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1879/80

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 296 of 296

Chapter 204

An ACT to incorporate the Green Hill Cemetery Company.
Cemeteries, Incorporation, Property, Public officers

Chapter 205

An ACT to prohibit the catching of oysters with dredges or instruments other than ordinary oyster-tongs within the waters of the commonwealth.
Fishing

Chapter 206

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and the amendatory acts thereto, and to change the name of the corporation to the Broad Creek and London Bridge Turnpike Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 207

An ACT to authorize the county court of Stafford to appoint commissioners to rearrange the boundaries of the fence law in said county.
Fence Laws

Chapter 208

An ACT to incorporate the Mineral and Lumber Railway Company
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 209

An ACT to authorize the James River and Kanawha Company to construct and maintain a railway, in whole or in part, along its line, and to execute mortgages on its works, property and franchises.
Transportation, Business, Bonds, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 210

An ACT to incorporate Cottage Grange, No. 688, of Norfolk county.
Agriculture, Charity, Incorporation, Property, Public officers

Chapter 211

An Act for the appointment of a National Commission to investigate diseases among domestic animals
Agriculture

Chapter 212

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the court in the Eighth Judicial Circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 213

An ACT to incorporate the Barboursville (Orange County, Virginia) Mercantile and Manufacturing Company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 214

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 of chapter 108 of the Code of 1873, in reference to public lands.
Amendments, Property, Transportation, Budget, Industry

Chapter 217

An ACT to submit to the voters of Madison, in Amherst county, the question of the repeal of the act to incorporate said town, approved March 3, 1879, and repealing said act if a majority of the voters should be in favor of said repeal.
Municipal charters

Chapter 218

An ACT authorizing and directing the Auditor of Public Accounts to collect the sum of one hundred dollars, paid to the Sheriff of Wythe county by Alonzo Grinnell, surety of Alexander Corvin, indicted for felony upon a forfeited recognizance, and to refund the same to the said Alonzo Grinnell when so collected, and releasing the said Grinnell from the payment of twenty-five dollars, balance of said judgment.
Judicial, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of chapter 180 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to clerk’s fees.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Business

Chapter 220

An ACT for the relief of Sallie E. Pickett, widow of General George E. Pickett, deceased.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Death and burial

Chapter 221

An ACT to provide for taking the sense of the people of Norfolk county in regard to changing the site of the courthouse of said county.
Municipal charters, Voting, Public spaces, Public expenditures

Chapter 222

An ACT to submit to the voters of King George the question of prohibiting the sale of liquor in the said county.
Alcohol

Chapter 223

An ACT to incorporate Walker’s Creek Bridge and Turnpike Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Business

Chapter 224

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Potomac.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Alcohol

Chapter 225

An ACT to release William West from the payment of a fine imposed by the County Court of Prince Edward county, February, 1878.
Judicial

Chapter 226

An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the county of Greensville to issue bonds to build a bridge.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 227

An ACT to incorporate the Lone Star Society.
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of chapter 7 of the Criminal Laws, approved March 14, 1878, in relation to violations of the Sabbath.
Alcohol, Amendments, Public spaces

Chapter 229

An ACT to incorporate the Seaboard Cotton Compress Company.
Business, Agriculture, Transportation

Chapter 230

An ACT to incorporate the Grand Division Junior Sons of Temperance of Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial

Chapter 231

An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company and the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company, or the acquisition by the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company of the works, property and franchises of the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company.
Transportation, Industry

Chapter 232

An ACT instructing the Governor to hire out the convicts at the Granite Company’s works to Messrs. Mason, Shannahan and Hoge, for the sum of thirty-five cents per day in addition to their maintenance.
Forced labor, Prisons, Labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 233

An ACT to incorporate the Baltimore, Cincinnati and Western Railway Company.
Transportation, Industry, Business, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Dan Valley and Yadkin River Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company
Business, Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 235

An ACT to amend the charter of the Albemarle Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 236

An ACT to authorize the purchasers of the Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great Southern Railroad to issue common and preferred stock for certain purposes.
Business, Property

Chapter 237

An ACT providing commutation for David Gardner of Montgomery county, and J. T. Miller of Danville, one-legged soldiers, who are unable to wear the legs furnished them.
Armed forces, Pensions

Chapter 238

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 239

An ACT to repeal section 1 of an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the waters of the Commonwealth above tide-water so far as applicable to the waters of the Pamunkey, the Mattaponi, and the Chickahominy and their tributaries.
Fishing

Chapter 240

An ACT to incorporate the Iron Company of Virginia.
Business, Industry, Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 242

An ACT to provide for the performance of the duties of the Secretary of the Commonwealth during his necessary absence.
Public officers

Chapter 243

An ACT to incorporate a joint stock company for constructing a railroad from some point on the Richmond and Danville railroad in the county of Halifax, to Shady Grove in the county of Franklin, to be called the Halifax and Pittsylvania railroad.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 244

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 60, chapter 101 of the Code of 1873, for the protection of terrapins.
Amendments, Fishing, Property, Taxation, Alcohol

Chapter 247

An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 248

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing and directing the Attorney-General to test before the Supreme Court of the United States so much of the act of incorporation of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad as relates to debts due the State of Virginia by the divisional lines of said railway.
Transportation, Debt, Public expenditures, Judicial, Business

Chapter 249

An Act to Provide a Uniform Mode of Procedure for Relief from Fines, Forfeitures, or Liabilities as Officer of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Judicial

Chapter 250

An ACT to vest the legal title to certain property in trustees and to empower the members of Liberty Lodge, No. 95, Free and Accepted Masons, to sell or encumber their said property.
Fraternal organizations, Property, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 251

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act to prevent obstructions to the free passage of fish in the streams of the state
Fishing

Chapter 252

An ACT to appropriate $3,000 for the purchase of the patent known as the McDonald Fish-Way.
Budget, Fishing, Public expenditures

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend section 67 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 11th, 1873.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled an act for the protection of game
Hunting

Chapter 255

An ACT to pay to P. L. W. Thornton, of Prince William county, the sum of fifteen dollars and sixty-six cents.
Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 256

An ACT to authorize the Royal Oak Presbyterian Church to sell and convey certain property.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 257

An ACT to authorize the town of Culpeper to borrow money.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 259

An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and Deep Creek Turnpike Company.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 260

An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United States of title to and jurisdiction over Sewell’s Point Spit. for the purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital and erecting a building for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 263

An ACT to remove the disabilities of John Jordan.
Civil Rights

Chapter 264

An Act for the relief of R. H. Fisher.
Armed forces, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 265

An ACT to define the line between the counties of York and James City through the city of Williamsburg.
Boundaries

Chapter 266

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and four of an act approved February 25th, 1878, as amended by an act approved January 10, 1879, to regulate the working of public roads in the counties of Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield and Lancaster.
Taxation, Labor

Chapter 267

An ACT to amend section 8 of the charter of the Warm Springs Valley Railroad company.
Transportation

Chapter 268

An ACT to ascertain whether or not the charters of the Lynchburg and Salem, Lynchburg and Campbell Courthouse, and Lynchburg and Concord Turnpike companies have been complied with, and if not, to provide a mode for forfeiting the same.
Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 269

An ACT to authorize G. W. Bishop, of Maryland, to erect a wharf on his premises at Franklin City, Accomac county.
Business, Transportation, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 270

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 182 of the Code, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1874, as amended by an act approved April 2, 1877, as amended by an act approved February 22, 1878, in relation to judgment liens.
Amendments, Judicial, Debt, Property

Chapter 271

An ACT to incorporate the town of Middletown, in the county of Frederick.
Incorporation, Property, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 272

An ACT to provide for the election of one commissioner of the revenue for the county of Giles.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 273

An ACT to authorize the legally qualified voters of the county of Augusta to empower the supervisors of said county to borrow money for the purpose of macadamizing certain public roads in said county.
Budget, Public expenditures, Bonds, Transportation, Voting

Chapter 274

An ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of the Roanoke and its tributaries east of the Blue Ridge.
Fishing

Chapter 275

An ACT to prescribe a fence law for the district of Guilford, in the county of Surry.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 276

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 360 of Acts of 1876-7, approved April 4, 1877, for keeping in repair partition fences in the counties of Rockbridge, Pulaski, Rockingham, Lancaster, Augusta, King and Queen, Westmoreland and Clarke.
Fence Laws, Agriculture, Property

Chapter 277

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in order the public roads in Alexandria county
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 278

An ACT to provide for submitting the question of liquor licenses or no liquor licenses to the qualified voters of Warren and Clarke counties, and to the qualified voters of each magisterial district in said counties, on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, 1880, and every two years thereafter.
Alcohol

Chapter 279

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 104, of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved April 29, 1874, in relation to issuing marriage licenses.
Marriage, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 280

An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Frederick county to declare inoperative as to said county or any district thereof the act relating to fences and for the protection of crops
Fence Laws, Agriculture, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 281

An ACT to extend the time for collection of taxes in the county of Buchanan for the years from 1875 to 1877, inclusive.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia in relation to turnpike companies.
Transportation

Chapter 283

An ACT to require plaintiffs in the action of ejectment in the counties of Buchanan, Wise, and Dickenson to file their written record evidence before trial.
Judicial, Property

Chapter 284

An ACT to establish and define the limits of the harbor of Franklin City, in the county of Accomac, and to protect the same.
Boundaries, Public spaces, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 285

An ACT to remove the disabilities of William Nalle, of Culpeper county.
Civil Rights

Chapter 286

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved February 2, 1880, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Angora Company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 287

An ACT to repeal chapter 64 of the Acts of 1874, in relation to granting licenses in Bland and Giles counties
Repeal of legislation, Municipal charters

Chapter 288

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58, chapter 8, Code of 1873, with reference to pay of Commissioners of Election.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 289

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Thorn Spring Church and of New Salem Church, in the county of Pulaski, to sell the church property.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 290

An ACT to amend an act passed February 27, 1880 entitled an act for appointment of powder officer for the harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Amendments, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 291

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to enable the Board of Supervisors of Chesterfield county to assist the Manchester Free-Bridge Commissioners in keeping the Free Bridge in repair
Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 292

An ACT to amend and re-enact the act to regulate the terms of the Circuit Courts in the Fourth Judicial Circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 294

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the First (colored) Baptist Church of Manchester, Virginia, to borrow money and give a deed of trust.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Public expenditures

Chapter 295

An ACT to incorporate the Alleghany Coal and Iron Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Property

Chapter 296

An ACT to amend the charter of the Wesleyan Female Institute.
Education, Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 297

An ACT to incorporate the Grand Ancient Order of Melchisedec, King of Peace.
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial, Civil Rights

Chapter 298

An ACT to protect rabbits or hares between the Ist day of March and the 15th day of September in the county of Chesterfield.
Hunting

Chapter 299

An ACT to incorporate the: White Rock Railroad Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 300

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Portsmouth Terminal Railway, Wharf and Warehouse Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 301

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Reform Club.
Incorporation, Charity, Alcohol, Reformatories, Public officers

Chapter 302

An ACT to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county.
Incorporation, Taxation, Alcohol

Chapter 303

An Act to address the regie contracts by foreign governments for the purchase of leaf tobacco.
Agriculture

Chapter 304

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 90, Acts of 1878-79, in relation to the boundary line between Virginia and Maryland.
Boundaries

Chapter 305

An ACT to release Frank C. Butler from the payment of a fine.
Amendments, Judicial, Property

Chapter 306

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Reform Club Building Company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 307

An ACT to prevent and punish the misuse or misappropriation of public funds by public officers.
Public officers, Public expenditures, Judicial, Property

Chapter 309

An Act proposing an amendment to the first section, article 3 of the Constitution, concerning the elective franchise.
Voting, Amendments, Civil Rights, Equality before the law
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