hamilton, in the county of Loudoun, and authorizing him to act as pharmacist in said town.
Business, Healthcare

Chapter 586

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3724 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to poisoning, killing, maiming, or disfiguring horses or cattle or other beasts, and fixing penalties therefor.
Agriculture

Chapter 587

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act approved March 20, 1877, entitled an act to incorporate the Westmoreland Club.
Amendments, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 588

An ACT to incorporate the Manchester and Richmond Free Bridge Company, and granting certain powers to said company, and the city councils of the cities of Richmond and Manchester, for public purposes.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Public spaces, Amendments, Utilities

Chapter 589

An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of Consumers Light, Heat and Ice Company, to give it additional powers, and in relation to the stock of said company.
Business, Utilities, Agriculture, Amendments

Chapter 590

An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Charity, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 591

An ACT to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardianship of children who are vicious, or depraved, or without proper places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian, or other custodian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Charity, Employment and labor

Chapter 592

An ACT to allow School District No. 2, of Norfolk county, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
Amendments, Budget, Education, Public expenditures, Property, Public officers

Chapter 593

An ACT to incorporate the Woman's Monument Association, of Essex county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Monuments and memorials, Confederate

Chapter 594

An ACT to define a lawful fence in New Market precinct, in Nelson county.
Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 595

An ACT to prohibit expectorating or spitting on any part of any car or coach owned or operated by any urban, suburban, or inter-urban electric railway, ete.
Public spaces

Chapter 596

An ACT to provide for the establishing of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Rocky Mount, Franklin county, Virginia.
Alcohol, Municipal charters, Voting, Business

Chapter 597

An ACT in relation to the printing and binding of the Virginia reports of decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 598

An ACT to authorize Morgan Treat, of West Point, to extend his wharf or pier in front of his lots in the town of West Point, King William county, on Mattaponi river, known as lots Nos. 388, 389, 390, and 393.
Property, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 599

An ACT to incorporate the Henry County Historical Society, of Henry county, Virginia,
Incorporation

Chapter 600

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Berkley Street Railway Company
Transportation, Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 601

An ACT to incorporate Faulkland Development Company.
Incorporation, Business, Utilities, Property, Transportation

Chapter 602

An ACT to incorporate the People’s Bank of Commeree and Savings.
Business

Chapter 603

An ACT to protect Mongolian or Knghsh pheasants in Rockbridg: and Augusta counties
Wildlife
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