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1875/1876

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to amend and re-enact the act approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, prescribing the Time for Holding the Courts in the First Judicial Circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 2

An ACT to amend the sixth and eighth sections of an act entitled an act to Establish a Separate Circuit Court in and for the City of Fredericksburg
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of York County to Borrow Money to Rebuild the Courthouse, Jail, and Clerk’s Office of said County
Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 4

An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of the act entitled an act to Incorporate the Warm Springs Company, passed April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
Business, Incorporation, Bonds

Chapter 5

An ACT to Incorporate the East Rockingham and Page Farmers’ Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 6

An Act to amend section two of Chapter one hundred and seventy-one of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, in reference to Number of Commissioners in Chancery.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 7

An ACT requiring the Board of Directors of the Lunatic Asylums to Dispense with the Office of Treasurer, and providing the mode of Disbursing the Funds.
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 8

An ACT for the Relief of the Securities of Thomas L. Jones, late Collector of Beaver Dam Township, Hanover County.
Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 9

An ACT Authorizing the Town of Fredericksburg to issue Bonds to Redeem her Ante-war Debt.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 10

An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Elizabeth City county to Borrow Money to Repair and Rebuild the Court-house and Jail of said county.
Bonds, Jails, Public expenditures, Judicial, Property

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend and re-enact section ten of Chapter one hundred and fifty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in reference to the Docket of Causes in the Court of Appeals.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact section two, of Chapter one hundred and sixty-nine, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in reference to Death of Parties to Suits.
Judicial

Chapter 13

An ACT modifying the Charter of Washington and Lee University
Education, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend and re-enact the tenth section of Chapter ninety-nine, Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Unlawful Hunting.
Hunting

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend the charter of the Battersea Manufacturing Company, in the City of Petersburg.
Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 16

JOINT RESOLUTION to ascertain the Number of Lunatics Confined in the Jails of the Several Counties.
Jails, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend section four of an act approved March fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to Sell the Commons in the Town of Woodstock.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend the Charter of the Etterick Manufacturing Company, in the County of Chesterfield.
Amendments, Business, Industry, Municipal charters

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act approved February eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled an act to Prevent Pulling and Leaving Fences Down, and of Opening and Leaving Open Gates, without Permission of Owner.
Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 20

An ACT to provide for the Registration of the Voters of the city of Danville.
Voting

Chapter 21

An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act, approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled an act to Establish a New Judicial Circuit, to be known as the Seventeenth, and to alter the First and Eighth Circuits.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 22

An ACT to amend and re-enact section first, Chapter one hundred and thirty, Acts of Assembly, eighteen hundred and seventy-four-seventy-five, entitled an act to Release Certain Purchasers of the De Tubeuf Lands, in Wise County, from the Payment of Interest from January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, inclusive.
Property, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 23

An ACT Fixing the Term of Office of Constable for the city of Winchester.
Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Judicial

Chapter 24

An ACT to extend the Police Jurisdiction of the City of Alexandria.
Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 25

An ACT to repeal the twenty-third section, chapter ninety-one of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Pilots.
Repeal of legislation, Transportation

Chapter 26

An act to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled an act to authorize the Town of Fredericksburg to Issue Bonds to Redeem her ante-war Debt, &c.
Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 27

An ACT authorizing Raymond R. Hutchison, of Accomac county, his Heirs and Assigns, to Erect a Wharf on Pungoteague Creek in said county.
Property, Public expenditures, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 28

An ACT to Confirm the Title of Alexander Coke to Certain Land in Princess Anne county.
Property, Religious Institutions

Chapter 29

An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to make valid the Charter of the Virginia Savings Bank of Lynchburg, granted by the Lynchburg Circuit Court
Amendments, Business

Chapter 30

An ACT authorizing the Assistant Assessor of the County of York, to Complete the Duties of the late Assessor.
Taxation

Chapter 31

An ACT to authorize the Potomac Bridge Company to borrow Money, and issue Bonds therefor.
Bonds, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 32

AN ACT to authorize Joseph J. English, of Accomac county, to erect a Wharf on Chincoteague Channel in said county.
Property, Transportation

Chapter 33

An ACT to amend and re-enact the seventeenth section of chapter sixteen of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Rewards for Persons charged with Offences.
Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 34

An ACT authorizing the Auditor of Public Accounts to Refund a Fine adjudged against A. T. Mooklar, of King and Queen county.
Business, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact section eight of chapter one hundred and eighty-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Procuring Abortions and Miscarriages.
Amendments, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Death and burial

Chapter 36

An ACT to incorporate the Madison Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Incorporation, Property, Business

Chapter 37

An ACT to prohibit the Sale, Exchange and Purchase of Corporate Property by the Board of Supervisors of any County, except with the Approval and Ratification of the County Court.
Business, Public officers, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 38

An ACT to amend and re-enact section seventeen, chapter ninety-nine of the Code eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the seventeenth section of chapter ninety-nine of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for the Protection of Game.
Hunting, Wildlife, Amendments

Chapter 39

An ACT to amend and re-enact section seventy-three, chapter sixty-one of Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Abandoned Turnpikes.
Transportation

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to amend the Charter and change the Name of the Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank of the City of Richmond.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 41

An act for the Relief of the Sureties of Samuel J. Spindle
Amendments, Business, Incorporation, Transportation

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to Incorporate the Town of Seddon, in the County of Bland
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Alcohol, Taxation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 44

An ACT to incorporate the Shenandoah Farmers’ Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Business, Property

Chapter 45

An ACT to authorize the Qualified Voters of Halifax County to vote on the Question of the Purchase or Construction of a Bridge at South Boston, in that County.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Voting, Legislative Amendments, Property, Bonds

Chapter 46

An ACT to allow Commutation for Soldiers Maimed in War, in lieu of Artificial Limbs heretofore provided.
Armed forces, Charity, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 47

An ACT in relation to Cemeteries and Cemetery Associations
Cemeteries, Property, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 48

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to designate the Arbitrators to Ascertain and Fix the Boundary of the States of Maryland and Virginia
Boundaries

Chapter 49

An ACT for the Relief of Township Creditors
Budget, Debt, Property, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourteenth section of chapter thirteen of the Code, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in reference to the Pay of Judges of Circuit, Chancery, and Hustings Courts of Richmond, and Hustings Courts of Norfolk and Petersburg, so as to authorize the Council of the City of Portsmouth to increase the Salary and Compensation of the Judge of the Hustings Court of said City.
Judicial, Salaries

Chapter 51

An ACT to amend the Charter of the Valley Railroad Company.
Amendments, Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend an act approved July ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond Educational Association.
Education, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 53

An Act to incorporate the Richmond Institute in the City of Richmond.
Education, Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 54

An ACT to prescribe Times for Holding Terms of Circuit Courts in the Twelfth and Eighteenth Judicial Circuits.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 55

An ACT to eaea for the Collection of the Revenue of Lee Township, in the County of Accomac.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of the Charter of the Town of Chatham, Pittsylvania County.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Budget, Business

Chapter 57

An ACT to amend and re-enact the eighteenth section of the Charter of the City of Richmond.
Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend the second section of an Act to Exempt the Property of the Husband or Wife from the Ante-Nuptial Debts of the other
Amendments, Marriage, Property, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 59

An ACT to authorize the Trustees of the Second Baptist Church, colored; to Borrow Money on Trust Deed.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate The Richmond Harmonic Association, and to change the name thereof.
Incorporation, Business, Charity, Amendments

Chapter 61

An ACT to revive and re-enact the act to Incorporate the Female Orphan Asylum of Fredericksburg.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Education, Amendments, Reformatories

Chapter 62

An ACT to amend chapter thirteen, section twenty-three of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, allowing Commission to General Agent and Storekeeper of the Penitentiary.
Amendments, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 63

An ACT to amend and re-enact section sixteen, chapter one hundred and twenty-eight, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in reference to Commissioners in Chancery.
Judicial, Amendments, Property

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty, chapter one hundred and ninety of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Obstructing Justice by Threats or Force.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights

Chapter 65

An ACT to incorporate The Aged Home Association.
Charity, Healthcare, Incorporation, Wards

Chapter 66

An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of Lone Star Lodge, Number thirteen hundred and forty of the Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows of the City of Richmond.
Charity, Fraternal organizations, Death and burial, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 67

An ACT to incorporate The Chamber of Commerce of Richmond.
Business

Chapter 68

An ACT to authorize the Recordation by the Register of the Land Office, of Copies of Papers Recorded in Clerks’ Offices of the Commonwealth.
Property, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 69

An ACT to authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Chesterfield to Vote on the Question of Removal of the County Court-house.
Voting, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 70

An ACT to incorporate the Charlottesville and Rapidan railroad.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 71

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of chapter ninety-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and to amend and re-enact section one of an act in reference to Obstructions to Highways and Hindrances to Travelers, approved February seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
Public spaces, Transportation, Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 72

An ACT to incorporate The Woodland Cemetery Company.
Cemeteries, Incorporation, Property, Public officers

Chapter 73

An ACT to provide for the Working of Roads in the Counties of Shenandoah, Page, and Rockingham.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 74

An ACT to incorporate The Broad Creek Toll Bridge and Turnpike Road Company.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 75

An ACT to amend the Charter of the Town of Danville, by the addition of a new section to come in after section thirty-one of said Charter, as amended by Act of the General Assembly, passed December fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 76

An ACT to authorize the Trustees of the Third Street African Methodist Episcopal Church to Borrow Money, and execute a Deed of Trust to secure the payment of the same.
Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 77

An ACT to Protect Fish in the North Branch of Shenandoah River.
Fishing, Cemeteries, Charity, Healthcare, Death and burial

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend the Charter of Blacksburg.
Municipal charters, Budget, Public officers, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor, Public spaces

Chapter 80

An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of J. B. Golliday, late Treasurer of Shenandoah County.
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 81

An ACT to incorporate the West Point Commercial Company.
Business, Incorporation, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 82

An ACT to incorporate the Mountain Top Company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 83

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act approved January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled an act to provide for the Registration of the Voters of the City of Danville.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 84

An ACT to enlarge the Powers of the Mayor and Council of the Town of Big Lick, in the County of Roanoke, and to provide for the Better Government of said Town.
Alcohol, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Budget

Chapter 85

An ACT to extend the Corporate Limits of the Town of West Point.
Boundaries

Chapter 86

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Town of Waterford, in Loudoun County, approved March eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Alcohol, Public officers

Chapter 87

An ACT providing for the Submission to the People of the Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of Virginia, in reference to the Elective Franchise and Qualification for Office, and concerning the Legislative Department.
Amendments, Voting, Civil Rights, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 89

An ACT to authorize the School Trustees of Brookland District, Henrico County, to establish a Collegiate Department in connection with Brook High School.
Education

Chapter 90

An ACT for the Protection of Ginseng in the Counties of the State.
Agriculture

Chapter 91

An ACT to revise and amend the Charter of The Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Inheritance and succession, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 92

An ACT to provide for the Working of Roads in the County of Fauquier.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget, Amendments

Chapter 93

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to amend the ninth section of the act approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled an act to prescribe the Times of Holding the Terms of the Circuit Courts of this Commonwealth, and to repeal the fifteenth section of the one hundred and fifty-fifth chapter of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, which Authorizes the Judges of said Courts to Fix said Terms.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 94

An ACT authorizing the Trustees of Magnolia Baptist Church, in Nansemond County, to Borrow Money.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 95

An ACT to incorporate The Newmarket Female Institute Association.
Education, Incorporation, Charity, Property

Chapter 96

An ACT to extend the Charter of the Wythe Watering Company.
Business, Utilities, Municipal charters

Chapter 97

An ACT to authorize the Trustees of the Property in the City of Petersburg, known as Masonic Hall, to Borrow Money on the same for the purpose of its Improvement.
Business, Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 98

An ACT granting a Loan of Arms of the State to the Principal of the Fredericksburg Military Academy, and to the Faculty of the Bethel Academy near Warrenton.
Armed forces, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Incorporation

Chapter 100

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twelve, chapter ninety-nine, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for the Protection of Wild Fowl in the Counties bordering on the Potomac and Rappahannock.
Hunting

Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-seven, Chapter one hundred and eighteen, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in regard to the Recordation of Wills.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Property

Chapter 102

An ACT to appropriate a Certain Sum annually to the University of Virginia.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 103

An ACT to provide for the Disposition of the Proceeds of Norfolk County Ferries.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Bonds

Chapter 104

An ACT to incorporate The Milton and Sutherlin
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures
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