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1872/1873

Laws in Volume
Displaying 301 - 389 of 389

Chapter 308

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act passed March 14, 1860, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Branch Coal Mining Company.
Amendments, Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 309

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Hebrew Benevolent Society
Charity, Education, Incorporation

Chapter 310

An ACT to Provide for the Removal of certain Criminal Causes from the County Court to the Circuit Court.
Judicial, Amendments, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 311

An ACT Appropriating a Sum of Money for the Protection of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum from Destruction by Fire.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 312

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Charter of the Town of Salem, in the County of Roanoke.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation, Property, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 313

An ACT to Amend Section 13, Chapter 86, Code of 1860, in Relation to the Vaccine Agent of the State.
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 314

An ACT to Authorize the Supervisors of Northampton County to Erect Guide Boards or Posts on the Public Roads, Marking the Lines of Election Precincts.
Voting

Chapter 315

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Sth Section of Chapter 301 of an Act approved March 26th, 1872, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Shawsville, Jacksonville, Taylorsville and North Carolina Railroad Company.
Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 316

An ACT to Amend the Title of an Act approved March 19th, 1873, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact sections 6, 14 and 27 of an Act Providing a Charter for the City of Norfolk, in force March 16th, 1871, as Amended by an Act in force March 4th, 1872.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 317

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Chapter 281, Acts of 1866-’67, and Chapter 252, Acts of 1869-’70, in Relation to the Clinch River Navigation Company and for other Purposes.
Business, Incorporation, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 318

An ACT to Incorporate the Brock’s Gap, Hardy and Hampshire Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 319

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act to Provide for a Re-division of the Oounty of Fairfax into Townships.
Amendments, Voting

Chapter 320

An ACT to Incorporate the Valley Mining and Manufacturing Company
Business, Industry, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 321

An ACT to Change and Define the Corporate Limits of the Town of Stanardsville, in the County of Greene, and for other Pur-poses.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 322

An ACT to Incorporate the Trustees of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows of the State of Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 323

An ACT for the relief of Sarah F. Gayle, of the city of Portsmouth,
Property, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 324

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section five of Chapter one hundred and ninety-two, of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Offences against Property, so as to Punish more Rigorously in certain cases the Crime of Arson.
Property, Judicial

Chapter 325

An ACT to Incorporate the Agricultural and Industrial Association of Alexandria, Virginia.
Agriculture, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 326

An ACT for the Relief of Joel L. Walker, Administrator of the Estate of David Bruce, deceased.
Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 327

An ACT to repeal and Re-enact an Act passed April third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, Incorporating the Pearisburg Academy Association.
Education, Incorporation, Public spaces, Charity

Chapter 328

An ACT Incorporating the Rappahannock and Hanover Junction Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Bonds

Chapter 329

An ACT to Incorporate the Oakland Tnatiinte, at Doe Hill, Highland County, Virginia.
Incorporation, Education, Charity

Chapter 330

An ACT to Incorporate the Rockbridge McAdam Road Company
Amendments, Business, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 331

An ACT to Incorporate the Augusta Paper Mill Company.
Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 332

AN ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of John Thompson, late Sheriff of Tazewell County.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 333

An ACT for the Preservation of Oysters and to Obtain Revenue for the Privilege of taking them Within the Waters of the Commonwealth.
Fishing, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Healthcare

Chapter 334

An ACT to Incorporate the Trustees of Sullins College of Goodson, Washington County, Virginia.
Incorporation, Education, Charity

Chapter 335

An ACT Incorporating Leesburg and Goose Oreek Bridge Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 336

An ACT to Amend an Act in Relation to Interest on Money
Amendments, Debt, Business

Chapter 337

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Entitled an Act to Fix the Compensation of the Members of the Board of Supervisors of Lee, Wise, Scott, Buchanan, Russell and Bland Counties, and for other Purposes
Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 338

An ACT Providing for the pay of City and Corporation Judges.
Judicial, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 339

JOINT RESOLUTION in Relation to Appointment of Commissioners to Ascertain and Define the Boundary line Between Virginia and West Virginia.
Boundaries

Chapter 340

An ACT to Empower the Board of Supervisors of Chesterfield County to Erect a Fence on and Change the Line of the District
Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 341

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 3rd Clause of the 57th Section of an Act entitled an Act to Regulate the Imposition, Assessment and Collection of Taxes for the Support of Public Free Schools, by Counties and School Districts, and for this Purpose to Repeal the 2nd Clause of the 14th Section and the 44th Section, and to Amend and Re-enact the 8th Clause of the 24th Section, and the 2nd and 3rd Clauses of the 57th Section, and the 59th and 64th Sections of Chapter 259 of Acts of 1869-70, entitled an Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools
Taxation, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 342

An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal year 1872-73.
Budget, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Education, Civil Rights, Pensions, Death and burial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 343

An ACT to Authorize the Fredericksburg, Orange and Charlottesville Railroad Company to Create a New and First Mortgage on its Property and Franchises.
Business, Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 344

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act passed December 19th, 1866, entitled an Act Authorizing the Southwestern Virginia Mining, Smelting and Transportation Company to Construct a Railroad from King’s Salt Works to a point on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, at or near Dublin.
Amendments, Transportation, Industry, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 345

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section seventeenth, Chapter one hundred and fifty-one of the Code, in Relation to Proceeding where there is a Garnishee
Debt, Judicial, Property, Debt

Chapter 346

An ACT to Authorize the Chesterfield Land and Improvement Company to build Wharves.
Property, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 347

An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Chase City, in the County of Mecklenburg.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers

Chapter 348

An ACT to Authorize the Board of Public Works to sell the State’s Interest in the Lynchburg and Salem Turnpike Company.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 349

JOINT RESOLUTION Appropriating a sum of Money to Replace Houdon’s Statue of Washington in the Rotunda of the Capitol.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 350

An ACT to Authorize the Board of Snvervisors of the Sev-eral Counties to Appoint a Physician and Nurse to Attend the Poor, and to Kegulate their Compensation.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 351

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 15, 16 and 17 of Chapter 37 of the Code with Reference to Sales of Lands for Taxes
Property, Taxation

Chapter 352

An ACT to Constitute Conductors and Agents of Railroads Conservators of the Peace
Transportation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 353

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section fourteen of Chapter one hundred and seventy-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty in Relation to Interest.
Amendments, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 354

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Act approved March 21st, 1872, to Fix the Times for Holding the Circuit Courts of the State.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 355

An ACT for the Relief of William P. Bogle, Elias Harman and Franklin G. Helvey.
Public expenditures, Debt, Amendments, Business

Chapter 356

An Act to Establish a High School in the Town of Jeffersonville, and to Constitute said Town and the County for Three Miles around the same a Sub-School District, and for other purposes.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 357

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 75 of Chapter 230 of Acts of 1871-’72, as to Duties and Compensation of Certain Township Officers
Amendments, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 358

JOINT RESOLUTION in Relation to the sale of the State’s Interest in the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company or other Internal Improvement Companies in the State.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 359

An ACT to Incorporate the Boston Wharf and Warehouse Company of Norfolk.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 360

AN ACT in Relation to the Aaron Hall Free School Fund of the County of Hanover.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 361

An ACT to Incorporate the Virginia Mining and Improvement Company
Incorporation, Industry, Business, Property

Chapter 362

An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Manassas, in Prince William County.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers, Property, Taxation, Transportation, Budget

Chapter 363

An ACT to Secure Advances for Agricultural Purposes.
Agriculture

Chapter 364

An ACT Directing the Auditor of Public Accounts to Receive from the Sureties of Robert F. Vaughan, late Sheriff of Goochland County, Coupon Bonds of the State in Payment of their Liabilities as such Sureties.
Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 365

An ACT to Authorize the District School Boards of Wythe and Bedford Counties to apply Unexpended District Funds to the Payment of Teachers’ Salaries.
Education, Budget, Employment and labor

Chapter 366

JOINT RESOLUTION Expressing the Sense of the General Assembly of Virginia on the state of Public Affairs in Louisiana.
Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Voting, Equality before the law

Chapter 367

An ACT to Incorporate the Virginia Iron and Land Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Agriculture

Chapter 368

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section four of Chapter one hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) in Regard to Writs of Mandamus, Prohibition and Certiorari.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 369

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act passed December 19, 1866, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Southwestern Virginia Mining, Smelting and Transportation Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 370

An ACT to Repeal an Act Approved July 11th, 1870, entitled an Act to Authorize the Governor to Exchange the Arms of the State for Roberts’ Breech Loading Guns
Amendments, Armed forces, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 371

An ACT to Incorporate the Bank of Tazewell
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 372

An ACT to Incorporate the Powell’s River Navigation Company and to Prescribe the Duties thereof.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 373

An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Atlantic, Chesapeake and Ohio Transportation and Towing Company.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 374

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the first, second and third Sections of the Act to Authorize the Formation of the New River Railroad, Mining and Manufacturing Company
Transportation, Industry, Business, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 375

An ACT to Amend Sections 46 and 52, Chapter 87, Code of 1860, as Amended by an Act passed April 20th, 1867, entitled an Act to Amend Certain Sections of Chapter 87, Code of 1860, and in Relation to the Inspection of Tobacco, and the 3d Section of said Act passed as aforesaid.
Agriculture, Business, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 376

An ACT to Authorize the Circuit Court of the County of Pulaski to Decree and Confirm a Sale of Certain Real Estate of Mrs. S. McG. Buford and Children.
Property, Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 377

An ACT Providing for Working and Keeping in Proper Repair the Roads of Fauquier County.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 378

An ACT Providing for the Sale of Certain Estate Devised and Bequeathed by William A. Christian, Deceased.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 379

An ACT Requiring the Consent of the Town Council of Marion, in Smyth County, to Secure License to sell Liquors in the Town of Marion.
Alcohol, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 380

An ACT to Amend Section 86 of the Act of 19th March, 1872, in Relation to Vacancies in Office.
Amendments, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 381

An ACT to Incorporate the New York, Norfolk and Charleston Railway Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 382

JOINT RESOLUTION Directing a Distribution of the New Code when Published
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Education, Libraries

Chapter 383

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 6 of an Act entitled an Act Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of County Officers
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 384

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Chapter one hundred and twenty-two of the Acts of 1871-7%, in Relation to the Relief of the Sureties of William Sample, late Sherif of Russell County.
Amendments, Debt, Public officers

Chapter 385

An ACT to Incorporate the Farmers and Mechanics Benevolent Fire Insurance Association of the Counties of Roanoke and Botetourt.
Incorporation, Charity, Business

Chapter 386

An ACT to Incorporate the Rockingham Bank.
Business, Bonds, Incorporation

Chapter 387

An ACT to Authorize the Common Council of Petersburg to issue Bonds to the amount of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars, for the purpose of Paying off the Indebtedness of said City.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 388

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section one of Chapter twenty-one of the Code of 1860, Concerning the Superintendent of Public Buildings.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 389

An ACT to Incorporate the Farmers Bank of Lynchburg
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 390

JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the Superintendent of Public Printing to Print Two Thousand Copies of the Act to Regulate and Define the Jurisdiction of the Circuit and County Courts, the Act Relating to Certain Bonds and Recognizances and the Act in Reference to Criminal Prosecutions in certain Cases, &c.
Judicial, Bonds, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 391

An ACT to Provide for Placing on the Commissioners’ Books the Lands in the Commonwealth and to Amend Sections 2, 18, 20, 25 and 28 of Chapter 37, Code of 1860, in Relation to the Sales of Forfeited and Delinquent Lands, and for other Purposes,
Property, Taxation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 392

An ACT in Relation to the Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 393

An ACT to allow Judges of Certain Corporation or Hastings Courts to Practice Law
Lawyers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 394

An ACT for the Protection of Fish in the Middle Fork of Holston River, in Smyth County.
Fishing, Public expenditures, Wildlife

Chapter 395

An ACT to Regulate and Define the Jurisdiction of the County and Circuit Courts, to Prescribe the Number of Terms of the Circuit Courts, and to fix the Pay of County Judges
Judicial, Salaries, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 396

An Act to Amend and Re-enact Sections Five and Seven of an Act to Regulate and Define the Jurisdiction of the County and Circuit Courts, to Prescribe the Number of Terms of the Circuit Court, and to Fix the Pay of County Judges.
Judicial, Lawyers, Civil Rights
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