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1885/1886

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 480

Chapter 202

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Minnehaha Lodge Independent Order of Good Templars.
Fraternal organizations

Chapter 203

An ACT to authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction to occupy the chapel and recitation-room of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, at Staunton, Virginia, for Summer Normals.
Education, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 204

An ACT to authorize the town of Warrenton to erect water-works, and to borrow money therefor.
Utilities, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 205

An Act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6,9 and 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Atlantic and Danville Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, approved April 21, 1882; and also to amend and re-enact the title of said act.
Industry, Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 206

An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Warren County, to borrow forty thousand dollars to pay off bonds on account of subscription to Manassas Gap Railroad Company.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 207

An ACT to incorporate the Culpeper, Sperryville, Washington and Front Royal Telephone Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Utilities

Chapter 208

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION to authorize the governor to take such proceedings as may be necessary to fix the boundary line between Virginia and Tennessee.
Boundaries

Chapter 209

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Alleghany Aid Association.
Incorporation, Charity, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Taxation

Chapter 210

An ACT to incorporate the Bland County High School, in the town of Seddon, and to create a sub-school district in Bland county, and for other purposes.
Education, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 211

An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg and Southwest Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 212

An ACT to allow the treasurer of Lunenburg county to collect by levy certain tax-bills not returned delinquent.
Taxation

Chapter 213

An ACT to refund to A. R. Green, treasurer of Halifax county, the amount of costs paid by him in a suit resisting the payment of coupons for state taxes.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 214

An ACT to incorporate the Rockbridge Savings Bank
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 215

An ACT to submit the question of increasing the levy for district school purposes to the qualified voters of Monterey and Stonewall school districts of Highland county.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 216

An ACT authorizing a board, consisting of the Attorney-General, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Auditor of Public Accounts, Second Auditor and Treasurer, to allow to tax-collecting officers losses and expenses incurred in collecting or attempting to enforce or settle taxes due the commonwealth.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 217

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Boom and Log Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Property, Business, Taxation

Chapter 218

An ACT to provide for the deposit of state funds in certain cases.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 219

An ACT for the relief of Charles Gee from a‘ fine imposed by the county court of Prince George county.
Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 220

An ACT to incorporate Alleghany Institute.
Education, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 221

An ACT to bar the commonwealth from collecting taxes due and payable prior to January 1, 1876.
Taxation

Chapter 222

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of chapter 352 of the Acts of 1883-’84, in relation to providing for the working and repairing of public roads and bridges.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation, Labor

Chapter 223

An ACT to regulate the practice of dentistry.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 224

An ACT to prescribe the penalty of the bond of the Treasurer of Lynchburg, to secure the state revenue, and to require weekly settlements of such Treasurer.
Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 225

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act to incorporate the Salem and Southwestern Railroad company
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 226

An ACT to incorporate the town of Broadway, in the county of Rockingham, and to repeal chapter 246 of the Acts of 1879-80, approved March 9, 1880, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Broadway, in Rockingham county.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Taxation, Alcohol

Chapter 227

An ACT to incorporate the St. Mary’s Beneficial and Social Union.
Charity, Cemeteries, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend section 3, of chapter 107, of the Code relating to who are disabled to be surveyors.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 229

An ACT to incorporate James Needham Lodge, No. 1,468, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows.
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 230

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 51, 76, 77 and 78 of the charter of the city of Richmond in relation to the collection of taxes.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 231

An ACT to amend section 17 of the charter of Suffolk,
Bonds, Budget, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 232

An ACT for the repeal of game laws as they apply to the counties of Dinwiddie, Sussex, Greensville, Cumberland, Nottoway, Lunenburg, Amelia and Appomattox.
Hunting

Chapter 233

An ACT to give to each stockholder a vote for each share he holds in incorporated companies.
Business

Chapter 234

An ACT to incorporate the Wythe, Bland, Carroll and Grayson Telephone Company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business

Chapter 235

An ACT to ‘allow the Treasurer of Stafford county to collect by levy certain tax-bills not returned delinquent.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 236

An ACT to incorporate the Prince George Lumber and Transportation Company.
Business, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 237

An ACT to authorize the Road Board of Central district, in Rockingham county, to establish a toll-gate on the Dry River road, in said county.
Transportation

Chapter 238

An ACT to define and punish champerty.
Judicial

Chapter 239

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to repeal the act
Fence Laws

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 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, as amended by an act approved August 23, 1884.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 241

An ACT to prescribe the penalty of the bond of the Treasurer of Petersburg, to secure the State Revenue, and to re-require weekly settlements of such Treasurer.
Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 242

An ACT to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Leesburg district, in Loudoun county, to make an additional levy for road expenditures, not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 243

An ACT to authorize the authorities of the city of Winchester to establish water-works, and to incur a debt for that purpose.
Utilities, Public expenditures, Debt, Bonds

Chapter 244

An ACT to prescribe a fence-law for the district of Red Bank, and a part of the district of Black Walnut, in the county of Halifax.
Fence Laws, Agriculture, Property

Chapter 245

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 7 of chapter 114 of the Acts of 1876 and 1877, relative to quarantine commissioners, and quarantine medical officer, for the district of Elizabeth river and its branches.
Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 246

JOINT RESOLUTION declaring when the office of county and city superintendents of schools shall be deemed vacant.
Education

Chapter 247

An ACT to incorporate the Grange Camp Association of Northern Virginia.
Agriculture, Charity, Public expenditures, Recreation, Alcohol, Gambling

Chapter 248

An ACT to provide for submitting the question of liquor license to the qualified voters of the several counties, corporations and magisterial districts.
Alcohol, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 249

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act providing for a new Board of Visitors for the University of Virginia, approved April 14th, 1882, and to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4 and 5, of chapter 80 of the Code of 1873.
Education

Chapter 250

An ACT to incorporate the Durham, Blue Wing and Clarksville Railroad Company.
Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 251

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 147, Code of 1873, in relation to warrants for small claims.
Judicial, Amendments, Business

Chapter 252

An ACT for the relief of William S. Wilkinson
Business, Taxation

Chapter 253

An ACT to incorporate the Mechanics and Merchants Bank, located in the city of Manchester.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Employment and labor

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 6 and 7, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the West Rockingham Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in force March 22, 1872.
Amendments, Business

Chapter 255

An ACT to declare Smith’s river, in the county of Henry, between certain points, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 256

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Flu vanna county to contract for keeping the roads and bridges of said county in repair, and to assess taxes therefor.
Transportation, Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 257

An ACT for the relief of James Wray
Amendments, Property

Chapter 258

An ACT to incorporate the Smithfield Evergreen Cemetery, near the town of Smithfield, in the county of Isle of Wight, Virginia.
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads in the county of Russell, approved February 25, 1884, and to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8 and g of chapter 56 of the Acts of the general assembly of 1883-’84, in regard to the working of roads in Russell county, Virginia, approved August 26, 1884.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 260

An ACT to amend the charter of South Boston, Virginia.
Municipal charters

Chapter 261

An ACT for the annual sale of lands returned delinquent
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 262

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Labor, Utilities

Chapter 263

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Taxation, Employment and labor, Public officers, Utilities, Recreation, Law Enforcement, Budget

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved February 14, 1884, 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 3 of chapter 7 of the Code of 1873.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 265

An ACT to require quarterly reports to bé made to the Governor by the heads of departments and other state agencies.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 266

An ACT to prescribe a limitation to the period within which a petition may be filed, or other proceeding had or instituted to try the question as to whether any paper in print, writing, engraving, or lithographing, purporting to be a coupon detached from or attached to any bond of the state of Virginia, is a genuine legal coupon.
Bonds

Chapter 267

An ACT to provide for a re-assessment of lands in the county of Page that have been injured by freshets since the general assessment of 1885.
Property, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 268

An ACT to allow the city of Fredericksburg to supply gas or electric light for use of said city, and to issue bonds of the city to effect said purpose.
Utilities, Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 269

An ACT to provide payment to E. C. Burks for services rendered the commonwealth, as counsel in behalf of the state, in the case of Thos. Branch & Co. against the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund.
Public expenditures, Lawyers

Chapter 270

An ACT to authorize the sale of the Moffett Registers belonging to the state.
Public expenditures, Property, Budget, Business

Chapter 271

An ACT for the relief of John C. Thomas and others, of Mathews county, Virginia.
Budget, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Property

Chapter 272

An ACT. for the protection of game in the county of Halifax.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 273

An ACT to incorporate the Marshall Cemetery.
Cemeteries, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 274

An ACT for the relief of Wm. H. Talley
Armed forces, Civil Rights, Confederate, Pensions

Chapter 275

An ACT for the relief of Joseph Copenhaver.
Debt, Judicial, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 276

An ACT to allow the Board of School Trustees of Aquia District, Stafford county, to use a portion of the county fund to pay district expenses for the year 1885.
Education, Public expenditures, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 277

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads in the county of Page.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Taxation

Chapter 278

An ACT to make Jackson’s river, in the county of Alleghany, a lawful fence between certain points.
Fence Laws, Property, Transportation

Chapter 279

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 21, 1886, entitled an act to authorize the establishment of a ferry across James river, at Columbia, Fluvanna county, Va., &c.
Transportation

Chapter 280

An ACT in relation to the removal of causes, and to
Judicial, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 281

An ACT to amend the first section of an act entitled an act to amend the first, second and third sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Saltville and Coal Mine railroad company, and to change the name to the Norfolk and Cincinnati railroad company
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 282

An ACT for the relief of James M. Binford, treasurer of the city of Portsmouth.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 283

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act for the protection of game, approved March 29, 1877, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1879, and to amend and re-enact the 8th section of an act for the protection of game, approved March 29, 1877.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 284

An ACT to incorporate Ebenezer Lodge No. 1482, of the Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows of the city of Richmond.
Amendments, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Property

Chapter 285

An ACT to provide compensation to John M. Forbes and M. Boswell Seawell, for certain professional services rendered by them, respectively, in behalf of the commonwealth.
Business, Lawyers, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 286

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION extending the time to the Richmond and Alleghany railroad company to place fishways, &c., across James river.
Transportation, Fishing

Chapter 287

An ACT to compensate B. F. Bland for legal services rendered the commonwealth.
Judicial, Debt, Business

Chapter 288

An ACT authorizing the auditor of public accounts to allow to S. Russell Smith, treasurer of Culpeper county, credit for the sum of $64.75, amount of erroneous license tax charged against him.
Alcohol, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 289

An ACT for the relief of E. G. Edmunds, treasurer of Fauquier county.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 290

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Fredericksburg.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Wards, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 291

An ACT to incorporate the Henry and Roanoke railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 292

An ACT to extend and declare the criminal and police jurisdiction of the corporation court and authorities of the city of Fredericksburg.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 293

An ACT for making or repairing division fences between co-terminous land owners in the county of Amherst.
Property

Chapter 294

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4, of an act approved April 22, 1882, constituting the town of Abingdon a separate school district.
Education, Public officers

Chapter 295

An ACT to incorporate the St. Paul Fountain No. 8, United Order of True Reformers.
Charity, Incorporation, Death and burial, Property, Public officers

Chapter 296

An ACT to incorporate the Danville and Northwestern railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 297

An ACT to incorporate the Ideal Beach railroad company, from Norfolk city to Sand bridge, in the county of Princess Anne.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 298

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the reports of insurance companies, approved February 22, 1878, as amended by an act approved April 22, 1879.
Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 299

An ACT to amend and re-enact section four of the charter of the New River and Chambers Valley railroad company.
Amendments, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 300

An ACT to incorporate the Fauquier Telephone company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 301

An ACT to amend section four of an act to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Chesapeake railroad company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures
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