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1877/1878

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to provide for the use of convict labor on the James river and Kanawha canal.
Labor, Prisons, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 2

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, prescribing the times of holding courts in the twelfth and eighteenth judicial circuits.
Judicial, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 3

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Richmond to loan a certain sum in bonds or money to the James river and Kanawha company.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 4

An ACT to amend the charter of the Baldwin-Augusta Fair.
Amusement, Public expenditures

Chapter 5

An ACT to amend the act entitled an act to incorporate the Lee monument association, approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.
Amendments, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 6

An ACT authorizing the appointment of an additional commissioner in chancery for the circuit court of the county of Ruckingham.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 7

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of free scoools and encourage wool-growing in the county of Lee, approved February 6th, 1877.
Education, Agriculture, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 8

An ACT for the relief of the tax-payers of the county of King William.
Taxation

Chapter 9

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the reduction of the present Federal tax on manufactured tobacco.
Agriculture, Industry, Taxation

Chapter 10

JOINT RESOLUTION of the general assembly demanding an immediate report from the clerks of the circuit courts of certain counties of the matters required of them by section 22, chapter 159, Code of 1878.
Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 20th section of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Jails, Property, Public officers

Chapter 12

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the city of Manchester, to sell and purchase property and to borrow money.
Religious Institutions, Property, Charity

Chapter 13

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 14th section of chapter 13 of the Code of 1878, as amended by an act approved February 10th, 1876, and in reference to the pay of judges of the circuit, chancery, and hustings court of the city of Richmond, and hustings court of Norfolk, Petersburg, and Portsmouth, so as to authorize the council of the city of Danville to increase the salary and compensation of the judge of the hustings court of said city.
Amendments, Judicial, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 26th, 1877, entitled an act to amend section fifty-eight of chapter seventy-eight of the Code of 1873, in regard to admission to the public free schools.
Education, Civil Rights, Segregation

Chapter 15

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds for the purpose of redeeming certain outstanding bonds of said city.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 16

An ACT declaring the Virginia bank of Potomac river in Loudoun county a lawful fence.
Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first sub-division of the 15th section of the act for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, licenses, &c., and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt
Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend the first section of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Bedford, Fauquier, Wythe, and Botetourt, approved March 17th, 1876, as amended by an act approved April 2d, 1877.
Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend the tenth section of an act to incorporate the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company, and to enable the James River and Kanawha Company to subscribe to the capital stock thereof.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re enact an act approved March 22d, 1871, entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Fluvanna to construct a ferry across the Rivanna river.
Transportation

Chapter 21

An ACT to remove the political disabilities of John A. Henley and Sydney Smith of Williamsburg.
Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 22

An ACT allowing further time to Wm. E. Boisseau, sergeant of Danville, to make his return of delinquents and insolvents for the year 1876.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 19th, 1876, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 28, chapter 78 of the Code of 1873, to provide for taking the census of school population.
Education, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 24

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved 20th March, 1877, entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Fauquier.
Agriculture, Amendments, Business, Property, Taxation

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Fairfax
Agriculture, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 26

JOINT RESOLUTION to authorize appointment of com- missioners to prepare a plan for reorganization of the government offices.
Budget, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 27

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 6th section of an act entitled an act to revise the laws relating to the inspection of tobacco, and warehouse charges, and to insure the proper delivery of tobacco to the consignees, and to repeal all acts on the subject which were in force on the lst January, 1877, approved April 4th, 1877.
Agriculture, Industry, Amendments

Chapter 28

An ACT to authorize the county of Rappahannock to unite with the counties of Fauquier and Culpeper in constructing a bridge over the Rappahannock river.
Transportation

Chapter 29

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the distribution of the Physical Survey of Virginia, No. 2, by Commodore M. F. Maury.
Education, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 30

JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the attorney-general to institute proceedings in the proper courts to ascertain whether the charter of the Roanoke navigation company has been forfeited.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 31

An ACT for the relief of Joseph Riggs, late collector of Metompkin township, county of Accomack.
Budget, Public officers, Taxation, Business

Chapter 32

An ACT to allow the Artillery Greys and Guards of Petersburg to take and utilize certain brick belonging to the commonwealth.
Armed forces, Public officers, Labor, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 33

An ACT to amend section 7 of chapter 157 of the Code of Virginia, so as to fix the place of holding the circuit court of Henrico county.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 34

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia general manufacturing and produce shipping company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12, chapter 21, Code of 1873, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 12, chapter 21, Code of 1873,-in relation to contributing members of volunteer companies of militia
Armed forces, Amendments, Public officers, Budget, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 36

JOINT RESOLUTION to authorize the attorney-general
Judicial, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 37

JOINT RESOLUTION directing auditor of public accounts to collect statistical information, to tabulate the same, and to keep the same in printed form in his office for public use.
Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 39

An ACT to incorporate the Rochelle mutual co-operative association for the purpose of conducting a general mercantile business and of manufacturing leather, shoes, and other goods out of leather.
Business, Agriculture, Incorporation

Chapter 40

An ACT for the relief of the conference of St. Mary of the society of St. Vincent of Paul, in the city of Alexandria, and to rescribe the basis upon which the collateral inheritance tax shall be assessed and charged to said conference, on certain property devised to it.
Charity, Inheritance and succession, Taxation

Chapter 41

An ACT for the relief of Gideon W. Jones, of Warren
Property, Public expenditures, Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 42

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 25 of an act for working the roads of Loudoun county
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 75th section of the charter of the city of Richmond, as amended by an act approved March 29th, 1876.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 3rd section of an act to constitute one quarantine district of the Elizabeth river and its branches, and to create a board of quarantine commissioners and a quarantine medical officer for said district, approved February 26th, 1877.
Healthcare, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 45

An ACT to incorporate the Altoona coal and iron company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Business

Chapter 46

An ACT to amend the fourth section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bank of Marion
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 47

An ACT to incorporate the town of Hillsville in the county of Carroll.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 48

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 8 of an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick, and Charlotte, approved March 6th, 1874.
Agriculture

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend the third section of an act to incorporate St. Paul’s Church Home, passed February 19, 1861.
Children -- Institutional care, Education, Religious Institutions, Custody of children

Chapter 50

An ACT providing for the extension of the time for the collection of the taxes in Essex county, and for the relief of the tax- payers of the same.
Taxation

Chapter 51

An ACT to prevent the obstruction of water courses in Wise and Buchanan counties.

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 22d, 26th, and 27th sections of an act entitled an act amending the charter of the town of Danville, passed March 4th, 1844, and incorporating into one all acts amendatory thereof, passed December Lith, 1465, and to amend and re-enact the 7th and 8th sections of the act amendatory of the same, approved March 25th, 1872.
Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 53

An ACT to incorporate the Planters’ Tobacco Warchouse of Bristol
Business, Incorporation, Agriculture

Chapter 54

An ACT to incorporate the St. Paul’s Church Home for the aged and infirm.
Charity, Healthcare, Incorporation

Chapter 55

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act to incorporate the Charlottesville and Rapid Ann Railroad Company
Incorporation, Transportation, Bonds, Business

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend the charter of the Marion Female College.
Amendments, Education, Incorporation, Property, Bonds

Chapter 57

An ACT to prevent the sale of cotton between certain hours.
Agriculture, Business, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 58

JOINT RESOLUTION declaring the First National Bank of Richmond, and the Union Bank of Richmond, depositories of public moneys.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 59

An ACT to provide for working the roads in the counties of Shenandoah and Page.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Labor

Chapter 60

An ACT for the relief of the Petersburg Aqueduct company.
Utilities

Chapter 61

An ACT defining the status of tobacco warehouses of the commonwealth.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 62

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the roads in the county of Hanover.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Municipal charters, Labor

Chapter 63

An ACT to amend the seventh section of an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Goodson.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati, and St. Louis railroad company, approved March 15th, 1872, as amended by an act approved March 21, 1877, as amended by an act approved April 4, 1877, in reference to times and places of holding meetings of stockholders.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 65

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of A. F. Creel, late collector for Marshall township in the county of Fauquier.
Debt, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 66

An ACT to authorize the Lynchburg Light Artillery Blues and Old Dominion Guard of Portsmouth city, to uniform themselves in such manner as they may decide.
Armed forces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 67

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 68

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bath county to borrow money to defray the cost of erecting a bridge over the Cowpasture river.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 69

JOINT RESOLUTIONS relative to the repeal of a joint resolution, adopted March 15th, 1850, transferring to the Orange and Alexandria railroad company a claim of the state of Virginia against the United States government.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 70

JOINT RESOLUTION instructing Senators and requesting Representatives in the Congress of the United States to vote for the remonetization of silver.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 71

An ACT to provide a fence law for the county of Loudoun, and to repeal an act entitled an act relating to fences and for the protection of crops, approved January 26th, 1866, in so far as it applies to the county of Loudoun.
Fence Laws

Chapter 72

An ACT to authorize William T. Ferguson to erect a pierhead or wharf at Booth’s landing on James river.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 100 of the Code of 1878, in relation to unlawful fishing.
Fishing

Chapter 74

An ACT to amend section 68 of chapter 34 of the Code of 1878, as amended and re-enacted by acts approved February 13th, and April 14th, 1877, in reference to insurance compunies.
Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 75

An ACT to incorporate the Rappahannock Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 76

An ACT declaring the Meherrin river a lawful fence in certain portions of Lunenburg county.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 77

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 12, chapter 128, Code of 1878, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1877, providing for recordation of fiduciaries’ accounts.
Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 78

An ACT to amend and re-enact 9th section of chapter 182 of the Code of 18738, in relation to the enforcement of judgment liens.
Judicial, Debt, Property

Chapter 79

An ACT to incorporate the Onancock Town Hall Company in the county of Accomac.
Business, Incorporation, Public spaces

Chapter 80

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to issue a certain amount of county bonds to build a bridge.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 81

An ACT to incorporate Franklin City, in the county of Accomac.
Incorporation, Municipal charters

Chapter 82

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, approved March 20th, 1875, so as to authorize the county of Warren to levy a tax, not to exceed fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars of property.
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 83

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Lebanon Academy, passed March 10th, 1851.
Education, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 84

An ACT to incorporate the United Ocean Club of Norfolk city.
Incorporation, Public officers, Libraries

Chapter 85

An ACT to incorporate the corporation of St. George’s Hospital for the United States and Canada.
Healthcare, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 86

An ACT to authorize the city council of Alexandria to compromise the debt of the city, and to issue bonds in accordance with the terms of such compromise, and prescribing the mode in which the payment of the interest on such bonds may be enforced.
Bonds, Debt, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 87

An ACT to provide for repairing the Rivanna canal with convict labor.
Armed forces, Labor, Prisons, Public expenditures, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 88

An ACT to authorize the beard of supervisors of Princess Anne county to inercase the salary of the county judge.
Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 89

An ACT enabling the trustees of Moore’s swamp church, in Surry county, to sell a portion of their church lot to trustees for the Independent Order of Good Templars.
Religious Institutions, Charity, Amendments

Chapter 90

An ACT to prevent insurance companies and other insurere from printing the conditions and other restrictive conditions in small type.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of chapter 84, of Code of 1873, in relation to the duties and salary of the vaccine agent.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 92

An ACT to authorize Henry C. Douthat, of Botetourt county, to establish a ferry across James river in said county.
Transportation

Chapter 93

An ACT to authorize Charles T. Lipes, of Botetourt county, to establish a ferry across James river in said county.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 94

An Act for the relief of the Giles county iron company
Business, Property, Taxation

Chapter 95

An ACT to authorize the governor to hire convicts to the board of supervisors of Bedford county, and to provide for making levy to pay hire.
Labor, Prisons, Transportation

Chapter 96

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Rockbridge, approved March 5, 1877, and to provide for the disposition of the taxes and levies collected or assessed under the same.
Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 97

An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Shenandoah and Page
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 98

An ACT to authorize the Free-will Baptist Home Association to convey certain real estate in Richmond city.
Charity, Property, Religious Institutions, Incorporation

Chapter 99

An ACT for the relief of John H. Silvers, late township collector of Auburn township, in Montgomery county, and his sureties.
Amendments, Debt, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 100

An ACT regulating the reports of insurance companies.
Business

Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henrico to hire convicts for the purpose of improving the public roads in the county of Henrico, and to make provisions for meeting the expense thereof
Labor, Public expenditures, Transportation, Prisons
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