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1885/1886

Laws in Volume
Displaying 401 - 480 of 480

Chapter 402

An ACT to confirm the charter of the Richmond Exchange for woman’s work.
Business, Charity

Chapter 403

An ACT for the relief of A. R. Green, treasurer of Halifax county.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 404

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of Z. T. Cecil, late treasurer of Lee county.
Public expenditures, Debt, Education, Taxation

Chapter 405

An ACT to incorporate the Henderson, Roanoke, and Virginia railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 406

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating Marshall Lodge, No. 39, of Free and Accepted Masons
Incorporation, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Amendments

Chapter 407

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase city, in the county of Mecklenburg, Virginia
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 408

An ACT to prescribe a condition precedent to the hiring of penitentiary convicts to the Danville and New River railroad company.
Labor, Transportation, Public expenditures, Prisons

Chapter 409

An ACT to amend the charter of Lynchburg, by adding an additional chapter thereto.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Fire fighters

Chapter 410

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the courts of the fifteenth and sixteenth judicial circuits.
Judicial

Chapter 411

An ACT to incorporate District Lodge, No. 15, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Virginia.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Charity, Amendments

Chapter 412

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 24, Acts of 1874, approved February 2, 1874, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Banister, in the county of Halifax, and to amend and re-enact chapter 102, Acts 1874, approved March 14, 1874, entitled an act to authorize the trustees of the town of Banister to elect a president and town sergeant &c.
Incorporation, Municipal charters

Chapter 413

An ACT to prescribe the times for the holding of the terms of the courts of the eighth judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 414

An ACT to amend section 15, of chapter 20, of the Code of 1873, as amended by chapter 127, of Acts of extra session of 1884, entitled an act to amended section 15, of chapter 20, of the Code of 1873, in regard to the door-keeper to the executive, messenger to the governor and secretary of the commonwealth.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 415

An ACT to prevent frauds upon the commonwealth, and the holders of her securities, in the collection and disbursement of revenue; and to repeal section 112 of an act approved March 15, 1884, entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes, &c.; and to repeal an act approved February 7, 1884, entitled an act to regulate the granting of licenses, &c.; and to repeal an act approved February 25, 1884, entitled an act to regulate granting of license, &c.
Amendments, Business, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 416

An ACT for the enactment of a special road law for Scott county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Judicial, Labor, Amendments

Chapter 417

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

Chapter 418

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act to charter the Stock Creek Coal and Iron company, approved March I9, 1884.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 419

An ACT to authorize the counties of Washington and Russell to take stock in the Washington and Russell turnpike company, and to erect telephone lines in said counties.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 420

An ACT to require assignees or trustees to give bonds in certain cases.
Bonds, Business, Property

Chapter 421

An ACT relating to licensed warehousemen and others in this state, the storage of property therewith, and making certain warehouse and other receipts negotiable.
Business, Property, Budget, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 422

An ACT to incorporate the Southern Nurseries company.
Agriculture, Industry, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 423

An ACT to incorporate the Surry and Smithfield railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 424

An ACT to give the consent of this state to the purchase, by the government of the United States, of land in Alexandria county, for the abutment of and the necessary approaches to the bridge proposed to be constructed across the Potomac river.
Transportation

Chapter 425

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION appropriating money to purchase flags for the capitol.
Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 426

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 17, and repeal sections 39 and 40 of an act for the preservation of oysters, and to obtain revenue for the privilege of taking them within the waters of the commonwealth
Amendments, Fishing, Public officers

Chapter 427

An ACT regulating ferries, with relation to the town of Mercer Ferry, near Fredericksburg.
Transportation

Chapter 428

An ACT to charter the Clinch river railroad company.
Transportation, Industry, Business, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 429

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Railroad and Transportation company.
Transportation, Business, Amendments

Chapter 430

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of L. L. Deakins, late treasurer of Greensville county.
Debt, Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 431

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Richmond, to establish and maintain a house of reformation and work-house.
Custody of children, Reformatories, Jails, Vagrancy, Education, Employment and labor, Charity

Chapter 432

An ACT to authorize Lodge No. 20, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the town of Smithfield, to borrow money to pay for repairs on their building.
Charity, Business

Chapter 433

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4, of chapter 141, of the Code, in relation to the acceptance and payment of bills of exchange.
Amendments, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 434

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 193 of the Code of 1873, in relation to the adulteration of food or drink.
Healthcare, Business

Chapter 435

An ACT to amend the act approved March 18, 1884, respecting wild game, so far as the same relates to the county of Pittsylvania.
Hunting

Chapter 436

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 514 of Acts of Assembly, 1883-4, respecting wild game.
Hunting, Wildlife, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 437

An ACT to provide the manner in which the common council of the city of Petersburg may purchase the Virginia and Carolina railroad, to the extent of the claim of said city against said road, or sell or dispose of the claim of said city against said road.
Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 438

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION paying Geo. H. Bagwell for services in establishing the boundary line between Maryland and Virginia.
Boundaries

Chapter 439

An ACT to vest the State’s interest in Vick’s church, in Southampton county, in trustees, for the use and benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 440

An ACT to allow R. R. Horne, treasurer of Hanover county, further time to levy and collect certain tax-tickets, licenses and levies.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 441

An ACT to allow Wat. T. Seawell, of the county of Glou-ster, to erect a pier or wharf in said county, for the purpose of shipping oysters, &c.
Agriculture, Business, Property

Chapter 442

An ACT to authorize G. W. Koontz, treasurer of Shenandoah county, to collect certain tax-tickets by levy.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 443

An ACT to allow Jas. A. Tilman, treasurer of Powhatan county, further time to levy and collect certain tickets, license and levies.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 444

An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Amherst county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 445

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Holcombe Hall association to borrow money, and to enable them to provide for the repayment of said money.
Amendments, Business, Public spaces, Charity

Chapter 446

An ACT to incorporate the Rappahannock Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society of Fredericksburg.
Agriculture, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 447

An ACT to incorporate the Erin Hunting Club of Henrico and Hanover counties.
Hunting, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 448

An ACT to amend sections 18, 24, 31, 32, 33, 39, 48, 54, 64, 81, 87, 88 and 89, of 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 licences to transact any business in this state, and prescribing the amount to be paid asa condition precedent to the right to transact such business, approved March 15, 1884, to add additional sections thereto, and to repeal sections 106 and 107 of said act, and chapter 196 of the Acts of the extra session of 1884.
Taxation, Business, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Public spaces, Amendments, Alcohol

Chapter 449

An ACT to regulate the appointment of boards of direc- tors of the lunatic asylums and care of insane, and the repeal-of chapters 117 and-118 of Acts of Assembly of 1883-’84, respecting the appointment of the boards of said asylums.
Healthcare, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 450

An ACT to authorize the Lynchburg and Salem turnpike company to transfer to the city of Lynchburg the portion of said turnpike road lying in the city of Lynchburg.
Transportation

Chapter 451

An ACT to allow the treasurer of Alleghany county to file an amended list of delinquent land and property taxes for the years eighteen hundred and eighty-one and eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 452

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend section 10, chapter 17, Code of 1873, in relation to the suspension and removal of certain officers, in force February 23, 1884.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 453

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of chapter 60 Special Session Acts of 1879, approved April 1, 1879, prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities and compensation of certain county
Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 454

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7, of an act approved March 29, 1873, entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New River Narrow-Gauge railroad, and to add sections 8 and 9 thereto.
Transportation

Chapter 455

An ACT providing for the erection of an elevator and committee rooms in the capitol, and appropriating money therefor.
Public expenditures

Chapter 456

An ACT to authorize the treasurer of Rockingham county to collect certain taxes, levies &c., accounted for by the late treasurer of said county, and remaining uncollected.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 457

An ACT to incorporate the Patrick Henry telephone company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 458

An ACT to give the city of Richmond control of the Broad-street road from the corporation line to its intersection with the boulevard leading to the new reservoir.
Municipal charters, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 459

An ACT to authorize the judge of the county court of Warwick to appoint a quarantine officer at Newport News.
Healthcare, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 460

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the terms of the Ninth judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 461

An ACT to allow William H. Ash to establish a ferry
Transportation

Chapter 462

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of chapter 16 of Acts of 1877-’8, in relation to trials before justices.
Judicial

Chapter 463

An ACT to provide for the payment of a judgment recovered by Madison Flanagan against the Board of Directors of the Central Lunatic Asylum of Virginia.
Healthcare, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 464

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 29 of the charter of the town of Culpeper.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Budget, Salaries

Chapter 465

An ACT to provide for the appointment of commission to locate and establish the dividing line between this state and the state of North Carolina.
Boundaries

Chapter 466

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 120
Property, Inheritance and succession, Marriage

Chapter 467

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act in force February 21, 1882, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia and Carolina railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 468

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Frederick county, to order a special election upon the question of building a house in Opequon magisterial district, for the purpose of holding magisterial courts.
Amendments, Business, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 469

An ACT to authorize the district and county school boards of Bedford and Lunenburg counties to organize graded or intermediate schools.
Education

Chapter 470

An ACT appropriating public revenues for the fiscal years 1886 and 1887.
Budget, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Education, Civil Rights, Agriculture, Public officers, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 471

An ACT to employ convict labor on county roads and other works of internal improvement.
Amendments, Armed forces, Labor, Prisons, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 472

An ACT to incorporate the Young Men’s Christian Association, of Fincastle.
Incorporation, Religious Institutions, Charity, Public officers

Chapter 473

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of chapter 158 of Acts of Assembly, 1883-’84, in relation to choosing registrars and judges of election, &c.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 474

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections I, 2 and 3, of chapter 65 of the Acts of Assembly 1883-84, entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery, approved January 31, 1884.
Healthcare, Judicial, Employment and labor, Amendments

Chapter 475

An ACT to make it lawful for the boards of supervisors of New Kent and Charles City counties to levy for additional compensation for the county judge, &c.
Judicial, Salaries, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 476

An ACT to amend section 2, chapter 171, Code of 1873, and the acts amendatory thereof, in regard to commissioners of courts.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 477

An ACT to authorize the school trustees of Newbern district, Pulaski county, to sell and convey certain property.
Education, Property

Chapter 478

An ACT to repeal section 19 of chapter 60, Acts of 1878-’9, in relation to fines.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 479

An ACT to ascertain the amount of fines and costs collected by certaine county officers, and which may not have been accounted for.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 480

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18, 20, 21 and 22, of the Code of 1873, in relation to the recovery of fines.
Amendments, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 481

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 8 of chapter 120 of Code of 1873, in relation to working and surveying mines.
Amendments, Property, Public officers, Utilities, Taxation, Public expenditures, Boundaries, Judicial
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