1884es

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Chapter 1

An ACT to provide for the payment of the Danville Grays

Armed forces, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 2

An ACT to repeal section 19 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in the county of Fauquier, approved February 24, 1876, and to amend and re-enact section 23 of said act as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 23, 24, 25, and 26 of an act approved February 24, 1876, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in the county of Fauquier.

Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 8 of an act approved March 7, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of North Danville.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 4

An ACT to direct the auditor of public accounts to turn over to the commissioners of the sinking fund certain bonds in his custody.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 5

An ACT to authorize the board of Miller Manual Labor school of Albemarle to convert three per centum coupon bonds issued under the act of February 14, 1882, into registered bonds of the same class.

Bonds, Education, Public officers

Chapter 6

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the treasurer and second auditor to provide further safeguards for their respective offices.

Budget, Public officers

Chapter 7

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Madison county, &c.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 8

An ACT to allow the deputies of Stephen H. Turner, late county treasurer of Amherst county, further time to levy for taxes.

Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 9

An ACT to allow the Deputies of Stephen H. Turner, late county treasurer of: Amherst county, further time to return lists of insolvents and delinquents.

Debt, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 10

An ACT to authorize the District School Boards in the county of Rockingham, to use district school funds for the payment of teachers.

Education

Chapter 11

An ACT to repeal section 28 of chapter 352 of the Acts of 1888-4, so far as the same relate to public roads in Amherst county.

Public expenditures, Transportation, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act for the establishment of a State Female Normal School

Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 13

An ACT to provide for the appointment of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States by election by the people.

Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for a general registration of voters, approved April 12, 1870, chapter 46, sections 1 and 10, pages 55 and 57, Acts 1869-70, and which are sections 2 and 8 of chapter 7 of Code of 1878, and section 24 of an act entitled an act to provide for a general election, approved May 11, 1870, chapter 76, section 24, page 82, Acts of 1869-70, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 24 of the act approved May 11, 1870, entitled an act to provide for a general election, approved March 20th, 1878, chapter 200, section 1, page 185, Acts 1872-8, and which is section 8 of chapter 8, Code of 1878, and section 40 of an act entitled an act to provide for a general election, approved May 11, 1870, chapter 76, section 40, page 88, Acts 1869-70, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 89, 40, and 58 of an act entitled an act to provide for a general election, approved May 11, 1870, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved July 11, 1870, chapter 279, section 1, page 870, Acts 1870-1, and which is section 24 of chapter 8, Code of 1878, and to make valid all registrations made and elections held since the act of February 14th, 1884, became in force.

Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 4 of an act entitled an act appropriating the public revenues for the fiscal years 1884 and 1885

Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 16

An Act to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8, and 9 of chapter 156 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1883-4, in regard to the working of Roads in Russell county, Virginia.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Labor

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8, 9, and 10 of an act approved March 4, 1884, to provide for the working of roads and repairing bridges in the county of Scott.

Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 17 of chapter 178 of the Code of 1878, as amended by acts approved January 26, 1877, and February 19, 1884, in relation to petitions for appeals, writs of error, and supersedeas.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, and 7 of an act approved March 8, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Bridgewater, approved February 7, 1835, and all acts amendatory thereof.

Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Voting, Public expenditures

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact 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

Religious Institutions, Charity, Property

Chapter 21

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the manner of Choosing Registrars and Judges and Clerks of Election for the several counties and cities of the commonwealth, and to repeal sections 8 and 24 of chapter 8, and sections 2 and 8 of chapter 7 of the Code of 18738, in force February 14, 1884.

Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 22

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 71 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 12 of the Code of 1878, with regard to Official Bonds

Bonds, Public officers

Chapter 23

An ACT to authorize the voters of Smyth county, to ratify the action of the Board of Supervisors of said county, in donating lands for Southwestern Lunatic Asylum.

Bonds, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 24

An ACT to provide a new Registration in the county of Fairfax.

Voting, Registration of births, etc., Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 7, 10, 12, and 14 of chapter 102 of the Code of 1878, in reference to diseased cattle, and the appointment of inspectors thereof.

Agriculture, Healthcare, Public officers, Reformatories, Transportation

Chapter 26

An ACT to declare the true intent and meaning of, and to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 84 of Acts of 1881-2, approved February 14, 1882.

Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 27

An ACT to authorize the Auditor of Public Accounts to pay to the Western Lunatic Asylum, the additional sum of $16,500, to meet the expenses for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1884.

Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 28

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to donate to West Virginia certain Journals of the Virginia Legislature, Reports, and other documents, and to sell certain remaining volumes to public libraries.

Legislative Amendments, Libraries, Public expenditures

Chapter 29

An ACT to amend chapter 28 of the Acts of Assembly 1881-2, entitled an act authorizing the city of Norfolk to issue its Bonds fur the purpose of retiring and refunding certain Bonds now outstanding.

Bonds, Budget, Debt

Chapter 30

An ACT to allow Henry R. Burger, late treasurer of Botetourt county, further time to return lists of insolvents and delinquents.

Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 31

An ACT to authorize the Judge of the Hustings court of the city of Richmond to have new copies of Registration Books — in certain cases, and to repeal chapter 510 of Acts of 1883-4.

Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 32

An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of Stephen H. Turner, County Treasurer of Amherst county.

Bonds, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 33

An ACT to authorize the Common Council of the city of Petersburg to convert Coupon Bonds into Registered Bonds and Registered Bonds into Coupon Bonds.

Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 34

An ACT repealing so much of an act for Processioning Lands in the counties of Accomac, Northampton, Hanover, Caroline, Prince Edward, and Nansemond, approved February 25, 1884, as refers to the county of Caroline.

Property

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to revise and digest the Code of Virginia

Amendments, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 36

An ACT to amend and re-anact sections 8, 6, 11, 15, 22, 34, and 38 of an act approved March 4th, 1884, entitled an act for the preservation of Oysters, and to obtain revenue for the privilege of taking them from the waters of the commonwealth.

Amendments, Business, Employment and labor, Property, Taxation, Wildlife

Chapter 37

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18, 72, 110, and 111 of chapter 1 of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, 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, approved March 15, 1884.

Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 38

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved January 11, 1877, entitled an act to provide for the appointment and removal of district school trustees, and to repeal the 4th clause of the 7th section of the 78th chapter of the Code of 1873, in force February 20, 1884.

Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 39

An ACT for making or repairing Division Fences between co-terminous land-owners in the county of King George.

Agriculture, Property, Fence Laws

Chapter 40

An ACT to authorize the judge of the circuit court of the city of Alexandria, to hold special terms of his court in his city.

Judicial

Chapter 41

An ACT to change the dividing line between Linville and Plaines Magisterial Districts, in the county of Rockingham.

Boundaries

Chapter 42

An ACT authorizing the mayor and common council of the town of Liberty, Virginia, to borrow for said corporation, and for the purposes of purchasing fire-engines, and any and all other apparatus suitable for extinguishing fires, and of bringing water to and establishing water-works in said town, and making other permanent improvements, a sum of money not exceeding forty thousand dollars.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Fire fighters, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 43

An ACT to prescribe the times and places for holding the courts of the sixth judicial circuit.

Judicial

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Clarke county

Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 45

An ACT to provide for the interchange of coupon bonds and registered bonds

Bonds

Chapter 46

An ACT to divide the county of Dickenson into two revenue districts.

Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 47

An ACT to allow the county school board of Spotsylvania county to use a part of the school fund to erect echoolhouses.

Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 48

An ACT for the compensation of W. W. Wood, of Mecklenburg county.

Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Employment and labor

Chapter 49

An ACT to permit the qualified voters of the county of Accomac to vote upon the proposition of a change of location in the county seat.

Voting, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 50

An ACT to provide for the restoration of certain recoras in the clerk’s office of the county court of Rockingham county.

Judicial, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 51

An ACT to enable the Board of Supervisors of Rockbridge county to issue new bonds to meet its subscription to the stock of the Valley Railroad Company and retire the existing indebtedness of the county.

Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 52

An ACT to provide for the display of Virginia’s resources in World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans.

Budget, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 53

An ACT to remove the political disabilities of George W. Gunnell, Richard B. Tyler, and others.

Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act directing the board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute to be vacated, and the appointment of a new board

Amendments, Armed forces, Education, Public officers

Chapter 55

An ACT providing Local Option for Lunenburg county.

Alcohol, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend section 53, chapter 167, of Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved February 12, 1884, in relation to orders and decrees.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 57

An ACT to incorporate the town of Lynch's Station, in the county of Campbell.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 58

An ACT in relation to the school fund of Charlotte

Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 59

An ACT to provide for a new registration for the city of Portsmouth.

Voting

Chapter 60

An ACT to incorporate the town of Stuart, in the county of Patrick.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Budget, Taxation, Property, Jails, Death and burial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 61

An ACT to allow David E. Bass, late treasurer of Campbell county, further time to return lists of insolvents and delinquents.

Debt, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 62

An ACT to incorporate the Old Dominion Accident, Insurance and Guarantee Company.

Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 63

An ACT to provide the manner in which the Neison Improvement Company may obtain a license to operate its telephone, and fix the amount to be paid therefor.

Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 64

An ACT for the relief the tax-payers of Alleghany county.

Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 65

An ACT to authorize the receiver in the case of the Holmes Presbyterian Church of Northampton versus The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company, to pay money to the trustees of said church.

Religious Institutions

Chapter 66

An ACT to authorize county supervisors to administer oaths and affirmations.

Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 67

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Martha S. Slaughter, of the county of Charlotte.

Armed forces, Pensions, Death and burial

Chapter 68

An ACT for the relief of John W. Richardson, treasurer of Smythe county.

Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 69

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 14 of an act approved March 8, 1884, entitled an act to provide for working the public roads in the county of Grayson.

Transportation

Chapter 70

An ACT to incorporate the Abingdon and Laurel Railroad Company.

Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 71

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act approved February 25, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Greenville, Augusta county.

Amendments, Incorporation, Taxation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 72

An ACT for the relief of the estate of R. S. Slayton and his widow, Ann Slayton.

Healthcare, Death and burial, Marriage, Judicial, Public expenditures, Armed forces

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of an act approved March 8, 1884, entitled an act providing for the working and repairing of public roads and bridges.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 74

An ACT to provide an increase of the district school funds

Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 75

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia and Kentucky Railroad Company

Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public officers

Chapter 76

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of North Danville, approved March 7, 1884.

Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 77

JOINT RESOLUTION to extend the time for the payment of taxes for the year 1884, in Bedford county.

Taxation

Chapter 78

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fauquier county to increase the salary of the county judge of said county.

Salaries, Judicial

Chapter 79

An ACT to relieve R. J. Caldwell from the payment of a fine.

Amendments, Business, Debt, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 80

An ACT to incorporate the Bishop Payne Divinity and Industrial School in Virginia.

Education, Charity, Incorporation, Civil Rights

Chapter 81

An Act for the relief of John McClure

Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 82

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act approved April 22, 1882, in relation to the compensation of clerks of circuit courts, in force March 17, 1884.

Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 83

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 80 of the Code of 18738, in reference to the powers and duties of the board of Visitors to the University of Virginia, and confirm certain proceedings of said board heretofore had for the condemnation and purchase of land.

Education, Property, Amendments

Chapter 84

An ACT to incorporate the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Danville, Va.

Charity, Healthcare, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 85

An ACT to amend the 6th and 7th sections of chapter 95, Acts of 1881-2, entitled an act to incorporate the Atlantic and Danville narrow-guage railroad company, and to add another section

Transportation, Industry, Incorporation

Chapter 86

An ACT authorizing the surviving trustees of the Meads- ville Academy to sell the property.

Education

Chapter 87

An ACT to erect a Wharf in Mathews county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Industry, Property

Chapter 88

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4, chapter 182 of the Code, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1874, as amended by an act approved April 2, 1877, as amended by an act approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act approved March 10, 1884, in relation to judgment and other liens.

Judicial, Debt

Chapter 89

An ACT to anthorize the Richmond and Alleghany Rail- road Company, or its successor company to issue preferred stock and to facilitate the reorganization thereof.

Business, Transportation

Chapter 90

An ACT in relation to an increase of the compensation of the clerk of Greenesville and other counties.

Public officers

Chapter 91

An ACT to allow George W. Butts to construct a causeway and erect a wharf or pier from the main land of Shackley Hill farm to Shackley Hill island, in the Nansemond river, in Nansemond county, and thence to the old channel of said river, for the purpose of shipping and receiving freight and passengers.