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1889/1890 Private Laws

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to authorize a loan of muskets to the Virginia Zouaves of Lynchburg.
Armed forces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 2

An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to give deeds of trust or mortgages upon its works and property, or any parts or branches thereof.
Transportation, Industry, Budget, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Public spaces

Chapter 7

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the national compress association of Norfolk, Virginia, approved March 17, 1884, and to amend and re-enact section 9 of said act as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 21, 1887.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 9

An ACT to incorporate the West Lynchburg land company.
Business, Incorporation, Bonds

Chapter 10

An ACT enlarging the powers of the Richmond and Henrico turnpike and graded road company in constructing a branch road.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments, Business

Chapter 11

An ACT to incorporate the Bedford electric company.
Business, Utilities, Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 12

An ACT to authorize the merger of the Martinsburg and Potomac railroad company into the Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg railroad company, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Martinsburg and Potomac railroad company, approved July 9, 1870, as amended in the er and sixth sections thereof by an act approved February 24, 1888
Transportation, Industry, Business, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 13

An ACT authorizing the Lynchburg and Durham railroad company to lease its railroad, property, and franchisee.
Transportation, Business, Bonds, Utilities

Chapter 17

An ACT increasing the powers of the Lynchburg and Durham railroad company in the issue, sale or other disposition of any of the shures of its capital stock
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 18

An ACT authorizing the Lynchburg and Durham railroad company to consolidate or merge its stock, property, and franchises with those of any railroad company operating or authorized to operate a connecting line of railroad in North Carolina or Virginia.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 19

An ACT to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Valley railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 22

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the Norfolk city railroad
Transportation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 23

An ACT to incorporate the town of Mendota, in the county of Washington.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Taxation, Public expenditures, Recreation

Chapter 24

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the governor, on behalf of the state, to accept the gift of the Lee monument.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 25

An ACT to authorize the Norfolk and North Carolina canal company, as successors to the Dismal Swamp canal company, to increase its capital stock and issue bonds.
Business, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 26

An ACT to authorize the Norfolk and Western railroad company and certain other railroad companies to make and carry out contracts of consolidation and merger with and into the Norfolk and Western railroad company.
Transportation, Religious Institutions, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 28

An ACT to incorporate the Glenwood furnace company.
Business, Incorporation, Utilities, Bonds

Chapter 29

An ACT to incorporate the Washington and Western railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 30

An ACT to extend the corporate powers of the Roanoke street railway company.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 33

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act permitting and authorizing the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago railroad company to construct and operate its road in Virginia
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 35

An ACT extending the time for commencing the construction of the railroad of the Dickenson county railway company and completing its main line.
Transportation

Chapter 39

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the parsonage property of Hicksford Circuit Methodist church, south, to borrow the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars on said parsonage property, and to secure the same by deed of trust, &c
Religious Institutions, Public expenditures, Transportation, Public spaces, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 41

An ACT to incorporate the Progressive endowment guild of America.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Charity, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 42

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia mining, milling and transportation company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4, chapter 224, of the acts of assembly 1877-78, entitled an act to incorporate the Peninsula railroad company.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Bonds, Public expenditures, Budget, Business, Transportation

Chapter 45

An ACT to incorporate the Bent mountain iron mining and manufacturing company; also to authorize said company to construct and operate railroads for the purpose of connecting their works or mineral lands, or to connect the same with other railroads, highways, or other internal improvements.
Business, Industry, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 46

An ACT allowing J. W. Hutchenson, late treasurer of Wise county, further time for the collection of taxes for the years 1885-86.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 47

An ACT to amend chapter 218 of the Acts of 1887-8 touching the killing of partridges in Clarke county
Hunting

Chapter 48

An ACT to amend and re-enact section eight of the act approved March 3rd, 184, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Western railroad company.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 49

An ACT to incorporate the Newport News fishing club
Business, Fishing, Recreation

Chapter 50

An ACT exempting from taxation the leased land occupied by the Young Men’s Christian association building in the city of Norfolk, Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 52

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Madison county to borrow money.
Bonds, Jails, Public expenditures

Chapter 53

An ACT to incorporate Portsmouth and Smithfield railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 54

An ACT to incorporate the Radford trust company.
Business, Incorporation, Public officers, Property, Taxation

Chapter 55

An ACT to incorporate the Radford steel and iron company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 56

An ACT to incorporate the Bristol iron and steel company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 57

An ACT to incorporate the Radford street railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public officers, Taxation, Hunting, Amendments

Chapter 61

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of the charter of the Citizens bank of Norfolk, Virginia.
Business, Bonds, Incorporation

Chapter 63

An ACT to refund to Reuben Sommers, of Page county, Va., the sum of $37.44 for delinquent taxes on land in Page county, improperly paid by him.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of the charter of the Old Dominion land company.
Business, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 65

An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Page county to issue bonds for the purpose of retiring outstanding bonds.
Bonds, Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 67

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of act approved January 28, 1886, entitled an act to amend sections 2, 4, and 9 of an act approved February 25, 1884, entitled an act to establish a corporation court for the city of Roanoke.
Judicial, Salaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 68

An ACT to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria and Fairfax railway company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Civil Rights

Chapter 70

An ACT to incorporate the Suffolk Electric Light and Power Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Bonds, Property

Chapter 71

An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the Alexandria and Fredericksburg railway company and the Alexandria and Washington railway company.
Transportation, Business, Debt, Bonds

Chapter 72

An ACT to incorporate the Washington and Mount Vernon railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 74

An ACT to permit the citizens of a certain portion of King George county to vote for a levy for the use, free of toll, of a bridge to be erected across the Rappahannock river at Fredericksburg, and to authorize the board of supervisors to levy a tax for the use, free of toll, of said bridge.
Taxation, Voting, Public expenditures, Transportation, Judicial

Chapter 75

An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Buena Vista, in the county of Rockbridge.
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Public expenditures, Taxation, Cemeteries, Law Enforcement, Public spaces, Healthcare, Amendments

Chapter 76

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia mercantile and safe deposit company of Richmond, Virginia.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Taxation, Public officers, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 78

An ACT to make valid the deed to certain lots in Richmond city conveyed by the Free-Will Baptist Home Mission Society by accredited agent to certain lodges of the Order of Love and Charity, said lots having been sold under powers granted in act of General Assembly, approved February 22, 1878.
Charity, Education, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 80

An ACT to authorize the Norfolk and Western railroad company to build a branch road across the southern branch of the Elizabeth river below the mouth of the Dismal Swamp canal.
Transportation

Chapter 81

An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake lumber terminal company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 82

An ACT to incorporate the Old Dominion investment company.
Business, Incorporation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 83

An Act to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act incorporating the Falls Church and Potomac railroad company
Incorporation, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 84

An ACT to incorporate the Color. d Mutual Progres- sive Association of Prince Edward, Cumberland and Amelia counties.
Incorporation, Charity, Civil Rights, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 85

An ACT to incorporate the Morrison Lodge of Brothers of Friendship.
Charity, Fraternal organizations, Incorporation

Chapter 86

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pittsylvania county to adjust and pay the claim preferred inst said county by the town of North Danville for one-half of the costs of constructing a bridge across Fall creek, between the corporate limits of said town and said county.
Municipal charters, Bonds, Charity, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 87

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors to add to the county judge’s salary of Orange county.
Public officers, Salaries, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 89

An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Isle of Wight county to borrow money.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 90

An ACT to change the name of the Virginia steel company to the Virginia development company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 92

An ACT to remove the political disabilities of Overton Howard, T. Spicer Curlett, P. G. Miller, P. B. Shield and E. W. Earley.
Civil Rights, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 94

An ACT to provide for the working and Keeping in order the highways in the county of King George.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 96

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18, chapter 3; sections 5, 9, 10, and 11, chapter 4, and sections 5 and 7, chapter 5 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended by act approved April 4, 1887, relative to the election of a collector of delinquent city taxes, prescribing the powers and duties of that officer; and as to the offices of street commissioner and city engineer for the said city.
Budget, Business, Taxation, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 97

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for working and keeping in order the public roads of Nansemond county, and for levying the necessary tax for said purposes
Budget, Taxation, Property, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 99

An ACT to authorize counties, cities, and towns to aid in the construction of the Potomac and Piedmont railway company, and for that purpose to subscribe to its capital stock and to acquire its bonds.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 100

An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to construct, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and to maintain and operate and mortgage a branch of its railroad from any point on its lines east of the Blue Ridge mountains to Alexandria or Quantico, or any other point on the Potomac river, by such route as the company may select.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled ‘An act to incorporate the Portsmouth water company,
Amendments, Business, Utilities, Taxation, Public expenditures, Agriculture

Chapter 104

An ACT to legalize and confirm certain taxes imposed by the city of Richmond for the year 1889, upon all the shares of stock issued by state and national banks located in said city.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 105

An ACT to incorporate the southern coal and iron company.
Business, Incorporation, Bonds, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 106

An ACT to prescribe the time for killing partridge
Hunting

Chapter 107

An ACT to authorize the Radford land and improvement company to erect a dam across Little river.
Business, Utilities, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 108

An ACT to allow E. F. Daniel, treasurer of Charlotte county, further time to levy and distrain for uncollected es.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Utilities, Business

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28. 1871, and to amend and re-enact pages of said act as amended by an act approved January
Amendments, Bonds, Business, Civil Rights, Public officers, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 112

An ACT to incorporate the Valley land improvement company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Bonds

Chapter 113

An ACT for the appointment of assessors for the cities of Roanoke and Manchester.
Agriculture, Business, Property, Public officers

Chapter 116

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved March 3, 1886, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg, Va., passed April 1st, 1878.
Municipal charters, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 117

An ACT to incorporate the Southern negro orphan asylum.
Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Education, Noncitizens

Chapter 118

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Page county to issue bons for the purpose of retiring outstanding bonds
Bonds

Chapter 119

An ACT ratifying and confirming the action of the city council of Alexandria, allowing R. E. Lee camp of Confederate veterans to erect a monument to the Confederate dead at intersection of Prince and Washington streets, in the city of Alexandria, Virginia,
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Municipal charters

Chapter 120

An ACT to regulate and restrict shooting, and to prevent the destruction of wild fowl in the waters of Back bay and its tributaries, in the county of Princess Anne, Virginia.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 121

An ACT authorizing the sale of certain church property in the county of King George.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 122

An ACT for the protection of game in the county of King and Queen.
Hunting, Bonds, Taxation, Religious Institutions

Chapter 125

An ACT to make North Meherrin river, Ledbette creek, and Tussikiah creek in Lunenburg county lawful fences.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 126

An ACT to incorporate the Dinwiddie railway.
Transportation, Industry, Incorporation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 127

An ACT to authorize the Presbyterian church of the town of Lexington to acquire and hold additional land within the limits of the town of Lexington to that now owned by said church and congregation.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 128

An ACT to incorporate the Norton land and improvement company.
Business, Amendments, Transportation, Utilities, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 133

An ACT for the protection of certain game in Frederick and Shenandoah counties.
Hunting

Chapter 134

An ACT to amend an act approved March 7, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the Rorer iron company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 136

An ACT incorporate the Norfolk and Washington (D. C.) steamboat company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 137

An ACT enlarging the powers of the Brook turnpike company in constructing a branch road.
Transportation, Public officers, Business

Chapter 138

An ACT to enlarge the corporate limits of the town of New Market, in the county of Shenandoah, Virginia.
Boundaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 139

An ACT to ee the principal of the Luray female institute, of Luray, Virginia, to grant diplomas to pupils entitled thereto in the various departments of said institute and also to grant diplomas to full graduates of said institute.
Education

Chapter 140

An ACT repealing an act approved December 1889, entitled an act enlarging the powers of the Richmond Henrico turnpike and graded road company in constructing a branch road.
Transportation

Chapter 141

An ACT to amend sections 2, 4, and 5 of the act approved May 6, 1887, entitled an act to incorporate the Rockbridge company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 142

An ACT to ameid and re-enact an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Midlothian, Manchester and Richmond railway and mining company," approved April 6, 1887, and to re-enact the amendment thereto, approved March 1, 1888.
Transportation, Incorporation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 144

An ACT to incorporate Lee district, in the county of Henrico.
Incorporation, Property, Taxation, Fishing, Judicial

Chapter 146

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, and 18 of chapter 164 of acts of assembly of 1887-’88 entitled an act to authorize the erection of a Washington masonic memorial temple in Fredericksburg.
Amendments, Charity, Incorporation, Religious Institutions

Chapter 147

An ACT to incorporate the Bristol land company.
Business, Property, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 148

An ACT to incorporate the town of Iron Gate, Virginia.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Boundaries, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 149

An ACT to repeal, upon certain conditions, an act authorizing D. A. Plecker to erect a toll-bridge across North river at Mount Crawford, in the county of Rockingham.
Transportation
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