1901es

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Chapter 1

An ACT to authorize the city council of Fredericksburg to establish a system of sewerage for the city and to obtain right of way for same by condemnation.

Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 2

An ACT to authorize the city council of Fredericksburg to issue coupon or registered bonds of the city for the purpose of constructing sewers and improving the streets.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Utilities, Public officers

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act to authorize the council of the city of Fredericksburg to apportion the expenses of street and other local improvements between the city treasury and the real estate benefited thereby

Amendments, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 4

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 8, of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1900.

Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Bonds, Debt, Transportation

Chapter 5

An ACT to give to S. B. Hardwick, late treasurer of Westmoreland county, power of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax tickets in his hands.

Taxation, Public officers, Business

Chapter 6

An ACT fixing the compensation to laborers hired to work the public roads in Richmond district in Wise county.

Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 7

An ACT in regard to hunting and fishing on the lands of Mountain Lake land company and others in Giles county, Virginia.

Hunting, Fishing, Property, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 8

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to borrow money for the purpose of purchasing real estate and building a bridge, and to issue bonds and provide for the payment of the same.

Bonds, Budget, Property, Public expenditures, Agriculture, Transportation

Chapter 9

An ACT to authorize the county of Charlotte to purchase and own real estate and to dispose of it to the state of Virginia for certain purposes or otherwise.

Agriculture, Property, Public officers

Chapter 10

An ACT to regulate the building of bridges in the county of Frederick.

Transportation

Chapter 11

An ACT to authorize the city of Winchester to increase its debt and to issue bonds.

Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, and 9 of an act to incorporate the Richmond and Petersburg railway company, approved March 3, 1898, entitled in said act the Richmond and Petersburg electric railway company, and to amend the title to said act and to continue said act in force.

Incorporation, Transportation

Chapter 13

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act entitled an act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield and to grant a new charter to the said town, which took effect February 17, 1900.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 14

An ACT to more fully define the powers and limitations of the council of Basic City, Virginia, in regard to laying water mains, pipes, and other water fixtures, and so forth.

Utilities

Chapter 15

An ACT to authorize the town of Chase City to borrow money, issue bonds, and own land.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 16

An ACT to suspend collection from Bedford county, Virginia, for penalties for certain escaped convicts working on its roads.

Prisons, Labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 17

An ACT to incorporate Hollins institute.

Education, Incorporation, Property, Business

Chapter 18

An ACT to incorporate the bar association of the city of Richmond.

Incorporation, Judicial, Lawyers

Chapter 19

An ACT to incorporate the town of Elba, Pittsylvania county.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Budget, Business, Property, Public officers

Chapter 20

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to issue new bonds, etc.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation, Budget, Law Enforcement

Chapter 21

An ACT to authorize the town of Abingdon to issue bonds to pay its bonded indebtedness.

Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 22

An ACT validating, ratifying, confirming, and approving an ordinance of the city council of Alexandria passed December 11, 1900, and approved by the mayor of the city of Alexandria.

Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 23

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, to borrow money for the purpose of purchasing, erecting, constructing, and maintaining a system of water-works for said town, and for the purpose of constructing and maintaining sewerage for said town.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Municipal charters

Chapter 24

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act amending an act — incorporate the Fredericksburg aqueduct company, passed February 28, 1833.

Utilities, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 25

An ACT authorizing the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds not exceeding $25,000 for public school purposes in Atlantic City ward.

Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 26

An ACT in regard to the number of councilmen for the city of Norfolk.

Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 27

An ACT for the relief of W. C. Dowdy, a wounded Confederate soldier of Culpeper county.

Confederate, Pensions

Chapter 28

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to employ physicians, by the year, to attend the sick paupers in each magisterial district, and to employ a physician to attend the sick at the poorhouse.

Healthcare, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 29

An ACT to authorize the sale of old Ferguson chapel, in Russell county.

Religious Institutions

Chapter 30

An ACT to empower the town of Suffolk to borrow money and issue bonds to complete sewerage.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 31

An ACT to prevent the running at large of hogs or swine on the public streets and roads of the county of Pulaski, and to provide a penalty for the violation of the same.

Agriculture, Property, Public spaces, Boundaries

Chapter 32

An ACT for the relief of Drs. Robert Glasgow, J. H. Mapp, and A. D. Estill.

Healthcare, Jails, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 33

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Stuart to erect a stand-pipe or tank and tower on One corner of the Courthouse Square in Patrick county.

Utilities

Chapter 34

An ACT to incorporate the Brookneal mill and power company.

Incorporation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 3, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the salary of the police justice of the city of Norfolk, approved February 18, 1896,” and also in relation to the said police justice and to the clerk of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk in connection with fines imposed by said police justice.

Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 36

An ACT to incorporate the Giles and Bland county transportation and development company.

Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 37

An ACT to repeal an act entitled ‘“‘an act to inccrporate the town of Chincoteague, Accomac county,”

Incorporation

Chapter 38

An ACT permitting Harold S. Bloomberg, of Richmond, to appear before the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and take the required examination for a license to practice law.

Lawyers

Chapter 39

An ACT to allow the town of Abingdon to supply said town and its inhabitants with water, gas and electric light, and to issue bonds of said town to effect said purpose.

Utilities, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend the charter of the Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company.

Incorporation, Transportation, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 41

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3, of chapter 727, entitled an act to incorporate Bay Shore terminal company

Business, Incorporation

Chapter 42

An ACT to prevent hogs running at large in Orange county.

Agriculture

Chapter 43

An ACT to authorize the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company to convey certain land situated in Stafford county to the board of supervisors of Stafford county for a public highway.

Transportation, Public spaces, Public expenditures

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act for working and keeping in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy of taxes for that purpose

Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 45

An ACT cuthorizing the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue

Bonds, Jails, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 46

An ACT to define a lawful fence in Orange county.

Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 47

An ACT to amend section 4 of an act entitled “an act to incor-porate the Leesburg and Point of Rocks turnpike company in the county of Loudoun and to authorize the road board of Leesburg district to appropriate road taxes to said turnpike company,” approved February 17, 1898, so as to authorize said company to appropriate, use and occupy the public roadbed between Leesburg and Point of Rocks as the roadbed of said company’s turnpike road.

Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 48

An ACT authorizing the Ohio river and Charleston railway company, as the successor of the Ohio river and Charleston railroad company, to complete the construction of and operate its road; prescribing the terms thereof; and authorizing a change in the name of the company.

Business, Transportation, Utilities, Incorporation

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of the charter of the town of Farmville.

Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 50

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Centennial Baptist church, of the town of Tappahannock, county of Essex, to sell and convey a certain lot of land in said town and county.

Religious Institutions, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 51

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to contract for the erection and ownership by the county of a monument to the memory of Confederate soldiers of said county, on the public square of said county and to make payment on account of same out of the funds of the county.

Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 52

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Augusta county to issue warrants to pay for building, furnishing the court-house and clerk's and other offices, and improving the grounds, and to pay interest thereon.

Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 53

An ACT to incorporate the Mount Rogers and Eastern railroad company, to grant said corporation certain privileges, and authorize the counties through which said road may be constructed to aid the construction thereof.

Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 54

An ACT to empower the school board of Battletown district, Clarke county, to borrow money to retire outstanding bonds.

Education, Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 55

An ACT to authorize the Newport News ship-building and dry dock company to sell or otherwise dispose of and convey its properties and franchises, or any thereof, to any person or persons, or any corporation or corporations, or any association or associations created by, or existing under the laws of the state of Virginia, or of any other state or of the United States, or created by and existing under the laws of any foreign government.

Business

Chapter 56

An ACT to allow C. W. Thomas further time to collect certain tax tickets.

Taxation

Chapter 57

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Louisa county to raise money temporarily for the purpose of defraying small-pox or other extraordinary expenses.

Healthcare, Public expenditures, Debt

Chapter 58

An ACT to give the consent of the State of Virginia to the purchase or acquisition of real estate by the United States government in the town of Martinsville, county of Henry, Virginia, for a site for a public building for the accommodation of the United States post-office, internal revenue office, and any other purpose of the United States.

Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 59

An ACT to accept the cession by the state of Tennessee to the state of Virginia, of a certain narrow strip of territory claimed as belonging to the state of Tennessee, and described as lying between the northern boundary line of the city of Bristol, in the county of Sullivan, state of ‘Tennessee, and the southern boundary line of the city of Bristol, in the county of Washington, state of Virginia, being the northern half of the Main street of the said two cities.

Boundaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 60

An ACT to change the name of the Southwest Virginia improvement company to the Pocahontas collieries company.

Business, Industry

Chapter 61

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia internal improvement company.

Business, Utilities, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 62

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the code of Virginia in reference to clerks’ offices,” approved February 5, 1900, so as to close the clerks’ offices of the courts of Norfolk county and city of Portsmouth on all legal holidays.

Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 63

An ACT authorizing the county school board of Elizabeth City county to borrow ten thousand dollars ($10,000), and issue bonds therefor,

Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of the charter of the Peninsula water company.

Utilities, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 65

An ACT to incorporate the Clinchport telephone company.

Business

Chapter 66

An ACT for the relief of Lewis C. Williams, a native of Virginia, authorizing the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia to grant him a certificate to practice law under certain conditions.

Lawyers, Judicial

Chapter 67

An ACT to refund to Archer A. Phlegar taxes erroneously paid by him.

Taxation, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 68

An ACT as to working inmates of Norfolk city jai.

Jails, Labor, Prisons, Municipal charters, Employment and labor

Chapter 69

An ACT to allow the city of Norfolk to require the city or the property owners to build or keep in repair the sidewalks, or both build and keep in repair the same.

Municipal charters, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 70

An ACT authorizing the city of Norfolk to issue $15,000 bonds on Atlantic City ward property and $10,000 on Brambleton ward property.

Bonds, Budget, Jails, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 71

An ACT to permit Selverius C. Hall to erect a wharf on Mesongo creek, Accomac county, Va.

Property, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 72

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Montgomery county to borrow money to macadamize and improve its roads.

Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend section 882 of the code in relation to pay of Overseers of the poor.

Public officers, Amendments, Budget, Employment and labor

Chapter 74

An ACT to give justices of the peace in incorporated towns of Charlotte county concurrent jurisdiction with mayors of said towns, in trying offenses against the Commonwealth.

Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 75

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 2, 1900, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Scott county to lay levies to pay all outstanding road warrants.

Repeal of legislation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 76

An ACT to correct the error in chapter 1225, Acts 1899, as to the name of H. L. Bowen.

Pensions, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 77

An ACT to allow the Chuckatuck, Newport News, and Norfolk steamboat company to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek, in Nansemond county, Virginia.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 78

An ACT to allow the Chuckatuck, Newport News, and Norfolk steamboat company to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek, in Nansemond county, Virginia.

Transportation, Public officers, Industry, Municipal charters

Chapter 79

An ACT allow the Chuckatuck, Newport News, and Norfolk steamboat company to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek, in Nansemond county, Virginia.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 80

An ACT to incorporate the Independent order of true reformers of Westmoreland county, Virginia.

Charity, Cemeteries, Healthcare, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 81

An ACT for the relief of S. B. Shenk and D. C. Burracker, late deputy treasurers of A. W. McKim, treasurer of Page county.

Public expenditures, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 82

An ACT to extend the time one year to collect by distress the taxes of 1898, assessed against the taxable persons and property of the corporation of Lebanon, in Russell county.

Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 83

An ACT to allow George H. Jenkins to build a pier in the Rappahannock river, at the mouth of Deep creek, Lancaster county.

Property, Public spaces, Fishing

Chapter 84

An ACT to incorporate the farmer’s mutual fire insurance company.

Business, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 85

An ACT to legalize primary elections in the county of Warwick.

Voting

Chapter 86

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in Gainesville district of Prince William county, and approved February 25, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 1, 1894.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 87

An ACT for the protection of wild turkeys and ruffled grouse (or pheasants) in the county of Roanoke.

Wildlife, Hunting

Chapter 88

An ACT validating, ratifying, confirming, and approving an ordinance of the city council, passed December 11, 1900, and approved by the mayor of the city of Alexandria, on December 13, 1900, authorizing the Washington Southern railway company to construct, maintain, and operate a switch or side track in and upon St. Asaph street, between Madison and Pendleton streets in the city of Alexandria and to connect each end of said switch or side track with its main track in said street; and to construct, maintain, and operate turnouts or spur tracks connecting its main line of railway or said switch or side track at any point or points between the streets aforesaid with the property of Robert Portner brewing company, and endowing and vesting the said the Washington Southern railway company with the right, power, and authority to construct, maintain, and operate the switch or side track, and turnouts or spur tracks in said ordinance mentioned and provided for.

Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 89

An ACT in relation to levy of taxes for road purposes in Halifax

Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 90

An ACT making it lawful for the county court and justices of the peace cf the county of Fairfax, and the mayors of the towns of the said county, to sentence certain criminals to work upon the 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.

Labor, Judicial, Jails

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 186 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the salaries of certain judges, so as to permit the board of supervisors of Nansemond county to increase the compensation of their circuit judge out of county funds.

Judicial, Salaries

Chapter 92

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Wise county in their discretion to increase the pay of the county judge of said county to a sum not to exceed eight hundred dollars per annum payable out of the county levy.

Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 93

An ACT to incorporate Holston river and Eastern railway.

Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 94

An ACT to incorporate the Radford water-power company.

Business, Utilities, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 95

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Carroll county to purchase a lot or lots of land in the town of Hillsville for the purpose of tying horses and other animals and standing vehicles; and to lay a levy to pay for same.

Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 96

An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, Tazewell county, Virginia.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Judicial

Chapter 97

An ACT to authorize the board of suvervisors of Page county to issue bonds for the purpose of retiring outstanding bonds.

Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 98

An ACT amending the charter of the Rawlings institute.

Education, Religious Institutions, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 99

An ACT to vest title of Cedar Grove Baptist church of Russell county, in A. D. Vermillion, G. L. Jessee, and D. C. Alderson, trustees, and their successors in office to hold for the benefit of the Missionary Baptist congregation who worship there.

Religious Institutions, Amendments

Chapter 100

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair, opening and discontinuing the public roads in the county of Brunswick, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges in said county