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1883/1884

Laws in Volume
Displaying 1 - 100 of 569

Chapter 1

An ACT to establish eight voting precincts in the city of Norfolk and to provide for a registration of the voters therein.
Voting, Municipal charters, Registration of births, etc., Public officers

Chapter 2

An ACT to incorporate the Exchange and Deposit bank of Abingdon, Virginia.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 3

JOINT RESOLUTIONS declaring the acceptance by the people of Virginia of the settlement of the debt of the state, provided for by the act known as the “ Riddleberger Bill,” and calling upon the creditors of the state to fund their claims and bonds under the provisions of that law.
Debt, Public expenditures, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 4

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Mount Zion church, at Charlottesville, to borrow money and execute deeds of trust.
Religious Institutions, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 5

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the acquisition by the government of the United States of so much land as may be necessary for a public building in the town of Harrisonburg.
Property, Judicial

Chapter 6

An ACT to prescribe the manner in which the Norfolk and Cincinnati Railroad company shall pay its tax on its mortgage to secure bonds hereafter to be issued, and to enlarge the powers of said Norfolk and Cincinnati Railroad Company.
Transportation, Business, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 7

An ACT to incorporate the Banner Company.
Business

Chapter 8

An ACT to compensate E. P. Dandridge for services rendered the state of Virginia as counsel.
Judicial

Chapter 9

An ACT to prescribe the method of proving the ordinances and joint resolutions of municipal corporations.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 10

An ACT to provide for the protection of Deer in the county
Hunting

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the charter of the town of Buchanan, approved January 19, 1882.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Recreation, Taxation

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend an actentitled an act to provide for the election and qualification of county officers, approved March 8, 1878.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 13

An ACT releasing to the University of Virginia and the Female Charity School of Fredericksburg, any claim of the commonwealth to collateral inheritance tax on bequests in the will of Douglas H. Gordon, deceased.
Charity, Education, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 14

An ACT to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of Northampton.
Judicial, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 15

An ACT incorporating the Air Line Turnpike and Draw Bridge Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 16

An ACT to modify the effect of answers as evidence in chancery suits.
Judicial

Chapter 17

An ACT to dispense with the proof of handwriting in certain cases.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 18

An ACT for the relief of Louis Delarue
Taxation

Chapter 19

An ACT allowing J. W. Green Smith, judge of the hustings or corporation court of Staunton, compensation for holding two terms of the hustings or corporation court of Winchester, pending the disability of the judge of said court.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 20

An ACT to extend, renew and amend the charter of the City Gas Light Company of Norfolk.
Utilities, Business

Chapter 21

An ACT to incorporate Supreme Fountain Grand United Order of True Reformers.
Charity, Incorporation, Death and burial, Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor

Chapter 22

An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act to incorporate the Chesapeake Warehouse Company of Norfolk, Virginia, approved March 6, 1872.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 23

An ACT to provide for the compensation of the Judge of the Chancery Court of Richmond, and for the expenses of said court.
Judicial, Salaries, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 24

An ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Winchester, to direct certain parts of certain streets in said city to be closed.
Cemeteries, Transportation, Incorporation, Public spaces, Public expenditures

Chapter 26

An ACT to prescribe the times and places for holding the terms of the circuit courts in the third judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 27

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the Ist section of an act approved April 2, 1870, to district the state for county judges.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 28

An ACT for the relief of Isaac Edmondso
Debt, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 29

An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg, Halifax and North Carolina railroad company.
Transportation

Chapter 30

An ACT exempting, during harvest, farmers personally engaged in saving their crops, from jury service.
Agriculture, Judicial

Chapter 31

An ACT to declare valid certain contracts concerning railroad equipments and rolling stock, and other personal property to be used in and about the operation of any railroad.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 32

An ACT to change the name of the London and Buckingham Construction and Mining Company to Flat Top Coal Company, and confer certain privileges thereon.
Business, Bonds, Industry

Chapter 33

An ACT providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter
Municipal charters, Pensions, Public officers, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Public spaces, Fire fighters, Education, Utilities

Chapter 34

JOINT RESOLUTION directing the auditor of public accounts to pay to the Eastern and Western Lunatic Asylums the sum of twenty thousand dollars each.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend section 1, chapter 147, Code of 1878, in relation to the Jurisdiction of Justices
Judicial, Property, Debt

Chapter 36

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Bonds, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 37

An ACT for the relief of A. N. Finks, of Madison county.
Taxation

Chapter 38

An ACT for the reliefof John W. Grubbs of Clarke county.
Public officers, Debt, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 39

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 9 of an act incorporating the Fauquier and Rappahannock Railroad Company
Transportation, Incorporation, Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 40

An ACT to incorporate the town of Graham, in the county of Tazewell.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Alcohol, Taxation

Chapter 41

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, chapter 48, Code of 1873, in regard to the pay of a justice.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 42

JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the attorney-general to forthwith institute in the circuit court of Richmond proceedings on the official bond or bonds of Joseph Mayo, late treasurer of the commonwealth, to recover a loss to the Sinking Fund.
Amendments, Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 43

JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the auditor of public accounts to revoke the appointment of collector of delinquent tax in arrear and collateral inheritance tax.
Taxation, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 44

An ACT to provide for the appointment of Capitol Police and certain other employces about the Public Buildings and Grounds.
Law Enforcement, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 45

An ACT to amend sections four, twelve, fifteen, forty-one, fifty, fifty-two, sixty, sixty-one, and sixty-seven of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, and to repeal all Jaws in con- conflict therewith
Municipal charters, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Fire fighters, Budget

Chapter 46

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19, chapter 56, Code of 1873, in relation to Land Damage.
Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 47

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the acquisition by the government of the United States of so much Land as may be necessary for a Public Building in the town of Harrisonburg.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Transportation

Chapter 48

An ACT to promote Medicial Science, and to protect Graves and Cemeteries from desecration within the commonweulth of Virginia.
Healthcare, Dead bodies (Law), Cemeteries, Education, Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 49

An ACT to pay George W. Hinman, oyster inspector, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per month, for the Protection of the Oyster Interests of Accomack county, until May Ist, 1884.
Agriculture, Business, Property, Public expenditures, Recreation

Chapter 50

An ACT to incorporate the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial, Education, Public officers

Chapter 51

An ACT to convey the title of the Commonwealth to cer-
Agriculture, Education, Property

Chapter 52

An ACT to incorporate the Loudoun Live Stock Insurance Company.
Business, Incorporation, Agriculture

Chapter 53

An ACT to incorporate The Richmond Union Depot Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 54

An ACT to incorporate the Bristow Brown Stone Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Industry

Chapter 55

An ACT to provide for removing obstructions in Bush river, in Prince Edward county, Virginia.
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Property, Utilities

Chapter 56

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the acquisition by the government of the United States, of so much land as may be necessary for a Public Building in the town of Abingdon.
Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 57

An ACT to amend section four of an act to incorporate the Norfolk Terminal Company, approved March 6, 1882.
Business, Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 58

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors to increase the salary of the Superintendent of the Poor, for the county of Halifax.
Public officers, Salaries, Charity

Chapter 59

An ACT to incorporate The James River Valley Agricultural Fair of Scottsville, Virginia.
Agriculture, Business, Public spaces, Recreation

Chapter 60

An ACT for the relief of James M. Granger from the payment of a fine.
Judicial

Chapter 61

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of James L. Rubinson, late Treasurer of Orange county.
Debt, Public officers

Chapter 62

An ACT to incorporate the James River and North Carolina Railroad Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Bonds, Business

Chapter 63

An ACT to amend sections 6 and 7 and 8, and to repeal section 10 of an act approved December 21, 188%,
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 64

An ACT to provide for authorizing Religious Congregations and other Benevolent, Literary and Charitable Institutions which are not incorporated, to sell, exchange or encumber their property.
Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 65

An ACT to regulate the practice of Medicine and Surgery.
Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 66

An ACT to exempt Pilots from Jury Duty
Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 67

An ACT to incorporate the town of Pocahontas.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Alcohol, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Property

Chapter 68

An ACT to abolish the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit and to re-arrange the Twelfth and Thirteenth Judicial Circuits.
Judicial

Chapter 69

An ACT to amend section 6, chapter 56 of the Code of 1873, relating to the Condemnation of Lands.
Amendments, Property, Utilities, Incorporation

Chapter 70

An ACT to provide a new Charter for the City of Roanoke.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget, Property, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Taxation, Transportation, Divorce, Amendments, Labor, Civil Rights, Death and burial, Education, Charity, Business

Chapter 71

An ACT to provide for Working of Roads in the county of Madison.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Property, Public spaces, Labor, Budget, Amendments

Chapter 72

An ACT to incorporate the Plumer Memorial Female College of Wytheville, Virginia.
Education, Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 73

An ACT to authorize the Norfolk and Western railroad company to make contracts for the use and operation or lease of connecting lines, and conferring certain other additional powers on said company.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 74

An ACT to amend sections one and two of an act to provide for the disposition of the proceeds of Norfolk County Ferries
Transportation

Chapter 75

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Chesapeake Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 76

An ACT to extend the time for the completion of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad.
Transportation

Chapter 77

An ACT to allow the citizens of Worcester county, Maryland, a period of two years to remove their Planted Oysters in Chincoteague bay from the south side of the State Line, recently established.
Fishing, Property, Boundaries

Chapter 78

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Christian church at Lynchburg, to borrow money and secure by deed, of trust.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 79

An ACT to authorize the Trustees of Jackson Female Institute in the town of Abingdon, to sell certain real estate.
Education, Property

Chapter 80

An ACT to repeal chapter 184 of the Acts of Assembly of 1881-2 in relation to working the Roads of the county of Botetourt, and to amend and re-enact sections 21, 23 and 28 of chapter 181 of the Acts of Assembly of 1874-5, entitled an act to provide for Working and keeping in order the Roads of the Commonwealth, so far as they apply to the county of Botetourt.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 81

An ACT for the relief of S. F. G. Beale
Bonds, Debt, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 82

An ACT to fix the time for Holding the Circuit Courts of the several Counties of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 83

An ACT to Regulate the Granting of Licenses for the Exercise of any Privilege.
Business

Chapter 84

An ACT to incorporate the Progressive Age Publishing Company.
Business, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 85

An ACT to provide for the examination and verification of the Records of the Courts of the Commonwealth.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 86

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed January 11, 1877, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the 11th section of an act entitled an act prescribing the Times for Holding the Courts of the tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, and fifteenth Judicial Circuits, approved March 29, 1875.
Judicial

Chapter 87

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Second Auditor to purchase a Safe to be placed in his office.
Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 88

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Isle of Wight county to make special allowance to Judge R. H. Rawles, of Nansemond county, for holding two terms of the county court of Isle of Wight.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 89

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Nansemond county, to make special allowance to Judge C. B. Crumpler, for holding one term of County Court of Nansemond.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 90

An ACT to compensate B. F. Bland and T. J. Christian for legal services rendered the Commonwealth.
Judicial

Chapter 91

An ACT to allow B. B. Vaughan to apply to the Hustings court of the city of Petersburg, to correct the assessments of a lot purchased from said city.
Property, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 92

An ACT to regulate the trial of certain controversies between the state and the Richmond and Petersburg railroad company.
Transportation, Taxation, Business

Chapter 93

An ACT to provide for a new registration of the voters of the county of Madison.
Voting

Chapter 94

An ACT to extend the Police Jurisdiction of the city of Alexandria, and the Jurisdiction of the Corporation Court thereof, in offences against the Commonwealth.
Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Judicial

Chapter 95

An ACT to require the Auditor of Public Accounts to institute proceedings against collectors of delinquent taxes appointed by the Auditor, and their sureties, who have failed to pay over their collections, and settle their accounts.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 96

An ACT to amend the charter of Mount Hebron cemetery.
Cemeteries, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 97

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 59 of chapter 57 of the Code of Virginia of 1873, as amended by un act approved February 27, 1880, in relation to the formation of Joint Stock Companies.
Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 98

An ACT to authorize the Virginia Female Institute to borrow money and secure the same by mortgage or trust deed.
Education, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 99

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Suffolk.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 100

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Classitied Building Association of the City of Norfolk.
Incorporation, Business, Property

Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of the acts to establish Corporation Courts for the cities Manchester and Winchester
Judicial, Salaries, Municipal charters
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