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1883/1884

Laws in Volume
Displaying 401 - 500 of 569

Chapter 404

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Art Association.
Incorporation

Chapter 405

An ACT to regulate the taking of oysters in the Potomac
Fishing, Civil Rights, Property, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Amendments, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 406

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of chapter 92
Transportation

Chapter 407

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 35 of the Acts of 1878-9, in relation to working on public roads in the counties of Scott, Wise, Buchanan, Grayson, Carroll, Wythe, Tazewell and Dickenson.
Transportation

Chapter 408

An ACT to incorporate the Montgomery and Floyd Mining and Manufacturing Company.
Business, Industry, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 409

An ACT to authorize a vote of the qualified voters of Westmoreland county upon the question of construction of Bridge over Nomoni creek, and to empower Board of Supervisors to issue county bonds to pay for Bridge.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 410

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase by the United States of certain real estate in the county of Norfolk, and exempting the same from taxation.
Property, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 411

An ACT to empower the Dismal Swamp Canal Company to construct and operate a railway on its own land from Gilmerton Locks, in Virginia, to South Mills, in North Carolina.
Transportation, Business, Taxation, Legislative Amendments, Amendments

Chapter 412

An ACT to allow the school boards of the several district: of Goochland county to build school-houses.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 413

An ACT to provide for the preparation of rolls of troops
Armed forces, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 414

An ACT to prevent frightening of animals, injuring and killing of persons, and spreading of fire by careless moving of engines with steam on the turnpikes and county roads of the state,
Transportation, Property

Chapter 415

An ACT to incorporate the Tazewell County Improvement Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 416

An ACT to incorporate R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans.
Confederate, Charity, Civil Rights, Education, Children -- Institutional care, Pensions, Incorporation, Recreation

Chapter 417

An ACT to incorporate the Hartshorn Memorial College.
Education, Charity, Religious Institutions, Civil Rights, Equality before the law

Chapter 418

An ACT to amend section four, chapter two hundred and nine of Acts of Assembly, 1874, in relation to the jurisdiction of the Corporation Courts of the cities of Munchester and Winchester.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Amendments

Chapter 419

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of chapter 64 of the Code of 18738, in relation to Ferries.
Transportation

Chapter 420

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Lee Monument Association, approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended by acts approved December twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, by the addition of sections thereto.
Amendments, Incorporation, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 421

An ACT to amerd the act approved January 26, 1882, entitled an act to provide for the more ethcient collection of the revenue, &c.
Amendments, Budget, Bonds, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 422

An ACT to provide, in the future construction of railways, for secure crossings on county reads, streets and other public high-ways.
Transportation

Chapter 423

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 7 of an act approved March 29, 1877, entitled an act to establish a department of Agriculture, Mining and Manufacturing for the state.
Agriculture, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 424

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2 and 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Meherrin Valley Railroad
Transportation, Incorporation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 425

An ACT appropriating the Public Revenues for the fiscal years 1884 and 1885.
Budget, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Education, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Agriculture, Pensions, Public officers, Prisons

Chapter 426

An ACT for the relief of the surcties of B. C. Clark, late treasurer of Washington county.
Public expenditures, Bonds, Debt, Municipal charters

Chapter 427

An ACT for the relief of the Virginia Military Institute.
Budget, Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Armed forces

Chapter 428

An ACT to allow the trustees of Martha Washington College to convey to the trustees of the Sinking Spring church the property known as the Stonewall Jackson Institute.
Education, Property, Religious Institutions

Chapter 429

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2 and 8 of chapter 102 of Acts of Assembly, 1875-6, approved February 26, 1876, in regard to the University of Virginia.
Education

Chapter 430

An ACT to provide for the school trustees of Lebanon district, in Russell county, to sell school property.
Education

Chapter 431

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Kate O. Haden, of Flu- vanna, and Miss Ella A. Earman.
Education, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 432

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads in the county of Gloucester.
Transportation

Chapter 433

An ACT to incorporate the Walker’s Creek Toll-Bridge Company.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Incorporation

Chapter 434

An ACT to repeal sections 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 of an act approved March 12, 1878, of the Wythe county road law.
Transportation

Chapter 435

An ACT for the relief of William M. Tredway
Judicial, Death and burial, Public expenditures, Lawyers

Chapter 436

An ACT to incorporate the Strasburg Stone and Earthenware Manufacturing Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 437

An ACT for the settlement of the judgment of John Kelly, surviving partner of Kelly and Largney, against the Board of Public Works.
Public expenditures, Judicial, Debt, Business

Chapter 438

An ACT to relieve Lafayette Fowler of certyin tines and costs.
Judicial, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 439

An ACT declaring the present mayor and council of Chase City, Virginia, the legal mayor and council.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 440

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of the Iron Belt railroad charter, so as to waive any claim of forfciture thereof the state may have.
Transportation, Industry, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 441

An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Hanover county to let public roads to contract.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 442

An ACT to extend the time for restoring fences in Bellfield district of Greenesville county.
Fence Laws

Chapter 443

An ACT for the relief of the estate of Jacob Davis, deceased.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 444

An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Augusta county, on petition, to submit to the voters of the same or any district thereof, the question of making the owners of hogs responsible for damages committed by them when turned loose to range on any street or public road where there is no public common or forest outlet.
Agriculture, Property, Voting

Chapter 445

An ACT to amend the charter of the Suffolk Lumber Company.
Business, Industry, Transportation, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 446

An ACT to incorporate the Bank of Goodson.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 447

An ACT to incorporate the Toilers Friend Mutual Beneficial Association of America.
Charity, Incorporation, Employment and labor

Chapter 448

An ACT for the relief of W. A. Adams, of the county of Wise.
Alcohol, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 449

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act approved February 17, 1877, entitled an act to provided for working and keeping the public roads in order in Clarke county.
Transportation, Labor

Chapter 450

An ACT to provide for the assessment of taxes on persona, property, and incomes, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide for the mode of applying for licenses to transact any business in this state, and prescribing the amount to be paid as a condition precedent to the right to transact such business.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Business, Property, Agriculture, Transportation

Chapter 451

An ACT to provide for the organization, maintenance, and government of the Virginia Volunteers, and to repeal existing laws concerning the Volunteer Militia.
Armed forces, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 452

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Elizabeth City county.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation, Employment and labor

Chapter 453

An ACT to amend an act approved April 22, 1882, in relation to the compensation of clerks of circuit courts.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 454

An ACT requiring railroad companies to construct cattle guards.
Agriculture, Transportation, Property

Chapter 455

An ACT to incorporate the town of Timberville, in Rockingham county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Alcohol, Boundaries, Public officers, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 456

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5, chapter chapter 115, Code of 1875, as amended by an act approved March 31, 1875, and an act approved February 10, 1880, relating to mechanics’ liens.
Business, Property, Amendments

Chapter 457

An ACT to incorporate the Lewis Spring Manufacturing and Supply Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Public officers

Chapter 458

An ACT for the relief of L. L. Deakine, treasurer of Greenesville county.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 459

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 6, and to repeal section 1, chapter 16, of the Code of 1878, in relation to vacancies in the offices of governor and lieutenant-governor.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 460

An ACT for the relief of E. B. Burgess, late treasurer of Northumberland county.
Taxation

Chapter 461

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of John A. Booker, late treasurer of the county of Cumberland.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 462

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of chapter 184, Acts 1838, relating to the construction of a road from Winchester to Staunton, Virginia.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 463

An ACT to amend the 18 section of chapter 126 of the Code of 1878, in relation to assets in hands of personal representatives.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Law Enforcement

Chapter 464

An ACT to incorporate the United States Fishery Company.
Business, Industry, Fishing, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 465

An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke Mineral and Lumber Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 466

An ACT for the relief of the estate of George W. Henderlite, and for the relief of his sureties.
Debt, Judicial, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 467

An ACT to incorporate Holston Springs Company
Incorporation, Business, Bonds, Property

Chapter 468

An ACT to change the name of the town of Gish’s, in the county of Ruanoke, to Vinton, and to incorporate the same.
Municipal charters, Incorporation, Boundaries, Taxation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 469

An ACT to incorporate the Wythe County Tron Company.
Business, Incorporation, Taxation

Chapter 470

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to effect a loan for county road purposes.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 471

An ACT to regulate the printing and binding of the Virginia Reports, and to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 162, Code of 1873.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 472

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of chapter 128 of the Code of 1873, in relation to compromises by fiduciaries with the sanction of a court of equity.
Amendments, Business, Judicial

Chapter 473

An ACT to incorporate the Pulaski Iron Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 474

An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Richmond City Railway Company.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 475

An ACT incorporating the Petersburg and Chesterfield Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Budget

Chapter 476

An ACT for the improvement of streets and sidewalks in unincorporated villages.
Public spaces, Property, Transportation

Chapter 477

An ACT to incorporate the Farmers’ Warehouse Company, at Blacks and Whites, Nottoway county, Virginia.
Agriculture, Business, Amendments

Chapter 478

An ACT to authorize the county of Brunswick to borrow asum of money not exceed nine thousand dollars for the rebuilding of Gholson’s bridge in said county.
Budget, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 479

An ACT providing how counties, cities and towns may give notice to its holders of coupon bonds proposed to be redeemed.
Bonds, Budget

Chapter 480

An ACT to provide a circuit court for the city of Roanoke.
Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 481

An ACT to incorporate the New River Steel and Iron Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 482

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the governor to have the great seal of the commonwealth engraved on the Washington Monument.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 483

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to pay Judge Henry T. Parrish, of Appomattox county, a sum not exceeding $100 for holding courts in the said county of Charlotte.
Judicial, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 484

JOINT RESOLUTION construing the second section of the act to regulate the taking of oysters in the Potomac river.
Fishing

Chapter 485

JOINT RESOLUTION to furnish certain Reports to Supreme Court of Appeals at Staunton and Wytheville.
Judicial, Libraries

Chapter 486

An Act to incorporate the Jefferson Literary and Social Circle of the city of Richmond.
Incorporation, Libraries, Business

Chapter 487

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to tax-payers in cities and towns, the right of public school education for their children
Education

Chapter 488

An Act to amend and re-enact the second section of chapter 29 of Code of 1873, with reference to the sheriff of the city of Richmond.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 489

An ACT to amend section five of an act prescribing the duties of certain county officers.
Amendments, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 490

An ACT giving the consent of the state of Virginia, to the acquisition by the government of the United States, of so much land as may be necessary for a public building at Newport News.
Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters, Judicial

Chapter 491

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of chapter 78 of the Code of 1873, in relation to teachers institutes.
Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 492

An ACT to ratify the consolidation of the Junction and Breakwater, Breakwater and Frankford and Worcester Railroad Company.
Industry, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 493

An ACT to authorize tho common council of the city of Petersburg to adopt a system of sewerage for said city, &c.
Utilities, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 494

An ACT to incorporate the Park Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Education, Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 495

An ACT to incorporate the Iron Mountain Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Taxation

Chapter 496

An ACT to provide a new registration of voters, at New Design Precinet, Pittsylvania county, Virginia.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 497

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Mineral Railway Company, approved March 6, 1880.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 498

An ACT to incorporate the White Oak Loan and Building Aid Association of Halifax.
Incorporation, Business, Charity

Chapter 499

An ACT to allow George W. Glenn, of the county of Accomac, to erect a pier, or wharf, in said county, for the purpose of shipping oysters, &c.
Agriculture, Fishing, Property, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 500

An ACT to confer upon the Iron and Steel Works Association of Virginia, limited, certain corporate privileges in this state.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 501

An ACT declaring vacant the office of superintendent of schools in certain cases, and to make it unlawful for the board of education to appoint when the senate is not in session, any person as superintendent of schools, who has previously been rejected by the senate.
Education

Chapter 502

An ACT for the relief of G. T. Bonner & Co., and providing for the payment of warrants of the second auditor of Virginia,
Budget, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 503

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Suburban Railroad and Turnpike Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures
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