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1869/1870

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to ratify the Joint Resolution of Congress, passed February 27, 1869, proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Voting, Slavery

Chapter 2

An ACT to ratify the Joint Resolution of Congress, passed June 16, 1866, proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Equality before the law, Voting, Slavery, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 3

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to adjournment of the two houses of the General Assembly.
Legislative Amendments, Voting

Chapter 4

JOINT RESOLUTION concerning the duties of Superintendent of Public Printing
Public officers

Chapter 5

An ACT to incorporate the Old Dominion Insurance Company
Business, Debt

Chapter 6

An ACT for the Adjustment of the Public Debt with the State of West Virginia
Debt, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 7

JOINT RESOLUTION in regard to a Temporary Guard for the Penitentiary.
Prisons, Law Enforcement

Chapter 8

An ACT to incorporate the Harrisonburg and Rawley Springs Turnpike Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 9

An ACT in regard to the Pay of Members and Officers of the General Assembly during the recess.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 10

An ACT Modifying and Amending the Charter and Changing the Name of the Insurance and Savings Company of Virginia.
Business

Chapter 11

JOINT RESOLUTION declaring the office of H. B. Burnham, now exercising the functions of one of the judges of the Court of Appeals, vacant.
Judicial

Chapter 12

An ACT extending the Charter of the Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington.
Incorporation, Libraries, Business, Public officers

Chapter 13

An ACT to re-enact and amend Section Seven of Chapter
Legislative Amendments, Lawyers, Public officers, Bonds

Chapter 14

An ACT to provide for filling a vacancy in the office of Lieu-tenant-Governor or Attorney-General.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 15

An ACT to provide for the Appointment and Qualification of a Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Education, Public officers, Salaries, Budget

Chapter 16

An ACT to incorporate the Luray Valley Railroad Company.
Transportation, Industry, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 17

An ACT authorizing the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company to borrow money.
Bonds, Industry

Chapter 18

An ACT to enable officers now holding offices in Virginia by military appointment, or otherwise, to hold over until their successors are elected or appointed and have duly qualified; to ratify and confirm the official acts of all such officers, and to provide for filling vacancies in the offices of justices and constables.
Public officers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Bonds

Chapter 19

An ACT in relation to the Interest on Money.
Debt, Taxation, Business

Chapter 20

An ACT Prescribing the Oath of Office.
Civil Rights, Equality before the law, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 21

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia International Land, Loan, and Trust Company.
Business, Agriculture, Transportation

Chapter 22

JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the President of the United States to employ forces of the United States to assist the civil officers of this Commonwealth in enforcing the legal writs of the civil courts in certain counties.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Noncitizens, Segregation, Slavery

Chapter 23

An ACT to incorporate the Old Dominion Gold Mining Company of Virginia.
Business, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 24

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of Robert N. Ellis, late sheriff of Amherst county.
Judicial, Debt, Public officers

Chapter 25

JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Auditor of Public Accounts to apply for and receive the land scrip to which the State of Virginia is entitled under the act of Congress passed July 2, 1862.
Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 26

An ACT for the relief of Samuel Kello, late sheriff of Southampton county.
Taxation, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 27

An ACT granting a Loan of Arms of the State to the Principal of St. John’s Academy, Alexandria.
Armed forces, Education, Public officers

Chapter 28

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section Twenty-eight, Chapter Forty-four, of the Code of 1860.
Amendments, Business, Bonds

Chapter 29

An ACT concerning the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad Company, authorizing a change of route, name, &c.
Transportation, Business, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 30

An ACT in regard to Printing Acts of Private Incorporation.
Incorporation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 31

An ACT amending the charter of the Valley Railroad Company.
Amendments, Incorporation, Transportation

Chapter 32

An ACT to incorporate the Union Bank of Winchester.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 33

An ACT to Charter the Rappahannock and Potomac River Railroad.
Transportation, Industry

Chapter 34

An ACT to authorize the Governor to Appoint a Temporary Clerk.
Public officers, Budget, Salaries

Chapter 35

An ACT authorizing the Auditor of Public Accounts to employ a Porter for the basement offices of the Capitol.
Public officers, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 36

An ACT authorizing the Board of Public Works to examine all claims for work, &c., on the Covington and Ohio and Blue Ridge Railroads, and report to the General Assembly the result of such examination.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Industry, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 37

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Marble Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 38

An ACT to prescribe and define the Jurisdiction of the County and Corporation Courts of the Commonwealth, and the Times and Places of Holding the same.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement

Chapter 39

An ACT to provide for Dividing the several Counties of this State into Townships.
Municipal charters, Voting, Education, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 40

An ACT to District the State for County Judges.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 41

An ACT to Incorporate the Virginia Law Society
Incorporation, Lawyers, Judicial

Chapter 42

An ACT Supplemental to an Act Incorporating the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company
Transportation, Industry, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 43

An ACT providing for Courts for the City of Richmond, and Defining the Jurisdiction thereof.
Judicial, Property, Public officers

Chapter 44

An ACT Chartering the Fredericksburg and Northern Neck Railroad.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 45

An ACT in relation to Commissioners of the Revenue.
Budget, Taxation, Public officers, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 46

An ACT to Provide for a General Registration of Voters.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 47

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Seven of the act approved April 12th, 1870, entitled an act to Provide for a General Registration of Voters.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 48

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Third Section of an act in relation to Commissioners of the Revenue
Amendments, Public officers, Budget, Law Enforcement

Chapter 49

JOINT RESOLUTION declaring that Members of the General Assembly are entitled to Mileage for the Session commencing on the 8th of February, 1870.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 50

An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of William Sample, late Sheriff of Russell County.
Debt, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 51

An ACT providing for Advance Payment of Annuity to the Virginia Military Institute
Armed forces, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 52

An ACT amending an act making Appropriation to the University of Virginia
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 53

An ACT for the relief of John M. Fant.
Unclassified

Chapter 54

An ACT for the Relief of Francis V. Sutton, Sr., of the city
Public expenditures, Judicial, Debt, Law Enforcement

Chapter 55

An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of George W. Buttz, late Sheriff of Prince George County.
Bonds, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 56

An ACT to Authorize a Sale of Manufactured Articles at the Penitentiary.
Prisons, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Judicial

Chapter 57

An ACT for the Payment of Per Diem, &c., due the Commissioners appointed by the Governor in pursuance of the act passed February, 1870, for the Adjustment of the Public Debt, &c.
Budget, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 58

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Coalfield Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 59

An ACT to Incorporate the South-West Loudoun Turnpike Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Public officers, Business

Chapter 60

An ACT in relation to the Sale, Use, and Disposition of Butts, Hogsheads, Barrels, Casks, and Kegs, used by the manufacturers of malt liquors.
Alcohol, Business, Law Enforcement

Chapter 61

An ACT for the Relief of H. L. Hathaway and others, Sureties of C. C. Cundiff, late Sheriff of Lancaster county.
Bonds, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 62

An ACT for the Relief of Robert A. Coghill and others, Sureties of Robert W. Snead, late Sheriff of Amherst county.
Budget, Judicial, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 63

An ACT to Authorize the Governor to Appoint a Commission in Relation to the Sale and Removal of the Penitentiary.
Prisons, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 64

An ACT to Authorize the Issue of Registered Certificates of State Stock to Wm. B. Blair, for Principal and Interest, in lieu of five lost Coupon Bonds.
Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 65

An ACT in relation to the Collection of State, County, and Town Taxes and Officers’ Fees.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 66

An ACT to Authorize the Governor to Hire out the Convicts
Amendments, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Forced labor, Labor, Reformatories, Segregation

Chapter 67

An ACT Fixing the Pay and Mileage of Members of the General Assembly
Salaries, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Budget

Chapter 68

An ACT making an Appropriation for the Support of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, at Staunton.
Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 69

An ACT to Provide a Crier for the Chancery Court of Richmond.
Judicial

Chapter 70

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Seven of the act approved April 12, 1870, entitled an act to Provide for the General Registration of Voters, and an act amendatory thereof, approved April 13, 1870.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 71

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Eleventh Section of the act approved April 12, 1870, entitled an act to Provide for a General Registration of Voters.
Voting, Amendments, Registration of births, etc.

Chapter 72

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Nineteen of Chapter Seven of the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty), in relation to Vacancies in the office of Judge.
Judicial

Chapter 73

An ACT to fix the times for Holding the Corporation Courts of the commonwealth.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 74

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the Purchase of Sycamore Church by the state.
Religious Institutions, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 75

An ACT to construe the Eleventh Section of act approved March 5, 1870, known as the Enabling Act.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 76

An ACT to Provide for a General Election
Voting, Civil Rights, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 77

JOINT RESOLUTION in regard to the Adjournment of the General Assembly to the Ballard House
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 78

JOINT RESOLUTIONS returning thanks to the ConstitutionaP Convention of Illinois for their manifestation of sympathy in our recent affliction.
Unclassified

Chapter 79

JOINT RESOLUTION asking Congress to extend the provisions of the Bankrupt Act concerning the fifty per cent. clause.
Debt, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 80

JOINT RESOLUTION concerning the Resumption of the Sessions of the Senate at the Capitol.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 82

An ACT defining further the Powers and Duties of the Clerk of the Hustings Court of Richmond.
Judicial, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 83

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the Establishment of a Line of Steamers between the City of Norfolk and some Port in Europe
Transportation, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 84

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Twenty-sixth Section of an act entitled an Act to Provide for a General Election.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 85

An ACT Prescribing what Counties and Corporations shal compose the Eleventh Judicial Circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 86

An ACT to Amend the Charter of: the Real Estate Bank of Virginia.
Business, Property, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 87

An ACT to Incorporate the Maury Literary Association in the town of Abingdon.
Incorporation, Libraries, Municipal charters

Chapter 88

An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of the county of Chesterfield to vote on the question of Removing the County Courthouse to the town of Manchester or to the town of Chester.
Voting, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 89

An ACT to empower the Old Dominion Lodge, No. 5, Independent Order Odd Fellows, at Portsmouth, to invest their surplus funds, and appointing trustees for that purpose.
Fraternal organizations, Business, Property

Chapter 90

An ACT making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the support of the Penitentiary for the fiscal year ending September 30th, 1870.
Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 91

An ACT authorizing Hustings Court, city of Richmond, to impanel a grand jury, &c.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 92

An ACT to incorporate the Piedmont Land, Immigration, and Savings Bank Company.
Incorporation, Business, Taxation

Chapter 93

An ACT Incorporating the Rockbridge County Fair
Amusement, Business, Agriculture, Public expenditures, Noncitizens

Chapter 94

An ACT Fixing the Salaries of the Judges of the Several Courts of the Commonwealth and the Pay for the Reporter for the Court of Appeals
Salaries, Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 95

An ACT to Incorporate the Alexandria Catholic Beneficial Society of Alexandria, Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Civil Rights

Chapter 96

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section Seven of the Act to Prescribe and Define the Jurisdiction of the County and Corporation Courts of the Commonwealth, and the Times and Places of holding the Same
Judicial

Chapter 97

An ACT to amend Section Four, Chapter One Hundred and Eight, Code of Virginia, relating to Marriages.
Marriage, Religious Institutions, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 98

An ACT for the Relief of John A. Mann and others, Sureties of John D. Templeton, late sheriff of Scott county.
Debt, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 99

An ACT to amend and re-enact the Second Section of an Act to District the State for County Judges.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 100

An ACT Directing the Division of Cities and Towns into Wards.
Wards, Municipal charters, Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 101

An ACT providing a Charter for the City of Richmond.
Municipal charters, Judicial, Public officers, Property, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, Public spaces, Recreation
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