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1879/80

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 296

Chapter 103

An ACT to designate holidays to be observed in the acceptance and payment of bills of exchange, bank checks and promissory notes.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 104

An ACT to incorporate the United States Commercial Company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Utilities

Chapter 105

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Millwood Lodge, Independent Order of Good Templars.
Incorporation, Charity, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 106

An ACT to tax railroads in certain cases for county and school purposes.
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 107

An ACT to authorize the trustess of the church of Disciples of Christ, of Norfolk, Virginia, to execute one or more deeds of trust or mortgages thereon as security.
Religious Institutions, Property, Debt

Chapter 108

An ACT to amend section 1, chapter 147, Code of 1873, in relation to the jurisdiction of justices.
Judicial, Property, Debt

Chapter 109

An ACT to legalize a deed of conveyance heretofore made to certain church property in the county of Wythe.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 59, chapter 57, Code of 1873, as to incorporated companies.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 111

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the acquisi-tion by the government of the United States of so inuch land as may be necessary for a public building in the city of Danville.
Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 112

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 24th section of chapter 40 of the Code of 1873, in relation to the auditor’s power to adjust old claims.
Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 113

An ACT to authorize the governor to lend fifty stand of arms to the Lynchburg Public High School.
Education, Armed forces

Chapter 114

An ACT to authorize the erection of a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in the county of Accomac.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 115

An ACT to provide for the payment of the salaries of the extra clerks in the offices of the treasurer and second auditor employed in funding the public debt.
Budget, Public expenditures, Salaries

Chapter 116

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 28, 29 and 30, of chapter 36, Code 1873, in relation to deposits of foreign insurance companies.
Business, Bonds

Chapter 117

An ACT to ineorporate the Mutual Benefit Association of Southwest Virginia.
Amendments, Charity, Employment and labor, Inheritance and succession, Public officers, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 118

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of William E. Boisseau, late sergeant of the town of Danville.
Bonds, Budget, Taxation

Chapter 119

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the waters of the commonwealth above tide-water, approved March 21, 1877, so far as applicable to the waters of the Roanoke river and its tributaries in the county of Roanoke.
Fishing

Chapter 120

An ACT to amend the sixth section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company, and to enable the James River and Kanawha Company to subscribe to the capital stock thereof.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 121

An ACT to refund to William S. Yates the tax of ten dollars paid by him as a common crier.
Business

Chapter 122

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the securities of Charles 8S. Powell, late sheriff of Pittsylvania county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 123

An ACT prohibiting persons resident within the corpo-
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Equality before the law, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 124

An ACT to amend chapter 11 of Acts of special session 1879, authorizing sale of tobacco on storage, &c.
Agriculture, Business, Taxation

Chapter 125

An ACT for the relief of the county of Henrico.
Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 126

An ACT to prevent obstructions to the free passage of fish in Smith’s river in the counties of Henry, Franklin and Patrick.
Fishing

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Judicial, Public officers, Public expenditures, Taxation, Property, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 128

An ACT to incorporate the Luray Iron Company.
Incorporation, Business, Industry, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 129

An ACT to amend and re-enact the fifth section of chapter 38, Code of 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 25, 1879, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the fifth section, chapter 38, Code of 1873, in regard to the delivery of lists of delinquent lands to treasurers.
Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Property

Chapter 130

An ACT to prevent the killing or chasing of deer by dogs in the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Highland and Rockingham, from the 25th day of December to the 15th day of August in each year.
Hunting

Chapter 131

An ACT to authorize the circuit court of Stafford county to divide, apportion, invest or otherwise dispose of certain property devised to J. M. Taliaferro for life, remainder to his children.
Inheritance and succession, Property, Judicial

Chapter 132

An ACT to fix the times of holding courts in the fourteenth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 133

An ACT for the relief of Elbert S. Fugate and James Bays.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 134

An ACT to extend the time for collection of certain tax tickets now in the hands of D. R. Stokes, treasurer of Lunenburg county, Virginia.
Taxation

Chapter 135

An ACT to prevent the sale of liquor to students of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
Alcohol, Education, Amendments

Chapter 136

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 10 of an act to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Clarke county
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 137

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Knitting and Cotton Manufacturing Company.
Incorporation, Business, Property

Chapter 138

An ACT in relation to certain uncollected dog taxes in the county of Lee.
Taxation, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 139

An ACT to re-enact and renew the charter of the Petersburg Gas-Light Company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Public expenditures, Budget, Taxation

Chapter 140

An ACT to establish the county of Dickenson out of parts of Russell, Wise and Buchanan.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 141

An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg, Massanutta and Toledo Railway Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 142

An ACT to incorporate the town of Hillsboro, in the county of Loudoun.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Alcohol, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 143

An ACT to incorporate Cumberland College, in Lee county.
Education, Amendments, Alcohol, Business, Public officers

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed April 2, 1879, entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors to determine what amount shall be paid to certain county officers.
Public officers, Budget, Salaries

Chapter 145

An ACT to authorize the sale of the Beulah Baptist Church property in the county of Fairfax and to invest the proceeds.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 146

An act to amend and re-enact the sixth section of an act entitled an act to authorize the city of Fredericksburg to provide for supplying the city with water.
Utilities

Chapter 147

An ACT to incorporate the Jeffersonville and Marion Turnpike and Telegraph Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 148

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Stove Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 149

An ACT to incorporate the Shenandoah Valley Mining Company
Incorporation, Business, Industry, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 150

An ACT for establishing a Female University at or near the city of Danville.
Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 151

An Act authorizing the governor to appoint a special agent to collect claims due the state of Virginia.
Debt, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 152

An ACT to incorporate Woodville Lodge, No. 260, of the Independent Order of Good Templars, of the town of Woodville.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Property

Chapter 153

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25, chapter 126 of the Code of Virginia, as to the order in which debts shall be paid.
Debt, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 154

An ACT for appointment of powder officer for the harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Public officers, Labor

Chapter 155

An ACT imposing a tax and prescribing regulations for collecting the same on the privilege of selling wine, ardent spirits or malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, within the limits of the commonwealth for the support of the government, and to pay the interest on the public debt.
Alcohol, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 156

An ACT to authorize the Richmond, York River and Chesapeake railroad to borrow money.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 157

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Broad Creek Toll Bridge and Turnpike Company
Transportation, Amendments, Incorporation

Chapter 158

JOINT RESOLUTION rescinding certain portions of joint resolution providing for the destruction of certain bonds of the commonwealth now in the treasury
Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 159

An ACT to allow commutation for artificial arm to Josephine Robinson, widow of Walter Robinson, deceased.
Armed forces, Death and burial

Chapter 160

An ACT to amend and re-enact section first of the act to authorize the formation of the New River Railroad Mining and Manufacturing Company, as amended by acts approved 2d April, 1873, and 15th March, 1875, and to change the name of said company to the New River Railroad Company.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 161

An ACT defining the conditions of conveyance and recordation under any sale the James River and Kanawha Company may make of its works and franchises.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 162

An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company to construct and work a branch of its line of railroad from a point near Hanover Junction to deep water on the Chesapeake bay near Piankatank or elsewhere.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 163

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Light Infantry Building Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Alcohol, Taxation

Chapter 165

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to refund to N. Rensch, of Pittsylvania county, a license tax
Alcohol, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 166

An ACT to prohibit non-residents taking fish in the waters of Virginia.
Fishing

Chapter 167

An ACT for the relief of James Hampden frum a fine.
Unclassified

Chapter 168

JOINT RESOLUTION urging Congress to appropriate proceeds of sales of public lands to the education of the people.
Education

Chapter 169

An ACT to amend section 5 of chapter 61 of the Code of 1873, in reference to the construction of branch railroads or lateral works.
Transportation, Industry, Amendments

Chapter 170

An ACT to provide for the payment of interest on the bonds held by the Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum.
Bonds, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 171

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 25, 1879, so as to extend the time in which district school boards are authorized to use district school funds for the payment of teachers.
Education, Amendments

Chapter 172

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to revive and amend the charter of the Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum
Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Education

Chapter 173

An ACT to repeal the act entitled an act to amend the charter of the Valley Railroad Company, approved April 2, 1879.
Transportation, Repeal of legislation, Business

Chapter 174

An Act authorizing the Auditor of Public Accounts to pay to Fanny T. Boykin, widow of Samuel H. Boykin, deceased, a certain sum of money.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 175

An ACT amending the charter of the town of Grundy, in Buchanan county.
Alcohol, Business, Taxation, Voting

Chapter 176

An ACT to incorporate the Small Dealers Cash-Payment Guarantee Society
Business, Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 177

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24 of an act approved April 29, 1870, entitled an act to change the name of Fairfax to Culpeper, and to provide a new charter for the same, and to amend the 28th section of said act as amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 29th, 1874.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 178

An ACT to authorize special elections for school purposes in the county of Alexandria.
Education, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 179

An ACT to incorporate the Shiloh Colored Cemetery of Fredericksburg.
Cemeteries, Charity, Public spaces, Incorporation, Civil Rights

Chapter 180

An ACT to prevent obstruction in Louisa fork of Sandy river.
Transportation, Public spaces, Industry

Chapter 181

An ACT authorizing the Board of Public Works to adjust the claims of the James River and Kanawha Company, and appropriating the proceeds, and providing for the safe-keeping of certain deposits, and authorizing the said James River and Kanawha Company to sell and convey its works and franchises to the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company.
Business, Transportation, Labor, Prisons, Utilities

Chapter 182

An ACT to authorize the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Ashland, to sell certain real estate.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 183

An ACT authorizing the School Trustees of Richmond district, Wise county, Virginia, to sell one acre of Cold Spring tract of land.
Education, Property

Chapter 184

An ACT requiring County Superintendents of Schools
Agriculture, Education, Industry

Chapter 185

An ACT to amend and consolidate into one act the laws prescribing the manner in which the public printing shall be executed, and defining the duties of the superintendent thereof.
Business, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments, Utilities

Chapter 186

An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the county of Frederick to release such interest as Frederick may have in certain portions of the Public Square in the city of Winchester.
Public spaces, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 187

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the churches in the Isle of Wight circuit to borrow money.
Religious Institutions, Charity, Property, Public officers

Chapter 188

An ACT to provide additional ward buildings at the Central Lunatic Asylum.
Healthcare

Chapter 189

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 164, Code of 1873, in relation to changing a person’s name.
Amendments, Custody of children, Marriage

Chapter 190

An ACT to incorporate the Suffolk Female Institute.
Education, Incorporation

Chapter 191

An ACT for the protection of mechanics by giving them a lien on articles repaired.
Business, Labor, Property

Chapter 192

An ACT for the relief of John A. Brooks, of Henrico county.
Charity, Civil Rights, Armed forces

Chapter 193

An ACT to incorporate Lofige No. 1, Love and Charity, of Princess Anne county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Public officers

Chapter 194

An ACT to change the boundary line between the counties of Giles and Craig.
Boundaries, Property

Chapter 195

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the African Episcopal Zion Church, of the city of Petersburg, to borrow money.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 196

An ACT to incorporate the Seaboard Manufacturing Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 197

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 172 of the Code of 1873, in relation to copies of records and papers in public offices as evidence.
Judicial, Public officers, Property

Chapter 198

An ACT to confirm the donation by the town of Charlottesville to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, and to validate the bonds which have been or may be issued for the purpose.
Bonds, Transportation, Business

Chapter 199

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Lovettsville, in the county of Loudoun
Amendments, Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers, Taxation, Alcohol

Chapter 200

An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Warren.
Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 201

An ACT to incorporate the Warrenton and Fauquier White Sulphur Springs Turnpike Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 202

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of A. F. Creel
Bonds, Public expenditures, Debt, Budget

Chapter 203

An ACT prohibiting the hauling of seines in the creeks
Fishing
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