1901/1902

Displaying 601 - 691 of 691

Chapter 604

An ACT to allow the firm of Cralle, Hubbard & James to build a Wharf in Lawson's bay, Rappahannock river, in Lancaster county.

Industry, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 605

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the fees of the sheriff or sergeant, coroner, crier, or constable, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1898.

Law Enforcement, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 606

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to levy and collect an additional school tax in any one or more of the school districts of said county.

Education, Taxation

Chapter 607

An ACT for the relief of H. L. Stone, late treasurer of Pulaski county.

Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 608

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Buckingham county to effect a loan for county road purposes.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 609

An ACT for the relief of R. I. Orange, deputy sheriff of Prince Edward county.

Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 610

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 5 of an act entitled “an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg,” approved March 11, 18765.

Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 611

An ACT for relief of M. F. Swann, treasurer of Powhatan county, and extending time for collecting certain tax tickets.

Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 612

An ACT for the relief of M. F. Swann, treasurer of Powhatan county, and to authorize the auditor of publie accounts to credit said treasurer with amount of school warrant for 1900

Budget, Education, Public officers

Chapter 613

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1900, titled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and macadamize the roads in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question.

Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 614

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Hunting Club.

Incorporation, Hunting, Fishing, Business

Chapter 615

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prevent fire insurance companies, associations, or partnerships doing business in this State, or the agents of said companies, associations, or partnerships, from entering into combinations to make or control rates for fire insurance on property in this State, and providing a punishment for violations of this act, approved March 1, 1898.

Repeal of legislation, Business

Chapter 616

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the Code of Virginia.

Judicial

Chapter 617

An ACT to authorize the city of Bristol, Virginia, to make an additional issue of bonds for water works.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 618

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and empower chancery courts to confirm sales of land when purchase price is not sufficient to pay off the liens of taxes, levies, and assessments returned delinquent, and apportion the proceeds between State, counties, and corporations, and to make valid and confirm any sales heretofore made

Property, Taxation

Chapter 619

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 (ten) of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Trust Company, approved February 13, 1901, increasing the capital stock of said company.

Incorporation, Business

Chapter 620

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to create a general road fund, and to provide for the permanent improvement of roads.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 621

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

Agriculture, Fishing, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 622

An ACT for the relief of Charles Minor Caldwell

Healthcare, Business, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 623

An ACT to autherize the consolidation of the Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown Railroad Company and the Yorktown, Poquoson and Hampton Railway Company into a corporation to be known as the Jamestown and Old Point Railway Company, and to detine its powers.

Transportation, Business, Property

Chapter 624

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act making it unlawful for insurance companies not incorporated by the laws of the State of Virginia, but legally admitted to do business therein, to place, or cause to be placed, insurance on property in this State in offices outside of the State in violation of the tax laws of the State of Virginia, and prescribing penalties for violation of the same, and prescribing the duties and compensation of the auditor of public accounts in relation thereto, and providing for renewal of license privileges of companies doing business in this State.

Business

Chapter 625

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. M. B. Hurst from payment of a recognizance to the Commonwealth.

Judicial, Debt, Charity, Civil Rights

Chapter 626

An ACT to prohibit the use of patent tongs and long shaft tongs in the waters of James river, Virginia.

Fishing

Chapter 627

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 129 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 28, 1890, entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the courts of the Seventeenth judicial circuit

Judicial

Chapter 628

An ACT to incorporate Bedford City Cemetery, in and near Bedford City, Bedford county, Virginia.

Cemeteries, Incorporation, Property, Public officers

Chapter 629

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Association.

Business, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 630

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 1, of an act approved February 19, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Blackstone, in Nottoway county, Virginia, approved February 23, 1888, so as to extend the limits of said town.

Boundaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 631

An ACT for relief of J. M. Speece, clerk of circuit court of Bedford county.

Judicial, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 632

An ACT to lay off, designate, and survey the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals in Nomini and Currioman bays, in the county of Westmoreland, and to include the same in the original geodetic survey of the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals of the Commonwealth.

Agriculture, Fishing

Chapter 633

An ACT for the relief of Philip T. Marye.

Armed forces

Chapter 634

An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg and Amherst Belt Line Company.

Incorporation, Business, Transportation

Chapter 635

An ACT to incorporate Norfolk-Hampton Roads Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.

Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 636

An ACT to allow James W. Bonner, treasurer of Bath 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 637

An ACT to encourage the planting of trees by authorizing the governor to designate a day as arbor day.

Agriculture, Public spaces, Recreation

Chapter 638

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 17, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7, 17, and 18 of an act approved February 20, 1892, entitled an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia not funded, etc.

Amendments, Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 639

An ACT for relief of William Heider from erroneous taxation from 1875 to the year 1898, inclusive.

Taxation, Property, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 640

An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the Southwestern State Hospital to audit certain claims with reference to the investigation and report of certain charges made against said hospital, and to audit and pay said claims.

Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 641

An ACT to provide for refunding to the Union Theological Seminary certain taxes paid by it on a tract of land in Nottoway county called Bellfield.

Charity, Education, Property

Chapter 642

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Scottsville, in Albemarle and Fluvanna counties, Virginia, to require a license to be taken out; to impose a tax for the benefit of the said town for the privilege of engaging any pursuit or business within one mile from the corporate limits of said town

Business, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 643

An ACT to incorporate Nurses’ Alumna Association of St. Luke’s Hospital.

Healthcare, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 644

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3199 of Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved February 23, 1894.

Amendments, Lawyers, Judicial

Chapter 645

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4079 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the appointment of a physician to attend prisoners in the jail of Warwick county.

Healthcare, Jails, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 646

An ACT for the relief of N. W. Crisler, late clerk of Madison county.

Property, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 647

An ACT empowering trustees of parsonage property of Covington Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to sell and convey said property, and to dispose of the proceeds of such sale and reinvest same.

Religious Institutions, Property, Charity

Chapter 648

An ACT for relief of Thomas J. Todd from erroneous assessment.

Taxation, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 649

An ACT in relation to the printing and binding of the Virginia reports of decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals.

Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 650

An ACT to ratify the contract between the joint library committee of the general assembly of Virginia, dated February 21, 1900, and the Michie Company, and to provide for similar contracts with other persons.

Libraries, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 651

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1145 of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide additional requirements where charters are granted to engage in the business of taking or catching fish for the purpose of converting the same into oil or manure in this State.

Business, Fishing, Incorporation, Amendments

Chapter 652

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 531 of acts of 1899-1900, referring to the protection of wild water fowl and other game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.

Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 653

An ACT to suppress tippling houses, the illegal and unlawful sale or traflic in ardent spirits, in the county of Mathews, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Alcohol, Amendments, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Business

Chapter 654

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the Palmer’s Springs magisterial district, in the county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in said magisterial district, 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 magisterial district the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms, or corporations, except as provided herein.

Alcohol, Voting, Amendments, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 655

An ACT to provide for the working and repairing of public roads and bridges in Buckingham county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 656

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 2 of an act approved March 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 license to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 17, 1898.

Alcohol, Taxation, Business

Chapter 657

An ACT to incorporate the Greenesville and Dinwiddie Railway Company.

Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 658

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 655 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to when deed made to purchaser; clerk to make it; what to contain; fee of clerk.

Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 659

An ACT to provide for the erection of suitable buildings upon the grounds of the State penitentiary for the better care and safety of the convicts confined in said penitentiary.

Prisons

Chapter 660

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2137 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2135, 2137, 2148, and the independent sections 3, 5, 8, and 10, and to repeal section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 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 sections thereto, approved February 25, 1892, and to amend and re-enact sections 2150, 2164, and 2182 of the Code of Virginia, and to add independent sections thereto, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2145, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, approved February 25, 1892, which was approved March 2, 1894.

Agriculture, Fishing, Public officers

Chapter 661

An ACT for the relief of E. L. Burrows, of the county of Goochland, from an crroncous assessment.

Property

Chapter 662

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25 of an act 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

Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 663

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act 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, approved March 6, 1890, approved January 25, 1900, so as to require the stamps therein provided for to be kept by the county and corporation court clerks.

Taxation, Alcohol, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 664

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Basic City, approved December 19, 1890.

Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 665

An ACT to authorize the military board of Virginia to examine, scrutinize, compromise, and settle a judgment obtained against R. S. Weaver, W. Marbury McCafferty, W. H. Cheatham, L. Van R. Smith, W. H. Wilson, Jr., and W. R. Butcher in favor of Oehm & Co., of Baltimore, Maryland, for uniforms and equipment furnished Division B, Virginia Naval Reserves, and for that purpose to pay such sum, if any, out of the military fund as in the opinion of said board ought to be paid to said Oehm & Co. on account of said judgment.

Armed forces, Judicial

Chapter 666

An ACT to amend section 613 of chapter 27 of the Code of Virginia, entitled collection of taxes.

Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 667

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1089 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the power of a railroad company to change the location of its railroad, and to straighten and improve its line of railroad.

Transportation

Chapter 668

An ACT to incorporate the Rockfish Valley Railway Company.

Business, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 669

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 1900, entitled an act to incorporate the New River, Holston and Western Railroad Company, and to ratify and amend an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 16, 1901, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 1901, entitled an act to incorporate the New River, Holston and Western Railroad Company.

Amendments, Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 670

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 5 of an act approved February 19, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Blackstone, Nottoway county, Virginia, approved February 28, 1888.

Municipal charters, Alcohol, Voting

Chapter 671

An ACT to incorporate the Old Dominion Telegraph Company.

Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 672

An ACT to incorporate the Tuckahoe Country Club.

Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Recreation

Chapter 673

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to make husband and wife competent witnesses for or against each other in certain civil and criminal cases.

Marriage, Civil Rights, Judicial, Divorce

Chapter 674

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 59 and 60 of an general assembly of Virginia, approved December 23, 1891, entit amending sections 58, 59, and 60 of the Code of Virginia, in relatiox apportionment of representation in the general assembly.

Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 675

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Bedford county to purchase and improve a lot of ground for the use of the people of said county.

Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 676

An ACT to incorporate the Dan River Railway Company.

Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 677

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act 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,” approved March 6, 1890, in respect to taxation of railroad and canal companies.

Taxation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 678

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the James River Railway Company, in effect February 22, 1900.

Transportation, Industry, Business, Public officers, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 679

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 374 of the Code, in relation to the appointment, conduct, and organization of courts-martial and courts of inquiry.

Armed forces, Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 680

An ACT to authorize the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia to pay money to infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases, without the intervention of a guardian.

Children -- Institutional care, Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 681

An ACT to incorporate the town of Wachapreague, in Accamac county, and to provide for taking the sense of the qualified voters of said town

Incorporation, Alcohol

Chapter 682

An ACT to incorporate the town of Urbanna, in the county of Middlesex.

Municipal charters, Taxation, Business, Public officers, Public spaces, Healthcare, Alcohol, Utilities, Judicial, Pensions

Chapter 683

An ACT to incorporate the Independence and Comer’s Rock Telephone Exchange.

Incorporation, Utilities, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 684

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 8 of the revised charter of the city of Lynchburg, acts 1895-6.

Budget, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 685

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 8, and 9 and to repeal section 17 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Belle Haven, in the county of Accomac, approved December 14, 1895.

Municipal charters, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 686

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 6, 1890, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1900, of an act 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 tax on bonds, notes, and other evidences of debt, and on stocks.

Alcohol, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 687

An ACT to incorporate the United Waiters’ Union of Virginia.

Labor, Charity, Employment and labor, Incorporation

Chapter 688

An ACT to provide for the taxation of ground rents.

Taxation

Chapter 689

An ACT to authorize an increase of the capital stock of Virginia Carolina Railway Company, to authorize said company to acquire, hold, or guarantee the stocks and bonds, or either, of other corporations; to authorize an extension of its main line, and to build lateral branches; to issue bonds and secure same by deed or deeds of trust, mortgage or mortgages; to repeal section 4 of the act entitled “an act to incorporate the Abingdon Coal and Iron Railroad Company,” approved April 11, 1887, and to amend and re-enact the act entitled “an act to authorize the Virginia-Carolina Railway Company to sell or lease its railroad and franchises to, and to consolidate or merge its stock, railroad property, and franchises with, any other railroad company operating or authorized to operate, a connecting line of railroad, and to lease from any such railroad company its property, rights, and franchises,” approved March 7, 1900.

Transportation, Industry, Bonds, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 690

An ACT to reimburse T. R. Tillett, sergeant of the city of Roanoke, out of the public treasury for certain expenditures hy him on behalf of the Commonwealth.

Law Enforcement

Chapter 691

An ACT to incorporate the Christ Church Loan Association.

Incorporation, Business, Charity, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 692

An ACT for the relief of D. P. Eanes

Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 693

An ACT to permit A. C. Harding and W. D. Potter to erect a wharf or wharves on Indian creek, in the county of Northumberland.