1876/1877

Displaying 201 - 300 of 363

Chapter 201

An ACT to provide for the taking of the census of the school population of Lee county.

Education

Chapter 202

An ACT to provide a method of settling the accounts of the Banks of Rockingham and Berkeley, as to outstanding circula-tion

Bonds, Business, Public officers

Chapter 203

An ACT to amend section 1 of an act approved January 11th, 1877, enlarging the corporate powers of the Royal land company.

Business, Legislative Amendments, Transportation

Chapter 204

An ACT to incorporate the Association of Confederate Soldiers of Lynchburg and Campbell.

Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Charity, Amendments

Chapter 205

An ACT to incorporate the Wytheville mining, manufacturing and hotel company.

Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 206

An ACT to incorporate the Riverside shooting club.

Incorporation, Fishing

Chapter 207

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-one of an act approved July 9, 1870, entitled an act amending the charter of the town of Harrisonburg, in the county of Rockingham, and enlarging and extending the corporate limits of said town, and section twenty-two of said act as amended by an act in force February 10, 1875.

Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 208

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 37th section of the 4th chapter of the Code, edition 1873, so as to provide for the publication of statements of expenditures authorized by judges of the circuit and corporation courts.

Public expenditures, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 209

An ACT to amend section 14, chapter 40, of Code of Virginia, in relation to sale of land for debts due the commonwealth.

Amendments, Debt, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 210

An ACT to regulate the docketing of causes in the circuit court of Richmond city.

Judicial

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend section 1, chapter 100, Code of 1873, in relation to hauling seines in the waters of the Chesapeake bay and its tributaries.

Fishing

Chapter 212

An ACT for the Protection of fish in the waters of the commonwealth above tide-water.

Fishing, Wildlife

Chapter 213

An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati and Saint Louis railroad company, approved March 15, 1872.

Business, Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 214

An ACT to provide for the working of the roads in the county of Washington.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 215

An ACT to authorize the town council of Falls Church, Fairfax county, to take charge of that portion of the Fairfax and Georgetown turnpike lying within the corporate limits of said town.

Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 216

An ACT to render valid the charter of Incorporation of the Gordonsville building association, and to legalize all acts done in pursuance thereof.

Incorporation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 217

An ACT to amend the charter of the Richmond and Henrico railroad, and turnpike and graded road company.

Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 218

An ACT to release the state’s interest in certain real estate in the village of Onancock, in the county of Accomack.

Public spaces, Alcohol, Charity, Recreation, Municipal charters

Chapter 219

An ACT to authorize the county of Nottoway, Virginia, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Charity, Property

Chapter 220

An ACT to expedite the execution of the will of Lawson Nunnally, deceased.

Inheritance and succession

Chapter 221

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections first and sixth of chapter forty-five of Acts of Assembly approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, 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

Chapter 222

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 112, of the Code of 1873, relating to liens given on property, exempted under the 33d and 34th sections of chapter 49 of the Code of 1873.

Property, Debt, Amendments

Chapter 223

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Presbyterian church at Portsmouth, Virginia, to borrow money, and to secure the payment of the same.

Charity, Religious Institutions, Debt, Bonds

Chapter 224

An ACT for the relief of J. B. Browne, skeriff of Gloucester county.

Law Enforcement, Judicial, Property, Fishing

Chapter 225

An ACT to amend sections 84 and 86 of the charter of the city of Richmond, passed July 11, 1870, changing the mode of electing the police commissioners of said city.

Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 226

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Centenary Reform church, of Winchester, Virginia, to borrow money.

Charity, Religious Institutions, Public expenditures

Chapter 227

An ACT concerning the trustees of Richmond Female Institute.

Education, Property, Public officers

Chapter 228

An ACT amending and re-enacting section one of an act to extend a credit of twelve and twenty-four months from the ratification of the sale of the state’s interest in the Upper Appomattox company to the board of superintendents of said company, and to ratify and confirm all acts done in pursuance of the provisions of the act approved March 20, 1873, approved February 11, 1874; also, the act to confirm the action of the stockholders of the Upper Appomattox company in regard to the issue of certain bonds, approved March 29, 1875.

Business, Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 9th section of chapter 79 of the Acts of the General Assembly, session 1872-8, in reference to the De Tubeuf lands in Wise county.

Property, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 230

An ACT to repeal the fence law in Gainesboro’ district, in Frederick county.

Fence Laws

Chapter 231

An ACT to provide for a general index to deeds, wills, and fiduciary accounts, in counties or corporations that have not been supplied.

Property, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 232

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the act approved March the 25th, 1875, entitled an act to provide for the appointment of fish commissioners for the state of Virginia.

Fishing

Chapter 233

An ACT to provide for keeping the paupers in the counties of Scott, Lee and Grayeon.

Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 234

An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Fauquier.

Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 235

An ACT for the protection of Game.

Hunting

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 249, Acts of Assembly 1856-7, in relation to the time of holding the elections for town officers in the town of Smithfield, in Isle of Wight county.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 237

An ACT to provide additional compensation for the surveyors and commissioners charged with the duty of marking the boundary line between the counties of Louisa and Fluvanna, and Louisa and Albemarle.

Boundaries, Public expenditures

Chapter 238

An ACT to incorporate the Farmers’ Exchange Warehouse and Supply Company, of Lynchburg, Virginia.

Business, Incorporation, Agriculture

Chapter 239

An ACT requiring the officers conducting elections ia Dinwiddie county to submit the question of continuing or repealing the fence laws to the voters of voting districts of Dinwiddie county.

Voting, Public expenditures, Agriculture

Chapter 240

An ACT to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Frederick county.

Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 241

An ACT to provide a basis of municipal eecieiiiorea on the real property in cities and towns.

Taxation

Chapter 242

An ACT to enable the congregation of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal church, Tillotson parish, to sell or remove their church edifice and buy or build another.

Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 243

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 12th, 13th, and 74th sections, chapter 78, Code of 1873, in relation to the pay of county superintendents of schools.

Education, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 244

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to prevent the further burial of convicts within the corporate limits of the city of Richmond

Death and burial, Prisons, Segregation

Chapter 245

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18 and 19 of chapter 13 of the Code of 1873, in relation to pay and mileage of members of the general assembly.

Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Salaries, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 246

An ACT to allow commutation for soldiers maimed in war in lieu of artificial limbs and eyes provided by law.

Armed forces, Healthcare, Pensions

Chapter 247

An ACT to authorize the secretary of the commonwealth to furnish the clerks of the county courts of Accomack, Northumberland, Westmoreland, King George, Stafford, Prince William, Fairfax, Alexandria, Middlesex, Mathews, Gloucester, and Loudoun, with copies of the map returned by the commissioners to arbitrate the boundary line between Virginia and Maryland.

Boundaries, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 248

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of chapter 14 0f the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved April 15th, 1874, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 14 of the Code of 18738, in relation to the meeting of the general assembly.

Legislative Amendments

Chapter 249

An ACT to establish a department of agriculture, mining, and manufacturing, for the stato.

Agriculture, Industry, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 250

Joint resolution authorizing the governor to place at the disposal of civil authorities of Accomack arms and ammunition for enforcement of laws for protection of oysters.

Armed forces, Law Enforcement

Chapter 251

An ACT to authorize Witham, Gladden, and Jarman, to erect a wharf on their lund on Messongo creek, in the county of Accomack

Property, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 252

An ACT to amend sections 22 and 32, chapter 36, Code of 1873, in reference to foreign insurance companies.

Business, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 253

An ACT imposing a tax and prescribing the mode of collecting the same, on the privilege of selling wine, ardent spirits or malt liquors within the limits of the commonwealth, for the support of government, and to pay the interest on the public debt.

Alcohol

Chapter 254

An ACT to create a railroad commissioner for the state of Virginia, and to define his duties.

Transportation, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 255

An ACT providing for submitting to the voters of Warren county, on fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the adoption or rejection of a law for working and keeping the public roads in order in said county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation, Civil Rights

Chapter 256

An ACT -to amend and re-enact section 22, chapter 172, Code of 1873, in relation to parties to suits testifying in certain cases.

Judicial, Marriage

Chapter 257

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 5th section of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Abingdon, passed March 11, 1834.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Taxation, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 2d section of chapter 4, Code of 1873, with reference to the sheriff of the city of Richmond.

Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 259

An ACT to incorporate the town of Rustburg, in the county of Campbell.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 260

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 182 of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1874, in reference to judgment liens.

Amendments, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 261

An ACT requiring the county judge of Stafford to submit the question of continuing or repealing the fence law to the voters of Aquia district, in said county.

Fence Laws, Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 262

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39, chapter 49, Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1874, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1875, as amended by an act approved March 29, 1876, in reference to sales under judgments, warrants or decrees, for debts contracted prior to April 10, 1865.

Debt, Judicial, Bonds, Property

Chapter 263

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 98, Code of 1873, in relation to drift.

Property

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 166, of the Code of 1873, in reference to orders of publication.

Judicial, Divorce, Amendments

Chapter 265

An ACT releasing to Mary A. E. Dangerfield the commonwealth’s right to certain real and personal estate.

Inheritance and succession

Chapter 266

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act passed 24th March, 1848, in reference to the Lynchburg and Tennessee railroad company.

Transportation, Taxation, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 267

An ACT to quiet titles of purchasers of delinquent lands sold under the act of the 2d April, 1873, and to repeal so much of the act of the 28th April, 1874, as provides additional sections 38 and 39 for chapter 58, Code 1873.

Property, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 268

An ACT to determine the control of the courthouse of Northumberland and Pittsylvania counties.

Judicial, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 269

An ACT to incorporate the Danville district camp meeting associations in the county of Pittsylvania, state of Virginia.

Incorporation, Religious Institutions

Chapter 270

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18 and 20 of an act entitled an act prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities and compensation of certain county officers, providing for the collection of taxes, and for the repeal of chapters 37 and 46 of the Code of 1873, approved March 29, 1875, as amended by the act approved March 29, 1876.

Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 271

An ACT to enforce the constitutional amendments restricting the right of suffrage to citizens who shall have paid to the state before the day of election, the capitation tax required by law for the preceding year, and to amend and re-enact chapter 7 of the Code.

Voting, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Amendments, Equality before the law

Chapter 272

An ACT to authorize the Worcester railroad company, in Virginia, to consolidate with certain companies in the states of Delaware and Maryland.

Transportation

Chapter 273

An ACT to authorize the increase of the salary of the county judge of Westmoreland and Richmond counties.

Salaries, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 274

An ACT for the relief of David C. Hall, of Lee county.

Alcohol, Amendments, Business

Chapter 275

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Martha Washington college to borrow money and execute a deed of trust to secure the same

Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 276

An ACT to incorporate the Bridgewater healing prinz company.

Incorporation, Healthcare

Chapter 277

An ACT to repeal the fence law as to a part of Clresa-peake magisterial district, in the county of Elizabeth City.

Fence Laws

Chapter 278

An ACT in relation to the judgment lien docket of the county clerk's office of the county of Albemarle.

Judicial, Property, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 279

An ACT to amend and.re-enact section 30 of chapter 215 of the Acts of Assembly of 1875-76, in relation to the duties, powers, linbilities and compensation of certain county officers.

Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 280

An ACT providing for the re-assessment of a tract of land

Property, Taxation, Agriculture

Chapter 281

An ACT for the relief of Richard Muire, of Gloucester county.

Debt, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 40th section of an act entitled an act prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities, and compensation of certain county officers, providing for the collection of taxes, and for the repeal of chapters 37 and 46 of the Code of 1873

Taxation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 283

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14, chapter 192, Code of 18738, in reference to injuries to burial grounds or lots of any memorial or monumental association.

Cemeteries, Death and burial, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 284

An ACT to provide for the payment of claims due by the state on account of the construction of the Covington and Ohio and Blue Ridge railroads.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 285

An ACT to amend the Ist section of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Bedford, Fauquier, Wythe, and Botetourt

Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 286

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Goodson, with regard to the town sergeant.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement

Chapter 287

An ACT for the relief of James A. Lyle

Property, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 288

An ACT to incorporate the Waiters’ Union, of the city of Richmond.

Labor, Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 289

An ACT to amend and re-enact Ist and 4th clauses of section 1 of the act to give effect to a compromise of the litigation in respect to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to establish the Manual Labor school provided for in the 25th clause of said will.

Education, Charity, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 290

An ACT in regard to the right of property in manure made in the ordinary course of husbandry by a tenant or leasce.

Agriculture, Property

Chapter 291

An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Orange and Madison counties to become the purchasers of such parts of any turnpike road as may lie within the limits of said counties.