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1883/1884

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 569

Chapter 202

An ACT to increase the pay of Judge of Election or Messenger conveying election returns from Hogg Island Voting Precinct, in the county of Northampton, to the clerk’s office of said county.
Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 203

An ACT to amend sections three, seven, ten, twelve and fourteen of chapter one hundred of the Code of 1873, in reference to diseased cattle.
Agriculture

Chapter 204

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10, 18, 14 and 17 of the charter of the town of Danville.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation, Utilities, Cemeteries, Recreation, Employment and labor

Chapter 205

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed January 16th, 1873, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers

Chapter 206

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of chapter 13 of the Code of 1873, in relation to the Mileage of the General Assembly.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 207

An ACT transferring the interest of the state to certain portions of the Fincastle and Cumberland Gap Turnpike lying within the county of Tazewell to said county.
Transportation

Chapter 208

An ACT to make Middle river, in the county of Augusta, between certain points, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws

Chapter 209

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Halifax county to let public roads to contract.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 210

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved Murch 24, 1871, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Luray, in the county of Page, and an act approved April 30, 1874, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act to incorporate the town of Luray, approved March 28, 1879.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Jails, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 211

An ACT to authorize a subscription by the city of Winchester in money or bonds to the stock or bonds of the Washington, Ohio and Western Railroad Company.
Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 212

An ACT to transfer to the county of Clarke the interest of the commonwealth in the Berryville and Charlestown turnpike.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 213

An ACT for keeping the public roads in order for the county of Amelia.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation, Employment and labor

Chapter 214

An ACT to provide additional accommodations for the Library.
Libraries, Public officers, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 215

An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg street railway.
Transportation, Business, Amendments

Chapter 216

An ACT to provide for working the public roads in the county of Grayson.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property, Employment and labor

Chapter 217

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

Chapter 218

An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Montgomery county to include in their levies an amount sufficient to pay the outstanding warrants of the county for fox-scalps and sheep claims.
Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Bridgewater, approved February 7, 1835, and all acts amendatory thereof.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Budget, Business, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Taxation, Public officers, Voting, Property

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act approved February 6, 1878, entitled an act to provide for working roads in the counties of Shenandoah and Page.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 221

An ACT amending an act passed January 16, 1878, entitled an act declaring Smith’s river, in the county of Henry, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 222

An ACT to give the consent of this state to the purchase by the United States, of certain real estate in the city of Fredericksburg, in order to erect a public building thereun, and exempt the same from taxation.
Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public spaces

Chapter 223

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of chapter 64 of the Code of 1873, in relation to Ferries.
Transportation

Chapter 224

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the county of Botetourt, by adding thereto, in the Ist section, the counties of Westmoreland and Northumberland
Repeal of legislation, Transportation

Chapter 225

An ACT to incorporate the West Point and Aylett’s Turnpike Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 226

An ACT to give the consent of this state to the purchase, occupation, improvement and use by the United States of certain real estate in the city of Fredericksburg, and county of Spotsylvania, in order to open aud maintain an improved highway from said city to the National Cemetery, near said city.
Transportation, Public spaces, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 227

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding Circuit Courts in the Eighth Judicial Circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend and re-enact the act entitled an act to prevent the catching or taking of oysters from the oyster-bed known as Russ’ Rock in the Rappuhannock river
Fishing

Chapter 229

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Normal School, Rockingham county, Virginia.
Education, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 230

An ACT regulating the working of public roads in the county of Tazewell.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 231

An ACT to amend section 3 of an act approved March 14, 1878, in relation to the sale of certain school property in the town of Marion.
Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 232

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 6, 1871, as amended by an act approved March 29, 1873, providing a charter for the town of Dublin, in the county of Pulaski.
Transportation, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 234

An ACT to increase the pay of sheriffs in the counties of Charlotte and Pittsylvania.
Law Enforcement, Salaries

Chapter 235

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Land Improvement and Construction Company.
Business, Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 236

An ACT for the relief of D. E. Bass, late treasurer of Campbell county.
Taxation, Alcohol, Business, Public officers

Chapter 237

An ACT to incorporate the Modoc Tribe No. 51, Improved Order of Red Men, at Mechanicsville, Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 238

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 9, 1480, entitled an act to reguiute the times of holding the circuit courts in the fourth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 239

An ACT for the relief of W. H. Fairfax, late treasurer of Westmoreland county.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 240

An ACT to relieve the political disabilities of Harrison Southworth, John S. Williamson and others.
Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Reformatories

Chapter 241

An ACT giving the consent of the state to the purchase by the United States of certain real estate in the city of Fredcricksburg, and exempting the same from taxation.
Monuments and memorials, Property, Taxation

Chapter 242

An ACT to require the Attorney-General to institute proceedings to ascertain whether the charter of the Richmond, Williamsburg and Central Turnpike Company, in Henrico county, has been forfeited.
Business, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 243

An ACT to incorporate the Liberty Improvement Company.
Incorporation, Business, Property

Chapter 244

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

Chapter 245

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and five of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Shenandoah Iron, Lumber, Mining and Manufacturing Company, approved June 30, 1870.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 246

An ACT to authorize the Common Council of the city of Manchester to authorize persons or compunies to construct a street railway.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 247

An ACT to incorporate the Anglo-American Sulphur and Copper Company of Virginia.
Incorporation, Industry, Bonds, Business

Chapter 248

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Fireman’s Relief Association.
Fire fighters, Charity

Chapter 249

An ACT to exempt from taxation the property of the Baldwin-Augusta Fair, so long as used for fair purposes.
Amusement, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 250

An ACT to authorize the Washington, Ohio, and Western Railroad Company to make contracts of lease and consolidation with certain other railroad companies, and to connect, cross, and unite with certain other railroads.
Transportation, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 251

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Western Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 252

An ACT to provide for working of roads in the counties Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Employment and labor, Judicial

Chapter 253

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

Chapter 254

An ACT for the preservation of Ovsters, and to obtain revenue for the privilege of tuking them within the waters of the commonwealth.
Fishing, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 255

An ACT to incorporate the town of Clintwood, in the county of Dickenson.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Boundaries, Law Enforcement

Chapter 256

An ACT to incorporate the Craig Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 257

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to define the true boundary line between Maryland and Virginia, and to designate the headlands upon the Potomac river, and to prohibit unlawful oystering and dredging in the Potomac river and Pocomoke Sound
Boundaries, Repeal of legislation, Fishing

Chapter 258

An ACT to repeal section 7, chapter 79 of the Code of 1873, and to regulate the appointment of School Trustees in cities and incorporated towns of five thousand inhabitants and over.
Education, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 259

An ACT to provide for the working of roads and repairing of bridges in the county of Scott.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 260

An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of Washington Lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 261

An ACT to amend the charter of the Tagus Mill and Mining Company.
Business, Incorporation, Taxation

Chapter 262

An ACT to incorporate the Nelson Manufacturing Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 263

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and five of an act to incorporate the town of Abingdon, passed March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended and re-enacted by an act passed April 2d, 1877, and to extend the corporate limits of said town.
Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Public spaces, Public expenditures

Chapter 264

An ACT to authorized the Board of Supervisors of Pulaski county to levy a tax on persunal property and real estate for the purpose of building and constructing a macadamized road from the town of Dublin, to where the Pulaski and Giles turnpike intersects the present macadamized road near the town of Newbern.
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 265

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 201 of Acts of Assembly of 1879-80, in reference to the road tax in the corporate limits of the town of Warrenton.
Transportation

Chapter 266

An ACT to amend the act of incorporation of the Odd Fellows Building Association of Norfolk.
Amendments, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 267

An ACT to incorporate the Franklin Agricultural and Mechanical Society.
Agriculture, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 268

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary and High School in Virginia, to acquire and hold additional property.
Charity, Education, Religious Institutions

Chapter 269

An ACT providing a Statute of Limitations for Ground Rent.
Property

Chapter 270

An ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of the commonwealth.
Fishing

Chapter 271

An ACT to incorporate the Bank of Heathsville.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 272

An ACT to incorporate the Poplar Spring Cemetery Company of Franklin.
Cemeteries, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 273

An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and Norfolk county Building and Loan Association.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 274

An ACT to incorporate the Union Manufacturing and Milling Company of Union Mills, Fluvanna county, Virginia.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 275

An ACT to incorporate the Farmers Bank of Sussex county.
Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 276

An ACT to incorporate the Ivy Hill Cemetery Company
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Property, Civil Rights

Chapter 277

An ACT to incorporate the Union Auxiliary Club of Norfolk.
Amusement, Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Business

Chapter 278

An ACT repealing section 4 of an act passed February 14, 1816, entitled an act concerning the Dismal Swamp Canal Company.
Repeal of legislation, Transportation

Chapter 279

JOINT RESOLUTION to empower the Superintendent of the Penitentiary to deliver a convict to the sheriff of Culpeper county, for a specified purpose.
Prisons, Judicial, Property, Debt

Chapter 280

An ACT to authorize the councils of the city of Portsmouth to issue paving bonds.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation

Chapter 281

An ACT to allow the treasurer of Tazewell county further time to collect certain taxes in Maiden Spring district in said county, for the years 1881, 1882, and 1883.
Taxation

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Nansemond and Isleof Wight Drawbridge Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 283

An ACT to ratify and confirm Leases by or to the Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great Southern railroad company, or the companies which composed it, and to authorize the Virginia Midland railway company to renew such Leases.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 284

An ACT to incorporate the town of Goshen, in the county of Rockbridge.
Incorporation, Boundaries, Civil Rights, Business, Taxation, Alcohol

Chapter 285

An ACT to incorporate the Nelson Savings Bank.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 286

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 of an act approved April 28, 1874, amending an act entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Rocky Mount in the county of Franklin, in force February 17, 1873.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 287

An ACT to amend the charter of Lafayette Lodge, No. 9, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Property

Chapter 288

An ACT to consolidate the Norfolk and Princess Anne Turnpike Company, and the Broad Creek and London Bridge Turnpike Company.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 289

An ACT to allow the mayor and town council of the town of Abingdon to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 290

An ACT to provide for the maintenance and repair of the roads and bridges in the county of Buckingham.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 291

An ACT to allow the County School Boards of Mathews and Albemarle counties to use a portion of the school fund to erect school houses.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 292

An ACT to incorporate the Nelson Improvement Company.
Business, Agriculture, Utilities

Chapter 293

An ACT for the relief of James B. Willis
Budget, Property

Chapter 294

An ACT to authorize the Council of the town of Luray, in the county of Page, to borrow money.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 295

An ACT requiring the Registration of Charters of alien Mining Companies.
Business, Registration of births, etc.

Chapter 296

An ACT to incorporate the Balcony Falls Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Taxation

Chapter 297

An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Nelson county to let to contract the public roads, and levy a tax to keep the same in order.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 298

An ACT to change the dividing line between Ashby and Central Magisterial Districts, in Rockingham county, Virginia.
Boundaries

Chapter 299

An ACT providing a road law for Amherst county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 300

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Rockbridge county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 301

An ACT to limit proceedings for the enforcement of judgments in favor of the commonwealth upon official bonds executed prior to July 1, 1870, by public officers charged with the collection of revenue.
Public officers, Debt, Judicial, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 302

An ACT to provide for a new registration in the city of Winchester and county of Fairfax.
Voting
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