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1885/1886

Laws in Volume
Displaying 301 - 400 of 480

Chapter 302

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act approved March 7, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of North Danville.
Bonds, Business, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 303

An ACT to provide for removing obstructions in Buffalo and Spring creeks, in Prince Edward county.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 304

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Surry county to take the census of said county.
Public officers

Chapter 305

An ACT to allow John W. Richardson, treasurer of Smyth county, further time to levy and collect certan tax tickets.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 306

An ACT to authorize the treasurer of Augusta county to carry forward certain unproductive balance on county levies.
Budget

Chapter 307

An ACT declaring the North Fork of Clinch river, in the county of Scott, a public highway.
Transportation, Public spaces, Industry

Chapter 308

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved March 9g, 1880, as amended by an act approved March 18, 1884, in relation to wild game.
Hunting

Chapter 309

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

Chapter 310

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to allow the jailer of the said county compensation for fuel furnished the jail of said county.
Jails, Public expenditures

Chapter 311

An ACT to establish an agricultural experimental station at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College at Blacksburg.
Agriculture

Chapter 312

An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Perpetual Building and Loan Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 313

An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Young Men’s Christian Association
Amendments, Charity, Incorporation, Religious Institutions

Chapter 314

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3 of an act en-
Bonds, Business, Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 315

An ACT to incorporate the town of Cape Charles, in the county of Northampton.
Municipal charters, Incorporation, Boundaries, Public officers

Chapter 316

An ACT to increase the compensation of P. W. Reherd, treasurer of Rockingham county, for collecting the uncollected revenue of said county for the year 1885.
Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 317

An ACT to increase the corporate limits of the town of Bowling Green, in Caroline county.
Municipal charters

Chapter 318

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New River Narrow-Gauge railroad company, approved March 20, 1878, as amended by acts approved March 20, 1877, and by March 6, 1882.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 319

An ACT for relief of C. W. Sullivan, treasurer of Montgomery county.
Budget, Property, Public officers

Chapter 320

An ACT to provide for a new assessment of the real estate of Tanner’s Creek magisterial district of Norfolk.
Property, Taxation, Budget

Chapter 321

An ACT to provide for the disposition of certain moneys in the hands of the treasurer of Amelia county, which, prior to the abolition of the township system, in the state, has been collected under township levies.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 322

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act passed January 15, 1867, entitled an act to establish and incorporate the Augusta county fair, as amended by an act approved January 20, 1874, changing the name to the Baldwin Augusta fair.
Agriculture, Amusement, Business, Industry

Chapter 323

An ACT to allow George W. Bishop and Jno. W. Smith to erect a wharf at Franklin City.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Nelson county to let to contract the public roads of said county, and levy a tax to keep the same in order
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 325

An ACT to authorize and enforce the Norfolk and Virginia Beach railroad company to exercise control over the lands sold at Virginia Beach, for the proper regulation of drainage and other sanitary matters.
Business, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 326

An ACT to declare all dogs in the city of Richmond and in the county of Henrico and city of Manchester, to be deemed property in the meaning of the criminal law.
Property

Chapter 327

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Powell’s Fort mining company, approved March 4, 1878.
Amendments, Business, Incorporation, Industry, Bonds, Transportation

Chapter 328

An ACT to provide for making or repairing division fences between co-terminous land owners in the county of Russell.
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 329

An ACT to repeal so much of the act to provide for keeping the paupers in the counties of Scott, Lee, Grayson, Carroll, Floyd, Goochland, Bedford, Mathews, Rockingham and Amherst, approved March 12, 1878, and of all acts, and parts of acts amendatory thereof, as refer to Goochland county.
Charity, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 330

An ACT to enable the trustees of the Danville Female Academy to sell the real estate and Academy building, and ‘turn over the proceeds of sale to the Ladies Benevolent Society of Danville.
Education, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 331

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act for the protection of fish in New river and its tributaries.
Fishing

Chapter 332

An ACT to provide for the payment of money into the treasury by check or certificate of deposit.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 333

An ACT to pay H. Hughes’ administrator fifty-nine dol-
Jails, Public expenditures

Chapter 334

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. R. W. Davidson, of Floyd county.
Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 335

An ACT for the relief of H.S. Bowen and others, sureties of John Thompson, deceased, late treasurer of Tazewell county.
Bonds, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 336

An ACT to authorize the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad company to make contracts for the use and operation or lease of connecting lines, and conferring certain other additional powers on said company.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 337

An ACT to allow the district school board of Millboro’ district, in the county of Bath, to use a portion of the district school fund for the purpose of paying teachers.
Education

Chapter 338

An ACT for the relief of John H. Sears of Mathews
Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 339

An ACT to incorporate the Consolidated Abattoir company of Alexandria, Washington and Georgetown.
Incorporation, Business, Agriculture, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 340

An ACT to incorporate the Mendota and Moccasin Turnpike Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 341

An ACT for the relief of Wm. J. Kilgore, clerk of Wise county and circuit courts.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 342

An ACT to authorize the county court of Dinwiddie county to order the purchase of additional land for courthouse purposes.
Property, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 343

An ACT to give authority to the Gloucester Charity school to sell real estate in Gloucester county.
Charity, Property, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 344

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13, of chapter 61, of Code of Virginia, 1873, relative to tolls on turnpikes.
Transportation, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 345

An ACT to pay William Taylor, treasurer of the county of Henrico, certain amounts advanced by him in coupon suits against him as treasurer.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 346

An ACT to create a commission to ascertain and settle the true boundary line between the counties of Alleghany, in the state of Virginia, and Monroe, in the state of West Virginia, and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof.
Boundaries

Chapter 347

An ACT to define and punish barratry.
Lawyers, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 348

An ACT to provide for the payment of Maryus Jones, Esquire, attorney-at-law, for a fee for services rendered the state.
Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 349

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to dispose of certain Virginia Reports on hand and in the custody of the librarian
Libraries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 350

An ACT to allow the Atlantic and Danville railway company credit ‘for the amount already paid as a tax on its mortgage recorded, as to part of the line, in the payment of the tax on a mortgage as to the whole line.
Business, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 351

An ACT to provide for a new registration in the county
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 352

An ACT to incorporate the Grand Lodge of the Order of Temperance Workers of the State of Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Public officers

Chapter 353

An ACT to incorporate the Bristol Slate and Mining Company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 354

An ACT to authorize Jos. E. Brodwater to construct a bridge across Muddy creek in Accomack county.
Transportation

Chapter 355

An ACT to authorize the treasurer of Augusta county to carry forward certain unproductive balances on county levies, &c.
Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 356

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 50 of an act approved January 31, 1884, to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, in relation to the erection of public buildings for said city.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Bonds, Labor

Chapter 357

An ACT to incorporate the association of the survivors of the Clarke cavalry.
Civil Rights, Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Incorporation, Taxation

Chapter 358

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Clarke county to sell and convey to the association of the survivors of the Clarke cavalry a part of the public square in Berryville in said county.
Monuments and memorials, Armed forces

Chapter 359

An ACT to regulate the printing and binding of the Virginia Supreme Court Reports, and to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 162, of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 360

An ACT to authorize the United States government to purchase lands on the south branch of the Elizabeth river, adjoining the Gosport navy-yard.
Armed forces, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 361

An ACT to amend an act approved February 5, 1886, entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the Richmond Theological Seminary of the city of Richmond, and to amend the title
Education, Incorporation, Religious Institutions

Chapter 362

An ACT to provide the manner of selling the sulphate and other preparations of morphine in the state of Virginia.
Healthcare, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 363

An ACT for opening and keeping in repair roads and bridges in the county of Amelia.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 364

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Pharmaceutical Association, and to regulate the practice of Pharmacy, and to guard the sale of poisons in the State of Virginia.
Business, Healthcare, Judicial, Labor, Public officers

Chapter 365

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to levy a license tax for the sale of wine, alcoholic and malt liquors, for the use and benefit of the free schools of said county.
Alcohol, Education, Taxation

Chapter 366

An ACT for the relief of clerks, banks, &c.
Budget, Business, Law Enforcement

Chapter 367

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 38 of Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved, April 28, 1874, and to amend and re-enact sections 15, 28 and 30 of said chapter 38 of the Code of 1873, in relation to forfeited and delinquent lands.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 368

An ACT to provide that all corporations hereafter chartered in this state shall pay their taxes in money, or forfeit their charters.
Business, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 369

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 514
Wildlife

Chapter 370

An ACT to provide for the erection of additional buildings, &c., for the State Female Normal school, and to make an appropriation therefor.
Education, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 371

An ACT extending the time to P. B. Crowder, treasurer of Amelia county, for the collection of taxes and county levies in his hands.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 372

An ACT for the relief of the securities of J. R. Richerson, late treasurer of Caroline county.
Debt, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 373

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to pay to the public free schools the money set apart by the constitution aid laws for their benefit, and to repeal chapter 177 of the Acts of 1878-’9, approved March 6, 1882.
Education, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 374

Amendments, Civil Rights, Death and burial, Judicial

Chapter 375

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

Chapter 376

An ACT to authorize the voters of Pittsylvania county, to vote for or against the repeal of the present iaNICe law, by magisterial districts.
Fence Laws, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 377

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 50, extra session acts, 1884, in relation to records in the Clerk’s office of Rockingham county.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 378

An ACT for the relief of Isaac N. Bussells.
Business, Judicial, Property

Chapter 379

An ACT to allow the voters of Blackwater voting precinct, in the county of Princess Anne, to vote on the question of continuing or repealing the present fence law.
Fence Laws

Chapter 380

An ACT to incorporate the Union State Grand Tabernacle of the Improved Order of Galilean Fishermen, No 1, of the state of Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 381

An ACT to incorporate the Powell’s Valley railroad company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 382

An ACT for the further protection of fish in the county
Fishing

Chapter 383

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of chapter 99 of the Code of 1873, in relation to wild game.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 384

An ACT to give the consent of the commonwealth to the purchase or acquisition of real estate by the United States government, in the city of Norfolk, for a site for a public building for the accommodation of the United States court rooms, post office and other offices.
Public expenditures, Property, Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 385

An ACT to protect the fish in the waters of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers.
Fishing, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 386

An ACT for the relief of Thomas Spencer, administrator of E. W. Couch, late treasurer of Petersburg.
Budget, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 387

An ACT for the relief of R. A. Trice, deputy treasurer of Goochland county.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 388

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry.
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Alcohol

Chapter 389

An ACT to allow John W. Sturgis to erect a wharf.on Accohannock creek, in Accomac county.
Business, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 390

An ACT to incorporate the Appomattox, Red House and Hat Creek railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Budget, Public expenditures, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 391

An ACT to provide compensation for the teachers of schools where the average attendance of pupils shall not be less
Education

Chapter 392

An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of the county of Hanover to vote on the question of removing the county court-house of said county to the town of Ashland.
Municipal charters, Voting, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 393

An ACT to amend section 31 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities and compensation of certain county officers, providing for the collection of taxes and for the repeal of chapters 37 and 46, Code of 1873, approved March 29, 1875, as amended by an act approved March 29, 1876, amending sections 15 and 30, and by an act approved the same day amending section 47 and by an act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved April 2, 1877; amending the 18th and 20th sections; and by an act approved on the same day amending the 30th section and by these several acts approved March 12, 1878, amending the 7th, 6th and 29th sections of said first mentioned act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, approved April 1, 1879.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 394

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7, chapter 166, of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved March 18th, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 7, chapter 166, of Code of 1873, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 166, Code of 1873, approved February 17, 1886, in relation to service of process against or notice to a corporation.
Business, Judicial

Chapter 395

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 514 of the acts of 1883-4, entitled an act to amend an act approved March 9, 1880, respecting wild game.
Wildlife, Hunting, Amendments

Chapter 396

An ACT to provide for the building of bridges and causeways, and the repairs thereof, and the opening, working and keeping in order the roads of the county of Charlotte.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 397

An ACT for the relief of Robert M. Hutchinson and George R. Land, administrators of Samuel G. Farrar, late treasurer of the county of Mecklenburg.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 398

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved Dec’r 1, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 17, 1884, entitled an act for the relief of the sureties of Chas. W. Walker, late treasurer of Giles county, and the relief of,the sureties of his deputies.
Amendments, Bonds, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 399

An ACT to provide compensation to A. H. Garland and Martin F. Morris, the representatives of Richard T. Merrick, deceased, for services rendered by Garland and Merrick, as counsel in behalf of the state of Virginia, in the cases of Poindexter versus Grrenhow, &c.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Lawyers

Chapter 400

An ACT to provide compensation to Waller R. Staples
Judicial

Chapter 401

An ACT to allow the school trustees of Red Bank dis-
Education, Public expenditures
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