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1871/1872

Laws in Volume
Displaying 301 - 378 of 378

Chapter 312

An ACT for the Relief of Lewis F. Glass and others, Sureties of Charles A. Milton, late Collector of Battletown Township, in Clarke County.
Taxation

Chapter 313

JOINT RESOLUTION Instrneting the United States Sena-
Repeal of legislation, Taxation

Chapter 314

An ACT to Authorize the Construction of a Turnpike Road from Marion to Jeffersonville by the Counties of Smyth and Tazewell.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Voting, Public officers, Budget, Public spaces

Chapter 315

An ACT to Prevent the Destruction of Partridyes and other Game in the Commonwealth.
Hunting

Chapter 316

An ACT to Incorporate the Norfolk and Sewell's Point Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Bonds

Chapter 317

An ACT to Incorporate the Piedmont Wine Company in Nelson County.
Alcohol, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 318

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the First Section of ‘‘An Act to Authorize the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Company to Consolidate and Provide for the Payment of its Mortgage Debt
Bonds, Divorce

Chapter 320

An Act to Incorporate the Roanoke Land, Immigration and Savings Bank Company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 321

An ACT to Incorporate the Shenandoah River Boom and Dam Improvement Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Property, Business, Transportation

Chapter 322

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Ninth Section of the Act Approved March 31st, 1871, to Incorporate the Richmond and Henrico Railroad, Turnpike and Graded Road Company.
Transportation, Amendments, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 323

An ACT in Reference to the Unpaid Taxes for the Years 1866, 1867, 1868, and 1869.
Taxation

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend and Re-enact Section One of Chapter 97 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Destruction or Injury of Bridges, Mile-posts, &c.
Amendments, Property, Transportation

Chapter 326

An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of George S. Cady, late Sheriff of Culpeper County.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 327

An ACT to Incorporate the Guardian Savings Bank of Norfolk.
Incorporation

Chapter 328

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 2, Chapter 369, Session Acts 1869-70, in Relation to the Fisheries of the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers.
Fishing, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 329

An ACT to Authorize the Lynchburg Agricultural and Mechanical Society to Appoint Police, &c.
Agriculture, Law Enforcement, Public spaces, Amusement

Chapter 330

An ACT to authorize the Common Council of the City of Petersburg to Borrow Money and Issue and Sell Bonds of said City to an Amount not exceeding $200,000, bearing Interest not exceeding Eight per centum per annum.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 331

An ACT to Incorporate the Liberty and Rocky Mount Narrow Gauge Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 332

An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act approved 9th of July, 1870, entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 23 of Chapter 49 of the Code of 1860, to Provide for the Appointment of Criers or Persons to Perform Certain Duties where there are no Sheriffs or Sergeants
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 333

An ACT to Provide for the Election of Certain Township Officers in the County of Hanover.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 334

An ACT Declaring the Rapidan River, from its Junction with the Robertson River to a Point known as Willis’ and Hansborough's Ford, a Lawful Fence.
Fence Laws

Chapter 335

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 2d Section of an Act entitled an Act for the Re-assessment of Lands in the Commonwealth.
Amendments, Property, Public officers

Chapter 336

JOINT RESOLUTIONS Recommending to Congress the Establishment of Signal Stations at Hatteras and other Points on the Coast of Virginia and North Carolina.
Transportation

Chapter 337

An ACT Continuing in Force the Corporation of the Town of Pearisburg, County of Giles, and Defining and Prescribing the Rights and Powers thereof.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 338

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 21 of an Act entitled ‘An Act to Amend and Ke-enact the Charter of the Town of Danville, and Incorporating into One all Acts Amendatory thereof,” passed 15th December, 1805.
Amendments, Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 339

An ACT Requiring the Second Auditor to Issue Bonds of the State to Rosser and McAllister.
Bonds, Transportation, Budget

Chapter 340

AN ACT Declaring certain Streams in Charlotte County to be Highways.
Transportation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 342

An ACT to Provide for the Repair of the State Capitol.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 343

An ACT to Authorize the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Company, and the Lynchburg and Danville Railroad Company, to Lease, or otherwise Acquire, certain Railroads.
Transportation, Industry

Chapter 344

An ACT to Provide for the Election of Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 345

An ACT to Amend the Sixth and Ninth Sections of Chapter 204 of the Acts of 1866-7, Relative to Arrest, Commitment and Bail.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 346

AN ACT to Amend and Re-enact the First Section of an Act Approved November Ist, 1870, Entitled an Act to Provide Artificial Legs for Citizens of the Commonwealth who lost their Legs During the late War.
Amendments, Healthcare, Civil Rights, Armed forces

Chapter 347

An ACT for the Relief of John P. Michie.
Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 348

An ACT to Regulate the Imposition, Assessment and Collection of Taxes for the Support of Public Free Schools, by Counties and School Districts
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 349

An ACT Giving the Consent of this State to the Purchase by the United States of a Tract of Land in the County of Fairfax, to be used for a Military Cemetery, and exempting the same from State, County or City Taxes.
Armed forces, Cemeteries, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 351

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 24 of Chapter 42 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Auditor's Powers as to Claims in Favor of the Commonwealth.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 352

JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting the Commissioners on Boundary Lines to make a Written Report to the General Assembly by January 1st, 1873, of their Operations and Expenditures in carrying out the Objects of the Commission.
Boundaries, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 353

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 46, Chapter 85, of the Code of 1860, as Amended by Act of January 16th, 1866, in Relation to the Number of Guards for a Lunatic while being Conveyed to the Asylums.
Healthcare, Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 354

JOINT RESOLUTION for the Appointment of Commissioners to Revise the Laws relating to Oysters, &c.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Fishing, Business

Chapter 355

An ACT Authorizing the Joint Committee for the Management of Norfolk County Ferries to Issue Coupon Bonds on behalf of Norfolk County and the City of Portsmouth and for other Purposes.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 356

An ACT To extend the time within which William B. Deggs, late Sergeant of the City of Norfolk, may Collect the Taxes for the Years 1866, '7, '8 and '9.
Taxation

Chapter 357

An ACT in Relation tv the Condemnation of Land in the City of Richmond.
Property, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 358

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 13, Chapter 101 of the Code, (edition of 1860), in Relation to Fishing in the Potomac River.
Fishing

Chapter 359

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Fifth Section of an Act Entitled ‘‘An Act to Appropriate the Income Arising from the Proceeds of the Land Scrip Accruing to Virginia Under Act of Congress of July 2d, 1862, and the Acts Amendatory thereof.”
Education, Agriculture, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 360

An ACT for the Relief of James W. Andrews & Company
Public expenditures

Chapter 361

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 22, 25, 26, 29 and 37 of the 108th Chapter of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Register of Marriages, Births and Deaths, and to Repeal Sections 23 and 24 of said Chapter.
Amendments, Marriage, Registration of births, etc., Public officers

Chapter 362

An ACT to Incorporate the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans, in the City of Richmond.
Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Education, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 363

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Entitled ‘“‘an Act to Amend and Re-enact Sections 24 and 25 of Chapter 184 of the Code of Virginia, in Relation to the Collection of Fee Bills.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 364

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 32 of an Act Enti-
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 365

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Approved March 30, 1871, Entitled ‘‘An Act to Amend the 27th Section of the School Bill.”
Education, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 366

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 20 of an Act Entitled an Act to Provide a System of Public Free Schools in the Cities of the Commonwealth, and to Repeal Section 66 of an Act Entitled an Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools
Education, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 367

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 9, Chapter 179 of the Code, in Reference to Injunctions
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 368

An ACT Providing for the Payment of Dr. F. B. Watkins for Services as a Member of the Board Appointed by an Act of Assembly, entitled ‘‘ An Act to Provide Artificial Limbs for Citizens of the Commonwealth who lost their Limbs in the late War.”
Healthcare, Civil Rights

Chapter 371

An ACT to Prevent Prize Fighting, and the Fighting of Dogs, Cocks, and other Animals, in the County of Alexandria.
Gambling

Chapter 372

An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section Two of 'An Act to Incorporate the Portsmouth Insurance Company,' passed February 17th, 1852.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 373

AN ACT to Abolish the Writ of Elegit.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 374

An Act to Amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to Amend the Provisions of the Code in regard to the Supreme Court of Appeals, so as to make them Conform to the New Constitution, approved June 23d, 1870, and for the Purpose of Hearing Causes at Winchester.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 375

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 15, Chapter 187, of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) in Relation to Writs of Fieri Facias.
Amendments, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 376

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 99 of Code, Edition 1860, in Relation to Trespasses by Animals.
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 377

An ACT to Incorporate the Norfolk and Princess Anne Turnpike Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Bonds

Chapter 378

An ACT to Amend Chapter 175, Section 2 of the Code of 1860, with Reference to Commissioners in Chancery.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 379

An ACT to Prevent Lobbying with the General Assembly of this State.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 380

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Fourteen of Chapter Two Hundred and Nine of an Act passed April 27th, 1867, Entitled an Act to Revise and Amend the Criminal Procedure.
Amendments, Jails, Prisons, Judicial

Chapter 381

An ACT Allowing Supervisors of Rockbridge County to Increase Compensation of Superintendent of the Poor.
Charity, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 382

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 2 of an Act Enti-
Business, Children -- Institutional care, Marriage, Property

Chapter 383

JOINT RESOLUTION in Relation to Mileage of the Members of the General Assembly for the Present Session.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 384

JOINT RESOLUTION Concerning Per Diem of Members of the General Assembly.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 385

An ACT Imposing Taxes for the Support of the Governme and Free Schools, and to Pay the Interest on the Public Debt.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Education, Inheritance and succession, Property, Business, Utilities, Alcohol, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 386

An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal Year 1871-72
Budget, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Education, Labor, Public officers, Pensions, Prisons, Civil Rights, Death and burial, Children -- Institutional care, Recreation

Chapter 387

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Thirty-sixth Chapter of Ae Code of Virginia (edition of 1860), in Relation to the Collection of axes.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 388

An ACT to Amend an Act Imposing a Tax on Oysters
Amendments, Taxation, Fishing

Chapter 389

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 7 and 8 of an Act entitled ‘ An Act to Amend and Re-enact Sections 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 21 of an Act Entitled ‘An Act to Amend and Re-enact the Charter of the Town of Danville, and Incorporating into one all the Acts Amendatory thereof, passed 15th December, 1865,’ approved March 25, 1872.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 390

JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Time for Ascertaining the Amount of School Taxes for County and District Purposes
Education, Taxation

Chapter 391

JOINT RESOLUTION in Relation to the Election of an Additional Elector for President and Vice-President of the United States.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 825

An ACT to Authorize the District School Board of Speedwell District, in the County of Wythe, to apply Unappropriated District Funds to the Payment of Teachers’ Salaries
Education

Chapter 841

An ACT to Authorize the Voters of certain Counties and Townships to Vote upon the Question of Repealing the Act relating to Fences and for the Protection of Crops, passed January 26, 1806.
Agriculture, Voting

Chapter 869

An ACT Authorizing the County Judge of Westmoreland County to Appoint Special Commissioners to Revise Land Books of said County.
Property

Chapter 870

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Third Clause of the Fourteenth Section, the Ninth Clause of Fourteenth Section, the Forty-first and Forty-seventh Sections, and to Repeal the Fifty-fifth Section of an Act entitled an Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools
Education, Amendments, Segregation
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