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1887es

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 432

Chapter 201

An ACT to incorporate the Danville, Wytheville, and Southwestern construction company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 202

An ACT to authorize the board of commissioners of roads of Lovettsville district, in the county of Loudoun, to make an additional levy for road expenditures.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 203

An ACT to incorporate the Warrenton and Marshall road company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 204

An ACT to incorporate the Aldie and Leesburg telephone company.
Business, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 205

An ACT to allow George W. Amory to erect a wharf at Fore’s landing, in York county.
Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 206

An ACT to incorporate the Rich Valley iron and Gypsum mining and manufacturing company.
Incorporation, Industry, Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 207

An ACT to permit the board of supervisors of the county of Floyd to increase the district school levy.
Education, Taxation

Chapter 208

An ACT to amend section 26 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 209

An ACT to protect the Crab industry of the common-
Fishing, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 210

An ACT to authorize the city of Fredericksburg and certain districts in Stafford and King George counties to purchase or lease Scott’s bridge and make the same a free bridge.
Transportation

Chapter 211

An act to provide for the cancellation of certain bonds of the commonwealth now held by the board of public works.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 212

An ACT to incorporate the Kent’s Ridge coal and iron company.
Industry, Business, Debt, Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 213

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Jeffersonville to borrow money.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 214

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 157 of the Code of 1873, as to what number of judges may hold a court, &c.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 215

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts in the second judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 216

An ACT to incorporate the Central Virginia telephone company.
Incorporation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 217

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of super- visors of Rockingham county to allow certain compensation to the overseers of the poor of said county.
Charity, Employment and labor

Chapter 218

An ACT entitled an act to amend and re-enact the fortieth section of an act in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 219

An ACT to ratify and confirm the lease of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway to the Newport News and Mississippi Valley company.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 7, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of North Danville, and section 8 of an act approved February 26, 1886, entitled 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, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Cemeteries, Taxation, Fire fighters, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 221

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Dinwiddie county to appropriate money to colored agricultural and industrial association.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Equality before the law

Chapter 222

An ACT to authorize the town of Farmville to vote a subscription to the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures, Voting, Municipal charters

Chapter 223

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 177, Acts of Assembly 1883-4, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the Farmville and Staunton river railroad company, as amended by section 2, chapter 200, Acts of Assembly 1885-6.
Transportation, Bonds, Business

Chapter 224

An ACT to change the name of the Flat Top coal company to the Old Dominion mining and railway company.
Business, Industry, Incorporation

Chapter 225

An ACT for the relief of J. B. Dorteh
Alcohol

Chapter 226

An ACT to regulate the appointment of the board of directors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind institute at Staunton, Virginia.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 227

An ACT to authorize the Tennessee and North Carolina railroad company in this State, to construct its road to any mines in Washington, Smythe, and Gravson counties, and to issue and use its stocks and bonds in payment for rights of way, work, materials, and supplies by contract.
Transportation, Industry, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 228

An ACT to provide for the payment of a judgment recovered by the Kendall bank note company of New York against the board of commissioners of the sinking fund of Virginia.
Business, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 229

An ACT to prevent the destruction of fish and prevent the obstruction of the free passage of the same in Dan river at or near Danville, Virginia.
Fishing

Chapter 230

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to plates and bonds in possession of Kendall Bank Note company.
Bonds

Chapter 231

JOINT RESOLUTION declaring what shall be considered the enrolled copy of the Code.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 232

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pulaski county, to increase the salary of the county judge.
Salaries, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 233

An ACT to provide for the appointment and removal of district school trustees, and to repeal chapted 158, Acts of Assembly 1883—4, and the acts amendatory thereof, chapters 38 and 121 of Acts 1ss3—4, and chapter 10 of Acts of Assembly 1885-6.
Education, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend the second section of an act entitled an act to prescribe the manner in which the Norfolk and Cincinnati railroad company shall pay its tax on its mortgage to secure bonds hereafter to be issued, and to enlarge the powers of said Norfolk and Cincinnati railroad company
Business, Transportation

Chapter 235

An ACT to incorporate the Bristol-Goodson street railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 236

An ACT to provide for the submitting the question of liquor license to the votets of Pedlar and Elon districts, in Amherst county.
Alcohol, Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 237

An ACT to consolidate the Franklin and Rocky Mount school districts in Franklin county.
Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 238

An ACT to provide for a new registration of the voters
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 239

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

Chapter 240

An ACT to incorporate the Boys’ Home of the city of Norfolk.
Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Education, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 241

An ACT to repeal section four, chapter 340 of Acts of 1883-84, entitled an act providing for an eight weeks’ course of instruction for the colored teachers in the State.
Education, Civil Rights, Segregation

Chapter 242

An ACT to incorporate the Bland county railway company.
Business, Transportation, Amendments, Utilities

Chapter 243

An ACT to authorize the district school board of Marks- ville district, in the county of Page, to use a portion of the school fund of said district to pay teachers,
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 244

An ACT to incorporate the town of Banister in the county of Halifax.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Business, Public officers

Chapter 245

An ACT to incorporate the Dickenson county railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 246

An ACT to incorporate the Metropolitan quick transit bridge company.
Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Public officers, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 247

An ACT to appropriate six thousand dollars to the Western lunatic asylum for improvements.
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 248

An ACT to incorporate the Rising Sons and Daughters of Hope of King William county.
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial

Chapter 249

An ACT to incorporate the Hollywood Hill Cemetery
Cemeteries, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 250

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 3, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Western railroad company.
Transportation, Industry, Amendments

Chapter 251

An ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to make an appropriation for the public schools of said county.
Education, Public expenditures, Equality before the law

Chapter 252

An ACT to incorporate the Magnetic mining company.
Incorporation, Business, Bonds, Taxation, Property

Chapter 253

An ACT to repair and keep in order the roads in the county of Lancaster.
Transportation

Chapter 254

An ACT to incorporate the Northern Neck telegraph company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business

Chapter 255

An ACT to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tide-water
Fishing, Recreation, Amendments

Chapter 256

An ACT to incorporate the Botetourt Agricultural and Mechanical association.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Recreation

Chapter 257

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and West Point land navigation company.
Business, Incorporation, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of Stephen City, Frederick county, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Judicial, Property, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 259

An ACT allowing John R. Alrich, treasurer of Spotsylvania county, further time to collect delinquent taxes.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 260

An ACT to allow L. M. Robinson to erect a pier or wharf in James river, opposite his land in James City county.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 261

An ACT defining a lawful fence for Nelson county.
Fence Laws, Voting

Chapter 262

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to release and to transfer to the counties of Highland and Augusta the interest of the commonwealth in the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike road, and to add additional sections thereto.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 263

An ACT to incorporate the Grand Lodge of Pilgrim Travelers of Salem Baptist church of Red Oak Grove, Charlotte county, Virginia,
Charity, Incorporation, Religious Institutions, Death and burial

Chapter 264

An ACT to authorize D.S. Jones to ercet a pier in James river opposite the Blow estate in James City county, Virginia, just above Mulberry island.
Transportation, Public officers, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 265

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond railway connecting and wharf company.
Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Industry, Utilities

Chapter 266

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Rustburg Presbyterian church to borrow money and execute a lien on the church property.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 267

An ACT to incorporate the Marion Land Agency and Improvement company.
Business, Property, Pensions, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 268

An ACT authorizing the trustees of Barbour school district of Orange county to sell portion of lot belonging to school No. 3, in said district.
Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 269

An ACT to stay proceedings for the enforcement of a judgment of the State against the sureties of James P. Critz, late treasurer of Patrick county.
Debt, Public officers, Budget, Judicial

Chapter 270

An ACT authorizing the governor to recall the convicts now held by the South Atlantic and Ohio railroad company, unless said company complies with certain conditions.
Prisons, Labor, Debt

Chapter 271

An ACT in relation to Insurance Companies and Associations upon the assessment plan.
Business, Fraternal organizations, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 272

An ACT to revive, amend and re-enact the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville railroad company.
Transportation, Business, Budget, Utilities

Chapter 273

An ACT to fix the salary of the judge of the seventeenth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Salaries

Chapter 274

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of chapter 1 of an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, and income, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide for the mode of applying for licenses to transact any business in this State, and prescribing the amount to be paid as a condition precedent to the right to transact such business, approved March 15, 1884, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1886, and to add two sections to chapter two of said act, approved March 15, 1884.
Taxation, Business, Alcohol

Chapter 275

JOINT RESOLUTION allowing the sureties of Peyton R. Ford, of Charlotte county, further time to make settlement.
Budget, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 276

An ACT authorizing the re-registration of voters at Farrham precinct, Richmond county, Virginia.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 277

An ACT to provide for the care of the colored insane of the State, and to enlarge for that purpose the Central lunatic asylum, and appropriating money therefor.
Healthcare, Civil Rights, Public expenditures

Chapter 278

An ACT to transfer to the board of road commissioners of Back Creek magisterial district, Frederick county, the State’s interest in the Hardy and Winchester turnpike.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 279

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria real estate, investment, trust, and title company.
Business, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 280

An ACT to authorize a subscription by the county of Chesterfield to the stock of the Petersburg and Chesterfield railroad company and its branches.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 281

An ACT to foster the culture of Black Bass fish in James river.
Fishing

Chapter 282

An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke cotton mills.
Incorporation, Industry, Business, Bonds

Chapter 283

An ACT to authorize and enable the Fredericksburg and Chesapeake railroad company to consolidate or merge its stock, property, and franchises with those of any company authorized to operate a connecting line of railroads.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 284

An ACT to attach the county of Dickenson to the second senatorial district.
Boundaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 285

An ACT to incorporate the Suffolk street railway company.
Transportation, Industry, Municipal charters

Chapter 286

An ACT to incorporate the People’s illuminating company of Norfolk city and county.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business

Chapter 287

An ACT to incorporate the Buck Horn iron and improvement company.
Incorporation, Business, Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation, Industry, Bonds

Chapter 288

An ACT to incorporate the Albemarle telegraph and telephone company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 289

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 1, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Lynchburg Young Men’s Christian Association.
Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 290

An ACT to allow John S. Burhans to erect a wharf on the Rappabannock river at Brandon, in Middlesex county.
Business, Public expenditures, Transportation, Fishing

Chapter 291

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, and 14 of chapter 54 of the Acts of the General Assembly, extra session of 1884, in relation to the appointment of a board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute.
Amendments, Armed forces, Education, Public officers

Chapter 292

An ACT to authorize county courts to correct clerical mistakes made by land assessors.
Property

Chapter 293

An ACT to incorporate the Warm Spring Valley improvement company.
Incorporation, Industry, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 294

An ACT to provide for a new registration of voters at Stock Yards precinct in the county of Roanoke.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 295

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved Februar 27, 1880, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the twenty-fourth section of chapter forty, of the Code of 1873, in relation to the auditor’s power to adjust old claims.
Amendments, Budget, Judicial

Chapter 296

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 84 and 86 of the charter of the city of Richmond.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 297

An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of Mechanicsburg magisterial district, in the county of Bland, to vote a tax for road purposes in said district.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 298

An ACT supplementary to an act approved March 17, 1884, entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the Virginia Mineral railway company, approved March 6, 1880.
Transportation, Industry, Amendments

Chapter 299

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to appropriation to pay gardener at Governor’s mansion.
Agriculture, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 300

An ACT to incorporate the Irish Creek company.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities
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