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1885/1886

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT for the relief of the tax-payers of the city of Staunton.
Taxation

Chapter 2

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Hanover county to give additional compensation to Judge J. D. Foster.
Judicial, Salaries

Chapter 3

An ACT to incorporate the Bethel Cemetery Company.
Cemeteries, Incorporation

Chapter 4

An ACT to re-enact section 9 of an act approved February 21, 1882, entitled an act to incorporate the Fauquier and Rappahannock railroad Company, as amended by an act approved January 28, 1884.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 5

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 3, 1884, in regard to working roads in Bland county.
Transportation

Chapter 6

An ACT to extend the time for the construction of the Norfolk and Cincinnati Railroad.
Transportation, Amendments, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 7

An ACT to empower the trustees of the district school-board of Buchanan school district, Botetourt county, to use surplus county public school funds belonging to said district for the purpose of purchasing or erecting buildings for school purposes.
Education, Public expenditures, Budget, Property

Chapter 9

An ACT to appropriate certain moneys to meet a note given by the board of Eastern Lunatic Asylum to raise funds to rebuild certain buildings destroyed by fire on the 7th day of June, 1885.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 10

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 138 of the Acts of Assembly, session of 1883-84 in regard to filling vacancies in the county boards of school commissioners.
Education, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 11

An ACT to postpone the sale of delinquent lands in King William county.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 12

An ACT to enable the town of Fincastle to aid in founding and maintaining a high school for boys, at or near said town.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 13

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of deer in the counties of Bland and Wythe.
Hunting

Chapter 14

An ACT to incorporate the Suffolk Light and Water Company.
Utilities, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 15

An ACT authorizing the trustees of Grace Episcopal church, in Berryville, Virginia, to hold five acres of land.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 16

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Fuel-Gas Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Utilities, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 17

An ACT to release lot number 374, in the plan of Sidney, from taxes reported delinquent.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 18

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Salem to issue new bonds of said town, sufficient to retire the bonds issued for the construction of water-works
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact the act of assembly passed 15th January, 1867, entitled an act to incorporate the Charlottesville and University Railroad Company, and the act amending the same approved March 6, 1871.
Amendments, Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 20

An ACT to allow Ezra K. Young, Warren H. Young, and Milton Young to erect a wharf at Franklin City, in Accomac county, for the purpose of shipping oysters.
Agriculture, Business, Fishing, Transportation

Chapter 21

An ACT to authorize a loan of muskets to the Wytheville Academy.
Education, Armed forces, Bonds

Chapter 22

An ACT to incorporate the Montgomery Intelligence Company.
Incorporation, Business, Public spaces

Chapter 23

An ACT giving the consent of the state to the purchase by the United States of certain real estate in Norfolk county, and exempting the same from taxation.
Boundaries, Taxation, Armed forces, Municipal charters

Chapter 24

An ACT to repeal the game law, so far as it applies to the county of Mecklenburg.
Hunting, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 25

An ACT to incorporate the Elba Beneficial and Social Society of Richmond.
Charity, Fraternal organizations, Incorporation, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 26

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 187, Acts of Extra Session, 1884, providing for a new registration of the voters of the city of Richmond.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 27

An ACT to incorporate the Bar Association of the city of Richmond.
Incorporation, Lawyers, Judicial, Business, Public officers

Chapter 28

An ACT to incorporate the Odd Fellows’ Temple Association, of Richmond Virginia.
Charity, Fraternal organizations, Property, Taxation, Incorporation

Chapter 29

An ACT to incorporate the Hines Memorial Association of the Knights of Pythias.
Amendments, Charity, Incorporation, Monuments and memorials, Public officers

Chapter 30

An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Baptist Ministers’ Relief Fund of Virginia.
Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 31

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1882, entitled an act to authorize the corporation of Fredericksburg to establish a poorhouse and grounds outside of its corporation limits.
Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 32

An ACT to incorporate the town of Claremont, in Surry county.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Taxation, Education, Law Enforcement, Pensions, Business, Alcohol, Public expenditures

Chapter 33

An ACT to remove the political disabilities of 8S. R. Donohoe and others.
Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 34

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Wytheville, to sell and convey the church and lot.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 35

An ACT to allow William H. Ellis to erect a wharf at Franklin City, Accomac county.
Business, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 36

An ACT for the relief of T. A. Graves, of Madison county.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 37

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of chapter 3 of the act approved March 14, 1878, in relation to breaking and entering any railroad car.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 38

An ACT to amend and re-enact section.2 of chapter 159 of the Code of 1873, relating to clerks of the courts of appeals.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 39

An ACT to allow persons charged with crime to testify in their own behalf.
Civil Rights, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend an act respecting wild game, approved
Hunting

Chapter 41

An ACT to limit the powers of the board of supervisors of Buchanan county.
Taxation, Budget, Property

Chapter 42

An ACT to authorize the establishment of a ferry across James river at Columbia, from the depot of the Richmond and Alleghany railroad to a convenient point on the opposite side of the river.
Transportation

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend, re-enact, extend and renew the charter of the Staunton Gas Company.
Business, Utilities, Transportation, Property

Chapter 44

An ACT to incorporate the Colored Agricultural and Industrial Association of Virginia.
Agriculture, Amendments, Business, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Property, Public expenditures, Recreation

Chapter 45

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of chapter 167, Code of 1873, in relation to rules, pleadings and evidence.
Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 46

An ACT for the relief of the tax-payers of Alleghany county.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 47

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled, an act to provide for removing obstructions in Bush river, in Prince Edward county, Virginia.
Taxation, Transportation, Property

Chapter 48

An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake, Norfolk and Carolina railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Business

Chapter 49

An ACT to prescribe a rule of evidence in certain cases.
Bonds, Judicial, Property

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3, and to repeal section 8, of an act entitled an act to establish a State Female Normal School, and to add an independent section.
Education

Chapter 51

An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake Dry-Dock and Construction Company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 52

An ACT to provide additional compensation to the re-visers of the Code.
Legislative Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 53

An ACT to provide compensation to Wyndham R. Meredith for services rendered the Commonwealth.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Business, Taxation, Education

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4 and 9, of an act approved February 25th, 1884, entitled an act to establish a Corporation Court for the City of Roanoke.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Salaries

Chapter 55

An ACT for the relief of Giles Crowders and Sidney Gresham from a fine.
Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 56

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION giving J. A. Wingfield, Register of the Land Office, further time to furnish the bond required by law.
Bonds, Property, Public officers

Chapter 57

An ACT to relieve William H. Cole, of Halifax county, from the payment of license tax.
Business, Taxation, Charity, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 58

An ACT for the relief of William Chilton, late Treasurer of Lancaster County.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 59

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7, of chapter 159, Acts of 1883-4, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Greenville, Augusta county.
Alcohol, Business, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the election and qualification of county officers.
Public officers

Chapter 61

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections I, 3, 6, 9, II, 12 and 15, of chapter 264 of Acts of Assembly of 1878-9, to provide for the working of the public roads in Prince Edward county.
Public officers, Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Employment and labor

Chapter 62

An ACT to establish a ferry across the James river at Claremont, Surry county, Virginia.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 63

An ACT to incorporate the Danbury and Parkersburg Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Business, Taxation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 64

An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the county of Bedford, to levy a poor-rate on each magisterial district in said county, and to provide for the support of the poor in the district.
Charity

Chapter 65

An ACT for repeal of game laws as they apply to the county of Brunswick.
Hunting

Chapter 66

An ACT to incorporate the Madison Courthouse and Gordonsville Telephone Company.
Business, Incorporation, Utilities

Chapter 67

An ACT to authorize the Treasurer to adjust the claims of the Commonwealth against the sureties of the Planters and Mechanics Bank of Petersburg.
Budget, Business

Chapter 68

An ACT directing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to affix the seal of the state to certain state bonds.
Bonds

Chapter 69

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Life Insurance Company of Virginia.
Business, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 70

An ACT to authorize the Second Auditor to complete Bond No. 308, issued under Act of the General Assembly, approved the 28th of March, 1879.
Bonds, Budget, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 71

An ACT to allow the Treasurer of Prince William Count:
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 72

An ACT for the relief of Louis Jones, Treasurer of Middlesex County, Virginia.
Budget, Public officers, Education

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond Theological Seminary, in the city of Richmond.
Incorporation, Religious Institutions, Education, Charity, Budget, Noncitizens

Chapter 74

An ACT to incorporate The Loudoun County Telephone Company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 75

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved January 31, 1884, entitled an act to provide for a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 76

An ACT to create and provide for a building committee for the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, and to prescribe the duties thereof.
Education

Chapter 77

An ACT to enable the town of Buchanan to aid in found- ing and maintaining a high school for boys at or near said town.
Education, Municipal charters, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 78

An ACT to authorize a subscription by the counties of Cumberland and Powhatan to the stock of the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad Company.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments, Municipal charters, Bonds

Chapter 79

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION for the construction of Telephones to the Capitol and Governor’s Mansion
Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 840 the Code of Virginia, in relation to public health.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 81

An ACT extending the time to O. B. Thomas for the collection of certain taxes and levies.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 82

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the relief of Peyton R. Ford, late Collector of Madison Township, Charlotte County, Virginia.
Bonds, Debt, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 83

An ACT to incorporate the Wythe and Speedwell Mining and Manufacturing Company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 84

An ACT appropriating seventy thousand dollars to pay the claims allowed disabled soldiers and marines under act approved February 25th, 1884.
Armed forces, Public expenditures, Wards, Death and burial

Chapter 85

An ACT to incorporate the Farmville, Hampden Sidney and Worsham Telephone Company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 86

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 24, 1871, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Luray, in the county of Page, and acts amendatory thereof, approved, respectively, April 30, 1874, March 28, 1879, March 1, 1884, and March 4, 1884.
Incorporation, Boundaries, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 87

An ACT to amend sections 4, 7 and 15 of an act approved March 19, 1884, entitled an act to provide for the sale of lands delinquent for taxes and county levies, and to repeal section 16 of said act.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 88

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION to appoint Joint Committee to examine State securities, &c., deposited in the basement offices of the capitol.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 89

An ACT authorizing payment of the amount due the city of Richmond for gas used in the public buildings of the state.
Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 90

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 366 of the Session Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1869-20, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Berryville, and to provide a charter for the same, approved October 29, 1870.
Municipal charters, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 91

An ACT to incorporate The Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph’s Academy and Orphan Asylum of Richmond, Virginia.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Education, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 92

An ACT to release the interest of the State of Virginia, in and to a certain lot (No. 738) in the plan of the City of Richmond, and appointing trustees for that purpose.
Property

Chapter 93

An ACT to authorize George N. Parker to erect a wharf on Chuckatuck creek, in Nansemond county.
Transportation, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 94

An ACT providing a charter for Smith’s Warehouse Company, at Blacks and Whites, Nottoway county, Virginia.
Business, Property, Taxation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 95

An ACT to punish the forgery of bonds, coupons and other securities.
Bonds

Chapter 96

An ACT. to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Little Sisters of the Poor in Ricemond.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Incorporation

Chapter 97

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond, Petersburg and Manchester Railway Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 98

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Fluvanna to establish a free ferry across the Rivanna river.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 99

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty of chapter fifty-one of Code of 1873, relating to beggars and vagrants.
Vagrancy, Forced labor, Jails, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 100

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 18th section of chapter 235 of the Acts of 1871-’72, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Suffolk.
Business, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 101

An ACT to incorporate the Morotock Manufacturing Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Utilities
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